scholarly journals Comparative phraseological units: features of the subclass (by an example of the German language)

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 139-151
Author(s):  
I. A. Stikhina
Keyword(s):  
Language Game ◽  
Logical Structure ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
German Language ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
New Perspective

The article analyzes the features of comparative phraseological units, which are distinguished by researchers into a separate subclass existing in different languages. The relevance of the topic is confirmed by the unquenchable interest in comparative phraseological units from the linguistic point of view and a new perspective of their consideration within the framework of the author's phraseology in works of artistic discourse. The article identifies cognitive mechanisms common to different linguocultures that underlie the structure of comparative phraseological units, as well as national and cultural differences manifesting in semantic variation where there is lexical equivalence of comparative phraseological units in different languages. In this regard, the importance of the culture-oriented and the research approach by the translation of comparative phraseological units is emphasized. A comprehensive analysis of comparative phraseological units as a phraseology phenomenon is necessary for an adequate consideration of their place within the author's phraseology on the basis of selected works of the German-speaking Swiss writer Urs Widmer. Artistic discourse is presented as a literary communicative phenomenon, actualizing linguistic parameters. The selected works are saturated with phraseological units demonstrating examples of language game at the phraseological level, while in quantitative terms, comparative phraseological units make up a small percentage 13 % and 10 %, respectively, of the total volume of phraseological units in two texts. It is noted that not all comparative phraseological units used by Widmer are recorded in dictionaries. The author of the article assigns them to this subclass not only due to the presence of formal signs (structure, idiomaticity), but also on the basis of the corpus approach, which reveals enough evidence of the prevalence of comparative phraseological units in the language. Among the methods used, it is also necessary to note content analysis and a comparative approach, which enables to draw parallels between different languages (between German, Russian and English). It is stated that in spite of all the expressiveness of comparative phraseological units, their rigid logical structure limits the game potential and excludes them from the language game, which the author implements in the works selected for analysis.

scholarly journals Belege zu Grundtvigs Ideen von einer offenen Bürgergesellschaft. Mit einem Exkurs zu dem amerikanischen Pragmatizisten Charles Sanders Peirce

2011 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-111
Author(s):  
Horst Nägele
Keyword(s):  
National Culture ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Charles Sanders Peirce ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Ultimate Reality ◽  
Striking Similarity ◽  
German Language ◽  
Lebenslanges Lernen ◽  
Open Society ◽  
German Speaking

Belege zu Grundtvigs Ideen von einer offenen Bürgergesellschaft. Mit einem Exkurs zu dem amerikanischen Pragmatizisten Charles Sanders Peirce[Grundtvigs ideer om et åbent samfund (med en ekskurs til den amerikanske pragmatiske filosof Charles Sanders Peirce)][On Grundtvig’s initiative towards an open society (including a digression to the American pragmaticist Charles Sanders Peirce)]Af/by Horst NägeleAnledningen til bidraget har været et EU-uddannelsesprogram betitlet ‘Grundtvig. EU-Bildungsprogramm für lebenslanges Lernen in Deutschland’ (Grundtvig. EU-uddannelsesprogram for Livslang Læring i Tyskland), hvor der er tale om tilpasning til erhvervslivet. Denne grove fejlbedømmelse af Grundtvigs livsværk imødegår foreliggende studie ved hjælp af en række af Grundtvigs udsagn om folkekultur, om fri folkelig kristendomsforståelse, om mundtlig traditionsformidling, om primærsocialisationens afgørende betydning og om det tyske skriftsprog som en ideologisk overbygning; herom tilbyder Grundtvig i en af sine få tysksprogede artikler blandt andet en direkte dialog med et tysktalende publikum. Grundtvig taler desuden om idealisme og materialisme (også i forbindelse med Napoleon), og han forstår den idealistiske filosofis fremtrædelsesformer som udtryk for en livsfomægtelse. I særdeleshed Friedrich Schillers tragedier anser han for at være et “Blændværk”, hvor det er nemt at fa figurer, der blot er “lydige Skygger”, slået ihjel. Og han peger hen til “noget aldeles Grund-Realt” som “Indbegreb”, der kan danne udgangspunkt for et etisk motiveret liv. En ekskurs om den senere amerikanske pragmatiske filosof Charles Sanders Peirce indsættes for, at Grundtvig ikke skal kunne affærdiges som (religiøs) fundamentalist. Men der kan tilmed konstateres en slående overensstemmelse mellem Peirce’ forestilling om et vekselvirkende forløb mundende ud i en fremtidig forening af tegnreferencer og Grundtvigs metodiske syn på historien. Det sidstnævnte træder særdeles tydeligt frem i Grundtvigs bemærkninger i forbindelse med nogle af verdenshistoriens personer, der blandt andet bliver anført i hans verdenskrøniker. Thi, skønt Grundtvig i Danne-Virke I, 1816, siger, at “ethvert philosophisk System er som Heelt en stor Løgn, hvormegen Sandhed det end i det Enkelte kan have”, forbinder han (sammesteds) alt det, som han i særdeleshed i årene omkring 1815 kan bruge til udbygning af sin kategori historisk, med en fremgangsmåde, som han betegner som sand Vidskab med henblik på at udvikle humanitet.*The article deals with the Grundtvig EU Lifelong Learning Progamme in Germany and sets off from a severe misunderstanding of Grundtvig’s educational ideas as being a recipe for job training. Grundtvig, however, has rather been in favour of national culture, oral tradition, and socialization through education. He looks upon the German literary language as being a super structure; by means of a piece of writing in German language, he offers direct and immediate dialogue with the German-speaking world. Grundtvig moreover talks about idealism and materialism and describes idealistic philosophy as denying life; he mentions Friedrich Schiller’s tragedies and criticises them as being dazzling pieces of art with heroes as empty shadows designed to be put to death. From Grundtvig’s point of view, the very idea of an idealistic approach to cognition and aesthetics presupposes fundamental, ultimate reality to act upon (“noget aldeles Grund-Realt” - Udsigt over Verdens Krøniken, p. 659), which according to Grundtvig may be developed and proved on historical or quasi-historical grounds. There is a striking similarity of Grundtvig’s approach to what, about ninety years later, was put forward by the American pragmaticist Charles Sanders Peirce, the criterion of truth being final habit as equivalent of the ultimate interpretant, since 1906 being described by Peirce as “normal habit” and as “normal interpretant” representing ultimate reality.

scholarly journals A Study on the Anti-preemptive Usages of Person Deixis—Taking Instances from Cyber Language

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Hongya Fan ◽  
Rui Song
Keyword(s):  
Social Factors ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Practical Point ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
New Perspective

Although numerous researches have been conducted to probe into the anti-preemptive usages of person deixis, few researches have been carried out on that of cyber languages. Therefore, this paper mainly investigates the anti-preemptive usages of person deixis in cyber language, collects the linguistic data of buyers and sellers on Taobao and the discursive practices posted on Weibo, and analyses the pragmatic functions of the anti-preemptive usages of person deixis with relevant pragmatic theories. The study applies the egocentricity of deixis as theoretical framework and makes a comprehensive analysis of the data, aiming to provide a new perspective for the study of deixis. The study yields four influencing factors of anti-preemptive usages of person deixis: lack of deictic context, pragmatic intention of the speaker, social factors and register factors. This paper bears both theoretical and practical values. Theoretically, it is an empirical attempt to the study on anti-preemptive usages of person deixis in the field of computer-mediated communication. From a practical point of view, the findings of the study are conductive to provide interlocutors with guidance on the use of person deixis whether in virtual context or real life communication.

scholarly journals Die Schweizer Wenkersätze

2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadja Kakhro
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Teachers ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
German Language ◽  
German Studies ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Long Time

Georg Wenker, a librarian and a specialist in German Studies of the Marburg University initiated the Linguistic Atlas of the German Language, having started a distribution of a questionnaire composed of sentences with the most striking phonetic and grammar features of the German language. He sent it to elementary teachers who were to translate Wenker's sentences to the dialects they spoke. As a result of responses, dialect borders of the German language were defined - first within Germany, then in the other German-speaking states. In the 1930s those questionnaires, after some changes, got to Switzerland. Having doubts about the method chosen by the researcher and the reliability of the materials received, Wenker's questionnaires were subjected to strong criticism and set aside for a long time. However, Wenker's material is of great interest for researchers, including the Syntax of dialects. Syntactic phenomena are defined in this paper, the study of which became possible due to the questionnaires (by comparison with other sources). Also preliminary results of the analysis of the Swiss questionnaires were presented from the syntactic point of view.

Development of a German-Language Questionnaire to Measure Collective Orientation as an Individual Attitude

2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 91-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Hagemann
Keyword(s):  
Team Performance ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Future Research ◽  
German Language ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Collective Orientation ◽  
Team Research ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Individual Variables ◽  
The Individual

Abstract. The individual attitudes of every single team member are important for team performance. Studies show that each team member’s collective orientation – that is, propensity to work in a collective manner in team settings – enhances the team’s interdependent teamwork. In the German-speaking countries, there was previously no instrument to measure collective orientation. So, I developed and validated a German-language instrument to measure collective orientation. In three studies (N = 1028), I tested the validity of the instrument in terms of its internal structure and relationships with other variables. The results confirm the reliability and validity of the instrument. The instrument also predicts team performance in terms of interdependent teamwork. I discuss differences in established individual variables in team research and the role of collective orientation in teams. In future research, the instrument can be applied to diagnose teamwork deficiencies and evaluate interventions for developing team members’ collective orientation.

scholarly journals Inclusionary Housing: An Evaluation of a New Public Rental Housing Governance Instrument in China

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 305
Author(s):  
Juan Yan ◽  
Marietta Haffner ◽  
Marja Elsinga
Keyword(s):  
Housing Market ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Inclusionary Housing ◽  
The Cost

Inclusionary housing (IH) is a regulatory instrument adopted by local governments in many countries to produce affordable housing by capturing resources created through the marketplace. In order to assess whether it is efficient, scholarly attention has been widely focused on its evaluation. However, there is a lack of studies evaluating IH from a governance perspective. Since IH is about involving private actors in affordable housing production, the governance point of view of cooperating governmental and non-governmental actors governing society to achieve societal goals is highly relevant. The two most important elements of governance—actors and interrelationships among these actors—are taken to build an analytical framework to explore and evaluate the governance of IH. Based on a research approach that combines a literature review and a case study of China, this paper concludes that the ineffective governance of Chinese IH is based on three challenges: (1) The distribution of costs and benefits across actors is unequal since private developers bear the cost, but do not enjoy the increments of land value; (2) there is no sufficient compensation for developers to offset the cost; and (3) there is no room for negotiations for flexibility in a declining market. Given that IH is favored in many Chinese cities, this paper offers the policy implications: local governments should bear more costs of IH, rethink their relations with developers, provide flexible compliance options for developers, and perform differently in a flourishing housing market and a declining housing market.

Zum Quellenwert der historischen Presseforschung in multiethnischen Räumen

Transilvania ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 37-46
Author(s):  
Doris Sava
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Aging Process ◽  
German Language ◽  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
Research Infrastructures ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Funding Programs ◽  
German Minority ◽  
Central Eastern

The number of projects dedicated to the digitization of newspaper collections in libraries and archives has risen continuously in recent years. The main focus is on securing German-language press inventory outside of the German-speaking area, which often cannot be copied due to the aging process, and – with a view to developments, cross-connections and research approaches – making them available for broad use for future independent investigations. Through various funding programs, the ministries responsible for education and research and national research infrastructures also work to keep this cultural heritage alive, to digitize it on a larger scale, to develop it and to make it internationally accessible. The article therefore shows some of the noteworthy newspapers and magazines of the German minority in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe and some efforts for documentation of the German minority press in this region.

TRADITION AND INNOVATION IN MODERN KAZAKH POETRY (XX century and independence)

2021 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-128
Author(s):  
Sh. Kuttybaev ◽  
◽  
Е. Abdimomynov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Evolutionary Development ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
National Poetry ◽  
In The Beginning

The article analyzes views on innovation in the literary science of the early twentieth century and the work of Alash representatives in an era that is a period filled with profound changes and large-scale innovations in Kazakh society. In addition, works related to freedom, enlightenment, politics, spiritual values, the position of the people as a whole and social changes are considered the idea of independence and continuity. On the way of evolutionary development of the Kazakh literature, artistic power, thematic and ideological character, substantial and stylistic features of poetry of poets in the beginning of the XX century and during the Great Patriotic War, in subsequent years and years of independence are discussed in detail. In addition, on the basis of literary traditions and novelty, the works of prominent poets of Kazakh poetry of the 20th century and Independence are considered and comprehensively characterized, i.e. internal motives, the content of life phenomena in national poetry are analyzed in close connection with the works of poets. The original vision of the traditional and differentiated in the literature of the Soviet period in the works of poets from a new perspective, from the point of view of today. In addition, the works of outstanding poets of Kazakh poetry in the period of the 20th century and independence are considered on the basis of classical tradition and novelty in literature.

scholarly journals Difficulty in implementing continuous improvement – Rasch measurement analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 1228-1250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lidia Sanchez-Ruiz ◽  
Beatriz Blanco ◽  
Emma Diaz
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Measurement Theory ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Rasch Measurement ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Level Of Difficulty ◽  
New Perspective

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to define a general and common construct in order to measure the level of difficulty companies experience when they implement continuous improvement (CI). Additionally, a rank of barriers is obtained together with a rank of companies. Design/methodology/approach In order to achieve the objective, first, a literature review is carried out to specify the domain of the construct; second, a sample of items is selected; third a survey is carried out in companies that have already implemented CI initiatives, the results being thus limited to this population; fourth, measures are purified by analysing the reliability and validity of the measurements, and finally results are obtained. The Rasch measurement theory will be used to provide a new perspective on a mature research topic. Findings It can be concluded that a new valid construct has been defined together with a rank of CI barriers, being lack of time the main barrier. A rank of companies is also obtained which is a first step in the development of future research studies. Practical implications Managers are provided with a better understanding of the barriers that can obstruct CI implementation. Thus, the rank of CI barriers guides managers through the most common and important obstacles so that they will be able to plan better CI strategies. In addition, the rank of companies allows each company to undertake a benchmarking exercise. Originality/value This work proposes a new way of analysing the difficulty in implementing CI as a continuum, rather than as independent barriers. From a theoretical point of view, it defines a new construct and offers a rank of CI barriers together with a rank of companies based on their level of difficulty when implementing CI initiatives. This is something new, as previous studies were mainly focussed on the items side. From a practical point of view, this study offers the surveyed companies the opportunity to see how they are positioned with respect to the other companies. Moreover, this rank of companies is the foundation on which to develop further studies with a practical orientation in the future.

scholarly journals A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE COSMOLOGICAL IMPLEMENTATION OF LOOP QUANTUM GRAVITY

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (07) ◽  
pp. 1250032 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANCESCO CIANFRANI ◽  
GIOVANNI MONTANI
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
Quantum Cosmology ◽  
Loop Quantum Gravity ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Graph Structure ◽  
Quantum Geometry ◽  
Cosmological Problem ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Made In

This papers offers a critical discussion on the procedure by which Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC) is constructed from the full Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) theory. Revising recent issues in preserving SU(2) symmetry when quantizing the isotropic Universe, we trace a new perspective in approaching the cosmological problem within quantum geometry. The cosmological sector of LQG is reviewed and a critical point of view on LQC is presented. It is outlined how a polymer-like scale for quantum cosmology can be predicted from a proper fundamental graph underlying the homogeneous and isotropic continuous picture. However, such a minimum scale does not coincide with the choice made in LQC. Finally, the perspectives towards a consistent cosmological LQG model based on such a graph structure are discussed.

“If I have to clean, I clean my own shop”: Migrant entrepreneurship as a form of emplacement in times of crisis: The example of Italy

Ethnicities ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 414-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Lintner
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Opportunity Structures ◽  
Immigration Laws ◽  
Migrant Entrepreneurship ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The One

This article analyses the relation between European economic crisis and immigration. It does so by analysing the establishment of migrants’ entrepreneurship activities in Italy, and by looking at how these activities unravel subjects’ agency in confronting constraining socioeconomic conditions and restrictive immigration laws. In this perspective, entrepreneurship should be understood as a possibility for transforming a person’s own incorporated cultural capital into a resource and, consequently, into an opportunity for self-created work performance. Interpreting entrepreneurship as a personal response of migrants to the economic recession offers a new perspective in the existing literature on migrant entrepreneurship. Crisis, in this paper, is not seen as an abstract and supernatural phenomenon leading and controlling the capacity of individuals to act, but is understood as a constructed set of meanings comprising social interactions and relationships and consolidated within public discourses. This study is based on a qualitative-explorative research approach and was carried out in South Tyrol, Italy. For the data collection, different qualitative methods were used: narrative interviews, informal discussions and semi-structured interviews. Data analysis was based on the coding processes described within the Grounded Theory. As the results show, crisis as such represents, on the one hand, a critical moment of transition or transformation of normality and the constituted ways of acting and thinking and, on the other hand, it is perceived as a new opportunity to change individual behaviour and to initiate innovative counter-strategies that will maintain a person’s capacity to act even in critical personal and structural situations. Nevertheless, showing resilience, which is powerful and leads to change, depends not only on personal motivational forces but also to given opportunity structures.

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