TY - GEN A1 - Auhagen, Christopher Patrick A1 - Uth, Melanie T1 - Variation of relative complementizers in Yucatecan Spanish BT - A comparison of monolingual and bilingual speakers T2 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe N2 - The starting point of this article is the occurrence of determiner-less and bare que relative complementizers like (en) que, ‘(in) that’, instead of (en) el que, ‘(in) which’, in Yucatecan Spanish (southeast Mexico). While reference grammars treat complementizers with a determiner as the standard option, previous diachronic research has shown that determiner-less complementizers actually predate relative complementizers with a determiner. Additionally, Yucatecan Spanish has been in long-standing contact with Yucatec Maya. Relative complementation in Yucatec Maya differs from that in Spanish (at least) in that the non-complex complementizer tu’ux (‘where’) is generally the only option for locative complementation. The paper explores monolingual and bilingual data from Yucatecan Spanish to discuss the question whether the determiner-less and bare que relative complementizers in our data constitute a historic remnant or a dialectal recast, possibly (but not necessarily) due to language contact. Although our pilot study may not answer these far-reaching questions, it does reveal two separate, but intertwined developments: (i) a generally increased rate of bare que relative complementation, across both monolingual speakers of Spanish and Spanish Maya bilinguals, compared to other Spanish varieties, and (ii) a preference for donde at the cost of other locative complementizer constructions in the bilingual group. Our analysis thus reveals intriguing differences between the complementizer preferences of monolingual and bilingual speakers, suggesting that different variational patterns caused by different (socio-)linguistic factors can co-develop in parallel in one and the [same] region. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 181 KW - relative complementation KW - variability KW - language contact KW - diachrony KW - Yucatecan Spanish Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-584375 SN - 1866-8380 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Erdmann, Julius T1 - Semiotics of Pictorial Signs on Social Networking Sites BT - Remarks on a Neglected Field of Study T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe N2 - The paper aims at considering characteristics from one field of contemporary visual studies that has for a long time been neglected in academic research: Pictorial signs on Social Network Sites (SNS) are an outstanding class of semiotic resources that is greatly shaped by processes of technological and collective sign production and distribution. A brief examination of the scholarly research on the pragmatics and semiotics of pictorial signs on SNS shows that the heterogeneity of visual signs is often neglected and that it mostly concentrates on one aspect of these pictorial signs: their technological production or their purpose for individual self-disclosure. The paper therefore considers the semiosis of pictorial signs on SNS in a holistic perspective as one the one hand produced by individual and collective meaning making as well as on the other hand a product of technological framing. It therefore develops a techno-semiotic pragmatic account that takes into consideration both processes. Starting from a prominent class of pictorial signs on SNS during Tunisian Revolution, the Tunisian Flag graphics, the paper than shows that communicative and social interaction functions on the graphic interface of SNS (‘like’-function, sharing and commenting option) are not only directly inscribed into the pictorial frame, but also greatly influence the reading of a pictorial sign. The location of images on the SNS’ interface has an impact on its meaning and on the social functions of a pictorial sign, as profile pictures are directly linked to the online identity of the user. Through technological sign processing, the polysemy of the image is reduced. We therefore consider the images on the one hand as individual self-narratives and on the other as instances of SNS’ visual culture that brings out dominant visual codes but also allows social and political movements to spread. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 118 KW - Internet KW - Social Networking Sites KW - visual culture KW - socio-semiotics KW - Tunisian Revolution Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-96484 SN - 1866-8380 IS - 118 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Urbanity and literature BT - cities as transareal spaces of movement in Assia Djebar, Emine Sevgi Ozdamar and Cecile Wajsbrot T2 - European Review N2 - Transarea studies focus upon spaces as created by the movements that criss-cross them. From this point of view, from its very beginnings, literature is closely interrelated with a vectorial (and much less with a purely spatial) conception of history - and with urbanity, which plays a decisive role in Gilgamesh's travels through a (narrative) cosmos centered upon the city of Uruk. This article explores the city as a transareal space of movement in three examples of literature, with no fixed abode, around the turn of the millennium, i.e. Assia Djebar's Les Nuits de Strasbourg, Emine Sevgi Oezdamar's Istanbul-Berlin Trilogy, and Cecile Wajsbrot's L'ile aux musees. These three writers project, in a very specific way, cities in motion as anagrammatic and fractal structures. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 145 Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-413767 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Gwozdz, Patricia A. T1 - Ecce figura BT - Lektüren eines Konzepts in Konstellationen (100 v. Chr.–1946) T2 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe N2 - Worüber wir reden, wenn wir von Figuren reden, ist eine komplexe Fragestellung, die unterschiedliche Disziplinen berührt. Mit Erich Auerbachs figura/Mimesis-Projekt wurde die interdiszplinäre Forschung dieses Begriffs initiiert. Ob Literatur-, Bild- oder Wissensgeschichte – die Präsenz und Aktualität von figura in der romanistischen und komparatistischen Forschung bezeugt ein anhaltendes Interesse an der Theoriearbeit zwischen Theologie, Philosophie, Literatur- und Kunstwissenschaft. Allerdings fehlt bislang eine grundlegende methodologische Reflexion, die die interdisziplinären Aspekte gleichrangig berücksichtigt und zu einer gemeinsamen Arbeit am Begriff vereinigt. Dieses Versäumnis zu beheben, ist Aufgabe der vorliegenden Arbeit. Ausgehend von Erich Auerbach, Walter Benjamin und Hannah Arendt verfolgt die Monographie in vergleichenden Konstellationen von der Antike bis in die Moderne die literatur- und kunsthistorischen, theologischen und philosophischen Spuren von figura, die zu einer Methode der literaturphilosophischen Figuralogie ausgebaut werden. Ecce figura versteht sich als ein Kompendium interdisziplinärer Begriffsgeschichte zwischen Literatur, Philosophie und Theologie, das dazu einlädt, in neuen Konstellationen gelesen und erweitert zu werden. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 185 KW - figura KW - Auerbach, Erich KW - Begriffsgeschichte KW - Literaturtheorie Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-587943 SN - 1866-8380 IS - 185 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Haßler, Gerda T1 - Roelcke, Thorsten, Französisch in Barock und Aufklärung. Studien zum Sprachdenken im Deutschland des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts / [rezensiert von] Gerda Haßler T1 - Roelcke, Thorsten, French in the Baroque and Enlightenment. Studies on the Linguistic Thinking in Germany in the 17th and 18th Centuries / [reviewed by] Gerda Haßler N2 - Rezensiertes Werk Roelcke, Thorsten: Französisch in Barock und Aufklärung. Studien zum Sprachdenken im Deutschland des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts - Frankfurt am Main, Klostermann, 2014, 258 S. - (Analecta Romanica, 82) Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-397811 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Hennemann, Anja T1 - The epistemic and evidential use of Spanish modal adverbs and verbs of cognitive attitude T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe N2 - This article deals with Spanish modal adverbs and verbs of cognitive attitude (Capelli 2007) and their epistemic and/or evidential use. The article is based upon the hypothesis that the study of the use of these linguistic devices has to be highly context-sensitive, as it is not always (only) the sentence level that has to be looked at if one wants to find out whether a certain adverb or verb of cognitive attitude is used evidentially or epistemically. In this article, therefore, the context is used to determine which meaning aspects of an element are encoded and which are contributed by the context. The data were retrieved from the daily newspaper El País. Nevertheless, the present study is not a quantitative one, but rather a qualitative study. My corpus analysis indicates that it is not possible to differentiate between the linguistic categories of evidentiality and epistemic modality in every case, although it indeed is possible in the vast majority of cases. In verbs of cognitive attitude, evidentiality and epistemic modality seem to be two interwoven categories, while concerning modal adverbs it is usually possible to separate the categories and to distinguish between the different subtypes of evidentiality such as visual evidence, hearsay and inference. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 107 KW - evidentiality KW - epistemic modality KW - Spanish modal adverbs KW - Spanish verbs of cognitive attitude KW - context sensitivity Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-93929 SN - 1866-8380 IS - 107 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Hennemann, Anja T1 - A cognitive-constructionist approach to Spanish creo Ø and creo yo ‘[I] think’ T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe N2 - The present study approaches the Spanish postposed constructions creo Ø and creo yo ‘[p], [I] think’ from a cognitive-constructionist perspective. It is argued that both constructions are to be distinguished from one another because creo Ø has a subjective function, while in creo yo, it is the intersubjective dimension that is particularly prominent. The present investigation takes both a qualitative and a quantitative perspective. With regard to the latter, the problem of quantitative representativity is addressed. The discussion posed the question of how empirical research can feed back into theory, more precisely, into the framework of Cognitive Construction Grammar. The data to be analyzed here are retrieved from the corpora Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual and Corpus del Español. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 121 KW - Cognitive Construction Grammar KW - parenthetic verbs KW - Spanish KW - corpus analysis KW - quantitativity/qualitativity Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-397485 SN - 1866-8380 IS - 121 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Lenz, Markus Alexander T1 - Die verletzte Republik BT - Erzählte Gewalt im Frankreich des 21. Jahrhunderts T2 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe N2 - Die Studie stellt die Frage nach dem Beitrag erzählender Literatur zu einem Dialog über Formen der Gewalt im gesellschaftlichen Raum Frankreich zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts. Unter Rückgriff auf Bourdieu’sche Konzepte literatursoziologischer Theorie diskutiert sie zunächst die für ein sozialwissenschaftlich relevantes Erfassen des Wissens von Literatur notwendige Perspektive auf erzählte Gewalt. Bei dem dafür untersuchten Text-Korpus handelt es sich um vielrezipierte Erzähltexte des literarischen Feldes in Frankreich, welche größtenteils in der zweiten Dekade des 21. Jahrhunderts erschienen sind. Ausgehend von theoretischen Überlegungen zu Grenzen und Möglichkeiten einer solchen feldsoziologischen Fokussierung auf die Literatur der unmittelbaren Gegenwart wird am konkreten Textmaterial und mit den Mitteln der Literaturwissenschaft untersucht, wie und warum die französische Literatur über unterschiedliche Formen von Gewalt, vom Erinnern an die historisch gewordenen Gewalttraumata des 20. Jahrhunderts, vom Terrorismus des 21. Jahrhunderts, von Rassismus und Klassismus der Gegenwart, von Femiziden und Homophobie, über «Abgehängte» in ländlichen Gebieten, aber auch im Zentrum der Metropole, über Arbeitslosigkeit und Armut in Frankreich erzählt. Eröffnet werden soll eine komplementäre Perspektive der Literaturwissenschaft zur soziologischen und historischen Gewaltforschung über den gesellschaftlichen Raum unseres europäischen Nachbarn. N2 - This study examines the literary discourse about forms of violence in French society at the beginning of the twenty-first century. How and why does French contemporary literature tell stories about the now historical, violent traumas of the twentieth century, the terrorism of the twenty-first century, racism and classicism, femicide and homophobia, and the structural violence of unemployment and poverty? T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 179 KW - Gewaltforschung KW - Literatursoziologie KW - Gegenwartsliteratur KW - Violence Research KW - Sociology of Literature KW - Contemporary Literature Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-574414 SN - 1866-8380 IS - 179 ER -