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Wann und wo ist nû?
(2022)
Die neuere Literaturtheorie hat sich mit dem Sachverhalt auseinanderzusetzen, dass immer mehr zeitgenössische Erzähltexte durchgehend das Präsens nutzen, um zu erzählen. Das deutschsprachige Mittelalter kennt solche durchgängig im Präsens erzählenden Texte, also solche, die das ›narrative Präsens‹ verwenden, unserem Wissen nach nicht. Was es kennt, ist der punktuelle Gebrauch des Präsens in Texten, die ansonsten nahezu durchgängig im epischen Präteritum abgefasst sind, also ein Präsens, das oft als ›historisches‹ bezeichnet wird, das sich für das Mittelhochdeutsche jedoch besser als ›punktuelles Präsens‹ fassen lässt.
Die Verwendung eines solchen Präsens bildet den Gegenstand dieses Beitrages. Wir verfolgen dabei die Frage, wie sich dieser Tempusgebrauch narratologisch beschreiben lässt und welche Auswirkungen er auf die diegetische Struktur eines Erzähltextes hat.
Diese Frage, mag sie auch schlicht daherkommen, ist eine recht voraussetzungsreiche, erfordert sie doch zwei grundsätzliche Klärungen. Zunächst die nach der ganz allgemeinen Temporalität des Präsens. Was sagt das Präsens über die zeitliche Lagerung einer Aussage überhaupt aus? Außerdem berührt der Versuch, den Präsensgebrauch in Erzähltexten narratologisch zu beschreiben, auch die Frage, ob sich die Funktion von Tempora in narrativen und/oder fiktionalen Texten ändert oder ändern kann. Beides sind nicht nur umfassende und komplexe Fragen, sondern auch solche, die in der Forschung hochgradig umstritten sind. Unsere Überlegungen hierzu können angesichts dessen nur skizzenhaft und vorläufig sein.
It has been observed for many African languages that focussed subjects
have to appear outside of their syntactic base position, as opposed to
focussed objects, which can remain in-situ. This is known as subjectobject
asymmetry of focus marking, which Fiedler et al. (2010) claim
to hold also for Akan. Genzel (2013), on the other hand, argues that
Akan does not exhibit a subject-object focus asymmetry. A questionnaire
study and a production experiment were carried out to investigate
whether focussed subjects may indeed be realized in-situ in Akan. The
results suggest that (i) focussed subjects do not have to be obligatorily
realized ex-situ, and that (ii) the syntactic preference for the realization
of a focussed subject highly depends on exhaustivity.
Sprach‑ und Weltalternativen
(2020)
Multilingualism and the alternate history genre have something in common: both phenomena are based on the construction of alternatives, in the case of multilingualism on the alternatives between different languages and communication systems, and in the case of the alternate history genre on the alternatives between real-world facts and the variation thereof within fictional worlds. This article investigates the interconnections between these two forms of thinking in alternatives by looking specifically at Quentin Tarantino's counterfactual war film Inglourious Basterds (2009) and Christian Kracht's alternate history novel Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten (2008). I argue that the consideration of language alternatives forms part of the meta-reflection of the alternate history genre in these works while at the same time opening up a political perspective: in Tarantino's film and Kracht's novel, multilingualism serves as a means for the critique of ideology by rendering palpable the political threats of a worldview based on clear-cut alternatives. In the article's final section, I plead for the establishment of stronger links between the research on literary multilingualism and the theory of fiction.
Mit Korbmachern zum Sieg
(2016)
Praxis und Theorie der Prosa
(2021)
Poetik der Verästelung
(2021)
In October 2016, following a campaign led by Labour Peer Lord Alfred Dubs, the first child asylum-seekers allowed entry to the UK under new legislation (the ‘Dubs amendment’) arrived in England. Their arrival was captured by a heavy media presence, and very quickly doubts were raised by right-wing tabloids and politicians about their age. In this article, I explore the arguments underpinning the Dubs campaign and the media coverage of the children’s arrival as a starting point for interrogating representational practices around children who seek asylum. I illustrate how the campaign was premised on a universal politics of childhood that inadvertently laid down the terms on which these children would be given protection, namely their innocence.
The universality of childhood fuels public sympathy for child asylum-seekers, underlies the ‘child first, migrant second’ approach advocated by humanitarian organisations, and it was a key argument in the ‘Dubs amendment’. Yet the campaign highlights how representations of child asylum-seekers rely on codes that operate to identify ‘unchildlike’ children. As I show, in the context of the criminalisation of undocumented migrants‘, childhood is no longer a stable category which guarantees protection, but is subject to scrutiny and suspicion and can, ultimately, be disproved.
Černobylʼ, Gewalt, Mythos
(2016)
"Unavoidably side by side"
(2011)
Fakten und Fiktionen
(2016)
Sentence type marking is realized by two suffixes in Aymara, one marks
declaratives and the other polar sentences (polar questions and negated
sentences) by picking out one or two propositions, respectively. A third
suffix, initially associated with wh-questions, turns out to be a (scalar)
additive and unrelated to sentence type. The sentence-type-related suffixes
associate with focus and the additive can associate with focus by
attaching to the focused constituent.
Fernando Pessoa
(2009)
1 Hinführung und Zielstellung, 2 Angestrebte Ergebnisse der Entwicklung lexikalischer Kompetenz - vernetzt mit der Entwicklung von Lese-/Textverstehenskompetenz, 3 Arbeit am Wortschatz und Textverstehen - Textanalyse als das Erschließen eines Feldes von Möglichkeiten, 4 Die Tätigkeit des Schülers optimal in Gang setzen - handlungs-regulierende Aufgaben stellen, 5 Literatur
Against the pain
(2023)
Longevity narratives
(2018)
The essay looks at longevity narratives as an important configuration of old age, which is closely related to evolutionary theories of ageing. In order to analyse two case studies of longevity published in the early twentieth century, the American psychologist G. Stanley Hall's book Senescence (1922) and the British dramatist Bernard Shaw's play cycle Back to Methuselah (1921), the essay draws on an outline of theories of longevity from the Enlightenment to the present. The analysis of the two case studies illustrates that evolutionary and cultural perspectives on ageing and longevity are ambivalent and problematic. In Hall's and Shaw's texts this is related to a crisis narrative of culture and civilization against which both writers place their specific solutions of individual and species longevity. Whereas Hall employs autobiographical accounts of artists as examples of longevity to strengthen his argument about wise old men as exclusive repositories of knowledge, Shaw in his vision of longevity as an extended form of midlife for both genders encounters the limits of age representation.
Introduction
(2023)