@article{WolfXia2010, author = {Wolf, Hans-Georg and Xia, Xiaoyan}, title = {Basic-level salience in second language acquisition : a study of English vocabulary learning and use by Chinese adults}, isbn = {978-3-11-024582-0}, year = {2010}, abstract = {Basic-level salience is a fundamental concept in Cognitive Psychology and related disciplines. It captures the phenomenon that the basic level of categorization is psychologically more salient than other levels (Rosch et al. 1976). However, findings showing that basic-level words possess a superior status in human communication and vocabulary learning (Rosch et al. 1976; Koevecses 2006) so far pertained only to individuals' L1. In this paper, we argue that Rosch et al's insights are highly relevant in L2 contexts as well. To test the hypothesis that basic-level salience can be evidenced in L2 vocabulary learning, an experiment was conducted among 69 Chinese adult learners of English. On a series of slides, participants were simultaneously presented with different pictures and three English words at the superordinate, basic, and subordinate level. This presentation was followed by a picture naming task, in which participants were expected to write down the first English names that came to their mind. The main results of this experiment are as follows: 1) L2 basic-level words are the most readily given responses in the picture naming task, suggesting the existence of the basic-level salience in L2 vocabulary learning; 2) the presence of the basic-level salience is a matter of degree, influenced by factors such as concept familiarity and, what we call, the "first- encountered-first-retrieved" effect. The mapping of the L1-based categorical organization onto the L2 vocabulary learning process has theoretical and practical (i.e., pedagogical) implications, which are addressed at the end of this chapter.}, language = {en} } @article{WolfPolzenhagen2010, author = {Wolf, Hans-Georg and Polzenhagen, Frank}, title = {The "new semantics" of lexicography - Cognitive Sociolinguistics in L2-variety dictionaries of English}, year = {2010}, abstract = {The recent decades have witnessed the incorporation of new linguistic trends into lexicography. One of these trends is a usage-based approach, with the first major application of computer-corpus data in the Collins COBUILD English Dictionary (1995) and successive adaptation in other L1-dictionaries. Another, concurrent innovation -inspired by Conceptual Metaphor theory - is the provision of conceptual information in monolingual dictionaries of English. So far, however, only the MacMillan English Dictionary For Advanced Learners (MED 1st and 2nd edition) has paid tribute to the facts that understanding culture-specific metaphors and being aware of metaphoric usage are crucial for learning a foreign language. Given that most of the English as lingua franca interactions take place between L2-speakers of English (see Kachru 1994), providing conceptual information is not only a desideratum for L1- and learner dictionaries, but especially for (L2-) variety dictionaries of English. In our paper, we follow earlier tentative proposals by Polzenhagen (2007) and Wolf (2010fc.) and present examples primarily from the Dictionary of Hong English project (Cummings and Wolf, in progress) but also from West African English, showing how culturally salient conceptual information can be made explicit and conceptual links between lexical items retrievable. The examples demonstrate that even fixed expressions and idioms - a perennial problem for lexicographers - are explicable by means of the proposed lexicographic design. Our approach is cognitive-sociolinguistic in that the Conceptual Metaphor approach is coupled with and backed up by corpus-linguistic insights.}, language = {en} } @article{WolfPolzenhagen2012, author = {Wolf, Hans-Georg and Polzenhagen, Frank}, title = {Cognitive sociolinguistics in L2-variety dictionaries of English}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @article{WolfPolzenhagen2010, author = {Wolf, Hans-Georg and Polzenhagen, Frank}, title = {Investigating culture from a linguistic perspective : an exemplification with Hong Kong English}, issn = {0044-2305}, year = {2010}, language = {en} } @book{WolfPolzenhagen2009, author = {Wolf, Hans-Georg and Polzenhagen, Frank}, title = {World Englishes : a cognitive sociolinguistic approach}, series = {Applications of cognitive linguistics}, volume = {8}, journal = {Applications of cognitive linguistics}, publisher = {Mouton de Gruyter}, address = {Berlin, New York}, isbn = {978-3-11-019633-7}, doi = {10.1515/9783110199222}, pages = {XIV, 278 S.}, year = {2009}, language = {en} } @article{WolfPolzenhagen2012, author = {Wolf, Hans-Georg and Polzenhagen, Frank}, title = {Cognitive sociolinguistics in L2-variety dictionaries of english}, series = {Review of cognitive linguistics}, volume = {10}, journal = {Review of cognitive linguistics}, number = {2}, publisher = {Benjamins}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {1877-9751}, doi = {10.1075/rcl.10.2.06wol}, pages = {373 -- 400}, year = {2012}, abstract = {The recent decades have witnessed the incorporation of new linguistic trends into lexicography. One of these trends is a usage-based approach, with the first major application of computer-corpus data in the Collins COBUILD English dictionary (1995) and successive adaptation in other L1-dictionaries. Another, concurrent innovation-inspired by Conceptual Metaphor Theory-is the provision of conceptual information in monolingual dictionaries of English. So far, however, only the Macmillan English dictionary for advanced learners (1st and 2nd edition) has paid tribute to the fact that understanding culturespecific metaphors and being aware of metaphoric usage are crucial for learning a foreign language. Given that most of the English as lingua franca interactions take place between L2-speakers of English (see Kachru, 1994), providing conceptual information is not only a desideratum for L1- and learner dictionaries, but especially for (L2-) variety dictionaries of English. In our paper, we follow earlier tentative proposals by Polzenhagen (2007) and Wolf (2012) and present examples from A dictionary of Hong Kong English (Cummings \& Wolf, 2011), showing how culturally salient conceptual information can be made explicit and conceptual links between lexical items retrievable. The examples demonstrate that fixed expressions and idioms -a perennial problem for lexicographers are explicable by means of the proposed lexicographic design, too. Our approach is cognitive-sociolinguistic in that the Conceptual Metaphor approach is coupled with the study of regional varieties of English, more specifically Hong Kong English. Our analysis is empirically backed up by corpus-linguistic insights into this L2 variety.}, language = {en} } @article{WolfIgboanusi2009, author = {Wolf, Hans-Georg and Igboanusi, Herbert}, title = {The role of ethnically mixed marriages in language shift : a case study of Nigeria's minority languages}, year = {2009}, abstract = {As the foundation of homes, the marriage institution is an important agent of sociali- zation. In this regard, marriage can be relied upon as a major factor in language and cultural maintenance. However, mixed marriages may contribute to language shift in the home because they can lead to a change in language use patterns among minority language speakers and their children. This means that the likelihood of preserving a minority language is greater in marriages among individuals who speak the same indigenous language than in situations in which spouses speak different languages. This study uses questionnaire data from parents of ethnically mixed marriages to explain how mixed marriages contribute to language shift from minority languages to English (Nigeria's official language), Nigerian Pidgin (informal lingua franca) and the major languages (i.e. Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba) in the home domains. The study shows that the future of minority languages will largely depend on the roles of families and the value attached to minority ethnic identity by young people, particularly those from mixed homes. Keywords: language shift; maintenance; family; minority languages; intermarriage; nigeria}, language = {en} } @article{WolfDingNoel2010, author = {Wolf, Hans-Georg and Ding, Yan and No{\"e}l, Dirk}, title = {Patterns in metaphor translation : translating FEAR Metaphors between English and Chinese}, isbn = {978-1-4438-1755-4}, year = {2010}, language = {en} } @book{WolfCummings2011, author = {Wolf, Hans-Georg and Cummings, Patrick}, title = {A dictionary of Hong Kong English : words from the fragrant harbor}, publisher = {Univ. of Hong Kong}, address = {Hong Kong}, isbn = {988-808330-9}, pages = {275 S.}, year = {2011}, language = {en} } @misc{Wolf2005, author = {Wolf, Hans-Georg}, title = {Omoniyi, T., The sociolinguistics of borderlands: two nations, one community; Trento, Africa World Press, 2004}, issn = {1466-4208}, year = {2005}, language = {en} } @article{Wolf2010, author = {Wolf, Hans-Georg}, title = {East and West African Englishes : differences and commonalities}, isbn = {978-0- 415-47039-1}, year = {2010}, language = {en} } @article{Wolf2012, author = {Wolf, Hans-Georg}, title = {The cognitive sociolinguistic approach to the lexicon of Cameroon English and other world englishes}, isbn = {978-1-61451-248-6}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @article{WischerHabermann2004, author = {Wischer, Ilse and Habermann, Mechthhild}, title = {The use of prefix verbs for the expression of aspect/action type in Old English and Old High German : Der Gebrauch von Pr{\"a}fixverben zum Ausdruck von Aspekt/Aktionsart im Altenglischen und Althochdeutschen}, issn = {0301-3294}, year = {2004}, abstract = {English and German, though genetically closely related, have undergone different developments with regard to the verbal category aspect in its interaction with aktionsart. English has grammaticalized a periphrastic construction to mark the progressisve whereas German - if at all - uses word formation to mark the perfective. This study deals with verbal prefixes, especially ge-/gi-, in the earliest attestable stages of the two languages, i.e. in Old English (King Alfred's Orosius) and Old High German (Tafan). These elements have often been considered markers of perfective aspect or aktionsart and can be compared to perfectives, which - according to Bybee/Perkins/Pagliuca (1994) - have developed from "bounders", i.e. adverbial particles to denote situation boundaries. Our analyses suggest that although there are basic similarities in the use of the various verbal constructions, the diverging paths of development with regard to aspect seem to begin already in these early stages}, language = {de} } @article{Wischer2013, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Grammatikalisierungsprozesse in der Geschichte des Englischen}, series = {Angewandet Linguistik Linguistique appliqu{\´e}e: Zwischen Theorien, Konzepten und der Beschreibung sprachlicher {\"A}ußerungen. Entre th{\´e}ories, concepts et la description des expressions linguistiques}, journal = {Angewandet Linguistik Linguistique appliqu{\´e}e: Zwischen Theorien, Konzepten und der Beschreibung sprachlicher {\"A}ußerungen. Entre th{\´e}ories, concepts et la description des expressions linguistiques}, editor = {Große, Sybille and Hennemann, Anja and Pl{\"o}tner, Kathleen and Wagner, Stefanie}, publisher = {Lang}, address = {Frankfurt am Main}, isbn = {978-3-63163-476-9}, pages = {315 -- 324}, year = {2013}, language = {de} } @article{Wischer2012, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {History of english historical linguistica}, series = {English Historical Linguistics. Volume 2 (Handb{\"u}cher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science)}, journal = {English Historical Linguistics. Volume 2 (Handb{\"u}cher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science)}, editor = {Bergs, Alexander and Brinton, Laurel J.}, publisher = {de Gruyter}, address = {Mouton}, isbn = {978-3-11214-670-5}, pages = {1325 -- 1340}, year = {2012}, language = {de} } @misc{Wischer2013, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Peter Fenn: A student's advanced grammar of english / rezensiert von Ilse Wischer}, series = {Anglistik : international journal of english studies}, volume = {23}, journal = {Anglistik : international journal of english studies}, number = {2}, issn = {0947-0034}, pages = {215 -- 217}, year = {2013}, abstract = {Rezensiertes Werk: Peter Fenn: A student's advanced grammar of english / T{\"u}bingen: Franke, 2010. - XVIII, 581 S.}, language = {de} } @misc{Wischer2010, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Simone E. Pfenninger: Grammaticalization paths of english and high german existential constructions : a corpus-based study / rezensiert von Ilse Wischer}, series = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Dialektologie und Linguistik : ZDL}, volume = {77}, journal = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Dialektologie und Linguistik : ZDL}, number = {3}, issn = {0044-1449}, pages = {372 -- 375}, year = {2010}, abstract = {Rezensiertes Werk: Simone E. Pfenninger: Grammaticalization paths of english and high german existential constructions : a corpus-based study / Bern: Lang, 2009. - XI, 369 S. - (European University Studies: Series 21, Linguistics Vol. 345)}, language = {en} } @article{Wischer2007, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {The Grammaticalization of the Perfect in the History of English}, isbn = {978-83-7525-071-8}, year = {2007}, language = {en} } @misc{Wischer2006, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Facchinetti, R., (Hrsg.), Krug, M. (Hrsg.), Palmer, F. (Hrsg.), Modality in Contemporary English; Berlin, de Gruyter, 2006}, year = {2006}, language = {en} } @misc{Wischer2006, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Miyawaki, M., James Harris's Theory of Universal Grammar: a Synthesis of the Aristotelian and Platonic Conceptions of Language; M{\"u}nster, Nodus-Publ., 2005}, year = {2006}, language = {en} } @article{Wischer2004, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Tempus- und Aspektbeschreibungen in englischen Grammatiken des 18. Jahrhunderts}, isbn = {3-89323-227-3}, year = {2004}, abstract = {Die englische Grammatikschreibung im 18. Jahrhundert ist vordergr{\"u}ndig pr{\"a}skriptiv und basiert auf den traditionellen theoretischen Grundlagen, die f{\"u}r die klassischen Sprachen entwickelt wurden. So werden grammatische Kategorien wie Person und Numerus, Tempus, Modus, Genus Verbi unterschieden, f{\"u}r welche Flexionsparadigmen aufgestellt werden. Im Vergleich zu den klassischen Sprachen hat jedoch das Englische eine weitreichende Umgestaltung in der Strukturierung seiner gesamten Verbalkategorien erfahren: Analytische Mittel (have, be, do, will, etc. in Verbindung mit infiniten Formen des Verbs) werden verwendet, um verschiedene Auspr{\"a}gungen der Vergangenheit, Zuk{\"u}nftigkeit, Gleichzeitigkeit, Vorzeitigkeit, Prozeßhaftigkeit etc. auszudr{\"u}cken. Das Modussystem ist zusammengebrochen. Um dies zu kompensieren und einige der Funktionen des ehemaligen Konjunktivs zu {\"u}bernehmen, wurden zum Beispiel die Modalverben grammatikalisiert. Dann ist auch noch eine v{\"o}llig neue Kategorie entstanden, der Aspekt. In den fr{\"u}hen Grammatiken des 17. Jahrhunderts wurde die Konstruktion be + V-ing, die den Progressiven Aspekt ausdr{\"u}ckt, noch nicht einmal erw{\"a}hnt (z.B. John Wallis 1653, Jeremiah Wharton 1654, Joseph Aickin 1693). Es ist interessant, daß sie zum ersten Mal von einem Ausl{\"a}nder Beachtung findet: Guy Miege f{\"u}hrt diese Konstruktion auf in seiner Englischen Grammatik von 1688. Eine ausf{\"u}hrliche und systematische Beschreibung erfolgt dann aber erst gegen Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts (James Pickbourne 1789). Er integriert die Progressive Form in das Tempussystem und unterscheidet somit insgesamt 18 Tempora im Englischen. Andere Grammatiker nennen 3 oder 5 oder 7 Tempora. Der Aufsatz beschreibt verschiedene Herangehensweisen an die Beschreibung des neu entstandenen Englischen Tempus- und Aspektsystems in der Grammatikschreibung des 18. Jahrhunderts. Ein zentraler Punkt ist die Integration der aspektuellen Unterscheidung zwischen Einfacher und Progressiver Form, die sich in dieser Zeit gerade erst in der Sprache etabliert hatte.}, language = {de} } @article{Wischer2006, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Grammaticalization}, isbn = {0-08-044361-3}, year = {2006}, language = {en} } @misc{Wischer2006, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Brinton, L. J., Traugott, E. C., Lexicalization and Language Change; Cambridge, Univ.-Press, 2006}, year = {2006}, language = {en} } @article{Wischer2006, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Grammaticalisation and language contact in the history of English : the evolution of the progressive form}, isbn = {978-3-631- 55006-9}, year = {2006}, language = {en} } @article{Wischer2006, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Markers of futurity in old english and the grammaticalization of shall and will}, year = {2006}, language = {en} } @article{Wischer2005, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Die Anwendung moderner Tempus- und Aspekttheorien auf die altenglische Sprache}, isbn = {3-631-54482-0}, year = {2005}, language = {de} } @article{Wischer2004, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {The HAVE-perfect in Old English}, year = {2004}, language = {en} } @article{Wischer2003, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Reich, S., Struktur und Erwerb der englischen Nominalphrase; T{\"u}bingen, Niemeyer, 2004}, year = {2003}, language = {de} } @article{Wischer2004, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Old English Prefixed Verbs and the Question of Aspect and Aktionsart}, isbn = {3-88476- 702-X}, year = {2004}, language = {en} } @article{Wischer2003, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {On the origin and current status of African American vernacular english}, isbn = {3-89626-292-0}, year = {2003}, language = {en} } @article{Wischer2003, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Structure and acquisition of the English nominal phrase}, issn = {0044-2305}, year = {2003}, language = {en} } @article{Wischer2003, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {The Treatment of Aspect Distinctions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Grammars of English}, isbn = {3-906770- 97-4}, year = {2003}, language = {en} } @misc{Wischer2010, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {L{\´o}pez-Couso, M. J. (Hrsg.) , Seoane, E. (Hrsg.), Rethinking Grammaticalization; Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization, Amsterdam, Benjamins, 2008}, year = {2010}, language = {en} } @misc{Wischer1998, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Tieken-Boon van Ostade, I. (Hrsg.), Two Hundred Years of Lindley Murray; M{\"u}nster, Nodus, 1996}, year = {1998}, language = {en} } @article{Wischer1996, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Historical phonology revisited}, year = {1996}, language = {en} } @article{Wischer2008, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Englisch-Franz{\"o}sischer Sprachkontakt und die Kontroverse um die (Dis)Kontinuit{\"a}t der englischen Sprachentwicklung}, isbn = {978-3- 8233-6362-0}, year = {2008}, language = {de} } @article{Wischer1997, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {International versus external factors in the origin and development of the English of-phrase functioning as a noun modifier}, year = {1997}, language = {en} } @article{Wischer1991, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Explikative Relationen : ihre sprachliche Realisierung im Englischen und im Deutschen}, year = {1991}, language = {de} } @misc{Wischer2009, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Rissanen, M. (Hrsg.), Hintikka, M. (Hrsg.), Kahlas-Tarkka, L. (Hrsg.), McConchie, R. (Hrsg.), Change in Meaning and the Meaning of Change; Helsinki, Soci{\´e}t{\´e} N{\´e}ophilologique, 2007}, year = {2009}, language = {en} } @article{Wischer2010, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Sekretion und Exaptation als Mechanismen in der Wortbildung und Grammatik}, isbn = {978-3-11-022385-9}, year = {2010}, language = {de} } @article{Wischer2010, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {On the use of beon and wesan in Old English}, isbn = {978-90-272-4832-9}, year = {2010}, language = {en} } @article{Wischer2011, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Lexicalization of paraphrasal verb constructions with have and take}, isbn = {978-3-8233-6601-0}, year = {2011}, language = {en} } @article{Wischer2011, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Grammaticalization and Word Formation}, isbn = {978-0-19-958678-3}, year = {2011}, language = {en} } @article{Wischer2011, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Aspects of grammaticalization : current resources and future prospects}, year = {2011}, language = {en} } @article{Wischer2008, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {English historical linguistics in Germany : past, present and future}, year = {2008}, language = {en} } @misc{Wischer2010, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Ziegeler, D., Interfaces with English Aspect. Diachronic and empirical studies; Amsterdam, Benjamins Publ. Company, 2006}, year = {2010}, language = {en} } @article{Wischer2008, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {History of english historical linguistics: Germany and the German-speaking countries}, isbn = {978-3-11-020220-5}, year = {2008}, language = {en} } @article{Wischer2008, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {"Will" and "shall" as markers of modality and/or futurity in Middle English}, issn = {0165-4004}, year = {2008}, language = {en} } @article{Wischer1997, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Lexikalisierung versus Grammatikalisierung : Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede}, year = {1997}, language = {de} } @article{Wischer2008, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Grammaticalization of periphrastic constructions}, isbn = {978-3-11-020582-4}, year = {2008}, language = {en} } @article{Wischer2008, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Zum kategorialen Status von Derivationsaffixen im Rahmen von Grammatikalisierungsprozessen}, isbn = {978-3-8196-0719-6}, year = {2008}, language = {de} } @article{Wischer2008, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {What makes a syntactic change stop? : On the decline of periphrastic do in Early Modern English affirmative declarative sentences}, issn = {0081-6272}, year = {2008}, language = {en} } @book{Wischer1997, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Elemente und Relationen im modifizierten Nominalverband : untersucht am Beispiel der englischen Sprache}, publisher = {Lang}, address = {Frankfurt am Main [u.a.]}, pages = {217, XIV S.}, year = {1997}, language = {de} } @article{Wischer2002, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Dynamic have in North American and British Isles English}, year = {2002}, language = {en} } @article{Wischer2002, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {On the function of se/seo/that in Old English}, isbn = {3-631-38617-6}, year = {2002}, language = {en} } @article{Wischer2001, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Sprachkontakt und Grammatikalisierung : zum Einfluß des Altnordischen auf die Entwicklung der englischen Sprache}, isbn = {3-89323-134- X}, year = {2001}, language = {de} } @article{Wischer2000, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Grammaticalization versus lexicalization : 'methinks' there is some confusion}, isbn = {90-272-3056-0}, year = {2000}, language = {en} } @article{Wischer1999, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Ist Englisch noch zu retten? - Versuche, die englische Sprache im 17./18. Jahrhundert zu korrigieren und festzuschreiben}, year = {1999}, language = {de} } @article{Wilke2021, author = {Wilke, Heinrich}, title = {Character and perspective in cosmic horror}, series = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Anglistik und Amerikanistik : a quarterly of language, literature and cultur}, volume = {69}, journal = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Anglistik und Amerikanistik : a quarterly of language, literature and cultur}, number = {2}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {0044-2305}, doi = {10.1515/zaa-2021-2038}, pages = {173 -- 190}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Despite their overt focus on inexplicable alien forces, cosmic horror stories are also determined by their human cast. Far from being merely fodder for horror, the characters significantly contribute to the generation of meaning, including that of the supernatural entity or phenomenon itself. The same holds for the narrators' (implicitly) political perspectives on the world of which they are part. Much of the perspective propounded in Lovecraft's cosmic horror stories partakes of myth, adopting in particular the latter's universal view and pronounced sidelining of humanity as a whole, which it intensifies to the point of horror. Appearances to the contrary notwithstanding, this universal perspective is consistent with the racism permeating and structuring Lovecraft's writing. Though eschewing racism and universalism, the cosmic horror of Kiernan's "Tidal Forces" negotiates literary reflections of colonialism from an unreflective white perspective.}, language = {en} } @article{WiemannRajaShaswati2021, author = {Wiemann, Dirk and Raja, Ira and Shaswati, Mazumdar}, title = {Postcolonial world literature}, series = {Thesis eleven : critical theory and historical sociology}, volume = {162}, journal = {Thesis eleven : critical theory and historical sociology}, number = {1}, publisher = {Sage}, address = {London [u.a.]}, issn = {0725-5136}, doi = {10.1177/0725513621994707}, pages = {3 -- 17}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Postcolonial criticism has repeatedly debunked the ostensible neutrality of the 'world' of world literature by pointing out that and how the contemporary world - whether conceived in terms of cosmopolitan conviviality or neoliberal globalization - cannot be understood without recourse to the worldly event of Europe's colonial expansion. While we deem this critical perspective indispensable, we simultaneously maintain that to reduce 'the world' to the world-making impact of capital, colonialism, and patriarchy paints an overly deterministic picture that runs the risk of unwittingly reproducing precisely that dominant 'oneworldness' that it aims to critique. Moreover, the mere potentiality of alternative modes of world-making tends to disappear in such a perspective so that the only remaining option to think beyond oneworldness resides in the singularity claim. This insistence on singularity, however, leaves the relatedness of the single units massively underdetermined or denies it altogether. By contrast, we locate world literature in the conflicted space between the imperial imposition of a hierarchically stratified world (to which, as hegemonic forces tell us, 'there is no alternative') and the unrealized 'undivided world' that multiple minor cosmopolitan projects yet have to win. It is precisely the tension between these 'two worlds' that brings into view the crucial centrality not of the nodes in their alleged singularity but their specific relatedness to each other, that both impedes and energizes world literature today and renders it ineluctably postcolonial.}, language = {en} } @book{WiemannMahlbergDzelzainisetal.2014, author = {Wiemann, Dirk and Mahlberg, Gaby and Dzelzainis, Martin and Cuttica, Cesare and Lottes, G{\"u}nther and Davis, J. C. and Pankratz, Anette and Sedlmayr, Gerold and Vallance, Edward and Vanderbeke, Dirk and Borot, Luc and Champion, Justin and Burgess, Glenn}, title = {Perspectives on English revolutionary republicanism}, editor = {Wiemann, Dirk and Mahlberg, Gaby}, publisher = {Ashgate}, address = {Farnham}, isbn = {978-1-4094-5567-7}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {IX, 228}, year = {2014}, abstract = {Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism takes stock of developments in the scholarship of seventeenth-century English republicanism by looking at the movements and schools of thought that have shaped the field over the decades: the linguistic turn, the cultural turn and the religious turn. While scholars of seventeenth-century republicanism share their enthusiasm for their field, they have approached their subject in diverse ways. The contributors to the present volume have taken the opportunity to bring these approaches together in a number of case studies covering republican language, republican literary and political culture, and republican religion, to paint a lively picture of the state of the art in republican scholarship. The volume begins with three chapters influenced by the theory and methodology of the linguistic turn, before moving on to address cultural history approaches to English republicanism, including both literary culture and (practical) political culture. The final section of the volume looks at how religion intersected with ideas of republican thought. Taken together the essays demonstrate the vitality and diversity of what was once regarded as a narrow topic of political research.}, language = {en} } @article{WiemannMahlberg2014, author = {Wiemann, Dirk and Mahlberg, Gaby}, title = {Introduction : Perspectives on English revolutionary republicanism}, series = {Perspectives on English revolutionary republicanism}, journal = {Perspectives on English revolutionary republicanism}, editor = {Wiemann, Dirk and Mahlberg, Gaby}, publisher = {Ashgate}, address = {Farnham}, pages = {1 -- 12}, year = {2014}, language = {en} } @book{WiemannEmigSchmittKilbetal.2010, author = {Wiemann, Dirk and Emig, Rainer and Schmitt-Kilb, Christian and Stedman, Gesa and Berg, Sebastian}, title = {Journal for the Study of British Cultures}, publisher = {K{\"o}nigshausen \& Neumann GmbH}, address = {W{\"u}rzburg}, issn = {0944-9094}, pages = {0944-9094}, year = {2010}, language = {en} } @article{WiemannEckstein2013, author = {Wiemann, Dirk and Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Introduction : towards a cultural politics of passion}, isbn = {978-3-631-60196-9}, year = {2013}, language = {en} } @article{WiemannBartels2007, author = {Wiemann, Dirk and Bartels, Anke}, title = {Global Fragments : an Introduction}, isbn = {978-90-420-2182-2}, year = {2007}, language = {en} } @article{WiemannAngermuellerBartelsetal.2005, author = {Wiemann, Dirk and Angerm{\"u}ller, Johannes and Bartels, Anke and Stopinska, Agata}, title = {Violence of Discourses - Disourses of Violence : an Introduction}, isbn = {3-631-54226-7}, year = {2005}, language = {en} } @misc{Wiemann2014, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {George, Rosemary Marangoly, Indian English and the Fiction of National Literature / [rezensiert von] Dirk Wiemann}, series = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Anglistik und Amerikanistik : ZAA ; a quarterly of language, literature and culture}, volume = {62}, journal = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Anglistik und Amerikanistik : ZAA ; a quarterly of language, literature and culture}, number = {4}, publisher = {DeGruyter}, address = {T{\"u}bingen}, issn = {0044-2305}, doi = {10.1515/zaa-2014-0039}, pages = {385 -- 388}, year = {2014}, abstract = {Rezensiertes Werk George, Rosemary Marangoly, Indian English and the Fiction of National Literature - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. - Hb. viii, 285 pp. - (Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Anglistik und Amerikanistik ; 62(4)) ISBN 978-1-107-04000-7.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Wiemann2022, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Network Realism/Capitalist Realism}, series = {Realism: Aesthetics, Experiments, Politics}, booktitle = {Realism: Aesthetics, Experiments, Politics}, publisher = {Bloomsbury Academic}, address = {New York}, isbn = {978-1-5013-8548-3}, doi = {10.5040/9781501385513.0018}, pages = {209 -- 227}, year = {2022}, language = {en} } @incollection{Wiemann2014, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {On (Not) Missing Links : reading Conan Doyle with Mahasweta Devi}, series = {Afrofictional In(ter)ventions : revisiting the BIGSAS Festival of African (-Diasporic) Literatures, Bayreuth 2011-2013}, booktitle = {Afrofictional In(ter)ventions : revisiting the BIGSAS Festival of African (-Diasporic) Literatures, Bayreuth 2011-2013}, publisher = {Edition Assemblage}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-942885-67-6}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {269 -- 282}, year = {2014}, language = {en} } @incollection{Wiemann2014, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Tolkien's Baits : Agonism, Essentialism and the Visible in The Lord of the Rings}, series = {Politics in Fantasy Media : Essays on Ideology and Gender in Fiction, Film, Television and Games}, booktitle = {Politics in Fantasy Media : Essays on Ideology and Gender in Fiction, Film, Television and Games}, publisher = {McFarland}, address = {Jefferson, NC}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {191 -- 204}, year = {2014}, language = {en} } @incollection{Wiemann2014, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {World Literary Spacing : Contemporary Verse Novels Across the Anglosphere}, series = {Across Literary and Linguistic Diversities : Essays on Comparative Literature}, booktitle = {Across Literary and Linguistic Diversities : Essays on Comparative Literature}, publisher = {Lang}, address = {Oxford}, isbn = {978-3-0343-1759-7}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {45 -- 62}, year = {2014}, language = {en} } @incollection{Wiemann2014, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {(Not) Readily Available : Kiran Nagarkar in the Global Market}, series = {Indian Writing in English and the Global Literary Market}, booktitle = {Indian Writing in English and the Global Literary Market}, publisher = {Palgrave}, address = {London}, isbn = {978-1-349-49386-9}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {180 -- 197}, year = {2014}, language = {en} } @incollection{Wiemann2014, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Vom Globus zum Planeten : Derek Walcott 'nach der Hybridit{\"a}t' lesen}, series = {Nach der Hybridit{\"a}t : Zuk{\"u}nfte der Kulturwissenschaften}, volume = {2014}, booktitle = {Nach der Hybridit{\"a}t : Zuk{\"u}nfte der Kulturwissenschaften}, publisher = {tranvia}, address = {Berlin}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {167 -- 184}, year = {2014}, language = {de} } @article{Wiemann2011, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Grenz{\"u}berschreitende Provinzialit{\"a}t: Richardsons Pamela und die verborgenen Ressourcen des europ{\"a}ischen Romans}, isbn = {978-3-89971-877-5}, year = {2011}, language = {de} } @article{Wiemann2009, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {"Im Angesicht der Majest{\"a}t : Geschichte, Mythos und Transnationalit{\"a}t in Shekhhar Kapurs Elizabeth- Filmen"}, isbn = {978-3-7705-4803-3}, year = {2009}, language = {de} } @article{Wiemann2009, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Empire and freedom : William Davenant's 'Republican' Plays}, isbn = {978-3-86821- 132-0}, year = {2009}, language = {en} } @article{Wiemann2011, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {The boomerang effect of colonial practice : free-born englishmen and cavalier slaves}, isbn = {978-3-86956-090-8}, year = {2011}, language = {en} } @article{Wiemann2011, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Achievers, clones and pirates : Indian graphic novels}, isbn = {978-3- 86821-332-4}, year = {2011}, language = {en} } @article{Wiemann2009, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Bashing the bishop : the Rowan Williams Row and the incomplete secularisation of Britain}, issn = {0944-9094}, year = {2009}, language = {en} } @article{Wiemann2009, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Wilber's Force : abolitionism and the power of sensibility in Michael Apted's amazing grace}, issn = {0171-1695}, year = {2009}, language = {en} } @misc{Wiemann2010, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Chanan, M.; The Politics of Documentary; London, BFI, 2007}, issn = {0944-9094}, year = {2010}, language = {en} } @article{Wiemann2011, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Michael Arditti and the return of "Totalitarianism"}, issn = {0171-1695}, year = {2011}, language = {en} } @article{Wiemann2007, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Teaming multitudes : lagaan and the nation in globality}, isbn = {978-90-420-2182-2}, year = {2007}, language = {en} } @article{Wiemann2007, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {From Forked Tongue to Forked Tongue : Rushdie and Milton in the Postcolonial conversation}, issn = {0021-9894}, year = {2007}, language = {en} } @article{Wiemann2013, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Undead or immortal? : red army faction afterlives}, isbn = {978-3-361-60196-9}, year = {2013}, language = {en} } @article{Wiemann2008, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Keep the Pterodactyl Flying : Prehistory in Posthistorical Time}, isbn = {978-3-631-57029-6}, year = {2008}, language = {en} } @article{Wiemann2008, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {It Ain't Me, Babe : Bob Dylan's Chronicles between Disclosure and Concealment}, isbn = {978- 817305366-5}, year = {2008}, language = {en} } @book{Wiemann2008, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Genres of modernity : contemporary Indian novels in English}, series = {Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft}, volume = {120}, journal = {Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft}, publisher = {Rodopi}, address = {Amsterdam, New York}, isbn = {978-90-420-2493-9}, pages = {334 S.}, year = {2008}, language = {en} } @article{Wiemann2012, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Mundus senescit : is Tolkien's Medievalism Victorian or Modernist?}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @article{Wiemann2010, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {A russian romance : 1930s british writers as wishful participants in the Soviet revolution}, isbn = {978-90-420-3049-7}, year = {2010}, language = {en} } @article{Wiemann2012, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {What will count as the world : Indian short-story cycles and the question of genre}, isbn = {978-0-415-53960-9}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @article{Wiemann2020, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Too Poor for Debt}, series = {Coils of the Serpent}, volume = {6}, journal = {Coils of the Serpent}, number = {2}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Leipzig}, address = {Leipzig}, issn = {2510-3059}, pages = {100 -- 110}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Deleuze launches his description/prediction of the emergence and imminent consolidation of the society of control as a postscript. The text thus announces itself as an afterthought, a supplement appended to some complete larger textual body, from which it is, however, unmoored as it is launched as an independent self-standing text that, moreover, does not indicate to what it is an addendum but instead, on what it speaks. By this token, the Postscript unhinges the conventional notion according to which a supplement signals "the addition of something to an already complete entity" (Attridge 1992: 77). By marking his text as the adjunct to an absent main body, Deleuze appears to concede and at the same time emphatically embrace the necessary incompleteness of this short pr{\´e}cis on the post-disciplinary regime. My argument in the following will be that the supplementary status of the Postscript does not so much signal some subversive or dissident gesture in the name of the minor or the molecular (even though it does that, too); instead, it primarily serves to keep at bay and contain an exteriority that it aims to 'confine by exclusion'1; and that exteriority, I will argue, is the Third World.}, language = {en} } @article{Wiemann2021, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Being Taught Something World-Sized}, series = {The Work of World Literature}, journal = {The Work of World Literature}, editor = {Robinson, Benjamin Lewis}, publisher = {ICI Press}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {2627-728X}, doi = {10.37050/ci-19_07}, pages = {149 -- 172}, year = {2021}, abstract = {This paper reads 'The Detainee's Tale as told to Ali Smith' (2016) as an exemplary demonstration of the work of world literature. Smith's story articulates an ethics of reading that is grounded in the recipient's openness to the singular, unpredictable, and unverifiable text of the other. More specifically, Smith's account enables the very event that it painstakingly stages: the encounter with alterity and newness, which is both the theme of the narrative and the effect of the text on the reader. At the same time, however, the text urges to move from an ethics of literature understood as the responsible reception of the other by an individual reader to a more explicitly convivial and political ethics of commitment beyond the scene of reading.}, language = {en} } @article{Wiemann2017, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Indian Writing in English and the Discrepant Zones of World Literature}, series = {Anglia : journal of English philology}, volume = {135}, journal = {Anglia : journal of English philology}, number = {1}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {0340-5222}, doi = {10.1515/ang-2017-0008}, pages = {122 -- 139}, year = {2017}, abstract = {For world literature studies, Indian writing in English offers an exceptionally rich and variegated field of analysis: On the one hand, a set of prominent Indian or diasporic writers accrues substantial literary capital through metropolitan review circuits and award systems and thus maintains the high international visibility that Indian writing in English has acquired ever since the early 1980s. Addressing a readership that spans countries and continents, this kind of writing functions as a viable tributary to world literature. On the other hand, a new boom of Indian mass fiction in English has emerged that, while targeting a strictly domestic audience, is always already implicated in the dynamics of world literature as well, albeit in a very different way: As they deploy, appropriate and adopt a wide range of globally available templates of popular genres, these texts have globality inscribed into their very textures even if they do not circulate internationally.}, language = {en} } @article{Wiemann2021, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Layer after Layer}, series = {Thesis Eleven}, volume = {162}, journal = {Thesis Eleven}, number = {1}, publisher = {Sage}, address = {Melbourne}, issn = {0725-5136}, doi = {10.1177/0725513621990772}, pages = {33 -- 45}, year = {2021}, abstract = {When the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in South London were opened to the general public in the 1840s, they were presented as a 'world text': a collection of flora from all over the world, with the spectacular tropical (read: colonial) specimens taking centre stage as indexes of Britain's imperial supremacy. However, the one exotic plant species that preoccupied the British cultural imagination more than any other remained conspicuously absent from the collection: the banyan tree, whose non-transferability left a significant gap in the 'text' of the garden, thereby effectively puncturing the illusion of comprehensive global command that underpins the biopolitical designs of what Richard Grove has aptly dubbed 'green imperialism'. This article demonstrates how, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the banyan tree became an object of fascination and admiration for British scientists, painters, writers and photographers precisely because of its obstinate non-availability to colonial control and visual or even conceptual representability.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Wiemann2021, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Being Taught Something World-Sized}, series = {The Work of World Literature}, volume = {2021}, booktitle = {The Work of World Literature}, publisher = {ICI Berlin Press}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-96558-011-4}, issn = {2627-728X}, doi = {10.37050/ci-19_07}, pages = {149 -- 172}, year = {2021}, abstract = {This paper reads 'The Detainee's Tale as told to Ali Smith' (2016) as an exemplary demonstration of the work of world literature. Smith's story articulates an ethics of reading that is grounded in the recipient's openness to the singular, unpredictable, and unverifiable text of the other. More specifically, Smith's account enables the very event that it painstakingly stages: the encounter with alterity and newness, which is both the theme of the narrative and the effect of the text on the reader. At the same time, however, the text urges to move from an ethics of literature understood as the responsible reception of the other by an individual reader to a more explicitly convivial and political ethics of commitment beyond the scene of reading.}, language = {en} } @article{Wicht2003, author = {Wicht, Wolfgang}, title = {"Bleibtreustrasse 34, Berlin, W. 15." (U 4.199), once again}, issn = {0021-4183}, year = {2003}, language = {de} } @article{Wawrzinek2018, author = {Wawrzinek, Jennifer}, title = {Postcolonial dandies and the death of the fl{\^a}neur}, series = {South and North : Contemporary Urban Orientations}, journal = {South and North : Contemporary Urban Orientations}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {London}, isbn = {978-1-351-04704-3}, pages = {161 -- 179}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @article{Waller2022, author = {Waller, Nicole}, title = {Marronage or underground?}, series = {MELUS : multi-ethnic literature of the U.S. / Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States}, volume = {47}, journal = {MELUS : multi-ethnic literature of the U.S. / Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States}, number = {1}, publisher = {Oxford Univ. Press}, address = {Oxford}, issn = {0163-755X}, doi = {10.1093/melus/mlac021}, pages = {45 -- 70}, year = {2022}, abstract = {I combine a reading of contemporary scholarship on US maroon histories and the Underground Railroad—and the concomitant notions of marronage and the underground—with a reading of two recent works of African American literature: Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad (2016) and Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Water Dancer (2019). Foregrounding the idea of Black geographies as a form of placemaking and "thinking otherwise" about land and water, I suggest that despite the differing, and at times contrasting, trajectories of maroon histories and the histories of Black flight to the North, African American maroon experiences and the Underground Railroad are conceptually connected in contemporary African American literature. I read the two novels as recent literary expressions of this conceptual link, which is played out via representations of relating to the land. By reimagining and intertwining marronage and the underground, both novels articulate a critique of settler-colonial and plantation modes of spatial practice, modes they identify as formative for US-American nationhood. They also, tentatively but forcefully, gesture toward alternative ways of being "above" and "below" the land while affirming African American connectedness to place.}, language = {en} } @article{Waller2018, author = {Waller, Nicole}, title = {Connecting Atlantic and Pacific: Theorizing the Arctic}, series = {Atlantic studies : literary, cultural and historical perspectives}, volume = {15}, journal = {Atlantic studies : literary, cultural and historical perspectives}, number = {2}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {1478-8810}, doi = {10.1080/14788810.2017.1387467}, pages = {256 -- 278}, year = {2018}, abstract = {This essay sets out to theorize the "new" Arctic Ocean as a pivot from which our standard map of the world is currently being reconceptualized. Drawing on theories from the fields of Atlantic and Pacific studies, I argue that the changing Arctic, characterized by melting ice and increased accessibility, must be understood both as a space of transit that connects Atlantic and Pacific worlds in unprecedented ways, and as an oceanic world and contact zone in its own right. I examine both functions of the Arctic via a reading of the dispute over the Northwest Passage (which emphasizes the Arctic as a space of transit) and the contemporary assessment of new models of sovereignty in the Arctic region (which concentrates on the circumpolar Arctic as an oceanic world). However, both of these debates frequently exclude indigenous positions on the Arctic. By reading Canadian Inuit theories on the Arctic alongside the more prominent debates, I argue for a decolonizing reading of the Arctic inspired by Inuit articulations of the "Inuit Sea." In such a reading, Inuit conceptions provide crucial interventions into theorizing the Arctic. They also, in turn, contribute to discussions on indigeneity, sovereignty, and archipelagic theory in Atlantic and Pacific studies.}, language = {en} }