scholarly journals Sprachgeographische Aspekte der Morphologie und Verschriftung in schweizerdeutschen Chats

2003 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Beat Siebenhaar
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Chat Rooms ◽  
Swiss German ◽  
Alpine Regions ◽  
Identical Distribution ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Traditional Structure ◽  
Spontaneous Writing ◽  
German Speaking

The regional chat-rooms in Switzerland show an extremely high portion of dialectal contributions (up to 90%). This non-standardized spontaneous writing of a dialectal language still reflects the geolinguistic distribution described in the linguistic atlas of German speaking Switzerland SDS (1962-1997) based on recordings of the 1940s and 1950s. This paper shows some reflexes of this geolinguistic distribution in four chat-rooms. The graphemic representation of the ending vowel of infinitives clearly confirms the traditional structure. Deviating e-graphemes in chat-rooms of alpine regions can be rated as common Swiss German variants for centralized vowels. On the other hand ä-graphemes in chat-rooms of the Swiss midlands are to be rated as marking of the phonetic deviation from the standard German pronunciation. This variation is not only found in inherited words, but also in neologisms with an almost identical distribution. The SDS illustrates a distribution for the use of t-endings in the 2nd and 3rd singular of sein 'to be'. These t-flexives cannot be found anymore in midland chat-rooms. They appear only in alpine chat-rooms, and there they become morphologized in a new way. The dialectal writing of neologisms confirms the validity of the principles for the Standard German writing.

scholarly journals Areale Variation von /r/-Realisierungen in schweizerdeutschen Dialekten.

2019 ◽  
Vol 98 (5) ◽  
pp. 11-30
Author(s):  
Stephan Schmid ◽  
Adrian Leemann ◽  
Dieter Studer-Joho ◽  
Marie-José Kolly
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Smartphone Application ◽  
Sound Change ◽  
The Other ◽  
Quantitative Survey ◽  
Areal Distribution ◽  
Alpine Regions ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Areal Variation

The present study deals with the areal variation of /r/-realisations in the Alemannic dialects spoken in Switzerland. In particular, we provide a quantitative survey of recordings collected through crowdsourcing, i. e. by means of the smartphone application Dialäkt Äpp (Leemann/Kolly 2013). Each of the 2851 recordings of the word trinke (‘to drink’) was auditorily coded by at least two of the four authors. The resulting maps show a neat areal distribution of the realisations of /r/, with alveolar variants in most of the central Midlands and in the Alpine regions. Uvular variants, on the other hand, seem to prevail in the northeastern and northwestern parts of German-speaking Switzerland. Comparing our data with traditional dialectological sources, we find evidence for the hypothesis that the alveolar realisation of /r/ has been extensively replaced by uvular variants in large parts of the northeast; apparently, a similar sound change is now in progress in the rural areas around Basel.

scholarly journals Mehr als Dialekt-Relikte: Regionale Variation im Gegenwartsdeutschen

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Robert Möller ◽  
Stephan Elspaß
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Online Surveys ◽  
Standard Language ◽  
Everyday Language ◽  
Regional Diversity ◽  
Lexical Variation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
The One

<p>Although dialect use has declined massively over the past 100 years in large parts of the German-speaking countries, there is still a considerable areal diversity overall. Even the written standard language is characterised by diatopic heterogeneity on various levels – pronunciation, lexis, grammar, pragmatics. This is even more true for spoken everyday language, which, depending on the country and area, may be more dialectal, regiolectal, or near-standard in the German-speaking countries. This paper focuses on lexical variation and presents data from the <em>Atlas zur deutschen Alltagssprache </em>(AdA) from online surveys conducted over the last 17 years; some of these data is compared with older data from the <em>Wortatlas der deutschen Umgangssprachen</em> (WDU) collected in the 1970s. The approx. 600 maps of the AdA produced so far document, on the one hand, a surprisingly clear preservation of older regional contrasts in the distribution of diatopic variants, as already known from earlier dialect atlases. On the other hand, the AdA maps show a multitude of newer cases of regional diversity, which were hardly or not at all known before and which are thus not listed in codices or studies on the lexis of contemporary German. The paper shows that even variants for modern concepts are often not uniform across regions but can have distinct regional emphases. Finally, the question of dominant areal structures in present-day lexical variation of German will be addressed.</p>

Zur Rezeption der Oratorien Haydns in Paris zwischen 1800 und 1850: Institutionelle und ästhetische aspekte

2010 ◽  
Vol 51 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 201-213
Author(s):  
Martin Loeser
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Financial Risk ◽  
The Other ◽  
Music Festivals ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Choral Societies ◽  
The One ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Concert Life

In German speaking countries Haydn’s oratorios, and particularly TheCreation , have played an important role in the repertoire of choral societies and music festivals since the 1810s. However, in France, and also in Paris — “the capital of the 19th century” —, Haydn’s oratorios were performed only on rare occasions, and then they were given mostly in parts. The reasons for these circumstances can be seen in the institutional and esthetical context of the Parisian concert life. With respect to professional concert societies, like the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire , rigid obstacles were on the one hand the enormous financial risk of a complete oratorio performance. On the other hand the established type of concert programmes with its varied mixture of vocal and instrumental pieces functioned as a barrier. Most important was a lack of mixed amateur choral societies, which developed in Paris quite late, primary in the 1840s, and then only little by little. Since oratorio performances lasted to be mostly a private affaire in the first half of the 19th century, it is not surprising, that Haydn’s oratorios were studied in aristocratic salons of Princesse de Belgiojoso and Baron Delmar with the intention of both education and entertainment.

scholarly journals Si isch grösser weder ig! Zum Komparativanschluss im Schweizerdeutschen

2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Friedli
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
The Other ◽  
Variant Selection ◽  
Small Areas ◽  
Swiss German ◽  
The Third ◽  
German Dialects ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Comparative Constructions ◽  
The One

Whereas in Standard High German (SHG) there is only one comparative particle, in Swiss German Dialects (SGD) different lexemes may fulfill the function of a comparative particle: (1) SHG: Sie ist grösser als ich SGD: Si isch grösser als / as / weder / wan / wie ig 'She is bigger than me' The present paper describes the geographical distribution of the comparative particles in the Swiss German area in contexts such as (1). Whereas in some small areas only one comparative particle is found, in the rest of the Swiss German speaking area several competing variants coexist. The data are taken from the third questionnaire of the Syntactic Atlas of Swiss German Dialects, where three different comparative constructions have been investigated. A sociolinguistic analysis of the data reveals differences in the use of the particles: On the one hand, older people tend to use only one comparative particle, whereas younger people show a higher degree of variation. Moreover, older people tend to use the particle weder, in contrast to younger people who tend to use the particle wie. On the other hand, higher educated people use more than one comparative particle, whereas less educated people tend to use one variant only. The analysis of two other constructions also shortly mentioned in the paper shows that syntactic factors have an impact on variant selection, too.

scholarly journals Only connect... : pleading for a neo-holistic geography

1999 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 189-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Dürr
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Career Paths ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ecological Economic ◽  
Complex Concept ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
The One

Abstract. In eleven propositions the article surrounds an ambivalent theme. It is related to the conditions found in Departments of Geography in German-speaking countries. – On the one hand it pleads for a diseiplinary strategy to integrate various human and physical geographies to constitute a neo-holistic geography. This could contribute to shape geography as a centre of competence for current issues of regional and urban development. The complex concept of sustainability – taken in its threefold meaning as ecological. economic and social sustainability-lends itself as asound basis for this integrative strategy. – On the other hand well-established career routines of young scientists are a strong hindering factor. These career paths require a degree of topical specialization which runs counter to serious Steps of integration.

scholarly journals Spontanschreibung im Chat

2003 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Burri
Keyword(s):  
Language Change ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Spontaneous Writing

In this article spontaneous writing in chat communication is analyzed in two aspects. On one hand, the spelling forms found here show some language change tendencies in the German spoken language. On the other hand, the article tries to describe on which writing conventions these spontaneous spellings are based.

scholarly journals Plädoyer für eine kulturwissenschaftliche Ästhetik aus Perspektive der cultural studies

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-62
Author(s):  
Susanne Leeb ◽  
Ruth Sonderegger
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
The One

Abstract Our comment on Hartmut Böhme advocates an approach to aesthetics that is mainly inspired by British cultural studies. In the wake of the foundation of the „Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft” and its journal we suggest, on the one hand, a relentless reflection on essentialist and colonialist power structures inherent in the concept of culture, particularly in the German speaking world. On the other hand, we plea for the provincialization of European aesthetics as well as for the acknowledgement of the manifold entanglements between European and non-European accounts of aesthetics.

Clivages, régions et science politique: application d'un schéma d'analyse aux cas de la Suisse et de la Belgique

1977 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel L. Seiler
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Party Systems ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
German Speaking

The purpose of this article is to create a method for determining regions which is suitable for political science. The criteria proposed to define a “political region” are based on the concepts of political cleavages and party systems. Applying this framework of analysis to Belgium and Switzerland makes it possible to establish two very different kinds of regions. In the case of Switzerland, the proposed political regions do not correspond to linguistic areas but are instead combinations of religious and industrial factors. On the other hand, in the case of Belgium the suggested political regions reflect the tensions among the Flemings, Walloons, residents of Brussels, and German-speaking Belgians.

scholarly journals Ehefrau Vreni haucht ihm ins Ohr... Untersuchung zur geschlechtergerechten Sprache und zur Darstellung von Frauen in Deutschschweizer Tageszeitungen

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Regula Bühlmann
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Swiss German ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
German Newspapers

It will be discussed in what way the language of Swiss newspapers written in German is gender-sensitive and what types of sexism can be found still. Six randomly chosen articles from six issues of each the 'Tagesanzeiger', the 'NZZ' and the 'Blick' are analyzed. On the one hand, the usage of non-sexist alternatives to the generic masculinum is examined in respect to personal references and, on the other hand, it is shown how men and women are treated in linguistically different ways. The data proves that sexism has, to a large extent, disappeared from Swiss-German newspapers. Sexist thinking, however, is still present in the sub-conscious and also manifests itself in the texts of the newspapers. Es wird die Frage diskutiert, inwiefern die Sprache Deutschschweizer Tageszeitungen geschlechtergerecht ist und welche sexistischen Züge sie nach wie vor aufweist. Dazu werden zufällig ausgewählte Artikel von je sechs Ausgaben der Zeitungen Tages-Anzeiger, Neue Zürcher Zeitung und Blick ausgewertet. Einerseits wird in diesen Texten die Verwendung geschlechtergerechter Alternativen zum generischen Maskulinum bei Personenbezeichnungen untersucht, andererseits wird an ausgewählten Beispielen aufgezeigt, wie Frauen und Männer sprachlich unterschiedlich behandelt werden. Das untersuchte Material belegt, dass Sexismus in Deutschschweizer Tageszeitungen zwar weitgehend von der Oberfläche verschwunden ist, dass aber sexistisches Denken nach wie vor im Unterbewusstsein vorhanden ist und sich auch in Zeitungstexten manifestiert.

A study of cometary eruptions through OH radio-lines

1999 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 249-254
Author(s):  
A.M. Silva ◽  
R.D. Miró
Keyword(s):  
Short Duration ◽  
Growth Curves ◽  
The Other ◽  
Initial Mass ◽  
Radio Lines ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Sudden Rise

AbstractWe have developed a model for theH2OandOHevolution in a comet outburst, assuming that together with the gas, a distribution of icy grains is ejected. With an initial mass of icy grains of 108kg released, theH2OandOHproductions are increased up to a factor two, and the growth curves change drastically in the first two days. The model is applied to eruptions detected in theOHradio monitorings and fits well with the slow variations in the flux. On the other hand, several events of short duration appear, consisting of a sudden rise ofOHflux, followed by a sudden decay on the second day. These apparent short bursts are frequently found as precursors of a more durable eruption. We suggest that both of them are part of a unique eruption, and that the sudden decay is due to collisions that de-excite theOHmaser, when it reaches the Cometopause region located at 1.35 × 105kmfrom the nucleus.

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