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"... sie schaueten in die Welt und in das Herz ...": die Ischia-Episode in Jean Pauls "Titan"
(2001)
"Als sei Ich ein Anderer"
(2006)
"Gefallen geht über Verstehen" - kalkulierte Offenheit als semantische Strategie in Kontaktanzeigen
(1998)
Study 1 targets grammatical restrictions, based on a corpus of peer group conversations among adolescents. We show that noncanonical variants have the form of bare NPs with or without preposition and appear in both multilingual and monolingual speech communities, following the same syntactic and semantic patterns. While there is a quantitative advantage for the multilingual group, noncanonical variants generally constitute only a minority compared to canonical full PP[DP]. Study 2 targets usage restrictions across communicative situations, based on a corpus of elicited productions by adolescents from a multilingual urban neighbourhood. Comparisons show significantly more noncanonical local expressions in informal, peer-group situations than in formal ones for both spoken and written modes. Taken together, results indicate a selective, grammatically restricted and register-bound choice of noncanonical local expressions.
"Sammelgebiet DDR"
(2003)
This article investigates a public debate in Germany that put a special spotlight on the interaction of standard language ideologies with social dichotomies, centering on the question of whether Kiezdeutsch, a new way of speaking in multilingual urban neighbourhoods, is a legitimate German dialect. Based on a corpus of emails and postings to media websites, I analyse central topoi in this debate and an underlying narrative on language and identity. Central elements of this narrative are claims of cultural elevation and cultural unity for an idealised standard language High German', a view of German dialects as part of a national folk culture, and the construction of an exclusive in-group of German' speakers who own this language and its dialects. The narrative provides a potent conceptual frame for the Othering of Kiezdeutsch and its speakers, and for the projection of social and sometimes racist deliminations onto the linguistic plane.
The article offers a rereading of Sibylla Schwarz’s prose eclogue, Faunus. By describing the circumstances and the development of a young love in detail, Schwarz directs the reader’s attention to the fact, that Christian moral and ethical standards are external, and, therefore, are to be rejected. Instead, she places the ‘anthropological’ dimension in the foreground, the interest in human beings and their emotional motivations. Affective control and adaptation to conventions are less important. In that regard, this short text can be seen as an integral part of a prehistory of ‘literary anthropology,’ which ultimately evolved only in the course of the 18th century, although, as will be shown, its precursors can already be found in the 17th century.