Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Germanic languages – dialects'

In Old West Norse there is mention of an Arctic skin and osier boat, which was paddled with Old West Norse (húð)keipr, diminutive keipull, formed on Germanic *kaip- ’bend, unfold’ according to the construction method. In East Norse there was a corresponding wooden boat, e.g. Swedish själ-myndrick, formed on mynda verb ‘paddle’ (< Primitive Norse *mundian ‘aim at a certain goal, take aim’). In the provinces south of this verb’s area of distribution there occurs instead svepa verb ’paddle’ (< Primitive Germanic *swaipōn ‘swing’). The earliest instances of Nordic rowing navigation are found in Norway and Denmark. Instances of rowing in the Baltic area are found on some picture stones from about the 6th century. But oarlocks with a grommet were probably used already for the steering oar in the paddled boats of the Bronze Age. An early oarlock (with a grommet) is that made of a goose-necked piece of wood, Old Swedish hār, Old West Norse hár (< *hanhu-, *hanha- ‘branching, fork of a branch’) and Old West Norse keipr (< *kaip- ‘something with a crooked or bent (-back) shape’. The word hár exists as a first element in Old Swedish hā-band ‘oar-loop’, Old West Norse há-bora ‘oar-port’ etc. Old West Norse keipr ‘oarlock’ has no ancient compounds. East Nordic hamna (> Finnish hamina), Old Danish hafnæ (Old Frisian hevene) and West Nordic hamla (Faroese homla, Old English hamele, hamule) ‘oar-loop’ occurred early on the oarlock with a grommet; hamna may be a derivation of the stem in Primitive Norse *haƀan verb ‘hold (fast)’, alternatively *hafna- ‘clasp something’; hamla derives from a Germanic *hamilōn with the meaning ‘bridling band’. Centrally in the Nordic area hamna (Danish havne) and hamla ‘oar-loop’ were also used denominatively with the meaning ‘row pushing in a hamna/hamla (oar-loop)’. In addition there is the Swedish dialectal sväva (~ sveva, svävja) ‘row (back, break etc.) with pushing rowing’ and in the group of older verbs for rowing there is East Swedish hopa < Primitive Norse *hōƀian ‘fix one’s eyes upon a certain goal (in the distance)’. With word formations on Germanic *þulna- ‘wooden plug’ there arose from the Middle Ages and in the North Sea countries a new terminology for the oarlock: Norse tull, toll ‘oarlock with a thole pin’. Even younger concepts are tullgång ‘oarlock with two thole pins’, årklyka, årgaffel ‘oar crutch’. A distinctive trait of Old Swedish hār and hamna, Old West Norse hár and hamla and keipr and other common words for the oarlock is in these words the shift of meaning ‘oarlock of a specific kind’ > ‘almost any kind of oarlock’. Finally, the question arises whether or not the word svear of a tribe by Lake Mälaren could be tied to the paddling through a connection to the stem of the verbs svepa and sväva.

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Previous second language (L2) acquisition research has assumed that L2 learners from a common first language (L1) have the same problems in an L2, ignoring the potential impact of a speaker's L1 dialect on L2 acquisition. This study examines the effects of L1 dialect on the acquisition of L2 German vowels. In particular, this thesis investigates two questions: 1) Do speakers from L1 dialects with vowel mergers perceive or produce vowel contrasts in the L1 and/or L2 differently than speakers from dialect areas without the same mergers? and 2) Are subjects' patterns of L1 perception or production paralleled in the L2? This thesis focuses on the vowel contrasts "pin"-"pen," "fail"-"fell," and "pool"-"pull"-"pole," which are merged (i.e., neutralized) in some environments in the Mississippi dialect, such that words like "him" and "hem" are heard or produced as the same word. Two groups of subjects participated: students from The University of Mississippi (the merging group) and students from Brigham Young University (BYU) (the non-merging group). Subjects completed a perceptual task and a production task. The perception task was a forced-choice identification task in which subjects heard English and German words and indicated which word they heard. In the production task, subjects read aloud German and English sentences. Results indicate that BYU subjects were significantly better than UMiss subjects at perceiving many vowel contrasts in English and German. Additionally, some perceptual patterns seemed to transfer to the L2, e.g., /ɪn/ and /ɛn/, were identified with similar accuracy in English and in German. In production, the groups differed significantly from each other in their production of many vowel contrasts, while acoustic analysis found no production mergers for either group in English or German. In two case studies, perception results and production results (as found by native speaker judgments), showed that vowel contrasts merged in English were also problematic in L2 German, though the problematic vowel was not necessarily the same. In sum, the UMiss speakers with mergers in their L1 dialect appeared to face different challenges than the BYU speakers when perceiving and producing German vowel contrasts. Results have implications for the L2 classroom and L2 research, suggesting that instructors may need different teaching strategies for speakers from merging dialects.

This thesis studies word order variations in Swiss-German sentences that contain infinitival complements. Such sentences exhibit interesting word order. Verbs can be in different orders and the objects selected by these verbs can be in different positions relative to them. The aim of this thesis is to give a general account of these word order facts based solely on structural properties of the complements in the underlying structure. In particular, it is claimed that Swiss-German verbs that take infinitival complements do not all select the same type of complements. Some verbs (like modals, perception verbs and causatives) select VPs, others (like raising verbs) select IPs and others (like control verbs) select IPs or CPs. Mechanisms such as extraposition, verb raising and proliticization then apply to different structures in order for the sentence to satisfy T-linking. Extraposition applies to IPs and CPs, verb raising to IPs and VPs and procliticization to verbs that are sister to VPs.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Augsburg, 2003.
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The subject of my Thesis is the syntactic interference of German in the French of the Moselle region. The geographical location of this Department, situated close to the German border, leads me to believe that French and German are in contact in this region given their geographic proximity and the history of the area. My Thesis is divided into two main sections. First, through a detailed analysis of relevant syntactic structures in French and German, I put forth several hypotheses concerning the syntactic interference of German in the French spoken in the Moselle Department. Then, I tested these hypotheses through extensive fieldwork by interviewing two different groups of speakers, young and old, and by analyzing those data produced which indicated some degree of German interference in French. I then submitted these data to the same speakers to obtain their grammaticality judgments. My analysis has led me to establish an important typological distinction between the sentences produced by the younger speakers and those produced by the elderly, and to uncover a hierarchy in the acceptability of the sentences submitted to these speakers, which I discuss and attempt to explain.

La thèse s’intéresse au sens et à l’usage du langage chez Hegel à travers une reconstruction de la dialectique et de ses dialectes.

Dans la première partie, nous avons reconstruit la théorie implicite du langage à partir des occurrences du thème et de la structure de la philosophie hégélienne. Après une étude génétique et systématique du langage chez le philosophe, nous avons abordé le rapport du langage à la logique. Nous avons alors montré que Hegel essaye moins de construire un langage pour la pensée comme c’est souvent le cas dans les formalismes logiques que de montrer comment la pensée se fait discours dans le langage. A l’issue de cette première partie, il est donc apparu que le langage était moins étudié comme un objet à décrire analytiquement que comme l’élément dans lequel la pensée devenait le discours de l’auto-constitution du sens.

Une fois ce sens du langage dégagé, nous avons analysé dans la seconde partie, la façon dont Hegel usait du langage pour faire ressortir son discours visant à articuler le sens en son absoluité. Notre démarche essentiellement propédeutique a alors pris un tour problématique, puisque nous avons fait ressortir qu’il y avait une tension entre les textes de philosophie et les textes sur la philosophie. En effet, si le discours philosophique exprime le sens tel qu’il se forme dans le langage, il semble inopportun de faire précéder ce discours de textes tels que des préfaces où des introductions qui ne donnent qu’un point de vue indirect sur la chose. Plus précisément, la dialectique du savoir se formant dans le langage semble perdre dans les textes en marge du système l’intimité requise d’un sens se faisant expérience. Hegel en formulant la philosophie première comme une dialectique autoréférentielle du concept serait pris dans le dilemme suivant :le système interdirait tout texte référentiel (préface, introduction) tout en les nécessitant pour se laisser communiquer. En bref, l’autoréférence au fondement de l’horizon du sens chez Hegel se contredirait dans la communication que vise à établir l’aspect dialogique des préfaces et des introductions. La question que nous avons alors essayé de résoudre est celle de savoir si dialectique et dialogique étaient vraiment à opposer. Après avoir montré que des penseurs comme Schlegel ou Schleiermacher pensaient ces deux concepts ensemble, nous avons fait apparaître que le concept de dialogique pensé dans son historicité s’était vu délimiter concurremment à la grammaire et à la rhétorique des bornes variables. Nous avons alors soutenu la thèse selon laquelle cette plasticité pouvait également s’attacher à la notion de dialogique. Plus précisément, l’opposition apparente de ces deux termes chez Hegel a été mitigée à l’aune d’un concept de dialogique basé sur une relation « Je-Nous ». En montrant que chez Hegel le dialogique des préfaces référait à un « Nous » englobant, le problème de la communication de sa philosophie à travers des textes exotériques n’est plus apparue comme contredisant la structure autoréférentielle du système. Nous avons, par là, fait apparaître que la dialectique de l’élaboration dans le langage pouvait se décliner en des dialectes dialogiques qui, prenant place dans l’espace autoréférentiel de la relation « Je-Nous », n’infirmaient pas le concept d’expérience du sens.

En guise de conclusion, nous avons esquissé de façon prospective le potentiel d’une telle théorie dans un contexte plus contemporain. Nous avons à cet égard voulu répondre aux critiques de Habermas ou de Gadamer taxant le système hégélien de monologue de l’absolu oublieux du caractère dialogique de la parole et de la communication en montrant l’intérêt qu’une vue plus nuancée sur la pensée dialectique hégélienne pouvait avoir pour la pensée contemporaine.

Doctorat en Philosophie
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Este estudo investiga em que medida o conhecimento e uso prévio do dialeto alemão falado na região do estudo ajuda ou prejudica a aprendizagem do alemão padrão. Para tanto, foram selecionados para participar do estudo quatro alunos do Ensino Médio, falantes do dialeto, cujo currículo inclui aulas de Língua Alemã na escola. Durante um período de quatro meses, eles escreveram diários de estudos, narrativas autobiográficas, participaram de uma entrevista semi-estruturada com a pesquisadora, e realizaram a prova de proficiência Deutsches Sprachdiplom II. Os dados desses alunos demonstraram que o conhecimento prévio do dialeto facilitou a aprendizagem do alemão padrão, principalmente, em três modalidades: produção oral, compreensão auditiva e compreensão textual. Outros aspectos considerados como vantagens dos falantes bilíngües em relação aos monolíngües, a saber, maior consciência metalingüística, alternância de código sensível ao contexto e ao interlocutor, médias superiores em diferentes tipos de testes, també
This study seeks to investigate to what extent previous knowledge of spoken German dialect in the area where the research was conducted fosters or hinders students from learning the standard language. Four high school students, speakers of German dialect, whose curriculum includes German classes, were selected to participate in this project. During four months, they wrote study journals and autobiographies. They also participated in a semi-structured interview led by the researcher and in the Deutsches Sprachdiplom II proficiency test. The data suggest that previous knowledge of the dialect fosters learning the standard language, mainly, concerning three aspects, namely, oral and listening skills and text comprehension. Other aspects regarded as advantages of bilingual speakers over monolingual speakers were also evidenced, such as, higher metalinguistic consciousness, code switching sensitive to context and to the interlocutor and higher grades in different kinds of tests. In addiction to analyzing the data

When speakers of different language varieties come into contact with each other, one variety often becomes dominant (based on relative social, economic, and/or political prestige), even to the point where it totally supersedes the other variety. This is what has occurred in Green Point, Pennsylvania, a small rural mountain community whose members once spoke Pennsylvania Dutch (a German dialect). This language was superseded by English several decades ago, and for at least two generations residents have spoken their own variety of the language, Pennsylvania Dutchified English (PDE); today even that variety is threatened by the overpowering influences of the standard variety of English spoken in the region. In addition to briefly describing the some linguistic features of PDE, this study examines the forces behind the Pennsylvania Dutch--Pennsylvania Dutchified English--regional standard of English language shift that has taken place in this community, in two ways--first by looking carefully at the historical and economic factors that have played a role in residents' language choices in the past, and then by investigating the influence of certain social variables that may be linked to residents' choices between PDE and the regional standard today. The paper concludes with a discussion of the prospects for the survival of PDE in this area and offers some suggestions for actions that PDE speakers can take to preserve their dialect, if they choose to do so.
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The present study investigates the translation of dialectal elements in literary texts from the German and Swedish linguistical and cultural areas. Translation theory generally advises against the translation of dialectal elements in standard language texts thereby implicitly questioning their creative and communicative function. The aim of the study is to investigate to what extent the dialectal elements in the source text are translated by corresponding dialectal elements in the target text thereby promoting a "cultural transfer" or whether a translation method based on translation theory is used. The linguistic material from the novels Die Räuberbande by the German author Leonhard Frank, Tjärdalen by the Swedish author Sara Lidman and Kapten Nemos bibliotek by the Swedish author Per Olov Enquist is microanalyzed. In doing so, the phonetical-phonological, morphological and syntactical dialectal features in the three source texts are treated methodically and are exemplarily and systematically presented together with their translation variants in the target language. The study focuses mainly on the translations of dialectal lexicology, which is investigated according to its contrastive function regarding the translations of standard language, thereby examining its adequacy. By including all the dialectal lexemes appearing in the works and their translations empirical dates have been compiled as a result of the translation methods. The study´s analyses demonstrate that dialectal elements are mainly translated into standard language, that a large part of dialectisms is paraphrased and that a small part is rendered by spoken language without regional limits. A tendency towards increasing use of dialectal elements through the times can be detected as well as a propensity to adapt the translation to the stylistical preferences in the receiving country. Thus, "cultural transfer" is not promoted.

З плином часу німецька мова зазнала фонетичних та лексичних змін. На ці перетворення вплинули історико-політичні, географічні, кліматичні та культурні процеси розвитку Німеччини. Діалекти землі Шлезвіг-Гольштейн є яскравим прикладом таких змін. Актуальність даної теми полягає в важливості використання доречної говірки відповідно до розташованої території. Справжній спеціаліст в галузі філології повинен чітко розрізняти територіальні діалекти та розуміти причини їх виникнення.

A lexicografia nasce a partir da necessidade de explicar o sentido das palavras. Conforme Bevilacqua (1993), com a cultura renascentista e o aparecimento da imprensa a lexicografia recebe um grande impulso no seu desenvolvimento. Surgindo assim, os primeiros dicionários bilíngues e multilíngues, isso, por necessidade do aumento da integração entre os povos. Dicionário é, segundo Krieger (1993), um lugar de representação do bem-dizer, ou seja, no momento em que um vocábulo está registrado (dicionarizado) ele adquire legitimidade, podendo assim, ser utilizado sem causar contravenções linguísticas. A legitimação do léxico e a consagração do significado atribuem ao dicionário um certo status (poder). Esse poder faz com que os dicionários se revelam obras dinâmicas, ou melhor, se tornam dinâmicos, pois a língua está em constante mudança. Nesse sentido, a presente Dissertação busca apresentar as diferentes teorias que envolvem o fazer dicionarístico e traçar um paralelo entre os principais dicionários dialetais da língua alemã na Alemanha e no Brasil e do talian, uma língua de imigração italiana. Quer-se aqui não apenas analisar como funcionam os dicionários existentes, mas também apresentar algumas propostas lexicográficas para a criação de um dicionário para o Hunsrückisch falado no Brasil. As regras de escrita do Hunsrückisch são estabelecidas pelo Grupo ESCRITHU, um sub-projeto do ALMA-H (Atlas Linguístico-Contatual das Minorias Alemãs da Bacia do Prata - Hunsrückisch). A partir da escrita normatizada, quer-se elaborar um dicionário para o Hunsrückisch falado no Brasil e, deste modo, legitimar o léxico dessa língua de imigração alemã. Assim, o objetivo central que se coloca, no estágio atual da pesquisa, é o estudo dos fundamentos teórico-metodológicos para a criação desse Dicionário para o Hunsrückisch, como subsídio à pesquisa desenvolvida pelo Projeto ALMA-H.
The lexicography is born since the necessity of explaining the sense of the words. According to Bevilaqua (1993), lexicography receives a great boost in its development with the Renaissancist culture and the emergence of the press. Therefore, the first bilingual and multilingual dictionaries arise by necessity of the integration among people. Dictionary, according to Krieger (1993), is a place of representation of well say, that is, at a time when a word is registered (put in the dictionary) it acquires legitimacy and can be used without causing language contravention. The lexical legitimization and the meaning consecration attribute the dictionary a certain status (power). This power makes dictionaries become a dynamic work because language is constantly changing. Thus this dissertation intend to present the various theories that involve the dictionary work and outline a parallel between the main dialectal dictionaries of the German language in Germany and Brazil and talian an Italian immigration language. One intends not only to analyze how existing dictionaries function but also to present some lexicographic suggestions to create a dictionary to the Hunsrückisch spoken in Brazil. The writing rules of Hunsrückisch are established by ESCRITHU group, a subproject of ALMA-H (Linguistic Contact Atlas of the German minorities of Prata Basin – Hunsrückisch). From the normatized writing, one intends to make a dictionary to Hunsrückisch spoken in Brazil and thus to legitimate the lexicon of that German immigration language. The main objective in this step of the research is the study of the theoretical and methodological fundamentals to the creation of a dictionary to the Hunsrückisch as a contribution to the research developed by ALMA-H Project.

A presente Tese tem como objetivo central descrever a variação de sonorização e de dessonorização das oclusivas /p, b/, /t, d/ e /k, g/ em dados de fala do português de falantes de hunsriqueano como língua de imigração alemã, a partir de uma perspectiva macroanalítica e pluridimensional (THUN, 1998). Para tanto, são analisadas leituras em português da ‘Parábola do Filho Pródigo’ de informantes de 16 localidades do Projeto ALMA-H (Atlas Linguístico-Contatual das Minorias Alemãs na Bacia do Prata: Hunsrückisch), divididos em duas gerações (jovens [GI] e velhos [GII]) e dois estratos sociais (classe sócio-cultural alta [Ca] e baixa [Cb]). A análise dos dados é dividida em quatro etapas. Na primeira etapa, são analisadas 43 leituras completas da Parábola de 15 localidades do Projeto, a fim de verificar o número total de dessonorizações/sonorizações de oclusivas e os condicionamentos linguísticos que favorecem as transferências do hunsriqueano para o português (tipo de processo, tonicidade silábica, tipo de oclusiva, etc.). A segunda etapa é dividida em dois momentos. Primeiramente, é feita uma comparação em tempo aparente, da leitura de jovens e de velhos (GI versus GII), uma análise mesocronológica (THUN, 2009), do primeiro e segundo parágrafos de 59 leituras de 16 localidades do Projeto. Em seguida, é realizada uma descrição em tempo real, a partir de uma análise macrocronológica (THUN, 2009) de 9 cartas antigas (1892- 1922) trocadas entre falantes de hunsriqueano de diferentes localidades do Rio Grande do Sul. Ambas as análises têm o intuito de observar a existência de uma mudança em curso em relação à variável analisada, na comparação de diferentes gerações (dimensão diageracional e diacrônica). Na terceira etapa, são descritas as análises das 59 leituras, na dimensão diastrática (Ca versus Cb), com o objetivo de verificar o papel da escolaridade na manutenção ou mudança das marcas de influência da língua de imigração nos dados analisados. Na última etapa, são descritas as análises das 59 leituras, tomando por base a dimensão diatópica (diferentes pontos), visando comparar, por meio da cartografia pluridimensional, o comportamento variável dos informantes analisados em uma rede de 16 pontos de pesquisa. Os resultados da primeira etapa apontam: a) um número bastante reduzido de transferências interlinguísticas (apenas 1,98%); b) um maior número de dessonorizações (84,14%) do que sonorizações (15,86%) de oclusivas; c) a predominância de dessonorizações em sílabas pretônica e tônica e de sonorizações em sílaba postônica, seguindo as regras de vozeamento do hunsriqueano (ALTENHOFEN, 1996) e d) um número elevado de dessonorizações em posição inicial de palavra, o que leva a crer que tanto as oclusivas sonoras quanto a posição inicial de palavra são condicionamentos linguísticos propícios para a ocorrência de transferências do paradigma de dessonorização. As outras etapas mostram: a) um maior número de dessonorizações/sonorizações em informantes da GII do que da GI (análise mesocronológica); b) um crescente aumento no número de dessonorizações e uma queda no número das sonorizações com o passar do tempo (análise macrocronológica); c) um maior número de transferências nos informantes da Cb do que da Ca e d) um predomínio de padrões distintos do português em informantes pertencentes às colônias velhas e com baixo índice populacional. De modo geral, observa-se o predomínio de padrões distintos nos informantes CbGII, seguidos dos informantes CaGII, CbGI e, por fim, CaGI. Conclui-se, com isso, que o número de transferências do padrão de vozeamento da língua de imigração para o português está decrescendo. O resultado apresentado favorece uma mudança de atitude, tendo em vista que a diminuição de transferências faz com que os benefícios do bilinguismo fiquem mais evidentes do que, contrariamente, sugerem os estereótipos normalmente associados à fala de indivíduos bilíngues português-hunsriqueano, o que contribui para uma imagem e postura mais favoráveis ao uso dessa língua de imigração.
This dissertation is mainly aimed to describe the variation of voicing and devoicing plosives (/p, b/, /t, d/ and /k, g/) in Portuguese speech data from speakers of Hunsrückisch, as a German immigration language, from a macroanalytic and pluridimensional perspective (THUN, 1998). So that, readings, in Portuguese of the ‘Prodigal Son Parable’ from informants of 16 localities of ALMA-H Project (Contactual-Linguistic Atlas of German Minorities in La Plata Basin- Hunsrückisch), divided into two generations (joung [GI] and old [GII] and two social strata (high [Ca] and low [Cb] socio-cultural class), are analysed. The data analysis is divided into four steps. In the first step, 43 complete readings of the Parable from 15 localities of the Project are analysed, in order to check the total number of devoicing/voicing in the plosives and the linguistic constraints that favor transfers from Hunsrückisch to Portuguese (type of process, Syllable Stress, type of plosive, etc.). The second step is divided into two moments. Firstly, a comparison of readings from young and old is made (GI versus GII- apparent time), a mesochronological analysis (THUN, 2009), from the first and the second paragraphs of 59 readings of 16 Project localities. After that, a description in real time (macrochronological analysis (THUN, 2009)) of 9 old letters exchanged among Hunsrückisch speakers of different locations of Rio Grande do Sul is made. Both analyses aims to observe the existence of a change in progress in relation to the variable analyzed, in the comparation of different generations (diagenerational and diachronic dimensions). In the third step, the analyzes of 59 readings (diastratic dimension (Ca versus Cb)) are described, aiming to verify the role of education in maintaining or changing the marks of the immigration language influence in the analyzed data. In the last step, the analyzes of 59 readings (diatopic dimension- different points), are described, aiming to compare, through pluridimensional cartography, the variable behavior of the analyzed informants in a network of 16 points of research. The results of the first step show: a) a very low number of interlinguistic transfers (only 1,98%); b) a larger number of devoicing (84,14%) than voicing (15,86%) of plosives; c) the predominance of devoicing in pretonic and tonic syllables, and voicing in posttonic syllables, following to the rules of voicing in Hunsrückisch (ALTENHOFEN, 1996) and d) a great number of devoicing in word initial position, which suggests that both voiced plosives and word initial position are linguistic constraints that favor transfers. The other steps show: a) a larger number of devoicing/voicing in GII than GI informants (mesochronological analysis); b) an increasing in the number of devoicing and a decreasing in the number of voicing over time (macrochronological analysis); c) a larger number of transfers in informants from Cb than from Ca and d) A predominance of Portuguese distinctive patterns in informants from old colonies and low degree of population. Overall, there is a predominance of distinctive patterns in CbGII informants, followed by CaGII, CbGI and finally CaGI informants. With that we can conclude that the number of voicing pattern transfers from the immigration language to Portuguese is decreasing. The result shown favors a change in attitude, taking into account that the decreasing in transfers makes the benefits of bilingualism become more evident than contrarily suggest the stereotypes usually associated with the speech of Portuguese-Hunsrückisch bilinguals, which contributes to an image and stance more favorable to the use of this immigration language.

O presente estudo analisa o contato linguístico alemão-português em três comunidades menonitas no sul do Brasil, bem como também o contato linguístico alemão-português-inglês em uma comunidade menonita localizada no estado de Goiás. Todos esses grupos são de origem anabatista (1525). Caracterizam-se, por isso, como étnico-religiosos. Mesmo com o passar dos vários séculos, eles mantêm ainda fortes laços de língua, igreja, família e herança sociocultural, formando assim colônias do tipo “ilhas linguísticas”, resultantes de um processo migratório transnacional. Em 1930, chega, ao sul do Brasil, o primeiro grupo de menonitas que, após um difícil período de colonização em Santa Catarina, migra para o Paraná e Rio Grande do Sul, onde funda as três comunidades selecionadas para este estudo: a comunidade menonita de Curitiba (PR), a Colônia Nova (RS) e a Colônia Witmarsum (PR). Nesses núcleos, instaurou-se - de modo geral - um trilinguismo, do qual fazem parte: o Hochdeutsch (alemão standard), usado para situações formais como a igreja e a escola; o Plautdietsch, uma variante do baixo-alemão empregada para situações informais do dia-a-dia; e o português, principalmente para o contato interétnico. O uso do Hochdeutsch na igreja foi, por décadas, praticamente exclusivo, ou seja, a religião constituiu um fator determinante tanto para a coesão da comunidade menonita, como também para a manutenção do Hochdeutsch. O outro grupo de menonitas, proveniente dos Estados Unidos e Canadá, mais conhecido como os Holdeman Menonitas, chegou a Rio Verde (Goiás) em 1968. Este grupo, por ser mais conservador, segue normas antigas, entre as quais: a ênfase particular no não-conformismo com o mundo, com vestimenta e com a forma de viver. As marcas mais evidentes deste comportamento são o uso de barba por todos os homens e o uso do véu, bem como de vestidos, por todas as mulheres membros da igreja. Esta comunidade, além do português, faz uso principalmente do inglês como língua de imigração. O Plautdietsch, portanto, é atualmente falado somente por algumas pessoas da geração mais idosa. Mesmo vivendo em comunidades mais isoladas, marcadas pela sua fé e religião e usufruindo de uma relativa autonomia, observam-se, em nossos dados, traços de influência característicos do novo meio. Com o contato crescente do alemão com o português, o uso do Plautdietsch e do Hochdeutsch deixou de ser exclusivo, tornando-se o uso do português uma constante em diversos contextos da comunidade, conforme mostra o estudo de Dück (2005). A complexidade da situação linguística observada nas comunidades em estudo levanta uma série de perguntas, sobretudo o papel que o Plautdietsch desempenha nas diferentes comunidades, a sua vitalidade face ao prestígio das línguas-teto (Dachsprachen) português e Hochdeutsch (ou inglês), bem como os fatores que poderiam levar a uma substituição de uma variedade pela outra. São objetivos deste estudo: a) identificar o papel do Plautdietsch em relação ao contexto, considerando as variáveis sociais presentes em cada comunidade e, as funções de vernáculo e de delimitador da identidade étnica dos menonitas, comumente atribuídas à variedade substandard; b) descrever o grau de manutenção e a vitalidade linguística do Plautdietsch em contato com as variedades standard do português, inglês e Hochdeutsch nas comunidades menonitas em estudo; c) comparar as atitudes dos falantes com seus usos linguísticos, identificando processos convergentes e divergentes subjacentes ao estágio atual de vitalidade ou perda da variedade substandard do Plautdietsch; d) descrever o grau de substituição das línguas-teto Hochdeutsch e inglês pelo português (Dachpsrachenwechsel); e) analisar o que a escolha da(s) variedade(s) revela sobre a organização e a coesão étnico-religiosa da comunidade. Para responder a essas questões, este estudo orienta-se pelo modelo da dialetologia pluridimensional e relacional/contatual como ciência ampla da variação, que combina a dialetologia areal com a sociolinguística. Por meio desse modelo, busca-se verificar em que pontos e em que dimensões e parâmetros ocorre determinada variante ou comportamento. A presente pesquisa distingue-se de estudos sociolinguísticos monopontuais, centrados em uma comunidade bilíngue, por comparar contextos diferentes e fatores condicionadores diversos em uma rede de quatro pontos, localizados em três diferentes estados do Brasil. A coleta de dados nessas localidades incluiu a análise de aspectos históricos e demográficos, assim como também entrevistas semidirigidas com pluralidade simultânea de informantes. A partir da análise qualitativa dos dados das entrevistas semidirigidas, as quais têm como base um questionário, os resultados identificaram diferentes fatores que contribuíram para a manutenção/perda da variedade substandard Plautdietsch, bem como fatores que influenciaram no comportamento linguístico, o qual proporcionou uma substituição da língua-teto. Com base nos dados obtidos, constata-se a perda do Plautdietsch, vinculada a fatores como: a falta de prestígio, reforçada pelos próprios líderes e professores da comunidade; ao desprezo ou ausência do suporte institucional; ao grau de urbanização aliado à falta de uma conscientização sobre a importância da língua como marca de identidade de um grupo étnico (Identitätsmerkmal) e o uso e manutenção dessa língua de imigração. Além disso, houve, nas comunidades menonitas da região sul do Brasil, a substituição da língua-teto Hochdeutsch para o português e, na comunidade rural de Rio Verde (GO), a substituição da língua-teto inglês para o português. Entretanto, verificam-se atitudes positivas em relação ao uso e manutenção do Hochdeutsch/ inglês no âmbito familiar das diferentes comunidades.
The present study analyses the German-Portuguese linguistic encounter in three Mennonite communities in southern Brazil, as well as the German-Portuguese-English linguistic encounter in a Mennonite community in the southern State of Goiás (Brazil). These communities are of Anabaptist origin (1525) and thus are characterized as ethnic-religious groups. Although several centuries have passed since their origin, they still maintain strong ties of language, church, family and socio-cultural heritage forming colonies that function as “linguistic islands”, the result of a transnational migratory process. In 1930 the first group of Mennonites comes to Brazil. After a difficult time of colonization in the State of Santa Catarina they migrated to the States of Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul where the three colonies selected for this study were established: The Mennonite Community in Curitiba (State of Paraná), Colônia Nova (New Colony in the State of Rio Grande do Sul), and Colônia Witmarsum (Witmarsum Colony in the State of Paraná). In these places, generally speaking, trilingualism was established: Hochdeutsch (standard German), used in formal settings as church and school; Plautdietsch, a low-German variant used for informal settings of daily life; and Portuguese, especially for the inter-ethnic contacts. For decades in the church settings the use of the Hochdeutsch was almost exclusive. Religion constituted a determinant factor for the cohesion of the Mennonite Community, as well as for the maintenance of the Hochdeutsch. Another group of Mennonites, better known as the Holdeman Mennonites, came to Rio Verde (State of Goiás) in 1968 from the United States and Canada. This group is more conservative and thus maintains some former values, such as the nonconformity with the world in terms of clothing and lifestyle. The most evident traits of this behavior are the use of the veil and dresses for all women who are church members and beards for men. This group, besides the Portuguese language, speaks especially the English as their immigration language. The Plautdietsch in this community is only spoken by some of the older generation. Although living in kind of isolated communities, characterized by their faith and religion, and having their autonomy, influences of the new context are visible. With the growing contact of the German with the Portuguese language, the use of the Plautdietsch and the Hochdeutsch lost their exclusivity. The use of the Portuguese language became always more the norm in the community settings, as shown in the study of Dück (2005). The complexity of the observed linguistic situation in the communities researched raises several questions, especially related to the role of the Plautdietsch in these communities and their vitality compared to the prestige of the Dachsprachen Portuguese and the Hochdeutsch (or English), as well as the factors that could foster the exchange of one variety for another. After exposing the research problem and questions, the focus of this research is to: a) Identify the role of the Plautdietsch in the Mennonite communities, focusing on its vernacular role and delimitating the ethnic Mennonite identity; b) Describe the level of maintenance and linguistic vitality of the Plautdietsch in contact with the standard languages: Portuguese, English and Hochdeutsch in the Mennonite communities researched; c) Compare the attitudes of those who speak the language with their linguistic uses, identifying convergent and divergent processes underlying the actual stage of vitality/loss of the substandard variety of Plautdietsch; d) Describe the level of exchange of the Hochdeutsch and English Dachsprachen for the Portuguese; e) Analyze what the language(s) choice indicates concerning the social processes of the communities chosen for the present research. To answer these questions, the present research is guided by the pluridimensional and relational/contact dialectological model, as a broad science of variation that combines the areal dialectology with sociolinguistics. By means of this model we attempt to verify in which points, dimensions, and parameters, a particular variation or behavior occurs. The present research is distinguished from monopontual linguistics, centered in a bilingual community, by comparing different contexts and conditioning factors in a network of four different issues in three Brazilian States. The research data in these communities included the analysis of demographic and historical aspects, as well as semistructured interviews with a simultaneous plurality of informants. Based on the qualitative analysis of the semistructured interviews, with an underlying protocol, the results identified different factors that contributed for the maintenance/loss of the substandard Plautdietsch language variety, as well as factors that influenced the linguistic behavior, which fostered the exchange of the Dachsprache. There is a loss of the Plautdietsch because it is considered a language of less prestige, leading the leaders and teachers of their own community to deemphasize this language; the despicableness or lack of institutional support; the level of urbanization tied to the lack of consciousness of the importance of the language as an identity factor of an ethnic group (Identitätsmerkmal), and the use and maintenance of this immigration language. In addition, in the southern States of Brazil the Dachsprache Hochdeutsch was exchanged for the Portuguese, and in the Rio Verde Community, the Dachsprache English was exchanged for the Portuguese. On the other hand, positive attitudes are seen relating to the use and maintenance of the Hochdeutsch/English in the family spheres of the communities.

Die Arbeit behandelt die beiden Übersetzungsversionen des Lukasevangeliums ins Caló, die George Borrow 1837 und 1872 anfertigte. Sie hat mehrere Zielstellungen. Der erste Teil geht der Frage nach: Wie kam es zu den beiden Schriften? Er legt dar, welche Einflussfaktoren das authentische Caló im Spanien der 1830er Jahre herausgeprägt haben konnten und welche Einflüsse durch den Übersetzer George Borrow auf die Übersetzungen wirkten. Als extralinguistische Faktoren wird dafür die (Kultur-)Geschichte der Gitanos herangezogen, werden Borrows Biographie sowie seine Sprachkenntnisse untersucht und werden die Aufsätze namhafter Autoren über die Entstehung des Calós diskutiert und gegeneinander abgewogen. So entsteht zum ersten Mal eine komplexe Zusammenfassung der Vorgeschichte des Calós der Evangelien. Der zweite Teil der Arbeit ist einerseits eine Anleitung, die das Caló anhand von Textbeispielen für Hispanisten lesbar macht, und prüft andererseits, ob und wie die Aussage zutrifft, dass Borrows Purifizierungsbestrebungen in der zweiten Übersetzungsversion ein Caló schufen, das einen wesentlich geringeren Anteil an spanischer Sprache hat als in der ersten Version. Die Frage nach der Purifizierung erscheint vor dem Hintergrund der damaligen verklärenden Zigeunermode, der Afición, in Spanien sowie angesichts des Polyglotten Borrow bedeutsam. Um ihr nachzugehen, werden die ersten siebeneinhalb Kapitel beider Übersetzungen mit Hilfe von Textanalyseprogrammen wortartenspezifisch untersucht. Das Ergebnis bestätigt die Annahme bei zehn von sechzehn Wortarten und zeigt auf, dass besonders bei den Autosemantika Purifizierungsversuche unternommen wurden. Wahrscheinlich war aber schon die erste Übersetzungsversion purifiziert. Die Arbeit liefert einen ersten detaillierten linguistischen Vergleich eines Teiles der beiden Versionen und stellt das Caló der Evangelien in einem sehr umfassenden Kontext vor, wodurch sich eine Vernetzung linguistischer, kulturwissenschaftlicher und literaturwissenschaftlich interessanter Aspekte ergibt.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-07, Section: A, page: 2557. Adviser: Rajeshwari Pandharipande. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 284-299) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.

The reception of the german dialect of the gregorian chant between 1900 an aprox. 1950 (Abstract) In today's musicology, the germanic chant dialect («germanischer Choraldialekt») ist nearly unimportant. Especially in the first half of the 20th century, it was very different. In particular, the invention of the term by Peter Wagner of Fribourg in 1925 promoted the perception of a melodic phenomenon, which can be found equally in many sources of plain chant in central europe. The oldest witnesses of the phenomenon are adiastematic sources, the youngest ones were restored, restituted or newly composed in the first half of the 20th century. So this tradition is existing for more than 1000 years. The present work examines how this tradition has been scientifically, historically and practically elaborated in the last century. The chapter on the history of research shows that the phenomenon of the germanic chant dialect was still considered a local tradition of individual dioceses or monasteries in the 19th century. Michael Hermesdorff from Trier was the first to recognize striking similarities between these fragmented traditions; his pupil Peter Wagner founded the basics of the scientific research. Not all musicologists agreed with Wagner's findings and explanations, but his term and his theory prevailed. In the...

Hugo Loetscher (1929-2009) a joué un rôle important dans la littérature suisse alémanique du 20e siècle. On lui accole souvent l’étiquette de « cosmopolite suisse », tant il a réussi le pari de s’intéresser au vaste monde sans jamais renier son milieu et son pays d’origine. L’essai dont il est question ici, äs tischört und plutschins. Über das Unreine in der Sprache, eine helvetische Situierung, adopte une perspective suisse pour proposer une réflexion sur le lien entre langue, littérature et nation, sur la place des langues minoritaires dans le monde globalisé et sur l’idéal – critiquable selon Loetscher – de « pureté » linguistique. Ce mémoire, en plus de présenter une traduction de l’essai de Loetscher, qui était jusqu’à ce jour inédit en français, réfléchit à l’actualité de ce texte dans le contexte québécois et au processus de traduction d’un auteur suisse germanophone pour un public francophone diversifié, en s’appuyant sur les théories de la stylistique comparée d’Alfred Malblanc et du skopos de Katharina Reiß et Hans J. Vermeer. Notre étude se penche d’une part sur le rôle d’éléments péritextuels comme les notes de bas de page qui, dans le processus d’adaptation, permettent au translatum, c’est-à-dire au résultat de l’acte de traduction, au texte cible, de respecter son objectif de départ, son skopos. D’autre part, l’analyse aborde la question d’une possible utilisation de régionalismes (québécois ou suisses) dans un translatum en français standard dont le texte source porte lui-même sur la diversité linguistique et les variantes régionales et dialectales.
Hugo Loetscher (1929-2009) has played an important role in Swiss-German literature of the 20th century. He is often described as a “Swiss cosmopolitan” because of the way he managed to stay interested in what was happening in the whole wide world without ever disowning his social background and his country of origin. This thesis examines an essay, äs tischört und plutschins. Über das Unreine in der Sprache, eine helvetische Situierung, which adopts a Swiss perspective to deal with the relationship between language, literature and nation – the place of minority languages in the globalized world and on the ideal of linguistic “purity” deemed questionable by Loetscher Besides proposing a translation of Loetscher’s essay still unpublished in French, this thesis explores the pertinence of the aforementioned text in the current context in Québec and the translation process of a Swiss German author’s text for a diverse francophone public based on the theories of Alfred Malblanc (comparative stylistics), Katharina Reiß and Hans J. Vermeer (skopos theory). The study addresses on the one hand the role of peritextual elements, such as footnotes, for the adaptation process, allowing the translatum, the target text as a result of the translation act, to meet its initial goal; its skopos. On the other hand, the study reflects on the use of (québécois or Swiss) regionalisms in a translatum that is in standard French, how they relate to the source text’s focus on linguistic diversity, and regional and dialectal variations.
Hugo Loetscher (1929-2009) spielte eine wichtige Rolle in der deutschschweizerischen Literatur des 20. Jh. Oft wird er als „kosmopolitischer Schweizer“ beschrieben, da es ihm so gut gelungen ist, sich für die weite Welt zu interessieren, ohne seine Heimat zu verleugnen. Das in dieser Arbeit behandelte Essay – äs tischört und plutschins. Über das Unreine in der Sprache, eine helvetische Situierung – bietet eine schweizerische Perspektive auf die Beziehung zwischen Sprache, Literatur und Nation, die Stellung von Minderheitensprachen in der globalisierten Welt und das von Loetscher kritisierte Ideal einer „reinen“ Sprache an. Nach einer Übersetzung des im Französischen bisher unveröffentlichten Essays fokussiert diese Arbeit die Relevanz dieses Werkes im quebecischen Kontext und, anhand der Stylistique comparée von Alfred Malblanc und der Skopos-Theorie von Katharina Reiß und Hans J. Vermeer, den Übersetzungsprozess eines Deutschschweizer Autoren für ein vielfältiges französischsprachiges Publikum. Einerseits wird die Rolle peritextueller Elemente, u.a. Fußnoten, im Übersetzungsprozess analysiert, welche die Erfüllung des skopos – der Zweck – vom translatum – der Zieltext – ermöglichen. Andererseits wird eine mögliche Verwendung von (quebecischen oder helvetischen) Regionalismen in einem Standardfranzösischen Translat in Bezug auf sprachliche Vielfalt und regionale und dialektale Variationen behandelt.

Die Arbeit behandelt die beiden Übersetzungsversionen des Lukasevangeliums ins Caló, die George Borrow 1837 und 1872 anfertigte. Sie hat mehrere Zielstellungen. Der erste Teil geht der Frage nach: Wie kam es zu den beiden Schriften? Er legt dar, welche Einflussfaktoren das authentische Caló im Spanien der 1830er Jahre herausgeprägt haben konnten und welche Einflüsse durch den Übersetzer George Borrow auf die Übersetzungen wirkten. Als extralinguistische Faktoren wird dafür die (Kultur-)Geschichte der Gitanos herangezogen, werden Borrows Biographie sowie seine Sprachkenntnisse untersucht und werden die Aufsätze namhafter Autoren über die Entstehung des Calós diskutiert und gegeneinander abgewogen. So entsteht zum ersten Mal eine komplexe Zusammenfassung der Vorgeschichte des Calós der Evangelien. Der zweite Teil der Arbeit ist einerseits eine Anleitung, die das Caló anhand von Textbeispielen für Hispanisten lesbar macht, und prüft andererseits, ob und wie die Aussage zutrifft, dass Borrows Purifizierungsbestrebungen in der zweiten Übersetzungsversion ein Caló schufen, das einen wesentlich geringeren Anteil an spanischer Sprache hat als in der ersten Version. Die Frage nach der Purifizierung erscheint vor dem Hintergrund der damaligen verklärenden Zigeunermode, der Afición, in Spanien sowie angesichts des Polyglotten Borrow bedeutsam. Um ihr nachzugehen, werden die ersten siebeneinhalb Kapitel beider Übersetzungen mit Hilfe von Textanalyseprogrammen wortartenspezifisch untersucht. Das Ergebnis bestätigt die Annahme bei zehn von sechzehn Wortarten und zeigt auf, dass besonders bei den Autosemantika Purifizierungsversuche unternommen wurden. Wahrscheinlich war aber schon die erste Übersetzungsversion purifiziert. Die Arbeit liefert einen ersten detaillierten linguistischen Vergleich eines Teiles der beiden Versionen und stellt das Caló der Evangelien in einem sehr umfassenden Kontext vor, wodurch sich eine Vernetzung linguistischer, kulturwissenschaftlicher und literaturwissenschaftlich interessanter Aspekte ergibt.:o. Vorwort & Danksagung i. Einleitung i.i. Begriffsbestimmung i.ii. Zielsetzung der Arbeit Teil I: Die Ursachen der Sprachinterferenz in den Lukasevangelien I.1. Die Geschichte der Gitanos bis ins 19. Jahrhundert I.1.1. Die prähispanische Phase I.1.2. Die erste Phase von 1425 bis 1499 I.1.3. Die zweite Phase von 1499 bis 1783 I.1.4. Die dritte Phase im 19. Jahrhundert I.2. Die Genese des Calós bis ins 19. Jahrhundert I.2.1. Denkmäler des Calós vor den Evangelien I.2.2. Die Debatte um die Genese des Calós I.2.2.1. Caló versus Pidgin-/ Kreolsprachen: Boretzky (1985) und Romero Yantorno I.2.2.2. Code-Switching, Pogadisierung, Geheimsprachen und Language Intertwining: Bakker & van der Voort (1991) I.2.2.3. Archaismen, kryptische Formationen, andalusische Merkmale und unabhängige Lexikentwicklung: Bakker (1995) I.2.2.4. Das katalonische Romaní als Indiz für die zeitliche Einordnung: Boretzky (1992) I.2.2.5. Das Caló als Alltagssprache und im Vergleich mit anderen Romaní-Dialekten: Boretzky (1998) I.2.2.6. Von der Alltagssprache zum geheimsprachlichen Vokabular: Bakker (1998) I.2.2.7. Zusammenfassung der Debatte I.3. George Henry Borrow I.3.1. Kurzbiographie I.3.2. Borrows Romaní-, Spanisch- und Caló-Kenntnisse Teil II: Der Anteil des Spanischen in den Lukasevangelien II.1. Texterschließung für Hispanisten II.1.1. Wörterbücher II.1.2. Grammatik II.1.2.1. Caló-Deklinationssuffixe II.1.2.2. Caló-Hilfsverben II.1.3. Textausschnitte II.1.3.1. Textausschnitt 1: Titelseiten und Vorworte Borrows II.1.3.2. Textausschnitt 2: Lukas 15, 1 - 4 . II.2. Wortartenspezifische Analyse des Anteils des Spanischen II.2.1. Vorgehen II.2.2. Auswertung II.3. Schluss Anhänge Anhang 1: Vergleich des Anteils des Spanischen an den Lukasevangelien 1 - 8,25 auf Caló von 1837 und 1872 in wortartenspezifischen, systematisierten und kommentierten Wortfrequenzlisten A.1. Flektierbare Wortarten A.1.1. Die Artikel A.1.2. Die Substantive A.1.3. Die Eigennamen A.1.4. Die Pronomina A.1.4.1. Die Personal- und Reflexivpronomina A.1.4.2. Die Demonstrativpronomina A.1.4.3. Die Possesivpronomina A.1.4.4. Die Relativpronomina A.1.4.5. Die Indefinitpronomina A.1.5. Die Adjektiva A.1.6. Die Verba A.1.7. Die Numeralia A.2. Unflektierbare Wortarten A.2.1. Die Adverbien A.2.2. Die Präpositionen A.2.3. Die Interrogativa A.2.4. Die Konjunktionen A.2.5. Die Interjektionen Anhang 2: Paralleltexte: Die Lukasevangelien 1 - 8,25 auf Caló von 1837 und von 1872 und das spanische Lukasevangelium 1 - 8,25 übersetzt von Scío Abbildungsverzeichnis Quellenverzeichnis Tabellenverzeichnis