TY - BOOK A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Writing-between-worlds BT - transarea studies and the literatures-without-a-fixed-abode T3 - Mimesis ; 64 Y1 - 2016 SN - 978-3-11-046109-1 PB - de Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - BOOK ED - Ette, Ottmar ED - Müller, Gesine T1 - New Orleans and the global South BT - Caribbean, creolization, carnival T3 - Potsdamer inter- und transkulturelle Texte ; 17 N2 - Innerhalb der USA gilt New Orleans seit jeher als die „unamerikanischste“ Stadt, als exotisch und anders, gar als „sozio-geographischer Unfall“. Hier überkreuzen sich nicht nur die Einflüsse verschiedener Kolonialkulturen, sondern auch die Routen des atlantischen Sklavenhandels und der asiatischen Arbeitsmigration und nicht zuletzt die ideellen wie materiellen Transferbewegungen zwischen den beiden Amerikas. Der vorliegende Band macht es sich zur Aufgabe, diese vielfältigen transarealen Zirkulationsprozesse zu analysieren und das Potential New Orleans' zur paradigmatischen Metropole des Globalen Südens auszuloten. Im Fokus stehen verschiedene Formen der kulturellen Kreolisierung, wie sie sich in der Sprache, der Literatur, der Musik, aber auch in Alltagsphänomen wie dem Karneval oder Computerspielen manifestieren. Within the USA, New Orleans has long been considered the ‘un-American’ city, seen as exotic and different, even as a ‘socio-geographical accident’. It is a crossroads not only for the influences of different colonial cultures but also for the routes of the Atlantic slave trade and immigration of Asian workers, and not least for material and non-material transfer between the two Americas. This volume seeks to analyse these manifold transareal circulation processes and to explore New Orleans’s potential as a paradigmatic metropolis of the Global South. The focus is on different forms of creolisation as manifested in language, literature and music, but also in everyday phenomena such as Carnival or computer games. Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-3-487-15504-3 PB - Georg Olms Verlag CY - Hildesheim ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Päßler, Ulrich T1 - A Political Economy of Nature BT - Alexander von Humboldt's Essay on the Fluctuations in the Supplies of Gold JF - HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies N2 - In seinem Aufsatz „Ueber die Schwankungen der Goldproduktion mit Rücksicht auf staatswirthschaftliche Probleme“ (1838) entfaltet Alexander von Humboldt auf wenigen Seiten eine Weltgeschichte des Edelmetallverkehrs von der Antike bis ins 19. Jahrhundert. Der vorliegende Artikel geht Humboldts ökonomischem Denken als Teil seiner Forschungen zur Natur- und Menschheitsgeschichte nach. Er beginnt mit einem kurzen Abriss der von spätmerkantilistischen und frühliberalen Einflüssen geprägten Ausbildung Humboldts. Der Artikel diskutiert anschließend eine von Humboldt angefertigte Weltkarte sowie vier darauf bezogene Schaubilder, die historische und zeitgenössische statistische Daten zur graphischen Vision eines globalen Wirtschaftskreislaufs kombinieren. In einem weiteren Schritt geht der Artikel Humboldts Anwendung historischer und naturgeschichtlicher Forschungsmethoden auf dem Gebiet der politischen Ökonomie am Beispiel des Aufsatzes von 1838 nach. Den Schluss der Untersuchung bildet Humboldts Auseinandersetzung mit dem Edelmetall Platin, dessen begrenzte Verbreitung im Widerspruch zur Idee eines freien weltweiten Austauschs stand. N2 - Dans son mémoire « Sur la production de l’or considérée dans ses fluctuations » (1838), Alexandre de Humboldt développa une histoire universelle de la circulation des métaux précieux de l’antiquité jusqu’au XIXe siècle. Le présent article poursuit la pensée économique de Humboldt en la mettant dans le contexte de ses études physiques, naturelles et historiques. L’article commence par un abrégé de l’éducation professionnelle de Humboldt, qui était marquée par des influences caméralistes et libérales à la fois. Puis l’article commente une mappemonde et quatre diagrammes, dessinés par Humboldt; la combinaison des données statistiques historiques et contemporaines constitue la vision cartographique d’un circuit économique global. Dans un second temps, l’article aborde le mémoire de 1838 et analyse l’emploi des méthodes de recherche des sciences naturelles et historiques dans le domaine de l’économie politique. L’article se conclut par un examen des remarques de Humboldt sur le platine, un métal précieux qui en raison de sa répartition naturelle limitée était en contradiction avec l’idée d’un libre échange mondial. N2 - In his “Essay on the Fluctuations in the Supplies of Gold” (1838) Humboldt presents a global history of the flow of precious metals from antiquity to the 19th century. This paper traces Humboldt’s economic thinking within his natural and historical research, starting with an outline of his educational background which incorporated late mercantilist and early liberal influences. It then discusses a world map and four charts drawn by Humboldt, which combine historical and contemporary statistical data into a cartographical vision of a global economic circuit. In a next step, the article explores Humboldt’s application of natural and historical research methods in the field of political economy, using the example of his 1838 essay. Finally, the article addresses Humboldt’s discussion of platinum, a precious metal whose limited natural distribution contradicted the idea of free global exchange. KW - Wirtschaftgeschichte KW - Wissenschaftsgeschichte KW - Kameralismus KW - Bergbau KW - Edelmetalle KW - Gold KW - Silber KW - Platin Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-395781 SN - 1617-5239 SN - 2568-3543 VL - XVIII IS - 34 SP - 80 EP - 91 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam 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 - BOOK ED - Haßler, Gerda ED - Marín Arese, Juana ED - Carretero, Marta T1 - Evidentiality revisited : Cognitive grammar, functional and discourse-pragmatic perspectives KW - Evidentialität KW - Modalität KW - europäische Sprachen Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-90-272-5676-8 PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company CY - Amsterdam, Philadelphia ET - 1 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Haßler, Gerda T1 - Degérando’s three prize essays and the shift in linguistic thought at the turn of the 19th century T2 - History of Linguistics 2014 : selected papers from the 13th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XIII), Vila Real, Portugal, 25–29 August 2014 (Studies in the History of the Language Sciences ; 126) N2 - Degérando started out from the views of the French ideologists on the relationship of language and thought, but increasingly distanced himself from them. This is already evident based on the choice of reference authors and also on the increasing emphasis on empirical research. His prize essays reflect the fundamental changes in linguistic thought during the late 18th century. He was successful in the competition of the Institut National (1797/1799) and with another essay at the Berlin Academy (1802). His main argument against Condillac and the ideologists is that empirical knowledge does not depend on signs. Therefore, the development of better languages will not improve this kind of human knowledge. Y1 - 2016 SN - 978-90-272-4617-2 SN - 0304-0720 SP - 149 EP - 160 PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company CY - Amsterdam, Philadelphia ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Boehm, Veronica A1 - Hennemann, Anja T1 - The evidential use of the spanish imperfect and the conditional in journalistic contexts JF - Studia neophilologica : a journal of Germanic and Romance languages and literature Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/00393274.2014.933661 SN - 0039-3274 SN - 1651-2308 VL - 86 IS - 2 SP - 183 EP - 200 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Urbanity and literature - cities as transareal spaces of movement in Assia Djebar, Emine Sevgi Ozdamar and Cecile Wajsbrot JF - European review : interdisciplinary journal of the humanities and sciences of the Academia Europea 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. Y1 - 2011 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S106279871100010X SN - 1062-7987 VL - 19 IS - 3 SP - 367 EP - 383 PB - Cambridge Univ. Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hennemann, Anja T1 - The epistemic and evidential use of Spanish modal adverbs and verbs of cognitive attitude JF - Folia linguistica 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 Pais. 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. KW - evidentiality KW - epistemic modality KW - Spanish modal adverbs KW - Spanish verbs of cognitive attitude KW - context sensitivity Y1 - 2012 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/FLIN.2012.5 SN - 0165-4004 VL - 46 IS - 1 SP - 133 EP - 170 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wiemann, Dirk T1 - Cities of the mind - villages of the mind BT - imagining urbanity in Contemporary India JF - Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik : a quarterly of language, literature and cultur N2 - 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. Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa.2013.61.1.59 SN - 0044-2305 VL - 61 IS - 1 SP - 59 EP - 72 PB - Königshausen & Neumann CY - Würzburg ER -