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In dieser Arbeit mache ich die Analyse von metaphorischen Ausdrücken im "kaukasieschen Kreidekreis" und ihre Übersetzung in der schwedischen Übersetzung "Den kaukasiska kritcirkeln". Bei der Analyse fokusiere ich auf Äquivalenz.

This study is corpus-based and concerns the translation of the German modal particles ja, doch and wohl into Swedish and English. The aim is to investigate how these modal particles are translated into Swedish and English, i.e. what translation strategies are used, in order to find possible differences in translation between both the two target languages and between the different modal particles. The material comes from the LEGS corpus and consists of 247 source-text instances of the modal particles ja, doch and wohl, and their translations into both Swedish and English. The target texts were categorized into the translation strategies: direct translation, omission, transposition and paraphrase. The instances of transposition were further divided into the categories adverb, verb and interjection. This study finds that for English the most frequent strategy is omission, while for Swedish it is direct translation. This suggests that the meanings of the German modal particles are more often disregarded in the English target texts and thus not transferred. Furthermore, for Swedish the direct translations ju, nog and väl, are the most common translations for the German modal particles ja, doch and wohl. As for English, when the modal particles were translated, they were most often translated through transposition with the adverbs probably, after all and of course.

Das digitale Spielen hat in den letzten Jahren stetig zugenommen und scheint heute ein selbstverständlicher Teil im alltäglichen Leben vieler Menschen zu sein. Eine deutliche Verbindung zwischen der digitalen Welt und der englischen Sprache ist zu beobachten, und man kann sich fragen, ob es immer so war. Ziel der Arbeit ist es, die Verwendung von Anglizismen in der digitalen Computerspiel- und Videospielwelt zu untersuchen, um herauszufinden, ob und inwiefern sich eine zunehmende Globalisierung in der Domäne des digitalen Spielens nachweisen lässt. Dazu wird der Sprachgebrauch ausgewählter Benutzer-Kommentare eines deutschen Spieleforums aus dem Jahr 2013 (teilweise auch vom Beginn des Jahres 2014) und der von 2004 untersucht. Die grundlegende Frage lautet: Wie unterscheidet sich der Gebrauch von Anglizismen in der digitalen Spielwelt, wenn man die Situation heute mit der von 2004 vergleicht?

Der Band versammelt ausgewählte Beiträge des IX.Nordisch-Baltischen Germanistentreffens, das vom14. bis 16. Juni 2012 im Konferenzhotel Solstrandin Os, ca. 30 Kilometer südlich von Bergen amBjørnafjord gelegen, stattfand. 19 Jahre nach demdritten Treffen des Nordischen Germanistenverbandesin Oslo 1993 lud der seit 2002 auch die baltischenGermanistiken repräsentierende Nordisch-BaltischeGermanistenverband mit dem NBGT 2012 zum zweitenMal nach Norwegen ein. Die Dokumentation bildetdie thematische Struktur der Konferenz ab und zeigtin vier Sektionen mit jeweils literatur-, sprach-, lehr-/lern- und kulturwissenschaftlichem Schwerpunkt diethematische, methodische und theoretische Vielfaltder nordisch-baltischen Germanistik auf.

When crises develop, people are confronted with difficulties beyond those experienced in normal everyday activities. Due to the perceived threats inherent to such situations, familiar behaviors may prove ineffective, and such attempts can pose dangerous and unpredictable risks. Crises are extreme situations, occurring at the very edges of human experience. Oral communication in such situations cannot be casual; the seriousness of the situation demands exceptional communicative performance on the part of the participants. Therefore, certainties about everyday communication conventions are called into question. The following work examines conversations during which the participants were involved in an extreme situation. In this particular crisis, a politically motivated kidnapping, the personal involvement of the interlocutors is substantial. A clear and present fear of the situation escalating and the possibility of a failure to anticipate the resulting reactions from the other party(ies) characterize the communicative acts of those involved. Recorded telephone calls during the occupation of the West German Embassy in Stockholm by members of the Red Army Faction (RAF) on April 24, 1975 comprise the basis for this analysis. One of the occupiers speaks with various interlocutors located in an adjacent embassy building. These interlocutors are relatives of the hostages, the Swedish Minister of Justice, and a German official charged with leading the negotiations. In this study, the communicative processes of the crisis are reconstructed. In order to show how the interlocutors attempt to reach their goals in this tense situation with the resources available to them, as well as what they in fact achieve, ethnographic methods of analysis have been employed. This study shows how, despite strong conflicting interests and motives, a shared reality is built through the actions of the interlocutors. The interaction between two key figures in the early stages of the crisis can even be characterized as a form of coalition building. An explanation as to why this collaboration is not retained in the subsequent course of the events, however, leading to an escalation of the situation, is also presented. Furthermore, the following work sets forth qualities needed to interactively build a coalition in a precarious crisis situation, which has arisen between parties characterized by diametrically opposed aims.