TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar A1 - Ren, Haiyan ED - Ette, Ottmar ED - Knobloch, Eberhard T1 - Exploring China in Alexander von Humboldt: The Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies (HCTS), Changsha JF - HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies N2 - Humboldtian science aims at an empirically supported transdisciplinary and at the same time transareal development of a world consciousness. In the development of this world consciousness, not only Europe and the Americas, but also Central Asia and especially China play an important role. The Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies (HCTS) in Changsha, is attempting to address the fact that China has been largely left out of international Humboldt studies and that Alexander von Humboldt was intensively engaged with Central Asia and China for decades. Therefore, the Humboldt Center in Changsha sets itself the goal of expanding Humboldt Studies to include this important aspect, to stimulate and coordinate special research work, and to build scientific and cultural bridges between Germany and China, Europe and Asia. N2 - Die Humboldt’sche Wissenschaft zielt auf eine empirisch gestützte transdisziplinäre und zugleich transareale Entfaltung eines Weltbewusstseins. Bei der Entwicklung dieses Weltbewusstseins spielen nicht allein Europa und die Amerikas, sondern auch Zentralasien und insbesondere China eine wichtige Rolle. Das Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies (HCTS) in Changsha versucht, der bisher weitgehenden Ausblendung Chinas aus den internationalen Humboldt-Studien und der Tatsache Rechnung zu tragen, dass Alexander von Humboldt sich jahrzehntelang intensiv mit Zentralasien und China beschäftigte. Daher setzt sich das Humboldt-Zentrum in Changsha zum Ziel, die Humboldt-Studien um diesen wichtigen Aspekt zu erweitern, spezielle Forschungsarbeiten anzuregen und zu koordinieren sowie wissenschaftliche und kulturelle Brücken zwischen Deutschland und China, Europa und Asien zu bauen. N2 - La Ciencia Humboldtiana intenta desarrollar, mediante una estrategia a la vez transdisciplinaria y transareal siempre empíricamente fundada, una conciencia mundial (Weltbewusstsein) que se basa en una convivencia en paz y diferencia. Dentro de la concepción de esta conciencia mundial, Asia Central y específicamente China ocupan un lugar importante dentro de las concepciones humboldtianas. A pesar del hecho de que Alejandro de Humboldt estudiara, durante largos años, tanto a la Asia Central y a China, los estudios humboldtianos ofrecen una especie de blind spot en esta área. El Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies (HCTS) en Changsha quiere remediar esta situación, fomentar y coordenar estudios especializados sobre China y el mundo de Asia Central en la obra humboldtiana y crear asimismo un punete científico y cultural entre Alemania y China, entre Europa y Asia Central. el cosmos de Alejandro de Humboldt hubiera quedado incompleto sin la integrqción de esta parte del mundo en su conciencia mundial. KW - Humboldt Center for Transdisciplinary Studies KW - Changsha Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-599749 SN - 2568-3543 SN - 1617-5239 VL - XXIV IS - 46 SP - 5 EP - 11 ER - TY - BOOK ED - Hennemann, Anja ED - Meisnitzer, Benjamin T1 - Linguistic hybridity BT - contact-induced and cognitively motivated grammaticalization and lexicalization processes in Romance languages T3 - Studia Romanica N2 - This volume deals with different linguistic phenomena representing grammaticalization and lexicalization processes and combines different approaches of contact linguistics and variational linguistics. It contains papers on clitic placement in Angolan Portuguese, on the use of subject pronouns in French, Brazilian Portuguese and Caribbean Spanish, on evidential marking in Paraguayan Spanish, on Paraguayan Guaraní, on evidentiality in different varieties of Spanish, on discourse markers in Latin America, on modal particles in Italian and their translation into German, on bilingual communities in Southern Brazil, on Spanish-German-Russian language contact and on Romance aspectual periphrases in contact with English progressives. KW - Romanische Sprachen KW - Grammatikalisation KW - Lexikalisierung KW - Sprachkontakt KW - Variationslinguistik Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-8253-4936-3 SN - 978-3-8253-8562-0 IS - 232 PB - Universitätsverlag Winter CY - Heidelberg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Böhm, Verónica Julia A1 - Hennemann, Anja A1 - Meisnitzer, Benjamin T1 - Language contact and the linguistic coding of evidentiality in varieties of Spanish in Latin America T2 - Linguistic hybridity: contact-induced and cognitively motivated grammaticalization and lexicalization processes in Romance languages Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-8253-4936-3 SN - 978-3-8253-8562-0 SP - 117 EP - 142 PB - Universitätsverlag Winter CY - Heidelberg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hennemann, Anja A1 - Meisnitzer, Benjamin T1 - An introduction to contact-induced and cognitively motivated grammaticalization and lexicalization processes in Romance languages T2 - Linguistic hybridity: contact-induced and cognitively motivated grammaticalization and lexicalization processes in Romance languages Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-8253-4936-3 SN - 978-3-8253-8562-0 SP - 7 EP - 13 PB - Heidelberg CY - Universitätsverlag Winter ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hassler, Gerda T1 - Rezension zu: Wilhelm von Humboldt: Einleitende und vergleichende amerikanische Arbeiten [Introductory and Comparative American Works] / Edited by Manfred Ringmacher with the collaboration of Ute Tintemann, and with contributions by Jenne Klimp & Frank Zimmer. - Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2016. - viii, 496 pp. - (Wilhelm von Humboldt Schriften zur Sprachwissenschaft, 3.1). - ISBN 978-3-506-78416-2 JF - Historiographia Linguistica Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.00090.has SN - 1569-9781 SN - 0302-5160 VL - 48 IS - 2-3 SP - 323 EP - 331 PB - Benjamins CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Haßler, Gerda T1 - Meaning and Function BT - the Place of Coseriu’s Linguistic Theory in Functional Linguistics JF - Concordia discors vs. discordia concors : researches into comparative literature, contrastive linguistics, translation and cross-cultural strategies N2 - The use of the word functional in the most diverse theories and approaches has contributed in no small measure to the confusion in linguistics today. This article does not claim to give an overview of the different directions of functionalism in linguistics. Rather, the aim is to present what Coseriu‘s view characterised as functional in his time and to what extent his theory outlined a path that still makes sense in functional-cognitive linguistics today. This will involve an examination of Coseriu‘s difficult-to-identify concept of function. Furthermore, the article will also show that functional thinking is relevant for current grammatography. KW - function KW - meaning KW - grammatography KW - oppositions KW - functional unit Y1 - 2022 SN - 2065-4057 SN - 2457-8835 VL - 16 IS - 2 SP - 17 EP - 50 PB - Ştefan cel Mare University Press CY - Suceava ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Haßler, Gerda T1 - Aspectual periphrases in Romance languages in contact with the English progressive form T2 - Linguistic Hybridity. Contact-induced and cognitively motivated grammaticalization and lexicalization processes in Romance Languages Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-8253-4936-3 SN - 978-3-8253-8562-0 SP - 215 EP - 229 PB - Universitätsverlag Winter CY - Heidelberg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Auhagen, Christopher Patrick A1 - Uth, Melanie T1 - Variation of relative complementizers in Yucatecan Spanish BT - A comparison of monolingual and bilingual speakers JF - Languages 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. KW - relative complementation KW - variability KW - language contact KW - diachrony KW - Yucatecan Spanish Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7040279 SN - 2226-471X VL - 7 IS - 4 PB - MDPI CY - Basel ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ángel Puig-Samper, Miguel ED - Ette, Ottmar ED - Knobloch, Eberhard T1 - Humboldt and his geographical album of New Spain JF - HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies N2 - During his trip to New Spain in 1803, Alexander von Humboldt visited large tracts of New Spanish territory, which includes modern Mexico and part of the United States. This trip provided the data for his geographical Atlas of the region, as well as information about the ancient Mexican cultures that he would later include in the general Atlas and in other major works, such as Vues des Cordillères. Likewise, Humboldt’s Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain displayed a comprehensive physical, natural, economic, and social description of Mexico in the colonial period, which will also be analysed. With these works, Humboldt presented a new geographical and cultural image of New Spain to the European audiences. In addition to this, his work made important contributions to cartographic knowledge. N2 - Alexander von Humboldt en su viaje a Nueva España en 1803 tuvo la oportunidad de viajar por gran parte del territorio novohispano, que incluye Mexico y parte de del actual territorio de Estados Unidos. Este viaje le permitió preparar un Atlas geográfico de la región, además de obtener información sobre las antiguas culturas mexicanas que luego plasmará en el Atlas general del viaje y en algunas de sus principales obras como Vues des Cordillères. Asimismo, Humboldt hizo una excelente descripción física, natural, económica y social de México en la época colonial en su Ensayo político sobre el Reino de la Nueva España que también será analizado. Con estas obras Humboldt logró ofrecer una nueva imagen del territorio novohispano y sus riquezas al mundo europeo, así como un conocimiento cartográfico de gran importancia. N2 - Alexander von Humboldt, lors de son voyage en Nouvelle-Espagne en 1803, a eu l’occasion de parcourir une grande partie du territoire de la Nouvelle-Espagne, qui comprend le Mexique et une partie du territoire actuel des États-Unis. Ce voyage lui a permis de préparer un Atlas géographique de la région, ainsi que d’obtenir des informations sur les anciennes cultures mexicaines qu'il inclura plus tard dans l’Atlas général du voyage et dans certaines de ses œuvres principales comme Vues des Cordillères. Humboldt a également donné une excellente description physique, naturelle, économique et sociale du Mexique à l’époque coloniale dans son Essai Politique sur le Royaume de la Nouvelle Espagne, qui sera également analysé. Avec ces travaux, Humboldt a réussi à offrir au monde européen une nouvelle image du Nouveau territoire espagnol et de ses richesses, de même qu’une connaissance cartographique de grande importance. KW - New Spain KW - Mexico KW - geographical album Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-592335 SN - 2568-3543 SN - 1617-5239 VL - XXIII IS - 45 SP - 29 EP - 71 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - THES A1 - Sójka, Pia T1 - Writing travel, writing life T1 - Reisen schreiben Leben T1 - Écriture, le voyage ou la vie BT - Ars Vivendi and the travelling narrations of Ella Maillart, Annemarie Schwarzenbach and Nicolas Bouvier BT - Ars Vivendi und die reisenden Erzählungen von Ella Maillart, Annemarie Schwarzenbach und Nicolas Bouvier BT - Ars Vivendi et les narrations itinérantes d'Ella Maillart, Annemarie Schwarzenbach et Nicolas Bouvier N2 - The book compares the texts of three Swiss authors: Ella Maillart, Annemarie Schwarzenbach and Nicolas Bouvier. The focus is on their trip from Genève to Kabul that Ella Maillart and Annemarie Schwarzenbach made together in 1939/1940 and Nicolas Bouvier 1953/1954 with the artist Thierry Vernet. The comparison shows the strong connection between the journey and life and between ars vivendi and travel literature. This book also gives an overview of and organises the numerous terms, genres, and categories that already exist to describe various travel texts and proposes the new term travelling narration. The travelling narration looks at the text from a narratological perspective that distinguishes the author, narrator, and protagonist within the narration. In the examination, ten motifs could be found to characterise the travelling narration: Culture, Crossing Borders, Freedom, Time and Space, the Aesthetics of Landscapes, Writing and Reading, the Self and/as the Other, Home, Religion and Spirituality as well as the Journey. The importance of each individual motif does not only apply in the 1930s or 1950s but also transmits important findings for living together today and in the future. N2 - Das Buch vergleicht die Texte von drei Schweizer Autoren: Ella Maillart, Annemarie Schwarzenbach und Nicolas Bouvier. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Reise von Genève nach Kabul, die Ella Maillart gemeinsam mit Annemarie Schwarzenbach 1939/1940 und Nicolas Bouvier 1953/1954 mit dem Künstler Thierry Vernet unternahmen. Der Vergleich zeigt die enge Verbindung zwischen der Reise und dem Leben sowie zwischen ars vivendi und Reiseliteratur. Das Buch gibt einen Überblick über die zahlreichen Begriffe, Gattungen und Kategorien, die bereits zur Beschreibung verschiedener Reisetexte existieren, und schlägt den neuen Begriff der reisenden Erzählung „travelling narration“ vor. Die reisende Erzählung betrachtet den Text aus einer narratologischen Perspektive, die den Autor, Erzähler und Protagonisten innerhalb der Erzählung unterscheidet. In der Untersuchung konnten zehn Motive gefunden werden, die die reisende Erzählung charakterisieren: Kultur, Grenzüberschreitung, Freiheit, Zeit und Raum, Ästhetik der Landschaft, Schreiben und Lesen, das Selbst und / oder der Andere, Heimat, Religion und Spiritualität sowie die Reise. Die Bedeutung jedes einzelnen Motivs gilt nicht nur für die 1930er oder 1950er Jahre, sondern vermittelt auch wichtige Erkenntnisse für das Zusammenleben heute und in der Zukunft. N2 - Le livre compare les textes de trois auteurs suisses : Ella Maillart, Annemarie Schwarzenbach et Nicolas Bouvier. L'accent est mis sur le voyage de Genève à Kaboul qu'Ella Maillart et Annemarie Schwarzenbach ont effectué ensemble en 1939/1940 et Nicolas Bouvier 1953/1954 avec l'artiste Thierry Vernet. La comparaison montre le lien fort entre le voyage et la vie et entre l'ars vivendi et la littérature de voyage. Ce livre donne également un aperçu et organise les nombreux termes, genres et catégories qui existent déjà pour décrire les différents textes de voyage et propose le nouveau terme narration itinérante „travelling literature“. La narration itinérante examine le texte dans une perspective narratologique qui distingue l'auteur, le narrateur et le protagoniste au sein de la narration. Au cours de l'examen, dix motifs ont été trouvés pour caractériser le récit de voyage : La culture, la traversée des frontières, la liberté, le temps et l'espace, l'esthétique des paysages, l'écriture et la lecture, le soi et l'autre, la maison, la religion et la spiritualité ainsi que le voyage. L'importance de chaque motif individuel ne s'applique pas seulement aux années 1930 ou 1950, mais transmet également des conclusions importantes pour le vivre ensemble aujourd'hui et à l'avenir. T3 - Potsdamer Bibliothek der WeltRegionen (PoWeR) - 5 KW - travel literature KW - récit de voyage KW - Reiseliteratur KW - Ella Maillart KW - Ella Maillart KW - Ella Maillart KW - Nicolas Bouvier KW - Nicolas Bouvier KW - Nicolas Bouvier KW - Annemarie Schwarzenbach KW - Annemarie Schwarzenbach KW - Annemarie Schwarzenbach KW - art of life KW - Lebenskunst KW - savoir vivre Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-558799 SN - 978-3-86956-537-8 SN - 2629-2548 SN - 2629-253X PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - 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 - JOUR A1 - Hassler, Gerda T1 - Meaning and Function BT - the Place of Coseriu’s Linguistic Theory in Functional Linguistics JF - Concordia discors vs. discordia concors : international journal for researches into comparative literature, contrastive linguistics, cross-cultural and translation strategies N2 - The use of the word functional in the most diverse theories and approaches has contributed in no small measure to the confusion in linguistics today. This article does not claim to give an overview of the different directions of functionalism in linguistics. Rather, the aim is to present what Coseriu‘s view characterised as functional in his time and to what extent his theory outlined a path that still makes sense in functional-cognitive linguistics today. This will involve an examination of Coseriu‘s difficult-to-identify concept of function. Furthermore, the article will also show that functional thinking is relevant for current grammatography. KW - function KW - meaning KW - grammatography KW - oppositions KW - functional unit Y1 - 2021 SN - 2065-4057 SN - 2457-8835 IS - 16 SP - 17 EP - 50 PB - Ştefan cel Mare University Press CY - Suceava ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schwarz, Ingo A1 - Kutzinski, Vera M. ED - Ette, Ottmar ED - Knobloch, Eberhard T1 - A Letter from Alexander von Humboldt to Joseph Albert Wright – Archival Traces JF - HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz N2 - A few months before his death, A. v. Humboldt attended the celebration in honor of the 127th birthday of George Washington at the US legation in Berlin. A letter to the American Envoy, Joseph A. Wright (1810 – 1867), underlines Humboldt’s admiration for the fi rst president of the United States. At the same time Humboldt asked the diplomat to mail a letter to the German-American Bernard Moses (1832 – 1897) in Clinton, Louisiana, who had named his son Alexander Humboldt Moses (grave on the Hebrew Rest Cemetery #2 in New Orleans, burial plot A, 12, 5). It appears to be possible that the Moses family still owns Humboldt’s letter. N2 - Wenige Monate vor seinem Tod besuchte A. v. Humboldt die Feier zu Ehren des 127. Geburtstages von George Washington an der Gesandtschaft der Vereinigten Staaten in Berlin. Ein Brief an den Gesandten, Joseph A. Wright (1810 – 1867), betonte Humboldts Bewunderung für den ersten Präsidenten der Vereinten Staaten. Gleichzeit bat Humboldt den Diplomaten um die Beförderung eines Briefes an den Deutschamerikaner Bernard Moses(1832 – 1897) in Clinton, Louisiana, der seinen Sohn Alexander Humboldt Moses (Grab auf dem Hebrew Rest Cemetery #2 in New Orleans, Grabstelle A, 12, 5) genannt hat. N2 - Unos meses antes de su muerte, A. v. Humboldt asistió a la celebración en honor al 127º cumpleaños de George Washington en la legación estadounidense en Berlín. Una carta al delegado estadounidense, Joseph A. Wright (1810 – 1867), subraya la admiración de Humboldt por el primer presidente de los Estados Unidos. Al mismo tiempo, Humboldt le pidió al diplomático que enviara una carta al germano-estadounidense Bernard Moses (1832 – 1897) en Clinton, Louisiana, quien había puesto a su hijo, el nombre de Alexander Humboldt Moses(tumba en el cementerio Hebrew Rest número 2 en Nueva Orleans, lugar de enteramiento: A, 12, 5). KW - Alexander Humboldt KW - Moses KW - Korrespondenz Alexander von Humboldts KW - Vereinigten Staaten Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-532787 SN - 2568-3543 SN - 1617-5239 VL - XXII IS - 43 SP - 5 EP - 12 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gerstenberg, Annette A1 - Skupien-Dekens, Carine T1 - A grammar of authority? BT - directive Speech Acts and terms of address in two single-genre corpora of Classical French JF - Journal of historical pragmatics N2 - Directive Speech Acts (dsas) are a major feature of historical pragmatics, specifically in research on historical (im)politeness. However, for Classical French, there is a lack of research on related phenomena. In our contribution, we present two recently constructed corpora covering the period of Classical French, sermo and apwcf. We present these corpora in terms of their genre characteristics on a communicative-functional and socio-pragmatic level. Based on the observation that, both in sermo and apwcf, dsas frequently occur together with terms of address, we analyse and manually code a sample based on this co-occurrence, and we compare the results with regard to special features in the individual corpora. The emerging patterns show a clear correspondence between socio-pragmatic factors and the linguistic means used to realise dsas. We propose that these results can be interpreted as signs of an underlying "grammar of authority". KW - corpus KW - correspondence KW - directive speech acts KW - politeness KW - sermons KW - terms of address Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.17006.ger SN - 1566-5852 SN - 1569-9854 VL - 22 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 33 PB - John Benjamins Publishing Co. CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Klettke, Cornelia ED - Havely, Nick ED - Katz, Jonathan ED - Cooper, Richard T1 - Measuring the divine by Geometry and Feeling BT - Canto 33 of Dante’s Paradiso JF - Dante Beyond Borders. Contexts and Reception Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-1-781888-30-8 SN - 978-1-781888-34-6 SN - 978-1-781888-38-4 SP - 21 EP - 34 PB - Legenda CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Haßler, Gerda ED - Haßler, Gerda T1 - Présentation T2 - Collocations et traditions discursives Actes du Colloque du Collège Doctoral Franco-allemand (CDFA) tenu à l’Université de Potsdam le 4 juillet 2018 (Linx : revue des linguistes de l'Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense) Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4000/linx.3842 SN - 2118-9692 VL - 2020 IS - 13 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Haßler, Gerda T1 - The Functional-Communicative Approach to Language of the Potsdam School in the German Democratic Republic BT - the Genesis and Demise of a Paradigm JF - History of Humanities Y1 - 2020 UR - https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/707691 SN - 2379-3163 VL - 5 IS - 1 SP - 31 EP - 49 PB - The University of Chicago Press Journals CY - Chicago ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hennemann, Anja T1 - Reporting on ‘thinking’ in Spanish and Portuguese and the role of the subject pronoun N2 - The present paper is concerned with the phenomenon of reporting on the speakers’ thinking when both the reporting and the reported clauses originate in one and the same speaker, i.e. the performative uses of the verbs sp. creer and pt. achar (‘think’). The data are retrieved from the CdE-NOW and CdP-NOW. Adopting both a quantitative and a qualitative perspective, I concentrate on reporting on thinking with and without the overt expression of the subject pronouns sp. yo and pt. eu. In doing so, the constructions (yo) creo (que) and (eu) acho (que) as well as parenthetic and right-peripheral creo yo and acho eu are studied. According to the corpus data and compared to other possible constructions with creo and acho, creo que and acho que represent the most frequent constructions if searching for the ‘node’ creo or acho, that is, if the non-use of the subject pronoun exceeds its explicit expression. KW - cognitive verbs KW - subject pronoun KW - discourse function KW - mitigation KW - Spanish KW - Portuguese Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-474455 ER - TY - THES A1 - Hennemann, Anja T1 - Topic and Focus Markers in Spanish, Portuguese and French T2 - Potsdam linguistic investigations ; 30 N2 - This book is concerned with the diachronic development of selected topic and focus markers in Spanish, Portuguese and French. On the one hand, it focuses on the development of these structures from their relational meaning to their topic-/ focus-marking meaning, and on the other hand, it is concerned with their current form und use. Thus, Romance topic and focus markers – such as sp. en cuanto a, pt. a propósito de, fr. au niveau de or sentence-initial sp. Lo que as well as clefts and pseudo-clefts – are investigated from a quantitative and qualitative perspective. The author argues that topic markers have procedural meaning and that their function is bound to their syntactic position. An important contribution of this study is the fact that real linguistic evidence (in the form of data from various corpora) is analyzed instead of operating with constructed examples. Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-3-631-82392-7 SN - 978-3-631-81889-3 PB - Lang CY - Berlin ER - TY - BOOK ED - Eckstein, Lars ED - Barrett, Lindsay ED - Schwarz, Anja ED - Hurley, Andrew Wright T1 - Remembering German-Australian Colonial Entanglements T3 - Postcolonial Studies ; 21 N2 - Remembering German- Australian Colonial Entanglements emphatically promotes a critical and nuanced understanding of the complex entanglement of German colonial actors and activities within Australian colonial institutions and different imperial ideologies. Case studies ranging from the German reception of James Cook's voyages through to the legacies of 19th- and 20th- century settler colonialism foreground the highly ambiguous roles played by explorers, missionaries, intellectuals and other individuals, as well as by objects and things that travelled between worlds - ancestral human remains, rare animal skins, songs and even military tanks. The chapters foreground the complex relationship between science, religion, art and exploitation, displacement and annihilation. Contributors trace how these entanglements have been commemorated or forgotten over time - by Germans, settler-Australians and Indigenous people. Bringing to light a critical understanding of the German involvement in the Australian colonial project, Remembering German- Australian Colonial Entanglements will be of great interest to scholars of colonialism, postcolonialism, German Studies and Indigenous Studies. But for the editors' substantial new introductory chapter, these contributions originally appeared in a special issue of Postcolonial Studies. Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-0-367-42159-5 PB - Routledge CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lenz, Markus Alexander ED - Islam, Dayeh T1 - A Prophet of Divine Wisdom? BT - Giambattista Vico and the Construction of the Pythagorean Myth JF - Philological Encounters Special Issus: Early Modern 'New Sciences': Inquiries into Ibn Khaldun and Giambattista Vico N2 - In the nineteenth century, the reception of Giambattista Vico’s writings came along with nationalist interpretations of his Scienza Nuova as an ‘Italian Science’. This tendency was based upon an increased examination of the role that the philosopher Pythagoras and his Italian school of Croton played in Vico’s hierarchical conception of the ancient Greek and Italian civilizations. Writers, archaeologists and historians used the New Science as a metonymic reference work for their own nationalist concepts by updating the Pythagorean myth in accordance with relevant narratives of exclusive genealogies concerning an ancient Italian wisdom. These narratives follow tendencies in Vico’s own writings that were quoted strategically and mixed with further interpretations of the Scienza Nuova as reliable testimonial for a glorious Italian history. A theological poet characterized by deeper insight into the secrets of nature and some parts of the divine providence, Pythagoras gains his special position in Vico’s general conception of knowledge. KW - Pythagoras KW - Cuoco KW - Mazzoldi; KW - prophet KW - Pythagorean myth KW - Italian nationalism Y1 - 2020 UR - https://brill.com/view/journals/phen/5/1/article-p50_4.xml SN - 2451-9189 SN - 2451-9197 VL - 5 IS - 1 SP - 50 EP - 75 PB - Brill CY - Leiden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar ED - Pdoksik, Efraim T1 - Exploring the World: On Vectopia BT - Alexander von Humboldt und Adelbert von Chamisso JF - Doing Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Germany Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-90-04-36117-1 SP - 214 EP - 242 PB - Brill CY - Leiden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar ED - Spies, Paul ED - Tintemann, Ute ED - Mende, Jan T1 - Wilhelm & Alexander von Humboldt or: Humboldtian Science JF - Wilhelm und Alexander von Humboldt - Berlin Cosmos T2 - Wilhelm & Alexander von Humboldt oder: Die Humboldtsche Wissenschaft Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-3-86832-559-1 SP - 19 EP - 23 PB - Wienand CY - Köln ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Saga-Like World-Fractals: João Guimarães Rosa, "Sagarana", and the Literatures of the World JF - Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures N2 - This article presents and discusses João Guimarães Rosa as an outstanding Brazilian author whose literary work, especially Sagarana, expresses aesthetically different ways of life-forms between human beings, animals, plants, and landscapes. Movement and transformations are the basic principles in which the melody of prose expresses itself as a language in and as motion. Although based in Brazilian culture, Rosa shows the conviviality of different logics which are not reduced to one myth of the Brazilian people, but produce multiple ways of co-existence between different life-forms and culture narratives. The translingual title “Sagarana” already alludes to the transitions between two languages, regions, and cultures: the Icelandic “saga-” and the Tupic-Word “rana” which means “similar” or “alike.” The interpretation figures out the correlation of different provenances (“Herkünfte”) which emerge from Rosa’s craft of storytelling. In its center, the Sertão arises as a region of nature whose forces are connected with the life of human beings. As fractal of the world, it symbolizes Brazilian relations as a world of its own and at the same time as a part of the world of others. From this point of view the essay turns world literature upside down: it emphasizes on the one hand that the epoch of world literature since Goethe has come to an end and that the meridian has shifted to Latin America. On the other hand it can be observed that the lusophonic world between Brazil and Angola, Portugal and Kap Verde develops new perspectives on literatures of the world beyond the fixed coordinations of periphery and center. Rosa’s ways of world making already shift the perspective from the local to the global as a miniatured model of a universe which reveals interpretations of a better understanding of the world as world fractals. KW - João Guimarães Rosa KW - world literature KW - literatures of the world KW - Latin American literature KW - Brazilian literature KW - Sagarana Y1 - 2020 VL - IV IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 21 PB - Hunan Normal University CY - Changsha ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - From the Transarchipélique Antilles BT - the Collitude of Khal Torabully JF - Ameena Gafoor Institute N2 - Ottmar Ette: TransArea : a literary history of globalization. Translated by Mark W. Person, Berlin, Boston, Walter de Gruyter, 2016. - 356 S. - ISBN 978-3-11-047773-3 Y1 - 2020 UR - https://ameenagafoorinstitute.org/from-the-transarchiplique-antilles-the-coolitude-of-khal-torabully ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Towards a polylogical Philology of the Literatures of the World JF - Abralic Y1 - 2020 UR - https://abralic.org.br/downloads/2020/ottmar-ette-filologia-das-literaturas.pdf ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Alexander von Humboldt BT - life and work in motion JF - Offene Horizonte : Schätze zu Humboldts Reisewegen Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-3-933924-25-4 SP - 20 EP - 21 PB - Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim CY - Pforzheim ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Seemann, Jörn ED - Ette, Ottmar ED - Knobloch, Eberhard T1 - Alexander von Humboldt’s Search for the Casiquiare Canal BT - Movements, Measurements, Maps JF - HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies N2 - Though Humboldt’s travels to the Americas have been analyzed from a wide range of viewpoints, there are specific aspects that still await further investigation. Little is written about Humboldt in the field, specifically how he moved between different locations and simultaneously measured and mapped places and phenomena. The aim of this article is to discuss the triad movement-measure-ment-map that led to the development of specific practices of knowledge building on the move. Humboldt’s search for the connections between the watersheds of the Orinoco and the Amazon rivers and the resulting maps and drawings are used as an example to point out his cartographic impulse in his quest to understand and explain the physical world. N2 - Obwohl Humboldts Reisen nach Amerika unter ver-schiedenen Gesichtspunkten analysiert wurden, gibt es bestimmte Aspekte, die noch weiter untersucht werden müssen. Wenig ist jedoch über Humboldt im Feld geschrieben, insbesondere darüber, wie er sich zwischen verschiedenen Orten bewegte und gleichzeitig Lokalitäten und Phänomene maß und kartierte. Das Ziel dieses Artikels ist es, die Triade Bewegung-Messung-Landkarte zu diskutieren, die zur Entwicklung spezifischer Praktiken des „Wissenschaffens“ in Bewegung führte. Humboldts Suche nach den Verbindungen zwischen den Wassereinzugsgebieten des Orinoco und des Amazo-nasflusses sowie die daraus resultierenden Karten und Zeichnungen dienen als Beispiel, um seinen kartografischen Impuls bei seinem Bestreben, die physische Welt zu verstehen und zu erklären, hervorzuheben. N2 - Aunque los viajes de Humboldt a las Américas han sido analizados desde una amplia gama de puntos de vista, hay aspectos específicos que aún esperan una mayor investigación. Poco se escribe sobre Humboldt en el campo, específicamente cómo se movió entre diferentes lugares y simultáneamente midió y cartografió lugares y fenómenos. El objetivo de este artículo es discutir la tríada movimien-to-medición-mapa que condujo al desarrollo de prácticas específicas de construcción de conocimiento en movimiento. La investigación de Humboldt de las conexiones entre las cuencas hidrográficas del Orinoco y del Amazonas y los mapas y dibujos resultantes se utiliza como un ejemplo para señalar su impulso cartográfico en su búsqueda para comprender y explicar el mundo físico. KW - America journey KW - cartography KW - knowledge and movement KW - Casquiare Canal Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-488363 SN - 2568-3543 SN - 1617-5239 VL - XXI IS - 41 SP - 77 EP - 106 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Haßler, Gerda T1 - Theory of signs and ideas on the relation between language and thought at the border between the 18th and 19th centuries T1 - Представления о связи между языком и мышлением во Франции на рубеже XVIII–XIX вв. BT - a case study of the ideologist’s activity in Saint Petersburg BT - и влияние идеологов в Санкт-Петербурге пример Жана-Батиста Модрю (1740–1808) JF - Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta. Jazyk i literatura N2 - The name Ideologues refers to a group of philosophers, psychologists, grammarians, educational theorists and medical specialists who for a short period from 1795 to 1805 determined the intellectual climate in France and sought to develop a science of ideas (idéologie). The Ideologues had a rather reserved attitude to Condillac’s (1714–1780) ideas and his sensualist sign theory. They strove for the perfection of language for the needs of thought and of scientific knowledge. The connections with the Ideologues can also be discerned in Russia. In the educational theory, Jean-Baptiste Maudru (1740–1808) was close to the Ideologues and, despite his insufficient knowledge of the Russian language, made some interesting remarks on the connection between the language and the national character. According to Maudru and in agreement with the Ideologues, different typologies of word order are not just an indication of greater or lesser closeness to the natural order. Rather, they indicate differences in national character, which manifest themselves in the specific character of individual languages. Maudru taught at the military academy in Saint Petersburg and published the first Russian grammar in France (Maudru 1802). In his grammar, he sought to link mechanically the specific features of languages and of national characters with the climatic influences. His attempt to revive the theory of climatic influences was criticized by Karamzin. Karamzin also treated the discussion of the metaphoric extension of word meanings as an absurd undertaking, which had no place in grammar. N2 - Под именем идеологов известна группа философов, психологов, грамматиков, педагогов и медиков, которая в течение непродолжительного периода (1795–1805) определяла духовную жизнь во Франции и хотела создать науку об идеях (idéologie). Общим для представителей данного движения было сдержанное отношение к идеям Кондильяка (1714–1780) и его сенсуалистской теории знаков, а также стремление усовершенствовать язык во имя развития мышления и научного познания. Именно идеологам мы обязаны постановкой ряда принципиальных вопросов, касающихся влияния знаков на идеи, а также изданием целой серии учебников по грамматике и трудов о значении знаков для мышления. Идеологи поддерживали личные контакты в том числе и в России. К идеологам был близок, в частности, Жан-Батист Модрю (1740–1808, Maudru), которому удалось, несмотря на ограниченность его познаний в русском языке, сделать ряд интересных наблюдений касательно связи между языком и национальным характером. Согласно Модрю и в полном соответствии с толкованием идеологов, характерное для того или иного языка расположение членов предложения указывает на нечто совершенно иное, чем просто бóльшую или меньшую степень близости к естественности, а именно на различия в национальном характере, который налагает отпечаток на особенный характер соответствующего языка. Модрю преподавал языки в CанктПетербургском Кадетском корпусе и опубликовал первый во Франции учебник по русской грамматике. Модрю попытался механически соединить специфические особенности языка и национального характера народа, возлагая ответственность на климатические факторы. Его попытку реанимировать климатическую теорию критиковал, в частности, Карамзин, который также считал толкование переносных значений слов абсурдным занятием, которому не место в рамках грамматики. KW - Ideologues KW - sign KW - grammar KW - language and thought Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2019.308 SN - 2541-9358 SN - 2541-9366 VL - 16 IS - 3 SP - 463 EP - 479 PB - St. Petersburg University Press CY - Sankt-Peterburg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gerstenberg, Annette T1 - Generational styles in oral storytelling BT - What can be learned from narrative priming? JF - Narrative inquiry N2 - When it comes to autobiographical narratives, the most spontaneous and natural manner is preferable. But neither individually told narratives nor those grounded in the communicative repertoire of a social group are easily comparable. A clearly identifiable tertium comparationis is mandatory. We present the results of an experimental ‘Narrative Priming’ setting with French students. A potentially underlying model of narrating from personal experience was activated via a narrative prime, and in a second step, the participants were asked to tell a narrative of their own. The analysis focuses on similarities and differences between the primes and the students’ narratives. The results give evidence for the possibility to elicit a set of comparable narratives via a prime, and to activate an underlying narrative template. Meaningful differences are discussed as generational and age related styles. The transcriptions from the participants that authorized the publication are available online. KW - generational styles KW - priming KW - sociolinguistics KW - experimental KW - positioning KW - narrative templates KW - French KW - doing storytelling KW - narratives from personal experience KW - spoken language Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.18042.ger SN - 1387-6740 VL - 29 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 28 PB - John Benjamins Publishing Co. CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Steinmeier, Frank-Walter T1 - Address on the opening of the Alexander von Humboldt Season in Quito, Ecuador, on 13 February 2019 JF - HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies KW - Alexander von Humboldt Season KW - Federal President KW - trip to South America KW - Quito KW - Ecuador KW - Aimé Bonpland KW - second discoverer of America KW - Humboldt y las Américas Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-434723 SN - 2568-3543 SN - 1617-5239 VL - XX IS - 39 SP - 23 EP - 30 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rebok, Sandra A1 - Winkle, Timothy T1 - “Mason without apron” BT - Alexander von Humboldt and the world of Freemasonry JF - HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies N2 - Während das Fehlen einer religiösen Haltung in Humboldts Werk, sowie die Kritik, die er diesbezüglich erhalten hat, allgemein bekannt sind, ist sein möglicher Bezug zur Freimaurerei noch weitgehend unerforscht. Zwar erscheint Humboldt auf einigen Listen von „illustren Freimaurern“, zudem tragen mehrere Logen seinen Namen, aber die Frage bleibt offen, ob Humboldt wirklich ein Freimaurer war. Wenn ja, wann und wo ist er einer Loge beigetreten? Gibt es vielleicht Kommentare von ihm zu dieser Art von Geheimbünden? Und wer waren die bekanntesten Freimaurer in seiner Umgebung? Der Artikel beantwortet diese Punkte, aber wichtiger noch geht er der Frage nach, was eine Mitgliedschaft für Humboldts wissenschaftliche Arbeit bedeutet haben könnte, insbesondere im Hinblick auf den herausragenden Erfolg, den er in den Vereinigten Staaten zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts hatte und die Gründe hierfür. Was hätten solche Verbindungen für ihn bedeutet und wie wurde er von den wichtigsten freimaurerischen Persönlichkeiten und Logen in der transatlantischen Welt wahrgenommen? N2 - While the lack of religion in Alexander von Humboldt’s work and the criticism he received is well known, his relationship with Freemasonry is relatively unexplored. Humboldt appears on some lists of “illustrious Masons,” and several lodges carry his name, but was he really a member? If so, when and where did he join a lodge? Are there any comments by him about Freemasonry? Who were the renowned Masons he was surrounded by? This paper examines these questions, but more importantly it analyzes what a membership might have meant for Humboldt’s scholarly work. It looks particularly at the unprecedented success he enjoyed in the United States in the early 19th century and the factors behind it. What could he have gained from these connections and how was he viewed by Masonic leaders and lodges in the trans-Atlantic world? N2 - Mientras que la falta de religiosidad en la obra de Alexander von Humboldt, así como las críticas por ello recibidas, son bien conocidas, su posible relación con la masonería es relativamente incógnita. Humboldt aparece en algunas listas de “masones ilustres” y varias logias llevan su nombre pero, ¿fue realmente miembro de una de ellas? Y en este supuesto, ¿cuándo y dónde se adhirió?, ¿existen comentarios suyos sobre la masonería?, ¿qué masones de renombre le rodearon? Este artículo estudia estas cuestiones pero, de manera más importante, analiza lo que la membresía de una logia masónica podría haber significado para el trabajo académico de Humboldt. En particular, mira el éxito sin precedentes del que disfrutó en los Estados Unidos a comienzos del siglo xix y los motivos para ello. ¿Qué podria haber ganado de estas conexiones y cómo fue visto por los líderes y logias masónicas en el mundo transatlántico? KW - Masonry KW - Atlantic history KW - intellectual networks KW - religion KW - Enlightenment KW - Masonería KW - Historia atlántica KW - redes intelectuales KW - religión KW - Ilustración KW - Freimaurerei KW - Atlantische Geschichte KW - intellektuelle Netzwerke KW - Religion KW - Aufklärung Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-434735 SN - 2568-3543 SN - 1617-5239 VL - XX IS - 38 SP - 31 EP - 50 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hennemann, Anja T1 - “I mean, no soy psicóloga” BT - The English discourse marker I mean in Spanish and Portuguese online communication N2 - This paper is concerned with the qualitative analysis of the use of the English discourse marker I mean in Spanish and Portuguese online discourses (in online fora, blogs or user comments on websites). The examples are retrieved from the Corpus del Español (Web/ Dialects) as well as the Corpus do Português (Web/ Dialects). KW - I mean KW - discourse marker KW - Spanish discourse KW - Portuguese discourse KW - Code-switching KW - Borrowing Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-430984 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Pride and conviviality - pride in conviviality BT - the rise and recognition of a prospective force T2 - Taking Stock – Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research (Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft) N2 - Pride is linked to conviviality, to the practice of life-with-an-other, and to an awareness of the limitations of the life forms and life norms which guide and regulate the life of culturally, socially, and historically defined communities. Assuming this link, pride in living-together and conviviality appear as concepts creating a framework for future perspectives. But these concepts need a space in which they can unfold critically and confidently with a view to the future. For millennia, the literatures of the world have created this space of simulation and experimentation in which knowledge of how-to-live-with-an-other has been put down on paper through the open-ended tradition of writing. It is the space of the life forms and life norms of conviviality: it offers us prospective knowledge for the future by translating the imaginable into the thinkable, and the readable into the livable. KW - pride KW - conviviality KW - inclusion KW - patriotism KW - literatures of the world Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-90-04-41035-0 SN - 978-90-04-40828-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004410350_006 SN - 0929-6999 VL - 200 SP - 121 EP - 155 PB - Brill Rodopi CY - Leiden [u.a.] ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Eckstein, Lars A1 - Bartels, Anke A1 - Waller, Nicole A1 - Wiemann, Dirk T1 - Postcolonial Literatures in English: An Introduction N2 - Postcoloniale Literatur bezeichnet die nationalen anglophonen Literaturen in den Amerikas, Asien, Afrika und Ozeanien (zeitweise auch New English Literatures genannt). Eine Darstellung nach Regionen ist wegen der migrantischen Bewegungen der Autor/innen allerdings nicht zu leisten. Daher behandelt der Band die zentralen Themen der postkolonialen Debatte, die jeweils Autor/innen aus verschiedenen Regionen betreffen. Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-3-476-02674-3 PB - Metzler CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Andress, Reinhard T1 - Addendum: a second Poem by Eduard Dorsch on the occasion of Humboldt’s 100th birthday JF - HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies N2 - In a previously published article in HIN under the title of “Eduard Dorsch and his unpublished poem on the occasion of Humboldt’s 100th birthday,” I elaborated on Dorsch’s poem that was read in Detroit in front of a German-American audience on Sept. 14, 1869, a day widely celebrated in the US in honor of Humboldt. Although it was not surprising that Dorsch wrote the occasional poem in the first place given his affinities with Humboldt’s world of thought, a discovery of a second occasional poem upon further research in Dorsch’s voluminous papers was indeed unexpected, in this case read on the same date in Monroe, Michigan. Although there are a number of similarities between the Detroit and Monroe versions, there are enough differences that warrant this addendum to my original article. N2 - In einem bereits in HIN veröffentlichten Artikel mit dem Titel Eduard Dorsch und sein unveröffentlichtes Gelegenheitsgedicht zu Humboldts 100. Geburtstag ging ich auf Dorschs Gedicht ein, das am 14. September 1869 vor einem deutsch-amerikanischen Publikum in Detroit verlesen wurde, an einem Tag, der überall zu Ehren Humboldts in den USA gefeiert wurde. Obwohl es nicht überraschend ist, dass Dorsch angesichts seiner Affinität zu Humboldts Gedankenwelt das Gedicht überhaupt schrieb, war der Fund eines zweiten Gelegenheitsgedichts in Dorschs umfangreichem Nachlass dennoch unerwartet, in diesem Falle am selben Tag in Monroe, Michigan verlesen. Obwohl es eine Reihe von Ähnlichkeiten zwischen den Detroit- und Monroe-Versionen gibt, tauchen auch genug Unterschiede auf, um diesen Nachtrag zu meinem ursprünglichen Artikel zu rechtfertigen. N2 - En un artículo ya publicado en HIN bajo el título de "Eduard Dorsch y su poema inédito con motivo del centenario de Humboldt", abordé el poema de Dorsch leído en Detroit frente a una audiencia germano-estadounidense el 14 de septiembre de 1869, un día ampliamente celebrado en los Estados Unidos en honor a Humboldt. Aunque no sorprende que Dorsch escribiera el poema de ocasión debido a sus afinidades con la cosmovisión de Humboldt, lo inesperado fue el hallazgo de un segundo poema para la misma ocasión durante un estudio adicional de los voluminosos papeles de Dorsch. Este segundo poema fue leído en la misma fecha en Monroe, Michigan. Si bien existe una serie de similitudes entre las versiones creadas para Detroit y Monroe, también hay suficientes diferencias que justifican este apéndice a mi artículo original. Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-442585 SN - 2568-3543 SN - 1617-5239 VL - XX IS - 39 SP - 61 EP - 70 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Böhm, Verónica Julia A1 - Hennemann, Anja T1 - The Spanish imperfecto as a construal form for the conceptualization of state of affairs in journalistic texts N2 - This study adopts a cognitive approach to the analysis of the use of the Spanish imperfecto as a construal form for the conceptualization of state of affairs in certain journalistic texts. In doing so, the main focus of the study is to investigate cognitive processes like modalization and subjectivization, which are related to the speaker’s standpoint and to his subjective, not grammatically motivated, decision to use the imperfective instead of the perfective form. By the help of the corpus programmes GlossaNet and CREA (corpus of the Real Academia Española) we analyze the imperfective use of some Spanish verbs, which are semantically perfective in nature so that the normative use would require a perfective form. In other words, we investigate how the speaker/journalist construes a reality or situation to be expressed by means of the imperfecto and show that this use of the imperfect is typical for journalistic discourse. KW - cognitive grammar KW - Spanish imperfect KW - modalization KW - subjectivization Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-416094 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Müller, Gesine A1 - Locane, Jorge Joaquin A1 - Loy, Benjamin T1 - Introduction T2 - Re-mapping World Literature: Writing, Book Markets and Epistemologies between Latin America and the Global South / Escrituras, mercados y epistemologías entre América Latina y el Sur Global Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-11-054957-7 SN - 978-3-11-054952-2 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110549577-001 SN - 2513-0757 SP - 1 EP - 12 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hennemann, Anja T1 - Evidentiality and (Inter-) Subjectivity as (Non-) Competing Dimensions BT - Examples from Portuguese, Spanish and English Orality N2 - The present paper discusses the relationship between evidentiality and (inter-) subjectivity and argues that the two semantic-functional categories need not be mutually exclusive. In the use of certain means of expression and in certain contexts, both evidentiality and (inter-) subjectivity may be conveyed simultaneously. I thereby differentiate between two meanings of intersubjectivity, namely ‘intersubjectivity1’ and ‘intersubjectivity2’. Intersubjectivity1 refers to the notion of common or general knowledge: certain means of expression are seen as being intersubjectively used when the speaker shares or assumes sharing knowledge with the interlocutor. Intersubjectivity2 is related to particular discourse functions of certain means of expression in interactional settings, paying attention to the speaker-hearer constellation. In order to substantiate the theoretical part of the paper, I then present a qualitative analysis of Portuguese, Spanish and English examples, which are taken from the Corpus do Português, Corpus del Español and the Corpus of Contemporary American English. KW - Evidentiality KW - Subjectivity KW - Intersubjectivity KW - Evidentialität KW - Subjektivität KW - Intersubjektivität Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-414996 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Haßler, Gerda T1 - Linguistic relativity and language as epiphenomenon: two contradictory positions JF - Confluência. Revista do Instituto de língua portuguesa N2 - The assumption of linguistics relativity and the definition of languages as epiphenomena are certainly known as two contradictory positions from the last century. But I will start my discussion of them in the period of their appearance and then use this as a basis to evaluate the heuristic value of these positions in present day linguistics. I will start with the definition of language as an epiphenomenon and then I will go on with the linguistic relativity. The notion of ʽepiphenomenon’ is usually used to exclude certain aspects of a scientific object because they are considered to be deduced from others. In linguistics, restrictions of the research object were made, invoking the notion of ʽepiphenomenonʼ, which was partially done with a polemical attitude, and was always responded to polemically. Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.18364/rc.v0i55 SN - 2317-4153 VL - 2018 IS - 55 SP - 82 EP - 98 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Haßler, Gerda T1 - Evidential and epistemic sentence adverbs in Romance languages JF - Linguistik online N2 - In this paper evidential and modal adverbs will be studied, such as French apparemment, évidemment, visiblement, Italian apparentemente, evidentemente, ovviamente, and Spanish aparentemente, evidentemente and visiblemente. The development of their signification will be discussed, including German adverbs like offensichtlich. In these means of expression, the functional-semantic categories evidentiality and epistemic modality seem to overlap: on the one hand, they are used if the state of affairs talked about cannot be verified, that is, if there is still a moment of insecurity concerning the transmitted information. Then adverbials with a special structure (preposition + article + nominal form of a verb) will be analysed, and we will examine if they behave in the same way. Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-421822 SN - 1615-3014 VL - 92 IS - 5 SP - 82 EP - 98 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Andress, Reinhard T1 - Eduard Dorsch and his unpublished poem on the occasion of Humboldt’s 100th birthday JF - HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies N2 - In 1869, the German-American medical doctor and poet, Eduard Dorsch, wrote a poem read in Detroit on the occasion of Humboldt’s 100th birthday. This article publishes the poem for the first time and explores its context within the life and times of its author. N2 - En el año 1869, el médico y poeta germanoamericano escribió un poema ocasional leído con motivo del 100º cumpleaños de Humboldt. Este artículo publica el poema por primera vez y explora su contexto en la vida y el tiempo del autor. N2 - Im Jahre 1869 schrieb der deutsch-amerikanische Arzt und Dichter Eduard Dorsch ein Gelegenheitsgedicht, das anlässlich von Humboldts 100. Geburtstag in Detroit vorgelesen wurde. Dieser Artikel veröffentlicht das Gedicht zum ersten Mal und erforscht dessen Kontext im Leben und in der Zeit des Autors. Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-419398 SN - 1617-5239 SN - 2568-3543 VL - XIX IS - 36 SP - 17 EP - 34 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Casas, Vicente Durán T1 - Immanuel Kant, Alexander von Humboldt and the Tequendama Fall BT - Two Prussians linked by Geography JF - HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies N2 - Immanuel Kant mentions in his Physical Geography the waterfall of the Bogotá River in South America, known today as the Salto de Tequendama, which is located near Bogotá, the capital city of Colombia. Kant claims that this was the highest waterfall in the world, which is not true. Alexander von Humboldt could not know anything about it, but he visited the Salto in 1801, just before the publication of Kant‘s Physical Geography, and went to personally measure the height of the Salto. In this paper we make a comparison of both personalities who, unknowingly, were united by their interest in the Salto de Tequendama. N2 - Immanuel Kant menciona en su Geografía Física la cascada del Río Bogotá en América del Sur, conocida hoy como el Salto de Tequendama, que se encuentra cerca de Bogotá, la capital de Colombia. Aquí Kant afirma que esa era la caída de agua más alta del mundo, lo cual no es cierto. Alexander von Humboldt no podía saber nada de eso, pero visitó el Salto en 1801, justo antes de la publicación de la Geografía Física de Kant, y fue a medir personalmente la altura del Salto. En este escrito hacemos una comparación de ambas personalidades que, sin saberlo, estuvieron unidas por su interés por el Salto de Tequendama. N2 - Immanuel Kant erwähnt in seiner Physischen Geographie den Wasserfall vom Rio Bogotá in Südamerika, der als Salto del Tequendama bekannt ist und in der Nähe der Hauptstadt Kolumbiens, in Bogotá, liegt. Dabei behauptet Kant er sei der Höchste Wasserfall der Welt, was nicht stimmt. Alexander von Humboldt dürfte von Kants Behauptung nichts wissen aber besuchte den Salto 1801, kurz bevor Kants Physische Geographie veröffentlicht wurde; er ging hin um die Höche von Salto zu messen. In diesem Aufsatz werden beide Persönlichkeiten verglichen, da sie durch diesen Wasserfall verbunden wurden ohne es zu wissen. Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-419404 SN - 1617-5239 SN - 2568-3543 VL - XIX IS - 36 SP - 35 EP - 46 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Päßler, Ulrich T1 - Plantae des États-Unis BT - Rediscovered Pages from Alexander von Humboldt’s United States Diary JF - HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies N2 - Ein jüngst im Nachlass Alexander von Humboldts aufgefundenes Manuskript enthält Aufzeichnungen über seinen Aufenthalt in den USA im Jahr 1804. Auf nur vier Seiten finden sich Notizen über Gespräche mit Präsident Thomas Jefferson und dem Botaniker G. H. E. Mühlenberg, Angaben über Nutz- und Heilpflanzen, eine Auflistung nordamerikanischer Naturforscher sowie Informationen über Verbraucherpreise. N2 - A recently discovered manuscript sheds a new light on Alexander von Humboldt’s stay in the USA in 1804. The document contains his notes on conversations with President Thomas Jefferson and botanist G. H. E. Mühlenberg. Humboldt also collected information on useful and medicinal plants, listed North American naturalists and documented consumer prices. N2 - Un manuscrit découvert récemment jette un nouvel éclairage sur le séjour d’Alexander von Humboldt aux États-Unis en 1804. Le document contient ses notes sur des conversations avec le président Thomas Jefferson et le botaniste G. H. E. Mühlenberg, des informations sur les plantes utiles et médicinales, une liste de naturalistes nord-américains et des informations sur des prix à la consommation. Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-419242 SN - 1617-5239 SN - 2568-3543 VL - XVIII IS - 35 SP - 5 EP - 12 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Haßler, Gerda ED - Rico, Christophe ED - Kirtchuk, Pablo T1 - Arbitrariness, Motivation and Value of the Linguistic Sign: Saussurean and Post-Saussurean Perspectives T2 - The Cours de Linguistique Générale Revisited: 1916–2016. Saussure et le Cours de linguistique générale cent ans après N2 - In 1916, three years after the death of Ferdinand de Saussure, the Cours de linguistique générale (CLG) was published in Geneva. This foundational work marked the beginning of a discipline that has profoundly influenced the development of the humanities ever since. What sources influenced the CLG? Do the main concepts of this seminal work have the same validity today as they did in 1916? How has the recent development of language sciences influenced its reception? How does this text account for meaning and communication within the context of speech (parole)? In order to explore these questions, one hundred years after the publication of Ferdinand de Saussure's seminal work on General Linguistics, Polis--The Jerusalem Institute of Languages and Humanities held an interdisciplinary conference that gathered 14 international specialists from various disciplines: general linguistics, pragmatics, philology, dialectology, translation studies, terminology, and philosophy. The first section of this work reassesses the sources and further influence of the CLG on modern linguistics. The book's second part discusses some of the main concepts and dichotomies of the CLG (constitution of the linguistic method, arbitrariness of sign, main dichotomies), under the light of both the original manuscripts and recent linguistic developments (influence of dialectology or translation studies). The third and last part handles the pragmatic and semantic dimensions of language, suggesting new avenues of reflection that could not yet have been fully taken into account within the CLG itself. Uniting 14 scholarly articles, together with an introduction, an index locorum and a collective bibliography, this volume hopes to encourage readers with its reappraisal and reinterpretation of Saussure's ground-breaking work and thus contribute to the future development of linguistics and humanities. Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-9-65769-811-2 SP - 61 EP - 87 PB - Polis Institute Press CY - Jerusalem ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Languages about Languages BT - Two Brothers and one Humboldtian Science JF - HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies N2 - In the history of Humboldt research both brothers have been traditionally seen as representing the dichotomy between the humanities and the natural sciences. Today however, their similar approach to using and forming scientific language could be used as a starting point for conceiving a university, museum and even forum under one single Humboldtian science. N2 - En la investigación humboldtiana, los hermanos tradicionalmente representaban la oposición entre las humanidades y las ciencias naturales. Hoy, en cambio, su enfoque similar de usar y construir las lenguas y los discursos de sus respectivas disciplinas se puede usar como punto de partida en concebir una universidad, un museo y un fórum desde una sola ciencia humboldtiana. N2 - In der Vergangenheit sah die Humboldt-Forschung beide Brüder als Vertreter gegenteiliger wissenschaftlicher Ansätze. Heute jedoch kann ihr ähnlicher Zugang zu wissenschaftlicher Sprache als Ausgangspunkt für die Konzipierung einer Universität, eines Museums und Forums unter einer einzigen Humboldtschen Wissenschaft genutzt werden. KW - Wilhelm von Humboldt KW - Alexander von Humboldt KW - cooperation KW - Humboldt brothers KW - Humboldtian science KW - world science KW - epistemology of expansion KW - critical convivence KW - convivence of languages KW - multilingualism KW - energeia KW - Weltansicht KW - Totaleindruck KW - multi-logical Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-419414 SN - 1617-5239 SN - 2568-3543 VL - XIX IS - 36 SP - 47 EP - 61 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - TransArea Tangier BT - the city and the literatures of the world JF - Re-mapping World Literature Writing, Book Markets and Epistemologies between Latin America and the Global South / Escrituras, mercados y epistemologías entre América Latina y el Sur Global Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-11-054957-7 SN - 978-3-11-054952-2 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110549577-019 SN - 2513-0757 SP - 283 EP - 321 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - McElvenny, James T1 - Grammar, typology and the Humboldtian tradition in the work of Georg von der Gabelentz JF - Language & history : journal of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas N2 - A frequently mentioned if somewhat peripheral figure in the historiography of late nineteenth-century linguistics is the German sinologist and general linguist Georg von der Gabelentz (1840–1893). Today Gabelentz is chiefly remembered for several insights that proved to be productive in the development of subsequent schools and subdisciplines. In this paper, we examine two of these insights, his analytic and synthetic systems of grammar and his foundational work on typology. We show how they were intimately connected within his conception of linguistic research, and how this was in turn embedded in the tradition established by Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835), especially as it was further developed by H. Steinthal (1823–1899). This paper goes beyond several previous works with a similar focus by drawing on a wider range of Gabelentz’ writings, including manuscript sources that have only recently been published, and by examining specific textual connections between Gabelentz and his predecessors. KW - History of linguistics KW - typology KW - language description KW - grammar KW - Humboldtian linguistics KW - Georg von der Gabelentz KW - H . Steinthal KW - Wilhelm von Humboldt Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/17597536.2016.1212580 SN - 1759-7536 SN - 1759-7544 VL - 60 SP - 1 EP - 20 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sändig, Brigitte T1 - Tragédie et psychologie BT - Camus devant le roman de Faulkner Requiem for a Nun JF - Revue romane : langue et littérature N2 - His dislike for psychological analysis accompanied Albert Camus throughout his life and had a profound impact on his idea of theatre. Especially in his early years, he sees psychology as the antagonist of the kind of theater that he envisages, the "modern tragedy". In the last decade of his life, Camus worked on the novel "Requiem for a Nun" by William Faulkner, whom he greatly respected, in order to stage it. The confrontation with this work and its highly psychologically driven plot makes Camus virtually give up on his anti-psychological attitude. KW - Theater KW - ancient tragedy KW - psychology KW - William Faulkner KW - Albert KW - Camus KW - Requiem for a Nun / Requiem pour une nonne Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1075/rro.52.1.07san SN - 0035-3906 SN - 1600-0811 VL - 52 IS - 1 SP - 70 EP - 79 PB - Benjamins CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Haßler, Gerda A1 - Böhm, Verónica Julia A1 - Hennemann, Anja ED - Marín Arrese, Juana I. ED - Haßler, Gerda ED - Carretero, Marta T1 - On the evidential use of English adverbials and their equivalents in Romance languages and Russian BT - A morpho-syntactic analysis T2 - Evidentiality revisited : Cognitive grammar, functional and discourse-pragmatic perspectives (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series ; 271) N2 - The present study investigates the use of equivalents of the English adverbials seemingly and apparently with a specific morphological structure in Romance languages and Russian, i.e. Spanish al parecer, Portuguese ao parecer and ao que parece, French avoir l’air de, Italian all’apparenza and in apparenza as well as Russian по-видимому. The underlying hypothesis is that the function and syntactic behaviour of these adverbial locutions are motivated by their morphological composition. It is to investigate whether the adverbials may be used sentence-initially, parenthetically, as an adverbial with broad or narrow scope or as a component of a modalised predication. The adverbial locutions are treated as means of expression where evidentiality and epistemic modality represent overlapping functional-semantic categories. KW - morphological structure KW - scope KW - adverbial locutions KW - evidentiality KW - epistemic modality Y1 - 2017 SN - 9789027256768 SN - 9789027266149 (epub) U6 - https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.271.04boh SN - 0922-842X VL - 271 SP - 87 EP - 104 PB - John Benjamins CY - Amsterdam, Philadelphia ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Welterleben/Weiterleben BT - On Vectopia in Georg Forster, Alexander von Humboldt, and Adelbert von Chamisso JF - Daphnis : Zeitschrift für mittlere deutsche Literatur N2 - Welterleben and Weiterleben are what determine the second globalization (of four previously explored) whose constantly accelerating dynamic, vectorization, this essay explores. On the basis of selected writings of Georg Forster, Alexander von Humboldt, and Adelbert von Chamisso, the author highlights the increasing speed with which knowledge, especially in the experiential sciences, is produced and disseminated following the routes of ever-widening trade speeded along by globalization. The notion of ‘vectopia’ stands for the connection of utopia and uchronia in space and time in such a way that the experience of the world, expanded worldwide, contains within it a Weiter-Leben, a ‘living-further’ that is to be understood first in a spatial, and not yet temporal, sense, of what Forster called Erfahrungswissen, or ‘experiential knowledge.’ Vectopia, as elaborated here, has a material dimension that relates to the physical person, the body, the experience of the world that cannot occur without the constant changing of place, without a journeying that is again and again recommenced. Vectopia develops the projection of a life not from space or from time alone, but by their combination. Vectopia is more than a concept, it is a thought-figure: it is vitally connected to life, and thus a life-figure. It opens itself to a type of knowledge that stands almost at the threshold of a further life, indeed, of a Weiterleben that, opening itself to a ‘living-onward,’ resides beyond space, time, and movement. KW - travel literature KW - transdisciplinary KW - accelerated globalization KW - experiential knowledge KW - Weiter-Leben Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1163/18796583-04503002 SN - 0300-693X SN - 1879-6583 VL - 45 IS - 3-4 SP - 343 EP - 388 PB - Editions Rodopi BV CY - Amsterdam 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 - 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 - 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 - JOUR A1 - McElvenny, James T1 - The fate of form in the Humboldtian tradition: The Formungstrieb of Georg von der Gabelentz JF - Journal of geophysical research : Solid earth N2 - The multifaceted concept of ‘form’ plays a central tole in the linguistic work of Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835), where it is deeply entwined with aesthetic questions. H. Steinthal's (1823–1899) interpretation of linguistic form, however, made it the servant of psychology. The Formungstrieb (drive to formation) of Georg von der Gabelentz (1840–1893) challenged Steinthal's conception and placed a renewed emphasis on aesthetics. In this endeavour, Gabelentz drew on the work of such figures as August Friedrich Pott (1802–1887), Hans Conon von der Gabelentz (1807–1874) and William Dwight Whitney (1827–1894). In this paper, we examine Gabelentz' Formungstrieb and place it in its historical context. KW - History of linguistics KW - Linguistic form KW - Aesthetics KW - Georg von der Gabelentz KW - Wilhelm von Humboldt KW - H. Steinthal Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2015.12.004 SN - 0271-5309 VL - 47 SP - 30 EP - 42 PB - Elsevier CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hennemann, Anja T1 - A cognitive-constructionist approach to Spanish creo empty set and creo JF - Folia linguistica KW - Cognitive Construction Grammar KW - parenthetic verbs KW - Spanish KW - corpus analysis KW - quantitativity/qualitativity Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/flin-2016-0017 SN - 0165-4004 SN - 1614-7308 VL - 50 SP - 449 EP - 474 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Toward a Polylogical Philology of the Literatures of the World JF - Modern language quarterly : a journal of literary history N2 - As the world cannot be adequately understood from the vantage point of a single language, the literatures of the world can no longer be trimmed to a single world literature in the Goethean sense. This recognition bodes well for the future of philology and of literary production. Through multiperspectival writing, knowledge of life may be attainable without being reduced to a single political, medial, cartographical, geocultural, or aesthetic logic. As a laboratory for polylogical thinking, literature does not represent reality, as Erich Auerbach put it. Rather, it represents multiple lived, experienced, or relivable realities. Whoever is open to a polylogical reception of the literatures of the world can perceive and experience how life knowledge transforms into lived knowledge and how knowledge for survival turns into knowledge for living together. However, literature can be more than it is only if it stays aware of the void, of lack, of privation, of the interminable: aware of the end that never is an end. Such a planetary concept of the literatures of the world offers valuable opportunities to all those who do not fall into the trap of contenting themselves with a supposed abundance of text. KW - literatures of the world KW - multiperspectival writing KW - polylogical philology KW - transculturation KW - knowledge for living Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-3464841 SN - 0026-7929 VL - 77 SP - 143 EP - 173 PB - Duke Univ. Press CY - Durham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Magic Screens. Biombos, Namban Art, the Art of Globalization and Education between China, Japan, India, Spanish America and Europe in the 17th and 18th Centuries JF - European review : interdisciplinary journal of the humanities and sciences of the Academia Europea N2 - Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca, for several centuries doubtlessly the most discussed and most eminent writer of Andean America in the 16th and 17th centuries, throughout his life set the utmost value on the fact that he descended matrilineally from Atahualpa Yupanqui and from the last Inca emperor, Huayna Cápac. Thus, both in his person and in his creative work he combined different cultural worlds in a polylogical way.1 Two painters boasted that very same Inca descent – they were the last two great masters of the Cuzco school of painting, which over several generations of artists had been an institution of excellent renown and prestige, and whose economic downfall and artistic marginalization was vividly described by the French traveller Paul Mancoy in 1837.2 While, during the 18th century, Cuzco school paintings were still much cherished and sought after, by the beginning of the following century the elite of Lima regarded them as behind the times and provincial, committed to an ‘indigenous’ painting style. The artists from up-country – such was the reproach – could not keep up with the modern forms of seeing and creating, as exemplified by European paragons. Yet, just how ‘provincial’, truly, was this art? Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1062798715000630 SN - 1062-7987 SN - 1474-0575 VL - 24 SP - 285 EP - 296 PB - Cambridge Univ. Press CY - Cambridge ER - 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 - 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 - 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 - JOUR A1 - Puig-Samper, Miguel Ángel A1 - Garrido, Elisa T1 - The presentation of the results of Alexander von Humboldt's voyage to Carlos IV JF - HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies N2 - Ever since our first research into Alexander von Humboldt's stay in Spain, the absence of an ensuing relationship between the wise Prussian and the Spanish Crown and Authorities had always surprised us. On starting new research, we found that indeed he sent his first work to Carlos IV from Rome accompanied by a letter of gratitude for the protection he had received during his American trip and submission to the Spanish Crown, which we now present. This first literary fruit of his voyage, which Alexander von Humboldt alluded to in the letter is the first instalment of his work Plantes Équinoxiales, Recueillies au Mexique, dans l’ile de Cuba, dans les provinces de Caracas, de Cumana etc., published in Paris in 1805. N2 - Desde nuestras primeras investigaciones sobre la estancia de Alexander von Humboldt en España siempre nos sorprendió la ausencia de una mínima relación posterior del sabio prusiano con la corona española y sus autoridades. Iniciada una nueva investigación, encontramos que efectivamente se produjo el envío de un primer trabajo a Carlos IV desde Roma acompañado de una carta de gratitud por la protección recibida durante su viaje americano y de sumisión a la corona española, que ahora presentamos. N2 - Seit unseren ersten Forschungen über den Aufenthalt Alexander von Humboldts in Spanien hat uns das Fehlen einer hieran anschließenden Beziehung des preußischen Wissenschaftlers mit der spanischen Krone und ihren Behörden erstaunt. Im Laufe einer erneuten Aufnahme der Forschung, haben wir nun entdeckt, dass Humboldt in der Tat von Rom aus eine erste Arbeit an Karl IV gesandt hatte, zusammen mit einem Schreiben des Dankes (für den während der amerikanischen Reise) erhaltenen Schutz sowie seiner Unterordnung unter die spanische Krone, das wir nun präsentieren. Das erste literarische Ergebnis seiner Reise, auf das Humboldt in diesem Brief verweist, ist der erste Faszikel seines Werkes Plantes Équinoxiales, Recueillies au Mexique, dans l’ile de Cuba, dans les provinces de Caracas, de Cumana etc., das im Jahr 1805 in Paris publiziert wurde. KW - Humboldt KW - travel results KW - Plantes Équinoxiales KW - Carlos IV KW - Spain Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-90788 SN - 1617-5239 SN - 2568-3543 VL - XVII IS - 32 SP - 52 EP - 64 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Erdmann, Julius T1 - Semiotics of Pictorial Signs on Social Networking Sites BT - Remarks on a Neglected Field of Study JF - Punctum : international journal of semiotics 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. KW - Internet KW - Social Networking Sites KW - visual culture KW - socio-semiotics KW - Tunisian Revolution Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.18680/hss.2015.0003 SN - 2459-2943 VL - 1 IS - 1 SP - 26 EP - 42 PB - Hellenic Semiotic Society CY - Thessaloniki ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Haßler, Gerda ED - McElvenny, James T1 - ‘Communicating the past to the present’ BT - Is anachronism inevitable? Desirable? JF - History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences KW - anachronism KW - conceptual history KW - Ferdinand de Saussure KW - linguistic historiography KW - Plato´s Cratylus KW - salon KW - word order Y1 - 2015 UR - http://hiphilangsci.net/2015/06/03/salon-anachronism-in-linguistic-historiography SN - 2366-2409 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Buffon, Giuseppe T1 - The Franciscans in Cathay BT - memory of men and places. A Contribution for the genealogy of geographical knowledge of Alexander von Humboldt JF - HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies N2 - The study analyzes the process that leads to the elaboration of the thesis of a continuity between the Medieval Asia mission and the New World mission. This effort, undertaken by the Catholic historiography of the mission during the XIX century, is the result of the impulse provided by Alexander von Humboldt’s studies about the discovery of America (Examen critique). The data about the geography of Asia collected by the missionaries-travelers working in the territory between Karakorum and Khanbalik during the XIII e XIV century reaches Christopher Colombus with the mediation of Roger Bacon, whom Humboldt himself esteems as a true cultural mediator. The conclusion of the article tries to identify reasons and modalities of the secularization of the missionary concept, i.e. the shift from the ideal of the propagation of the Christian message to a prevailing interest for cartography and topography, transformations arranged by a late medieval historiography that introduces into martyrolagia the loca toponomastica. N2 - Lo studio analizza il processo che conduce all’elaborazione della tesi di una continuità tra missione asiatica medievale e missione nel Nuovo Mondo. L’impegno, assunto dalla storiografia missionaria cattolica lungo il corso del XIX secolo, costituisce l’esito dell’impulso proveniente dagli studi svolti da Alexander von Humboldt intorno all’esplorazione delle Americhe (Examen critique). Le informazioni sullo spazio asiatico trasmesse dai missionari operanti durante il XIII e il XIV secolo tra Karakorum e Khanbaliq pervengono a Cristoforo Colombo mediante Ruggero Bacone (Opus majus), che Humlbodt stesso stima mediatore culturale per antonomasia. La parte conclusiva della ricerca si occupa di stabilire modalità e ragioni della secolarizzazione del concetto di missione, cioè del trasferimento all’interesse cartografico dell’anelito alla propagazione del messaggio cristiano fino agli estremi confini della terra, trasformazione predisposta dalla storiografia medievale che nei martirologia inserisce appunto i loca toponomastici. N2 - El estudio analiza el proceso que conduce a la elaboración de la tesis sobre una posible continuidad entre la misión asiática medieval y la misión en el Nuevo Mundo. El empeño, asumido por parte de la historiografía misionera católica a lo largo del siglo XIX, constituye el resultado del impulso proveniente de los estudios desarrollados por Alexander von Humboldt en torno a la exploración de las Américas (Examen critique). Las informaciones sobre el espacio asiático transmitidas por los misioneros que operaron durante los siglos XIII y XIV entre Karakorum y Khanbaliq llegan a Cristobal Colón a través de Roger Bacon (Opus majus), que el mismo Humboldt considera como un mediador cultural por antonomasia. La parte conclusiva de la investigación se dedica a establecer las modalidades y regiones de la secularización del concepto de misión, es decir, de la transferencia al interés cartográfico del anhelo por la propagación del mensaje cristiano hasta los extremos confines de la tierra, una transformación que fue predispuesta por la historiografía medieval que en los martirologios insertaba los lugares toponímicos. KW - examen critique KW - Franziskaner KW - Kolonialgeschichte KW - Kolonialismus KW - Kolumbus KW - Ordensgeschichte Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-86920 SN - 1617-5239 SN - 2568-3543 VL - XVI IS - 30 SP - 13 EP - 28 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Estevam O. Fernandes, Luiz T1 - Political essay on the kingdom of New Spain BT - Humboldt and the history of Mexico JF - HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies N2 - In this paper we discuss how Alexander von Humboldt conceived a past to New Spain in his Political Essay on New Spain (1811) and how this text was, in turn, appropriated by the Mexican historiography during the 19th century. In order to do so, we analyze how the Prussian drew from American sources, particularly from the text of the Jesuit Francisco Javier Clavijero, written shortly before. We also study Humboldt’s conceptions of text and of history, highlighting the place of the indigenous in the composition of his reasoning. Finally, we give examples of how the Mexican nationalist historiography read and reinterpreted the Political Essay. N2 - En este artículo se discute cómo Alexander von Humboldt concibió un pasado a la Nueva España en su Ensayo político sobre el reino de la Nueva España (1811) y cómo este texto, a su vez, fue apropiado por la historiografía mexicana durante el siglo XIX. Para ello, se analiza cómo el prusiano se ha valido de fuentes americanas, sobre todo a partir del texto del jesuita Francisco Javier Clavijero, escrito poco antes. También estudiamos las concepciones de texto y de la historia de Humboldt, destacando el lugar de los indígenas en la composición de su razonamiento. Por último, damos ejemplos de cómo la historiografía nacionalista mexicana leyó y reinterpretó el Ensayo político. N2 - Cet article explique comment Alexander von Humboldt a conçu une passé pour la Nouvelle-Espagne dans son Essai politique sur le royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne (1811) et la façon que ce texte, à son tour, a été approprié par l’historiographie mexicaine au cours du XIXe siècle. Ainsi, nous analysons comment le prussien a utilisé des sources américaines, en particulier le texte du jésuite Francisco Javier Clavijero, écrit un peu de temps avant. Nous étudions également les conceptions de texte et de l’histoire de Humboldt, en soulignant la place des indigènes dans la composition de son raisonnement. Enfin, nous donnons des exemples de la façon dont l’historiographie nationaliste mexicain a lu et a réinterprété l’Essai politique. KW - Clavijero Francisco Javier KW - Essai politique sur le royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne KW - Neu-Spanien Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-84047 SN - 1617-5239 SN - 2568-3543 VL - XV IS - 28 SP - 24 EP - 33 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Werner, Anja T1 - Alexander von Humboldt’s footnotes BT - “Networks of Knowledge” in the sources of the 1826 Essai politique sur l’île de Cuba JF - HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies N2 - Alexander von Humboldts Fußnoten waren ihrer Zeit weit voraus, obwohl sie kaum den heutigen akademischen Standards entsprechen. Dieser Artikel untersucht die Fußnoten in Humboldts Essai politique sur l‘île de Cuba (1826). Zwar ist es nicht immer leicht, die manchmal recht geheimnisvollen Verweise zu entschlüsseln, dennoch lohnt sich der Versuch: Humboldts Fußnoten geben nicht nur Auskunft über seine umfassenden Netzwerke des Wissens. Sie verweisen auch auf Auseinandersetzungen verschiedener Gelehrter über Humboldts Schriften. Schließlich beinhalten sie Humboldts Reaktionen auf solche Auseinandersetzungen. Eine Untersuchung von Humboldts Fußnoten erlaubt es folglich dem Leser, mehr über Humboldt den Wissenschaftler aber auch Humboldt den Mensch zu erfahren. N2 - When it comes to footnotes, Alexander von Humboldt was ahead of his times even though his references leave much to be desired by today’s academic standards. This article examines the footnotes of Humboldt’s Essai politique sur l‘île de Cuba (1826). While it is not always easy to decipher his sometimes cryptic references, the undertaking is worthwhile: Humboldt’s footnotes do not only reveal his vast networks of knowledge. They also provide glimpses of ongoing, contemporary disputes among different scholars that involve Humboldt’s writings. They also present Humboldt’s reactions to such disputes. Exploring Humboldt’s footnotes consequently allows the reader to access both Humboldt the scholar and Humboldt the human being. N2 - Quand il s’agit de notes, Alexandre de Humboldt était en avance sur son temps, même si ses références laissent beaucoup à désirer par rapport aux normes universitaires d’aujourd’hui. Cet article examine les notes de l’Essai Politique sur l‘île de Cuba de Humboldt (1826). Même s’il n’est pas toujours facile de déchiffrer ses références parfois cryptiques, l’entreprise vaut la peine: les notes de Humboldt ne révèlent pas seulement ses vastes réseaux de savoir. Ils fournissent également des aperçus de conflits contemporains en cours entre les différents spécialistes qui s’occupent des écrits de Humboldt. Ils présentent également les réactions de Humboldt à de tels différends. Explorer les notes de Humboldt permet donc au lecteur d’accéder à la fois Humboldt le savant et Humboldt l’être humain. KW - Essai politique sur l'île de Cuba KW - Fußnoten Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-84076 SN - 1617-5239 SN - 2568-3543 VL - XV IS - 28 SP - 59 EP - 67 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lundberg, Karin T1 - Networking knowledge BT - considering Alexander von Humboldt‘s legacy in a new shared space in education JF - HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies N2 - Global citizenship and diversity are well-represented concepts in today’s higher education. Learning outcomes and competencies are designed to sensitize students to the many cultural backgrounds of U.S. learning institutions. Nevertheless, true globality, as represented through diverse discourses and perspectives of the world, still seems neglected in curricula and course assignments. This article explores the possibilities offered through a new shared space in education where different forms of networked knowledge and multifaceted perspectives can build a global platform of exchange in a diverse student population. The universal science concept described by Alexander von Humboldt at the beginning of the 19th Century illuminates this intertwined approach to knowledge of the world, which has the potential to positively impact contemporary curricula and course design. Von Humboldt’s writings emphasize inclusion and interplay among cultures and natural phenomena. By inviting our students to be active representatives of diverse discourses, these interconnecting links will become more transparent. In turn, productive forms of knowing about the world may enrich current learning objectives and thereby reflect a true global citizenship as it evolves in a new shared space of education. Keywords: global citizenship, plurality, diverse discourses, multicultural education. N2 - Weltbürgerschaft und kulturelle Vielfalt sind überall gegenwärtige Konzepte im heutigen Bildungswesen. In den Vereinigten Staaten werden Lernziele und Kompetenzen geformt, um die Studenten gegenüber den vielen kulturellen Hintergründen, die in den Bildungsinstitutionen vorzutreffen sind, zu sensibilisieren.Trotzdem wird wahre Globalität, wie sie heute in den vielfältigen Diskursen und Perspektiven der Welt repräsentiert ist, immer noch in Lehrplänen und Studienarbeiten vernachlässigt. Dieser Artikel untersucht die Möglichkeiten, die sich heute im Bildungswesen durch den neuen, gemeinsam geteilten, globalen Bildungsraum anbieten, in dem die multikulturelle Studentenbevölkerung verschiedene Formen vernetzten Wissens und facettenreiche Perspektiven der Welt eine globale Plattform des Austausches bildet. Das von Alexander von Humboldt am Anfang des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts beschriebene universale Wissenschaftskonzept, beleuchtet solch einen vernetzten Ansatz an ein Wissen um die Welt, der auf heutige Bildungskonzepte und Kursdesigns einen positiven Einfluss nehmen könnte. Humboldts Schriften unterstreichen die Bedeutung der Inklusivität und des Wechselspiels zwischen Kulturen und Naturphänomenen. Indem wir Studenten mit unterschiedlichem kulturellen Hintergrundwissen dazu einladen, ihre jeweiligen Diskurse des Wissens aktiv zu repräsentieren, werden diese gegenseitig mit einander verknüpten Beziehungen des Wissens transparenter. Auf diese Weise, entsteht die Möglichkeit, heutige Lernziele mit neuen, produktiven Formen des Weltwissens zu berreichern, worin sich ein wahres Weltbürgertum, wie es sich in diesem neuen Bildungsraum des globalen Austausches hervortut, wiederspiegeln würde. N2 - La citoyenneté mondiale et la diversité figurent aujourd’hui parmi les concepts les plus représentés dans les études supérieures. Les résultats de l’apprentissage et les compétences sont conçus pour rendre les étudiants sensibles aux nombreuses origines culturelles des établissements d’instruction des États-Unis. Néanmoins, la vraie globalité, représentée à travers des perspectives et des discours divers, semble être toujours négligée dans les programmes scolaires et les attributions de cours. Dans cet article l’auteur explore les possibilités offertes par un nouvel espace partagé dans le domaine de l’éducation -- une éducation caractérisée d’ailleurs par des formes variées de connaissances atteintes dans des réseaux différents et en des perspectives multiples qui peuvent contribuer à construire une plate-forme globale d’échange dans une population d’étudiants hétérogène. Le concept de la science universelle décrit par Alexander von Humboldt au début du dix-neuvième siècle éclaire cette approche étroitement liée aux connaissances du monde qui a le potentiel d’avoir un impact positif sur les programmes scolaires contemporains et les conceptions des cours. En effet, dans son oeuvre Von Humboldt met l’emphase sur l’importance de l’inclusion et de l’interaction entre les cultures et les phénomènes naturels. En invitant nos étudiants à être des représentants actifs de discours divers, ces liens d’interconnexion leur seront de plus en plus évidents. Par conséquent, il se peut que les objectifs du savoir puissent être enrichis par ces façons différentes de connaître le monde tandis qu’ils réflèteront de plus en plus une véritable citoyenneté mondiale qui évoluera en même temps en réponse à ce nouvel espace partagé dans l’éducation contemporaine. Mots-clés: la citoyenneté mondiale, la pluralité, les discours divers, l’éducation multiculturelle. KW - Erziehung KW - Netzwerke des Wissens Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-86968 SN - 1617-5239 SN - 2568-3543 VL - XVI IS - 30 SP - 78 EP - 83 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam 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 - Haßler, Gerda T1 - Evidentiality and the expression of speaker’s stance in Romance languages and German JF - Discourse Studies : an interdisciplinary journal for the study of text and talk N2 - In recent years, the category of evidentiality has also come into use for the description of Romance languages and of German. This has been contingent on a change in its interpretation from a typological category to a semantic-pragmatic category, which allows an application to languages lacking specialised morphemes for the expression of evidentiality. We consider evidentiality to be a structural dimension of grammar, the values of which are expressed by types of constructions that code the source of information which a speaker imparts. If we look at the situation in Romance languages and in German, drawing a boundary between epistemic modality and evidentiality presents problems that are difficult to solve. Adding markers of the source of the speaker’s knowledge often limits the degree of responsibility of the speaker for the content of the utterance. Evidential adverbs are a frequently used means of marking the source of the speaker’s knowledge. The evidential meaning is generalised to marking any source of knowledge, what can be regarded as a result of a process of pragmaticalisation. The use of certain means which also carry out evidential markings can even contribute to the blurring of the different kinds of evidentiality. German also has modal verbs which in conjunction with the perfect tense of the verb have a predominantly evidential use (sollen and wollen). But even here the evidential marking is not without influence on the modality of the utterance. The Romance languages, however, do not have such specialised verbs for expressing evidentiality in certain contexts. To do this, they mark evidentiality – often context bound – by verb forms such as the conditional and the imperfect tense. This article shall contrast the different architectures used in expressing evidentiality in German and in the Romance languages. KW - Adverbs KW - evidentiality KW - modal verbs KW - modality KW - pragmaticalisation Y1 - 2015 UR - http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1461445614564522 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/1461445614564522 SN - 1461-4456 SN - 1461-7080 VL - 17 IS - 2 SP - 182 EP - 209 PB - Sage Publications CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Roba, Bill T1 - German-Iowan strategies in celebrating the centennial of Alexander von Humboldt’s birth JF - HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; International Review for Humboldtian Studies N2 - The two largest cities of Eastern Iowa on the shore of the Mississippi River are Dubuque and Davenport. In each city, an elite group of German-Iowan leaders emerged by the late 1850s. Bill Roba describes and examines their strategies in celebrating the Centennial of Alexander von Humboldt’s Birth. KW - Centennial KW - Davenport KW - Dubuque KW - Iowa Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-84997 SN - 1617-5239 SN - 2568-3543 VL - XV IS - 29 SP - 179 EP - 188 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kröger, Björn T1 - Remarks on a scene, depicting the primeval world BT - A talk given by Leopold von Buch in 1831, popularizing the Duria antiquior JF - HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies N2 - The Prussian geologist Leopold von Buch was a lifelong friend of Alexander von Humboldt and had a significant influence on Humboldt’s geological ideas. In a talk, held in Berlin in 1831, which is published here for the first time, von Buch presented the Duria Antiquior of 1830 by the English geologist Henry De La Beche. The Duria Antiquior is widely regarded as the earliest depiction of a scene of prehistoric life from deep time. The print raised new questions about the processes of geohistorical change. The talk reveals that Leopold von Buch was a true scientist of the Romantic Age. His descriptions of geohistorical organismic transformations are taken from pictorial examples of organismic transformation from the classical literature. The talk also illustrates how influential English geologists were for geo-historical reconstructions in Germany. N2 - Der Geologe Leopold von Buch war lebenslanger Freund Alexander von Humboldts und hatte wesentlichen Anteil an dessen Verständnis erdgeschichtlicher Prozesse. In einem hier erstmals veröffentlichten Vortrag, gehalten 1831 in Berlin, stellt von Buch die 1830 publizierte Duria Antiquior des englischen Geologen Henry De La Beche vor. Das Bild gilt als erste wissenschaftliche Rekonstruktion einer vorzeitlichen Welt und warf mit seinem Erscheinen neue Fragen zu den Prozessen erdgeschichtlicher Veränderungen auf. Leopold von Buch zeigt sich in dem Vortrag als Forscher der Romantik, der mit der Duria Antiquior vorhandene bildhafte Vorstellungen organismischer Transformation aus der Literatur aufgriff, um geohistorische Veränderungen der Lebewesen zu beschreiben. Mit dem Vortrag wird der große Einfluss deutlich, den die Engländer auf die zeitgenössischen Erzählungen der Erdgeschichte in Deutschland hatten. N2 - Le géologue prussien Leopold von Buch a noué une longue amitié avec Alexander von Humboldt, il a grandement influencé les idées dans le domaine de la géologie. Dans une conférence donnée en 1831 à Berlin et dont le texte est publié ici pour la première fois, von Buch a présenté le Duria Antiquior du géologue anglais Henry de la Beche. Cette oeuvre est très largement considérée comme la plus ancienne représentation d‘une scène de vie préhistorique. Elle a contribué à initier de nombreuses réflexions à propos des processus de changement géohistorique. L‘exposé de 1831 à Berlin permet de mettre en évidence que von Buch était un scientifique influencé par le romantisme. Ses descriptions des transformations organismiques géohistoriques s‘appuient sur des exemples figurés dans la littérature classique. Son exposé illustre également combien l‘influence des géologues anglais sur les reconstitutions géohistoriques était forte alors en Allemagne. KW - 1830 KW - Berlin KW - Duria Antiquio KW - Erdgeschichte KW - Geologie KW - Henry De La Beche KW - Leopold von Buch KW - Naturgeschichte KW - Transmutation KW - Vortrag KW - Zeitgenossen Y1 - 2013 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-69848 SN - 1617-5239 SN - 2568-3543 VL - XIV IS - 27 SP - 7 EP - 35 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - D'Aprile, Iwan-Michelangelo T1 - Prussian republicanism? Friedrich Buchholz's reception of James Harrington Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-140-945-556-1 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Roberts, Andrew Michael A1 - Stabler, Jane A1 - Fischer, Martin H. A1 - Otty, Lisa T1 - Space and pattern in linear and postlinear poetry empirical and theoretical approaches JF - European journal of English studies : official journal of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) N2 - This article derives from two interdisciplinary research projects funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, involving the application of psychological experimental techniques to the study of poetic form and reader response. It discusses the semantic and expressive effects of space and pattern in innovative forms of contemporary British and American poetry. After referring to some historical and theoretical contexts for these issues, the article analyses the results of experiments using eye-tracking, manipulations of text, memory tests and readers' recorded responses and interpretations. The first group of poems studied were lineated, with extended spaces within lines and displacement of lines from the left margin. Referring to a poem from Geoffrey Hill'sCanaan(1996), the authors show that such use of space may serve to articulate syntactical structures, but may also promote richer interpretation by encouraging cross-linear semantic connections. The second technique studied was the break from linear into postlinear poetry, as an initially lineated sequence shifts to pages of dispersed text. In readings of Susan Howe'sPythagorean Silence(fromThe Europe of Trusts, 1990), the authors detected more radical effects of space, shape and pattern, with associated consequences for interpretative strategies and aesthetic responses. Finally, the article discusses the potential for both mutual support and heuristic challenge between an empirical study of reader response, and a historical-theoretical approach as exemplified by Jerome McGann's interpretation ofPythagorean Silence. KW - psycholinguistics KW - postlinear poetry KW - space in poetry KW - visual form KW - eye-tracking KW - empirical aesthetics KW - reader response KW - Susan Howe KW - Geoffrey Hill Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2012.754967 SN - 1382-5577 SN - 1744-4233 VL - 17 IS - 1 SP - 23 EP - 40 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Abaza, Mona A1 - Devoucoux, Daniel A1 - Chen, Buyun A1 - Firsching-Tovar, Oly A1 - Kawamura, Yuniya A1 - Lehnert, Gertrud A1 - Mentges, Gabriele A1 - Shukla, Pravina ED - Lehnert, Gertrud ED - Mentges, Gabriele T1 - Fusion Fashion : culture beyond orientalism and occidentalism N2 - The focus of "Fusion Fashion" is on Orientalism as a sartorial practice which has to be differentiated from the common idea of Orientalism by means of its organization, constitution and reception. Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-3-631-60975-0 PB - Peter Lang GmbH CY - Frankfurt am Main ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Müller, Gesine T1 - From "The Novel" (1966) to "The Art of the Novel" (2000) readings of Vargas Llosa as Topos of Latin American Disenchantment JF - Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/08905762.2013.780894 SN - 0890-5762 VL - 46 IS - 1 SP - 20 EP - 25 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schlaak, Claudia T1 - Island language policy and regional identity east of Africa N2 - Since 2011 the Comorian Island of Mayotte has been France’s 101st département, thereby becoming part of the European Union. As a result, France has consolidated and strengthened its strategic position in the Indian Ocean. With the change of political status in 2011, new developments have occurred in Mayotte. It is still unclear whether the expected economic boom, extensive social benefits or injection of EU regional funds can help to alleviate poverty and raise living standards. There is concern, however, that massive immigration to Mayotte from the surrounding territories is diminishing any progress and will continue to do so. Not only France but also the EU will have to adapt to new immigration problems due to this new external border. In this situation one thing is clear: the language contact between French and the local languages, which is the result of political developments, is leading to new dynamics. The diglossic situation east of Africa, between French as the dominant language and local languages like Shimaoré or Shibushi spoken in Mayotte will become more marked in the next few years. KW - Sprachpolitik KW - regionale Identität KW - Frankophonie KW - Diglossie KW - Sprachkontakt KW - language policy KW - regional identity KW - Francophonie KW - diglossia KW - language contact Y1 - 2013 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-63132 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wiemann, Dirk T1 - Spectacles of astonishment: tragedy and the regicide in England and Germany, 1649 - 1663 Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-140-945-556-1 ER - TY - BOOK ED - Mahlberg, Gaby ED - Wiemann, Dirk T1 - European contexts for english republicanism T3 - Politics and culture in Europa, 1650 - 1750 Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-140-945-556-1 PB - Ashgate Publishing Ltd CY - Farnham 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 - TY - JOUR A1 - Klettke, Cornelia T1 - The voice of the other : heterotopy and heterology inBernard-Marie Koltes black battles with dogs Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kraft, Tobias T1 - Textual Differences in Alexander von Humboldt’s Essai politique sur l’île de Cuba BT - An editorial commentary on the first volume of the »Humboldt in English« (HiE) book series JF - Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies N2 - Die vorliegende Studie basiert auf einem Editionsbericht, der 2009 im Rahmen der Konferenz »Alexander von Humboldt and the Hemisphere« an der Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN) vorgestellt wurde. Die für diese Publikation weiter entwickelte Untersuchung verdeutlicht die Textgenese von Humboldts Essai politique sur l’île de Cuba auf der Basis eines Textvergleichs zwischen allen drei "Originalquellen" des Texts. Der hier in seinen Ergebnissen vorgestellte Textvergleich ist Teil des Editionsprojektes »Humboldt in English« (HiE), bei dem sich ein US-deutsches Editorenteam seit 2007 zum Ziel gesetzt haben, kritische Neuübersetzungen von drei wichtigen Schriften aus Humboldts »Opus Americanum« anzufertigen (s.a. Fußnote). Der Textvergleich des Essai politique sur l’île de Cuba bildete die Textgrundlage für den ersten Band der HiE-Reihe, den 2011 bei Chicago University Press erschienenen The Political Essay on the Island of Cuba (hg. von Vera M. Kutzinski und Ottmar Ette). N2 - This study is based on an editorial report, which was presented at the 2009 working conference »Alexander von Humboldt and the Hemisphere« at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN). It demonstrates the textual genesis of Humboldt’s writings on Cuba through examples, which were obtained from a detailed text comparison of the three existing »original« versions of Humboldt’s Essai politique sur l’île de Cuba. The collation was part of a larger strategy to regain philological ground for the »Humboldt in English« (HiE) project. Since 2007 and funded with grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, and the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the US-German research team behind HiE has been working on new and unabridged translations and critical editions of three of Humboldt’s most significant texts from his American oeuvre.1 The following observations will outline the most important results of this collation effort as a complementary contribution to the recent release of the HiE project’s first volume, The Political Essay on the Island of Cuba (Chicago University Press 2011), edited by Vera M. Kutzinski and Ottmar Ette. N2 - El presente artículo se basa en un estudio, que fue presentado en 2009 en la conferencia »Alexander von Humboldt and the Hemisphere« en la Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN). El estudio ejemplifica la génesis textual del Essai politique sur l’île de Cuba a base de una colación de las tres fuentes »originales« del mismo texto. El estudio forma parte del proyecto editorial »Humboldt in English« (HiE), en el cual un equipo de investigadores estadounidenses-alemanes se han propuesto publicar nuevas ediciones críticas con traducciones nuevas de tres obras claves de la obra americana de Humboldt desde 2007 (véase las informaciones en el pié de nota). La colación crea la base textual para el primer volumen de HiE, The Political Essay on the Island of Cuba (eds. Vera M. Kutzinski y Ottmar Ette), publicado en 2011. KW - Critical edition KW - Essai politique sur l'île de Cuba KW - Humboldt in English (HiE) KW - Ottmar Ette KW - Vanderbilt University KW - Vera Kutzinski Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-61435 SN - 2568-3543 SN - 1617-5239 VL - XIII IS - 24 SP - 75 EP - 85 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eckstein, Lars A1 - Schwarz, Anja T1 - Oceanic modernity : indigeneity, globality and cultural translation Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-8-48-489670-8 ER - TY - THES A1 - Hennemann, Anja T1 - A context-sensitive and funktional approach to evidentiality in Spanish or why evidentiality needs a superordinate category T2 - Potsdam Linguistic Investigations Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-3-631-62636-8 VL - 10 PB - Peter Lang CY - Frankfurt am Main, New York ER - TY - BOOK ED - Haßler, Gerda T1 - Locutions et phrases : aspects de la predication T3 - Studium Sprachwissenschaft. Beihefte Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-3-89323-140-9 VL - 40 PB - Nodus-Publ CY - Münster ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sternagel, Jörg T1 - An emphasis in Being : moving towards a responsive phenomenology of film('s) performance Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-3-8376-1648-4 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Haßler, Gerda T1 - Introduction Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-3-89323-140-9 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hennemann, Anja T1 - The interaction between the linguistic domains of evidentiality and deixis as exemplified by Spanish detective novels Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-3-89323-140-9 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 - von Moritz, Brescius T1 - Connecting the new world BT - Nets, mobility and progress in the age of Alexander von Humboldt N2 - This article explores the link between the profound technological transformations of the nineteenth century and the life and work of the Prussian scholar Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859). It analyses how Humboldt sought to appropriate the revolutionary new communication and transportation technologies of the time in order to integrate the American continent into global networks of commercial, intellectual and material exchange. Recent scholarship on Humboldt’s expedition to the New World (1799-1804) has claimed that his descriptions of tropical landscapes opened up South America to a range of ‘transformative interventions’ (Pratt) by European capitalists and investors. These studies, however, have not analysed the motivations underlying Humboldt’s support for such intrusions into nature. Furthermore, they have not explored the role that such projects played in shaping Humboldt’s understanding of the forces behind the progress of societies. To comprehend Humboldt’s approval for human interventions in America’s natural world, this study first explores the role that eighteenth-century theories of progress and the notion of geographical determinism played in shaping his conception of civilisational development. It will look at concrete examples of transformative interventions in the American hemisphere that were actively proposed by Humboldt and intended to overcome natural obstacles to human interaction. These were the use of steamships, electric telegraphy, railroads and large-scale canals that together enabled global trade and communication to occur at an unprecedented pace. All these contemporary innovations will be linked to the four motifs of nets, mobility, progress and acceleration, which were driving forces behind the ‘transformation of the world’ that took place in the course of the nineteenth century. N2 - Dieser Artikel untersucht das Verhältnis zwischen den revolutionären technologischen Neuerungen des 19. Jahrhunderts und dem Leben und Wirken Alexander von Humboldts (1769-1859). Dabei wird gefragt, wie Humboldt versuchte, die neuen und sprichwörtlich bahnbrechenden Kommunikations- und Transporttechnologien seiner Zeit zu nutzen, um den amerikanischen Kontinent in globale kommerzielle und kulturelle Austauschprozesse zu integrieren. Jüngere Forschungen zu Humboldts amerikanischer Expedition (1799-1804) haben behauptet, dass seine Beschreibungen Südamerikas den Kontinent für zahlreiche ’transformative interventions’ (Pratt) von Seiten europäischer Kapitalisten und Investoren zugänglich gemacht hätten. Diese Studien haben jedoch nicht analysiert, aus welchen Motiven heraus Humboldt diese Eingriffe in die Natur unterstützte. Darüber hinaus wurde nicht der zentralen Frage nachgegangen, welche Rolle diese Projekte in Humboldts eigener Auffassung über die Kräfte des gesellschaftlichen Fortschritts gespielt haben. Um Humboldts Unterstützung für tiefgreifende Eingriffe in die Natur Amerikas nachvollziehen zu können, analysiert dieser Artikel zunächst, welche Rolle der ‚Geodeterminismus’ und die Fortschrittstheorien der Aufklärung in seinem Verständnis von zivilisatorischer Entwicklung spielten. Dabei sollen solche Beispiele menschlicher Interventionen in die Natur Amerikas untersucht werden, die Humboldt selbst aktiv förderte – nicht zuletzt, da sie geeignet schienen, ‚natürliche’ Barrieren für gesellschaftliche Austauschprozesse zu beseitigen. Dies waren vor allem die Nutzung von Dampfschiffen, elektrischer Telegrafie, Eisenbahnen und großangelegten Kanalprojekten, deren gebündelte Effekte zu einer signifikanten Beschleunigung von Welthandel und Kommunikationsprozessen führten. Diese zeitgenössischen Innovationen sollen mit den vier Motiven ‚Netz’, ‚Mobilität’, ‚Fortschritt’ und ‚Beschleunigung’ analytisch verbunden werden, da diese Faktoren eine zentrale Rolle für die ‚Verwandlung der Welt’ im 19. Jahrhundert spielten. N2 - Este artículo examina la relación entre las profundas transformaciones tecnológicas del siglo XIX y la vida y obra del estudioso prusiano Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859). Para ello, analizaremos cómo Humboldt trató de apropiarse de las nuevas y revolucionarias tecnologías de comunicación y transporte de su tiempo, de cara a poder integrar el continente americano en redes globales de intercambio comercial, material e intelectual. Estudios recientes sobre la expedición de Humboldt al Nuevo Mundo (1799-1804) han demostrado que sus descripciones de los paisajes tropicales americanos abrieron Sudamérica a una serie de ‘intervenciones transformativas’ (Mary Louise Pratt) lideradas por capitalistas e inversores europeos. No obstante, estos estudios no han analizado las motivaciones que llevaron a Humboldt a prestar su apoyo a tamañas intrusiones en la naturaleza. Más aún, tampoco han intentado analizar cómo estos proyectos influyeron sobre Humboldt, sobre su manera de entender las fuerzas motoras que se escondían tras el progreso de las sociedades. Con el objetivo de entender la aprobación de Humboldt a las intervenciones humanas que se llevaron a cabo en el suelo americano, este estudio se centrará primero en explorar el papel que las teorías sobre el progreso del siglo XVIII, así como la noción de determinismo geográfico, tuvieron en la concepción que tenía el investigador prusiano del desarrollo de las civilizaciones. Se estudiarán, para ello, algunos casos concretos de intervenciones transformativas que se llevaron a cabo en el hemisferio americano y que, propuestas con entusiasmo por el mismo Humboldt, intentaron superar los obstáculos naturales que dificultaban la intervención humana. Nos referiremos, más particularmente, al uso de barcos a vapor, telégrafos eléctricos, vías férreas y canales de gran escala. En definitiva, elementos que dieron lugar, en su conjunto, a un comercio y una comunicación global que se llevaron a cabo a un ritmo sin precedentes. Una serie de innovaciones que habrá que relacionar con cuatro temas fundamentales: redes, movilidad, progreso y aceleración; fuerzas motoras de la ‘transformación del mundo’ que tuvo lugar a lo largo del siglo XIX. KW - Aufklärung KW - Beschleunigung KW - Fortschritt KW - Kommunikation KW - Mobilität KW - Netz KW - Transporttechnologie Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-62386 SN - 1617-5239 SN - 2568-3543 VL - XIII IS - 25 SP - 11 EP - 33 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Archeologies of Globalization : European Reflections on Two Phases of Accelerated Globalization in Cornelius de Pauw, Georg Forster, Guillaume-Thomas Raynal and Alexander von Humboldt Y1 - 2012 UR - http://cultureandhistory.revistas.csic.es/index.php/cultureandhistory/article/view/4/19 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - TransTropics: Alexander von Humboldt and Hemispheric Constructions Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-3-938944-63-9 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Worldwide : Living in Transarchipelagic Worlds Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-8-48-489670-8 ER - TY - BOOK ED - Ette, Ottmar ED - Kutzinski, Vera ED - Dassow Walls, Laura T1 - Alexander von Humboldt and the Americas T3 - Potsdamer inter- und transkulturelle Texte : POINTE Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-3-938944-63-9 VL - 3 PB - Ed. Tranvia Frey CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kutzinski, Vera M. A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - The art of science: Alexander von Humboldt's views of the cultures of the world Y1 - 2012 SN - 0-226-86506-1 ER - TY - BOOK ED - Kutzinski, Vera M. ED - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Views of the cordilleras and monuments of the indigenous peoples of the Americas : a critical edition Y1 - 2012 SN - 0-226-86506-1 PB - University of Chicago Press CY - Chicago ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Everything is interrelated, even the errors in the system : Alexander von Humboldtd and globalization Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-0-415-69787-3 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sternagel, Jörg A1 - Levitt, Deborah A1 - Mersch, Dieter T1 - Etymological uncoveries, creative displays : acting as force and performance as eloquence in moving image culture Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-3-8376-1648-4 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mersch, Dieter T1 - Passion and exposure : new paradoxes of the actor Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-3-8376-1648-4 ER - TY - BOOK ED - Sternagel, Jörg ED - Levitt, Deborah ED - Mersch, Dieter T1 - Acting and performance in moving image culture : bodies, screens, renderings T3 - Metabasis Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-3-8376-1648-4 U6 - https://doi.org/10.14361/transcript.9783839416488 VL - 7 PB - transcript; de Gruyter CY - Bielefeld; Berlin ER -