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En raison de son rôle de lingua franca, l’anglais est une source majeure d’influence linguistique dans le monde entier. Cet article traite de l’impact de l’anglais sur l’allemand. Les influences induites par le contact ont été largement décrites pour des domaines comme le commerce, le sport, le divertissement, la publicité et la politique. L’accent est mis ici sur un domaine traditionnellement associé à la langue française – la cuisine. Il présente les résultats d’une étude empirique sur l’utilisation des anglicismes dans une émission de cuisine de la télévision allemande. En Allemagne, ce format connaît un regain de popularité et constitue une base utile pour cette étude car il représente un type de communication orale qui est perçu comme authentique et se rapproche de la communication spontanée et naturelle. Les anglicismes trouvés dans l’ensemble de données comprennent des emprunts directs, des emprunts traduits (calques) et des constructions hybrides. Alors que la majorité d’entre eux sont des lexèmes simples et complexes, tels que peppern (« poivrer ») et Signature-Gericht (« plat signature »), plus d’un tiers peuvent être classés comme des unités phraséologiques ayant la structure de syntagmes (p. ex. in the making) et de phrases (p. ex. Safety first!). Les buts comunicatifs des émissions de cuisine sont l’instruction et le divertissement, et l’utilisation des anglicismes y est étroitement liée. Par exemple, les anglicismes servent à dénommer les produits et les plats (p. ex. green-zebra Tomaten, Surf and Turf, No-bake Cheesecake), sont utilisés pour combler les lacunes de l’émission lorsque les gens ne savent peut-être pas quoi dire ou comment réagir (p. ex. That’s life), et on les retrouve fréquemment dans les jugements positifs et négatifs (p. ex. ein Masterpiece, ein bisschen Old School). En outre, les animateurs insèrent des expressions anglaises pour donner à leur discours un caractère plus vivant, moderne et familier et pour créer un humour basé sur la langue.

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L’accent est la prononciation spécifique d’un étranger qui parle une autre langue que sa langue maternelle. Même s’il s’installe dans son pays d’accueil et s’il ressemble physiquement à la majorité de ses habitants, son accent le trahira : ouvrir la bouche devient moment de vérité. Pour les Français en Allemagne, il s’agit d’une expérience agréable, car leur accent est perçu comme très plaisant. Inversement, pour un Allemand en France, où l’accent est moins bien perçu, l’expérience peut être moins positive. L’étude s’appuie sur des observations et des entretiens avec une centaine de personnes concernées. Elle vise à décrire le double phénomène de l’accent français en Allemagne et de l’accent allemand en France : son apparition subite, sa perception par les autres mais aussi par soi-même, puis sa disparition progressive qui a priori ne sera jamais totale. Il s’agit donc de faire le portrait-robot d’un signe identitaire distinctif à la fois omniprésent et méconnu, voire délaissé par les études culturelles.

This article deals with the challenges of designing a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for multicultural target groups. The subject of the study is a multilingual learning system for the teaching of information literacy, the Information Literacy Online (ILO) MOOC. It was developed within the context of an Erasmus+ project. By understanding the connection between culture and learning (more precisely e-learning) and by applying a multi-level method, cultural specifics are revealed, assessed and evaluated in order to be able to define adaptation measures. The analysis of the evaluation reveals that the results of several common cultural-analytical methods for determining a target group-oriented design can deviate from the subjective perception of cultural members, which results in a special need for action. The investigation focuses on the Croatian, Spanish and German cultures and reveals divergences in the understanding of user experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study examines the different learning outcomes of two computer-based cognitive tutors using two approaches to instructing German declension: an additive, bottom-up approach, which focuses on a stepwise introduction of each case, and a concept-based, top-down approach, which focuses on developing students' conceptual understanding of the functions related to each case form and the case marking system as a whole. The results indicate that both groups learned, but what and how they learned differed depending on the method of instruction. The additive group showed general gains in production and a slight increase in their ability to correctly interpret object-first sentences. The concept-based group showed larger gains, but in fewer areas. Specifically, the production of adjective endings increased, although there were no differences in determiner production or accuracy. The concept-based group also had a larger gain in their ability to interpret non-SVO word order sentences. This study shows how concept-based approaches to grammar can outperform additive ones, and that the development of these concepts can prepare students for future learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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La grande diversité qui caractérise la terminologie et la structuration du champ dans les domaines de la Didactique du plurilinguisme et de la Mehrsprachigkeitsdidaktik constitue un obstacle à la diffusion des innovations didactiques qu’elles proposent.Prenant appui sur des travaux antérieurs qui avaient porté sur ces deux concepts en France et en Allemagne, les auteurs ont entrepris une étude plus large incluant les approches qui composent la Didactique du plurilinguisme / Mehrsprachigkeitsdidaktik et englobant des publications issues de l’ensemble des pays germanophones et francophones d’Europe. Ils en proposent quelques exemples particulièrement significatifs dont la connaissance pourra aider à comprendre la littérature du domaine.

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This article provides a semantic comparison of several of the most common event nominalization procedures of French and German. It is based on the hypothesis that each language disposes of a unique paradigm of event nominalization procedures, which differ slightly with regard to certain semanticpragmatic features. The nominalization procedures which are taken into consideration for French are -age, -ation, -ment, -ée and the nominalized infinitive, while -ung, the nominalized infinitive, and root conversions are discussed for German. The paradigmatic oppositions existing between the corresponding procedures are defined for each language using an inventory of six distinct semantic-pragmatic features. Four of these features relate to aspectual values, while the two remaining features deal with distinctions relating to the perspectivation of the events denoted by the base verbs (i.e. active or passive perspective, demotion of event participants). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Lubomir Guentchev is a Bulgarian author who occupies a separate place in the literature in French of southeastern Europe. Born in 1907, disappeared in 1981, declared "enemy of the people" in 1952, he remained banned from publication in his lifetime in Bulgaria. His works have begun to break the silence since 2003. He left essays, books of poetry, theater plays in French and also in Bulgarian. He also translated a lot. He practiced the translation in a very empirical way out of canons, modes and traditions. It is this excentricity that will be analyzed through his translation activities between Bulgarian, German, French and Russian, the poetic, dramatic and symbolist material translated and his practice, very personal, of literary translation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies metaphor as a part of the linguistic code in a discipline's professional communicative spheres and, most important, metaphor as a knowledge-transferring mechanism where concepts from one discipline are transferred into the domain of another discipline. Donald Schön's so-called 'generative metaphor' is introduced and applied to the 'static' structure of disciplinary terminology by analyzing one characteristic example of metaphorical transfer of linguistic theory and terminology into the domain of the information sciences. The paper concludes with some ideas on a research project, taking explicitly the metaphorical stance towards the relations between different disciplines and terminologies.

My research has given rise to the construction of an ontology containing geographic entities and its German names. The ontology includes (1) the linguistic features of place names, such as their inflectional morphology and characteristic syntactic behaviour, (2) associates place names to geographic entities, and (3) the relationship between one geographic entity and another.

This study reports on the development of a professional spoken register among learners of German as they participate in four synchronous Web conferences with German-speaking professionals. The researchers investigated the effect of interaction with expert German speakers combined with an instructional intervention focusing on pragmatic competence on the development of learners' ability to communicate in a second language (L2) professional register. The data reveal a positive effect on the strategic use of modal verbs for expressing polite requests as well as a moderate effect on learners' use of the subjunctive mood to establish social distance. These results add further support for the use of intercultural online exchanges mediated by data-driven instruction in the foreign language classroom and highlight the utility of a microgenetic approach to analyzing spoken data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Le début du XX e siècle sera témoin notamment à l’occasion de la première guerre mondiale de textes médicaux portant une caution scientifique à la dénonciation de l’odeur nauséabonde de l’ennemi allemand y faisant l’objet d’une description « zoologique ». La bromidrose y est ainsi une particularité physique, physiologique mais aussi un caractère de race, les effluves négatives spécifiques étant alors une « signature » olfactive allemande : la bromidrose fétide initialement localisée à la région plantaire se généralise à l’ensemble de la surface cutanée et aux excrétas, fèces, urine et sueur… La polychésie germaine (beaucoup déféquer) y est alors la conséquence d’une polyphagie à partir de laquelle l’on pourrait dire « je me remplis la panse donc je suis » ; la fonction intestinale étant la raison d’être allemande. Dans un même ordre d’idée, le « boche » a un coefficient urologique supérieur, il crée plus d’urine mais incapable, impuissant à assurer par l’élimination rénale ce surplus, il présente une sudation plus importante, notamment plantaire faisant dire « l’allemand urine par les pieds ». Nous passerons en revue les différents écrits du Docteur Edgar Bérillon en évoquant notamment : la bromidrose fétide de la race allemande (1915), la polychésie de la race allemande (1915) et la psychologie de la race allemande d’après ses caractères objectifs et spécifiques (1917). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]