scholarly journals PECULIARITIES OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LITERATURE OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE. PHONETIC ASPECTS

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
N. Levitska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Social Life ◽  
German Language ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
German Standard ◽  
Language Norms ◽  
Written Word ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Norm Evolution

Linguists emphasize the importance of a structural-systematic approach to language learning, which helps to increase interest in solving the problem of language normativeness. The term “norm”, like many other terms in linguistics, is polysemous. At the same time, an important and still insufficiently disclosed aspect of the study of language norms is the definition of its essence in nationally heterogeneous languages, in particular in German standard language, which actualizes the study of autonomous norms of national variants of German, their identical and nationally specific features. Understanding the uniqueness of the codification of phonetic realities in the German language is relevant in the context of the traditions of Western European lexicography and the process of globalization and increasingly affects the linguistic spheres. The article is dedicated to the study of the notion of German orthoepic norm, the problem of its definition and mechanisms of its formation. The notion of the norm is rather ambiguous and its different aspects are usually highlighted by scientists when giving its definition. Generally they mark out two principal dimensions in the notion of the norm: the objective norm and the subjective norm. In conditions of community development, continuous linguistic and social changes, interdependent and interacting, the norm is a fundamental regulator of speech activity. It is clear that normative speech is the obligatory sign of well-educated, cultured person and the culture of sounding speech is an important aspect of national culture such as the culture of written word, communication or social life in general. The orthoepic German norm has been evolved in the process of Germanlanguage development. It is absolutely related to historical, social and culture processes. The norms are not invented by philologists, they reflect a certain stage of literary language development. In the article the role of the norm and its place in the language is defined and norm evolution in the process of language establishment and development is considered

Geographers and sexual difference: feminist contributions

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda McDowell
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Geographical Knowledge ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Family ◽  
Definition Of

Divisions based on the assumption that men and women are different from one another permeate all areas of social life as well as varying across space and between places. In the home and in the family, in the classroom or in the labour market, in politics, and in power relations, men and women are assumed to be different, to have distinct rights and obligations that affect their daily lives and their standard of living. Thirty years ago, there were no courses about gender in British geography departments. This chapter discusses the challenges to geographical knowledge, and to the definition of knowledge more generally, that have arisen from critical debates about the meaning of difference and diversity in feminist scholarship. It examines a number of significant conceptual ideas, namely: the public and the private; sex, gender and body; difference, identity and intersectionality; knowledge; and justice. Finally, it comments on the role of feminism in the academy as a set of political practices as well as epistemological claims.

scholarly journals "in dem moment wo ich es dann erkenne dann ist es auch gleich wieder weg" – Salienzeffekte in der Sprachperzeption

2014 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Ada Anders ◽  
Nicole Palliwoda ◽  
Saskia Schröder
Keyword(s):  
German Language ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Response Test ◽  
Stimulus Response ◽  
Perceptual Dialectology ◽  
Language Area ◽  
Salient Features ◽  
Definition Of

In context of the first study on folk linguistic concepts in the German language area carried out by the Kiel DFG research project "perceptual dialectology", this article looks at how salient features could be surveyed and categorized by a stimulus-response-test. After a definition of salience, the study design including the stimulus-response-test is presented. The test was created and modified during the project as a guessing game by the Institute for German Language (IDS Mannheim). The central question in this article is which linguistic features stimulate the informants to locate a speech sample on a map with predetermined cities and hence which salient features trigger the regional identification. In a second step, the speech samples are analyzed by the variables 'pleasantness' and 'correctness' defined by Dennis R. Preston. The central question here is: Are speech samples with a high pleasure value also automatically considered correct? Finally, an interpretation of metalinguistic comments in the speech examples will give more insight into folk linguistic concepts and the role of salient features in this regard.

scholarly journals Role of Grab on the social life changes of Bengkulu City

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-66
Author(s):  
Afrima Widanti ◽  
Dewi Rahmayanti
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Consumer Behaviour ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Life Changes ◽  
Interview Method ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
The Social

Purpose – The presence of Grab has invited many discussions. The purpose of this study is to know the role of Grab on changes in social life in Bengkulu city both in terms of Grab drivers, consumers, and other conventional transportation.Method – This study uses a qualitative approach with an in-depth interview method. The total respondents in this study are 38 people consisting of 5 people from Grab drivers, 30 people from consumers, and five people from conventional transportation.Result – This study found that there were changes in Grab drivers' income, but there were no social changes in Grab drivers. On the other hand, there were social changes in Grab consumers and conventional drivers. Implication – This study can be used by public, government, and private sector to understand better consumer behaviour in online transportation field.Originality – As the growth of online transportation in Indonesia is increasing, this study offers early understanding upon the phenomena.  

Migrations in Late Mesoamerica

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Biological Anthropology ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
Migration Dynamics ◽  
Political Economic

Migrations in Late Mesoamerica gathers scholars from different disciplines to address the role of migration during the most tumultuous centuries of Mesoamerican prehistory (A.D. 500–1500). Ethnohistoric, linguistic, biological, and archaeological data coupled with visual imagery and hieroglyphic texts associate the final millennium of Mesoamerican prehistory with the political, economic, and social changes that often unmoored populations from ancestral lands. Independent investigations into these topics have repeatedly discerned the movement of social groups at their core, but migration itself has rarely been the central focus of theoretical analysis. The ongoing rehabilitation of migration as a subject for study now allows prehistorians to re-examine its relationship to other areas of social life. An introductory chapter isolates characteristics of migration that distinguish it from other forms of human mobility, and it argues that migration must be analyzed in conjunction with the other social processes in which it is embedded. Select representatives from archaeology, biological anthropology, linguistics, ethnohistory, epigraphy, and art history present contributions on migration dynamics, causes and impacts, indigenous perceptions of migration, and the methods and assumptions we use when identifying or analyzing our specific cases.

scholarly journals Adaptación a la Nueva Realidad Sociocultural en España: Propuestas para la Mejora de la Asistencia en Traducción e Interpretación Jurídica en los Servicios Públicos

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 162-173
Author(s):  
Leticia Arcos Álvarez
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Labor Politics ◽  
Foreign Population ◽  
Long Time

Resumen: En los últimos tiempos, el panorama legal de España ha cambiado a base de enmiendas, nuevos proyectos de leyes, reglamentos, etc., lo que, sumado a un período de grandes modificaciones sociales en materia de trabajo, política, economía y migraciones, ha dado lugar a una nueva realidad que afecta a todo el conjunto de ciudadanos, y en especial, a la población extranjera no hispanohablante que reside en nuestro país. Hoy en día, vivimos en una sociedad multilingüe y multicultural en la que las comunidades de inmigrantes tienen que hacer frente a grandes diferencias durante su vida cotidiana, principalmente relacionadas con las barreras lingüísticas y culturales. El proceso de integración y de aprendizaje del idioma es lento y se puede prolongar durante bastante tiempo, período durante el cual estas personas tienen que realizar trámites burocráticos sin poseer los conocimientos lingüísticos y del sistema administrativo adecuados. Cuando estos obstáculos impiden la comunicación es necesario desarrollar soluciones que permitan el entendimiento entre las partes. En este punto aparece la figura del intérprete o mediador intercultural, que interviene para garantizar una comunicación efectiva.Abstract: In recent times, Spain's legal scenario has changed with amendments, new bills, regulations, etc. This new picture, along with a period of major social changes in labor, politics, economy and migrations has given rise to a new reality that affects the whole group of citizens, and especially the non-Spanish-speaking foreign population living in our country. Nowadays, we live in a multilingual and multicultural society in which immigrant communities have to cope with major differences during their daily lives, mainly related to linguistic and cultural barriers. The process of integration and language learning is slow and can be prolonged for a long time, during which these people have to perform bureaucratic procedures without adequate linguistic and administrative knowledge. When these obstacles hinder communication it is necessary to develop solutions allowing the understanding between the parties. The role of the intercultural interpreter or mediator then appears, who intervenes to guarantee an effective communication. 

scholarly journals Social Changes and “Points of no Return”: an Attempt to Conceptualize

2019 ◽  
pp. 26-32
Author(s):  
Daria Yashkina
Keyword(s):  
Global Change ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Effects ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Environmental Disasters ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Terrorist Acts ◽  
Value Changes

The modern world is characterized by fluidity, changeability, and unpredictability. In particular, social life is full of events that often inspire fear, affect and have unpredictable social effects. Almost every community faces such events: economic crises, political revolutions, environmental disasters, terrorist acts, and so on. Modern sociology pays much attention to the individual consequences and causes of such events, but in practice, a deep global change is remaining uncovered. The value of the presented work consists in an attempt to conceptualize the points of noreturn, in order to introduce the possibility of analyzing such driven events and to find the connection betweenthe points of no return and value changes. As the main result of the study, the author's definition of the points of noreturn was deduced.

scholarly journals BIOGRAFIA JĘZYKOWA JAKO PRZYCZYNEK DO REFLEKSJI NAD MOTYWACJĄ DO NAUKI JĘZYKA NIEMIECKIEGO

Neofilolog ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (42/2) ◽  
pp. 181-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maciej Mackiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Dynamic Process ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
German Language ◽  
Linguistic Development

A language biography is most often a reflection on one’s own linguistic development and therefore can be termed “language autobiography”. In its a broad sense, a language biography may include mother tongue acquisition, yet this article focuses solely on foreign language learning, with a special emphasis on the German language. The article provides insights into factors that motivate learners of German and into changes in these factors over a period of time, including the role of intercultural motivators. A theoretical and methodological introduction is followed by the results of a qualitative study conducted in five Polish institutions of tertiary education on a group of 73 students learning German. The excerpts of biographies quoted provide a picture of motivation as a dynamic process and moreover indicate that as present-day students get older, they are increasingly more thoughtful about their learning.

Crossing boundaries. Regimes of value in intercultural colonial contexts. Reflections on Jean and John Comaroff's ‘Beasts, banknotes and the colour of money’

2005 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-142
Author(s):  
Laurier Turgeon
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Theoretical Ground ◽  
Political Economies ◽  
Moral Economies ◽  
Written Word

This thought-provoking essay strives to theorize the concept of ‘regimes of value’ and, more specifically, the role of material objects in the convertibility of different orders of value in the making of modern economies and societies. Put forth by Arjun Appadurai in his edited volume The social life of things (1986), the notion of regime of value originally referred to the use of categories of material objects in the construction of value within a specific cultural context. Appadurai was more concerned with the way value is invested in objects than in theories of exchange and currency, consequently the notion remained relatively untheorized. Jean and John Comaroff break new theoretical ground in at least two ways. First, they take into consideration and juxtapose different regimes of value – primarily cattle for the southern Tswana peoples and currency for the European colonizers – to see how they are constructed and become the focus of complex mediations between these groups in the colonial context of South Africa. Cattle, like currency (in the form of coins or paper money), come to objectify value because they have the power to make or break social relations, to build new social hierarchies or overturn old ones, to do or undo moral economies. They show that different regimes of value can coexist in the same social space and be played out against one another. Second, Jean and John Comaroff interrogate the role of conversion, or ‘commensuration’, as they say, of regimes of value, that is, their power to make objects from different cultural contexts universally objectifiable, comparable and negotiable. Instead of making difference, as is usually thought, it is the capacity to negate difference and make all things equal that expresses the effectiveness of a regime of value. It is also these processes of commensuration and conversion that give material objects their magical qualities, through which they become fetishized and ‘seem to have a power all of their own’ (p. 131). More than the written word or oral discourse, it is material objects that become the preferred tools and means of colonial domination. The authors contribute then to a better understanding of the workings of political economies as well as to the materialities of colonialism.

scholarly journals Reception and interpretation of the educational and educational function of religion in modern religious studies

2016 ◽  
pp. 97-100
Author(s):  
Dmytro Bazyk
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Spiritual Education ◽  
Freedom Of Conscience ◽  
Secular Education ◽  
Functional Orientation ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Definition Of

One of the most important discourses in contemporary religious studies is the definition of the essence and role of religious education and the problem of its coexistence with the secular. On this occasion in the circle of researchers there are diverse, sometimes opposite, points of view. The following headings of the reception of expediency of the implementation of religious education are as follows: 1) the emphasis on the current legislation on the separation of church from the state, in particular the laws of Ukraine "On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Organizations" and "On Education"; 2) comparison of foreign experience in implementation of the implementation of religious education in the practice of social life, comparative analysis of the positions of supporters and opponents of religious education; 3) outline the problems of religious and spiritual education in the context of the formation of state-church relations, the complexity of incorporation of the religious component into the system of secular education, their demarcation; 4) the relevance of the distinction and delineation of religious and religious studies, the specificity of their functional orientation.

scholarly journals An Integrative Definition and Framework to Study Gossip

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terence Daniel Dores Cruz ◽  
Annika Nieper ◽  
Martina Testori ◽  
Elena Martinescu ◽  
Bianca Beersma
Keyword(s):  
Multidimensional Scaling ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Future Theory ◽  
Conceptual Confusion

The omnipresence of workplace gossip makes understanding gossip processes imperative to grasp social life in organizations. Although gossip research has recently experienced an upsurge across the social sciences, findings regarding the consequences of gossip are conflicting. A potential reason is that gossip is conceptualized in myriad different manners in the scientific literature, causing conceptual confusion and rendering theoretical integration impossible. In order to resolve this, we systematically reviewed 6114 scientific articles on gossip and identified 324 papers that define gossip. From the definitions we extracted two essential characteristics of gossip on which there seems to be good agreement within the literature, namely (1) that gossip is communication between humans involving a sender, receiver, and target, and (2) that the target is absent or unaware of the communicated content. These formed the basis of a broad, integrative definition of gossip: a sender communicating to a receiver about a target who is absent or unaware of the content. Furthermore, our review revealed that some definitions discuss characteristics on which there is less agreement: gossip valence (from negative to neutral to positive) and formality (from informal to intermediate to formal). We propose incorporating these characteristics in a multidimensional scaling framework that can guide future research. Our broad, integrative definition of gossip and the multidimensional scaling framework provide the building blocks for a systematic, integrated knowledge base on the role of gossip in human social life, which can foster future theory development and hypothesis testing, and thereby ultimately help organizations to manage gossip.

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