@phdthesis{Kreitsch2015, author = {Kreitsch, Thomas}, title = {Demografie und politischer Reduktionismus}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-80794}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {246}, year = {2015}, abstract = {Die Dissertation mit dem Thema „Demografie und politischer Reduktionismus - eine Diskursanalyse der Demografiepolitik in Deutschland" kn{\"u}pft an die Debatte um die Demografisierung an, die sich damit besch{\"a}ftigt, dass gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen h{\"a}ufig zu sehr aus einer demografischen Perspektive betrachtet und beschrieben werden. Sie analysiert die zum Teil noch jungen Diskurse, die durch Akteure in Wissenschaft, Politik und Publizistik zu den demografiepolitischen Strategien und Aktivit{\"a}ten der Bundesregierung gef{\"u}hrt werden. Dabei werden Teilbereiche der Gesellschaft, darunter insbesondere die soziale Sicherung, die Generationenbeziehungen sowie die {\"o}konomische Entwicklung und auch r{\"a}umliche Aspekte der Demografie, in den Blick genommen. Es werden ausgew{\"a}hlte Zusammenh{\"a}nge zwischen gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen und demografischen Ver{\"a}nderungen reflektiert, denen ein kausales Beziehungsverh{\"a}ltnis bescheinigt wird. Es wird aufgezeigt, wo mit Verweis auf die Demografie lediglich Deutungsangebote geschaffen und Kausalbehauptungen aufgestellt werden. Von besonderem Untersuchungsinteresse ist hierbei die Demografie als Argument, um politisches, wirtschaftliches und soziales Handeln zu legitimieren und ein gesellschaftliches Klima der Akzeptanz zu erzeugen. Wo erweist sich die Demografie als ein Spekulationsobjekt - wo ist sie erwiesene, {\"u}berpr{\"u}fbare Kausalit{\"a}t? Und wo ist die Grenze zur Instrumentalisierung der Demografie zu ziehen? Es wird belegt, dass eine Gelegenheitsdemografie vor allem aus drei Gr{\"u}nden praktiziert wird: Sie verschafft organisierten Interessen Geh{\"o}r, sie bietet Orientierung in komplexen Gesellschaften und sie dient als Beurteilungsmaßstab der Bewertung von gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen. Die aktuelle Konjunktur von Diskursen zum demografischen Wandel sorgt daf{\"u}r, dass die Gelegenheiten, mit Demografie zu argumentieren, immer wieder reproduziert werden. In der Folge werden nicht nur gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen zu sehr auf demografische Komponenten zur{\"u}ckgef{\"u}hrt. Auch das familien-, sozial-, migrations- und wirtschaftspolitische Denken und Handeln wird h{\"a}ufig {\"u}ber das Maß tats{\"a}chlicher Ursache-Wirkungs-Zusammenh{\"a}nge hinaus auf vermeintliche demografische Gesetzm{\"a}ßigkeiten reduziert (Reduktionismus). Die Diskursanalyse der Demografiepolitik in Deutschland will die Bedeutung des demografischen Wandels f{\"u}r die Gesellschaft dabei nicht in Frage stellen. Sie soll f{\"u}r einen kritischeren Umgang mit der Demografie sensibilisieren. Dazu geh{\"o}rt auch, aufzuzeigen, dass die Demografie ein Faktor unter vielen ist.}, language = {de} } @article{HaendlerKlieglAdani2015, author = {Haendler, Yair and Kliegl, Reinhold and Adani, Flavia}, title = {Discourse accessibility constraints in children's processing of object relative clauses}, series = {Frontiers in psychology}, volume = {6}, journal = {Frontiers in psychology}, publisher = {Frontiers Research Foundation}, address = {Lausanne}, issn = {1664-1078}, doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00360}, pages = {17}, year = {2015}, abstract = {Children's poor performance on object relative clauses has been explained in terms of intervention locality. This approach predicts that object relatives with a full DP head and an embedded pronominal subject are easier than object relatives in which both the head noun and the embedded subject are full DPs. This prediction is shared by other accounts formulated to explain processing mechanisms. We conducted a visual-world study designed to test the off-line comprehension and on-line processing of object relatives in German-speaking 5-year-olds. Children were tested on three types of object relatives, all having a full DP head noun and differing with respect to the type of nominal phrase that appeared in the embedded subject position: another full DP, a 1st- or a 3rd-person pronoun. Grammatical skills and memory capacity were also assessed in order to see whether and how they affect children's performance. Most accurately processed were object relatives with 1st-person pronoun, independently of children's language and memory skills. Performance on object relatives with two full DPs was overall more accurate than on object relatives with 3rd-person pronoun. In the former condition, children with stronger grammatical skills accurately processed the structure and their memory abilities determined how fast they were; in the latter condition, children only processed accurately the structure if they were strong both in their grammatical skills and in their memory capacity. The results are discussed in the light of accounts that predict different pronoun effects like the ones we find, which depend on the referential properties of the pronouns. We then discuss which role language and memory abilities might have in processing object relatives with various embedded nominal phrases.}, language = {en} } @misc{HaendlerKlieglAdani2015, author = {Haendler, Yair and Kliegl, Reinhold and Adani, Flavia}, title = {Discourse accessibility constraints in children´s processing of object relative clauses}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-78694}, year = {2015}, abstract = {Children's poor performance on object relative clauses has been explained in terms of intervention locality. This approach predicts that object relatives with a full DP head and an embedded pronominal subject are easier than object relatives in which both the head noun and the embedded subject are full DPs. This prediction is shared by other accounts formulated to explain processing mechanisms. We conducted a visual-world study designed to test the off-line comprehension and on-line processing of object relatives in German-speaking 5-year-olds. Children were tested on three types of object relatives, all having a full DP head noun and differing with respect to the type of nominal phrase that appeared in the embedded subject position: another full DP, a 1st- or a 3rd-person pronoun. Grammatical skills and memory capacity were also assessed in order to see whether and how they affect children's performance. Most accurately processed were object relatives with 1st-person pronoun, independently of children's language and memory skills. Performance on object relatives with two full DPs was overall more accurate than on object relatives with 3rd-person pronoun. In the former condition, children with stronger grammatical skills accurately processed the structure and their memory abilities determined how fast they were; in the latter condition, children only processed accurately the structure if they were strong both in their grammatical skills and in their memory capacity. The results are discussed in the light of accounts that predict different pronoun effects like the ones we find, which depend on the referential properties of the pronouns. We then discuss which role language and memory abilities might have in processing object relatives with various embedded nominal phrases.}, language = {en} } @article{HaendlerKlieglAdani2015, author = {Haendler, Yair and Kliegl, Reinhold and Adani, Flavia}, title = {Discourse accessibility constraints in children´s processing of object relative clauses}, series = {Frontiers in psychology}, volume = {6}, journal = {Frontiers in psychology}, number = {860}, publisher = {Frontiers Research Foundation}, address = {Lausanne}, issn = {1664-1078}, doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00860}, year = {2015}, abstract = {Children's poor performance on object relative clauses has been explained in terms of intervention locality. This approach predicts that object relatives with a full DP head and an embedded pronominal subject are easier than object relatives in which both the head noun and the embedded subject are full DPs. This prediction is shared by other accounts formulated to explain processing mechanisms. We conducted a visual-world study designed to test the off-line comprehension and on-line processing of object relatives in German-speaking 5-year-olds. Children were tested on three types of object relatives, all having a full DP head noun and differing with respect to the type of nominal phrase that appeared in the embedded subject position: another full DP, a 1st- or a 3rd-person pronoun. Grammatical skills and memory capacity were also assessed in order to see whether and how they affect children's performance. Most accurately processed were object relatives with 1st-person pronoun, independently of children's language and memory skills. Performance on object relatives with two full DPs was overall more accurate than on object relatives with 3rd-person pronoun. In the former condition, children with stronger grammatical skills accurately processed the structure and their memory abilities determined how fast they were; in the latter condition, children only processed accurately the structure if they were strong both in their grammatical skills and in their memory capacity. The results are discussed in the light of accounts that predict different pronoun effects like the ones we find, which depend on the referential properties of the pronouns. We then discuss which role language and memory abilities might have in processing object relatives with various embedded nominal phrases.}, language = {en} }