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Stanley, Janet, and John Stanley. "The Importance of Transport for Social Inclusion." Social Inclusion 5, no. 4 (December 28, 2017): 108–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.v5i4.1289.
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Links between mobility, social exclusion and well being, and matters related thereto, have been an important focus of research, planning and policy thinking in the land use transport field for about the past two decades, in places such as the UK, Australia, South Africa, North America and parts of South America. This introductory paper to the journal volume on <em>Regional and Urban Mobility: Contribution to Social Inclusion</em> summarizes some of the key literature in the field during that period, illustrating how research sometimes takes a place-based approach and at other times focuses on groups of people likely to be at risk of mobility-related social exclusion. The ten articles in this journal volume explore aspects of these relationships, mainly through the lens of at risk groups, across a number of social-spatial settings. Articles draw on case studies from the Philippines, UK/Germany, UK/Colombia, Lisbon, Gilgat-Baltistan, Turkey and Japan, providing a broad set of contexts. The different language and frameworks used by researchers from different professional backgrounds, as illustrated in this volume, highlights some of the barriers that need to be confronted in progressing policy to improve the lot of people experiencing mobility-related social exclusion.
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Hunt, Jaime, and Sacha Davis. "Social and historical factors contributing to language shift among German heritage-language migrants in Australia: An overview." Linguistik Online 100, no. 7 (December 18, 2019): 159–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.13092/lo.100.6025.
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Australia is a multicultural society in which over 300 different indigenous and migrant languages are spoken. While its cultural diversity is often celebrated, Australia’s linguistic diversity is still at risk due to the inherent monolingual mindset (cf. Clyne 2005) of its population. In this paper, we use a cross-disciplinary approach, drawing on both historical and sociolinguistic sources, to investigate some of the major causes of language shift among first- and subsequent generations of post-war German-speaking migrants in Australia. While historical and societal changes have provided greater opportunities for German to be maintained as a heritage language in Australia, these developments may have come too late or have not been effective in the face of English as the dominant language in Australia and as a global language. Our investigation indicates that Australians with German as a heritage language, like many other migrant groups, are still at a high risk of shift to English, despite recent opportunities for language maintenance provided by modern society.
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ÖZDEMİR, Meryem. "Kutlay Yağmur, Intergenerational Language Use and Acculturation of Turkish Speakers in Four Immigration Contexts, Frankfurt am Main; New York: Peter Lang, 2016, Language, multilingualism and social change, volume 27, 340 pp., ISBN 9783631663707." Turkish Journal of Diaspora Studies 2, no. 1 (March 1, 2022): 73–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.52241/tjds.2022.0036.
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In his book “Intergenerational Language Use and Acculturation of Turkish Speakers in Four Immigration Contexts”, Yağmur examines the possible impact of integration policies of Australia, France, Germany and the Netherlands on the adaptation of Turkish immigrants. The language aspect has not been sufficiently involved in many acculturation studies so far. That is why this book offers a valuable perspective about the relationship between language behavior and acculturation patterns, thereby analyzing the differences between first and second generation Turkish immigrants and comparing the effect of integration policies of host countries with each other.
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Musgrave, Simon, and Julie Bradshaw. "Language and social inclusion." Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 37, no. 3 (January 1, 2014): 198–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aral.37.3.01mus.
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Social inclusion policy in Australia has largely ignored key issues of communication for linguistic minorities, across communities and with the mainstream community. In the (now disbanded) Social Inclusion Board’s reports (e.g., Social Inclusion Unit, 2009), the emphasis is on the economic aspects of inclusion, while little attention has been paid to questions of language and culture. Assimilatory aspects of policy are foregrounded, and language is mainly mentioned in relation to the provision of classes in English as a Second Language. There is some recognition of linguistic diversity but the implications of this for inclusion and intercultural communication are not developed. Australian society can now be characterised as super-diverse, containing numerous ethnic groups each with multiple and different affiliations. We argue that a social inclusion policy that supports such linguistic and cultural diversity needs an evidence-based approach to the role of language and we evaluate existing policy approaches to linguistic and cultural diversity in Australia to assess whether inclusion is construed primarily in terms of enhancing intercultural communication, or of assimilation to the mainstream.
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Tabakova, V. S., and I. A. Guseynova. "Sociolinguistic aspects of German “sambo” discourse." Issues of applied linguistics 40 (December 30, 2020): 86–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.25076/vpl.40.04.
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The article is devoted to the study of the sociolinguistic aspects of the German-language sambo discourse. The research focuses on the sports space of the discourse of sambo, human communication, social institutions, rituals in sports, and the symbolism of the sports space. Sport is seen as a social phenomenon; the characteristic features of sports discourse, the predestination of the nature of communication in German sports discourse, the role and intentions of participants in sports discourse as the main figures of interaction in the communicative space are determined; the specificity is analyzed and the characteristic features of the intersection of institutional discourses are revealed; we identify and explain the significance, semiotics and scripting in the German-language sports discourse. The main aspects that contribute to the formation of social space, sports communication and that determine the formation of sports space are revealed. Video materials in German and printed publications with German terminology were used as research and analysis material. By analyzing research materials, a complex methodology is needed, namely the use of contextual analysis, discourse analysis and functional analysis of units of German-language special vocabulary.
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Tabakova, V. S., and I. A. Guseynova. "Sociolinguistic aspects of German “sambo” discourse." Issues of applied linguistics 40 (December 30, 2020): 86–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.25076/vpl.40.04.
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The article is devoted to the study of the sociolinguistic aspects of the German-language sambo discourse. The research focuses on the sports space of the discourse of sambo, human communication, social institutions, rituals in sports, and the symbolism of the sports space. Sport is seen as a social phenomenon; the characteristic features of sports discourse, the predestination of the nature of communication in German sports discourse, the role and intentions of participants in sports discourse as the main figures of interaction in the communicative space are determined; the specificity is analyzed and the characteristic features of the intersection of institutional discourses are revealed; we identify and explain the significance, semiotics and scripting in the German-language sports discourse. The main aspects that contribute to the formation of social space, sports communication and that determine the formation of sports space are revealed. Video materials in German and printed publications with German terminology were used as research and analysis material. By analyzing research materials, a complex methodology is needed, namely the use of contextual analysis, discourse analysis and functional analysis of units of German-language special vocabulary.
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Karpova, K. S. "WORD OF 2018: LINGUISTIC ASPECT." Linguistic and Conceptual Views of the World, no. 66 (2) (2019): 62–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2520-6397.2019.2.08.
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The article is devoted to popular sociolinguistic event ‘A Word of the Year’, which takes place annually on web-sites of famous dictionaries (Oxford English Dictionary, Collins English Dictionary, Merriam-Webster’s English Dictionary, Cambridge Dictionary of the English Language) and well- known linguistic institutions (American Dialect Society, Global Language Monitor, Australian Na- tional Dictionary Centre, Society of the German Language). In English-speaking environment Oxford English Dictionary as one of the first dictionaries to launch ‘A Word of the Year’ list chooses a word or expression which have attracted a particular interest of its readers over the last twelve months. Every year hundreds of candidates are discussed online and a particular word is chosen to reflect the mood and preoccupations of a specific year as well as signify its potential as a word of cultural significance. The adjective toxic, chosen by Oxford English Dictionary as key word of 2018, is under linguistic analysis in present research. Firstly, we study lexical and semantic peculiarities of word of the year. Secondly, we investigate the most frequently-used patterns of its lexical combinability with nouns. According to online version of Oxford English Dictionary, among nouns, which regularly collocate with the target adjective toxic, the following should be paid attention to: chemical, substance, waste, algae, air, masculinity, environment, relationship, culture. Finally, we exemplify the contextual usage of adjective toxic in modern English. Moreover, we dwell on the mechanisms of influence of key spheres of life in English-speaking world (politics, economy, ecology, social and interpersonal relations) on users’ choice in 2018.
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Levitska, N. "PECULIARITIES OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LITERATURE OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE. PHONETIC ASPECTS." Current issues of linguistics and translation studies, no. 19 (October 30, 2020): 25–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.31891/2415-7929-2019-19-5.
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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
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Beilis, Natalia. "GERMAN EDUCATION IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF UKRAINE: ASPECTS OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE HISTORICALLY." Aesthetics and Ethics of Pedagogical Action, no. 14 (September 9, 2016): 21–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.33989/2226-4051.2016.14.171578.
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The article focuses on the fact that the German language learning by pupils in secondary schools of Ukraine depends on creating the appropriate objective conditions of reforming the entire education system and the humanization of the educational process, and taking into account patterns of theory and practice development in this area in the second half of the XX – XXI century.In the article the urgency of modernization of modern content and methods of studying the German language by pupils of secondary schools of Ukraine, made historical – pedagogical analysis of German education in the second half of the XX – XXI century.Particular attention is paid to aspects of leading scientific discourses in the context of national development policy of the German language learning in schools of Ukraine in measurements of its accession to the common European educational space.Article updated those tasks whose solution it entirety provides: 1) upgrading the content of German education at an angle to ensure his child centrism, culture centrism, fundamental and personal-developmental orientation; 2) mobility of updating curricula, textbooks and teaching aids, by raising the level of motivation of teachers, representatives of various government agencies of Ukraine, establishing constructive cooperation between them; 3) improvement in the status of Ukraine in a sphere of German-language education and foreign language education in general (necessary aspects of creating multilingual educational environment).It is emphasized the need for Ukraine of the positive experience in the past in order to develop foreign language education space. This current state of quality of the German language learning depends on identifying further ways of development strategies that are based on national educational traditions and values, experience learning the German language acquired in the process of learning German in the schools in Ukraine. Innovative approaches of content and methodology of the study of German by pupils at schools of Ukraine has a strategic nature and consistent with the national development strategy of foreign language education.The necessity of solving the actual problems posed present to the German- education of pupils in secondary schools in Ukraine is impossible without understanding key trends of research in this area, adequate and interested attitude to the industry by professionals and especially representatives of various government agencies of Ukraine with setting up constructive cooperation between them, which is a prerequisite for the formation of social consciousness of pupils and school leavers with appropriate attitude to the prospects of the German language.Conclusions regarding changes of German national policy in the context of its compliance with the European promotion of Ukraine, development of strategies of the German language learning in secondary schools of Ukraine are viewed in the article.
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Bhugun, Dharam. "Intercultural Parenting in Australia." Family Journal 25, no. 2 (April 2017): 187–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1066480717697688.
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This study employed a qualitative and social constructionist approach to examine cultural differences in intercultural parenting and how parents negotiated cultural differences. Semistructured, in-depth interviews were conducted with 14 intercultural couples/parents. Thematic analysis was used to analyze data and understand the meanings of participants’ experiences. The findings revealed that while intercultural couples experienced several similar aspects of parenting experienced by monocultural couples, their experiences were exacerbated because of the cultural differences. The most common descriptions of differences and uniqueness in parenting were identified as (a) discipline, (b) sleep patterns, (c) cultural taboos refood and traditional medical practices, (d) children’s socialization process, (e) education, (f) language and communication, (g) role of children, and (h) the role of extended families. Five major conflict resolution strategies were identified: (a) communication, (b) compromise, (c) sphere of rule, (d) asymmetrical decision-making, and (e) individual traits. Practical implications for therapists and counsellors working with intercultural parents/couples are discussed.
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Dahl, Anne. "University language students' motivations for their language of study." Nordic Journal of Language Teaching and Learning 10, no. 1 (September 12, 2022): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.46364/njltl.v10i1.1013.
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While there is abundant research on motivation in second-language learning, we know little about what motivations students may have for choosing a specific language of study in the Norwegian university context. The number of students who apply to English study programs every year is high, while the numbers for the traditional foreign languages beyond English, especially German and French, are concerningly low. The present study surveyed students in their first year of university language study, asking key questions about their reasons for choosing their language of study. Overall findings are that students of English are particularly instrumentally motivated, believing that English will be useful for future work. Students of French and Spanish, on the other hand, are more affectively motivated, while German students fall in between the other languages in responses to questions of motivation. While all students generally feel that knowledge of foreign languages beyond English is important, Spanish students were especially consistent in this response. In terms of interest in sub-disciplines of university language study, all student groups were relatively similar in showing a stronger interest in learning about the cultural and social aspects of countries where the language is spoken compared to literature formal aspects of language. The main conclusion is that motivations may be different for studying different foreign languages beyond English, and that in order to recruit more students to academic language programs, focusing on each specific language and its potential motivations is necessary.
Keywords: foreign language, motivation, language studies, English, French, Spanish, German
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Mikhidenko, Kateryna. "Psycholinguistic aspects in the research of german conflict discourse (based on german internet texts)." Vìsnik Marìupolʹsʹkogo deržavnogo unìversitetu. Serìâ: Fìlologìâ 13, no. 22 (2020): 214–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.34079/2226-3055-2020-13-22-214-220.
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The paper presents an overview of the main tendencies in modern discourse studies in German-speaking circles, further referring to the problem of communicative self-presentation strategies used by the participants in virtual conflict discourse and their usage in certain conflict situations. The linguistic, sociological and psychological aspects of conflict communication play an important role in the research of discourse in German-language discourse studies. The research groups such as the Vienna circle and the Duisburg school of discourse analysis integrated theories on conflict discourse, inter alia the hegemony theory developed by E. Laclau and Ch. Mouffe or the theory of conflict discourse of J. Habermas into their research, focusing mainly on the problem of racism and right extremist discourse in the German-speaking public sphere. The modern research includes also sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic aspects of racist discourse research. Scientific works published in the last ten years focus mainly on problems of hidden racism within public and social institutions and racist discourse within teenager groups. The study of different sociological and psychological factors of communicative behavior are aimed at reconstructing social crises and forecast of future tendencies in order to avoid further cases of discrimination in society. With the growing importance of media as source of knowledge and instrument of influence, virtual communication becomes an integral part of discourse formation and articulation. On the one hand, such special features of the Internet, as spontaneity of communication, anonymity of the users, as well as the unlimited number of potential participants, provide a free choice of instruments of self-presentation. On the other hand, however, they involve certain limitations of the communication process itself: such features as social status, social or physical power can no longer be source of influence on the opponent. Thus, participants of conflict discourse have to defend their own and their social group's positive image by choosing suitable communicative strategies of self-presentation and presentation of the opponent. Positive self-presentation in conflict discourse includes a strong division of communicative space into oppositional categories, such as ME (US)-YOU (THEY), GOOD-BAD or RIGHT-WRONG, where the ME (US) group is credited with positive qualities such as good, intelligent, experienced, rightful etc, whereas such negative qualities, as bad, stupid, inexperienced, wrong are attributed to the opponent group. The analysis of such self-presentation strategies and categorization processes allows making conclusions about the mental aspects of discourse practices in separate social and ethnocultural groups basing on psycholinguistic features of intercultural and interpersonal conflict discourse.
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Evianty, Rina, Risnovita Sari, and Muhammad Reza. "Developing Student’s German Language Competencies through Pragmatic Approach in the Classroom for Higher Education." Budapest International Research and Critics in Linguistics and Education (BirLE) Journal 3, no. 1 (March 5, 2020): 574–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.33258/birle.v3i1.853.
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The general goal of teaching German as a foreign language is that learners can communicate appropriately in writing and orally in German. But in fact this goal can often not be achieved. Many learners in higher education master the German grammar and vocabulary, but they are unable to use German language that matches the social context, because they do not have much pragmatics competence. Pragmatic approach based on the function of language as a communication tool is a study of language by involving various aspects outside the language that are able to provide meaning. Pragmatic competence constitutes a significant factor in determining the success of communication. In fact, a German language learner in higher education is not only expected to use language and produce utterances which are understandable or grammatically correct, but is also expected to produce utterances which are socioculturally appropriate. However, for students in higher education who learn German as a Foreign Language (Deutsch als Fremdsprache/DaF), the pragmatic competence, which can actually be acquired naturally through social interaction, is quite difficult to acquire due to the limited. On this basis, pragmatics needs to be integrated into German language courses in higher education, which includes pragma linguistics and socio pragmatic. In this regard, this study describes not only the relationship between pragmatics and German as a foreign language, but also this study is an attempt to define its implications in teaching German as foreign language in higher education.
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McKay, Graham R. "Policy and Indigenous languages in Australia." Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 34, no. 3 (January 1, 2011): 297–319. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aral.34.3.03mck.
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The use of Indigenous languages has been declining over the period of non-Aboriginal settlement in Australia as a result of repressive policies, both explicit and implicit. The National Policy on Languages (Lo Bianco, 1987) was the high point of language policy in Australia, given its national scope and status and its attempt to encompass all aspects of language use. Indigenous languages received significant recognition as an important social and cultural resource in this policy, but subsequent national policy developments moved via a focus on economic utility to an almost exclusive emphasis on English, exacerbated by a focus on national literacy standards. This is exemplified in the Northern Territory’s treatment of Indigenous bilingual education programs. Over recent years there have been hopeful signs in various states of policy developments supportive of Indigenous languages and in 2009 the Commonwealth Government introduced a new National Indigenous Languages Policy and a plan for a national curriculum in languages. Support for Indigenous languages remains fragmentary, however, and very much subservient to the dominant rhetoric about the need for English skills, while at the same time ignoring research that shows the importance of Indigenous and minority languages for social well-being and for developing English language skills.
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Urazaeva, Nailya, and Evgenii Morozov. "Corpus-based linguistics in teaching German language: practical basis and instruments." Современное образование, no. 3 (March 2018): 71–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8736.2018.3.27120.
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Information era of the development of computer technologies and wide availability of Internet opens new opportunities for increasing the efficiency of educational process of foreign languages. The subject of this research is one of the modern and relevant directions in methodology of teaching German language – the corpus-based teaching. Corpus-based technologies are used in teaching vocabulary, grammar, translation, in cross-cultural research, realization of project activities, as well as allow significantly increasing the quality of education, accelerate the process of acquisition and digestion of knowledge, increase motivation and interest in learning German language. Research methodology is based on the analysis of theoretical insights on the indicated problematic, normative documents, description and assessment of possible application of linguistic corpuses in learning and teaching German language. The achievements in the area of corpus-based linguistics can become widely used in the process of teaching German language. Corpus-based approach is the most advanced innovation addition to the traditional teaching; it is optimal for understanding of such aspects of language as polysemy, historical, geographical and social variation, changes in language system. The key aspects of corpus-based teaching are the authenticity of material, Interdisiplinarity, empirical adequacy, adjustment to particular tasks and target groups, possibility of self-tuition.
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Jesan, Irina J., and Elena A. Kovtunova. "GERMAN-BASED INTERNET LINGUISTICS: HISTORY REVIEW AND MODERN TRENDS." German Philology at the St Petersburg State University 12 (2022): 252–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/spbu33.2022.113.
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This article focuses on a new linguistic discipline called Internet linguistics, reveals historical aspects of its formation, and summarizes research strategies in modern linguistic studies in German-speaking countries. The article provides a brief overview of the main studies on Internet-linguistics by German-speaking researchers from the late 1980s to the present. Research analysis evaluates important terminological aspects: debates around key concepts and objects of study. With the invention of the Internet and rapid progress made in digital media, forms of social interaction were significantly impacted, along with related tendencies of development of the modern German language. The analysis highlights a contribution of German-speaking academic researchers to the debate on the possibility of distinguishing a special language of the Internet and language criticism on the Internet. The article presents the studies addressing the topic focus on linguistic innovations on the Internet and the pragmatic potential of the linguistic phenomena typical for the modern German language. The article briefly describes the research approaches to the problems of new media and new forms of communication in the digital world (SMS text messages, chat rooms, blogs, tweets, etc.), multimodal Internet phenomena (emoji, memes), standards and rules of online behavior (Netiquette). Contemporary studies forced a new viewpoint on some concepts from related disciplines such as “code-switching”, conceptual oralness and conceptual writing, proximity language and distance language. The necessary part of the article deals with the discursive and applied aspects of the Internet linguistics, such as creation of the Internet corpora, launching international projects, etc.
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Groth, Stefan. "Common Ground and Missing Links German Volkskunde and Language." Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 24, no. 1 (March 1, 2015): 24–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2015.240103.
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Language and its relation to culture has been a topic of research in German Volkskunde [folklore studies] from the beginning of the discipline. While dialectological studies, linguistic specificities of local cultures and language in everyday life have been integral parts of Volkskunde for much of the first part of the twentieth century, the discipline saw a shift away from its philological elements towards a social science orientation in post-Second World War developments. During the last decades, the analysis of linguistic dimensions of everyday culture has been on the margin of scholarly activities in Volkskunde. Starting with a historic perspective on the role of language in the beginnings of the discipline, this article discusses the development and decrease of the study of linguistic aspects. It analyses the role of language in contemporary German Volkskunde both in theory and methodology, and offers perspectives on how the discipline could benefit from a renewed focus on linguistic dimensions of everyday culture.
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Kozak, Alla, and Lyudmyla Blyznyuk. "INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN A GERMAN LANGUAGE STUDY." Naukovì zapiski Nacìonalʹnogo unìversitetu «Ostrozʹka akademìâ». Serìâ «Fìlologìâ» 1, no. 12(80) (December 23, 2021): 143–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.25264/2519-2558-2021-12(80)-143-146.
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The article deals with a study of intercultural communication formation problems in the process of learning German language. Foreign languages in a modern society are becoming increasingly important, as well as the growing need for a high level of proficiency, but it is impossible to fully communicate with other cultures without knowing anything about the characteristics of this people. A foreign language is an effective factor in the development of personality in a multicultural space. As a phenomenon of the spiritual life of mankind, it plays a major role, it promotes the process of communication, socialization, professionalization and social adaptation. At the present stage of development of teaching foreign languages methods, researchers identify three main goals of teaching a foreign language as a language of international communication and communication itself. It is noted that a foreign language should be studied in an inseparable unity with the world and culture of the peoples who speak these languages. The main components of foreign culture include the following elements: everyday behavior; traditional household culture; traditions, as well as rites that can be perceived as traditions; national pictures of the world that reflect the specifics of perception of the world around; artistic culture, which can also be attributed to the elements of ethnography and ethnology. It is emphasized that it is necessary to use authentic materials for its mastering when including aspects of intercultural communication in the content of foreign language teaching. We have identified the following ways to simultaneously study of German language and culture by the students who have proven themselves best during the learning process: role-playing games, preparation of individual messages, group messages or dialogues, presentations of the topics, home reading, contacts with other cultures, general discussion, homework on a given topic. Thus, the emphasis in the educational process on the features of intercultural communication make foreign language classes more diverse, interesting, which leads to the increased learning motivation and perception of the real picture of the world.
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SCHARF, THOMAS. "Social gerontology in Germany: historical trends and recent developments." Ageing and Society 21, no. 4 (July 2001): 489–505. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x01008340.
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Mirroring the development in the social sciences as a whole, social gerontology has been characterised by an increasing internationalisation in recent years. While the English language remains the prime medium for communication, there is a rapidly expanding research literature published in other major world languages. This raises practical difficulties for researchers lacking the relevant linguistic skills to engage with the findings of research published in languages other than English. It is within this context that this Ageing Update addresses the current state of social gerontology in Germany. Drawing primarily upon sources published in the German language between 1997 and 2000, the article provides an overview of the historical development of research on social and behavioural aspects of ageing in Germany. It then proceeds to address some of the main themes and trends associated with what, by any measure, is a substantial amount of recent research. This analysis offers a basis for illustrating, in a short concluding section, the significant strengths and some areas of apparent weaknesses in the current state of German social gerontology.
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Geist, Ljudmila. "Predication over aspects of human individuals." Linguistics 57, no. 6 (November 18, 2019): 1305–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ling-2019-0028.
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Abstract Predicate nouns in German, as well as in other languages, may occur bare or with an indefinite article. This alternation is possible with role nouns, which refer to well-established aspects of individuals such as professions and nationalities. Bare NPs differ from indefinite NPs in that they have restricted meaning, are number neutral and are restricted in modifiability. In the literature, these peculiarities received different explanations. The new account combines previous analyses and is based on the following assumptions: the noun that projects an indefinite NP denotes a kind, while the noun projecting a bare NP denotes a capacity. This difference corresponds to the difference in predication: indefinite NPs predicate about the whole individual assigning it membership in a certain kind, while bare NPs predicate only about one social aspect of the individual, identifying it with a certain capacity. Since bare predication concerns only one aspect of the individual, it is partial. Bare predication can now be considered under a broader view of partial predication, a phenomenon very common in argument alternations, and can be analyzed with the tools that have proved effective in this domain. The approach to bare predication taken here thus has a larger empirical coverage.
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Kiyko, Yurii, and Valentyna Struk. "MODERN GERMAN SONGS: GRAMMATICAL AND SEMANTIC CHARACTERISTICS." Germanic Philology Journal of Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, no. 835-836 (2022): 76–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.31861/gph2022.835-836.76-83.
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The article is devoted to establishing grammatical and semantic features of modern German-language songs. The study was based on the contemporary German-language songs produced within the last five years. A modern German-language song, as a dominant genre in a popular music culture, is considered not only an art form, but also an indicator of the current state of language and society. The German language songs of 2017-2021 have the following characteristics: reduction of word forms in verbs and articles, omission of one of the main parts of the sentence, frequent use of interrogative sentences, as well as imperative and conditional grammatical ways of the verb. These features are due to both the influence of the colloquial version of the modern German language, and the rhythmic and melodic properties of this genre. The present and past tense forms of the verb are used in the modern German language songs. Among the 14 types of complex sentences, 11 were recorded, of which the most common was object clause. Verbs and nouns dominated in the partial linguistic aspects. Exclamations and appeals were used in most lyrics for greater emotionality. In the lexical and semantic aspect, the modern German language songs can be characterized by the presence of borrowings from the English language, abbreviations, names of places, onyms of the world famous clothing brands, cars, beverages and social networks. The semantic aspect is dominated by the themes of "life" and "love".
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Vasilyeva, Galina. "The German Language in the International Cultural Space." Ideas and Ideals 12, no. 3-2 (September 23, 2020): 314–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.17212/2075-0862-2020-12.3.2-314-336.
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The author considers the factors, which determine interest to the German language in different regions of the world. The object of research is the role of the German language in international sociocultural contacts and the humanitarian sphere development, in the world educational space formation. The subject matter is practical experience of mastering the German language, linguistic achievements and problems of specific nations in this area. The author considers practical application of the German language in the language policy of several countries, studies intercultural interaction difficulties, analyses international research projects in ethno-social dynamics. The goal of the research determined the tasks: to present a socio-anthropological approach to the consideration of the language situation in the countries, to comment on the institutional aspects of the German language dissemination, to substantiate the multilingualism significance as a tool of intercultural education. The chronological framework of the study covers the first decades of the XXI century. At the same time, if we consider the problem in a historical aspect, we will inevitably turn to the earlier periods. A systematic approach allows us to establish a logical relationship and interdependence of these periods, traces changes in the status of the official language in Germany. This issue is not only linguistic, but also historical and cultural. The author analyzes the problems of the ethnolinguistic situation associated with the study of the German language in a number of countries: among them, the United Kingdom, in which other languages (but English) have a lesser degree of social prestige and are being squeezed out of the language space. The French Republic, along with the Federal Republic of Germany, as the leader of Europe, has always been on the axis of European construction. The country continues the policy of promoting internationalization of the French language. At the same time, Francophonie is a movement for cultural diversity. The Kingdom of Belgium and the Swiss Confederation are related to Germany in institutional architecture. It is necessary to study the situation in these ethnically heterogeneous and multilingual federal states, where German is one of the official languages. The author appeals to the history of Spain and the Republic of Korea because the citizens of these countries participated in the reconstruction of Germany after the Second World War. Issues related to the individual linguistic rights implementation determine national and political processes, educational and cultural policies. Learning several languages forms the idea that a multilingual society is the standard model of communication.
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Lemańczyk, Magdalena, and Mariusz Baranowski. "National Identity and Social Welfare: the Example of the German Minority in Opolskie Voivodeship." Rocznik Polsko-Niemiecki, no. 28 (December 17, 2020): 229–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.35757/rpn.2020.28.03.
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This article aims to characterise the positive and negative aspects of being a national minority, using the example of the German minority in the Opolskie Voivodeship and the category of social welfare in the sociological sense. In order to conceptualise and operationalise the idea of national identity, attention has been focused mainly on its cultural determinants, with particular emphasis on the role of language and organisational activity. The empirical exploration of the research questions was based on surveys, carried out by the authors of the article on behalf of the Social-Cultural Society of Germans in Opole Silesia (SCSG) in the summer of 2019, among members of the German minority organisation.
[1] The research was carried out in the period from June to August 2019 as part of the SCSG's campaign entitled “The German minority has a value”, financed by the Polish Ministry of Interior and Administration.
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Herzog, Markwart. "Footballers as Soldiers. Rituals of Masculinity in Twentieth-Century Germany: Physical, Pedagogical, Political, Ethical and Social Aspects." STADION 43, no. 2 (2019): 250–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/0172-4029-2019-2-250.
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Since the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries, football squads have defined themselves as exclusively male domains with explicit military characteristics. The rules and tactics of football used to be interpreted in categories of battle orders. Furthermore, football language is full of concepts and ideas which derive directly from the terminology of the military. This issue extends to various aspects of German football culture. Early textbooks of football training, dietetics and hygiene understood the physical constitution of football players in terms of tough, soldierly masculinity. German squads used to practise tough, masculine rituals of initiation, comradeship and discipline. Some of the fundamental rituals in this context were derived from the everyday life of the barracks. The military-athletic masculinity of football and the crude ideals and rituals of German student fraternities reflected important social differences between these groups. Military connotations are an important reason for the long-lasting exclusion of women from football culture - not only in Germany. Like the military terminology of football, the moral representation of the players as national heroes who are prepared to accept subordination within a team of fighters can also be found nowadays. This paper will describe the roots of the soldierly, athletic paradigm that inspired football culture even after the Second World War.
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Pöllabauer, Sonja. "Gatekeeping Practices in Interpreted Social Service Encounters." L’interprétation : normes et contextes de pratiques 57, no. 1 (October 10, 2012): 213–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1012750ar.
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This paper presents results gathered from a project implemented by an interdisciplinary project team between 2007 and 2009, which focused on interpreting in social service and welfare institutions (Community Interpreting und Kommunikationsqualität im Sozial- und Gesundheitswesen[Community Interpreting and Communication Quality in Social Service and Healthcare Institutions]). One of the aspects investigated by the project was the interpreting practice at two Austrian municipal social service and welfare institutions via in-depth interviews and recordings of authentic interpreter-mediated encounters. After a brief overview of the history of gatekeeping theory and the application of the gatekeeping concept in Translation and Interpreting Studies, some of the project results are analysed using one specific model of gatekeeping theory proposed by Shoemaker and Vos in 2009. Taking a leaf from this work, the analysis is based on five different levels, namely the individual level, communication routines, the organisation level, the social institutional level, and the social system level. The analysis investigates “gates” present in the communication routines at the two institutions and which may prevent non-German speaking clients from full access and understanding, as well as the role of interpreters as “gatekeepers.”
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Blank, Hartmut, René Ziegler, and Jessica de Bloom. "Self-Monitoring and Linguistic Adaptation." Social Psychology 43, no. 2 (January 2012): 67–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000085.
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This article explores the role of self-monitoring in the adaptation to different linguistic environments (dialects and foreign languages). An internet study (N = 505) found the motivation and ability of speakers of local German dialects to switch to the German high language (as measured by a specifically developed scale) to be moderately related (r = .24) to their self-monitoring scores. Further analyses found this relationship to be stronger for people with stronger dialects. Also, in a survey of German first-year students (N = 88) at a Dutch university, self-monitoring was strongly related (r = .43) to a scale measuring various aspects of adaptation to the Dutch language; high self-monitors also reported less social and study-related problems due to language. We conclude from these results that self-monitoring is an important determinant of oral linguistic adaptation. Put differently, our findings extend the reach of the self-monitoring construct to the domain of language.
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Ivasiuk, Halyna. "REPRESENTATION OF THE CONCEPT HELD IN THE GERMAN LANGUAGE INTERNET DISCOURSE." Germanic Philology Journal of Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, no. 835-836 (2022): 40–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.31861/gph2022.835-836.40-49.
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The article deals with the specifics of the use of the concept HELD in the Modern German-language Internet discourse. The archetype of the hero is an important structure of both the individual and the collective unconscious, an element of both social and political culture of the nation. The semantic content of this archetype for the German people can be explored through the prism of its reflection in the relevant HELD concept, which is presented in the linguistic picture of the world of native speakers of the German language and language culture. In our study, we will focus on the use of the concept HELD in the headlines of Internet content, because the global network is the fastest to reflect all the trends and changes in the modern world in general and in public discourse in particular. The aim of our study is to analyze the features of the objectification of the HELD concept in the German linguoculture based on Internet discourse. To achieve this goal we will set the following tasks: 1) to analyze the transformation of the semantic content of the HELD concept in historical retrospect; 2) to single out the compatibility of the Held concept in the German-language Internet discourse and to distribute the selected material by semantic groups; 3) to analyze the semantic content of the HELD concept in the German-language Internet discourse. This article analyzes the compatibility of the concept and identifies key contexts, formed semantic groups for the use of the concept HELD in the linguistic picture of the world of modern Germans. As a result, conclusions were drawn about certain aspects of the social process in the modern German-speaking world (and, to some extent, Western civilization), which are reflected in the use and semantic content of the concept HELD in Internet discourse. The study of the context of the use of the concept HELD in modern German-language Internet discourse allows us to trace its associative-derivational (epidegmatic) connections, which fully reflect the connotation of the word at a certain time and in the relevant socio-cultural space. Thus, the use of the concept HELD in modern German-language media discourse allows us to highlight the semantic content of the concept, the dynamics of the archetype in the German-speaking space, as well as to trace the dominant values and current problems of society.
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Bruckner, Alina. "Current Trends in Business Communication: Anglicisms in German." Linguaculture 11, no. 1 (June 10, 2020): 23–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.47743/lincu-2020-1-0158.
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Anglicisms have invaded all languages nowadays, but it seems that German is being invaded by English loanwords not only in oral but also in written communication. This article intends to briefly analyze whether Anglicisms represent an enrichment or rather an intrusion to a language, taking into consideration the fact that the influx of English loanwords upon German has even led to the appearance of a hybrid means of communication named Denglish. Examples of Anglicisms and pseudo-Anglicisms in German originate from an area that is nowadays mainly English, namely the business communication, more presicely advertising. But, apart from the linguistic considerations, Anglicisms are to be understood also as an expression of cultural, social, economic and even political aspects.
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Bachl, Marko, and Elena Link. "Vaccine-related discussions in online communities for parents. A quantitative overview, 2012–2019." Studies in Communication and Media 11, no. 1 (2022): 73–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/2192-4007-2022-1-73.
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Vaccinations are a medical success story. However, many individuals still experience doubts, which challenge vaccine compliance. Online communities for parents are important sources for the discussion about vaccination with similar others. They serve as social support platforms, where parents exchange informational, emotional, and esteem support. Our study provides a structured overview of vaccine-related online discussions of parents. The content of the four most popular German online communities for parents (2012-2019) was obtained with web scraping. Structural topic models were used to characterize the exchanges about vaccination in 98,505 discussion posts. We identified 27 aspects of the vaccination discussions, which were sorted into four general perspectives. The general vaccination debate perspective (6 aspects, 24% of all content) covered societal and public health debates. The specific vaccinations perspective (8 aspects, 16%) addressed vaccinations against specific diseases. Parents discussed various vaccine-related practical issues (7 aspects, 20%). The relationship and communication perspective (6 aspects, 19%) collected aspects concerned with community building. The findings highlighted the diversity of vaccine-related online discussions related to all types of social support. Investigating online exchanges can inform public health communicators as well as health professionals which parental support needs should be addressed more comprehensively.
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Mako, Vladimir. "Characters of Ancient Architectural Orders and their Mannerist Interpretation in Dietterlin’s Book from 1598." ATHENS JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE 7, no. 2 (March 2, 2021): 227–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.30958/aja.7-2-1.
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The aim of this paper is to explore a particular metaphorical pictorial language used by German mannerist painter Wendel Dietterlin in his book on architecture at the end of the sixteenth century. It was formed through personal imaginary interpretation of the Vitruvian notion regarding personal characters of the five ancient architectural Orders. In that context it has all aspects of the mannerist approach in inventing metaphorical meanings by combining ancient, mediaeval, and contemporary narratives. However, in that process Dietterlin unavoidably refers to cultural and social aspects of his time, particularly when reflecting on the issue of the invention of the ‘new [German] architecture’. By this, Dietterlin enters the group of the majority of German sixteenth and seventeenth century authors on architecture emphasizing one particular prerogative in their writings: to merge the ancient roots with the longing for a coherent German cultural identity. However, it seems that in the process of narration, used to ‘invent’ new forms of architectural expression, Dietterlin refers also on particularities related to the historical development of mankind in a personal manner.
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Marques, Lívia Dos Santos, and Cibele Cecílio de Faria Rozenfeld. "The usage of television series in german language teaching: linguistic, sociocultural, ideological and social-political aspects in Deutschland 83." Pandaemonium Germanicum 21, no. 33 (November 23, 2017): 64. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/1982-8837213365.
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Os seriados televisivos vêm se destacando como opção de lazer bastante recorrente entre pessoas de diferentes faixas etárias, em especial, dentre estudantes. Diante disso, este trabalho tem como objetivo abordar as vantagens do uso de tal material para o ensino de aspectos linguísticos, político-sociais, ideológicos e socioculturais de língua alemã. Trata-se do recorte de uma pesquisa que se encontra ainda em desenvolvimento, no qual destacaremos o seriado Deutschland 83. Ressaltaremos a importância do uso de materiais autênticos para o ensino de línguas e a necessidade do ensino com foco em aspectos da cultura estrangeira. Concluímos que o seriado Deutschland 83 é um material com potencial a ser explorado, permitindo que o aprendiz se aproxime da cultura e língua alemã, ao mesmo tempo em que proporciona ao aluno material para gerar uma reflexão sobre sua própria realidade.
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Roos, Jana, and Howard Nicholas. "Using young learners’ language environments for EFL learning." AILA Review 32 (December 31, 2019): 91–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aila.00022.roo.
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Abstract In this article we explore how primary school learners of English in Germany engage with examples of English that they were asked to locate in their local environments (their linguistic landscapes, LLs). In association with each located image, the learners completed a standardised worksheet in German that asked for brief written comments about its location, the reason why they had selected the image and why they thought that English had been used. Their written reflections demonstrate that these children are remarkably sophisticated in their analyses of linguistic, social and cultural aspects of what they found. They show that with nuanced pedagogies primary school children can benefit greatly from leaving the classroom to find language examples in the worlds around them.
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Zup, Iulia Elena. "Bewahren der deutschen Identitȁt und Sprache in Großrumȁnien. Das Vereinsleben." Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia 66, no. 3 (September 20, 2021): 87–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2021.3.06.
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"Preserving the German Identity and Language in Romania after 1918. Cultural Associations. The present paper explores some cultural sociological aspects of the economic, leisure-related and professional associations of the German minority living in Romania at the time of the Weimar Republic (1918-1933), in the context of the social-political transformations and the development of the modern, interwar Romanian society. Although German associations existed in the now Romanian territories before 1918 as well, many new associations were founded and the activity of the already existing ones flourished during the interwar period. The associations are analysed in respect to the regions in which the Germans of Romania lived (Transylvania, Banat, Bukovina, the Romanian Old Kingdom and Bessarabia), the type of association, their objectives, publications and activities. The establishment of so many associations at the time of the Weimar Republic and their intense activities reveals, on one hand, the endeavours of the German minority to preserve its language and identity, and on the other hand, the freedom that the German community enjoyed – in other words, quite a liberal cultural politics of the Greater Romania. The associations were a part of the development of a socio-cultural field which granted the Germans a special place in Romania’s cultural history. Keywords: associations, Germans of Romania, Weimar Republic, Greater Romania, German language and identity "
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Niehaus, Erika. "Kommunikationsprobleme Von "Near Native Speakern" Deutsch." Taalonderwijs aan gevorderden 25 (January 1, 1986): 37–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ttwia.25.05nie.
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Communication has at least two different aspects: the propositi-onal aspect and the social aspect. Any utterance in a face-to-face-interaction therefore has the function to give information and to indicate how the ralation to the other participant is interpreted. In order to establish his communicative goal, the speaker has to analyse the social situation and the preceding context. Depending on this interpretation he selects between the different verbal patterns to perform a certain speech act. This involves for instance the choice of direct/indirect speech act realizations, the selection of certain linguistic elements (modality markers) for downtoning or upgrading the illocutionary force of speech acts. The contrastive analysis of the realizations of the speech act REQUEST in three different dialogue batteries elicited via role play from Dutch learners of German, native speakers of Dutch and native speakers of German has shown 1. that Dutch native speakers use modality markers in different communicative functions than German native speakers, 2. that Dutch learners of German mostly choose the same social strategies when speaking the target language as they do when speaking the mother tongue, 3. that the learners are not always able to establish their modal goal, that is, the are not able to communicate their intentions on an interpersonal level. The reason for this seems to be that in the Netherlands the teaching of German as a second language is mainly a matter of teaching grammatical rules and linguistic expressions without taking into consideration that the meaning of these expressions is pragmaticalley conditioned and that their usage is motivated by the relevant characteris-tics of such social situations.
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Boldyreva, I. S. "Socio-cultural activity with children and teenagers from migrant families in public libraries of Germany." Bibliosphere, no. 2 (June 30, 2017): 91–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.20913/1815-3186-2017-2-91-96.
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The article shows main aspects of socio-cultural activity with children and teenagers of migrants in German public libraries. The relevance of the problem is connected with the difficulties faced by the system of preschool and school education. Along with this, the library is considered as a social institution, which tasks include raising language and reading competences of migrant children. The paper analyzes forms, content and tasks of library work, which are differentiated based on age criteria. Alongside with the analysis of practical examples, it summarizes statistical data obtained in the course of survey carried on by the author among 26 German public libraries in October - December, 2015.
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Eschenbeck, Heike, Uwe Heim-Dreger, Denise Kerkhoff, Carl-Walter Kohlmann, Arnold Lohaus, and Marc Vierhaus. "The Coping Scales From the German Stress and Coping Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents." European Journal of Psychological Assessment 36, no. 4 (July 2020): 545–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000530.
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Abstract. The coping scales from the Stress and Coping Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (SSKJ 3–8; Lohaus, Eschenbeck, Kohlmann, & Klein-Heßling, 2018 ) are subscales of a theoretically based and empirically validated self-report instrument for assessing, originally in the German language, the five strategies of seeking social support, problem solving, avoidant coping, palliative emotion regulation, and anger-related emotion regulation. The present study examined factorial structure, measurement invariance, and internal consistency across five different language versions: English, French, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian. The original German version was compared to each language version separately. Participants were 5,271 children and adolescents recruited from primary and secondary schools from Germany ( n = 3,177), France ( n = 329), Russia ( n = 378), the Dominican Republic ( n = 243), Ukraine ( n = 437), and several English-speaking countries such as Australia, Great Britain, Ireland, and the USA (English-speaking sample: n = 707). For the five different language versions of the SSKJ 3–8 coping questionnaire, confirmatory factor analyses showed configural as well as metric and partial scalar invariance (French) or partial metric invariance (English, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian). Internal consistency coefficients of the coping scales were also acceptable to good. Significance of the results was discussed with special emphasis on cross-cultural research on individual differences in coping.
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Takhtarova, Svetlana, Ramil Khairutdinov, Darya Abuzyarova, and Olga Morosova. "Politeness in the German Ethnosocium: The Diachronic Aspect." Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 8, no. 2 (July 1, 2019): 46–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ajis-2019-0015.
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Abstract The article is devoted to the consideration of the main characteristics of politeness as a sociocultural phenomenon based on the material of the German linguistic culture in a historical perspective; a general characteristic of codified and individual politeness is given. The dominant features of German politeness in the diachronic aspect are determined. The ambivalent attitude towards politeness in the German ethnic society was determined not only by the development of society, but also by foreign policy priorities in a specific historical period. Calls for politeness intensified in Germany at historical turning points and were aimed either at reminding the new, emerging social strata of the norms of behavior of the older generation, or with the goal of reporting on the virtues of the new social class. The paper concluded that German politeness throughout its development was marked by the confrontation of two directions - the desire for tactful, indirect politeness and commitment to critical ethics, advocating traditional German honesty and frankness. The juxtaposition of formal, external and internal politeness is consistently carried out in studies devoted to various aspects of politeness on the material of the German linguistic culture. The article presents the results of an associative experiment aimed at determining how the German language speakers understand politeness and allowed to establish the modification of the dominants of politeness and polite behavior in the modern German ethnic society.
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Dieken, Sophia, and Sandra Venghaus. "Potential Pathways to the German Bioeconomy: A Media Discourse Analysis of Public Perceptions." Sustainability 12, no. 19 (September 27, 2020): 7987. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12197987.
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The bioeconomy has emerged as a popular, but ambiguous vision for a sustainable future. Its implementation depends not only on novel products and production processes, but also on balancing diverse interests, values, and interpretations of the concept. The German government’s plan to develop a sustainable bioeconomy in response to structural change in the lignite mining regions provides a unique opportunity to investigate what pathways towards the bioeconomy are supported by society. In order to characterize bioeconomy visions prevalent in public perception, we conducted a computer-assisted, mixed-methods discourse analysis of German-language newspaper articles published between 2010 and 2019. Results show that a techno-economic vision is dominant over ecological and social aspects, suggesting only one clear pathway to the German bioeconomy, which is increasingly criticized in the public debate.
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Moser, André, Viktor von Wyl, and Marc Höglinger. "Health and social behaviour through pandemic phases in Switzerland: Regional time-trends of the COVID-19 Social Monitor panel study." PLOS ONE 16, no. 8 (August 25, 2021): e0256253. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256253.
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Background Switzerland has a liberal implementation of Coronavirus mitigation measures compared to other European countries. Since March 2020, measures have been evolving and include a mixture of central and federalistic mitigation strategies across three culturally diverse language regions. The present study investigates a hypothesised heterogeneity in health, social behavior and adherence to mitigation measures across the language regions by studying pre-specified interaction effects. Our findings aim to support the communication of regionally targeted mitigation strategies and to provide evidence to address longterm population-health consequences of the pandemic by accounting for different pandemic contexts and cultural aspects. Methods We use data from from the COVID-19 Social Monitor, a longitudinal population-based online survey. We define five mitigation periods between March 2020 and May 2021. We use unadjusted and adjusted logistic regression models to investigate a hypothesized interaction effect between mitigation periods and language regions on selected study outcomes covering the domains of general health and quality of life, mental health, loneliness/isolation, physical activity, health care use and adherence to mitigation measures. Results We analyze 2,163 (64%) participants from the German/Romansh-speaking part of Switzerland, 713 (21%) from the French-speaking part and 505 (15%) from the Italian-speaking part. We found evidence for an interaction effect between mitigation periods and language regions for adherence to mitigation measures, but not for other study outcomes (social behavior, health). The presence of poor quality of life, lack of energy, no physical activity, health care use, and the adherence to mitigation measures changed similarly over mitigation periods in all language regions. Discussion As the pandemic unfolded in Switzerland, also health and social behavior changed between March 2020 to May 2021. Changes in adherence to mitigation measures differ between language regions and reflect the COVID-19 incidence patterns in the investigated mitigation periods, with higher adherence in regions with previously higher incidence. Targeted communcation of mitigation measures and policy making should include cultural, geographical and socioeconomic aspects to address yet unknown long-term population health consequences caused by the pandemic.
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Belyutin, Roman. "Metaphorization of Emotions in German Football Fans’ Discourse." Izvestia of Smolensk State University, no. 3(59) (December 30, 2022): 130–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.35785/2072-9464-2022-59-3-130-138.
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The article considers peculiarities of verbalization of emotions in German football fans’ discourse. Social, psychological, biological relevance of emotions in a person’s world view provides vivid interest of specialists, including linguists, in studying language means to objectify emotional concepts. Despite the fact that
the range of the studied aspects is urgent and is thoroughly examined, certain communicative domains organized by sports fans remain insufficiently explored, although according to some scientists, it is their subculture that is characterized by distinctive emotional background, «emotionally tense» attitude to events, phenomena, facts, people being under their magnifying glass.
The article provides cases of verbalization of emotions through metaphoric descriptions. The most active source domains are determined that represent emotional concepts (war, colour, nature, equipment, space, etc.), their direc-
tion vectors are identified, as well s objects and situations inducing emotions in a fans’ community. It can be considered productive for the futher study to analyze
linguistic (metaphoric) conceptualization of emotions in football fans’ discourse in different ethnic and language cultures to elicit national character in building metaphoric patterns of people’s emotional sphere. The article makes use of discourse, component and conceptual analysis, building metaphoric patterns, clas-
sification, lexicographical and comparative methods.
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Cosgrave, Elizabeth, and Vanessa Keating. "After the Assessment: Introducing Adolescents to Cognitive–Behavioural Therapy." Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling 16, no. 2 (December 1, 2006): 149–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1375/ajgc.16.2.149.
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AbstractThe objective of this article is to describe the practical aspects involved in adapting cognitive–behavioural therapy (CBT) to an adolescent population in Australia. Some effective ways to use CBT with adolescents include preparing them for CBT by providing a thorough cognitive–behavioural formulation, describing the cognitive–behavioural approach to therapy in an adolescent-friendly manner, and adapting language and treatment conditions to suit young people's needs.
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Lange, Daniela. "DIVERSITÄT IN DEN DAF/DAZ-LEHRWERKEN. EIN PROBLEMATISCHER ASPEKT INTERKULTURELLER VERMITTLUNG." Годишник на Шуменския университет. Факултет по Хуманитарни науки XXXIIIA, no. 1 (November 10, 2022): 251–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.46687/elkn1789.
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In today's society, we are witnessing an ever-increasing diversity, which is becoming more and more present through different channels and especially in the media. Language teaching is usually also teaching in perspective and behaviour and should consequently also reflect the current debates in society. Therefore, the question arises as to whether social discourses on the topic of diversity are finding their way into textbooks for German as a foreign and second language in a frequent and differentiated way. The article examines various aspects of diversity in six current textbooks and finally formulates proposals for an open approach to the topic.
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Paslawska, Alla. "GERMAN AND ITS SPEAKERS IN UKRAINE: FROM ORIGINS TO PRESENT DAY." Research Bulletin Series Philological Sciences 1, no. 193 (April 2021): 191–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.36550/2522-4077-2021-1-193-191-200.
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The article analyzes the influence of Germans and the German language in Ukraine on Ukrainian culture, language and literature. It traces the stages of replenishment of the Ukrainian vocabulary with German vocabulary. German-speaking writers also made a significant contribution to the development of Ukrainian literature. German remains one of the leading foreign languages in Ukraine. Preservation of German (German-speaking) cultural heritage in Ukraine and its study can serve as an example for the promotion of other languages and cultures. The article presents a modified three- level model of possible relations between different cultures proposed by W. Welsh. There have been outlined multicultural, intercultural and transcultural aspects of such relations. In Ukraine, it is formed by the coexistence of different in content and forms ethnic cultures (multicultural aspect), which, despite the differences, under the pressure of social, socioeconomic factors interact (intercultural aspect). In addition, there is another dimension - transcultural, which involves not so much mixing elements of different cultures and eliminating the boundaries between national cultures, as the possibility of the existence of a certain culture not only within individual national entities, but also adopting transcultural elements. In particular, it allows into consideration as part of the Ukrainian cultural heritage the works of all those artists who, due to various life circumstances, were forced to leave their home country and create abroad still being part of its culture.
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Anan'eva, D. A. "The History of the Russian Far East during the Late Imperial Period in the Works of English- and German-language Researchers." Bulletin of Kemerovo State University 22, no. 4 (January 5, 2021): 889–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2020-22-4-889-898.
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The Russian Far East saw rapid development in the latter half of XIX – early XX centuries. The Eastern periphery of the Russian Empire attracted attention of foreign scientists. The objective of the present research was to analyze works published by American, British, and German researchers in the second half of XIX – early XXI centuries and devoted to the "late Imperial" history of the Russian Far East. Since the very first foreign publications on the history of accession of the Amur and Primorye regions, foreign studies focused not only on Russia’s foreign policy and military aspects of its eastward expansion but also on the geographical, demographic, social, and economic factors of the colonization. In the late XX century, Western publications featured mostly intercultural, inter-ethnic, and sociocultural problems, as well as ideological aspects of state policy and the changing image of the Russian Far East. English- and German-language scholars offered a great variety of concepts; however, two main trends stood out quite clearly. Most researchers emphasized the impact of the geopolitical context and the role of Russia’s expansionist policy, as the country fought for power in the Pacific Rim. However, some authors acknowledged Russia's objective necessity to strengthen its position on the Pacific coast, protect its Far Eastern territories, and develop their economy.
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Anan'eva, D. A. "The History of the Russian Far East during the Late Imperial Period in the Works of English- and German-language Researchers." Bulletin of Kemerovo State University 22, no. 4 (January 5, 2021): 889–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2020-22-4-889-898.
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The Russian Far East saw rapid development in the latter half of XIX – early XX centuries. The Eastern periphery of the Russian Empire attracted attention of foreign scientists. The objective of the present research was to analyze works published by American, British, and German researchers in the second half of XIX – early XXI centuries and devoted to the "late Imperial" history of the Russian Far East. Since the very first foreign publications on the history of accession of the Amur and Primorye regions, foreign studies focused not only on Russia’s foreign policy and military aspects of its eastward expansion but also on the geographical, demographic, social, and economic factors of the colonization. In the late XX century, Western publications featured mostly intercultural, inter-ethnic, and sociocultural problems, as well as ideological aspects of state policy and the changing image of the Russian Far East. English- and German-language scholars offered a great variety of concepts; however, two main trends stood out quite clearly. Most researchers emphasized the impact of the geopolitical context and the role of Russia’s expansionist policy, as the country fought for power in the Pacific Rim. However, some authors acknowledged Russia's objective necessity to strengthen its position on the Pacific coast, protect its Far Eastern territories, and develop their economy.
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Thomsen, D. A., and J. Davies. "Social and cultural dimensions of commercial kangaroo harvest in South Australia." Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 45, no. 10 (2005): 1239. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ea03248.
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Kangaroo management is important to the sustainability of Australia’s rangeland landscapes. The commercial harvest of kangaroos assists in reduction of total grazing pressure in the rangelands and provides the potential for supplementary income to pastoralists. Indeed, the commercial kangaroo industry is considered by natural resource scientists as one of the few rural industry development options with potential to provide economic return with minimal environmental impact. While the biology and population ecology of harvested kangaroo species in Australia is the subject of past and present research, the social, institutional and economic issues pertinent to the commercial kangaroo industry are not well understood. Our research is addressing the lack of understanding of social issues around kangaroo management, which are emerging as constraints on industry development. The non-indigenous stakeholders in kangaroo harvest are landholders, regional management authorities, government conservation and primary production agencies, meat processors, marketers and field processors (shooters) and these industry players generally have little understanding of what issues the commercial harvest of kangaroos presents to Aboriginal people. Consequently, the perspectives and aspirations of Aboriginal people regarding the commercial harvest of kangaroos are not well considered in management, industry development and planning. For Aboriginal people, kangaroos have subsistence, economic and cultural values and while these values and perspectives vary between language groups and individuals, there is potential to address indigenous issues by including Aboriginal people in various aspects of kangaroo management. This research also examines the Aboriginal interface with commercial kangaroo harvest, and by working with Aboriginal people and groups is exploring several options for greater industry involvement. The promotion of better understandings between indigenous and non-indigenous people with interests in kangaroo management could promote industry development through the marketing of kangaroo as not only clean and green, but also as a socially just product.
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Rusch-Feja, Diann. "International Librarianship and its Impact on the Profession." Education Libraries 20, no. 1-2 (September 5, 2017): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.26443/el.v20i1-2.96.
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This paper is adapted from a presentation at the SLAAnnual Conferences, SLAEducation Division, June 11, 1996 in Boston. It focuses on time aspects of international librarianship and its impact on the profession: language and the national imbedment of certain information sources, especially that of the education field as part of the social sciences in general; cooperation (international, national, regional) for gathering and evaluating relevant Internet resources; and a demonstration of the German Educational Resources Server as an example of what could be done theoretically.
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Kalinina, Marina G., and Sofiya V. Kudryashova. "Multimodal presentation of video content in French and German classes." Yaroslavl Pedagogical Bulletin 1, no. 124 (2022): 94–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.20323/1813-145x-2022-1-124-94-102.
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Modern technologies allow us to expand the possibilities of classes and lead to the need to use new forms of education. Currently, a scientific direction is developing in the study of multimodal texts and the development of new educational technologies. The visual range in general plays a huge, sometimes decisive role in digital communication. In this area, new phenomena based on images are constantly emerging and spreading at lightning speed: emoticons (graphic symbols), GIFs, and so on.This article is devoted to the use of video materials in the classroom in French and German. The article lists the criteria for the selection of video material, considers the classification of training videos and the features of their organization in teaching the language of professional communication in a law school. In the article, the authors also describe their own experience of using educational video resources at Saratov State Law Academy, authentic videos on Youtube channels dedicated to the study of law, helping students in the learning process. The authors come to the conclusion that the rational use of video materials contributes to a deeper involvement of students in the study of a foreign language, stimulates the development of creative thinking, social skills, promotes the acquisition of knowledge, skills and understanding, speaking and writing. The authors emphasize that only novelty and creativity can form a sustainable interest in learning a foreign language, especially in the legal field. This is facilitated by the creation of such a learning process, when students can continuously learn new aspects of learning activities; see its prospects and application to practice.
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Meng, Katharina, and Ekaterina Protassova. "Running out of words: tactics for maintaining conversation among Russian-German bilinguals." Communication Studies 7, no. 2 (June 30, 2020): 283–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.24147/2413-6182.2020.7(2).283-299.
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The study combines analysis of social interaction between bilingual RussianGerman speakers competent in the two languages to different degrees with assessment of the levels of oral and written proficiency of the young Russian Germans who came as small children to Germany or were born here. This is a part of
a larger longitudinal project dedicated to the linguistic integration of the Russian
Germans in Germany conducted since shortly after their arrival as repartees to
the historical homeland. The communication took place at the family home after
25 years of immigration. It was interesting to discover bilingual practices and
means that are in use to achieve certain goals of communication. Questions were
asked about different aspects of their life and their attitudes toward the previous
and actual situation. The peculiarities of the oral and written German as well as
of the oral Russian and of the ability to read were tested and analyzed. The results obtained allow to understand bilingual development of children, now young
adults, without systematical support for the literacy in the Russian language.
Even if they hear a lot of Russian from their relatives, it is not important to maintain the language and they do not make additional efforts to do it. This is an outcome of the family language policy and the consequences of parents’ comunicative practices.
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Hess-Lüttich, Ernest W. B. "‘Evil tongues’: the rhetoric of discreet indiscretion in Fontane’s L’Adultera." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 11, no. 3 (August 2002): 217–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/096394700201100302.
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‘Gossip’ is yet to be discovered as a genre of everyday talk in the study of German language and literature. So far, it has been described in detail only in sociology, anthropology, ethnography of communication, and feminist linguistics. The focus of study in these fields has been on aspects of conversation analysis, social function, psychological implications, constellation of relationships, and the like. By contrast, based on a broadly established methodological foundation, linguistic tools of dialogue analysis are applied in this article to various forms of gossip in Theodor Fontane’s society novel L’Adultera. The main interest here is the way in which the author creates these forms of fictive, simulated, literary gossip in order to structure the course of the action, to give an indirect sketch of the characters, to include critical comments on the society of the time and to present literary means of negotiating social relationships.