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The analyses and considerations in this study focus on the frequency of the imperative as a linguistic device in German travel online catalogue in 2017 and 2023. The analysis was carried out on texts from the German online catalogue TUI Afrika November 2021/October 2022. The results of the analysis were compared with the results of a 2014 study (Premrov 2014), which looked at texts from the German online catalogue Tui Länderkatalog Asien 2017/2018. The occurrence of imperatives as a persuasive linguistic device is discussed in more detail below. The analysis opened up new fields of investigation and raised new questions regarding the function of the imperative as a key word in German advertising language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hybrid formations are forms of word formation that can be attributed to various factors and make a relevant contribution to the expansion of the German vocabulary. Globalisation, cultural interactions and new scientific findings can be cited as the origin of hybrid formations. The consequences of the creation and use of hybrid words are numerous, such as such as easier communication and perception, triggering of positive connotations and associations, language economics. The focus of this study was on the frequency of occurrence of nominal hybrid words and their orthography, as well as on the origin of the hybrid word components. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores cross-linguistic lexical influence (CLI), i.e. idiosyncratic borrowings and creations based on other languages, in texts written by pupils learning French and English as foreign languages, and whose language of instruction is German. The study, carried out in German-speaking Switzerland, was based on a plurilingual conception of language learning and drew on research on tertiary languages. Two groups of learners at the end of Grade 7 (age 13/14) were compared before and after a reform in the teaching of English. While both groups had been learning French since Grade 5, one group had been learning English before French since Grade 3 (Group 3/5, n = 220) and the other after French since Grade 7 (Group 5/7, n = 94). The L3 French texts of group 3/5 revealed a higher number of idiosyncratic borrowings and creations based on English L2, while the English L3 texts of group 5/7 borrowed more from L2 French and presented more lexical creations that drew on German. The correlations showed that learners who use lexemes with a detectable cross-linguistic influence in one language also tend to do so in the other. The results are interpreted in relation to the educational context, and to the concept of translanguaging. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The book "What does German mean here? A brief history of the German language" by Wolfgang Krischke is an updated edition of his work, which was first published in 2009. The author is a PhD linguist and freelance journalist, who also works as a lecturer in Germanic linguistics. The book covers the history of the German language as well as the linguistic processes that influence and shape modern German. It consists of six chapters that address various aspects of the German language, such as its Germanic roots, the development into a standard language, spelling, the influence of other languages, and grammatical questions. The book provides many examples and is suitable for German studies students, German learners, and anyone interested in the history and peculiarities of the German language. [Extracted from the article]

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The expression of physical motion (the spider crawls across the net) and metaphorical motion (the fear crawls across her heart) shows strong inter-typological differences between language types (German, an S-language vs. Spanish, a V-language) and more subtle intra-typological differences within a language type (German vs. Polish, both S-languages). However, we know relatively less about the extension of these patterns to translated texts. In this study, we focused on physical and metaphorical motion descriptions in written texts in original language and their translations to a language that belongs to the same or a different typological group, to determine whether motion expression in translated texts shows the same patterns of inter-typological and intra-typological variability as it does in original texts. We investigated this question by extracting 450 physical motion (150/language) and 450 metaphorical motion (150/language) descriptions from novels originally written in German, Polish, or Spanish and their translations to typologically different (i.e. inter-typological; German to Spanish, Spanish to German) or typologically similar (i.e. intra-typological; German to Polish, Polish to German) languages. Our results provided evidence for similar patterns of strong inter-typological and more subtle intra-typological variability in translations akin to those observed in original texts – with translated texts largely following the patterns of the target language in their expression of physical and metaphorical motion. Our results also highlighted specificity of event expression in a language as an important factor in the attainment of target language patterns in translated texts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article comprehensively investigates the phenomenon of internationality of the sublanguage of theatre and establishes intra- and extra-linguistic differences between etymologically related German and Ukrainian theatre terms. As a result of the culturally specific semantic and stylistic evolution in the bosom of a particular national carrier language and national theatre terminology, the semantic structures of theatre terms have been enriched with additional non-international meanings. Comparison of the internal side of the studied vocabulary allows us to divide it into two large groups: complete and partial interlingual homonyms. To complete interlingual terminological homonyms we refer four types of divergence: homopairs that have no formal equivalents in German or Ukrainian theatre language, but have such equivalents in other terminologies or spheres; terminopairs whose members, having a similar internal form, denote different reference spheres in different branches of theatre; homonymous term groups formed as a result of intra-linguistic homonymy or paronymy in German; pairs of complete interlingual homonyms containing the most general common seme, which is realised in different ways in each formal equivalent. Partial interlingual terminological homonyms include formally parallel etymologically related units, at least one of the terminological meanings of which refers to the same referential sphere, while the other(s) do not coincide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research on L2 interactional competence (IC) has become increasingly focused on how L2 speakers develop and recalibrate linguistic resources to do interactional work, i.e., how L2 speakers develop a grammar-for-interaction (Pekarek Doehler 2018). In this paper, I use interactional linguistics to track one L2 German speaker's IC development over 11 months by analyzing her use of German also (English 'so') in formulations (see Deppermann 2011; Heritage & Watson 1979, 1980). In initial months, the L2 speaker uses also exclusively to do work on her own prior talk, e.g., in upshots, consequences, and unpackings. The L2 speaker's initial also uses contribute to moves that maintain intersubjectivity by ensuring her co-interactant's understanding of her own talk. In later months, the L2 speaker diversifies her uses of also, including uses oriented to co-interactants' prior talk that address manifest problems of intersubjectivity: to preface an other-correction of an incorrect candidate understanding, and to preface turns addressing a co-interactant's problem of understanding. The L2 speaker's changing also uses demonstrate her ability to contribute to interactional organization in increasingly diverse ways, evidencing a developing grammar-for-interaction. I end by calling for more research on the L2 development of linguistic resources that primarily serve interactional functions, such as particles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The study explores the extent to which linguistic globalisation and the ever increasing dominance of English shapes the perceptions of linguistic diversity in traditional sociolinguistic milieus. We set out to investigate the attitudes of 142 respondents from Vorarlberg, an Austrian province, towards their home dialects, High German, a local standardised variety, and English. While drawing on a verbal guise test (VGT) and a questionnaire as the main methods of study, we show that local dialects are viewed as badges of local identities, whereas standard German is appreciated for its utilitarian value. Remarkably, English emerges as a language of enormous social prestige with high levels of social attractiveness. English is further seen as a language allowing the inhabitants of Vorarlberg to connect to the larger world and become part of the global dialogue. We argue that rather than eroding the local cultures, English adds to the sociolinguistic fabric of traditionally diglossic societies, rendering their linguistic texture even more complex and enriched, not impoverished. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article examines the developments that have emerged in publications in the field of German as a Foreign and Second Language in the journal Informationen Deutsch als Fremdsprache (Info DaF) between 2010 and 2020. Three aspects are highlighted, namely 1) the expansion and differentiation of topics and research subjects as well as theoretical and empirical approaches, including digital ones, 2) the expansion of learning contexts, and 3) expansion and consolidation of the field in general. Finally, multilingualism is discussed as an area that, as a central topic in foreign language research and in linguistics, is visible in some articles in Info DaF but has not been widely considered so far. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

'Semilingualism' is one of the most questionable theories produced in the language sciences. Yet, little is known about its origins. We present a critical account of the history of semilingualism, tracing its roots in the work of Nils Erik Hansegård, (1918–2002), inaugural chair of Sámi at Umeå University (1975–1979), who developed a theory of semilingualism (halvspråkighet) in the 1960s. We show how Hansegård theorized semilingualism using ideas from Nazi German linguistics, producing an unforgiving theory of linguistic pathology directed at minoritized bilinguals in Sweden's far north. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Language-based interaction between learners of German as a second language and their teachers in out-of-class settings such as art museums requires mediation, which in turn influences discourse practices. How L2 learners manage the communicative task of discovering artworks and how teachers can assist and mediate context-specific aspects of interactional competence are the guiding questions in this article.To answer them, this article reports on an exploratory study of an art-and-culture buddy program carried out as part of an interdisciplinary service-learning project at the University of Kassel. One aim of the project was to change the traditional format of guided tours for larger groups and to develop, test and evaluate a supportive and language-sensitive programme for German as a second language learners. The reconstructive case analysis of art communication enables conclusions about the epistemic and linguistic phases in talking about art and the possibilities of scaffolding. An analysis of a dyadic setting provides insights into the professional and linguistic discourse practices in talking about art. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores how students build narrative in collaborative reading processes using the picture book Wazn Teez? (Ellis 2017) to construct the narrative in collaborative reading processes. The focus is on their linguistic and school experiences as well as the differences in interaction in the construction of meaning. Students with Arabic, German and Russian as their first languages were examined in an exploratory study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The study of mitigation in political discourse deserves the closest attention since it concerns the manipulative dimension of politics in the modeling of public consciousness. This research is aimed at identifying linguistic and pragmatic mitigators associated with the topos of Precaution and its manifesting strategies in the discourse of assistance to Ukraine. It reached the main finding about the correlation of mitigators with the implementation of discursive strategies mediated by the influence of bushes, hedges, and shields on the illocution of speech acts. Since the illocution is influenced not only by hedges distinguished by this criterion, but also by other types of mitigators, we have introduced, in addition to the propositional, illocutionary, and deictic coordinates of the utterance, an additional criterion for the distribution of mitigators -- their correlation with discursive strategies. Bushes implement the strategy of reducing the speaker's responsibility for the asserted facts, promises -- indirect commissives and recommendations -- implicit directives by triggering conventional implicatures that imply the conditions for these acts feasibility. Shields transfer, generalize or depersonalize the speaker's responsibility for assertive facts, implicit promises and indirect recommendations, "blurring" the deixis to a denotative situation. Hedges in assertives transfer responsibility to the sphere of subjective epistemic modality with increasing probability instead of the certainty about what is being asserted. In directives, hedges generalize / depersonalize the speaker's responsibility thereby intersecting with the functional scope of shields. Polyfunctional mitigators implement several discursive strategies. The article specifies each group of mitigators in terms of its constituent linguistic devices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article undertakes a historical-linguistic analysis of 27 documents written in German that are classified as "notes of hand" and issued by the Bohemian Chamber between 1528 and 1537. After a brief introduction to the history of historical-linguistic research into documents in German issued by the offices in Prague in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, the article analyses the initial archive material from the perspective of (historical) text linguistics. Finally, it focuses on the difference between the text structure of one original draft and its register from 21 March 1530. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigates the relative weighting of morphosyntactic and visual cues in spoken-language comprehension, and whether this varies systematically within and between first (L1) and second language (L2) speakers of German. In two experiments, 45 L1 and 39 L2 speakers answered probe questions targeting the action direction of subject- and object-extracted relative clauses, which were presented either in isolation (Experiment 1) or alongside scene depictions either matching or mismatching the action direction expressed in the sentence (Experiment 2). We hypothesized that visual cues contribute to shaping meaning representations in sentence comprehension, and that sensitivity to morphosyntactic cues during interpretation may predict reliance on visual cues in both L1 and L2 comprehension. We found reliable effects of visual cues in both groups, and in response to both relative-clause types. Further, proxies of morphosyntactic sensitivity were associated with higher agent-identification accuracy, especially in response to object-extracted relative clauses presented with mismatching visual cues. Lastly, morphosyntactic sensitivity was a better predictor of accuracy rates than L1–L2 grouping in our dataset. The results extend the generalizability of models of visuo-linguistic integration across populations and experimental settings. Further, the observed sentence-comprehension differences can be explained in terms of individual cue-weighting patterns, and thus point to the crucial role of sensitivity to distinct cue types in accounting for thematic-role assignment success in L1 and L2 speakers alike. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper discusses the phenomenon of enantiosemy in linguistics – its nature, appearance and belonging to one of the following groups: polysemy, homonymy or antonymy. The enantiosemy theme has been in the scope of linguists for more than century and a half. At the beginning it was believed that this phenomenon could be examined only in Slavic languages, because some of the first findings for it were in Russian, Chech and Bulgarian. Nowadays enantiosemy examples are excerpted in French, German, English and other non – Slavic languages. It is an attempt to classify different research approaches and to describe a new type of enantiosemy, from a contrastive perspective, which in this paper is called affixal enantiosemy. In accordance with a certain context, the affixal enantiosemy clarifies the semantics of the affix which is part of a lexeme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The book "Ugly Words" by Joachim Scharloth deals with the ideological discourse of the New Right and their use of hate speech. The author analyzes the abusive vocabulary of the New Right, which is mainly found on mainstream platforms of the AfD (Alternative for Germany). Societal issues and political fields that are discussed by the New Right in the media are addressed. The book provides insight into the processes of abusive word formation and the instrumentalization of language by the New Right. It invites readers to approach language in a reflective manner and is aimed at a broad audience, especially advanced learners of the German language and students in the field of linguistics. However, it is pointed out that discriminatory speech is not only used by the New Right, but also by other parts of German society. It is emphasized that the recognition of cultural differences is an important part of democratic discourse. [Extracted from the article]

The book "Duden - Linguistic Doubtful Cases" by Mathilde Hennig is a revised and expanded edition of the standard work on the German language. It provides a quick guide for linguistic doubtful cases and is based on the Duden Corpus, which includes approximately 6 billion word forms. The dictionary contains alphabetically ordered articles that provide information on pronunciation, spelling, grammar, lexicon, and stylistics. It also covers topics such as correct comma placement, declension of nouns, and the use of foreign words. The book is user-friendly and suitable for both native speakers and German learners. [Extracted from the article]

The book "Deutschstunde(n)" by Heiko Hausendorf examines the readability of literature using examples, including a detailed description of a desk from Georges Perec's work "Still life/style leaf". Hausendorf shows how one can work with a seemingly cumbersome and reader-unfriendly text from a linguistic perspective. He emphasizes the importance of perception and criticizes the preference for narratives over descriptions in literature. The book also includes author names and work titles listed in chapters 3-6, including Georges Perec, Henrik Ibsen, Peter Handke, Thomas Bernhard, and Goethe. The book "Deutschstunde(n). Linguistic analyses of literary texts" by Hausendorf deals with the connection between German lessons, literature, and linguistics. It consists of a preface, a transitional chapter, and a main part. The author describes his experiences in German lessons and emphasizes the importance of a careful linguistic approach to texts. The book aims to encourage students to read more literature and conduct analyses. It includes examples and instructions for analyzing linguistic phenomena in literary texts. [Extracted from the article]

The handbook "German as a foreign and second language" provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of research in various subfields of the discipline. It consists of six chapters with a total of 24 contributions from renowned authors. The book covers topics such as linguistics, methodology/didactics, and cultural studies. It concludes with demands for better networking between practice and research. The handbook is a valuable source for teachers and students and should be available in specialized libraries. [Extracted from the article]

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This study assessed the language proficiency and use of a hitherto under-investigated group, viz., 3.5-year-olds growing up with Polish as a heritage language and German as societal language. All children (N = 28) heard Polish from birth in the home but half the children also heard German from birth (Bilingual First Language Acquisition, BFLA) while the other half added German through preschool (Early Second Language Acquisition, ESLA). All children attended German preschools. Data collection relied on an online survey filled out by 28 mothers and 20 fathers. There were large discrepancies between parental answers to general versus detailed questions regarding language use (choice) amongst parents and children. This has important repercussions for much of questionnaire based bilingualism research. Children were developing productive language as expected but BFLA preschoolers spoke German better or spoke both languages equally well whereas ESLA preschoolers spoke Polish better. Apart from BFLA children's much longer and daily exposure to German from birth, these BFLA-ESLA differences in relative Polish proficiency may relate to different current patterns of language choice, with (1) Polish less present in parent--child interactions involving BFLA than ESLA preschoolers, and with (2) BFLA but not ESLA preschoolers mostly hearing Polish from just a single parent. The BFLA-ESLA difference thus made a difference to children's heritage Polish development and use already at age 3.5. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The German Studies department at Sofia University is celebrating its 100th anniversary and has played an important role in the research, documentation, and dissemination of the German language, literature, and culture in Bulgaria. The department has also trained the majority of German-Bulgarian teachers, translators, and interpreters in Bulgaria. As part of an anniversary conference, various lectures were held on topics such as linguistics, literary studies, and cultural studies. The international Erasmus+ project Germanistik Digital aims to adapt German language instruction at universities to the new challenges of the digital age and achieve sustainable changes and improvements in the quality of German language instruction. [Extracted from the article]

Political language has hardly been taken into account in the field of Teaching German as a Foreign Language. Political linguistic studies show, however, that political language is characterized by specific preferences in lexis and grammar as well as pattern-like language use. Knowledge of these preferences and patterns facilitates the understanding of political texts and thus enables participation in social discourses. This article examines which areas and findings of political linguistics can be relevant for the teaching of German as a Foreign Language. The results are summarised in an analysis tool for teaching, and the tool's use is illustrated by means of a television interview with German chancellor Olaf Scholz. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article deals with linguistic, medial, and didactic aspects of political discourse, as represented in current political talk shows. It focuses on political language use in specific communicative situations, thereby offering options for foreign language teaching. The corpus and the basis of the study are political talk shows (maybritt illner, Hart aber fair, Anne Will). Based on selected discussion contributions and debates of German politicians and parliamentary groups, the specific phraseological patterns of political language will be identified and evaluated in terms of their possible use in foreign language teaching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The source meaning and its analytic worth in William Wordsworth's "Lines, Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour. July 13, 1798," are rendered oblivious to us, I argue, when one does not take into account the fact that Wordsworth's connotations are hid across both English and German lexicons, allowing him the advantage of linguistic polyvalency, alongside its ambiguity. Wordsworth's meanings across the words "one," "all," "still," "man," and "sublime" overlap, forcing his readers to recognize two important implications: first, that Wordsworth, almost authoritatively, upholds the traditional hierarchy between genders; second, that the poem's objective meanders into an ideology, where the pluralization of the Wordsworthian "men" is posited as the primary, pedagogical objective in Wordsworth's poem. Psychoanalytic nuances, carefully incorporated within Wordsworth's narration, uphold his central doctrine which, theoretically, fosters the de-feminization of Dorothy towards the end of the poem--a conscious stance undertaken at the risk of traditional readings and interpretation of Dorothy's empowerment in the poem. The paper concludes with a fresh take on Dorothy's prolonged illness since the early 1830s, where I argue that it was psycho-physiological, triggered by her Wordsworthian sacrifice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]