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We humans do have a gift for bringing friendliness to this world, and this ability directly challenges the lines that Brecht wrote in which "the friendliness in this world" amounts to little more than "two handfuls of earth." With examples and thoughts from linguistics, cultural anthropology, and literature, readers are invited to reflect on how people can do good with words. (AP)

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This paper elaborates on the problem of the traditional terms of experts and lay people. Language is a fundamental component of everyday life and all individuals react to language issues by using language itself. The paper contests the claim that lay people do not exist in the field of linguistics. There must be dealt with innovative concepts, such as professional and amateur, because the "lay people" (as a considerable amount of studies have investigated) are well aware of processes concerning language issues and thus generate their own kind of "linguistic theory". The task of linguists is to scrutinize such theories, which form the basis for the understanding of linguistic change and the formation of language norms. The line of argument presented here is arranged in chronological order: starting in antiquity, light will be shed on the meaning of the term "lay people" in cultural history. Special emphasis will be put on the Middle Ages, the early modern age and the modern period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Freud's Lost Neighbours: Ways of Presenting Historical Documents in Exhibition Catalogues Historical documents such as forms and other writings are usually subordinated to linguistic narratives and used in exhibition catalogues to illustrate the necessary contextualization. Using the example of the exhibition catalog Freud's Lost Neighbours, designed by Walter Pamminger, this paper examines a mode of presentation that avoids illustration. Instead, forms from the National Socialist era make it possible to understand the bureaucratic procedures for confiscating the property of Viennese Jews. According to my hypothesis, the catalogue achieves this by placing the documents on an equal footing with the text, shifting the focus to the media implications. Drawing on Sybille Krämer's reflections on medial performativity, this article examines questions of the construction of truth through the media and the visual. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper deals with the so-called “Brothers poem”, fr. 10 Voigt = Neri, which is up to now the most recent papyrological discovery attributed to Sappho. In its first part, the paper investigates the identities, the actions, and the mutual relationships of the characters featuring in this new poem. In its second one, it will be discussed how the Sapphic lines deal with themes such as power relations, oppression, social hierarchy, and behavioral expectations in relation to genre.

Speakers of Western Central German dialects frequently use the first person plural form of the possessive article unser with proper names (e.g. us Dietmar 'our Dietmar'). But conditions of use are so far totally unclear. This paper focuses on form and use of unser with proper names in Moselle Franconian dialects. The findings are based on interviews. They show that unser is primarily used to refer to blood relatives. However, consanguinity is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for unser. In particular, its use is triggered by social closeness and the assumption of responsibility by the speaker. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The 'chain of varieties' model as proposed by Koch and Oesterreicher has become one of the most relevant contributions to the field of German Variational Linguistics in the past few decades. In this paper, I will revisit and discuss several aspects of this model, namely the theoretical heterogeneity of diasystematic varieties, the concept of markedness used in the model, and the place which the standard variety occupies within the schema. I will conclude by offering a revised version of the model according to the theoretical implications of my proposal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Cognitive linguistics pays particular attention to the interrelations between language, subjective conceptualisations and intersubjective manifestations of knowledge, providing descriptive tools for the analysis of how the choice of linguistic means is determined by individual, as well as by culture-specific conceptual patterns. In this paper we analyse the linguistic construal of Ukrainian Maidan activists in six German, Polish and Russian daily newspapers. The analysis focuses on culture-specific differences between the linguistic strategies used in the Western and Middle European media discourse in the EU member states, as well as the Eastern European discourse in Russia. The research is based on two theoretical frameworks: cognitive ethnolinguistics and cognitive grammar. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper refers to the emotional level in online communication, which appears in a special way through colorful emojis in social media. The functions of these pictorial symbols enable people to express their emotions and feelings. It is related to the fact that face-to-face situations are less and less common in digital communication. Moreover, their use leads to the multimodality of the numerous digital contributions, which makes them particularly enriching, colorful and complementary. Research on emojis is becoming significant in linguistics over time, so they form a broad field for the development and discovery of new phenomena. The aim of this paper is to consider what emotions can be conveyed with the help of emojis and whether these pictorial signs can create a new form of communication. For this reason, their influence on digital communication is examined by analyzing selected tweets about Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk on the basis of three main criteria (form, content and emotions of emojis). Conclusions bring to light the finding that emojis, despite their ambiguity, can convey positive as well as neutral and negative emotions. The new form of communication arouses interest among Internet users, which can lead to next unknown ways of using them. Emojis are an area that has not yet been thoroughly researched, so their study by linguists is noteworthy.

An important source for the investigation of the Russian language during the reign of Peter the Great is the first printed paper Vědomosti (1703-1727) initiated by the Tsar himself. Here many compilations from Western European papers are found, that transported words of Latin provenance into Vědomosti, including later latinized spellings and Latin quotations. This shows the strong position of latinitas in the Western European language area at the time, in particular Dutch, the language favoured by the Tzar, but also German and French. Therefore we are dealing here with «Eurolatinisms» which form a connection between Russia and the European area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Timaeus presupposes Being and Becoming right from the beginning of his speech in the eponymous dialogue. However, Being and Becoming were not mere notions but referred to the incompatible Parmenidean and Heraclitean approaches to understanding. As a consequence, either phenomena such as falsehood and movement or any kind of knowledge and value were thought to be inconceivable. Not only is this incompatibility the main source of the problems in the Parmenides, but necessitates the recommencement in the Timaeus 47e. Drawing on the solution for the linguistic status of falsehood given in the Sophistes, this paper shows how the epistemological and ontological problems that Plato's theory of Forms pose are handled in the Timaeus. Crucially, the χώρα can be interpreted as the cosmological principle of 'the other' so that in addition to the structural relation between Being and Becoming, the causal relation is also taken into account. Both those relations are present in the metaphor of the image and its original which are the central topic of the summarising passage Timaeus 52c2-d1. This paper tries to clarify how this metaphor resolves the tension between Being and Becoming and therefore also each of the difficulties that were present in the Parmenides. Thus, the Timaeus offers a more coherent alternative to the Presocratics' mechanistic and the Sophists' relativist accounts and hence can be read as Plato's final answer to the problem of universals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Corpus Linguistics has often proved fruitful to examine different types of discourses, also the one of refugees. Aim of the paper is to show how language usage patterns can be focused on with the help of techniques grounded in Corpus Linguistics, giving information about themes and topoi. After showing what type of words (keywords, collocations) and what type of phenomena will be considered (topoi, metaphors and frames) in the article, the focus will shift on the methodology and the adopted criteria. After presenting the primary corpus (articles from right-oriented newspapers) and the comparison corpus (articles from Die Zeit) the main results of the analysis are presented and reflected on. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The discipline of ethnology, now more commonly known as social and cultural anthropology, developed from a variety of research fields. Although the establishment of 'four-field anthropology' is generally attributed to Franz Boas in 1904, it was already common in the second half of the nineteenth century for traveller-naturalists, missionaries and colonial authorities who were actively involved in ethnology to engage in other disciplines at the same time, notably physical anthropology, archaeology and linguistics. Often their findings in one discipline coloured their conclusions in another; for example, the belief that a particular population or 'race' was 'primitive' on account of physical or cultural characteristics could influence which theories about the prehistory of that population or 'race' were considered plausible and which were dismissed as impossible. This paper examines three German-speaking researchers - Jan Kubary, Otto Finsch, and Paul Hambruch - who, at different points in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, engaged with the prehistory of Nan Madol, a monumental stone complex and ceremonial centre of eastern Micronesia, and reached quite different conclusions. These three case studies demonstrate how closely the history of ethnology in the Pacific is intertwined with the histories of archaeology and physical anthropology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is dedicated to the concept of ambiguity and humor as an intercultural phenomenon. In the first section, we introduce different concepts of the term humor in literature from the perspective of literary and cultural studies, psychology and cognitive linguistics. We attempt to show that the concept of humor and ambiguity of an intercultural and interlingual perspective may belong to the most difficult areas of translation theory. At the same time, humor and polysemy are the key concepts of a semantically and pragmatically based theory of translation. In the second section, we will briefly deal with the phenomena of humor and ambiguity from the psycholinguistic and cognitive point of view and thereby we try to analyze the difference between visuality and textuality of Shakespeare's tragedy 'Romeo and Juliet' in film and on stage. The third section of this paper is devoted to the phenomenon of interculturality and the interlingual translation of pragmatic and cognitive-semantic categories on the example of polysemy, vagueness, irony, pun, word play and joke (and its various strategies and conversational implicatures in the literary text). It is assumed that initially the validity of the Relevance criterion (Sperber & Wilson 2005) and the validity of the principle of cooperation are in play, even in a text that is commonly considered as 'meaningless'. We want to prove the example of James Joyce's 'Finnegans Wake', demonstrating that even such a seemingly illegible or difficult text that has often been considered non transferable, in a certain pattern and its narrative potential of the storyline, in the dynamics and in the progression descends from and is determined by the VALIDITY of the criterion of relevance. In another part of this third section, we turn to the Elizabethan drama of Shakespeare and the novel Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais, Ulysses by James Joyce as well as the unforgettable Novel by Jaroslav Hašek Brave Soldier Švejk, showing how wit and irony work and can be translated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper develops a corpus-driven analysis of wh-interrogatives in Castilian Spanish. Combining methods from variationist and interactional linguistics, it is demonstrated that both the distribution of the variants and their discourse functions can be described in terms of the degree of mental accessibility of the interrogative proposition (P) and the referent of the interrogative pronoun/ adverb (X). In contexts in which both P and X have a low degree of accessibility, wh-interrogatives establish a new Question under Discussion; in contexts in which P has a high and X a low degree of accessibility, wh-interrogatives are used to elaborate a current Question under Discussion; in contexts in which both P and X have a high degree of accessibility, wh-interrogatives are used to repeat, clarify or challenge a previous utterance. Given that the wh-interrogative variants differ in their restrictions regarding the accessibility of P and X, they typically also fulfil different discourse functions. The analysis moreover demonstrates that due to these functional differences, the type of response to the interrogatives produced by the listeners differs systematically depending on the wh-interrogative type. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since linguistics is nowadays an interdisciplinary field, translating theoretical texts belonging to the linguistic province is a complex activity which requires, on the one hand, specific strategies and instruments, and, on the other hand, particular competences from the translator/editor. Our paper discusses and illustrates this specific case of translation, on the basis of examples of translated texts from French into Romanian belonging to the subfields of pragmatics and textual linguistics, with a focus on issues such as terminology, corpus, citations and paratext in translation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The premise of this paper is that there is a special trait which authors writing in German – but having a different mother tongue – have in common: compared to authors whose mother tongue is German, they show a more distinct sensitivity for the peculiarities of language, a more intense preoccupation with language phenomena, and a habit of critically questioning linguistic conventions, i.e. overall they display a greater awareness of language. Using the examples of Libuše Moníková, Jiří Gruša and Michael Stavarič, the paper shows how their German texts become alienated through elements from their mother tongue and how these authors make use of their bilingualism in their creative way of handling the foreign language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Language and Linguistics According to Krystyna Pisarkowa (1932–2010) Krystyna Pisarkowa’s rich output is characterised by a variety of forms and a wide range of topics, as well as an innovative interpretation of linguistic phenomena. The following paper can be described as biographical and substantive. The text contains certain facts from Pisarkowa’s life that are connected with certain spheres of her scientific activity in which she succeeded, references to people who played a significant role in her life, as well as development of her research interests. The publications which are mentioned in the paper have been selected according to Pisarkowa’s attitude to language, its essence, pragmatic-functional-stylistic variety, as well as potential context and purpose which lies beyond its typical usage. Moreover, an attempt has been made at reconstructing Pisarkowa’s views on the range, shape and place of linguistics among humanistic disciplines.

This paper presents an overview of the present-day system of varieties of German with a focus on linguistic usage in the Federal Republic of Germany. The interaction of social and regional factors underlying these varieties is discussed with special reference to the sociosituational conditions determining their existence and use. On the basis of this analysis, the second part of the paper examines three developmental tendencies and the effect they have on a restructuring of the system of varieties: dialect decay, dialect revival, and regionalization of the standard language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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