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The aim of this paper is to analyse hate speech in 19th century Germany from a linguistic perspective. The paper thus examines the works of three German authors who are regarded as exemplary for the emergence and further development of German-language hate speech: 1) Ernst Moritz Arndt, Über den Volkshaß und über den Gebrauch einer fremden Sprache (1813); 2) Wilhelm Marr (1819-1904), Der Sieg des Judenthums über das Germanenthum (1879), and 3) Otto Böckel (1859-1923), Die Juden - Die Könige unserer Zeit (1887). The analysis shows that the hate language had been particularly present in journalism and literature since the end of the 18th century, affecting diverse aspects of social life and becoming part of the political debate, especially during the emergence of the German nation after the Napoleonic wars. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper deals with a family of German constructions based on the reduplication pattern [von Xsg zu Xsg], The theoretical framework of the paper is formed by central postulates of Construction Grammar. German-Russian (RNC) and German-Spanish (PaGeS) parallel corpora serve as the empirical basis. The pattern under investigation is characterized formally by the duplication of a noun in singular without article, and semantically by different readings such as 'iterative locomotion' (von Haus zu Haus gehen, 'going from house to house') or 'steady development' (von Tag zu Tag zunehmen, 'increasing from day to day'). On the contrastive level, the lexical slot filling of each construct plays a special role, because it also conditions the formal and semantic specifics of the equivalents in Russian and Spanish. We thus primarily attempt to determine the functionally equivalent constructions of the German pattern on the basis of the consulted German-Russian or German-Spanish parallel corpora. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Numerous research papers have already addressed the question of why and how phraseology can be integrated into Teaching German as a First, Second, or Foreign Language. It is argued that phraseologisms - just like single words - belong to the lexical inventory and are therefore essential for both text reception and text production. In addition to more theoretical contributions, there are also practice-oriented studies that show how tasks/exercises with codified and modified phrasemes can serve vocabulary expansion on the one hand, and support the teaching of phonetics, morphology, and syntax on the other. However, little attention has been paid so far to the question of what role phraseologisms play, for example, in language disorders caused by dementia. Can targeted exercises, such as phraseological games, be used as 'linguistic remedies' against dementia? The present paper examines this topic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper examines a study of the Prešov doctor and pharmacist, diplomat and mayor Johannes Weber as a virtuous ruler. The study, bearing the title Janus Bifrons. Seu Speculum Physico-Politicum. Das ist Natürlicher Regenten-Spiegel (durch Johannem Weber bey Ablegung seines Richter-Ampts des 1661 Jahres in Eperies für gestellet), is a type of "physiological-political mirror" and was published in 1662 by the Brewer printery in Levoča. It is written in German, supplemented by Latin and forms the first part of a political trilogy. In it Weber describes the qualities a ruler should possess and compares them to the various parts of the human body. The analyzed text presents numerous parallels with modern times. The aim of this article is to show how Weber describes violence, peace and neutrality, how he argues and connects them with moral values, and which means of expression are used in characterizing politics, violence, war and peace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Corona pandemic in 2020 and the resulting school closures brought new challenges for those involved in the teaching and learning processes. Without any advance warning or preparation, (not only) teachers of GFL had to respond and ensure that, under these specific conditions, the teaching and learning goals could still be pursued and achieved. At the same time, students were also placed in an entirely new, unfamiliar learning reality. This situation resulted in a research project (No. UJEP-SGS-2021-63-001-3) that aims to reflect this specific school reality from the perspective of teachers of GFL on the one hand, and students on the other. This paper presents and discusses the project's selected findings, with special focus on the students' perspective, i.e. how Czech students experienced learning GFL in the online environment during the Corona pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The current paper discusses the role and significance of German teachers in Czech society in the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. It focuses on the habitus of German teachers and the educational and socio-political circumstances that shaped it. Both autofiction produced by teachers and their essays on educational policies will be analyzed in order to depict their social image and their self-placement in different political frameworks. This cultural-historical study is intended to stimulate further research in the current discourse on educational policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, all types of phraseologisms in web texts for adolescents are investigated. Special attention has been paid to non-codified phraseological units, more specifically the occurrence of adolescent language features in these texts. Some of these phraseological units contain, for example, anglicisms, much favoured among the young. It is shown that not all common phraseologisms are listed in current dictionaries, but also that new phraseologisms often represent variations of old ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper deals with nostalgia tourism in the Czech-German border areas. Using the example of homeland tours to Usti nad Labem/Aussig an der Elbe before and after the fall of the Iron Curtain, it presents some of the mental images the expelled Germans constructed about their former homeland and how these changed over time. The material basis for the analysis presents the Heimat journal Aussiger Bote, years 1989-1995, which aimed at the expellees from the Usti nad Labem region and largely reflects the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft policy of a culture of remembrance. For contex- tualization and a possible chronological comparison, the volumes preceding the year 1989 are also considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the corpus-based comparison of four German phrasemes with the meaning 'to propel someone/something'. On the basis of a machine evaluation of contexts from the German Reference Corpus (DeReKo), the syntactic, semantic and combinatorial properties of these phrasemes are described. The semantic properties were determined with DeReKo's own co-occurrence analysis, the morpho-syntactic features with GATE. Such features as occupation of object valency, combinability with adverbs, use with negation, and occurrence of different tenses of the verb were compared. Similarities as well as differences were found. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the connection between constructivist learning in German as a foreign language and the use of task-based learning activities in hypermedia learning environments for enriching vocabulary work in the field of phraseology. Using examples from classroom practice, we present and critically reflect upon the possibilities for implementing a constructivist learning culture in phraseology-related vocabulary work [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents results of contrastive research of phraseological neologisms in German and Ukrainian. The research aimed at a conceptual analysis of phraseological neologisms used in digital media during the coronavirus pandemic in Germany and Ukraine. It was conducted in two steps: the description of structural-semantic features of selected phraseological units in both languages, and, by contrasting them to existing neologisms, the determination of their equivalence types. The material basis is formed with 96 German and 60 Ukrainian phraseological neologisms from the years 2020-2021. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the considerable advantages of digital platforms for language learners, freely accessible online tools in the field of phraseology are still scarce, with some exceptions. They are not bound by space limitations, are easy to update, and promote autonomous learning. The online phraseology learning platform ReDeWe presented in this paper, which was created as part of a textbook investigation, covers three areas: (1) a phrase database under construction with relevant information such as semantic field, register, and basic vocabulary level, (2) a multisearch engine integrating the main online dictionaries or corpora, and (3) a learning platform with interactive exercises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with selected aspects of current DaF textbooks in between linguistics and didactics in two ways. First, we ask how to verify the pragmatic elements of communication in a foreign language textbook. Second, we look at a study dealing with speech acts in DaF textbooks. In this sense, we examine a methodological-theoretical question related to speech act theory, and also discuss an analysis of selected textbooks. The subject of this analysis is macrospeech act instruction and speech acts in conversations in DaF textbooks. The results show that the spectrum of speech acts is quite complex, even if, for the development of pragmatic competence in German learners, a more extensive variety of speech acts would be desirable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, German as a foreign language (DaF) has been intensively debated with regard to certain deficits in cultural mediation, with the aim of (re-)integrating cultural content in teaching DaF. This article discusses the reasons for the unsatisfactory state of affairs, and points out the important role of Cultural Theory in teaching, and the potential use of the concept of Linguistic Landscapes (as developed in Cultural Studies) to open up new perspectives for DaF teaching by accentuating the close connection between language and culture. In the second part of the paper the didactic potential of this concept is clarified by introducing several suggestions for lessons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Films provide an attractive medium for learners, with a great potential for lingual, intercultural, film-aesthetical and media learning. Exact criteria and various methods for the productive use of film have been developed for the didactics of language education. However, in foreign-language education, films are used relatively sparsely, and their use has only been rarely evaluated. This paper presents the evaluation of a school film-project on two PASCH schools and two German bilingual high schools in Slovakia, and also provides a theoretical account on film didactics: we measured the project's effects in enhancing vocabulary, and developing culture-specific knowledge and film-competency. In addition, we carried out interviews about the subjective learning experience with every group of students. The test results indicate positive effects that have been complemented by qualitative data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article deals with current aspects of teaching foreign languages in tertiary education for specific purposes, with reference to new digital technologies, which bring completely new dimensions into the output of foreign-language learning at universities. This paper theoretically and methodologically analyses an effective use of digital media-based teaching and learning methods in acquiring languages for specific purposes, both in classroom and in self-learning. Furthermore, we focus on how digital media can support and develop individual foreign language competences and skills. Finally, a concrete media-supported learning scenario is presented as an illustrative example of the so-called hybrid learning concept. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores spatial concepts developed by the author Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer in his short story Begegnung auf dem Riesengebirge (1928). It is shown that the literary text not only has an aesthetic quality but also contains a disturbing political statement. This becomes apparent when the various spatial representations are analysed. The author’s spatial arrangements and their foundations are presented and put in the context of the inter-war period. Attention is drawn to the continuity of the “großdeutsche” idea of Central Europe. The article is based on Henri Lefebvre’s theoretical considerations on space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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