@phdthesis{Offizier2024, author = {Offizier, Frederike}, title = {The biosecurity individual}, series = {American Culture Studies}, volume = {43}, journal = {American Culture Studies}, publisher = {Transcript}, address = {Bielefeld}, isbn = {978-3-8376-7145-2}, issn = {2747-4380}, doi = {10.14361/9783839471456}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023121004164930640876}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {294}, year = {2024}, abstract = {Discoveries in biomedicine and biotechnology, especially in diagnostics, have made prevention and (self)surveillance increasingly important in the context of health practices. Frederike Offizier offers a cultural critique of the intersection between health, security and identity, and explores how the focus on risk and security changes our understanding of health and transforms our relationship to our bodies. Analyzing a wide variety of texts, from life writing to fiction, she offers a critical intervention on how this shift in the medical gaze produces new paradigms of difference and new biomedically facilitated identities: biosecurity individuals.}, 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{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} } @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{NiehusKettler2023, author = {Niehus-Kettler, Melinda}, title = {Naturalising perceived otherness}, series = {Geschlechter in Un-Ordnung: Zur Irritation von Zweigeschlechtlichkeit im Wissenschaftsdiskurs}, journal = {Geschlechter in Un-Ordnung: Zur Irritation von Zweigeschlechtlichkeit im Wissenschaftsdiskurs}, publisher = {Verlag Barbara Budrich}, address = {Opladen, Berlin, Toronto}, isbn = {978-3-8474-2679-0}, doi = {10.2307/jj.4163724.7}, pages = {57 -- 74}, 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} } @phdthesis{Nikolova2023, author = {Nikolova, Mariya Dimitrova}, title = {How whiteness claimed the future}, series = {American Frictions}, volume = {7}, journal = {American Frictions}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-11-079999-6}, doi = {10.1515/9783110799996}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {178}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Interested in the ideological workings of fiction, I study how major avant-garde tropes promote the potential of permanent renewal as white America's property. Renewal ties to the capacities to create, progress, transcend, and simply be. From Black critique we know that, within dominant discourse, all these capacities have been denied to Black bodies ever since colonization. Black work has been fetishized, appropriated, stolen, and dismissed in and by dominant culture, while Black being is construed as negativity and barred on the level of ontology. It follows then that racialization operates on multiple levels in the conceptual frame of renewal. I study this conceptualization by re-reading the works of and criticism on progressive white authors. I examine how images of renewal enable the claim on futurity, transformative potential, and movement forward as exclusively white properties. Premised on oppositions between positive capacities and a state of complete incapacitation, these images are often viewed as separate constructions. This project shows that, deriving from white ideology, such representations are symbiotic and simultaneous - the "good" story of white renewal rests on the continual transgression towards Black being.}, 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} } @article{HeidtFreitagHild2023, author = {Heidt, Irene and Freitag-Hild, Britta}, title = {Critical global citizenship education in the EFL classroom}, series = {Rethinking Cultural Learning: Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Language Education}, journal = {Rethinking Cultural Learning: Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Language Education}, editor = {R{\"o}mhild, Ricardo and Marxl, Anika and Matz, Frauke and Siepmann, Philipp}, publisher = {Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier}, address = {Trier}, isbn = {978-3-98940-005-4}, pages = {99 -- 114}, year = {2023}, abstract = {The objective of the present paper is to explore the potentials and challenges inherent in con- ceptualizations of global citizenship education (GCE) in the context of foreign language edu- cation. Specifically, we argue for a critical approach to GCE that emphasizes the significance of language as symbolic power by drawing on the concepts of critical literacy (e.g., Freire 1983; Janks 2014) and symbolic competence (Kramsch 2006; 2011; 2021). To illustrate the necessity of such a critical approach to GCE, we critically analyze teaching materials designed for the English language classroom as provided by the curriculum framework (KMK/ BMZ 2016). The analysis reveals how reliance on dominant Western liberal and neoliberal epistemologies, norms, and discourses might inadvertently reinforce the very inequalities that GCE actually seeks to address. By foregrounding the relationship between language, symbolic power, and GCE, we further redesign these teaching materials and incorporate pedagogical and methodological principles which are in line with a critical literacy and symbolic competence.}, language = {en} } @article{Heidt2023, author = {Heidt, Irene}, title = {When moral authority speaks}, series = {Authenticity across languages and cultures - Themes of identity in foreign language teaching and learning}, journal = {Authenticity across languages and cultures - Themes of identity in foreign language teaching and learning}, editor = {Will, Leo and Stadler, Wolfgang and Eloff, Irma}, publisher = {Multilingual Matters}, address = {Bristol}, isbn = {978-1-80041-105-0}, doi = {10.21832/9781800411050-014}, pages = {165 -- 180}, year = {2023}, 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} } @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} } @phdthesis{Gasser2022, author = {Gasser, Lucy}, title = {East and South}, series = {Transdisciplinary souths}, journal = {Transdisciplinary souths}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {London}, isbn = {978-0-367-72225-8}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {vi, 186}, year = {2022}, abstract = {"What is 'Europe' in academic discourse? While Europe tends to be used as shorthand, often interchangeable with the 'West', neither the 'West' nor 'Europe' are homogeneous spaces. Though postcolonial studies have long been debunking Eurocentrism in its multiple guises, there is still work to do in fully comprehending how its imaginations and discursive legacies conceive the figure of Europe, as not all who live on European soil are understood as equally 'European'. This volume explores this immediate need to rethink the axis of postcolonial cultural productions, to disarticulate Eurocentrism, to recognise Europe as a more diverse, plural and fluid space, to draw forward cultural exchanges and dialogues within the Global South. Through analyses of literary texts from East-Central Europe and beyond, this volume sheds light on alternative literary cartographies - the multiplicity of Europes and being European which exist both as they are viewed from the different geographies of the global South, and within the continent itself. Covering a wide spatial and temporal terrain in postcolonial and European cultural productions, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature and literary criticism, cultural studies, post-colonial studies, Global South studies and European studies"}, language = {en} } @article{GrumZydatiss2022, author = {Grum, Urška and Zydatiß, Wolfgang}, title = {Statistische Verfahren - Einleitung}, series = {Forschungsmethoden in der Fremdsprachendidaktik : Ein Handbuch}, journal = {Forschungsmethoden in der Fremdsprachendidaktik : Ein Handbuch}, edition = {2., vollst{\"a}ndig {\"u}berarbeitete und erweiterte Aufl.}, publisher = {Narr Francke Attempto}, address = {T{\"u}bingen}, isbn = {978-3-8233-8432-8}, pages = {343 -- 348}, year = {2022}, language = {de} } @article{GrumLegutke2022, author = {Grum, Urska and Legutke, Michael K.}, title = {Sampling}, series = {Forschungsmethoden in der Fremdsprachendidaktik : Ein Handbuch}, journal = {Forschungsmethoden in der Fremdsprachendidaktik : Ein Handbuch}, edition = {2., vollst{\"a}ndig {\"u}berarbeitete und erweiterte Aufl.}, publisher = {Narr Francke Attempto}, address = {T{\"u}bingen}, isbn = {978-3-8233-8432-8}, pages = {85 -- 96}, year = {2022}, language = {de} } @article{Waller2022, author = {Waller, Nicole}, title = {Marronage or underground?}, series = {MELUS : multi-ethnic literature of the U.S. / Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States}, volume = {47}, journal = {MELUS : multi-ethnic literature of the U.S. / Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States}, number = {1}, publisher = {Oxford Univ. Press}, address = {Oxford}, issn = {0163-755X}, doi = {10.1093/melus/mlac021}, pages = {45 -- 70}, year = {2022}, abstract = {I combine a reading of contemporary scholarship on US maroon histories and the Underground Railroad—and the concomitant notions of marronage and the underground—with a reading of two recent works of African American literature: Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad (2016) and Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Water Dancer (2019). Foregrounding the idea of Black geographies as a form of placemaking and "thinking otherwise" about land and water, I suggest that despite the differing, and at times contrasting, trajectories of maroon histories and the histories of Black flight to the North, African American maroon experiences and the Underground Railroad are conceptually connected in contemporary African American literature. I read the two novels as recent literary expressions of this conceptual link, which is played out via representations of relating to the land. By reimagining and intertwining marronage and the underground, both novels articulate a critique of settler-colonial and plantation modes of spatial practice, modes they identify as formative for US-American nationhood. They also, tentatively but forcefully, gesture toward alternative ways of being "above" and "below" the land while affirming African American connectedness to place.}, language = {en} } @article{MalabarbaOliveiraMendesdeSouza2022, author = {Malabarba, Taiane and Oliveira Mendes, Anna Carolina and de Souza, Joseane}, title = {Multimodal resolution of overlapping talk in video-mediated L2 instruction}, series = {Languages : open access journal}, volume = {7}, journal = {Languages : open access journal}, number = {2}, publisher = {MDPI}, address = {Basel}, issn = {2226-471X}, doi = {10.3390/languages7020154}, pages = {22}, year = {2022}, abstract = {This paper investigates a pervasive phenomenon in video-mediated interaction (VMI), namely, simultaneous start-ups, which happen when two speakers produce a turn beginning in overlap. Based on the theoretical and methodological tenets of conversation analysis and interactional linguistics, the present study offers a multimodal and sequential account of how simultaneous start-ups are oriented to and solved in the context of English as an additional language (L2) tutoring. The micro- and sequential analysis of ten hours of screen-recorded video-mediated data from tutoring sessions between an experienced tutor and an advanced-level tutee reveals that the typical overlap resolution trajectory results in the tutor withdrawing from the interactional floor. The same analysis uncovered a range of resources, such as lip pressing and the verbal utterance 'go ahead', employed in what we call enhanced explicitness, through which the withdrawal is done. The orchestration of these resources allows the tutor to exploit the specific features of the medium to resolve simultaneous start-ups while also supporting the continuation of student talk. We maintain that this practice is used in the service of securing the learner's interactional space, and consequently in fostering the use of the language being learned. The results of the study help advance current understandings of L2 instructors' specialized work of managing participation and creating learning opportunities. Being one of the first studies to detail the practices involved in overlap resolution in the micro-context of simultaneous talk on Zoom-based L2 instruction, this study also makes a significant contribution to research on video-mediated instruction and video-mediated interaction more generally.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{vonRath2022, author = {von Rath, Anna}, title = {Afropolitan Encounters}, series = {Imagining Black Europe ; 2}, journal = {Imagining Black Europe ; 2}, publisher = {Lang}, address = {Oxford}, isbn = {978-1-80079-006-3}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {VIII, 276}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Afropolitan Encounters: Literature and Activism in London and Berlin explores what Afropolitanism does. Mobile people of African descent use this term to address their own lived realities creatively, which often includes countering stereotypical notions of being African. Afropolitan practices are enormously heterogeneous and malleable, which constitutes its strengths and, at the same time, creates tensions. This book traces the theoretical beginnings of Afropolitanism and moves on to explore Afropolitan practices in London and Berlin. Afropolitanism can take different forms, such as that of an identity, a political and ethical stance, a dead-end road, networks, a collective self-care practice or a strategic label. In spite of the harsh criticism, Afropolitanism is attractive for people to deal with the meanings of Africa and Africanness, questions of belonging, equal rights and opportunities. While not a unitary project, the vast variety of Afropolitan practices provide approaches to contemporary political problems in Europe and beyond. In this book, Afropolitan practices are read against the specific context of German and British colonial histories and structures of racism, the histories of Black Europeans, and contemporary right-wing resurgence in Germany and England, respectively.}, language = {en} } @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} } @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} } @article{FreitagHild2022, author = {Freitag-Hild, Britta}, title = {Ethnografisches Lernen, symbolische Kompetenz und critical literacy}, series = {unterricht_kultur_theorie: Kulturelles Lernen im Fremdsprachenunterricht gemeinsam anders denken}, journal = {unterricht_kultur_theorie: Kulturelles Lernen im Fremdsprachenunterricht gemeinsam anders denken}, publisher = {J.B. Metzler}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-662-63781-4}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-662-63782-1_18}, pages = {299 -- 315}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Welche Rolle spielt Kultur im Fremdsprachenunterricht, welcher Kulturbegriff eignet sich f{\"u}r die Kulturdidaktik und welche Zielsetzungen werden mit Blick auf kulturelle Lernprozesse verfolgt? Die Antworten der Fremdsprachendidaktik auf diese Fragen haben sich nicht nur in der Vergangenheit immer wieder ver{\"a}ndert, sondern sind auch mit Blick auf die gegenw{\"a}rtige Diskussion {\"a}ußerst vielf{\"a}ltig.}, language = {de} } @article{FreitagHild2022, author = {Freitag-Hild, Britta}, title = {Young Adult Literature and critical literacy}, series = {Fremdsprachen lehren und lernen}, volume = {51}, journal = {Fremdsprachen lehren und lernen}, number = {1}, publisher = {Narr}, address = {T{\"u}bingen}, isbn = {0932-6936}, pages = {107 -- 120}, year = {2022}, language = {de} } @article{FreitagHildDelius2022, author = {Freitag-Hild, Britta and Delius, Katharina}, title = {Neue M{\"u}ndlichkeiten}, series = {Der fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch}, volume = {56}, journal = {Der fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch}, number = {172}, publisher = {Friedrich Verlag GmbH}, address = {Hannover}, issn = {0945-1250}, pages = {2 -- 7}, year = {2022}, language = {de} } @article{FreitagHildDelius2022, author = {Freitag-Hild, Britta and Delius, Katharina}, title = {Freies Sprechen vor der Kamera unterst{\"u}tzen}, series = {Der fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch}, volume = {56}, journal = {Der fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch}, number = {172}, publisher = {Friedrich-Verlag}, address = {Hannover}, issn = {0945-1250}, pages = {8 -- 9}, year = {2022}, language = {de} } @incollection{Wiemann2022, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Network Realism/Capitalist Realism}, series = {Realism: Aesthetics, Experiments, Politics}, booktitle = {Realism: Aesthetics, Experiments, Politics}, publisher = {Bloomsbury Academic}, address = {New York}, isbn = {978-1-5013-8548-3}, doi = {10.5040/9781501385513.0018}, pages = {209 -- 227}, year = {2022}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Madoerin2022, author = {Mad{\"o}rin, Anouk}, title = {Postcolonial surveillance}, series = {Challenging Migration Studies}, journal = {Challenging Migration Studies}, publisher = {Rowman \& Littlefield}, address = {London}, isbn = {978-1-5381-6503-4}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {xix, 167}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Postcolonial Surveillance investigates the long history of the European border regime, focusing on the colonial forerunners of today's border technologies. The book takes a longue dur{\´e}e perspective to uncover how Europe's colonial history continues to shape the high-tech political present and has morphed into EU border migration policies, border security, and surveillance apparatuses. It exposes the racial hierarchies and power relations that form these systems and highlights key moments when the past and present interact and collide, such as in panoptic surveillance, biopolitical registers, biometric sorting, and deterrent media infrastructure. The technological genealogies assembled in this book reveal the unacknowledged histories that had to be rejected for the seemingly clean, unbiased, and neutral technologies to emerge as such.}, 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} } @article{Heidt2022, author = {Heidt, Irene}, title = {Fostering symbolic competence in the age of twitter politics}, series = {Anglistik : international journal of English studies}, volume = {33}, journal = {Anglistik : international journal of English studies}, number = {3}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Winter}, address = {Heidelberg}, issn = {0947-0034}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2022/3/8}, pages = {75 -- 89}, year = {2022}, 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{BartoschDerichsweilerHeidt2022, author = {Bartosch, Roman and Derichsweiler, Sina and Heidt, Irene}, title = {Against „Values"?}, series = {unterricht_kultur_theorie : Kulturelles Lernen im Fremdsprachenunterricht gemeinsam anders denken}, journal = {unterricht_kultur_theorie : Kulturelles Lernen im Fremdsprachenunterricht gemeinsam anders denken}, editor = {K{\"o}nig, Lotta and Sch{\"a}dlich, Birgit and Surkamp, Carola}, publisher = {J.B. Metzler}, address = {Stuttgart}, isbn = {978-3-662-63782-1}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-662-63782-1_5}, pages = {73 -- 90}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Im Kontext fortschreitender Globalisierung, die sich durch zunehmende Migrationsbewegungen, weltweite Mobilit{\"a}t und globale Kommunikationsformen auszeichnet, ist es nicht l{\"a}nger m{\"o}glich, ‚Kultur' nationalstaatlich im Sinne einer geteilten Sprache und homogen anerkannter Wertordnungen zu verstehen. Vielmehr sind Gemeinschaften unter Bedingungen der Globalisierung sprachlich und kulturell so heterogen geworden, dass Sprecher*innen, die die gleiche ‚Sprache' sprechen, nicht die gleichen objektiven Bedeutungen indizieren, sondern stattdessen auf subjektive Erinnerungen, unterschiedliche moralische Ordnungen, Wahrheiten und {\"U}berzeugungen verweisen.}, language = {de} } @article{Pittel2021, author = {Pittel, Harald}, title = {Ali Smith's 'Coming-of-Age' in the age of Brexit}, series = {Brexit and Beyond: Nation and Identity}, journal = {Brexit and Beyond: Nation and Identity}, publisher = {Narr}, address = {T{\"u}bingen}, isbn = {978-3-8233-8414-4}, pages = {121 -- 144}, year = {2021}, language = {en} } @article{KocamanSelvi2021, author = {Kocaman, Ceren and Selvi, Ali Fuad}, title = {Gender, sexuality, and language teaching materials}, series = {Babylonia Journal of Language Education}, volume = {1}, journal = {Babylonia Journal of Language Education}, pages = {76 -- 81}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Obwohl schon viel {\"u}ber kommerzielle Materialien gesagt und geschrieben wurde, ist unser Verst{\"a}ndnis sehr begrenzt, wenn es um lokal produzierte (hauseigene, nicht-kommerzielle) Materialien geht, die oft verwendet werden, um bestehende ver{\"o}ffentlichte Materialien zu ersetzen oder zu erg{\"a}nzen. In diesem Beitrag geben wir einen {\"U}berblick {\"u}ber die Literatur zur Darstellung von Geschlecht und Sexualit{\"a}t in kommerziellen Lehrmitteln und unsere {\"U}berlegungen zu lokal produzierten Unterrichtsmaterialien, die in einem Englisch-Intensivprogramm an einer Universit{\"a}t in der T{\"u}rkei mit Englisch als Unterrichtsmedium (EMI) verwendet werden. Wir unterstreichen die Bedeutung von Materialien f{\"u}r die Handlungsf{\"a}higkeit von Lehrkr{\"a}ften bei der Schaffung eines sicheren und inklusiven Klassenzimmers und bei der Bek{\"a}mpfung von systematischer Unterdr{\"u}ckung, Diskriminierung und Ungerechtigkeit im und ausserhalb des Klassenzimmers.}, language = {en} } @article{KolbeHannaWischer2021, author = {Kolbe-Hanna, Daniela and Wischer, Ilse}, title = {Introduction}, series = {Anglistik}, volume = {32}, journal = {Anglistik}, number = {1}, editor = {Kolbe-Hanna, Daniela and Wischer, Ilse}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Winter}, address = {Heidelberg}, issn = {2625-2147}, doi = {10.33675/ANGL/2021/1/4}, pages = {5 -- 10}, year = {2021}, language = {en} } @article{Pittel2021, author = {Pittel, Harald}, title = {Fin du globe}, series = {Thesis eleven : critical theory and historical sociology}, volume = {162}, journal = {Thesis eleven : critical theory and historical sociology}, number = {1}, publisher = {Sage}, address = {London}, issn = {0725-5136}, doi = {10.1177/0725513621994702}, pages = {121 -- 136}, year = {2021}, abstract = {This essay argues that Oscar Wilde noticeably contributed to the emerging discourse about world literature, even though his views in this regard have to be unearthed from the margins of his works, from his early and unpublished American lectures and 'between the lines' of his major critical essays. Wilde's implicit ideas around world literature can be understood as being closely related to his broader endeavour of redirecting and revaluing the pejorative discourse around 'decadence' in art and literature. More specifically, the arch-aesthete preferred to use the word 'romance' rather than 'decadence' (a term he hardly used at all in his writings), signalling a sensitivity attuned to what he called the 'love of things impossible'. This reconceptualization of the decadent outlook was to inspire a critical ideal of literature which relied on creatively activating the other as Other, culminating in a vision of intersubjective, transcultural and unlimited literary communication. Wilde's thought can be more specifically understood as anticipating central tenets of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's evocations of the planetary, thus preparing the way for an alterity-oriented understanding of literary cosmopolitanism.}, language = {en} } @article{OPUS4-56680, title = {Writing the economic subject in modern western Europe}, series = {Literature, Culture, Economy}, journal = {Literature, Culture, Economy}, number = {9}, editor = {Behrendt, Aileen Jorena and Courtman, Nicholas}, publisher = {Lang}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-631-83999-7}, issn = {2364-1304}, doi = {10.3726/b18541}, pages = {219}, year = {2021}, abstract = {This book explores how capitalism shapes the formation of the economic subject in modern European writing. How are subject positions determined by the subject's relationship to money and work? How fair is a society that predicates social inclusion upon employment? And what happens when full employment is impossible? The volume traces how literary authors and social theorists have answered these questions in different social and historical contexts from the nineteenth century to the present day. The contributions confront the imperatives of productivity, notions of success and failure, the construction of work cultures and environments, the (in)visibility of certain labour groups, and the implications of the body as a productive site.}, language = {en} } @article{Mischke2021, author = {Mischke, Dennis}, title = {Deleuze and the digital}, series = {Deleuze and Guattari studies}, volume = {15}, journal = {Deleuze and Guattari studies}, number = {4}, publisher = {Edinburgh University Press}, address = {Edinburgh}, issn = {2398-9777}, doi = {10.3366/dlgs.2021.0459}, pages = {593 -- 609}, year = {2021}, abstract = {In his short and often quoted essay 'Postscript on the Societies of Control', Gilles Deleuze famously describes the structures of power in the dawning twenty-first century as driven by 'machines of a third type, computers', as novel and predominantly digital infrastructures. In fact, from a Deleuzian perspective the entire ecosystem of the digital transformation can be described as a larger shift in modes of production and the political economy. This essay proposes to read this 'technological evolution' as the power of algorithms and their material substance - digital infrastructures that entail a different mode of interaction between humans and technology. In looking at these infrastructures from a materialist position, my essay reconceptualises the digital as the unfolding logic of assemblages that have been shaping a 'long now' of technological modernity. In bringing a Deleuzian reading of infrastructures to the study of technology and society, this essay seeks to shed a new light on the political function-and the increasing abstraction-of infrastructures in the realm of the digital.}, language = {en} } @article{Adamik2021, author = {Adamik, Verena}, title = {Making worlds from literature}, series = {Thesis eleven : critical theory and historical sociology}, volume = {162}, journal = {Thesis eleven : critical theory and historical sociology}, number = {1}, publisher = {Sage}, address = {London}, issn = {0725-5136}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1177/0725513621993308}, pages = {105 -- 120}, year = {2021}, abstract = {While W.E.B. Du Bois's first novel, The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911), is set squarely in the USA, his second work of fiction, Dark Princess: A Romance (1928), abandons this national framework, depicting the treatment of African Americans in the USA as embedded into an international system of economic exploitation based on racial categories. Ultimately, the political visions offered in the novels differ starkly, but both employ a Western literary canon - so-called 'classics' from Greek, German, English, French, and US American literature. With this, Du Bois attempts to create a new space for African Americans in the world (literature) of the 20th century. Weary of the traditions of this 'world literature', the novels complicate and begin to decenter the canon that they draw on. This reading traces what I interpret as subtle signs of frustration over the limits set by the literature that underlies Dark Princess, while its predecessor had been more optimistic in its appropriation of Eurocentric fiction for its propagandist aims.}, language = {en} } @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} } @misc{McLaughlin2021, author = {McLaughlin, Carly}, title = {Rezension zu: Children's voices from the past: new historical and interdisciplinary perspectives. - Hrsg.: Kristine Moruzi, Nell Musgrove; Carla Pascoe Leahy. - Cham : Springer, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. - 342 S. - ISBN: 978-3-030-11895-2}, series = {Australian historical studies : a journal of Australian history / Department of History, the University of Melbourne}, volume = {52}, journal = {Australian historical studies : a journal of Australian history / Department of History, the University of Melbourne}, number = {2}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, isbn = {978-3-030-11895-2}, issn = {1031-461X}, doi = {10.1080/1031461X.2021.1905223}, pages = {310 -- 311}, year = {2021}, language = {en} } @article{JosephVarino2021, author = {Joseph, May and Varino, Sofia}, title = {Multidirectional Thalassology}, series = {Shima : the international journal of research into Island cultures / Island Cultures Research Centre (ICRC)}, volume = {15}, journal = {Shima : the international journal of research into Island cultures / Island Cultures Research Centre (ICRC)}, number = {1}, publisher = {ICRC}, address = {Sydney}, issn = {1834-6049}, doi = {10.21463/shima.118}, pages = {256 -- 272}, year = {2021}, abstract = {This article merges discourses from Indian Ocean studies, Island Studies, performance art and decolonial methodologies to offer interdisciplinary ways of thinking about La Serenissima and its navigational histories. It is a transdisciplinary speculative entry, part empirical, part analytical, part applied phenomenology. We write this as a collaboration between two members of the Harmattan Theater company, a New York City based environmental performance ensemble applying environmental theory to site-specific performances engaging oceans and islands. The article is driven by the following research questions: What are the historic relationalities between the Venice lagoon and the Indian Ocean? How has the acqua alto flooding of Venice, accompanied by the mnemonic histories of the Venetian lagoon, impacted understandings of lagoon cultures in the global South, particularly the Malabar Coast of South Asia? This question has propelled the artistic and academic research of May Joseph and Sofia Varino across environmental history, island studies and performance. Drawing on histories of Venetian navigation and lagoon culture, Joseph and Varino propose a comparative lagoon aesthetics, one that would link two archipelagic regions, the Venetian Lagoon and the extended archipelagic region of the Laccadive Sea of India. While we believe a contemporary archipelagic study connecting these two regions does not currently exist, the historical archives suggest otherwise. We draw on the Venetian Camaldolese monk and cartographer Fra Mauro's Mappa Mundi from the 15th Century to initiate this comparative dialogue between North/Southisland ecologies, seafaring histories and ocean futures affected by climate change and rising sea levels. This research is part of a book that Joseph and Varino are co-writing on islands, archipelagos, coastal regions and climate change, drawing on a ten-year collaboration working with large-scale site-specific environmental performance as research, activism and embodied phenomenology.}, 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} } @article{CoetzeeVanRooyPeters2021, author = {Coetzee-Van Rooy, Susan and Peters, Arne}, title = {A portrait-corpus study of language attitudes towards Afrikaans and English}, series = {Language matters : studies in the languages of Africa}, volume = {52}, journal = {Language matters : studies in the languages of Africa}, number = {2}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {1022-8195}, doi = {10.1080/10228195.2021.1942167}, pages = {3 -- 28}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Language portraits are useful instruments to elicit speakers' reflections on the languages in their repertoires. In this study, we implement a "portrait-corpus approach" (Peters and Coetzee-Van Rooy 2020) to investigate the conceptualisations of the languages Afrikaans and English in 105 language portraits. In this approach, we use participants' reflections about their placement of the two languages on a human silhouette as a linguistic corpus. Relying on quantitative and qualitative analyses using WordSmith, Statistica and Atlas.ti, our study shows that Afrikaans is mainly conceptualised as a language that is located in more peripheral areas of the body (for example, the hands and feet) and, hence, is perceived as less important in participants' repertoires. The central location of English in the head reveals its status as an important language in the participants' multilingual repertoires. We argue that these conceptualisations of Afrikaans and English provide additional insight into the attitudes towards these languages in South Africa.}, 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} } @article{BarthWeingartenOgden2021, author = {Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar and Ogden, Richard}, title = {"Chunking" spoken language}, series = {Open linguistics}, volume = {7}, journal = {Open linguistics}, number = {1}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {2300-9969}, doi = {10.1515/opli-2020-0173}, 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} } @article{StenzelWilliams2021, author = {Stenzel, Kristine and Williams, Nicholas}, title = {Toward an interactional approach to multilingualism}, series = {Language \& communication : an interdisciplinary journal}, volume = {80}, journal = {Language \& communication : an interdisciplinary journal}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {Oxford}, issn = {0271-5309}, doi = {10.1016/j.langcom.2021.05.010}, pages = {136 -- 164}, year = {2021}, abstract = {This study examines language ideologies and communicative practices in the multilingual Vaupes region of northwestern Amazonia. Following a comparative overview of the Vaupes as a 'small-scale' language ecology, it discusses claims from existing ethnographic work on the region in light of data from a corpus of video-recordings of sociolinguistic interviews and spontaneous everyday conversations. It shows how a practice-based and interdisciplinary approach combining language documentation methodology and ethnographic, structural linguistic, and interactional perspectives can contribute to understanding of macro and micro aspects of multilingualism, thus contributing to future work on the Vaupes, typologies of small-scale multilingual ecologies, and language contact research.}, 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} } @phdthesis{Krause2021, author = {Krause, Michael}, title = {Digital surveillance fiction}, publisher = {AVINUS}, address = {Hamburg}, isbn = {978-3-86938-154-1}, pages = {300}, year = {2021}, language = {en} } @article{WiemannRajaShaswati2021, author = {Wiemann, Dirk and Raja, Ira and Shaswati, Mazumdar}, title = {Postcolonial world literature}, series = {Thesis eleven : critical theory and historical sociology}, volume = {162}, journal = {Thesis eleven : critical theory and historical sociology}, number = {1}, publisher = {Sage}, address = {London [u.a.]}, issn = {0725-5136}, doi = {10.1177/0725513621994707}, pages = {3 -- 17}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Postcolonial criticism has repeatedly debunked the ostensible neutrality of the 'world' of world literature by pointing out that and how the contemporary world - whether conceived in terms of cosmopolitan conviviality or neoliberal globalization - cannot be understood without recourse to the worldly event of Europe's colonial expansion. While we deem this critical perspective indispensable, we simultaneously maintain that to reduce 'the world' to the world-making impact of capital, colonialism, and patriarchy paints an overly deterministic picture that runs the risk of unwittingly reproducing precisely that dominant 'oneworldness' that it aims to critique. Moreover, the mere potentiality of alternative modes of world-making tends to disappear in such a perspective so that the only remaining option to think beyond oneworldness resides in the singularity claim. This insistence on singularity, however, leaves the relatedness of the single units massively underdetermined or denies it altogether. By contrast, we locate world literature in the conflicted space between the imperial imposition of a hierarchically stratified world (to which, as hegemonic forces tell us, 'there is no alternative') and the unrealized 'undivided world' that multiple minor cosmopolitan projects yet have to win. It is precisely the tension between these 'two worlds' that brings into view the crucial centrality not of the nodes in their alleged singularity but their specific relatedness to each other, that both impedes and energizes world literature today and renders it ineluctably postcolonial.}, language = {en} } @article{Wiemann2021, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Layer after Layer}, series = {Thesis Eleven}, volume = {162}, journal = {Thesis Eleven}, number = {1}, publisher = {Sage}, address = {Melbourne}, issn = {0725-5136}, doi = {10.1177/0725513621990772}, pages = {33 -- 45}, year = {2021}, abstract = {When the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in South London were opened to the general public in the 1840s, they were presented as a 'world text': a collection of flora from all over the world, with the spectacular tropical (read: colonial) specimens taking centre stage as indexes of Britain's imperial supremacy. However, the one exotic plant species that preoccupied the British cultural imagination more than any other remained conspicuously absent from the collection: the banyan tree, whose non-transferability left a significant gap in the 'text' of the garden, thereby effectively puncturing the illusion of comprehensive global command that underpins the biopolitical designs of what Richard Grove has aptly dubbed 'green imperialism'. This article demonstrates how, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the banyan tree became an object of fascination and admiration for British scientists, painters, writers and photographers precisely because of its obstinate non-availability to colonial control and visual or even conceptual representability.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Wiemann2021, author = {Wiemann, Dirk}, title = {Being Taught Something World-Sized}, series = {The Work of World Literature}, volume = {2021}, booktitle = {The Work of World Literature}, publisher = {ICI Berlin Press}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-96558-011-4}, issn = {2627-728X}, doi = {10.37050/ci-19_07}, pages = {149 -- 172}, year = {2021}, abstract = {This paper reads 'The Detainee's Tale as told to Ali Smith' (2016) as an exemplary demonstration of the work of world literature. Smith's story articulates an ethics of reading that is grounded in the recipient's openness to the singular, unpredictable, and unverifiable text of the other. More specifically, Smith's account enables the very event that it painstakingly stages: the encounter with alterity and newness, which is both the theme of the narrative and the effect of the text on the reader. At the same time, however, the text urges to move from an ethics of literature understood as the responsible reception of the other by an individual reader to a more explicitly convivial and political ethics of commitment beyond the scene of reading.}, language = {en} } @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} }