TY - BOOK A1 - Wolf, Hans-Georg A1 - Polzenhagen, Frank T1 - World Englishes : a cognitive sociolinguistic approach T3 - Applications of cognitive linguistics Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3-11-019633-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110199222 VL - 8 PB - Mouton de Gruyter CY - Berlin, New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wolf, Hans-Georg A1 - Igboanusi, Herbert T1 - The role of ethnically mixed marriages in language shift : a case study of Nigeria's minority languages N2 - As the foundation of homes, the marriage institution is an important agent of sociali- zation. In this regard, marriage can be relied upon as a major factor in language and cultural maintenance. However, mixed marriages may contribute to language shift in the home because they can lead to a change in language use patterns among minority language speakers and their children. This means that the likelihood of preserving a minority language is greater in marriages among individuals who speak the same indigenous language than in situations in which spouses speak different languages. This study uses questionnaire data from parents of ethnically mixed marriages to explain how mixed marriages contribute to language shift from minority languages to English (Nigeria's official language), Nigerian Pidgin (informal lingua franca) and the major languages (i.e. Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba) in the home domains. The study shows that the future of minority languages will largely depend on the roles of families and the value attached to minority ethnic identity by young people, particularly those from mixed homes. Keywords: language shift; maintenance; family; minority languages; intermarriage; nigeria Y1 - 2009 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wischer, Ilse T1 - Rissanen, M. (Hrsg.), Hintikka, M. (Hrsg.), Kahlas-Tarkka, L. (Hrsg.), McConchie, R. (Hrsg.), Change in Meaning and the Meaning of Change; Helsinki, Société Néophilologique, 2007 BT - Change in Meaning and the Meaning of Change Y1 - 2009 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wiemann, Dirk T1 - "Im Angesicht der Majestät : Geschichte, Mythos und Transnationalität in Shekhhar Kapurs Elizabeth- Filmen" Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3-7705-4803-3 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wiemann, Dirk T1 - Empire and freedom : William Davenant's 'Republican' Plays Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3-86821- 132-0 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wiemann, Dirk T1 - Bashing the bishop : the Rowan Williams Row and the incomplete secularisation of Britain Y1 - 2009 SN - 0944-9094 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wiemann, Dirk T1 - Wilber's Force : abolitionism and the power of sensibility in Michael Apted's amazing grace Y1 - 2009 SN - 0171-1695 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Tristram, Hildegard L.C. T1 - Wie weit sind die inselkeltischen Sprachen (und das Englische) analytisiert? T1 - How far have the Insular Celtic languages (and the English language) been analyticised? N2 - Der gemeinsame Wandel der inselkeltischen Sprachen wie auch des Englischen vom vorwiegend synthetischen Typus zum vorwiegend analytischen Typus läßt sich vermutlich auf einen ca. 1500 Jahre dauernden intensiven Sprachenkontakt zwischen diesen Sprachen zurückführen. Heute ist das Englische die analytischste Sprache der Britischen Inseln und Irlands, gefolgt vom Walisischen, Bretonischen und Irischen. Letzteres ist von den genannten Sprachen noch am weitesten morphologisch komplex. N2 - I discuss the joint shift of the Insular Celtic languages and of the English language from, typologically speaking, predominantly synthetic languages c. 1500 years ago to predominantly analytical languages today. The demise of the inflectional morphology is most advanced in Present Day English. Welsh follows suit. Then come Breton and Irish. Intensive linguistic interaction across the boundaries of the Germanic and the Insular Celtic languages are proposed to have been instrumental for this type of linguistic convergence. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 35 KW - Irisch KW - Walisisch KW - Bretonisch KW - Englisch KW - Sprachwandel KW - Sprachkontakt KW - Sprachkonvergenz KW - Typologie KW - Morphologie KW - Komplexität KW - Quantifizierun KW - Irish KW - Welsh KW - Breton KW - English KW - Language Change KW - Language Contact KW - Convergence KW - Morphology KW - Complexity KW - Quantification Y1 - 2009 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-41251 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mahlberg, Gaby T1 - Henry Neville and English republican culture in the seventeenth century : dreaming of another game JF - Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain N2 - Henry Neville and English Republican Culture in the Seventeenth Century is the first full-length study of the republican Henry Neville in his many facets as country gentleman, politician, political thinker, rebel and libeller. It traces the development of Neville's political thought from the English Civil Wars to the Exclusion Crisis and beyond, while also challenging the way in which the history of ideas has been conceptualised in recent years by discussing Neville's political theory alongside his lesser known libels, shams and poetry. The book also challenges an established view of Neville based on his collaboration with the better-known philosopher James Harrington and shows Neville as a political thinker in his own right. While studies of early modern English republicanism tend to focus on the Interregnum, Neville's Plato redivivus, which promoted a restructuring of the political order, was only published after the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy. This study therefore draws attention to long-term continuities in English republican thought and introduces the concept of anti-patriarchalism to focus on what Neville and other republicans writing before 1649 or after 1660 had in common. They shared their opposition to tyranny, not monarchy, and aimed to limit the discretionary powers of the executive - a concern which links the debates between the Long Parliament and the King of 1641 to Neville's proposals to limit the powers of the Crown in 1681. The author's engagement with Neville's reputation as an atheist and crypto-Catholic also sheds new light on the role of religion in republican thought. Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-0-7190-7946-7 PB - Manchester Univ. Press CY - Manchester ET - 1. publ ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mahlberg, Gaby T1 - Neo-Harringtonianism and " a letter sent to General Monk" (1660) revisited N2 - This article argues that a pamphlet entitled "A Letter Sent to General Monk" (1660) has been wrongly attributed to the English republican Henry Neville (1619-94). Instead, the pamphlet was more likely written by a representative of the Presbyterian faction shortly before the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660. Y1 - 2009 SN - 0268-117X ER - TY - THES A1 - Küpper, Stefan T1 - Santeria – von afrikanischen Orishas über kubanische Heilige zur amerikanischen „Lifestyle-Kultur“ T1 - Santeria - A Development from African Orishas via Cuban Saints to an American Lifestyle Culture N2 - Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Entwicklungsprozess der Santeria im Rahmen der Afrikanischen Diaspora. Dabei werden die pluralen Formen der Orisha-Religion der Yoruba in Afrika im Hinblick auf ihre Funktion als religiöses Fundament der Santeria untersucht. Im Folgenden wird die Entstehung der Santeria auf Kuba, bedingt durch die Einfuhr einer Vielzahl von Yoruba Sklaven, analysiert. Dabei spielt die Vermischung des kubanischen Volkskatholizismus mit den Orishas der Yoruba, die in einer neuen synkretischen Religion - die Santeria - mündet, eine hervorgehobene Rolle. Auch der Einfluss von anderen Glaubenssystemen (Spiritismus) wird an dieser Stelle deutlich gemacht. Im Mittelteil der Arbeit stehen die Emigrationen zahlreicher Kubanern nach der Revolution von 1959, welche somit die Santeria in die USA exportierten. Inwiefern sich die Santeria im Kontext der USA weiterentwickelte bzw. welche neuen Religionsvarianten entstanden sind, wird an dieser Stelle untersucht. Auch die zunehmende Kommerzialisierung der Santeria-Varianten wird kritisch analysiert, besonders im Hinblick auf die wachsende Bedeutung von Botanicas. Der letzte Teil der Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den gegenwärtigen Entwicklungstendenzen der Santeria zur Lifestyle-Kultur im Rahmen des spirituellen Shoppings und geht auf die öffentliche Wahrnehmung in den USA ein. Dabei wird auch die ‚breite Massentauglichkeit’ der Santeria im Vergleich zu anderen Immigrantenreligionen herausgestellt und ihr Potential als kulturell-religiöse Identifikationsmöglichkeit für diverse Migrantengemeiden in einer zunehmend globalisierten Welt untersucht. N2 - This paper deals with the development of Santeria within the framework of the African Diaspora – rooting in Africa, emerging in Cuba, advancing in the USA. At first, the plural variants of the Yoruba Orisha religion in Africa are explored with regard to their function as religious basis of Santeria. In the following, the genesis of Santeria in Cuba, caused by the import of many Yoruba slaves, is analysed. In this process the blending of Cuban popular Catholicism with the Orishas of the Yoruba, which led to the emergence of Santeria as a syncretic religion, plays a major role. The influence of differing belief systems, such as Spiritism, on Santeria is highlighted as well. In the middle section of this paper the mass emigrations of Cubans, who brought Santeria to American shores, especially after Castro’s revolution in 1959, are examined in detail. The issues of how Santeria advanced within the American context and what kind of new religious variants emerged out of it are broached at this point. With particular regard to the growing importance of botanicas, the increasing character of commercialisation among different forms of Santeria is critically scrutinised. The final part of this paper deals with contemporary trends in the USA, where Santeria develops from an earlier religious character to a lifestyle-culture, clearly influenced by the process of spiritual shopping. At this point the broad attraction of Santeria, which appeals to multiple social groups in contrast to other immigrant religions, is emphasised. Due to her potential as cultural and religious opportunity for identification among several immigrant communities, Santeria advances to a source of identity among diasporic communities all over an increasingly globalised world. KW - Santeria KW - Orisha KW - Yoruba KW - Spiritismus KW - Kuba KW - Santeria KW - Orisha KW - Yoruba KW - Cuba KW - African Religion Y1 - 2009 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-39205 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kunow, Rüdiger T1 - In sickness and in health : transnationalism reconsidered Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3-8253-5652-1 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kunow, Rüdiger T1 - The coming of age : the descriptive organization of later life Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3-8253-1260-2 ER - TY - THES A1 - Havemann-Sendker, Anna T1 - Swinging the doors wide open : women artists securing their place at the Pennsylvania Academy of the fine arts in the course of the nineteenth century Y1 - 2009 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eckstein, Lars A1 - Reinfandt, Christoph T1 - The adventures of William Bloke, or : romanticism today and how it got here Y1 - 2009 ER - TY - INPR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Transatlantic slavery and the literary imagination Y1 - 2009 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-85548 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Transatlantic slavery and the literary imagination N2 - Transatlantic slavery and the literary imagination The challenges of turning transatlantic slavery into literature A polyphony of historical voices: Caryl Phillips’s dialogic imagination Literary imagination and the Zong Massacre: Fred D’Aguiar and David Dabydeen Perspectives T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 81 Y1 - 2009 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-59201 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - "Talking Without Speaking" in Mike Nichols"s the Graduate : some reflections on the rhetoric of song lyrics in film scores Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3-86821-141-2 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Against the Grain : Shakespeare"s Caliban and the Exotic Imaginary in 18th- and 19th-Century British painting Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3-86821-194-8 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3- 476-04000-8 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Alan Duff Once Were Warriors Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3- 476-04000-8 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Maurice Duggan Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3- 476-04000-8 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Alan Duff Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3- 476-04000-8 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Maurice Duggan Summer in the Gravel Pit Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3- 476-04000-8 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Torpedoing the authorship of popular music : a reading of Gorillaz’ ‘Feel Good Inc.’ N2 - This article addresses problems of authorship and creative authority in popular music, in particular in view of a pervasive split between modes of aesthetic production (involving modernist assemblage, multiple authorship, and the late capitalist logic of major label policies) and modes of aesthetic reception (which tend to take popular music as the organic output of individual performers). While rock musicians have attempted to come to terms with this phenomenon by either performing a ‘Romantic’ sense of authenticity (basically by importing folk values to the production process) or ‘Modernist authenticity’ (by highlighting experimen- tation and alienation), Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, creators of Gorillaz, found a third way which ingeniously allows them to do both. By creating a virtual rock band, and by hiding their own media personalities behind those of their virtual alter egos, they brought themselves into a position which allows them to produce ‘sincere’ popular music which ‘playfully’ stages the absurdities of major label music business while very successfully operating within its very confines. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 80 Y1 - 2009 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-59116 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar T1 - Contrasting and turn transition : prosodic projection with parallel-opposition constructions N2 - The parallel-opposition construction has not yet been widely described as an independent construction type. This article reports on its realization in everyday British-English conversation. In particular, it focusses on prosodic projection in the lexically and syntactically unmarked first component of this syntactic pattern, and thus adds to the body of research investigating the organization of turn-taking in the context of bi-clausal constructions with which the first part lacks explicit lexical hint, to their continuation. It is shown that the parallel-opposition construction, next to specific semantic-pragmatic, syntactic and lexical features, also exhibits a relatively fixed range of prosodic features in the first conjunct, among these narrow focus, continuing intonation and/or the avoidance of intonation-unit boundary signals. These are used to project continuation of an otherwise complete utterance and, thus, to secure the floor for the expression of contrast. In addition, the detailed analysis of apparently deviant cases, which takes into account the on-line production of syntax, shows that a lack of prosodically projective features in the first component of the parallel-opposition construction can be explained by the strategic, retrospective use of the construction to resolve problems in turn transition. Y1 - 2009 UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03782166 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2009.03.007 SN - 0378-2166 ER - TY - BOOK ED - Eckstein, Lars ED - Reinfandt, Christoph T1 - Romanticism today : selected papers from the Tübingen conference of the German Society for English Romanticism T3 - Studien zur englischen Romantik Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3-86821-147-4 VL - N.F., 6 PB - WVT Wiss. Verl. Trier CY - Trier ER - TY - BOOK ED - Eckstein, Lars ED - Reinfandt, Christoph T1 - Proceedings / Anglistentag 2008 Tübingen T3 - Verband Deutscher Anglisten : Proceedings of the conference of teh German Association of University Teachers o Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3-86821-179-5 PB - WVT Wiss. Verl. Trier CY - Trier ER - TY - BOOK ED - Kunow, Rüdiger ED - Hornung, Alfred T1 - Representation and Decoration in a postmoderne age T3 - American studies Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-3-8253-1260-2 VL - 94 PB - Winter CY - Heidelberg ER -