TY - JOUR A1 - Höne, Christin T1 - The Musical Novel: Imitation of Musical Structure, Performance and Reception in Contemporary Fiction JF - Geophysical research letters Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcw001 SN - 0027-4224 SN - 1477-4631 VL - 97 SP - 190 EP - 191 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Deffa, Oromiya-Jalata T1 - The impact of homogeneity on intra-group cohesion: a macro-level comparison of minority communities in a Western diaspora JF - Journal of multilingual and multicultural development N2 - Contrary to earlier studies dealing with the cultural identity development of diasporic minorities, this paper assesses the impact of homogeneity on intra-group cohesion and ethnic orientation. To this end, Oromo-Americans, an ethnic group originally located within the national borders of Ethiopia, will be compared to Armenian-Americans, British-Pakistanis and Somali-Americans. Despite different circumstances, all four groups share the experience of displacement owing to war and destitution. Additionally, all groups are confronted with the ramifications of a visible minority status. In the process of comparing these groups, their degrees of homogeneity in regard to language and religion - central aspects of culture and cultural identity - will be examined and juxtaposed at a macro level. Based on the correlative relationship of group homogeneity and social cohesion, I argue that the more homogeneous a group is in terms of language and religion, the more close-knit it will be. Consequently, exiled minorities who share the same language and religion are more likely to develop and retain a strong ethnic orientation than groups who are heterogeneous with regard to language and/or religion. KW - minority groups KW - Homogeneity KW - ethnic orientation KW - group cohesion KW - religion KW - language Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2015.1072203 SN - 0143-4632 SN - 1747-7557 VL - 37 SP - 343 EP - 356 PB - Elsevier CY - Abingdon ER - TY - THES A1 - Küttner, Uwe-Alexander T1 - That-initial turns in English conversation BT - an interactional linguistic investigation of two formats for designedly tying a current turn to a prior Y1 - 2016 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Sound matters: postcolonial critique for a viral age JF - Atlantic studies : literary, cultural and historical perspectives N2 - This essay proposes a reorientation in postcolonial studies that takes account of the transcultural realities of the viral twenty-first century. This reorientation entails close attention to actual performances, their specific medial embeddedness, and their entanglement in concrete formal or informal material conditions. It suggests that rather than a focus on print and writing favoured by theories in the wake of the linguistic turn, performed lyrics and sounds may be better suited to guide the conceptual work. Accordingly, the essay chooses a classic of early twentieth-century digital music – M.I.A.’s 2003/2005 single “Galang” – as its guiding example. It ultimately leads up to a reflection on what Ravi Sundaram coined as “pirate modernity,” which challenges us to rethink notions of artistic authorship and authority, hegemony and subversion, culture and theory in the postcolonial world of today. KW - Sound KW - M.I.A. KW - Galang KW - music KW - postcolonial critique KW - transculturality KW - pirate modernity KW - Great Britain KW - South Asian diaspora Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2016.1216222 SN - 1478-8810 SN - 1740-4649 VL - 13 SP - 445 EP - 456 PB - American Geophysical Union CY - Abingdon ER - TY - GEN A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Sound matters BT - postcolonial critique for a viral age T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe N2 - This essay proposes a reorientation in postcolonial studies that takes account of the transcultural realities of the viral twenty-first century. This reorientation entails close attention to actual performances, their specific medial embeddedness, and their entanglement in concrete formal or informal material conditions. It suggests that rather than a focus on print and writing favoured by theories in the wake of the linguistic turn, performed lyrics and sounds may be better suited to guide the conceptual work. Accordingly, the essay chooses a classic of early twentieth-century digital music – M.I.A.’s 2003/2005 single “Galang” – as its guiding example. It ultimately leads up to a reflection on what Ravi Sundaram coined as “pirate modernity,” which challenges us to rethink notions of artistic authorship and authority, hegemony and subversion, culture and theory in the postcolonial world of today. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 119 KW - Sound KW - M.I.A KW - Galang KW - music KW - postcolonial critique KW - transculturality KW - pirate modernity KW - Great Britain KW - South asian diaspora Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-98393 SN - 1866-8380 IS - 119 ER - TY - THES A1 - Fischer, Friederike T1 - SLA research and course books for EFL T1 - Spracherwerbsforschung und Schulbücher BT - an exploration of the inclusion of current SLA research findings on grammar instruction in a course book for German learners of English N2 - Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Grammatikvermittlung im Englischunterricht. Im Rahmen dessen wird ein Schulbuch (English G 21 A2) daraufhin untersucht ob es kompatibel mit aktuellen Theorien zum Zweitspracherwerb ist. Zu Beginn der Arbeit werden historische und aktuelle Auffassungen zur Grammatikvermittlung zusammengefasst und im Anschluss der aktuelle Rahmenlehrplan auf seine Aussagen hinsichtlich der zu vermittelnden Grammatik im Fremdsprachenunterricht untersucht. Hierbei wird deutlich dass der Rahmenlehrplan des Landes Brandenburg wenige Vorgaben bezüglich der grammatischen Phänomene, die behandelt werden sollen, gibt. Dies erklärt unter anderem den hohen Stellenwert, den Lehrbücher im Fremdsprachenunterricht haben. Sie dienen den Lehrenden als Materialquelle und gleichzeitig als Richtlinie dafür, welche Themen wie und in welcher Reihenfolge unterrichtet werden können. Es folgt eine Übersicht über kognitive Theorien des Zweitspracherwerbs und des Sprachunterrichts, u.a. Krashens Monitorhypothese, R. Ellis‘ Weak Interface Modell oder Pienemanns Processability Theory. Auf der Basis dieser Theorien werden Kriterien für die Gestaltung von Schulbüchern, die einen möglichst aktuellen Erkenntnissen folgenden Grammatikunterricht unterstützen herausgearbeitet. Dazu gehören das Anbieten von viel zielsprachlichem Input, Bereitstellung von Übungen (practice) und bewusstmachenden Aktivitäten (consciousness-raising activities), das Beachten der Erwerbssequenz und das Bereitstellen eines diagnostischen Instruments sodass die Schülerinnen und Schüler herausfinden können, wo sie im Fremdsprachenerwerb stehen und woran sie noch arbeiten müssen. Auch das Anbieten vieler Gelegenheiten zur (individuellen) Wiederholung wird als sehr wichtig herausgestellt. All diese Vorgaben stehen natürlich unter dem Vorbehalt dass Schulbücher den Unterricht nur in begrenztem Maße beeinflussen können und die endgültigen Entscheidungen von den Lehrenden in der Situation getroffen werden. Für den Analyseteil wird eine kommunikative Absicht, die in der Regel im Englischunterricht der Sekundarstufe 1 behandelt wird, herausgegriffen. Es handelt sich dabei um die Fähigkeit, über die Zukunft zu sprechen. Dazu werden zunächst die Möglichkeiten im Englischen über die Zukunft zu sprechen beschrieben und in der didaktischen Analyse für die Vermittlung im Unterricht reduziert. Nach einer Beschreibung des betrachteten Schulbuchs und der Behandlung dieses Themas in diesem Buch wird dies mit den ausgearbeiteten Kriterien verglichen. Hierbei stellt sich heraus, dass das Buch in vielen Punkten durchaus mit aktuellen Zweitspracherwerbstheorien kompatibel ist (z.B. bezüglich des Einarbeitens von Erklärungen zu grammatikalischen Strukturen) in anderen jedoch noch Raum für Verbesserungen besteht (z.B. bezüglich der Fülle des Inputs und der Anzahl an bewusstmachenden Aktivitäten). N2 - This paper deals with the teaching of grammar in the English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom. In this context, a course book (English G 21 A2) is examined in regard to whether it is compatible with current theories about second language acquisition (SLA). At the beginning of this paper, views on grammar teaching from the past and the present are summarized and this is followed by an analysis of the current curriculum concerning its guidelines for grammar teaching in the foreign language classroom. This analysis concludes that the curriculum of Brandenburg hardly gives any recommendations regarding the question of which grammatical phenomena should to be taught. This explains, at least partly, the important position course books take in the foreign language classroom. Teachers use them as a source of material as well has a guideline for which topics can be taught and in which order. The following part gives an overview of cognitive models of SLA and foreign language teaching, among others Krashen’s Monitor Hypothesis, R. Ellis’ Weak Interface Model and Pienemann’s Processability Theory. On the basis of these models criteria for the ideal design of a course book, which would support grammar teaching according to current findings, are developed. Among those criteria are the offering of a lot of input in the target language, provision of practice activities and consciousness-raising activities, taking into consideration the sequence of acquisition and the provision of a diagnostic tool which enables the students to find out in which areas of the target language they need to improve. Furthermore, the inclusion of opportunities for (individual) revision is regarded as essential. All of those criteria are of course given under the reservation that the influence of course books on the happenings in the classroom is restricted as the final decisions are made by the teacher in the teaching situation. In the analysis, one communicative intention which is usually a topic in the English lessons between the third and sixth year of learning is focused on. This communicative intention is talking about the future. First, the possibilities to express futurity in the English language are analysed and reduced for the use in teaching. The chosen course book is then described and analysed and the way the book deals with the topic of talking about the future is compared to the criteria which where specified earlier in the paper. This comparison showed that the book is compatible with SLA theories in many ways (e.g. concerning the explanations of grammatical structures) but that there is still room for improvement (e.g. concerning the amount of input and the number of consciousness-raising activities). KW - Fremdsprachenunterricht KW - Englischunterricht KW - Grammatik KW - EFL KW - grammar acquistion KW - Schulbuch Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-395163 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Spahn, Hannah T1 - Republican, and a Tea Party Fanatic, All the While Being Dead JF - The American historical review Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/121.3.933 SN - 0002-8762 SN - 1937-5239 VL - 121 SP - 933 EP - 934 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - INPR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Reflections of Lusáni Cissé BT - Imperial Images and Sentient Critique N2 - On the last sunny October weekend in 2015 I decided to cycle from my home in Berlin to the small town of Wünsdorf some 40 kilometres south of the city. Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-103196 ER - TY - INPR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Recollecting Bones BT - The Remains of German-Australian Colonial Entanglements N2 - In the same “guarded, roundabout and reticent way” which Lindsay Barrett invokes for Australian conversations about imperial injustice, Germans, too, must begin to more systematically explore, in Paul Gilroy’s words, “the connections and the differences between anti-semitism and anti-black and other racisms and asses[s] the issues that arise when it can no longer be denied that they interacted over a long time in what might be seen as Fascism’s intellectual, ethical and scientific pre-history” (Gilroy 1996: 26). In the meantime, we need to care for the dead. We need to return them, first, from the status of scientific objects to the status of ancestral human beings, and then progressively, and proactively, as close as possible to the care of those communities from whom they were stolen. Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-103278 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kunow, Rüdiger T1 - Postcolonial theory and old age: An explorative essay JF - Journal of aging studie KW - Postcolonial theory KW - Old age KW - Positional difference KW - Subaltemity KW - Postcolonial aspects of old age KW - Cultural theory Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2016.06.004 SN - 0890-4065 SN - 1879-193X VL - 39 SP - 101 EP - 108 PB - Elsevier CY - New York ER -