@article{Brunkhorst2003, author = {Brunkhorst, Martin}, title = {Becketts Fußzeug}, isbn = {3-89942-164-7}, year = {2003}, language = {de} } @article{Tristram1999, author = {Tristram, Hildegard L. C.}, title = {Bedas "Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum" im Altenglischen und Altirischen}, year = {1999}, language = {de} } @article{Tristram2004, author = {Tristram, Hildegard L. C.}, title = {Bede's historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum in old english and old irish : a comparison}, isbn = {3-598-73015-2}, year = {2004}, abstract = {A close comparison of selected parts of the translation of the Venerable Bede's 'Historia Ecclesiastica gentis anglorum' into Old English and Old Irish reveals how selective the translators proceeded in their translation work and how they adapted the Latin original to the genre traditions of their vernacular styles of writing. By their omissions, their choices of lexis and syntax they clearly expressed their translation interests. Part of the differences also seems to have been motivated by the targeted written and the oral mode of communication. While the Irish translation is entirely written in character and hardly lends itself to reading out aloud ('prelecting'), the style and rhythm of the Old English translation suggests that it was to serve public reading purposes in front of illiterate or semi-literate listening audiences.}, language = {en} } @article{Wiemann2021, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Being Taught Something World-Sized}, series = {The Work of World Literature}, journal = {The Work of World Literature}, editor = {Robinson, Benjamin Lewis}, publisher = {ICI Press}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {2627-728X}, doi = {10.37050/ci-19_07}, pages = {149 -- 172}, year = {2021}, abstract = {This paper reads 'The Detainee's Tale as told to Ali Smith' (2016) as an exemplary demonstration of the work of world literature. Smith's story articulates an ethics of reading that is grounded in the recipient's openness to the singular, unpredictable, and unverifiable text of the other. More specifically, Smith's account enables the very event that it painstakingly stages: the encounter with alterity and newness, which is both the theme of the narrative and the effect of the text on the reader. At the same time, however, the text urges to move from an ethics of literature understood as the responsible reception of the other by an individual reader to a more explicitly convivial and political ethics of commitment beyond the scene of reading.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Wiemann2021, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Being Taught Something World-Sized}, series = {The Work of World Literature}, volume = {2021}, booktitle = {The Work of World Literature}, publisher = {ICI Berlin Press}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-96558-011-4}, issn = {2627-728X}, doi = {10.37050/ci-19_07}, pages = {149 -- 172}, year = {2021}, abstract = {This paper reads 'The Detainee's Tale as told to Ali Smith' (2016) as an exemplary demonstration of the work of world literature. Smith's story articulates an ethics of reading that is grounded in the recipient's openness to the singular, unpredictable, and unverifiable text of the other. More specifically, Smith's account enables the very event that it painstakingly stages: the encounter with alterity and newness, which is both the theme of the narrative and the effect of the text on the reader. At the same time, however, the text urges to move from an ethics of literature understood as the responsible reception of the other by an individual reader to a more explicitly convivial and political ethics of commitment beyond the scene of reading.}, language = {en} } @article{Eckstein2005, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Belonging in Music and the Music of Unbelonging in Richard Powers"s "The Time of Our Singing"}, isbn = {978-3-88476-772- 6}, year = {2005}, language = {en} } @unpublished{Eckstein2005, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Belonging in music and the music of unbelonging in Richard Powers's The Time of Our Singing}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-85584}, pages = {10}, year = {2005}, language = {en} } @misc{Blell1996, author = {Blell, Gabriele}, title = {Bericht Brandenburgischer Sprachentag 1995}, year = {1996}, language = {de} } @misc{Schiller2004, type = {Master Thesis}, author = {Schiller, Beate}, title = {Between afrocentrism and universality : detective fiction by black women}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-5478}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, year = {2004}, abstract = {This paper focuses on mysteries written by the Afro-American women authors Barbara Neely and Valerie Wilson Wesley. Both authors place a black woman in the role of the detective - an innovative feature not only in the realm of female detective literature of the past two decades but also with regard to the current discourse about race and class in US-American society. This discourse is important because detective novels are considered popular literature and thus a mass product designed to favor commercial instead of literary claims. Thus, the focus is placed on the development of the two protagonists, on their lives as detectives and as black women, in order to find out whether or not and how the genre influences the depiction of Afro-American experiences. It appears that both of these detective series represent Afro-American culture in different ways, which confirms a heterogenic development of this ethnic group. However, the protagonist's search for identity and their relationships to white people could be identified as a major unifying claim of Afro-American literature. With differing intensity, the authors Neely and Wesley provide the white or mainstream reader with insight into their culture and confront the reader\&\#39;s ignorance of black culture. In light of this, it is a great achievement that Neely and Wesley have reached not only a black audience but also a growing number of white readers.}, subject = {black women's literature}, language = {en} } @article{AdairMcLaughlin2022, author = {Adair, Gigi and McLaughlin, Carly}, title = {Beyond humanitarianism}, series = {Narrating Flight and Asylum}, journal = {Narrating Flight and Asylum}, publisher = {Trier}, address = {WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier}, isbn = {978-3-86821-965-4}, pages = {165 -- 182}, year = {2022}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-25231, title = {Bildende Kunst und Musik im Fremdsprachenunterricht}, series = {Fremdsprachendidaktik inhalts- und lernorientiert}, volume = {1}, journal = {Fremdsprachendidaktik inhalts- und lernorientiert}, editor = {Blell, Gabriele and Hellwig, Karlheinz}, publisher = {Lang}, address = {Frankfurt am Main [u.a.]}, pages = {126 S.}, year = {1996}, language = {de} } @misc{Brunkhorst1997, author = {Brunkhorst, Martin}, title = {Bimberg, C., John Dryden und Shakespeare, die Entstehung eines Klassikers; Dortmund, Projekt-Verl., 1995}, year = {1997}, language = {de} } @article{Priewe2004, author = {Priewe, Marc}, title = {Bio-Politics and the contamination of the body in Alejandro Morales's the rag doll plagues}, year = {2004}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{GreweSalfeld2020, author = {Grewe-Salfeld, Mirjam}, title = {Biohacking, bodies and do-it-yourself}, series = {American Culture Studies ; 36}, journal = {American Culture Studies ; 36}, publisher = {transcript Verlag}, address = {Bielefeld}, isbn = {978-3-8376-6004-3}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {314}, year = {2020}, abstract = {From self-help books and nootropics, to self-tracking and home health tests, to the tinkering with technology and biological particles - biohacking brings biology, medicine, and the material foundation of life into the sphere of »do-it-yourself«. This trend has the potential to fundamentally change people's relationship with their bodies and biology but it also creates new cultural narratives of responsibility, authority, and differentiation. Covering a broad range of examples, this book explores practices and representations of biohacking in popular culture, discussing their ambiguous position between empowerment and requirement, promise and prescription.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Schroeder2019, author = {Schr{\"o}der, Ariane}, title = {Biological Inf(1)ections of the American Dream}, publisher = {Lit}, address = {Wien}, isbn = {978-3-643-91274-9}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {295}, year = {2019}, language = {de} } @book{Stein2004, author = {Stein, Mark}, title = {Black british literature : novels of transformation}, publisher = {Ohio State Univ. Press}, address = {Columbus, Ohio}, isbn = {0-8142-5133-1}, pages = {xvii, 235 S.}, year = {2004}, language = {en} } @misc{Brunkhorst1995, author = {Brunkhorst, Martin}, title = {Blinn, H., Der deutsche Shakespeare : eine annotierte Bibliographie zur Shakespeare-Rezeption des deutschsprachigen Kulturraums; Schmidt, Berlin, 1993}, year = {1995}, language = {de} } @misc{Brosch2000, author = {Brosch, Renate}, title = {Breger, C. (Hrsg.), Figuren des Dritten, Erkundungen kultureller Zwischenr{\"a}ume; Amsterdam, Rodoph, 1998}, year = {2000}, language = {de} } @unpublished{EcksteinDengelJanic2008, author = {Eckstein, Lars and Dengel-Janic, Ellen}, title = {Bridehood revisited}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-85555}, pages = {19}, year = {2008}, language = {en} } @book{EcksteinDengelJanic2008, author = {Eckstein, Lars and Dengel-Janic, Ellen}, title = {Bridehood revisited : disarming concepts of gender and culture in recent asian british film}, isbn = {978-90-420-2497-7}, year = {2008}, language = {en} } @misc{Wischer2006, author = {Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Brinton, L. J., Traugott, E. C., Lexicalization and Language Change; Cambridge, Univ.-Press, 2006}, year = {2006}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-23512, title = {Britisch cinema : with contributions on Jarman, Jordon \& Co., identity politics, the British fim industries, the Irish and Scottish film milieux and films in the classroom}, series = {Journal for the study of British cultures}, volume = {5, 2}, journal = {Journal for the study of British cultures}, editor = {Drexler, Peter}, publisher = {Narr}, address = {T{\"u}bingen}, year = {1998}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{MendesdeOliveira2020, author = {Mendes de Oliveira, Milene}, title = {Business negotiations in ELF from a cultural linguistic perspective}, series = {Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] ; 43}, journal = {Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] ; 43}, publisher = {de Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-11-062678-0 print}, issn = {1861-4078}, pages = {XIX, 204}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Some of the most frequent questions surrounding business negotiations address not only the nature of such negotiations, but also how they should be conducted. The answers given by business people from different cultural backgrounds to these questions are likely to differ from the standard answers found in business manuals. In her book, Milene Mendes de Oliveira investigates how Brazilian and German business people conceptualize and act out business negotiations using English as a Lingua Franca. The frameworks of Cultural Linguistics, English as a Lingua Franca, World Englishes, and Business Discourse offer the theoretical and methodological grounding for the analysis of interviews with high-ranking Brazilian and German business people. Moreover, a side study on e-mail exchanges between Brazilian and German employees of a healthcare company serves as a test case for the results arising from the interviews, and helps understand other facets of authentic intercultural business communication. Offering new insights on English as a Lingua Franca in international business contexts, Business Negotiations in ELF from a Cultural Linguistic Perspective simultaneously provides a detailed cultural-conceptual account of business negotiations from the viewpoint of Brazilian and German business people and a secondary analysis of their pragmatic aspects.}, language = {en} } @article{Freitag2000, author = {Freitag, Kornelia}, title = {Bying Rolls and Crossing Borders - Reading Elke Erb}, year = {2000}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-12810, title = {B{\"u}rgerkrieg : Erfahrungen und Repr{\"a}sentation}, series = {Potsdamer Beitr{\"a}ge zur Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte}, volume = {1}, journal = {Potsdamer Beitr{\"a}ge zur Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte}, editor = {von Treskow, Isabella and Buschmann, Albrecht and Bandau, Anja}, publisher = {Trafo-Verl.}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {3-89626-538-5}, pages = {262 S.}, year = {2005}, language = {de} } @article{Eckstein2003, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Caribbean - English Passages: Intertextuality in a Postcolonial Tradition}, year = {2003}, language = {en} } @misc{Eckstein2011, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Carrington, B., Sport and Politics: the Sporting Black Diaspora; London, Sage, 2010}, year = {2011}, language = {en} } @misc{Eckstein2004, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Caryl Phillips}, isbn = {3-520-83804-4}, year = {2004}, language = {de} } @misc{Eckstein2008, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Caryl Phillips}, isbn = {978-1-85109-441-7}, year = {2008}, language = {en} } @article{Tristram1996, author = {Tristram, Hildegard L. C.}, title = {Causerie mit Paul Mankin {\"u}ber Dylan Thomas, 18.6.1085}, isbn = {3-00-001 194-3}, year = {1996}, abstract = {Paul Mankin was one of three literature professors who taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in the 1980s and who had attended Dylan Thomas' lecture tours at American universities thirty years earlier as students. They were particularly impressed by the power of Thomas' language and his forceful style of presentation. In this "Causerie" or interview recorded in 1985, Mankin speaks about the effect Thomas' performance at UCLA had on his own work. He also discusses the lasting value of Thomas' poetry and its impact on other poets.}, language = {de} } @incollection{Isaac2007, author = {Isaac, Graham R.}, title = {Celtic and Afro-Asiatic}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19209}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, year = {2007}, abstract = {Extract: [...]It is not remarkable that structural similarities between the Insular Celtic and some Afro-Asiatic1 languages continue to exert a fascination on many people. Research into any language may be enlightening with regard to the understanding of all languages, and languages that show similar features are particularly likely to provide useful information. It is remarkable that the structural similarities between Insular Celtic and Afro-Asiatic languages continue to be interpreted as diagnostic of some sort of special relationship between them; some sort of affinity or mutual affiliation that goes beyond the fact that they are two groups of human languages. This paper investigates again the fallacious nature of the arguments for the Afro-Asiatic/Insular Celtic contact theory (henceforth AA/IC contact theory). It takes its point of departure from Gensler (1993). That work is as yet unpublished, but has had considerable resonance. Such statements as the following indicate the importance that has been attached to the work: "After the studies of Morris-Jones, Pokorny, Wagner2 and Gensler it seems impossible to deny the special links between Insular Celtic and Afro-Asiatic" (Jongeling 2000:64). And the ideas in question have been propagated in the popular scientific press,3 with the usual corollary that it is these ideas that are perceived by the interested but non-specialist public as being at the cutting edge of sound new research, when in fact they may simply be recycled ideas of a discredited theory. For these reasons it is appropriate to subject Gensler's unpublished work to detailed critique.4 In particular, with regard to the twenty features of affinity between Insular Celtic and Afro-Asiatic which Gensler investigated, it will be shown (yet again, in some cases): [...]}, language = {en} } @article{Tristram1996, author = {Tristram, Hildegard L. C.}, title = {Celtic in Linguistic Taxonomy in the 19th Century}, year = {1996}, language = {en} } @article{Poppe2006, author = {Poppe, Erich}, title = {Celtic influence on English relative clauses?}, series = {The Celtic Englishes IV : the interface between English and the Celtic languages ; proceedings of the fourth international colloquium on the "Celtic Englishes" held at the University of Potsdam in Golm (Germany) from 22-26 September 2004}, journal = {The Celtic Englishes IV : the interface between English and the Celtic languages ; proceedings of the fourth international colloquium on the "Celtic Englishes" held at the University of Potsdam in Golm (Germany) from 22-26 September 2004}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-40993}, pages = {191 -- 211}, year = {2006}, abstract = {Content: 1. The Problem 2. Preusler 3. Molyneux 4. Discussion 4.1. Preusler on Contact Clauses 4.2. Preusler on Prepositional Relatives 4.3. Preusler on Genitival Relative Clauses 4.4. Molyneux 5. Conclusions}, language = {en} } @misc{Wiemann2010, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Chanan, M.; The Politics of Documentary; London, BFI, 2007}, issn = {0944-9094}, year = {2010}, language = {en} } @article{Krueck2002, author = {Kr{\"u}ck, Brigitte}, title = {Chancen, Grenzen, Legitimationsprobleme : Computermedien und literarische Texte ; Erfahrungen aus der Lehrerbildung}, year = {2002}, abstract = {Berichtet wird {\"u}ber ein Projekt, das mit Lehramtsstudierenden in einem Hauptseminar zu Neuen Technologien im Englischunterricht vorbereitet und mit Englischlernenden auf der Sekundarstufe II durchgef{\"u}hrt wurde. Ausgangspunkt des Projekts war die Lekt{\"u}re eines literarischen Textes, der mit Hilfe des Internets kontextualisiert werden sollte. Die praktischen Erfahrungen werden mit theoretischen Aussagen zum Thema in Beziehung gesetzt, was schließlich in eine fachdidaktische Positionsbestimmung m{\"u}ndet.}, language = {de} } @article{Wilke2021, author = {Wilke, Heinrich}, title = {Character and perspective in cosmic horror}, series = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Anglistik und Amerikanistik : a quarterly of language, literature and cultur}, volume = {69}, journal = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Anglistik und Amerikanistik : a quarterly of language, literature and cultur}, number = {2}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {0044-2305}, doi = {10.1515/zaa-2021-2038}, pages = {173 -- 190}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Despite their overt focus on inexplicable alien forces, cosmic horror stories are also determined by their human cast. Far from being merely fodder for horror, the characters significantly contribute to the generation of meaning, including that of the supernatural entity or phenomenon itself. The same holds for the narrators' (implicitly) political perspectives on the world of which they are part. Much of the perspective propounded in Lovecraft's cosmic horror stories partakes of myth, adopting in particular the latter's universal view and pronounced sidelining of humanity as a whole, which it intensifies to the point of horror. Appearances to the contrary notwithstanding, this universal perspective is consistent with the racism permeating and structuring Lovecraft's writing. Though eschewing racism and universalism, the cosmic horror of Kiernan's "Tidal Forces" negotiates literary reflections of colonialism from an unreflective white perspective.}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-13143, title = {Cheeky fictions : lauther and the postcolonial}, series = {Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft}, volume = {91}, journal = {Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft}, editor = {Reichl, Susanne and Stein, Mark}, publisher = {Rodopi}, address = {Amsterdam}, isbn = {90-420-1995-6}, pages = {315 S.}, year = {2005}, language = {en} } @article{FreitagHild2022, author = {Freitag-Hild, Britta}, title = {Child-friendly cities and communities}, series = {Bildung f{\"u}r nachhaltige Entwicklung im Englischunterricht. Grundlagen und Unterrichtsbeispiele}, journal = {Bildung f{\"u}r nachhaltige Entwicklung im Englischunterricht. Grundlagen und Unterrichtsbeispiele}, publisher = {Klett Kallmeyer}, address = {Hannover}, isbn = {978-3-7727-1660-7}, pages = {185 -- 193}, year = {2022}, language = {de} } @misc{Wiemann2013, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Cities of the Mind - Villages of the Mind}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, number = {109}, issn = {1866-8380}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-93951}, pages = {14}, 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{Kunow2011, author = {Kunow, R{\"u}diger}, title = {City of germs : biological identities and ethnic cultures in the metropolis}, isbn = {3- 86821-310-4}, year = {2011}, language = {en} } @incollection{WolfPeters2021, author = {Wolf, Hans-Georg and Peters, Arne}, title = {Cognitive sociolinguistic studies of African English}, series = {Cognitive sociolinguistics revisited (Applications of Cognitive Linguistics (ACL))}, volume = {48}, booktitle = {Cognitive sociolinguistics revisited (Applications of Cognitive Linguistics (ACL))}, publisher = {De Gruyter Mouton}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-11073-394-5}, doi = {10.1515/9783110733945-036}, pages = {457 -- 466}, year = {2021}, abstract = {This chapter presents an overview of Cognitive Sociolinguistic studies of African English. We discuss early applications of Conceptual Metaphor Theory to the study of English in Cameroon (Wolf 1999, 2001; Wolf and Simo Bobda 2001) as well as the extensive and methodologically diverse body of Cognitive Sociolinguistic research on the cultural model of COMMUNITY expressed in West and East African English (e.g., Wolf 2006, 2008; Wolf and Polzenhagen 2007; Polzenhagen and Wolf 2007; Polzenhagen 2007). Moreover, the chapter illustrates how studies such as Finzel and Wolf (2017), Peters (2021), Finzel (forthcoming) and Peters and Polzenhagen (2021) extend the Cognitive Sociolinguistic approach to further sociocultural issues, such as gender identities and culture-specific strategies of advertising in different anglophone parts of Africa. Finally, we point out possible future applications of the paradigm to socio-pragmatic aspects of African English.}, language = {en} } @article{WolfPolzenhagen2012, author = {Wolf, Hans-Georg and Polzenhagen, Frank}, title = {Cognitive sociolinguistics in L2-variety dictionaries of English}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @article{WolfPolzenhagen2012, author = {Wolf, Hans-Georg and Polzenhagen, Frank}, title = {Cognitive sociolinguistics in L2-variety dictionaries of english}, series = {Review of cognitive linguistics}, volume = {10}, journal = {Review of cognitive linguistics}, number = {2}, publisher = {Benjamins}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {1877-9751}, doi = {10.1075/rcl.10.2.06wol}, pages = {373 -- 400}, year = {2012}, abstract = {The recent decades have witnessed the incorporation of new linguistic trends into lexicography. One of these trends is a usage-based approach, with the first major application of computer-corpus data in the Collins COBUILD English dictionary (1995) and successive adaptation in other L1-dictionaries. Another, concurrent innovation-inspired by Conceptual Metaphor Theory-is the provision of conceptual information in monolingual dictionaries of English. So far, however, only the Macmillan English dictionary for advanced learners (1st and 2nd edition) has paid tribute to the fact that understanding culturespecific metaphors and being aware of metaphoric usage are crucial for learning a foreign language. Given that most of the English as lingua franca interactions take place between L2-speakers of English (see Kachru, 1994), providing conceptual information is not only a desideratum for L1- and learner dictionaries, but especially for (L2-) variety dictionaries of English. In our paper, we follow earlier tentative proposals by Polzenhagen (2007) and Wolf (2012) and present examples from A dictionary of Hong Kong English (Cummings \& Wolf, 2011), showing how culturally salient conceptual information can be made explicit and conceptual links between lexical items retrievable. The examples demonstrate that fixed expressions and idioms -a perennial problem for lexicographers are explicable by means of the proposed lexicographic design, too. Our approach is cognitive-sociolinguistic in that the Conceptual Metaphor approach is coupled with the study of regional varieties of English, more specifically Hong Kong English. Our analysis is empirically backed up by corpus-linguistic insights into this L2 variety.}, language = {en} } @incollection{WolfFinzel2021, author = {Wolf, Hans-Georg and Finzel, Anna}, title = {Colonial cultural conceptualizations and world Englishes}, series = {Research developments in world englishes}, booktitle = {Research developments in world englishes}, publisher = {Bloomsbury Academic}, address = {London}, isbn = {978-1-3501-6708-7}, doi = {10.5040/9781350167087.ch-010}, pages = {199 -- 230}, year = {2021}, abstract = {In this paper, we take a cognitive-sociolinguistic perspective on texts from the colonial period. The texts stem from various agents in the colonial enterprise and include documents from missionaries, administrators and politicians, as well as legal and scientific texts. What we find and trace in these texts is a recurrent set of dominant systems of conceptualizations that are characteristic of the colonial mindset and the corresponding discourse at large. However, these conceptualizations were spelled out in quite different ways in discourse, depending on the ideological background and objectives of the authors and on the specific colonial setting they deal with. We will focus on two contexts, India and sub-Saharan Africa, and we will highlight conceptualizations related to the framing of the constellation between colonizers and colonial subjects in terms of, inter alia, a parent-child, an adult-child and a teacher-pupil relationship. We will then look into some examples of cultural practices among the colonized that were "disturbing" to the colonizers. The fact that they were betrays value systems as well as preoccupations and fears on the side of the colonizers. These practices triggered efforts at cultural engineering in the colonies which had lasting effects on the local culture in these settings. However, this impact was far from being one-directional. The experience with the "otherness" of the colonial subjects fueled debates on latent societal issues in the culture of the colonizers. We will consider this impact for the case of the discourse on homosexuality. The empire stroke back also in linguistic terms, most notably by a host of loan words that entered the lexicon of English. The way these loan words were "integrated" into the English language provides ample evidence of a cultural appropriation also in this direction, i.e., the process known as "contextualization" in traditional Kachruvian sociolinguistics is bi-directional as well.}, language = {en} } @book{OPUS4-8616, title = {Comparative studies in early Germanic languages}, series = {Studies language companion series ; 138}, journal = {Studies language companion series ; 138}, editor = {Diewald, Gabriele and Kahlas-Tarkka, Leena and Wischer, Ilse}, publisher = {Benjamins Publishing}, address = {Amsterdam}, isbn = {978-90272-0605-3}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {318}, year = {2013}, abstract = {This volume offers a coherent and detailed picture of the diachronic development of verbal categories of Old English, Old High German, and other Germanic languages. Starting from the observation that German and English show diverging paths in the development of verbal categories, even though they descended from a common ancestor language, the contributions present in-depth, empirically founded studies on the stages and directions of these changes combining historical comparative methods with grammaticalisation theory. This collection of papers provides the reader with an indispensable source of information on the early traces of distinct developments, thus laying the foundation for a broad-scale scenario of the grammaticalisation of verbal categories. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars of language change, grammaticalisation, and diachronic sociolinguistics; it offers important new insights for typologists and for everybody interested in the make-up of verbal categories.}, language = {en} } @article{Waller2018, author = {Waller, Nicole}, title = {Connecting Atlantic and Pacific: Theorizing the Arctic}, series = {Atlantic studies : literary, cultural and historical perspectives}, volume = {15}, journal = {Atlantic studies : literary, cultural and historical perspectives}, number = {2}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {1478-8810}, doi = {10.1080/14788810.2017.1387467}, pages = {256 -- 278}, year = {2018}, abstract = {This essay sets out to theorize the "new" Arctic Ocean as a pivot from which our standard map of the world is currently being reconceptualized. Drawing on theories from the fields of Atlantic and Pacific studies, I argue that the changing Arctic, characterized by melting ice and increased accessibility, must be understood both as a space of transit that connects Atlantic and Pacific worlds in unprecedented ways, and as an oceanic world and contact zone in its own right. I examine both functions of the Arctic via a reading of the dispute over the Northwest Passage (which emphasizes the Arctic as a space of transit) and the contemporary assessment of new models of sovereignty in the Arctic region (which concentrates on the circumpolar Arctic as an oceanic world). However, both of these debates frequently exclude indigenous positions on the Arctic. By reading Canadian Inuit theories on the Arctic alongside the more prominent debates, I argue for a decolonizing reading of the Arctic inspired by Inuit articulations of the "Inuit Sea." In such a reading, Inuit conceptions provide crucial interventions into theorizing the Arctic. They also, in turn, contribute to discussions on indigeneity, sovereignty, and archipelagic theory in Atlantic and Pacific studies.}, language = {en} } @incollection{RoosStarksMacdonaldetal.2020, author = {Roos, Jana and Starks, Donna and Macdonald, Shem and Nicholas, Howard}, title = {Connecting worlds}, series = {The Routledge handbook of language education curriculum design}, booktitle = {The Routledge handbook of language education curriculum design}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {New York}, isbn = {978-1-138-95857-9}, pages = {238 -- 257}, year = {2020}, abstract = {This chapter considers the benefits of working with linguistic landscapes for language education curriculum. It shows how introducing linguistic landscape exploration into the curriculum can support learners to read beyond words and to build critical understandings of intersections between words and worlds. The chapter explores data from two case studies in different educational contexts. The first study shows the effects of scaffolding in-service languages teachers to learn to read their worlds from multiple perspectives. The second study illustrates the types of insights that can emerge from school EFL learners when they explore the linguistic landscapes of worlds beyond their classrooms.}, language = {en} } @article{Hickey2006, author = {Hickey, Raymond}, title = {Contact, shift and language change}, series = {The Celtic Englishes IV : the interface between English and the Celtic languages ; proceedings of the fourth international colloquium on the "Celtic Englishes" held at the University of Potsdam in Golm (Germany) from 22-26 September 2004}, journal = {The Celtic Englishes IV : the interface between English and the Celtic languages ; proceedings of the fourth international colloquium on the "Celtic Englishes" held at the University of Potsdam in Golm (Germany) from 22-26 September 2004}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-41027}, pages = {234 -- 258}, year = {2006}, abstract = {Content: 1. Introduction 2. English in South Africa 2.1. Transmission of English 2.2. The Language Shift 3. Features of South African Indian English 3.1. Discussion of Features 4. Further Shift-induced Varieties 4.1. Aboriginal English 4.2. Hebridean English 5. Conclusion}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Senft2015, author = {Senft, Christoph}, title = {Contemporary Indian writing in English between global fiction and transmodern historiography}, series = {Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 190}, journal = {Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 190}, publisher = {Rodopi}, address = {Leiden}, isbn = {978-90-04-30906-7}, pages = {239}, year = {2015}, abstract = {Christoph Senft provides a set of re-readings of contemporary Indian narrative texts as decolonial and pluralistic approaches to the past and thus offers a comprehensive overview of the subcontinent s literary landscape in the 21st century.}, language = {en} } @article{BarthWeingarten2009, author = {Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar}, title = {Contrasting and turn transition : prosodic projection with parallel-opposition constructions}, issn = {0378-2166}, doi = {10.1016/j.pragma.2009.03.007}, year = {2009}, abstract = {The parallel-opposition construction has not yet been widely described as an independent construction type. This article reports on its realization in everyday British-English conversation. In particular, it focusses on prosodic projection in the lexically and syntactically unmarked first component of this syntactic pattern, and thus adds to the body of research investigating the organization of turn-taking in the context of bi-clausal constructions with which the first part lacks explicit lexical hint, to their continuation. It is shown that the parallel-opposition construction, next to specific semantic-pragmatic, syntactic and lexical features, also exhibits a relatively fixed range of prosodic features in the first conjunct, among these narrow focus, continuing intonation and/or the avoidance of intonation-unit boundary signals. These are used to project continuation of an otherwise complete utterance and, thus, to secure the floor for the expression of contrast. In addition, the detailed analysis of apparently deviant cases, which takes into account the on-line production of syntax, shows that a lack of prosodically projective features in the first component of the parallel-opposition construction can be explained by the strategic, retrospective use of the construction to resolve problems in turn transition.}, language = {en} }