@article{Kutzinski2024, author = {Kutzinski, Vera M.}, title = {Off-road adventures}, series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, volume = {XXV}, journal = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, number = {48}, editor = {Ette, Ottmar and Knobloch, Eberhard}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {2568-3543}, doi = {10.18443/367}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-646601}, pages = {65 -- 86}, year = {2024}, abstract = {This article focuses on the visual qualities of Alexander von Humboldt's statistical tables in his Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain (1808-1811, 2nd ed. 1825-1827) with special attention to how such composites of numbers, alphabetical script, and semiotic elements relate to narrative writing. I argue that Humboldt's tables/tableaus open up spaces inside his narrative that fragment the reading process, inviting new conversations, connections, and ideas.}, language = {en} } @article{Zielnica2024, author = {Zielnica, Krzystof}, title = {Alexander von Humboldt und Polen - zum 150. Jahrestag seiner Reise nach Warschau}, series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, volume = {XXV}, journal = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, number = {48}, editor = {Ette, Ottmar and Knobloch, Eberhard}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {2568-3543}, doi = {10.18443/368}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-646635}, pages = {87 -- 101}, year = {2024}, abstract = {Zuerst erschienen in: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung. Mitteilungen, 5. Jg., Heft 38, Oktober 1980, S. 27-36.}, language = {en} } @article{UthGutierrezBravoFliessbach2024, author = {Uth, Melanie and Guti{\´e}rrez-Bravo, Rodrigo and Fliessbach, Jan}, title = {On the incompatibility of object fronting and progressive aspect in Yucatec Maya}, series = {Frontiers in language sciences}, volume = {2}, journal = {Frontiers in language sciences}, publisher = {Frontiers Media S.A.}, address = {Lausanne, Switzerland}, issn = {2813-4605}, doi = {10.3389/flang.2023.1286520}, pages = {10}, year = {2024}, abstract = {In this paper, we present data from an elicitation study and a corpus study that support the observation that the Yucatec Maya progressive aspect auxiliary t{\´a}an is replaced by the habitual auxiliary k in sentences with contrastively focused fronted objects. Focus has been extensively studied in Yucatec, yet the incompatibility of object fronting and progressive aspect in Yucatec Maya remains understudied. Both our experimental results and our corpus study point in the direction that this incompatibility may very well be categorical. Theoretically, we take a progressive reading to be derived from an imperfectivity operator in combination with a singular operator, and we propose that this singular operator implicates the negation of event plurality, leading to an exhaustive interpretation which ranks below corrective focus on a contrastive focus scale. This means that, in a sentence with object focus fronting, the use of the marked auxiliary t{\´a}an (as opposed to the more general k) would trigger two contrastive foci, which would be an unlikely and probably dispreferred speech act.}, language = {en} } @article{EtteRen2023, author = {Ette, Ottmar and Ren, Haiyan}, title = {Exploring China in Alexander von Humboldt: The Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies (HCTS), Changsha}, series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, volume = {XXIV}, journal = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, number = {46}, editor = {Ette, Ottmar and Knobloch, Eberhard}, issn = {2568-3543}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-59974}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-599749}, pages = {5 -- 11}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Humboldtian science aims at an empirically supported transdisciplinary and at the same time transareal development of a world consciousness. In the development of this world consciousness, not only Europe and the Americas, but also Central Asia and especially China play an important role. The Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies (HCTS) in Changsha, is attempting to address the fact that China has been largely left out of international Humboldt studies and that Alexander von Humboldt was intensively engaged with Central Asia and China for decades. Therefore, the Humboldt Center in Changsha sets itself the goal of expanding Humboldt Studies to include this important aspect, to stimulate and coordinate special research work, and to build scientific and cultural bridges between Germany and China, Europe and Asia.}, language = {en} } @book{Fliessbach2023, author = {Fliessbach, Jan}, title = {The intonation of expectations}, publisher = {Language Science Press}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-96110-413-0}, issn = {2940-1100}, doi = {10.5281/zenodo.7929375}, pages = {285}, year = {2023}, abstract = {This book provides a new perspective on prosodically marked declaratives, wh-exclamatives, and discourse particles in the Madrid variety of Spanish. It argues that some marked forms differ from unmarked forms in that they encode modal evaluations of the at-issue meaning. Two epistemic evaluations that can be shown to be encoded by intonation in Spanish are obviousness and mirativity, which present the at-issue meaning as expected and unexpected, respectively. An empirical investigation via a production experiment finds that they are associated with distinct intonational features under constant focus scope, with stances of (dis)agreement showing an impact on obvious declaratives. Wh-exclamatives are found not to differ significantly in intonational marking from neutral declaratives, showing that they need not be miratives. Moreover, we find that intonational marking on different discourse particles in natural dialogue correlates with their meaning contribution without being fully determined by it. In part, these findings quantitatively confirm previous qualitative findings on the meaning of intonational configurations in Madrid Spanish. But they also add new insights on the role intonation plays in the negotiation of commitments and expectations between interlocutors.}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-57691, title = {Linguistic hybridity}, series = {Studia Romanica}, journal = {Studia Romanica}, number = {232}, editor = {Hennemann, Anja and Meisnitzer, Benjamin}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Winter}, address = {Heidelberg}, isbn = {978-3-8253-4936-3}, pages = {229}, year = {2022}, abstract = {This volume deals with different linguistic phenomena representing grammaticalization and lexicalization processes and combines different approaches of contact linguistics and variational linguistics. It contains papers on clitic placement in Angolan Portuguese, on the use of subject pronouns in French, Brazilian Portuguese and Caribbean Spanish, on evidential marking in Paraguayan Spanish, on Paraguayan Guaran{\´i}, on evidentiality in different varieties of Spanish, on discourse markers in Latin America, on modal particles in Italian and their translation into German, on bilingual communities in Southern Brazil, on Spanish-German-Russian language contact and on Romance aspectual periphrases in contact with English progressives.}, language = {en} } @incollection{BoehmHennemannMeisnitzer2022, author = {B{\"o}hm, Ver{\´o}nica Julia and Hennemann, Anja and Meisnitzer, Benjamin}, title = {Language contact and the linguistic coding of evidentiality in varieties of Spanish in Latin America}, series = {Linguistic hybridity: contact-induced and cognitively motivated grammaticalization and lexicalization processes in Romance languages}, booktitle = {Linguistic hybridity: contact-induced and cognitively motivated grammaticalization and lexicalization processes in Romance languages}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Winter}, address = {Heidelberg}, isbn = {978-3-8253-4936-3}, pages = {117 -- 142}, year = {2022}, language = {en} } @incollection{HennemannMeisnitzer2022, author = {Hennemann, Anja and Meisnitzer, Benjamin}, title = {An introduction to contact-induced and cognitively motivated grammaticalization and lexicalization processes in Romance languages}, series = {Linguistic hybridity: contact-induced and cognitively motivated grammaticalization and lexicalization processes in Romance languages}, booktitle = {Linguistic hybridity: contact-induced and cognitively motivated grammaticalization and lexicalization processes in Romance languages}, publisher = {Heidelberg}, address = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Winter}, isbn = {978-3-8253-4936-3}, pages = {7 -- 13}, year = {2022}, language = {en} } @misc{Hassler2022, author = {Hassler, Gerda}, title = {Rezension zu: Wilhelm von Humboldt: Einleitende und vergleichende amerikanische Arbeiten [Introductory and Comparative American Works] / Edited by Manfred Ringmacher with the collaboration of Ute Tintemann, and with contributions by Jenne Klimp \& Frank Zimmer. - Paderborn: Ferdinand Sch{\"o}ningh, 2016. - viii, 496 pp. - (Wilhelm von Humboldt Schriften zur Sprachwissenschaft, 3.1). - ISBN 978-3-506-78416-2}, series = {Historiographia Linguistica}, volume = {48}, journal = {Historiographia Linguistica}, number = {2-3}, publisher = {Benjamins}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {1569-9781}, doi = {10.1075/hl.00090.has}, pages = {323 -- 331}, year = {2022}, language = {en} } @article{Hassler2022, author = {Haßler, Gerda}, title = {Meaning and Function}, series = {Concordia discors vs. discordia concors : researches into comparative literature, contrastive linguistics, translation and cross-cultural strategies}, volume = {16}, journal = {Concordia discors vs. discordia concors : researches into comparative literature, contrastive linguistics, translation and cross-cultural strategies}, number = {2}, publisher = {Ştefan cel Mare University Press}, address = {Suceava}, issn = {2065-4057}, pages = {17 -- 50}, year = {2022}, abstract = {The use of the word functional in the most diverse theories and approaches has contributed in no small measure to the confusion in linguistics today. This article does not claim to give an overview of the different directions of functionalism in linguistics. Rather, the aim is to present what Coseriu's view characterised as functional in his time and to what extent his theory outlined a path that still makes sense in functional-cognitive linguistics today. This will involve an examination of Coseriu's difficult-to-identify concept of function. Furthermore, the article will also show that functional thinking is relevant for current grammatography.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Hassler2022, author = {Haßler, Gerda}, title = {Aspectual periphrases in Romance languages in contact with the English progressive form}, series = {Linguistic Hybridity. Contact-induced and cognitively motivated grammaticalization and lexicalization processes in Romance Languages}, booktitle = {Linguistic Hybridity. Contact-induced and cognitively motivated grammaticalization and lexicalization processes in Romance Languages}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Winter}, address = {Heidelberg}, isbn = {978-3-8253-4936-3}, pages = {215 -- 229}, year = {2022}, language = {en} } @article{AuhagenUth2022, author = {Auhagen, Christopher Patrick and Uth, Melanie}, title = {Variation of relative complementizers in Yucatecan Spanish}, series = {Languages}, volume = {7}, journal = {Languages}, number = {4}, publisher = {MDPI}, address = {Basel}, issn = {2226-471X}, doi = {10.3390/languages7040279}, pages = {16}, year = {2022}, abstract = {The starting point of this article is the occurrence of determiner-less and bare que relative complementizers like (en) que, '(in) that', instead of (en) el que, '(in) which', in Yucatecan Spanish (southeast Mexico). While reference grammars treat complementizers with a determiner as the standard option, previous diachronic research has shown that determiner-less complementizers actually predate relative complementizers with a determiner. Additionally, Yucatecan Spanish has been in long-standing contact with Yucatec Maya. Relative complementation in Yucatec Maya differs from that in Spanish (at least) in that the non-complex complementizer tu'ux ('where') is generally the only option for locative complementation. The paper explores monolingual and bilingual data from Yucatecan Spanish to discuss the question whether the determiner-less and bare que relative complementizers in our data constitute a historic remnant or a dialectal recast, possibly (but not necessarily) due to language contact. Although our pilot study may not answer these far-reaching questions, it does reveal two separate, but intertwined developments: (i) a generally increased rate of bare que relative complementation, across both monolingual speakers of Spanish and Spanish Maya bilinguals, compared to other Spanish varieties, and (ii) a preference for donde at the cost of other locative complementizer constructions in the bilingual group. Our analysis thus reveals intriguing differences between the complementizer preferences of monolingual and bilingual speakers, suggesting that different variational patterns caused by different (socio-)linguistic factors can co-develop in parallel in one and the [same] region.}, language = {en} } @article{AngelPuigSamper2022, author = {{\´A}ngel Puig-Samper, Miguel}, title = {Humboldt and his geographical album of New Spain}, series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, volume = {XXIII}, journal = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, number = {45}, editor = {Ette, Ottmar and Knobloch, Eberhard}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {2568-3543}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-59233}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-592335}, pages = {29 -- 71}, year = {2022}, abstract = {During his trip to New Spain in 1803, Alexander von Humboldt visited large tracts of New Spanish territory, which includes modern Mexico and part of the United States. This trip provided the data for his geographical Atlas of the region, as well as information about the ancient Mexican cultures that he would later include in the general Atlas and in other major works, such as Vues des Cordill{\`e}res. Likewise, Humboldt's Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain displayed a comprehensive physical, natural, economic, and social description of Mexico in the colonial period, which will also be analysed. With these works, Humboldt presented a new geographical and cultural image of New Spain to the European audiences. In addition to this, his work made important contributions to cartographic knowledge.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Sojka2022, author = {S{\´o}jka, Pia}, title = {Writing travel, writing life}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-537-8}, issn = {2629-2548}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-55879}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-558799}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {319}, year = {2022}, abstract = {The book compares the texts of three Swiss authors: Ella Maillart, Annemarie Schwarzenbach and Nicolas Bouvier. The focus is on their trip from Gen{\`e}ve to Kabul that Ella Maillart and Annemarie Schwarzenbach made together in 1939/1940 and Nicolas Bouvier 1953/1954 with the artist Thierry Vernet. The comparison shows the strong connection between the journey and life and between ars vivendi and travel literature. This book also gives an overview of and organises the numerous terms, genres, and categories that already exist to describe various travel texts and proposes the new term travelling narration. The travelling narration looks at the text from a narratological perspective that distinguishes the author, narrator, and protagonist within the narration. In the examination, ten motifs could be found to characterise the travelling narration: Culture, Crossing Borders, Freedom, Time and Space, the Aesthetics of Landscapes, Writing and Reading, the Self and/as the Other, Home, Religion and Spirituality as well as the Journey. The importance of each individual motif does not only apply in the 1930s or 1950s but also transmits important findings for living together today and in the future.}, language = {en} } @misc{AuhagenUth2022, author = {Auhagen, Christopher Patrick and Uth, Melanie}, title = {Variation of relative complementizers in Yucatecan Spanish}, series = {Zweitver{\"o}ffentlichungen der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, journal = {Zweitver{\"o}ffentlichungen der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, issn = {1866-8380}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-58437}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-584375}, pages = {18}, year = {2022}, abstract = {The starting point of this article is the occurrence of determiner-less and bare que relative complementizers like (en) que, '(in) that', instead of (en) el que, '(in) which', in Yucatecan Spanish (southeast Mexico). While reference grammars treat complementizers with a determiner as the standard option, previous diachronic research has shown that determiner-less complementizers actually predate relative complementizers with a determiner. Additionally, Yucatecan Spanish has been in long-standing contact with Yucatec Maya. Relative complementation in Yucatec Maya differs from that in Spanish (at least) in that the non-complex complementizer tu'ux ('where') is generally the only option for locative complementation. The paper explores monolingual and bilingual data from Yucatecan Spanish to discuss the question whether the determiner-less and bare que relative complementizers in our data constitute a historic remnant or a dialectal recast, possibly (but not necessarily) due to language contact. Although our pilot study may not answer these far-reaching questions, it does reveal two separate, but intertwined developments: (i) a generally increased rate of bare que relative complementation, across both monolingual speakers of Spanish and Spanish Maya bilinguals, compared to other Spanish varieties, and (ii) a preference for donde at the cost of other locative complementizer constructions in the bilingual group. Our analysis thus reveals intriguing differences between the complementizer preferences of monolingual and bilingual speakers, suggesting that different variational patterns caused by different (socio-)linguistic factors can co-develop in parallel in one and the [same] region.}, language = {en} } @article{Hassler2021, author = {Hassler, Gerda}, title = {Meaning and Function}, series = {Concordia discors vs. discordia concors : international journal for researches into comparative literature, contrastive linguistics, cross-cultural and translation strategies}, journal = {Concordia discors vs. discordia concors : international journal for researches into comparative literature, contrastive linguistics, cross-cultural and translation strategies}, number = {16}, publisher = {Ştefan cel Mare University Press}, address = {Suceava}, issn = {2065-4057}, pages = {17 -- 50}, year = {2021}, abstract = {The use of the word functional in the most diverse theories and approaches has contributed in no small measure to the confusion in linguistics today. This article does not claim to give an overview of the different directions of functionalism in linguistics. Rather, the aim is to present what Coseriu's view characterised as functional in his time and to what extent his theory outlined a path that still makes sense in functional-cognitive linguistics today. This will involve an examination of Coseriu's difficult-to-identify concept of function. Furthermore, the article will also show that functional thinking is relevant for current grammatography.}, language = {en} } @article{SchwarzKutzinski2021, author = {Schwarz, Ingo and Kutzinski, Vera M.}, title = {A Letter from Alexander von Humboldt to Joseph Albert Wright - Archival Traces}, series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz}, volume = {XXII}, journal = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz}, number = {43}, editor = {Ette, Ottmar and Knobloch, Eberhard}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {2568-3543}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-53278}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-532787}, pages = {5 -- 12}, year = {2021}, abstract = {A few months before his death, A. v. Humboldt attended the celebration in honor of the 127th birthday of George Washington at the US legation in Berlin. A letter to the American Envoy, Joseph A. Wright (1810 - 1867), underlines Humboldt's admiration for the fi rst president of the United States. At the same time Humboldt asked the diplomat to mail a letter to the German-American Bernard Moses (1832 - 1897) in Clinton, Louisiana, who had named his son Alexander Humboldt Moses (grave on the Hebrew Rest Cemetery \#2 in New Orleans, burial plot A, 12, 5). It appears to be possible that the Moses family still owns Humboldt's letter.}, language = {en} } @article{GerstenbergSkupienDekens2021, author = {Gerstenberg, Annette and Skupien-Dekens, Carine}, title = {A grammar of authority?}, series = {Journal of historical pragmatics}, volume = {22}, journal = {Journal of historical pragmatics}, number = {1}, publisher = {John Benjamins Publishing Co.}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {1566-5852}, doi = {10.1075/jhp.17006.ger}, pages = {1 -- 33}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Directive Speech Acts (dsas) are a major feature of historical pragmatics, specifically in research on historical (im)politeness. However, for Classical French, there is a lack of research on related phenomena. In our contribution, we present two recently constructed corpora covering the period of Classical French, sermo and apwcf. We present these corpora in terms of their genre characteristics on a communicative-functional and socio-pragmatic level. Based on the observation that, both in sermo and apwcf, dsas frequently occur together with terms of address, we analyse and manually code a sample based on this co-occurrence, and we compare the results with regard to special features in the individual corpora. The emerging patterns show a clear correspondence between socio-pragmatic factors and the linguistic means used to realise dsas. We propose that these results can be interpreted as signs of an underlying "grammar of authority".}, language = {en} } @article{Klettke2021, author = {Klettke, Cornelia}, title = {Measuring the divine by Geometry and Feeling}, series = {Dante Beyond Borders. Contexts and Reception}, journal = {Dante Beyond Borders. Contexts and Reception}, editor = {Havely, Nick and Katz, Jonathan and Cooper, Richard}, publisher = {Legenda}, address = {Oxford}, isbn = {978-1-781888-30-8}, pages = {21 -- 34}, year = {2021}, language = {en} } @misc{Hassler2020, author = {Haßler, Gerda}, title = {Pr{\´e}sentation}, series = {Collocations et traditions discursives Actes du Colloque du Coll{\`e}ge Doctoral Franco-allemand (CDFA) tenu {\`a} l'Universit{\´e} de Potsdam le 4 juillet 2018 (Linx : revue des linguistes de l'Universit{\´e} Paris Ouest Nanterre La D{\´e}fense)}, volume = {2020}, journal = {Collocations et traditions discursives Actes du Colloque du Coll{\`e}ge Doctoral Franco-allemand (CDFA) tenu {\`a} l'Universit{\´e} de Potsdam le 4 juillet 2018 (Linx : revue des linguistes de l'Universit{\´e} Paris Ouest Nanterre La D{\´e}fense)}, number = {13}, editor = {Haßler, Gerda}, issn = {2118-9692}, doi = {10.4000/linx.3842}, year = {2020}, language = {en} } @article{Hassler2020, author = {Haßler, Gerda}, title = {The Functional-Communicative Approach to Language of the Potsdam School in the German Democratic Republic}, series = {History of Humanities}, volume = {5}, journal = {History of Humanities}, number = {1}, publisher = {The University of Chicago Press Journals}, address = {Chicago}, issn = {2379-3163}, pages = {31 -- 49}, year = {2020}, language = {en} } @article{Hennemann2020, author = {Hennemann, Anja}, title = {Reporting on 'thinking' in Spanish and Portuguese and the role of the subject pronoun}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-47445}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-474455}, pages = {19}, year = {2020}, abstract = {The present paper is concerned with the phenomenon of reporting on the speakers' thinking when both the reporting and the reported clauses originate in one and the same speaker, i.e. the performative uses of the verbs sp. creer and pt. achar ('think'). The data are retrieved from the CdE-NOW and CdP-NOW. Adopting both a quantitative and a qualitative perspective, I concentrate on reporting on thinking with and without the overt expression of the subject pronouns sp. yo and pt. eu. In doing so, the constructions (yo) creo (que) and (eu) acho (que) as well as parenthetic and right-peripheral creo yo and acho eu are studied. According to the corpus data and compared to other possible constructions with creo and acho, creo que and acho que represent the most frequent constructions if searching for the 'node' creo or acho, that is, if the non-use of the subject pronoun exceeds its explicit expression.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Hennemann2020, author = {Hennemann, Anja}, title = {Topic and Focus Markers in Spanish, Portuguese and French}, series = {Potsdam linguistic investigations ; 30}, journal = {Potsdam linguistic investigations ; 30}, publisher = {Lang}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-631-82392-7}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {307}, year = {2020}, abstract = {This book is concerned with the diachronic development of selected topic and focus markers in Spanish, Portuguese and French. On the one hand, it focuses on the development of these structures from their relational meaning to their topic-/ focus-marking meaning, and on the other hand, it is concerned with their current form und use. Thus, Romance topic and focus markers - such as sp. en cuanto a, pt. a prop{\´o}sito de, fr. au niveau de or sentence-initial sp. Lo que as well as clefts and pseudo-clefts - are investigated from a quantitative and qualitative perspective. The author argues that topic markers have procedural meaning and that their function is bound to their syntactic position. An important contribution of this study is the fact that real linguistic evidence (in the form of data from various corpora) is analyzed instead of operating with constructed examples.}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-49371, title = {Remembering German-Australian Colonial Entanglements}, series = {Postcolonial Studies ; 21}, journal = {Postcolonial Studies ; 21}, editor = {Eckstein, Lars and Barrett, Lindsay and Schwarz, Anja and Hurley, Andrew Wright}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {London}, isbn = {978-0-367-42159-5}, pages = {x, 151}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Remembering German- Australian Colonial Entanglements emphatically promotes a critical and nuanced understanding of the complex entanglement of German colonial actors and activities within Australian colonial institutions and different imperial ideologies. Case studies ranging from the German reception of James Cook's voyages through to the legacies of 19th- and 20th- century settler colonialism foreground the highly ambiguous roles played by explorers, missionaries, intellectuals and other individuals, as well as by objects and things that travelled between worlds - ancestral human remains, rare animal skins, songs and even military tanks. The chapters foreground the complex relationship between science, religion, art and exploitation, displacement and annihilation. Contributors trace how these entanglements have been commemorated or forgotten over time - by Germans, settler-Australians and Indigenous people. Bringing to light a critical understanding of the German involvement in the Australian colonial project, Remembering German- Australian Colonial Entanglements will be of great interest to scholars of colonialism, postcolonialism, German Studies and Indigenous Studies. But for the editors' substantial new introductory chapter, these contributions originally appeared in a special issue of Postcolonial Studies.}, language = {en} } @article{Lenz2020, author = {Lenz, Markus Alexander}, title = {A Prophet of Divine Wisdom?}, series = {Philological Encounters Special Issus: Early Modern 'New Sciences': Inquiries into Ibn Khaldun and Giambattista Vico}, volume = {5}, journal = {Philological Encounters Special Issus: Early Modern 'New Sciences': Inquiries into Ibn Khaldun and Giambattista Vico}, number = {1}, editor = {Islam, Dayeh}, publisher = {Brill}, address = {Leiden}, isbn = {2451-9189}, issn = {2451-9197}, pages = {50 -- 75}, year = {2020}, abstract = {In the nineteenth century, the reception of Giambattista Vico's writings came along with nationalist interpretations of his Scienza Nuova as an 'Italian Science'. This tendency was based upon an increased examination of the role that the philosopher Pythagoras and his Italian school of Croton played in Vico's hierarchical conception of the ancient Greek and Italian civilizations. Writers, archaeologists and historians used the New Science as a metonymic reference work for their own nationalist concepts by updating the Pythagorean myth in accordance with relevant narratives of exclusive genealogies concerning an ancient Italian wisdom. These narratives follow tendencies in Vico's own writings that were quoted strategically and mixed with further interpretations of the Scienza Nuova as reliable testimonial for a glorious Italian history. A theological poet characterized by deeper insight into the secrets of nature and some parts of the divine providence, Pythagoras gains his special position in Vico's general conception of knowledge.}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2020, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Exploring the World: On Vectopia}, series = {Doing Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Germany}, journal = {Doing Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Germany}, editor = {Pdoksik, Efraim}, publisher = {Brill}, address = {Leiden}, isbn = {978-90-04-36117-1}, pages = {214 -- 242}, year = {2020}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2020, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Wilhelm \& Alexander von Humboldt or: Humboldtian Science}, series = {Wilhelm und Alexander von Humboldt - Berlin Cosmos}, journal = {Wilhelm und Alexander von Humboldt - Berlin Cosmos}, editor = {Spies, Paul and Tintemann, Ute and Mende, Jan}, publisher = {Wienand}, address = {K{\"o}ln}, isbn = {978-3-86832-559-1}, pages = {19 -- 23}, year = {2020}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2020, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Saga-Like World-Fractals: Jo{\~a}o Guimar{\~a}es Rosa, "Sagarana", and the Literatures of the World}, series = {Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures}, volume = {IV}, journal = {Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures}, number = {1}, publisher = {Hunan Normal University}, address = {Changsha}, pages = {1 -- 21}, year = {2020}, abstract = {This article presents and discusses Jo{\~a}o Guimar{\~a}es Rosa as an outstanding Brazilian author whose literary work, especially Sagarana, expresses aesthetically different ways of life-forms between human beings, animals, plants, and landscapes. Movement and transformations are the basic principles in which the melody of prose expresses itself as a language in and as motion. Although based in Brazilian culture, Rosa shows the conviviality of different logics which are not reduced to one myth of the Brazilian people, but produce multiple ways of co-existence between different life-forms and culture narratives. The translingual title "Sagarana" already alludes to the transitions between two languages, regions, and cultures: the Icelandic "saga-" and the Tupic-Word "rana" which means "similar" or "alike." The interpretation figures out the correlation of different provenances ("Herk{\"u}nfte") which emerge from Rosa's craft of storytelling. In its center, the Sert{\~a}o arises as a region of nature whose forces are connected with the life of human beings. As fractal of the world, it symbolizes Brazilian relations as a world of its own and at the same time as a part of the world of others. From this point of view the essay turns world literature upside down: it emphasizes on the one hand that the epoch of world literature since Goethe has come to an end and that the meridian has shifted to Latin America. On the other hand it can be observed that the lusophonic world between Brazil and Angola, Portugal and Kap Verde develops new perspectives on literatures of the world beyond the fixed coordinations of periphery and center. Rosa's ways of world making already shift the perspective from the local to the global as a miniatured model of a universe which reveals interpretations of a better understanding of the world as world fractals.}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2020, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {From the Transarchip{\´e}lique Antilles}, series = {Ameena Gafoor Institute}, journal = {Ameena Gafoor Institute}, pages = {11}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Ottmar Ette: TransArea : a literary history of globalization. Translated by Mark W. Person, Berlin, Boston, Walter de Gruyter, 2016. - 356 S. - ISBN 978-3-11-047773-3}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2020, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Towards a polylogical Philology of the Literatures of the World}, series = {Abralic}, journal = {Abralic}, pages = {41}, year = {2020}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2020, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Alexander von Humboldt}, series = {Offene Horizonte : Sch{\"a}tze zu Humboldts Reisewegen}, journal = {Offene Horizonte : Sch{\"a}tze zu Humboldts Reisewegen}, publisher = {Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim}, address = {Pforzheim}, isbn = {978-3-933924-25-4}, pages = {20 -- 21}, year = {2020}, language = {en} } @article{Seemann2020, author = {Seemann, J{\"o}rn}, title = {Alexander von Humboldt's Search for the Casiquiare Canal}, series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, volume = {XXI}, journal = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, number = {41}, editor = {Ette, Ottmar and Knobloch, Eberhard}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {2568-3543}, doi = {10.18443/298}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-488363}, pages = {77 -- 106}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Though Humboldt's travels to the Americas have been analyzed from a wide range of viewpoints, there are specific aspects that still await further investigation. Little is written about Humboldt in the field, specifically how he moved between different locations and simultaneously measured and mapped places and phenomena. The aim of this article is to discuss the triad movement-measure-ment-map that led to the development of specific practices of knowledge building on the move. Humboldt's search for the connections between the watersheds of the Orinoco and the Amazon rivers and the resulting maps and drawings are used as an example to point out his cartographic impulse in his quest to understand and explain the physical world.}, language = {en} } @article{Hassler2019, author = {Haßler, Gerda}, title = {Theory of signs and ideas on the relation between language and thought at the border between the 18th and 19th centuries}, series = {Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta. Jazyk i literatura}, volume = {16}, journal = {Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta. Jazyk i literatura}, number = {3}, publisher = {St. Petersburg University Press}, address = {Sankt-Peterburg}, issn = {2541-9358}, doi = {10.21638/spbu09.2019.308}, pages = {463 -- 479}, year = {2019}, abstract = {The name Ideologues refers to a group of philosophers, psychologists, grammarians, educational theorists and medical specialists who for a short period from 1795 to 1805 determined the intellectual climate in France and sought to develop a science of ideas (id{\´e}ologie). The Ideologues had a rather reserved attitude to Condillac's (1714-1780) ideas and his sensualist sign theory. They strove for the perfection of language for the needs of thought and of scientific knowledge. The connections with the Ideologues can also be discerned in Russia. In the educational theory, Jean-Baptiste Maudru (1740-1808) was close to the Ideologues and, despite his insufficient knowledge of the Russian language, made some interesting remarks on the connection between the language and the national character. According to Maudru and in agreement with the Ideologues, different typologies of word order are not just an indication of greater or lesser closeness to the natural order. Rather, they indicate differences in national character, which manifest themselves in the specific character of individual languages. Maudru taught at the military academy in Saint Petersburg and published the first Russian grammar in France (Maudru 1802). In his grammar, he sought to link mechanically the specific features of languages and of national characters with the climatic influences. His attempt to revive the theory of climatic influences was criticized by Karamzin. Karamzin also treated the discussion of the metaphoric extension of word meanings as an absurd undertaking, which had no place in grammar.}, language = {en} } @article{Gerstenberg2019, author = {Gerstenberg, Annette}, title = {Generational styles in oral storytelling}, series = {Narrative inquiry}, volume = {29}, journal = {Narrative inquiry}, number = {1}, publisher = {John Benjamins Publishing Co.}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {1387-6740}, doi = {10.1075/ni.18042.ger}, pages = {1 -- 28}, year = {2019}, abstract = {When it comes to autobiographical narratives, the most spontaneous and natural manner is preferable. But neither individually told narratives nor those grounded in the communicative repertoire of a social group are easily comparable. A clearly identifiable tertium comparationis is mandatory. We present the results of an experimental 'Narrative Priming' setting with French students. A potentially underlying model of narrating from personal experience was activated via a narrative prime, and in a second step, the participants were asked to tell a narrative of their own. The analysis focuses on similarities and differences between the primes and the students' narratives. The results give evidence for the possibility to elicit a set of comparable narratives via a prime, and to activate an underlying narrative template. Meaningful differences are discussed as generational and age related styles. The transcriptions from the participants that authorized the publication are available online.}, language = {en} } @article{Steinmeier2019, author = {Steinmeier, Frank-Walter}, title = {Address on the opening of the Alexander von Humboldt Season in Quito, Ecuador, on 13 February 2019}, series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies}, volume = {XX}, journal = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies}, number = {39}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {2568-3543}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-43472}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-434723}, pages = {23 -- 30}, year = {2019}, language = {en} } @article{RebokWinkle2019, author = {Rebok, Sandra and Winkle, Timothy}, title = {"Mason without apron"}, series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies}, volume = {XX}, journal = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies}, number = {38}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {2568-3543}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-43473}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-434735}, pages = {31 -- 50}, year = {2019}, abstract = {W{\"a}hrend das Fehlen einer religi{\"o}sen Haltung in Humboldts Werk, sowie die Kritik, die er diesbez{\"u}glich erhalten hat, allgemein bekannt sind, ist sein m{\"o}glicher Bezug zur Freimaurerei noch weitgehend unerforscht. Zwar erscheint Humboldt auf einigen Listen von „illustren Freimaurern", zudem tragen mehrere Logen seinen Namen, aber die Frage bleibt offen, ob Humboldt wirklich ein Freimaurer war. Wenn ja, wann und wo ist er einer Loge beigetreten? Gibt es vielleicht Kommentare von ihm zu dieser Art von Geheimb{\"u}nden? Und wer waren die bekanntesten Freimaurer in seiner Umgebung? Der Artikel beantwortet diese Punkte, aber wichtiger noch geht er der Frage nach, was eine Mitgliedschaft f{\"u}r Humboldts wissenschaftliche Arbeit bedeutet haben k{\"o}nnte, insbesondere im Hinblick auf den herausragenden Erfolg, den er in den Vereinigten Staaten zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts hatte und die Gr{\"u}nde hierf{\"u}r. Was h{\"a}tten solche Verbindungen f{\"u}r ihn bedeutet und wie wurde er von den wichtigsten freimaurerischen Pers{\"o}nlichkeiten und Logen in der transatlantischen Welt wahrgenommen?}, language = {en} } @incollection{Ette2019, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Pride and conviviality - pride in conviviality}, series = {Taking Stock - Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research (Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft)}, volume = {200}, booktitle = {Taking Stock - Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research (Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft)}, publisher = {Brill Rodopi}, address = {Leiden [u.a.]}, isbn = {978-90-04-41035-0}, issn = {0929-6999}, doi = {10.1163/9789004410350_006}, pages = {121 -- 155}, year = {2019}, abstract = {Pride is linked to conviviality, to the practice of life-with-an-other, and to an awareness of the limitations of the life forms and life norms which guide and regulate the life of culturally, socially, and historically defined communities. Assuming this link, pride in living-together and conviviality appear as concepts creating a framework for future perspectives. But these concepts need a space in which they can unfold critically and confidently with a view to the future. For millennia, the literatures of the world have created this space of simulation and experimentation in which knowledge of how-to-live-with-an-other has been put down on paper through the open-ended tradition of writing. It is the space of the life forms and life norms of conviviality: it offers us prospective knowledge for the future by translating the imaginable into the thinkable, and the readable into the livable.}, language = {en} } @article{Hennemann2019, author = {Hennemann, Anja}, title = {"I mean, no soy psic{\´o}loga"}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-43098}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-430984}, pages = {23}, year = {2019}, abstract = {This paper is concerned with the qualitative analysis of the use of the English discourse marker I mean in Spanish and Portuguese online discourses (in online fora, blogs or user comments on websites). The examples are retrieved from the Corpus del Espa{\~n}ol (Web/ Dialects) as well as the Corpus do Portugu{\^e}s (Web/ Dialects).}, language = {en} } @book{EcksteinBartelsWalleretal.2019, author = {Eckstein, Lars and Bartels, Anke and Waller, Nicole and Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Postcolonial Literatures in English: An Introduction}, publisher = {Metzler}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-476-02674-3}, pages = {V, 202}, year = {2019}, abstract = {Postcoloniale Literatur bezeichnet die nationalen anglophonen Literaturen in den Amerikas, Asien, Afrika und Ozeanien (zeitweise auch New English Literatures genannt). Eine Darstellung nach Regionen ist wegen der migrantischen Bewegungen der Autor/innen allerdings nicht zu leisten. Daher behandelt der Band die zentralen Themen der postkolonialen Debatte, die jeweils Autor/innen aus verschiedenen Regionen betreffen.}, language = {en} } @article{Andress2019, author = {Andress, Reinhard}, title = {Addendum: a second Poem by Eduard Dorsch on the occasion of Humboldt's 100th birthday}, series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies}, volume = {XX}, journal = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies}, number = {39}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {2568-3543}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-44258}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-442585}, pages = {61 -- 70}, year = {2019}, abstract = {In a previously published article in HIN under the title of "Eduard Dorsch and his unpublished poem on the occasion of Humboldt's 100th birthday," I elaborated on Dorsch's poem that was read in Detroit in front of a German-American audience on Sept. 14, 1869, a day widely celebrated in the US in honor of Humboldt. Although it was not surprising that Dorsch wrote the occasional poem in the first place given his affinities with Humboldt's world of thought, a discovery of a second occasional poem upon further research in Dorsch's voluminous papers was indeed unexpected, in this case read on the same date in Monroe, Michigan. Although there are a number of similarities between the Detroit and Monroe versions, there are enough differences that warrant this addendum to my original article.}, language = {en} } @article{BoehmHennemann2018, author = {B{\"o}hm, Ver{\´o}nica Julia and Hennemann, Anja}, title = {The Spanish imperfecto as a construal form for the conceptualization of state of affairs in journalistic texts}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-416094}, pages = {18}, year = {2018}, abstract = {This study adopts a cognitive approach to the analysis of the use of the Spanish imperfecto as a construal form for the conceptualization of state of affairs in certain journalistic texts. In doing so, the main focus of the study is to investigate cognitive processes like modalization and subjectivization, which are related to the speaker's standpoint and to his subjective, not grammatically motivated, decision to use the imperfective instead of the perfective form. By the help of the corpus programmes GlossaNet and CREA (corpus of the Real Academia Espa{\~n}ola) we analyze the imperfective use of some Spanish verbs, which are semantically perfective in nature so that the normative use would require a perfective form. In other words, we investigate how the speaker/journalist construes a reality or situation to be expressed by means of the imperfecto and show that this use of the imperfect is typical for journalistic discourse.}, language = {en} } @misc{MuellerLocaneLoy2018, author = {M{\"u}ller, Gesine and Locane, Jorge Joaquin and Loy, Benjamin}, title = {Introduction}, series = {Re-mapping World Literature: Writing, Book Markets and Epistemologies between Latin America and the Global South / Escrituras, mercados y epistemolog{\´i}as entre Am{\´e}rica Latina y el Sur Global}, journal = {Re-mapping World Literature: Writing, Book Markets and Epistemologies between Latin America and the Global South / Escrituras, mercados y epistemolog{\´i}as entre Am{\´e}rica Latina y el Sur Global}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-11-054957-7}, issn = {2513-0757}, doi = {10.1515/9783110549577-001}, pages = {1 -- 12}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2018, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Languages about Languages}, series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, volume = {XIX}, journal = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, number = {36}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1617-5239}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-419414}, pages = {47 -- 61}, year = {2018}, abstract = {In the history of Humboldt research both brothers have been traditionally seen as representing the dichotomy between the humanities and the natural sciences. Today however, their similar approach to using and forming scientific language could be used as a starting point for conceiving a university, museum and even forum under one single Humboldtian science.}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2018, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {TransArea Tangier}, series = {Re-mapping World Literature Writing, Book Markets and Epistemologies between Latin America and the Global South / Escrituras, mercados y epistemolog{\´i}as entre Am{\´e}rica Latina y el Sur Global}, journal = {Re-mapping World Literature Writing, Book Markets and Epistemologies between Latin America and the Global South / Escrituras, mercados y epistemolog{\´i}as entre Am{\´e}rica Latina y el Sur Global}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-11-054957-7}, issn = {2513-0757}, doi = {10.1515/9783110549577-019}, pages = {283 -- 321}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @article{Hennemann2018, author = {Hennemann, Anja}, title = {Evidentiality and (Inter-) Subjectivity as (Non-) Competing Dimensions}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-414996}, year = {2018}, abstract = {The present paper discusses the relationship between evidentiality and (inter-) subjectivity and argues that the two semantic-functional categories need not be mutually exclusive. In the use of certain means of expression and in certain contexts, both evidentiality and (inter-) subjectivity may be conveyed simultaneously. I thereby differentiate between two meanings of intersubjectivity, namely 'intersubjectivity1' and 'intersubjectivity2'. Intersubjectivity1 refers to the notion of common or general knowledge: certain means of expression are seen as being intersubjectively used when the speaker shares or assumes sharing knowledge with the interlocutor. Intersubjectivity2 is related to particular discourse functions of certain means of expression in interactional settings, paying attention to the speaker-hearer constellation. In order to substantiate the theoretical part of the paper, I then present a qualitative analysis of Portuguese, Spanish and English examples, which are taken from the Corpus do Portugu{\^e}s, Corpus del Espa{\~n}ol and the Corpus of Contemporary American English.}, language = {en} } @article{Hassler2018, author = {Haßler, Gerda}, title = {Linguistic relativity and language as epiphenomenon: two contradictory positions}, series = {Conflu{\^e}ncia. Revista do Instituto de l{\´i}ngua portuguesa}, volume = {2018}, journal = {Conflu{\^e}ncia. Revista do Instituto de l{\´i}ngua portuguesa}, number = {55}, issn = {2317-4153}, doi = {10.18364/rc.v0i55}, pages = {82 -- 98}, year = {2018}, abstract = {The assumption of linguistics relativity and the definition of languages as epiphenomena are certainly known as two contradictory positions from the last century. But I will start my discussion of them in the period of their appearance and then use this as a basis to evaluate the heuristic value of these positions in present day linguistics. I will start with the definition of language as an epiphenomenon and then I will go on with the linguistic relativity. The notion of ʽepiphenomenon' is usually used to exclude certain aspects of a scientific object because they are considered to be deduced from others. In linguistics, restrictions of the research object were made, invoking the notion of ʽepiphenomenonʼ, which was partially done with a polemical attitude, and was always responded to polemically.}, language = {en} } @article{Hassler2018, author = {Haßler, Gerda}, title = {Evidential and epistemic sentence adverbs in Romance languages}, series = {Linguistik online}, volume = {92}, journal = {Linguistik online}, number = {5}, issn = {1615-3014}, doi = {10.13092/lo.92.4506}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-421822}, pages = {82 -- 98}, year = {2018}, abstract = {In this paper evidential and modal adverbs will be studied, such as French apparemment, {\´e}videmment, visiblement, Italian apparentemente, evidentemente, ovviamente, and Spanish aparentemente, evidentemente and visiblemente. The development of their signification will be discussed, including German adverbs like offensichtlich. In these means of expression, the functional-semantic categories evidentiality and epistemic modality seem to overlap: on the one hand, they are used if the state of affairs talked about cannot be verified, that is, if there is still a moment of insecurity concerning the transmitted information. Then adverbials with a special structure (preposition + article + nominal form of a verb) will be analysed, and we will examine if they behave in the same way.}, language = {en} } @article{Andress2018, author = {Andress, Reinhard}, title = {Eduard Dorsch and his unpublished poem on the occasion of Humboldt's 100th birthday}, series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, volume = {XIX}, journal = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, number = {36}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1617-5239}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-419398}, pages = {17 -- 34}, year = {2018}, abstract = {In 1869, the German-American medical doctor and poet, Eduard Dorsch, wrote a poem read in Detroit on the occasion of Humboldt's 100th birthday. This article publishes the poem for the first time and explores its context within the life and times of its author.}, language = {en} } @article{Casas2018, author = {Casas, Vicente Dur{\´a}n}, title = {Immanuel Kant, Alexander von Humboldt and the Tequendama Fall}, series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, volume = {XIX}, journal = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, number = {36}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1617-5239}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-419404}, pages = {35 -- 46}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Immanuel Kant mentions in his Physical Geography the waterfall of the Bogot{\´a} River in South America, known today as the Salto de Tequendama, which is located near Bogot{\´a}, the capital city of Colombia. Kant claims that this was the highest waterfall in the world, which is not true. Alexander von Humboldt could not know anything about it, but he visited the Salto in 1801, just before the publication of Kant's Physical Geography, and went to personally measure the height of the Salto. In this paper we make a comparison of both personalities who, unknowingly, were united by their interest in the Salto de Tequendama.}, language = {en} } @article{Paessler2018, author = {P{\"a}ßler, Ulrich}, title = {Plantae des {\´E}tats-Unis}, series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, volume = {XVIII}, journal = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, number = {35}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1617-5239}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-419242}, pages = {5 -- 12}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Ein j{\"u}ngst im Nachlass Alexander von Humboldts aufgefundenes Manuskript enth{\"a}lt Aufzeichnungen {\"u}ber seinen Aufenthalt in den USA im Jahr 1804. Auf nur vier Seiten finden sich Notizen {\"u}ber Gespr{\"a}che mit Pr{\"a}sident Thomas Jefferson und dem Botaniker G. H. E. M{\"u}hlenberg, Angaben {\"u}ber Nutz- und Heilpflanzen, eine Auflistung nordamerikanischer Naturforscher sowie Informationen {\"u}ber Verbraucherpreise.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Hassler2018, author = {Haßler, Gerda}, title = {Arbitrariness, Motivation and Value of the Linguistic Sign: Saussurean and Post-Saussurean Perspectives}, series = {The Cours de Linguistique G{\´e}n{\´e}rale Revisited: 1916-2016. Saussure et le Cours de linguistique g{\´e}n{\´e}rale cent ans apr{\`e}s}, booktitle = {The Cours de Linguistique G{\´e}n{\´e}rale Revisited: 1916-2016. Saussure et le Cours de linguistique g{\´e}n{\´e}rale cent ans apr{\`e}s}, editor = {Rico, Christophe and Kirtchuk, Pablo}, publisher = {Polis Institute Press}, address = {Jerusalem}, isbn = {978-9-65769-811-2}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {61 -- 87}, year = {2018}, abstract = {In 1916, three years after the death of Ferdinand de Saussure, the Cours de linguistique g{\´e}n{\´e}rale (CLG) was published in Geneva. This foundational work marked the beginning of a discipline that has profoundly influenced the development of the humanities ever since. What sources influenced the CLG? Do the main concepts of this seminal work have the same validity today as they did in 1916? How has the recent development of language sciences influenced its reception? How does this text account for meaning and communication within the context of speech (parole)? In order to explore these questions, one hundred years after the publication of Ferdinand de Saussure's seminal work on General Linguistics, Polis--The Jerusalem Institute of Languages and Humanities held an interdisciplinary conference that gathered 14 international specialists from various disciplines: general linguistics, pragmatics, philology, dialectology, translation studies, terminology, and philosophy. The first section of this work reassesses the sources and further influence of the CLG on modern linguistics. The book's second part discusses some of the main concepts and dichotomies of the CLG (constitution of the linguistic method, arbitrariness of sign, main dichotomies), under the light of both the original manuscripts and recent linguistic developments (influence of dialectology or translation studies). The third and last part handles the pragmatic and semantic dimensions of language, suggesting new avenues of reflection that could not yet have been fully taken into account within the CLG itself. Uniting 14 scholarly articles, together with an introduction, an index locorum and a collective bibliography, this volume hopes to encourage readers with its reappraisal and reinterpretation of Saussure's ground-breaking work and thus contribute to the future development of linguistics and humanities.}, language = {en} } @article{McElvenny2017, author = {McElvenny, James}, title = {Grammar, typology and the Humboldtian tradition in the work of Georg von der Gabelentz}, series = {Language \& history : journal of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas}, volume = {60}, journal = {Language \& history : journal of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {1759-7536}, doi = {10.1080/17597536.2016.1212580}, pages = {1 -- 20}, year = {2017}, abstract = {A frequently mentioned if somewhat peripheral figure in the historiography of late nineteenth-century linguistics is the German sinologist and general linguist Georg von der Gabelentz (1840-1893). Today Gabelentz is chiefly remembered for several insights that proved to be productive in the development of subsequent schools and subdisciplines. In this paper, we examine two of these insights, his analytic and synthetic systems of grammar and his foundational work on typology. We show how they were intimately connected within his conception of linguistic research, and how this was in turn embedded in the tradition established by Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835), especially as it was further developed by H. Steinthal (1823-1899). This paper goes beyond several previous works with a similar focus by drawing on a wider range of Gabelentz' writings, including manuscript sources that have only recently been published, and by examining specific textual connections between Gabelentz and his predecessors.}, language = {en} } @article{Saendig2017, author = {S{\"a}ndig, Brigitte}, title = {Trag{\´e}die et psychologie}, series = {Revue romane : langue et litt{\´e}rature}, volume = {52}, journal = {Revue romane : langue et litt{\´e}rature}, number = {1}, publisher = {Benjamins}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {0035-3906}, doi = {10.1075/rro.52.1.07san}, pages = {70 -- 79}, year = {2017}, abstract = {His dislike for psychological analysis accompanied Albert Camus throughout his life and had a profound impact on his idea of theatre. Especially in his early years, he sees psychology as the antagonist of the kind of theater that he envisages, the "modern tragedy". In the last decade of his life, Camus worked on the novel "Requiem for a Nun" by William Faulkner, whom he greatly respected, in order to stage it. The confrontation with this work and its highly psychologically driven plot makes Camus virtually give up on his anti-psychological attitude.}, language = {en} } @incollection{HasslerBoehmHennemann2017, author = {Haßler, Gerda and B{\"o}hm, Ver{\´o}nica Julia and Hennemann, Anja}, title = {On the evidential use of English adverbials and their equivalents in Romance languages and Russian}, series = {Evidentiality revisited : Cognitive grammar, functional and discourse-pragmatic perspectives (Pragmatics \& Beyond New Series ; 271)}, volume = {271}, booktitle = {Evidentiality revisited : Cognitive grammar, functional and discourse-pragmatic perspectives (Pragmatics \& Beyond New Series ; 271)}, editor = {Mar{\´i}n Arrese, Juana I. and Haßler, Gerda and Carretero, Marta}, publisher = {John Benjamins}, address = {Amsterdam, Philadelphia}, isbn = {9789027256768}, issn = {0922-842X}, doi = {10.1075/pbns.271.04boh}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {87 -- 104}, year = {2017}, abstract = {The present study investigates the use of equivalents of the English adverbials seemingly and apparently with a specific morphological structure in Romance languages and Russian, i.e. Spanish al parecer, Portuguese ao parecer and ao que parece, French avoir l'air de, Italian all'apparenza and in apparenza as well as Russian по-видимому. The underlying hypothesis is that the function and syntactic behaviour of these adverbial locutions are motivated by their morphological composition. It is to investigate whether the adverbials may be used sentence-initially, parenthetically, as an adverbial with broad or narrow scope or as a component of a modalised predication. The adverbial locutions are treated as means of expression where evidentiality and epistemic modality represent overlapping functional-semantic categories.}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2017, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Welterleben/Weiterleben}, series = {Daphnis : Zeitschrift f{\"u}r mittlere deutsche Literatur}, volume = {45}, journal = {Daphnis : Zeitschrift f{\"u}r mittlere deutsche Literatur}, number = {3-4}, publisher = {Editions Rodopi BV}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {0300-693X}, doi = {10.1163/18796583-04503002}, pages = {343 -- 388}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Welterleben and Weiterleben are what determine the second globalization (of four previously explored) whose constantly accelerating dynamic, vectorization, this essay explores. On the basis of selected writings of Georg Forster, Alexander von Humboldt, and Adelbert von Chamisso, the author highlights the increasing speed with which knowledge, especially in the experiential sciences, is produced and disseminated following the routes of ever-widening trade speeded along by globalization. The notion of 'vectopia' stands for the connection of utopia and uchronia in space and time in such a way that the experience of the world, expanded worldwide, contains within it a Weiter-Leben, a 'living-further' that is to be understood first in a spatial, and not yet temporal, sense, of what Forster called Erfahrungswissen, or 'experiential knowledge.' Vectopia, as elaborated here, has a material dimension that relates to the physical person, the body, the experience of the world that cannot occur without the constant changing of place, without a journeying that is again and again recommenced. Vectopia develops the projection of a life not from space or from time alone, but by their combination. Vectopia is more than a concept, it is a thought-figure: it is vitally connected to life, and thus a life-figure. It opens itself to a type of knowledge that stands almost at the threshold of a further life, indeed, of a Weiterleben that, opening itself to a 'living-onward,' resides beyond space, time, and movement.}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-39834, title = {New Orleans and the global South}, series = {Potsdamer inter- und transkulturelle Texte ; 17}, journal = {Potsdamer inter- und transkulturelle Texte ; 17}, editor = {Ette, Ottmar and M{\"u}ller, Gesine}, publisher = {Georg Olms Verlag}, address = {Hildesheim}, isbn = {978-3-487-15504-3}, pages = {403}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Innerhalb der USA gilt New Orleans seit jeher als die „unamerikanischste" Stadt, als exotisch und anders, gar als „sozio-geographischer Unfall". Hier {\"u}berkreuzen sich nicht nur die Einfl{\"u}sse verschiedener Kolonialkulturen, sondern auch die Routen des atlantischen Sklavenhandels und der asiatischen Arbeitsmigration und nicht zuletzt die ideellen wie materiellen Transferbewegungen zwischen den beiden Amerikas. Der vorliegende Band macht es sich zur Aufgabe, diese vielf{\"a}ltigen transarealen Zirkulationsprozesse zu analysieren und das Potential New Orleans' zur paradigmatischen Metropole des Globalen S{\"u}dens auszuloten. Im Fokus stehen verschiedene Formen der kulturellen Kreolisierung, wie sie sich in der Sprache, der Literatur, der Musik, aber auch in Alltagsph{\"a}nomen wie dem Karneval oder Computerspielen manifestieren. Within the USA, New Orleans has long been considered the 'un-American' city, seen as exotic and different, even as a 'socio-geographical accident'. It is a crossroads not only for the influences of different colonial cultures but also for the routes of the Atlantic slave trade and immigration of Asian workers, and not least for material and non-material transfer between the two Americas. This volume seeks to analyse these manifold transareal circulation processes and to explore New Orleans's potential as a paradigmatic metropolis of the Global South. The focus is on different forms of creolisation as manifested in language, literature and music, but also in everyday phenomena such as Carnival or computer games.}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-10490, title = {Evidentiality revisited : Cognitive grammar, functional and discourse-pragmatic perspectives}, editor = {Haßler, Gerda and Mar{\´i}n Arese, Juana and Carretero, Marta}, edition = {1}, publisher = {John Benjamins Publishing Company}, address = {Amsterdam, Philadelphia}, isbn = {978-90-272-5676-8}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {317}, year = {2017}, language = {en} } @article{Paessler2017, author = {P{\"a}ßler, Ulrich}, title = {A Political Economy of Nature}, series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, volume = {XVIII}, journal = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, number = {34}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1617-5239}, doi = {10.18443/252}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-395781}, pages = {80 -- 91}, year = {2017}, abstract = {In seinem Aufsatz „Ueber die Schwankungen der Goldproduktion mit R{\"u}cksicht auf staatswirthschaftliche Probleme" (1838) entfaltet Alexander von Humboldt auf wenigen Seiten eine Weltgeschichte des Edelmetallverkehrs von der Antike bis ins 19. Jahrhundert. Der vorliegende Artikel geht Humboldts {\"o}konomischem Denken als Teil seiner Forschungen zur Natur- und Menschheitsgeschichte nach. Er beginnt mit einem kurzen Abriss der von sp{\"a}tmerkantilistischen und fr{\"u}hliberalen Einfl{\"u}ssen gepr{\"a}gten Ausbildung Humboldts. Der Artikel diskutiert anschließend eine von Humboldt angefertigte Weltkarte sowie vier darauf bezogene Schaubilder, die historische und zeitgen{\"o}ssische statistische Daten zur graphischen Vision eines globalen Wirtschaftskreislaufs kombinieren. In einem weiteren Schritt geht der Artikel Humboldts Anwendung historischer und naturgeschichtlicher Forschungsmethoden auf dem Gebiet der politischen {\"O}konomie am Beispiel des Aufsatzes von 1838 nach. Den Schluss der Untersuchung bildet Humboldts Auseinandersetzung mit dem Edelmetall Platin, dessen begrenzte Verbreitung im Widerspruch zur Idee eines freien weltweiten Austauschs stand.}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2016, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Toward a Polylogical Philology of the Literatures of the World}, series = {Modern language quarterly : a journal of literary history}, volume = {77}, journal = {Modern language quarterly : a journal of literary history}, publisher = {Duke Univ. Press}, address = {Durham}, issn = {0026-7929}, doi = {10.1215/00267929-3464841}, pages = {143 -- 173}, year = {2016}, abstract = {As the world cannot be adequately understood from the vantage point of a single language, the literatures of the world can no longer be trimmed to a single world literature in the Goethean sense. This recognition bodes well for the future of philology and of literary production. Through multiperspectival writing, knowledge of life may be attainable without being reduced to a single political, medial, cartographical, geocultural, or aesthetic logic. As a laboratory for polylogical thinking, literature does not represent reality, as Erich Auerbach put it. Rather, it represents multiple lived, experienced, or relivable realities. Whoever is open to a polylogical reception of the literatures of the world can perceive and experience how life knowledge transforms into lived knowledge and how knowledge for survival turns into knowledge for living together. However, literature can be more than it is only if it stays aware of the void, of lack, of privation, of the interminable: aware of the end that never is an end. Such a planetary concept of the literatures of the world offers valuable opportunities to all those who do not fall into the trap of contenting themselves with a supposed abundance of text.}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2016, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Magic Screens. Biombos, Namban Art, the Art of Globalization and Education between China, Japan, India, Spanish America and Europe in the 17th and 18th Centuries}, series = {European review : interdisciplinary journal of the humanities and sciences of the Academia Europea}, volume = {24}, journal = {European review : interdisciplinary journal of the humanities and sciences of the Academia Europea}, publisher = {Cambridge Univ. Press}, address = {Cambridge}, issn = {1062-7987}, doi = {10.1017/S1062798715000630}, pages = {285 -- 296}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca, for several centuries doubtlessly the most discussed and most eminent writer of Andean America in the 16th and 17th centuries, throughout his life set the utmost value on the fact that he descended matrilineally from Atahualpa Yupanqui and from the last Inca emperor, Huayna C{\´a}pac. Thus, both in his person and in his creative work he combined different cultural worlds in a polylogical way.1 Two painters boasted that very same Inca descent - they were the last two great masters of the Cuzco school of painting, which over several generations of artists had been an institution of excellent renown and prestige, and whose economic downfall and artistic marginalization was vividly described by the French traveller Paul Mancoy in 1837.2 While, during the 18th century, Cuzco school paintings were still much cherished and sought after, by the beginning of the following century the elite of Lima regarded them as behind the times and provincial, committed to an 'indigenous' painting style. The artists from up-country - such was the reproach - could not keep up with the modern forms of seeing and creating, as exemplified by European paragons. Yet, just how 'provincial', truly, was this art?}, language = {en} } @book{Ette2016, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Writing-between-worlds}, series = {Mimesis ; 64}, journal = {Mimesis ; 64}, publisher = {de Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-11-046109-1}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {339}, year = {2016}, language = {en} } @incollection{Hassler2016, author = {Haßler, Gerda}, title = {Deg{\´e}rando's three prize essays and the shift in linguistic thought at the turn of the 19th century}, series = {History of Linguistics 2014 : selected papers from the 13th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XIII), Vila Real, Portugal, 25-29 August 2014 (Studies in the History of the Language Sciences ; 126)}, booktitle = {History of Linguistics 2014 : selected papers from the 13th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XIII), Vila Real, Portugal, 25-29 August 2014 (Studies in the History of the Language Sciences ; 126)}, publisher = {John Benjamins Publishing Company}, address = {Amsterdam, Philadelphia}, isbn = {978-90-272-4617-2}, issn = {0304-0720}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {149 -- 160}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Deg{\´e}rando started out from the views of the French ideologists on the relationship of language and thought, but increasingly distanced himself from them. This is already evident based on the choice of reference authors and also on the increasing emphasis on empirical research. His prize essays reflect the fundamental changes in linguistic thought during the late 18th century. He was successful in the competition of the Institut National (1797/1799) and with another essay at the Berlin Academy (1802). His main argument against Condillac and the ideologists is that empirical knowledge does not depend on signs. Therefore, the development of better languages will not improve this kind of human knowledge.}, language = {en} } @article{McElvenny2016, author = {McElvenny, James}, title = {The fate of form in the Humboldtian tradition: The Formungstrieb of Georg von der Gabelentz}, series = {Journal of geophysical research : Solid earth}, volume = {47}, journal = {Journal of geophysical research : Solid earth}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {Oxford}, issn = {0271-5309}, doi = {10.1016/j.langcom.2015.12.004}, pages = {30 -- 42}, year = {2016}, abstract = {The multifaceted concept of 'form' plays a central tole in the linguistic work of Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835), where it is deeply entwined with aesthetic questions. H. Steinthal's (1823-1899) interpretation of linguistic form, however, made it the servant of psychology. The Formungstrieb (drive to formation) of Georg von der Gabelentz (1840-1893) challenged Steinthal's conception and placed a renewed emphasis on aesthetics. In this endeavour, Gabelentz drew on the work of such figures as August Friedrich Pott (1802-1887), Hans Conon von der Gabelentz (1807-1874) and William Dwight Whitney (1827-1894). In this paper, we examine Gabelentz' Formungstrieb and place it in its historical context.}, language = {en} } @article{Hennemann2016, author = {Hennemann, Anja}, title = {A cognitive-constructionist approach to Spanish creo empty set and creo}, series = {Folia linguistica}, volume = {50}, journal = {Folia linguistica}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {0165-4004}, doi = {10.1515/flin-2016-0017}, pages = {449 -- 474}, year = {2016}, language = {en} } @article{PuigSamperGarrido2016, author = {Puig-Samper, Miguel {\´A}ngel and Garrido, Elisa}, title = {The presentation of the results of Alexander von Humboldt's voyage to Carlos IV}, series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, volume = {XVII}, journal = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, number = {32}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1617-5239}, doi = {10.18443/227}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-90788}, pages = {52 -- 64}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Ever since our first research into Alexander von Humboldt's stay in Spain, the absence of an ensuing relationship between the wise Prussian and the Spanish Crown and Authorities had always surprised us. On starting new research, we found that indeed he sent his first work to Carlos IV from Rome accompanied by a letter of gratitude for the protection he had received during his American trip and submission to the Spanish Crown, which we now present. This first literary fruit of his voyage, which Alexander von Humboldt alluded to in the letter is the first instalment of his work Plantes {\´E}quinoxiales, Recueillies au Mexique, dans l'ile de Cuba, dans les provinces de Caracas, de Cumana etc., published in Paris in 1805.}, language = {en} } @misc{Hennemann2016, author = {Hennemann, Anja}, title = {A cognitive-constructionist approach to Spanish creo {\O} and creo yo '[I] think'}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, number = {121}, issn = {1866-8380}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-397485}, pages = {26}, year = {2016}, abstract = {The present study approaches the Spanish postposed constructions creo {\O} and creo yo '[p], [I] think' from a cognitive-constructionist perspective. It is argued that both constructions are to be distinguished from one another because creo {\O} has a subjective function, while in creo yo, it is the intersubjective dimension that is particularly prominent. The present investigation takes both a qualitative and a quantitative perspective. With regard to the latter, the problem of quantitative representativity is addressed. The discussion posed the question of how empirical research can feed back into theory, more precisely, into the framework of Cognitive Construction Grammar. The data to be analyzed here are retrieved from the corpora Corpus de Referencia del Espa{\~n}ol Actual and Corpus del Espa{\~n}ol.}, language = {en} } @article{Erdmann2015, author = {Erdmann, Julius}, title = {Semiotics of Pictorial Signs on Social Networking Sites}, series = {Punctum : international journal of semiotics}, volume = {1}, journal = {Punctum : international journal of semiotics}, number = {1}, publisher = {Hellenic Semiotic Society}, address = {Thessaloniki}, issn = {2459-2943}, doi = {10.18680/hss.2015.0003}, pages = {26 -- 42}, year = {2015}, abstract = {The paper aims at considering characteristics from one field of contemporary visual studies that has for a long time been neglected in academic research: Pictorial signs on Social Network Sites (SNS) are an outstanding class of semiotic resources that is greatly shaped by processes of technological and collective sign production and distribution. A brief examination of the scholarly research on the pragmatics and semiotics of pictorial signs on SNS shows that the heterogeneity of visual signs is often neglected and that it mostly concentrates on one aspect of these pictorial signs: their technological production or their purpose for individual self-disclosure. The paper therefore considers the semiosis of pictorial signs on SNS in a holistic perspective as one the one hand produced by individual and collective meaning making as well as on the other hand a product of technological framing. It therefore develops a techno-semiotic pragmatic account that takes into consideration both processes. Starting from a prominent class of pictorial signs on SNS during Tunisian Revolution, the Tunisian Flag graphics, the paper than shows that communicative and social interaction functions on the graphic interface of SNS ('like'-function, sharing and commenting option) are not only directly inscribed into the pictorial frame, but also greatly influence the reading of a pictorial sign. The location of images on the SNS' interface has an impact on its meaning and on the social functions of a pictorial sign, as profile pictures are directly linked to the online identity of the user. Through technological sign processing, the polysemy of the image is reduced. We therefore consider the images on the one hand as individual self-narratives and on the other as instances of SNS' visual culture that brings out dominant visual codes but also allows social and political movements to spread.}, language = {en} } @article{Hassler2015, author = {Haßler, Gerda}, title = {'Communicating the past to the present'}, series = {History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences}, journal = {History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences}, editor = {McElvenny, James}, issn = {2366-2409}, year = {2015}, language = {en} } @article{Buffon2015, author = {Buffon, Giuseppe}, title = {The Franciscans in Cathay}, series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, volume = {XVI}, journal = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, number = {30}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1617-5239}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-86920}, pages = {13 -- 28}, year = {2015}, abstract = {The study analyzes the process that leads to the elaboration of the thesis of a continuity between the Medieval Asia mission and the New World mission. This effort, undertaken by the Catholic historiography of the mission during the XIX century, is the result of the impulse provided by Alexander von Humboldt's studies about the discovery of America (Examen critique). The data about the geography of Asia collected by the missionaries-travelers working in the territory between Karakorum and Khanbalik during the XIII e XIV century reaches Christopher Colombus with the mediation of Roger Bacon, whom Humboldt himself esteems as a true cultural mediator. The conclusion of the article tries to identify reasons and modalities of the secularization of the missionary concept, i.e. the shift from the ideal of the propagation of the Christian message to a prevailing interest for cartography and topography, transformations arranged by a late medieval historiography that introduces into martyrolagia the loca toponomastica.}, language = {en} } @article{EstevamOFernandes2015, author = {Estevam O. Fernandes, Luiz}, title = {Political essay on the kingdom of New Spain}, series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, volume = {XV}, journal = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, number = {28}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1617-5239}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-84047}, pages = {24 -- 33}, year = {2015}, abstract = {In this paper we discuss how Alexander von Humboldt conceived a past to New Spain in his Political Essay on New Spain (1811) and how this text was, in turn, appropriated by the Mexican historiography during the 19th century. In order to do so, we analyze how the Prussian drew from American sources, particularly from the text of the Jesuit Francisco Javier Clavijero, written shortly before. We also study Humboldt's conceptions of text and of history, highlighting the place of the indigenous in the composition of his reasoning. Finally, we give examples of how the Mexican nationalist historiography read and reinterpreted the Political Essay.}, language = {en} } @article{Werner2015, author = {Werner, Anja}, title = {Alexander von Humboldt's footnotes}, series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, volume = {XV}, journal = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, number = {28}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1617-5239}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-84076}, pages = {59 -- 67}, year = {2015}, abstract = {Alexander von Humboldts Fußnoten waren ihrer Zeit weit voraus, obwohl sie kaum den heutigen akademischen Standards entsprechen. Dieser Artikel untersucht die Fußnoten in Humboldts Essai politique sur l'{\^i}le de Cuba (1826). Zwar ist es nicht immer leicht, die manchmal recht geheimnisvollen Verweise zu entschl{\"u}sseln, dennoch lohnt sich der Versuch: Humboldts Fußnoten geben nicht nur Auskunft {\"u}ber seine umfassenden Netzwerke des Wissens. Sie verweisen auch auf Auseinandersetzungen verschiedener Gelehrter {\"u}ber Humboldts Schriften. Schließlich beinhalten sie Humboldts Reaktionen auf solche Auseinandersetzungen. Eine Untersuchung von Humboldts Fußnoten erlaubt es folglich dem Leser, mehr {\"u}ber Humboldt den Wissenschaftler aber auch Humboldt den Mensch zu erfahren.}, language = {en} } @article{Lundberg2015, author = {Lundberg, Karin}, title = {Networking knowledge}, series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, volume = {XVI}, journal = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, number = {30}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1617-5239}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-86968}, pages = {78 -- 83}, year = {2015}, abstract = {Global citizenship and diversity are well-represented concepts in today's higher education. Learning outcomes and competencies are designed to sensitize students to the many cultural backgrounds of U.S. learning institutions. Nevertheless, true globality, as represented through diverse discourses and perspectives of the world, still seems neglected in curricula and course assignments. This article explores the possibilities offered through a new shared space in education where different forms of networked knowledge and multifaceted perspectives can build a global platform of exchange in a diverse student population. The universal science concept described by Alexander von Humboldt at the beginning of the 19th Century illuminates this intertwined approach to knowledge of the world, which has the potential to positively impact contemporary curricula and course design. Von Humboldt's writings emphasize inclusion and interplay among cultures and natural phenomena. By inviting our students to be active representatives of diverse discourses, these interconnecting links will become more transparent. In turn, productive forms of knowing about the world may enrich current learning objectives and thereby reflect a true global citizenship as it evolves in a new shared space of education. Keywords: global citizenship, plurality, diverse discourses, multicultural education.}, language = {en} } @article{Hassler2014, author = {Haßler, Gerda}, title = {Evidentiality and the expression of speaker's stance in Romance languages and German}, series = {Discourse Studies : an interdisciplinary journal for the study of text and talk}, volume = {17}, journal = {Discourse Studies : an interdisciplinary journal for the study of text and talk}, number = {2}, publisher = {Sage Publications}, address = {London}, issn = {1461-4456}, doi = {10.1177/1461445614564522}, pages = {182 -- 209}, year = {2014}, abstract = {In recent years, the category of evidentiality has also come into use for the description of Romance languages and of German. This has been contingent on a change in its interpretation from a typological category to a semantic-pragmatic category, which allows an application to languages lacking specialised morphemes for the expression of evidentiality. We consider evidentiality to be a structural dimension of grammar, the values of which are expressed by types of constructions that code the source of information which a speaker imparts. If we look at the situation in Romance languages and in German, drawing a boundary between epistemic modality and evidentiality presents problems that are difficult to solve. Adding markers of the source of the speaker's knowledge often limits the degree of responsibility of the speaker for the content of the utterance. Evidential adverbs are a frequently used means of marking the source of the speaker's knowledge. The evidential meaning is generalised to marking any source of knowledge, what can be regarded as a result of a process of pragmaticalisation. The use of certain means which also carry out evidential markings can even contribute to the blurring of the different kinds of evidentiality. German also has modal verbs which in conjunction with the perfect tense of the verb have a predominantly evidential use (sollen and wollen). But even here the evidential marking is not without influence on the modality of the utterance. The Romance languages, however, do not have such specialised verbs for expressing evidentiality in certain contexts. To do this, they mark evidentiality - often context bound - by verb forms such as the conditional and the imperfect tense. This article shall contrast the different architectures used in expressing evidentiality in German and in the Romance languages.}, language = {en} } @article{BoehmHennemann2014, author = {Boehm, Veronica and Hennemann, Anja}, title = {The evidential use of the spanish imperfect and the conditional in journalistic contexts}, series = {Studia neophilologica : a journal of Germanic and Romance languages and literature}, volume = {86}, journal = {Studia neophilologica : a journal of Germanic and Romance languages and literature}, number = {2}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {0039-3274}, doi = {10.1080/00393274.2014.933661}, pages = {183 -- 200}, year = {2014}, language = {en} } @article{Roba2014, author = {Roba, Bill}, title = {German-Iowan strategies in celebrating the centennial of Alexander von Humboldt's birth}, series = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, volume = {XV}, journal = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies}, number = {29}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1617-5239}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-84997}, pages = {179 -- 188}, year = {2014}, abstract = {The two largest cities of Eastern Iowa on the shore of the Mississippi River are Dubuque and Davenport. In each city, an elite group of German-Iowan leaders emerged by the late 1850s. Bill Roba describes and examines their strategies in celebrating the Centennial of Alexander von Humboldt's Birth.}, language = {en} } @article{Kroeger2013, author = {Kr{\"o}ger, Bj{\"o}rn}, title = {Remarks on a scene, depicting the primeval world}, series = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies}, volume = {XIV}, journal = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies}, number = {27}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1617-5239}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-69848}, pages = {7 -- 35}, year = {2013}, abstract = {The Prussian geologist Leopold von Buch was a lifelong friend of Alexander von Humboldt and had a significant influence on Humboldt's geological ideas. In a talk, held in Berlin in 1831, which is published here for the first time, von Buch presented the Duria Antiquior of 1830 by the English geologist Henry De La Beche. The Duria Antiquior is widely regarded as the earliest depiction of a scene of prehistoric life from deep time. The print raised new questions about the processes of geohistorical change. The talk reveals that Leopold von Buch was a true scientist of the Romantic Age. His descriptions of geohistorical organismic transformations are taken from pictorial examples of organismic transformation from the classical literature. The talk also illustrates how influential English geologists were for geo-historical reconstructions in Germany.}, language = {en} } @article{D'Aprile2013, author = {D'Aprile, Iwan-Michelangelo}, title = {Prussian republicanism? Friedrich Buchholz's reception of James Harrington}, isbn = {978-140-945-556-1}, year = {2013}, language = {en} } @article{RobertsStablerFischeretal.2013, author = {Roberts, Andrew Michael and Stabler, Jane and Fischer, Martin H. and Otty, Lisa}, title = {Space and pattern in linear and postlinear poetry empirical and theoretical approaches}, series = {European journal of English studies : official journal of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)}, volume = {17}, journal = {European journal of English studies : official journal of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)}, number = {1}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {1382-5577}, doi = {10.1080/13825577.2012.754967}, pages = {23 -- 40}, year = {2013}, abstract = {This article derives from two interdisciplinary research projects funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, involving the application of psychological experimental techniques to the study of poetic form and reader response. It discusses the semantic and expressive effects of space and pattern in innovative forms of contemporary British and American poetry. After referring to some historical and theoretical contexts for these issues, the article analyses the results of experiments using eye-tracking, manipulations of text, memory tests and readers' recorded responses and interpretations. The first group of poems studied were lineated, with extended spaces within lines and displacement of lines from the left margin. Referring to a poem from Geoffrey Hill'sCanaan(1996), the authors show that such use of space may serve to articulate syntactical structures, but may also promote richer interpretation by encouraging cross-linear semantic connections. The second technique studied was the break from linear into postlinear poetry, as an initially lineated sequence shifts to pages of dispersed text. In readings of Susan Howe'sPythagorean Silence(fromThe Europe of Trusts, 1990), the authors detected more radical effects of space, shape and pattern, with associated consequences for interpretative strategies and aesthetic responses. Finally, the article discusses the potential for both mutual support and heuristic challenge between an empirical study of reader response, and a historical-theoretical approach as exemplified by Jerome McGann's interpretation ofPythagorean Silence.}, language = {en} } @book{AbazaDevoucouxChenetal.2013, author = {Abaza, Mona and Devoucoux, Daniel and Chen, Buyun and Firsching-Tovar, Oly and Kawamura, Yuniya and Lehnert, Gertrud and Mentges, Gabriele and Shukla, Pravina}, title = {Fusion Fashion : culture beyond orientalism and occidentalism}, editor = {Lehnert, Gertrud and Mentges, Gabriele}, publisher = {Peter Lang GmbH}, address = {Frankfurt am Main}, isbn = {978-3-631-60975-0}, pages = {162 S.}, year = {2013}, abstract = {The focus of "Fusion Fashion" is on Orientalism as a sartorial practice which has to be differentiated from the common idea of Orientalism by means of its organization, constitution and reception.}, language = {en} } @article{Mueller2013, author = {M{\"u}ller, Gesine}, title = {From "The Novel" (1966) to "The Art of the Novel" (2000) readings of Vargas Llosa as Topos of Latin American Disenchantment}, series = {Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas}, volume = {46}, journal = {Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas}, number = {1}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {0890-5762}, doi = {10.1080/08905762.2013.780894}, pages = {20 -- 25}, year = {2013}, language = {en} } @article{Schlaak2013, author = {Schlaak, Claudia}, title = {Island language policy and regional identity east of Africa}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-63132}, year = {2013}, abstract = {Since 2011 the Comorian Island of Mayotte has been France's 101st d{\´e}partement, thereby becoming part of the European Union. As a result, France has consolidated and strengthened its strategic position in the Indian Ocean. With the change of political status in 2011, new developments have occurred in Mayotte. It is still unclear whether the expected economic boom, extensive social benefits or injection of EU regional funds can help to alleviate poverty and raise living standards. There is concern, however, that massive immigration to Mayotte from the surrounding territories is diminishing any progress and will continue to do so. Not only France but also the EU will have to adapt to new immigration problems due to this new external border. In this situation one thing is clear: the language contact between French and the local languages, which is the result of political developments, is leading to new dynamics. The diglossic situation east of Africa, between French as the dominant language and local languages like Shimaor{\´e} or Shibushi spoken in Mayotte will become more marked in the next few years.}, language = {en} } @article{Wiemann2013, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Spectacles of astonishment: tragedy and the regicide in England and Germany, 1649 - 1663}, isbn = {978-140-945-556-1}, year = {2013}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-33923, title = {European contexts for english republicanism}, series = {Politics and culture in Europa, 1650 - 1750}, journal = {Politics and culture in Europa, 1650 - 1750}, editor = {Mahlberg, Gaby and Wiemann, Dirk}, publisher = {Ashgate Publishing Ltd}, address = {Farnham}, isbn = {978-140-945-556-1}, pages = {XI, 273 S.}, year = {2013}, language = {en} } @article{Wiemann2013, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Cities of the mind - villages of the mind}, series = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Anglistik und Amerikanistik : a quarterly of language, literature and cultur}, volume = {61}, journal = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Anglistik und Amerikanistik : a quarterly of language, literature and cultur}, number = {1}, publisher = {K{\"o}nigshausen \& Neumann}, address = {W{\"u}rzburg}, issn = {0044-2305}, doi = {10.1515/zaa.2013.61.1.59}, pages = {59 -- 72}, year = {2013}, abstract = {Deep into the second half of the twentieth century the traditionalist definition of India as a country of villages remained dominant in official political rhetoric as well as cultural production. In the past two decades or so, this ruralist paradigm has been effectively superseded by a metropolitan imaginary in which the modern, globalised megacity increasingly functions as representative of India as a whole. Has the village, then, entirely vanished from the cultural imaginary in contemporary India? Addressing economic practices from upper-class consumerism to working-class family support strategies, this paper attempts to trace how 'the village' resurfaces or survives as a cultural reference point in the midst of the urban.}, language = {en} } @article{Klettke2013, author = {Klettke, Cornelia}, title = {The voice of the other : heterotopy and heterology inBernard-Marie Koltes black battles with dogs}, year = {2013}, language = {en} } @article{Kraft2012, author = {Kraft, Tobias}, title = {Textual Differences in Alexander von Humboldt's Essai politique sur l'{\^i}le de Cuba}, series = {Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies}, volume = {XIII}, journal = {Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies}, number = {24}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {2568-3543}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-61435}, pages = {75 -- 85}, year = {2012}, abstract = {Die vorliegende Studie basiert auf einem Editionsbericht, der 2009 im Rahmen der Konferenz »Alexander von Humboldt and the Hemisphere« an der Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN) vorgestellt wurde. Die f{\"u}r diese Publikation weiter entwickelte Untersuchung verdeutlicht die Textgenese von Humboldts Essai politique sur l'{\^i}le de Cuba auf der Basis eines Textvergleichs zwischen allen drei "Originalquellen" des Texts. Der hier in seinen Ergebnissen vorgestellte Textvergleich ist Teil des Editionsprojektes »Humboldt in English« (HiE), bei dem sich ein US-deutsches Editorenteam seit 2007 zum Ziel gesetzt haben, kritische Neu{\"u}bersetzungen von drei wichtigen Schriften aus Humboldts »Opus Americanum« anzufertigen (s.a. Fußnote). Der Textvergleich des Essai politique sur l'{\^i}le de Cuba bildete die Textgrundlage f{\"u}r den ersten Band der HiE-Reihe, den 2011 bei Chicago University Press erschienenen The Political Essay on the Island of Cuba (hg. von Vera M. Kutzinski und Ottmar Ette).}, language = {en} } @article{EcksteinSchwarz2012, author = {Eckstein, Lars and Schwarz, Anja}, title = {Oceanic modernity : indigeneity, globality and cultural translation}, isbn = {978-8-48-489670-8}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2012, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Archeologies of Globalization : European Reflections on Two Phases of Accelerated Globalization in Cornelius de Pauw, Georg Forster, Guillaume-Thomas Raynal and Alexander von Humboldt}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2012, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {TransTropics: Alexander von Humboldt and Hemispheric Constructions}, isbn = {978-3-938944-63-9}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2012, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Worldwide : Living in Transarchipelagic Worlds}, isbn = {978-8-48-489670-8}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-33310, title = {Alexander von Humboldt and the Americas}, series = {Potsdamer inter- und transkulturelle Texte : POINTE}, volume = {3}, journal = {Potsdamer inter- und transkulturelle Texte : POINTE}, editor = {Ette, Ottmar and Kutzinski, Vera and Dassow Walls, Laura}, publisher = {Ed. Tranvia Frey}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-938944-63-9}, pages = {295 S.}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @article{KutzinskiEtte2012, author = {Kutzinski, Vera M. and Ette, Ottmar}, title = {The art of science: Alexander von Humboldt's views of the cultures of the world}, isbn = {0-226-86506-1}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-33739, title = {Views of the cordilleras and monuments of the indigenous peoples of the Americas : a critical edition}, editor = {Kutzinski, Vera M. and Ette, Ottmar}, publisher = {University of Chicago Press}, address = {Chicago}, isbn = {0-226-86506-1}, pages = {618 S.}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @article{Ette2012, author = {Ette, Ottmar}, title = {Everything is interrelated, even the errors in the system : Alexander von Humboldtd and globalization}, isbn = {978-0-415-69787-3}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @article{SternagelLevittMersch2012, author = {Sternagel, J{\"o}rg and Levitt, Deborah and Mersch, Dieter}, title = {Etymological uncoveries, creative displays : acting as force and performance as eloquence in moving image culture}, isbn = {978-3-8376-1648-4}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @article{Mersch2012, author = {Mersch, Dieter}, title = {Passion and exposure : new paradoxes of the actor}, isbn = {978-3-8376-1648-4}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-33461, title = {Acting and performance in moving image culture : bodies, screens, renderings}, series = {Metabasis}, volume = {7}, journal = {Metabasis}, editor = {Sternagel, J{\"o}rg and Levitt, Deborah and Mersch, Dieter}, publisher = {transcript; de Gruyter}, address = {Bielefeld; Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-8376-1648-4}, doi = {10.14361/transcript.9783839416488}, pages = {477 S.}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Hennemann2012, author = {Hennemann, Anja}, title = {A context-sensitive and funktional approach to evidentiality in Spanish or why evidentiality needs a superordinate category}, series = {Potsdam Linguistic Investigations}, volume = {10}, journal = {Potsdam Linguistic Investigations}, publisher = {Peter Lang}, address = {Frankfurt am Main, New York}, isbn = {978-3-631-62636-8}, pages = {462 S.}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-33156, title = {Locutions et phrases : aspects de la predication}, series = {Studium Sprachwissenschaft. Beihefte}, volume = {40}, journal = {Studium Sprachwissenschaft. Beihefte}, editor = {Haßler, Gerda}, publisher = {Nodus-Publ}, address = {M{\"u}nster}, isbn = {978-3-89323-140-9}, pages = {221 S.}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @article{Sternagel2012, author = {Sternagel, J{\"o}rg}, title = {An emphasis in Being : moving towards a responsive phenomenology of film('s) performance}, isbn = {978-3-8376-1648-4}, year = {2012}, language = {en} }