@misc{Wiesmeier2024, type = {Master Thesis}, author = {Wiesmeier, Rebekka}, title = {Cultural conceptualisations relating to DEATH in Irish English from a diachronic perspective}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-63871}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-638719}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {104}, year = {2024}, abstract = {The present thesis looks at cultural conceptualisations in relation to DEATH in Irish English from a Cultural Linguistic perspective and puts a special focus on the diachronic development of these conceptualisations. For the study, a corpus consisting of 1,400 death notices from the Dublin-based national newspaper The Irish Times from 14 historical periods between 1859 and 2023 was compiled, resulting in a highly specialised 70,000-word corpus. First, the manual qualitative analysis of the death notices produced evidence for eight superordinate cultural conceptualisations surrounding DEATH, namely, in the order of their frequency THE DEAD ARE TO BE REMEMBERED OR REGRETTED, DEATH IS SOMETHING POSITIVE, DEATH IS REST, DEATH IS A JOURNEY, DYING IS THE BEGINNING OF ANOTHER LIFE, DEATH IS (NOT) A TABOO, DEATH IS GOD'S WILL, and DEATH IS THE END. These conceptualisations were derived from linguistic expressions in the death notices that have these conceptualisations as a cognitive basis. Second, the quantitative comparison of the individual conceptualisations detected diachronic variation, which is interconnected with historical and social developments in Ireland. The thesis, therefore, illustrates the applicability of Cultural Linguistics as an adequate method for diachronic studies interested in culturally determined developments of conceptualisations.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Schallau2024, author = {Schallau, Juliane}, title = {"Maybe Happen Is Never Once" - temporalities of guilt in William Faulkner}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-62885}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-628858}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {iv, 171}, year = {2024}, abstract = {This study focuses on William Faulkner, whose works explore the demise of the slavery-based Old South during the Civil War in a highly experimental narrative style. Central to this investigation is the analysis of the temporal dimensions of both individual and collective guilt, thus offering a new approach to the often-discussed problem of Faulkner's portrayal of social decay. The thesis examines how Faulkner re-narrates the legacy of the Old South as a guilt narrative and argues that Faulkner uses guilt in order to corroborate his concept of time and the idea of the continuity of the past. The focus of the analysis is on three of Faulkner's arguably most important novels: The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, and Go Down, Moses. Each of these novels features a main character deeply overwhelmed by the crimes of the past, whether private, familial, or societal. As a result, guilt is explored both from a domestic as well as a social perspective. In order to show how Faulkner blends past and present by means of guilt, this work examines several methods and motifs borrowed from different fields and genres with which Faulkner narratively negotiates guilt. These include religious notions of original sin, the motif of the ancestral curse prevalent in the Southern Gothic genre, and the psychological concept of trauma. Each of these motifs emphasizes the temporal dimensions of guilt, which are the core of this study, and makes clear that guilt in Faulkner's work is primarily to be understood as a temporal rather than a moral problem.}, language = {en} } @misc{NiehusKettler2023, author = {Niehus-Kettler, Melinda}, title = {Naturalising perceived otherness}, series = {Zweitver{\"o}ffentlichungen der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, journal = {Zweitver{\"o}ffentlichungen der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, isbn = {978-3-8474-2679-0}, issn = {1866-8380}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-60133}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-601332}, pages = {20}, year = {2023}, abstract = {This essay takes an Anglophone Cultural Studies approach to reflect on the interdependence among as well as the individual (implicit) impact of the elements constituting our (embodied) power structures. These are, e.g., bodily experience/s such as shame and fear, everyday and institutional discourses and practices, but also manifestations of differences and particularities that we transform into phenomena such as "norms", "binary systems" and "binary organisations". The analysis of seemingly cyclic "Othering processes" and patterns of violence shows how people who identify as trans*, inter*, or non-binary have to live through and embody epistemological, emotional, and/or physical violence. At the same time, the descriptions illustrate numberless potential forms of resistance and change.}, language = {en} } @misc{Kluemper2021, type = {Master Thesis}, author = {Kl{\"u}mper, Hannah}, title = {From Brock to Brett}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-62329}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-623293}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {110}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Diese Masterarbeit in der US-amerikanischen Kulturwissenschaft stellt die These auf, dass das Ph{\"a}nomen der rape culture ein soziokulturelles System gesellschaftlicher Machtstrukturen und kultureller Mythen darstellt. Basierend auf sogenannten Vergewaltigungsmythen konstituiert dieses System zudem eine Ideologie. Ziel der Arbeit ist es zu zeigen, wie diese Vergewaltigungsmythen instrumentalisiert werden, um (prim{\"a}r weiße, cis-m{\"a}nnliche) T{\"a}ter zu besch{\"u}tzen und stattdessen Betroffenen von sexualisierter Gewalt die Verantwortung zuzuweisen. So soll aufgezeigt werden, dass junge M{\"a}nner wie Brock Turner, die von patriarchalen Machtstrukturen profitieren, zu M{\"a}nnern wie Brett Kavanaugh aufwachsen, und dass diese nicht nur davon profitieren, dass die rape culture ihr {\"u}bergriffiges Verhalten entschuldigt, sondern dass sie zudem darauf gest{\"u}tzt an Machtpositionen gelangen, durch die sie als Entscheidungstr{\"a}ger diese der rape culture zugrundeliegenden Strukturen im Gegenzug aufrechterhalten k{\"o}nnen. Dabei konzentriert sich die Arbeit auf die Vergewaltigungsmythen des sogenannten Victim-Blamings und Shamings sowie der Viktimisierung von T{\"a}tern. Diese Mythen werden im Rahmen einer Analyse von Zeitungsartikeln aus dem 19. Jahrhundert herausgearbeitet und in das 21. Jahrhundert verfolgt. Basierend auf Mary Douglas' Theorie zu Reinheitsvorstellungen wird aufgezeigt, inwiefern sich nicht nur soziale Kategorien, n{\"a}mlich Geschlecht, race, sozio{\"o}konomischer Status und Alter, sondern auch die sexuelle Reinheit oder Unreinheit von Betroffenen auf die gesellschaftliche Bewertung von Vergewaltigungsf{\"a}llen auswirken. Dar{\"u}ber hinaus zeigt die Arbeit, wie weibliche K{\"o}rper als ideologisches Schlachtfeld f{\"u}r politische und gesellschaftliche Ver{\"a}nderungen in den USA fungieren, und dass empfundene Bedrohungen des patriarchalen Status Quo im {\"o}ffentlichen Diskurs als moralische Gefahren dargestellt werden, die von weiblichen K{\"o}rpern ausgehen. Die Arbeit argumentiert, dass die rape culture von (weißem cis-) m{\"a}nnlichem Anspruchsdenken auf weibliche K{\"o}rper, aber dar{\"u}ber hinaus auch auf Machtpositionen im patriarchalen System angetrieben wird. Sie zeigt auf, wie dieses System die rape culture instrumentalisiert, um seine zugrundeliegenden Strukturen aufrechtzuerhalten, die (cis) M{\"a}nner beg{\"u}nstigen und im Gegensatz (cis) Frauen sowie andere marginalisierte und nicht-heteronormative Gruppen benachteiligen. Dies wird anhand einer Analyse des Stanford-Vergewaltigungsfalls von 2016 sowie der Kavanaugh-Anh{\"o}rung von 2018 dargestellt.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Reinhardt2022, author = {Reinhardt, Susanne}, title = {Assessing interactional competence}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-61942}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-619423}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {304}, year = {2022}, abstract = {The development of speaking competence is widely regarded as a central aspect of second language (L2) learning. It may be questioned, however, if the currently predominant ways of conceptualising the term fully satisfy the complexity of the construct: Although there is growing recognition that language primarily constitutes a tool for communication and participation in social life, as yet it is rare for conceptualisations of speaking competence to incorporate the ability to inter-act and co-construct meaning with co-participants. Accordingly, skills allowing for the successful accomplishment of interactional tasks (such as orderly speaker change, and resolving hearing and understanding trouble) also remain largely unrepresented in language teaching and assessment. As fostering the ability to successfully use the L2 within social interaction should arguably be a main objective of language teaching, it appears pertinent to broaden the construct of speaking competence by incorporating interactional competence (IC). Despite there being a growing research interest in the conceptualisation and development of (L2) IC, much of the materials and instruments required for its teaching and assessment, and thus for fostering a broader understanding of speaking competence in the L2 classroom, still await development. This book introduces an approach to the identification of candidate criterial features for the assessment of EFL learners' L2 repair skills. Based on a corpus of video-recorded interaction between EFL learners, and following conversation-analytic and interactional-linguistic methodology as well as drawing on basic premises of research in the framework of Conversation Analysis for Second Language Acquisition, differences between (groups of) learners in terms of their L2 repair conduct are investigated through qualitative and inductive analyses. Candidate criterial features are derived from the analysis results. This book does not only contribute to the operationalisation of L2 IC (and of L2 repair skills in particular), but also lays groundwork for the construction of assessment scales and rubrics geared towards the evaluation of EFL learners' L2 interactional skills.}, language = {en} } @article{FreitagHildBitmannReinhardtetal.2023, author = {Freitag-Hild, Britta and Bitmann, Anna and Reinhardt, Susanne and Roos, Jana}, title = {Verzahnung von Fachwissenschaft und Fachdidaktik im Lehramtsstudium Englisch}, series = {PSI-Potsdam: Ergebnisbericht zu den Aktivit{\"a}ten im Rahmen der Qualit{\"a}tsoffensive Lehrerbildung (2019-2023) (Potsdamer Beitr{\"a}ge zur Lehrerbildung und Bildungsforschung ; 3)}, journal = {PSI-Potsdam: Ergebnisbericht zu den Aktivit{\"a}ten im Rahmen der Qualit{\"a}tsoffensive Lehrerbildung (2019-2023) (Potsdamer Beitr{\"a}ge zur Lehrerbildung und Bildungsforschung ; 3)}, number = {3}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-568-2}, issn = {2626-3556}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-61788}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-617885}, pages = {239 -- 256}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Der vorliegende Beitrag stellt eine Lehrveranstaltungskooperation zur Verzahnung von Fachwissenschaften (Sprachwissenschaft) und Fachdidaktik im Lehramtsstudium Englisch an der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam vor. Die Kooperation besteht aus zwei Seminaren. W{\"a}hrend andere F{\"a}cher (u. a. Mathematik, Naturwissenschaften, Geschichte) bereits in der ersten Phase des PSI-Projekts Erkenntnisse zur Erfassung des erweiterten Fachwissens f{\"u}r den schulischen Kontext (eFWsK) vorgelegt haben, widmet sich die Englischdidaktik der Strukturierung des Professionswissens im Fach erst seit wenigen Jahren. Der Versuch, das eFWsK-Modell auf das Fach Englisch zu {\"u}bertragen, stellt die Disziplin aus diversen Gr{\"u}nden vor eine besondere Herausforderung. Am Beispiel zweier verzahnter Lehrveranstaltungen zur Entwicklung von Diagnosef{\"a}higkeiten angehender Lehrkr{\"a}fte zur Beurteilung von Sprechleistungen wird er{\"o}rtert, welches fachwissenschaftliche und fachdidaktische Wissen durch die Verzahnung der beiden Disziplinen erworben wird. Zugleich werden offene Fragen diskutiert, die sich aus der Kooperation mit Blick auf eine Systematisierung relevanter fachwissenschaftlicher Inhalte f{\"u}r das Lehramtsstudium ergeben. Im Ausblick wird er{\"o}rtert, warum eine Systematisierung des fachlichen Professionswissens mittels einer Delphi-Studie im Fach Englisch sinnvoll erscheint.}, language = {de} } @book{VanHalVanLoonMercelisetal.2023, author = {Van Hal, Toon and Van Loon, Zanna and Mercelis, Wouter and Steckley, John and Peetermans, Andy and Van Rooy, Raf and Dionne, Fannie}, title = {Anchored in ink}, editor = {Van Loon, Zanna and Steckley, John and Van Hal, Toon and Peetermans, Andy}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-516-3}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-51306}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-513062}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {448}, year = {2023}, abstract = {This book serves as a gateway to the Elementa grammaticae Huronicae, an eighteenth-century grammar of the Wendat ('Huron') language by Jesuit Pierre-Philippe Potier (1708-1781). The volume falls into three main parts. The first part introduces the grammar and some of its contexts, offering information about the Huron-Wendat and Wyandot, the early modern Jesuit mission in New France and the Jesuits' linguistic output. The heart of the volume is made up by its second part, a text edition of the Elementa. The third part presents some avenues of research by way of specific case studies.}, language = {en} } @article{GnaedigSeidelSiehretal.2022, author = {Gn{\"a}dig, Susanne and Seidel, Astrid and Siehr, Karl-Heinz and Wienecke, Maik}, title = {Das Tagespraktikum im Fokus - Eine Analyse aus fachdidaktischer Sicht}, series = {Professionalisierung in Praxisphasen : Ergebnisse der Lehrerbildungsforschung an der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam (Potsdamer Beitr{\"a}ge zur Lehrerbildung und Bildungsforschung ; 2)}, journal = {Professionalisierung in Praxisphasen : Ergebnisse der Lehrerbildungsforschung an der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam (Potsdamer Beitr{\"a}ge zur Lehrerbildung und Bildungsforschung ; 2)}, number = {2}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-508-8}, issn = {2626-3556}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-57074}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-570742}, pages = {91 -- 121}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Die fachdidaktischen Tagespraktika (FTP) bilden ein Kernelement im Potsdamer Modell der Lehrerbildung, weist man ihnen doch eine „studienleitende Funktion" zu. Wie aber realisiert sich diese Funktion in den einzelnen F{\"a}chern an der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam und welche Folgen ergeben sich f{\"u}r die Ausbildung der Lehramtsstudierenden ? Zur Beantwortung dieser Frage wurde eine Analyse der Verankerung der FTP in allen Studienordnungen hinsichtlich qualitativer (Inhalte und Ziele, Pr{\"u}fungsformen, Belegungsvoraussetzungen) und quantitativer (Leistungspunkte, Semesterwochenstunden) Kriterien durchgef{\"u}hrt. Leitfadengest{\"u}tzte Interviews mit verantwortlichen Fachdidaktikerinnen und Fachdidaktikern dienten der Untersuchung der konkreten Umsetzung und der Relevanzzuschreibung. Ziel war es, durch das Zusammenf{\"u}hren beider Zug{\"a}nge - der realiter existierenden Curricula, der individualisierten Praktiken sowie der subjektiven {\"U}berzeugungen - ein Verst{\"a}ndnis eben jener „studienleitenden Funktion" zu erlangen und anschließend Diskussions- und Handlungsfelder f{\"u}r die Weiterentwicklung des FTP herauszuarbeiten.}, language = {de} } @misc{Egorova2022, type = {Master Thesis}, author = {Egorova, Alisa}, title = {Hunting Down Animal Verbs}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-55770}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-557705}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {79}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Language change is an essential feature of human language, and it is therefore one of the focal areas of the scientific study of language. Language change is always tacitly at work in all languages of the world and at all levels of a given language, be it phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, etc. It has been suggested that it is precisely the capacity to constantly change and adjust that allows language to keep serving the communicative goals of its users, from ancient to modern times (Fauconnier \& Turner, 2003, p. 179). This thesis investigates an especially salient pattern of lexicogrammatical change, namely word-formation of verbs from animal nouns by zero-derivation, in the process of which such nouns as, for example, dog, horse, or beaver change their usage and meaning to produce animal verbs: to dog 'to follow someone persistently and with a malicious intent', to horse about/around 'to make fun of, to 'rag', to ridicule someone' and to beaver away 'to work at working with great enthusiasm' respectively. In the previous literature this pattern of language change has been termed verbal zoosemy (e.g. Kiełtyka, 2016), i.e. metaphorical construal of human actions by means of linguistic material from the domain of animals. The approach taken in this study is not to simply report on the objective changes in the morphology, syntactic distribution and meaning of such linguistic units before and after conversion, but to uncover the complexity of cognitive mechanisms which allow the speakers of English to reclassify such well-established nominal units as animal noun into verbs. It is assumed that the grammatical change in these lexical units is predicated on and triggered by preceding semantic change. Thus, the study is set in the framework of Cognitive Historical Semantics and employs the Conceptual Metaphor and Metonymy Theory (CMMT) to untangle the intricacies of the semantic change making the grammatical change of animal nouns into verbs possible and acceptable in the minds of English speakers. To this end, this study employed the Oxford English Dictionary Online (OED Online) to compile a glossary of 96 denominal animal verbal forms tied to 209 verbal senses (most verbs in the dataset displayed polysemy). The data collected from the OED Online included not only the senses of the verbs, but also the date of the earliest recorded use of the verbal form with the given sense (regarded in the study as the date of conversion), the earliest usage examples for individual senses and morphologically or semantically related linguistic units from the lexical field of the respective parent noun which were amenable to explaining the observed instances of semantic change. Each instance of zoosemisation, i.e. of the creation of a separate metaphorical verbal sense, was then carefully analysed on the basis of the data collected and classified with the help of the CMMT. In the final stage, a comprehensive and systematic classification of the senses of animal verbs in accordance with the cognitive mechanisms of their creation (metaphor, metonymy, or a combination thereof) was produced together with a timeline of the first appearance of individual metaphorical senses of animal verbs recorded in the OED. The results show that animal verbs are produced through the interaction of conceptual metaphor and metonymy. Specifically, it was established that two major patterns of metaphor-metonymy interaction underpinning the process of verbal zoosemisation are metaphor from metonymy and metonymy from metaphor. In the former pattern, either an already existing metonymic animal verb is expanded to include the target domain PEOPLE, or the animal noun itself acts as a metonymic vehicle to a certain element of the idealised cognitive model of the given animal, which is metaphorically projected onto people. In the latter mechanism, a metaphorical projection of an animal term initially enters the lexicon in the form of a metaphorical animal noun referring to a human entity, and later in the course of language development it comes to metonymically stand for the action, which the given entity either performs or is involved in. Secondarily, it was observed that individual animal nouns can undergo multiple rounds of zoosemic conversion over time depending on the semantic frame in which the given linguistic unit undergoes denominal conversion, and that results in the polysemy of most animal verbs.}, language = {en} } @misc{BarthWeingartenOgden2021, author = {Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar and Ogden, Richard}, title = {"Chunking" spoken language}, series = {Zweitver{\"o}ffentlichungen der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, journal = {Zweitver{\"o}ffentlichungen der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1866-8380}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-53625}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-536259}, pages = {531 -- 548}, year = {2021}, abstract = {In this introductory paper to the special issue on "Weak cesuras in talk-in-interaction", we aim to guide the reader into current work on the "chunking" of naturally occurring talk. It is conducted in the methodological frameworks of Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics - two approaches that consider the interactional aspect of humans talking with each other to be a crucial starting point for its analysis. In doing so, we will (1) lay out the background of this special issue (what is problematic about "chunking" talk-in-interaction, the characteristics of the methodological approach chosen by the contributors, the cesura model), (2) highlight what can be gained from such a revised understanding of "chunking" in talk-in-interaction by referring to previous work with this model as well as the findings of the contributions to this special issue, and (3) indicate further directions such work could take starting from papers in this special issue. We hope to induce a fruitful exchange on the phenomena discussed, across methodological divides.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{LeGallMboro2020, author = {LeGall, Yann and Mboro, Mnyaka Sururu}, title = {Remembering the dismembered}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-50850}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-508502}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {viii, 346}, year = {2020}, abstract = {This thesis - written in co-authorship with Tanzanian activist Mnyaka Sururu Mboro - examines different cases of repatriation of ancestral remains to African countries and communities through the prism of postcolonial memory studies. It follows the theft and displacement of prominent ancestors from East and Southern Africa (Sarah Baartman, Dawid Stuurman, Mtwa Mkwawa, Songea Mbano, King Hintsa and the victims of the Ovaherero and Nama genocides) and argues that efforts made for the repatriation of their remains have contributed to a transnational remembrance of colonial violence. Drawing from cultural studies theories such as "multidirectional memory", "rehumanisation" and "necropolitics", the thesis argues for a new conceptualisation or "re-membrance" in repatriation, through processes of reunion, empowerment, story-telling and belonging. Besides, the afterlives of the dead ancestors, who stand at the centre of political debates on justice and reparations, remind of their past struggles against colonial oppression. They are therefore "memento vita", fostering counter-discourses that recognize them as people and stories. This manuscript is accompanied by a "(web)site of memory" where some of the research findings are made available to a wider audience. This blog also hosts important sound material which appears in the thesis as interventions by external contributors. Through QR codes, both the written and the digital version are linked with each other to problematize the idea of a written monograph and bring a polyphonic perspective to those diverse, yet connected, histories.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Maerz2020, author = {M{\"a}rz, Moses}, title = {{\´E}douard Glissant's politics of relation}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-50948}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-509486}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {xv, 530}, year = {2020}, abstract = {The political legacy of the Martinican poet, novelist and philosopher {\´E}douard Glissant (1928-2011) is the subject of an ongoing debate among postcolonial literary scholars. Responding to an influential view shaping this debate, that Glissant's work can be categorised into an early political and late apolitical phase, this dissertation claims that this division is based on a narrow conception of 'engaged political writing' that prevents a more comprehensive view of the changing political strategies Glissant pursued throughout his life from emerging. Proceeding from this conceptual basis, the dissertation is concerned with re-reading the dimensions of Glissant's work that have hitherto been relegated as apolitical, literary or poetic, with the aim of conceptualising the politics of relation as an integral part of his overall poetic project. In methodological terms, the dissertation therefore proposes a relational reading of Glissant's life-work across literary genres, epochs, as well as the conventional divisions between political thought, writing and activism. This perspective is informed by Glissant's philosophy of relation, and draws on a conception of political practice that includes both explicit engagements with established political systems and institutions, as well as literary and cultural interventions geared towards their transformation and the creation of alternatives to them. Theoretically the work thus combines a poststructuralist lens on the conceptual difference between 'politics' and 'the political' with arguments for an inherent political quality of literature, and perspectives from the Afro-Caribbean radical tradition, in which writers and intellectuals have historically sought to combine discursive interventions with organisational actions. Applying this theoretical angle to the analysis of Glissant's politics of relation results in an interdisciplinary research framework designed to explore the synergies between postcolonial political and literary studies. In order to comprehensively describe Glissant's politics of relation without recourse to evolutionary or digressive models, the concept of an intellectual marronage is proposed as a framework to map the strategies making up Glissant's political archive. Drawing on a variety of historic, political theoretical and literary sources, intellectual marronage is understood as a mode of radical resistance to the neocolonial subjugation for which the plantation system stands historically and metaphorically, as an inherently innovative political practice invested in the creation of communities marked by relational ontologies, and as a commitment to fostering an imagination of the world and the human that differs fundamentally from the Enlightenment paradigm. This specific conception of intellectual marronage forms the basis on which three key strategies that consistently shape Glissant's political practice are identified and mapped. They revolve around Glissant's engagement with history (chapter 2), his commitment to fostering an imagination of the Tout-Monde (whole-world) as a political point of reference (chapter 3), and the continuous exploration of alternative forms of community on the levels of the island, the archipelago and the Tout-Monde (chapter 4). Together these strategies constitute Glissant's personal politics of relation. Its abstract characteristics can be put in a productive conversation with related theoretical traditions invested in exploring the political potentials of fugitivity (chapters 5), as well as with the work of other postcolonial actors whose holistic practice warrants to be described as a politics of relation (chapter 6).}, language = {en} } @misc{BalaKerrigan2021, author = {Bala, Sruti and Kerrigan, Dylan}, title = {Embodied Practices - Looking from Small Places}, series = {Minor Constellations in Conversation Lecture Series}, journal = {Minor Constellations in Conversation Lecture Series}, editor = {Heide, Johanna}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-50899}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-508999}, year = {2021}, abstract = {"Embodied Practices - Looking From Small Places" is an edited transcript of a conversation between theatre and performance scholar Sruti Bala (University of Amsterdam) and sociologist, criminologist and anthropologist Dylan Kerrigan (University of Leicester) that took place as an online event in November 2020. Throughout their talk, Bala and Kerrigan engage with the legacy of Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot. Specifically, they focus on his approach of looking from small units, such as small villages in Dominica, outwards to larger political structures such as global capitalism, social inequalities and the distribution of power. They also share insights from their own research on embodied practices in the Caribbean, Europe and India and answer questions such as: What can research on and through embodied practices tell us about systems of power and domination that move between the local and the global? How can performance practices which are informed by multiple locations and cultures be read and appreciated adequately? Sharing insights from his research into Guyanese prisons, Kerrigan outlines how he aims to connect everyday experiences and struggles of Caribbean people to trans-historical and transnational processes such as racial capitalism and post/coloniality. Furthermore, he elaborates on how he uses performance practices such as spoken word poetry and data verbalisation to connect with systematically excluded groups. Bala challenges na{\"i}ve notions about the inherent transformative potential of performance in her research on performance and translation. She points to the way in which performance and its reception is always already inscribed in what she calls global or planetary asymmetries. At the conclusion of this conversation, they broach the question: are small places truly as small as they seem?}, language = {en} } @misc{Kuettner2014, author = {K{\"u}ttner, Uwe-Alexander}, title = {Rhythmic analyses as a proof-procedure?}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, number = {172}, issn = {1866-8380}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-44536}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-445363}, pages = {26}, year = {2014}, abstract = {This paper reports a problematic case of unequivocally evidencing participant orientation to the projective force of some turn-initial demonstrative wh-clefts (DCs) within the framework of Conversation Analysis (CA) and Interactional Linguistics (IL). Conducting rhythmic analyses appears helpful in this regard, in that they disclose rhythmic regularities which suggest a speaker's orientation towards a projected turn continuation. In this particular case, rhythmic analyses can therefore be shown to meaningfully complement sequential analyses and analyses of turn-design, so as to gather additional evidence for participant orientations. In conclusion, I will point to possibly more extensive relations between rhythmicity and projection and proffer a tentative outlook for the usability of rhythmic analyses as an analytic tool in CA and IL.}, language = {en} } @misc{EcksteinSchwarz2019, author = {Eckstein, Lars and Schwarz, Anja}, title = {La carte de Tupaia, ma{\^i}tre d'astres et de navigation polyn{\´e}sienne}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, number = {170}, issn = {1866-8380}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-44538}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-445381}, pages = {156}, year = {2019}, abstract = {La carte de Tupaia constitue l'un des art{\´e}facts les plus c{\´e}l{\`e}bres et les plus {\´e}nigmatiques {\`a} {\´e}merger des toutes premi{\`e}res rencontres entre Europ{\´e}ens et {\^i}liens du Pacifique. Elle a {\´e}t{\´e} {\´e}labor{\´e}e entre ao{\^u}t 1769 et f{\´e}vrier 1770 par Tupaia, pr{\^e}tre 'arioi, conseiller royal et ma{\^i}tre de navigation originaire de Ra'iātea, aux {\^I}les Sous-le-Vent de la Soci{\´e}t{\´e}. En collaboration avec divers membres d'{\´e}quipage de l'Endeavour de James Cook, en deux temps distincts de cartographie et trois {\´e}bauches. L'identit{\´e} de bien des {\^i}les qui y figurent et la logique de leur agencement demeuraient jusqu'{\`a} pr{\´e}sent des {\´e}nigmes. En se fiant en partie {\`a} des pi{\`e}ces d'archives rest{\´e}es ignor{\´e}es, nous proposons, dans ce long essai, une nouvelle compr{\´e}hension de sa logique cartographique, une reconstitution d{\´e}taill{\´e}e de sa gen{\`e}se et donc, pour la toute premi{\`e}re fois, une lecture exhaustive. La carte de Tupaia n'illustre pas seulement la magnitude et la ma{\^i}trise de la navigation polyn{\´e}sienne, elle r{\´e}alise aussi une remarquable synth{\`e}se repr{\´e}sentationnelle de deux syst{\`e}mes d'orientation tr{\`e}s diff{\´e}rents.}, language = {fr} } @article{Pohl2020, author = {Pohl, Manuela}, title = {„The game's afoot!"}, series = {DIGAREC Series}, journal = {DIGAREC Series}, number = {08}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-467-8}, issn = {1867-6219}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-43067}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-430672}, pages = {104 -- 133}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Computerspiele bieten - verstanden als Text, als popkulturelles Artefakt, als Lerngelegenheit und vieles mehr - auch f{\"u}r den Einsatz im Fremdsprachenunterricht zahlreiche M{\"o}glichkeiten, curricular vorgegebene Kompetenzen auszubilden. Nicht nur kann die Auseinandersetzung mit Computerspielen einen Beitrag zur fachintegrativen Vermittlung von Medienkompetenz leisten, sondern ebenso dazu genutzt werden, Handlungen zu simulieren, in denen Sch{\"u}lerinnen und Sch{\"u}ler fremdsprachig (inter-)agieren. Der folgende Beitrag versucht daher, exemplarisch zwei Computerspiele auf ihr Potential f{\"u}r den Einsatz im Fremdsprachenunterricht Englisch zu untersuchen. Er versteht sich als praktischer Beitrag, der Einblick in didaktisch-methodische {\"U}berlegungen bietet, welche die Auseinandersetzung mit den zwei exemplarisch ausgew{\"a}hlten Spielen, HER STORY (2015) und 1979 REVOLUTION: BLACK FRIDAY (2016), in den Blick nehmen.}, language = {de} } @unpublished{EcksteinHurley2020, author = {Eckstein, Lars and Hurley, Andrew Wright}, title = {German-Australian Colonial Entanglements}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-44449}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-444490}, pages = {30}, 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.}, language = {en} } @misc{Kuettner2019, author = {K{\"u}ttner, Uwe-Alexander}, title = {At the intersection of stance-management and repair}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, issn = {1866-8380}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-44348}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-443485}, pages = {115 -- 156}, year = {2019}, abstract = {This article offers an in-depth analysis of one particular type of meta-talk. It looks at how speakers use the meta-pragmatic claim to have previously communicated ('said' or 'meant') the same as, or the equivalent of, what their interlocutor just said. Through detailed sequential analyses, it is shown that this claim is frequently used as a practice for disarming disaffiliative responses and thus to manage (and often resolve) incipient disagreement. Besides unpacking the precise mechanisms underlying this practice, the paper also takes stock of the various (and partly variable) lexico-morpho-syntactic, prosodic and bodily-visual elements of conduct that recurrently enter into its composition. Since the practice essentially rests on the speaker's insinuation of having been misunderstood by their co-participant, its relationship to the organization of repair will also be discussed. It is argued that the practice operates precisely at the intersection of stance-management (agreement/disagreement) and repair, and that it exhibits features which reflect this intersectional character. Data are in English.}, language = {en} } @misc{Tuncer2019, type = {Master Thesis}, author = {Tuncer, Diba}, title = {Pedagogy of integrity}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-43229}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-432294}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {99}, year = {2019}, abstract = {Die Masterarbeit „Integrit{\"a}tsp{\"a}dagogik. Eine Analyse der Konzeption und der Durchf{\"u}hrung des Masterstudiengangs Anglophone Modernities in Literature and Culture" befasst sich mit kolonialen Mustern in der Hochschulbildungspraxis, arbeitet einen theoretisch-fundierten Rahmen f{\"u}r Dekolonisierung akademischer Lehr-/Lernpraxis auf den mikro- und mesodidaktischen Handlungsebenen aus und schl{\"a}gt konkrete L{\"o}sungswege und Dekolonisierungspraktiken vor, die besonders f{\"u}r Studieng{\"a}nge, deren inhaltlichen Ausrichtungen sich postkolonialen Thematiken widmet, von großer Relevanz sind. Anders als typische postkoloniale Studien, besteht die Arbeit nicht nur aus einer theoretischen Ausarbeitung, sondern auch aus einer eigenen empirischen Untersuchung (Triangulation zwischen Dokumentenanalyse und einer Umfrage). In der Arbeit wird die These vertreten und entlang der Arbeit begr{\"u}ndet, dass Bildung von kolonialen Mustern befreit werden soll, damit Partizipation f{\"u}r alle m{\"o}glich wird. Substanz f{\"u}r die Argumentation zur These liefern unterschiedliche Konzeptionen von kritischer P{\"a}dagogik, wie z.B. Ausarbeitungen von Paulo Freire und bell hooks, und deren Verschr{\"a}nkung mit Konzeptionen {\"u}ber anthropologische Modalit{\"a}ten des Lernens Erwachsener (u.a. Mezirow's transformatives Lernen; Arnold's Deutungsmusteransatz) und modernen Ausarbeitungen, die Lernen und sozialer Gerechtigkeit zu verbinden suchen (u.a. der in dem US-amerikanischen Raum verbreitete Ansatz des Social Justice Learning). Weitere Thesen der Abschlussarbeit sind, dass (1) die vorzufindenden Ungleichhalt-erhaltenden Dynamiken an westlichen Hochschulen eine Erbe der kolonialen Zeit und Denkweise darstellen, die im Bildungsbereich weiterhin wirken und im Kontext von Internationalisierung, Migration und Partizipation zur Multiplizierung von sozialer Ungleichheit f{\"u}hren; (2) dass alle, aber besonders diejenigen Studieng{\"a}nge, die sich inhaltlich mit Ungleichheitsph{\"a}nomenen, gesellschaftlicher und kultureller Vielfalt, Macht und herrschaftskritischen Thematiken sowie mit postkolonialer Kritik befassen, bem{\"u}ht sein sollten, im selbst-verantworteten Lernraum Pr{\"a}missen von Equity und Ausgleich von Machtverh{\"a}ltnissen sowie Chancengleichheit f{\"u}r Lehrende und Studierende zu verk{\"o}rpern, um glaubw{\"u}rdig zu bleiben; (3) dass Dekolonisierung vom Bildungsraum durch entsprechendes didaktisches Handeln auf den Meso- (Institution) und Mikroebenen (Lehr-/Lernarrangements) bei ausreichender Wille und Bereitschaft verantwortlicher Fachkr{\"a}fte an Hochschulen m{\"o}glich sind. Das Thema wird auch in einer empirischen Untersuchung bearbeitet. Durch Sichtung von repr{\"a}sentativen Dokumenten mithilfe der Methode ‚close reading', die der Studiengang ver{\"o}ffentlicht hat, durch die exemplarische Analyse der Konzeption einer Lehr-/Lernveranstaltung sowie anhand von einer Studierendenumfrage wird untersucht, inwiefern der Masterstudiengang „Anglophone Modernities in Literature and Culture" an der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam Anforderungen an einer dekolonisierten Hochschulbildung erf{\"u}llt bzw. Wille f{\"u}r dekoloniale Bildungsarbeit wahrnehmbar ist. Die Untersuchungsergebnisse zeugen vom Bedarf f{\"u}r st{\"a}rkere normative Positionierung vonseiten des Studiengangs, w{\"a}hrend viele Praktiken identifiziert wurden, die f{\"u}r das Bekenntnis des Studiengangs zur Partizipation, sozialer Gerechtigkeit und Diversity zeugen. Im letzten Kapitel werden die Ergebnisse der theoretischen Ausarbeitung und der empirischen Untersuchung in dem Konzept einer auf Integrit{\"a}t basierenden P{\"a}dagogik geb{\"u}ndelt und Vorschl{\"a}ge f{\"u}r die Unterrichtspraxis im Studiengang formuliert, die helfen sollen, die Diskrepanz zwischen Wille und Praxis zu {\"u}berwinden, und f{\"u}r das Anstoßen dekolonisierender Entwicklungen an anderen Lehrst{\"u}hlen auch aufschlussreich sein k{\"o}nnten. Ein zentrales Ergebnis der Masterarbeit ist die interdisziplin{\"a}re Herangehensweise im Forschungsdesign, welche postkoloniale Theorien zu Erwachsenenbildung auf der bestehenden akademischen Bildungspraxis bezieht sowie exemplarisch an einer Hochschule in der Form von Fallstudie f{\"u}r einen Studiengang konkret {\"u}berpr{\"u}ft. Des Weiteren liefert die Ausarbeitung Theorie-abgeleiteten Kriterien f{\"u}r die Analyse von Studieng{\"a}ngen in Hinblick auf koloniale Praktiken bzw. Dekolonisierung sowie einen Katalog von Schritten, die implementiert werden k{\"o}nnen, wenn sich ein Studiengang im Rahmen von internen Entwicklungsprozessen von Ungleichheitspraktiken befreien m{\"o}chte. In der theoretischen Ausarbeitung wird der bestehende Begriff der traditionellen bzw. nicht-traditionellen Studierenden weiterentwickelt, so dass dadurch {\"U}berlegungen {\"u}ber Differenzlinien und Diversit{\"a}t von Studierenden differenzierter aufgestellt werden k{\"o}nnen, als wenn dabei lediglich Race, Class, Gender-Kriterien in Betracht gezogen w{\"u}rden. Dar{\"u}ber hinaus wird in der Arbeit der Begriff der Integrit{\"a}tsp{\"a}dagogik (Pedagogy of Integrity) entwickelt und begr{\"u}ndet, was einen konkreten Umgang mit Dekolonisierung der Hochschulbildungspraxis vorschl{\"a}gt und normative sowie praxis-bezogene Implikationen beinhaltet. Dadurch sucht die Abschlussarbeit, einen konkreten Beitrag zur gerechten Gestaltung vom Lehr-/Lernraum im deutschen Hochschulbereich zu leisten, welcher sich unabh{\"a}ngig von sozio-{\"o}konomischer, sozial-kultureller, religi{\"o}ser Herkunft sowie unabh{\"a}ngig von Nationalit{\"a}t, Hautfarbe, Geschlecht, sexueller Orientierung und Alter der Menschen an der Hochschule f{\"o}rderlich auswirkt und allen Lehrenden und Studierenden in gleicher Weise erm{\"o}glicht, sich akademisch zu entwickeln und den wissenschaftlichen Diskurs in ihren jeweiligen Disziplinen durch tats{\"a}chliche, gelebte Partizipation, mitzugestalten.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{anHaack2018, author = {an Haack, Jan}, title = {Market and affect in evangelical mission}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-42469}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-424694}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {viii, 240}, year = {2018}, abstract = {This text is a contribution to the research on the worldwide success of evangelical Christianity and offers a new perspective on the relationship between late modern capitalism and evangelicalism. For this purpose, the utilization of affect and emotion in evangelicalism towards the mobilization of its members will be examined in order to find out what similarities to their employment in late modern capitalism can be found. Different examples from within the evangelical spectrum will be analyzed as affective economies in order to elaborate how affective mobilization is crucial for evangelicalism's worldwide success. Pivotal point of this text is the exploration of how evangelicalism is able to activate the voluntary commitment of its members, financiers, and missionaries. Gathered here are examples where both spheres—evangelicalism and late modern capitalism—overlap and reciprocate, followed by a theoretical exploration of how the findings presented support a view of evangelicalism as an inner-worldly narcissism that contributes to an assumed re-enchantment of the world.}, language = {en} } @misc{EcksteinSchwarz2018, author = {Eckstein, Lars and Schwarz, Anja}, title = {The Making of Tupaia's Map}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam Philosophische Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam Philosophische Reihe}, number = {154}, issn = {1866-8380}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-42309}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-423091}, pages = {96}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Tupaia's Map is one of the most famous and enigmatic artefacts to emerge from the early encounters between Europeans and Pacific Islanders. It was drawn by Tupaia, an arioi priest, chiefly advisor and master navigator from Ra'iātea in the Leeward Society Islands in collaboration with various members of the crew of James Cook's Endeavour, in two distinct moments of mapmaking and three draft stages between August 1769 and February 1770. To this day, the identity of many islands on the chart, and the logic of their arrangement have posed a riddle to researchers. Drawing in part on archival material hitherto overlooked, in this long essay we propose a new understanding of the chart's cartographic logic, offer a detailed reconstruction of its genesis, and thus for the first time present a comprehensive reading of Tupaia's Map. The chart not only underscores the extent and mastery of Polynesian navigation, it is also a remarkable feat of translation between two very different wayfinding systems and their respective representational models.}, language = {en} } @misc{Thomae2017, type = {Master Thesis}, author = {Thom{\"a}, Jonas}, title = {Swearing in a public place}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-409521}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {81}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Die vorliegende Arbeit behandelt das Vorkommen von Schimpfw{\"o}rtern auf der online Plattform "Reddit". Die drei zugrundeliegenden Forschungsfragen sind: Wie oft werden Schimpfw{\"o}rter benutzt? Wie werden diese von den Lesern aufgenommen? Beeinflusst das Thema einer Konversation die Reaktion der Leser und die allgemeine H{\"a}ufigkeit der Nutzung? Die zugrundeliegenden Daten beinhalten fast 900 Millionen W{\"o}rter und stammen aus dem Februar 2017. Sie sind damit h{\"o}chstaktuell und repr{\"a}sentativ. Im Vergleich zu anderen Untersuchungen ist das Korpus damit wesentlich gr{\"o}ßer. Zus{\"a}tzlich werden im theoretischen Teil die linguistischen Grundlagen zu Schimpfw{\"o}rtern er{\"o}rtert. Dazu geh{\"o}ren u.a. Konzepte wie die H{\"o}flichkeitstheorie, das Thema Tabu und die dazugeh{\"o}renden Worte und Zensur. Dies wird getan um die Faktoren, die die Benutzung und Verwendung von Schimpfw{\"o}rtern beeinflussen darzulegen. Dabei wird herausgestellt, was Schimpfw{\"o}rter so besonders im Vergleich zu anderen Wortgruppen macht. Zudem werden weitere Forschungsergebnisse, die aus anderen Korpora stammen dargelegt und hinterher mit den Resultaten verglichen. Dies beinhaltet Korpora die sich ebenfalls aus Onlinekommunikationen zusammensetzen, sowie Korpora die gesprochene Sprache wiedergeben. Die Ergebnisse aus allen dargestellten Korpora behandeln Ergebnisse aus der englischen Sprache. Die Ergebnisse dieser Studie weisen daraufhin, dass die Schimpfw{\"o}rter auf Reddit ungef{\"a}hr gleichh{\"a}ufig wie auf anderen Plattformen benutzt werden. Die Reaktionen auf diese Schimpfw{\"o}rter ist {\"u}berdurchschnittlich positiv, was darauf schließen l{\"a}sst, dass die Benutzung von Schimpfw{\"o}rtern auf Reddit nicht als unh{\"o}flich aufgefasst wird. Zudem konnte ein Einfluss des Diskussionsthemas auf die H{\"a}ufigkeit und Rezeption von Schimpfw{\"o}rtern festgestellt werden.}, language = {en} } @misc{Fischer2016, type = {Master Thesis}, author = {Fischer, Friederike}, title = {SLA research and course books for EFL}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-395163}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {63}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Die vorliegende Arbeit besch{\"a}ftigt sich mit der Grammatikvermittlung im Englischunterricht. Im Rahmen dessen wird ein Schulbuch (English G 21 A2) daraufhin untersucht ob es kompatibel mit aktuellen Theorien zum Zweitspracherwerb ist. Zu Beginn der Arbeit werden historische und aktuelle Auffassungen zur Grammatikvermittlung zusammengefasst und im Anschluss der aktuelle Rahmenlehrplan auf seine Aussagen hinsichtlich der zu vermittelnden Grammatik im Fremdsprachenunterricht untersucht. Hierbei wird deutlich dass der Rahmenlehrplan des Landes Brandenburg wenige Vorgaben bez{\"u}glich der grammatischen Ph{\"a}nomene, die behandelt werden sollen, gibt. Dies erkl{\"a}rt unter anderem den hohen Stellenwert, den Lehrb{\"u}cher im Fremdsprachenunterricht haben. Sie dienen den Lehrenden als Materialquelle und gleichzeitig als Richtlinie daf{\"u}r, welche Themen wie und in welcher Reihenfolge unterrichtet werden k{\"o}nnen. Es folgt eine {\"U}bersicht {\"u}ber kognitive Theorien des Zweitspracherwerbs und des Sprachunterrichts, u.a. Krashens Monitorhypothese, R. Ellis' Weak Interface Modell oder Pienemanns Processability Theory. Auf der Basis dieser Theorien werden Kriterien f{\"u}r die Gestaltung von Schulb{\"u}chern, die einen m{\"o}glichst aktuellen Erkenntnissen folgenden Grammatikunterricht unterst{\"u}tzen herausgearbeitet. Dazu geh{\"o}ren das Anbieten von viel zielsprachlichem Input, Bereitstellung von {\"U}bungen (practice) und bewusstmachenden Aktivit{\"a}ten (consciousness-raising activities), das Beachten der Erwerbssequenz und das Bereitstellen eines diagnostischen Instruments sodass die Sch{\"u}lerinnen und Sch{\"u}ler herausfinden k{\"o}nnen, wo sie im Fremdsprachenerwerb stehen und woran sie noch arbeiten m{\"u}ssen. Auch das Anbieten vieler Gelegenheiten zur (individuellen) Wiederholung wird als sehr wichtig herausgestellt. All diese Vorgaben stehen nat{\"u}rlich unter dem Vorbehalt dass Schulb{\"u}cher den Unterricht nur in begrenztem Maße beeinflussen k{\"o}nnen und die endg{\"u}ltigen Entscheidungen von den Lehrenden in der Situation getroffen werden. F{\"u}r den Analyseteil wird eine kommunikative Absicht, die in der Regel im Englischunterricht der Sekundarstufe 1 behandelt wird, herausgegriffen. Es handelt sich dabei um die F{\"a}higkeit, {\"u}ber die Zukunft zu sprechen. Dazu werden zun{\"a}chst die M{\"o}glichkeiten im Englischen {\"u}ber die Zukunft zu sprechen beschrieben und in der didaktischen Analyse f{\"u}r die Vermittlung im Unterricht reduziert. Nach einer Beschreibung des betrachteten Schulbuchs und der Behandlung dieses Themas in diesem Buch wird dies mit den ausgearbeiteten Kriterien verglichen. Hierbei stellt sich heraus, dass das Buch in vielen Punkten durchaus mit aktuellen Zweitspracherwerbstheorien kompatibel ist (z.B. bez{\"u}glich des Einarbeitens von Erkl{\"a}rungen zu grammatikalischen Strukturen) in anderen jedoch noch Raum f{\"u}r Verbesserungen besteht (z.B. bez{\"u}glich der F{\"u}lle des Inputs und der Anzahl an bewusstmachenden Aktivit{\"a}ten).}, language = {en} } @misc{Wiemann2014, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {George, Rosemary Marangoly, Indian English and the Fiction of National Literature / [reviewed by] Dirk Wiemann}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, number = {135}, issn = {1866-8380}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-398664}, pages = {4}, year = {2014}, abstract = {Rezensiertes Werk: George, Rosemary Marangoly, Indian English and the Fiction of National Literature - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. - Hb. viii, 285 pp. - (Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Anglistik und Amerikanistik ; 62(4)) ISBN 978-1-107-04000-7.}, language = {en} } @misc{Reimer2017, author = {Reimer, Anna Maria}, title = {Pink, Katharina, Identitas Oriens: Discursive Constructions of Identity and Alterity in British Orient Travelogues / [reviewed by] Anna Maria Reimer}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, number = {126}, issn = {1866-8380}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-397856}, pages = {3}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Rezensiertes Werk Pink, Katharina, Identitas Oriens: Diskursive Konstruktionen von Identit{\"a}t und Alterit{\"a}t in britischer Orient-Reiseliteratur - W{\"u}rzburg, Ergon Verlag, 2014 337 S. - (Literatur - Kultur - Theorie, 19)}, language = {en} } @misc{Roeder2016, author = {R{\"o}der, Katrin}, title = {Engaging with T.S. Eliot: Four Quartets as a Multimedia Performance}, series = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Anglistik und Amerikanistik}, journal = {Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Anglistik und Amerikanistik}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-397808}, pages = {20}, year = {2016}, abstract = {This article explores a recent performance of excerpts from T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets (1935/36-1942) entitled Engaging Eliot: Four Quartets in Word, Color, and Sound as an example of live poetry. In this context, Eliot's poem can be analysed as an auditory artefact that interacts strongly with other oral performances (welcome addresses and artists' conversations), as well as with the musical performance of Christopher Theofanidis's quintet "At the Still Point" at the end of the opening of Engaging Eliot. The event served as an introduction to a 13-day art exhibition and engaged in a re-evaluation of Eliot's poem after 9/11: while its first part emphasises the connection between Eliot's poem and Christian doctrine, its second part - especially the combination of poetry reading and musical performance - highlights the philosophical and spiritual dimensions of Four Quartets.}, language = {en} } @misc{Adair2017, author = {Adair, Gigi}, title = {The "Feringhi Hakīm": medical encounters and colonial ambivalence in Isabella Bird's travels in Japan and Persia}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, number = {120}, issn = {1866-8380}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-395316}, pages = {13}, year = {2017}, abstract = {This article considers Isabella Bird's representation of medicine in Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1880) and Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan (1891), the two books in which she engages most extensively with both local (Chinese/Islamic) and Western medical science and practice. I explore how Bird uses medicine to assert her narrative authority and define her travelling persona in opposition to local medical practitioners. I argue that her ambivalence and the unease she frequently expresses concerning medical practice (expressed particularly in her later adoption of the Persian appellation "Feringhi Hakīm" [European physician] to describe her work) serves as a means for her to negotiate the colonial and gendered pressures on Victorian medicine. While in Japan this attitude works to destabilise her hierarchical understanding of science and results in some acknowledgement of traditional Japanese traditions, in Persia it functions more to disguise her increasing collusion with overt British colonial ambitions.}, language = {en} } @unpublished{EcksteinReindfandt2016, author = {Eckstein, Lars and Reindfandt, Christoph}, title = {Luhmann in da Contact Zone}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-103298}, pages = {15}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Our aim in this contribution is to productively engage with the abstractions and complexities of Luhmann's conceptions of society from a postcolonial perspective, with a particular focus on the explanatory powers of his sociological systems theory when it leaves the realms of Europe and ventures to describe regions of the global South. In view of its more recent global reception beyond Europe, our aim is to thus - following the lead of Dipesh Chakrabarty - provincialize Luhmann's system theory especially with regard to its underlying assumptions about a global "world society". For these purposes, we intend to revisit Luhmann in the post/colonial contact zone: We wish to reread Luhmann in the context of spaces of transcultural encounter where "global designs and local histories" (Mignolo), where inclusion into and exclusion from "world society" (Luhmann) clash and interact in intricate ways. The title of our contribution, 'Luhmann in da Contact Zone' is deliberately ambiguous: On the one hand, we of course use 'Luhmann' metonymically, as representative of a highly complex theoretical design. We shall cursorily outline this design with a special focus on the notion of a singular, modern "world society", only to confront it with the epistemic challenges of the contact zone. On the other hand, this critique will also involve the close observation of Niklas Luhman as a human observer (a category which within the logic of systems theory actually does not exist) who increasingly transpires in his late writings on exclusion in the global South. By following this dual strategy, we wish to trace an increasing fracture between one Luhmann and the other, between abstract theoretical design and personalized testimony. It is by exploring and measuring this fracture that we hope to eventually be able to map out the potential of a possibly more productive encounter between systems theory and specific strands of postcolonial theory for a pluritopic reading of global modernity.}, language = {en} } @unpublished{Eckstein2017, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners (1956)}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-103285}, pages = {21}, year = {2017}, abstract = {This essay reads Sam Selvon's novel The Lonely Londoners (1956) as a milestone in the decolonisation of British fiction. After an introduction to Selvon and the core composition of the novel, it discusses the ways in which the narrative takes on issues of race and racism, how it in the tradition of the Trinidadian carnival confronts audiences with sexual profanation and black masculine swagger, and not least how the novel, especially through its elaborate use of creole Englishes, reimagines London as a West Indian metropolis. The essay then turns more systematically to the ways in which Selvon translates Western literary models and their isolated subject positions into collective modes of narrative performance taken from Caribbean orature and the calypsonian tradition. The Lonely Londoners breathes entirely new life into the ossified conventions of the English novel, and imbues it with unforeseen aesthetic, ethical, political and epistemological possibilities.}, language = {en} } @unpublished{Eckstein2016, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Recollecting Bones}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-103278}, pages = {20}, year = {2016}, abstract = {In the same "guarded, roundabout and reticent way" which Lindsay Barrett invokes for Australian conversations about imperial injustice, Germans, too, must begin to more systematically explore, in Paul Gilroy's words, "the connections and the differences between anti-semitism and anti-black and other racisms and asses[s] the issues that arise when it can no longer be denied that they interacted over a long time in what might be seen as Fascism's intellectual, ethical and scientific pre-history" (Gilroy 1996: 26). In the meantime, we need to care for the dead. We need to return them, first, from the status of scientific objects to the status of ancestral human beings, and then progressively, and proactively, as close as possible to the care of those communities from whom they were stolen.}, language = {en} } @unpublished{EcksteinWiemann2016, author = {Eckstein, Lars and Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Kleine Kosmopolitismen}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-103261}, pages = {7}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Das große Projekt der Aufkl{\"a}rung und damit auch der kosmopolitischen Idee war bereits in seinen Urspr{\"u}ngen ambivalenter als gemeinhin anerkannt wird. Denn sein normatives Menschenbild war (und bleibt) implizit m{\"a}nnlich, b{\"u}rgerlich und nicht zuletzt weiß.}, language = {de} } @unpublished{EcksteinWiemannWalleretal.2016, author = {Eckstein, Lars and Wiemann, Dirk and Waller, Nicole and Bartels, Anke}, title = {Postcolonial Justice}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-103220}, pages = {20}, year = {2016}, abstract = {In July 2014, some of us participated in a handover ceremony of 14 ancestral remains to their Australian traditional owners, performed on the premises of the Charit{\´e} Campus in Berlin.}, language = {en} } @unpublished{Eckstein2016, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Postcolonial Piracy}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-103307}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Media piracy is a contested term in the academic as much as the public debate. It is used by the corporate industries as a synonym for the theft of protected media content with disastrous economic consequences. It is celebrated by technophile elites as an expression of freedom that ensures creativity as much as free market competition. Marxist critics and activists promote flapiracy as a subversive practice that undermines the capitalist world system and its structural injustices. Artists and entrepreneurs across the globe curse it as a threat to their existence, while many use pirate infrastructures and networks fundamentally for the production and dissemination of their art. For large sections of the population across the global South, piracy is simply the only means of accessing the medial flows of a progressively globalising planet.}, language = {en} } @unpublished{Eckstein2016, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Reflections of Lus{\´a}ni Ciss{\´e}}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-103196}, pages = {17}, year = {2016}, abstract = {On the last sunny October weekend in 2015 I decided to cycle from my home in Berlin to the small town of W{\"u}nsdorf some 40 kilometres south of the city.}, language = {en} } @misc{Eckstein2016, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Sound matters}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, number = {119}, issn = {1866-8380}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-98393}, pages = {13}, year = {2016}, abstract = {This essay proposes a reorientation in postcolonial studies that takes account of the transcultural realities of the viral twenty-first century. This reorientation entails close attention to actual performances, their specific medial embeddedness, and their entanglement in concrete formal or informal material conditions. It suggests that rather than a focus on print and writing favoured by theories in the wake of the linguistic turn, performed lyrics and sounds may be better suited to guide the conceptual work. Accordingly, the essay chooses a classic of early twentieth-century digital music - M.I.A.'s 2003/2005 single "Galang" - as its guiding example. It ultimately leads up to a reflection on what Ravi Sundaram coined as "pirate modernity," which challenges us to rethink notions of artistic authorship and authority, hegemony and subversion, culture and theory in the postcolonial world of today.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Reimer2015, author = {Reimer, Anna Maria}, title = {The poetics of the real and aesthetics of the reel}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-95660}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {298}, year = {2015}, abstract = {The dissertation proposes that the spread of photography and popular cinema in 19th- and 20th-century-India have shaped an aesthetic and affective code integral to the reading and interpretation of Indian English novels, particularly when they address photography and/or cinema film, as in the case of the four corpus texts. In analyzing the nexus between 'real' and 'reel', the dissertation shows how the texts address the reader as media consumer and virtual image projector. Furthermore, the study discusses the Indian English novel against the backdrop of the cultural and medial transformations of the 20th century to elaborate how these influenced the novel's aesthetics. Drawing upon reception aesthetics, the author devises the concept of the 'implied spectator' to analyze the aesthetic impact of the novels' images as visual textures. No God in Sight (2005) by Altaf Tyrewala comprises of a string of 41 interior monologues, loosely connected through their narrators' random encounters in Mumbai in the year 2000. Although marked by continuous perspective shifts, the text creates a sensation of acute immediacy. Here, the reader is addressed as implied spectator and is sutured into the narrated world like a film spectator ― an effect created through the use of continuity editing as a narrative technique. Similarly, Ruchir Joshi's The Last Jet Engine Laugh (2002) coll(oc)ates disparate narrative perspectives and explores photography as an artistic practice, historiographic recorder and epistemological tool. The narrative appears guided by the random viewing of old photographs by the protagonist and primary narrator, the photographer Paresh Bhatt. However, it is the photographic negative and the practice of superimposition that render this string of episodes and different perspectives narratively consequential and cosmologically meaningful. Photography thus marks the perfect symbiosis of autobiography and historiography. Tabish Khair's Filming. A Love Story (2007) immerses readers in the cine-aesthetic of 1930s and 40s Bombay film, the era in which the embedded plot is set. Plotline, central scenes and characters evoke the key films of Indian cinema history such as Satyajit Ray's "Pather Panchali" or Raj Kapoor's "Awara". Ultimately, the text written as film dissolves the boundary between fiction and (narrated) reality, reel and real, thereby showing that the images of individual memory are inextricably intertwined with and shaped by collective memory. Ultimately, the reconstruction of the past as and through film(s) conquers trauma and endows the Partition of India as a historic experience of brutal contingency with meaning. The Bioscope Man (Indrajit Hazra, 2008) is a picaresque narrative set in Calcutta - India's cultural capital and birthplace of Indian cinema at the beginning of the 20th century. The autodiegetic narrator Abani Chatterjee relates his rise and fall as silent film star, alternating between the modes of tell and show. He is both autodiegetic narrator and spectator or perceiving consciousness, seeing himself in his manifold screen roles. Beyond his film roles however, the narrator remains a void. The marked psychoanalytical symbolism of the text is accentuated by repeated invocations of dark caves and the laterna magica. Here too, 'reel life' mirrors and foreshadows real life as Indian and Bengali history again interlace with private history. Abani Chatterjee thus emerges as a quintessentially modern man of no qualities who assumes definitive shape only in the lost reels of the films he starred in. The final chapter argues that the static images and visual frames forwarded in the texts observe an integral psychological function: Premised upon linear perspective they imply a singular, static subjectivity appealing to the postmodern subject. In the corpus texts, the rise of digital technology in the 1990s thus appears not so much to have displaced older image repertories, practices and media techniques, than it has lent them greater visibility and appeal. Moreover, bricolage and pastiche emerge as cultural techniques which marked modernity from its inception. What the novels thus perpetuate is a media archeology not entirely servant to the poetics of the real. The permeable subject and the notion of the gaze as an active exchange as encapsulated in the concept of darshan - ideas informing all four texts - bespeak the resilience of a mythical universe continually re-instantiated in new technologies and uses. Eventually, the novels convey a sense of subalternity to a substantially Hindu nationalist history and historiography, the centrifugal force of which developed in the twentieth century and continues into the present.}, language = {en} } @misc{Roeder2014, author = {R{\"o}der, Katrin}, title = {Reparative Reading, Post-structuralist Hermeneutics and T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, number = {115}, issn = {1866-8380}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-94204}, pages = {58 -- 77}, year = {2014}, abstract = {This essay approaches T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets (1935-1942) from the perspectives of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's critical practice of reparative reading and of Paul Ricoeur's poststructuralist hermeneutics. It demonstrates that Sedgwick's and Ricoeur's approaches can be productively combined to investigate hermeneutic processes in which the textual energy of a dissemination of meaning is redirected by a reparative or integrative impulse. In Four Quartets, this impetus induces the creation of semantic innovation through a violation of semantic pertinence, that is, through novel, tensional and provisional connections between formerly separate textual elements and semantic units.}, language = {en} } @misc{Kranich2013, author = {Kranich, Svenja}, title = {Functional layering and the English progressive}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, number = {110}, issn = {1866-8380}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-93961}, pages = {32}, year = {2013}, abstract = {In this article, it will be argued that the concept of functional layering - an extension of Hopper's (1991) concept of layering - can be fruitfully applied to understand the mechanisms behind the sometimes large and messy looking synchronic picture of diverse meanings which one and the same construction can fulfill at a particular point in time. The concept will be used to account for the meaning spectrum of the present-day English progressive, which, it will be argued, no monosemic approach to date can account for. Taking a look at the diachrony of the construction will help to reveal that the various "exceptions" found in the use of the progressive can be understood as reflections of different stages in its development. Older, less grammaticalized or less well-defined usage patterns thus often survive in certain restricted niches next to the newer, more grammaticalized or more clear-cut functions, representing different diachronic layers. In addition to this diachronic motivation for synchronic meaning variety, the article will also address the crucial question of how a present-day hearer of a progressive form is able to decode the specific meaning intended by the speaker based on contextual clues. The article ends with some suggestions for further applications of the concept of functional layering.}, language = {en} } @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} } @misc{Priewe2011, author = {Priewe, Marc}, title = {Walter W. Woodward, Prospero´s America: John Winthrop, Jr., Alchemy, and the Creation of New England Culture, 1606-1676 / [rezensiert von] Marc Priewe}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-93713}, pages = {199 -- 200}, year = {2011}, abstract = {Rezensiertes Werk: Walter W. Woodward: Prospero's America: John Winthrop, Jr., Alchemy, and the Creation of New England Culture, 1606-1676. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Hb. 336pp. ISBN 978-0-8078-3301-8.}, 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} } @unpublished{Eckstein2006, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Performing jazz, defying essence}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-85574}, pages = {15}, year = {2006}, language = {en} } @unpublished{Eckstein2007, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Three ways of looking at illegal immigration}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-85567}, pages = {141 -- 157}, year = {2007}, language = {en} } @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} } @unpublished{Eckstein2009, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Transatlantic slavery and the literary imagination}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-85548}, pages = {9}, year = {2009}, language = {en} } @unpublished{Eckstein2010, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Think local sell global}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-85537}, pages = {12}, year = {2010}, language = {en} } @unpublished{Eckstein2012, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {'We're destroyed if we mix. And we're destroyed if we don't'}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-85529}, pages = {11}, year = {2012}, language = {en} } @unpublished{Eckstein2013, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Politics of passion and the production of human illegality}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-85512}, pages = {20}, year = {2013}, language = {en} } @unpublished{Eckstein2013, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Monk Lewis's Timour the Tartar, grand romantic orientalism and imperial melancholy}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-85503}, pages = {23}, year = {2013}, language = {en} } @unpublished{Eckstein2013, author = {Eckstein, Lars}, title = {Filming illegals}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-85491}, pages = {13}, year = {2013}, language = {en} }