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Journal articles on the topic "Swiss Romansh"
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Davidson, Keith. "Swiss ‘cool’." English Today 24, no. 3 (September 2008): 46–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s026607840800028x.
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ABSTRACTThe cachet of English in the Swiss press. Plurlingual Switzerland has three ‘official’ languages, standard forms of German, French, Italian, and a further ‘national’ language, the ancient Latin dialects of Romansh spoken in the eastern Alpine valleys by less than one per cent of the population. But there are problems for the Swiss in learning each other's languages. And, as in other as in other European countries, there is an increasing range of other mother tongues. Little wonder, then, that the Swiss readily resort to English in talking to each other, and little wonder at a marked role for English in the Swiss media.
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Samo, Giuseppe. "Cartography and Microparametric variation: Criterial V2 in Swiss Romansh varieties." Revista Linguíʃtica 15, no. 3 (December 30, 2019): 141–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2019.v15n3a27546.
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In this article, I shall provide evidence for a theory of microparametric variation among Swiss Romansh varieties adopting a cartographic notion of parameter in terms of syntactic operations triggered by morphosyntactic features in functional projections. I shall discuss evidence showing how such a notion of parameter is extremely powerful in describing linguistic variability at a microlevel of the syntactic architectures. Adopting the guidelines of a Criterial V2, in which the inflected verb creates a Spec-Head configuration with the highest activated criterial head in the syntactic architecture, I shall observe microparametric variation within Swiss Romansh and with respect to other V2 languages, such as German. The language variability only relies on the interactions of basic factors, such as the presence of a functional projection and the syntactic operations triggered by the functional element. In the specific, it is possible to observe German and SR varieties vary in the activation of syntactic instructions in discourse related functional projections such as SubjP, ModP and ForceP. The role of morphosyntactic features thus describes in microparametric terms the richness of configurations predicted by cartographic guidelines and provide fine-grained typologies of set of languages.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------CARTOGRAFIA E VARIAÇÃO MICROPARAMÉTRICA: V2 CRITERIAL EM VARIEDADES DO ROMANCHE SUÍÇONeste artigo, fornecerei evidências de uma teoria da variação microparamétrica entre as variedades do romanche suíço adotando uma noção cartográfica de parâmetro em termos de operações sintáticas desencadeadas por traços morfossintáticos em projeções funcionais. Discutirei evidências que mostram como essa noção de parâmetro é extremamente poderosa na descrição da variabilidade linguística em um nível micro das arquiteturas sintáticas. Adotando as diretrizes de um V2 criterial, no qual o verbo flexionado cria uma configuração Spec-Head com o núcleo criterial ativado mais alto na arquitetura sintática, observarei a variação microparamétrica no interior do romanche suíço em comparação com outras línguas V2, como o alemão. A variabilidade das línguas depende apenas das interações de fatores básicos, como a presença de uma projeção funcional e as operações sintáticas desencadeadas pelo elemento funcional. Especificamente, é possível observar que as variedades alemã e SR variam na ativação de instruções sintáticas em projeções funcionais relacionadas ao discurso, como SubjP, ModP e ForceP. O papel dos traços morfossintáticos descreve, assim, em termos microparamétricos, a riqueza de configurações previstas pela abordagem cartográfica e fornece tipologias refinadas de conjuntos de línguas.
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Kużelewska, Elżbieta. "Language Policy in Switzerland." Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 45, no. 1 (June 1, 2016): 125–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/slgr-2016-0020.
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Abstract Switzerland is often referred to as a success story for handling its linguistic and cultural diversity. Traditionally four languages have been spoken in relatively homogeneous territories: German, French, Italian and Rhaeto- Romanic (Romansh). The first three have been national languages since the foundation of the Confederation in 1848; the fourth became a national language in 1938. In effect, The Law on Languages, in effect since 2010, has regulated the use and promotion of languages and enhanced the status of Romansh as one of the official languages since 2010. While Swiss language policy is determined at the federal level, it is in the actual practice a matter for cantonal implementation. Article 70 of the Swiss Federal Constitution, titled “Languages”, enshrines the principle of multilingualism. A recent project to create legislation to implement multilingualism across the cantons, however, has failed. Thus Switzerland remains de jure quadrilingual, but de facto bilingual at best, with only a handful of cantons recognizing more than one official language (Newman, 2006: 2). Cantonal borders are not based on language: the French-German language border runs across cantons during most of its course from north to south, and such is also the case for Italian.
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Reineke, Detlef. "Terminologiedatenaustausch mit TERMDAT – Passgenaue Schnittstellen für die Terminologiedatenbank der Schweizerischen Bundeskanzlei." Lebende Sprachen 64, no. 1 (April 12, 2019): 155–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/les-2019-0008.
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Abstract The terminology database TERMDAT is at the very heart of the Terminology Section of the Swiss Federal Chancellery’s Central Language Services. It provides Swiss legal and administrative terminology predominantly for the four national languages German, French, Italian, and Romansh (plus English). However, data exchange with cooperating actors (Federal Departments, cantons, external service providers, etc.) constitutes a particular challenge, since these actors operate with different systems and data models. The present article describes a solution developed within a pilot project aiming at providing means to substantially improve data flow within a highly heterogeneous database landscape.
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Abdiyeva, Gulnara, Almagul Maimakova, Feruza Yerzhanova, Alla Tsoy, and Lyaila Togzhanova. "About lexical-semantic aspects." XLinguae 15, no. 4 (October 2022): 58–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.18355/xl.2022.15.04.06.
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The relevance of the topic is determined by the need to deepen and describe the functioning of the inhomogeneous French language in the French-speaking cantons of Switzerland using specific lexical material. The analysis of intra and extralinguistic influences and their reflection in the Franco-Swiss literary version of the language is important for contact linguistics, and its relevance is due to the lack of depth of analysis of this issue. The analyst is particularly interested in the fact that in Switzerland, the French language exists within the legal framework of official multilingualism, in active interaction with three other equal national languages of the Confederation: German, Italian and Romansh. At the same time, the deviations of the French-Swiss national variant from the general French linguistic norm manifest themselves mainly at the lexical and semantic level. The object of the study is the French language in the Swiss Confederation, its lexical, semantic and stylistic characteristics.
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Büchler, Andrin, and Adrian Leeman. "Phonetic stability across time: Linguistic enclaves in Switzerland." Linguistik Online 116, no. 4 (September 11, 2022): 3–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.13092/lo.116.8887.
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The present paper shows results of a proof-of-concept study on two historically related but geographically separated dialects of Swiss German. Between the 12th and 14th centuries, speakers of Valais German (southwestern Switzerland) emigrated to the southeastern part of the country, forming so-called Sprachinseln (enclaves) of Valais German in a Romansh-speaking area. Using an online survey, we collected responses from 300+ participants from the cantons of Valais and Grisons to examine how the two dialects have developed over time. Results suggest stability on the phonetic level, i. e. the two dialects still sound very similar despite having been geographically separated for 800 years. The morphosyntax and lexicon, however, exhibit substantial change. We discuss historic and sociodemographic factors that may explain these patterns.
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Pycha, Roger, Maurizio Pompili, Marco Innamorati, Josef Schwitzer, David Lester, Gabriele Sani, Roberto Tatarelli, and Giancarlo Giupponi. "Sex and ethnic differences among South Tirolean suicides: A psychological autopsy study." European Psychiatry 24, no. 1 (2009): 47–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2008.08.005.
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AbstractObjectiveThe aim of the research is to study whether any differences exist in the rates and characteristics of suicide by ethnicity and sex in South Tirol, Italy.MethodsPsychological autopsy interviews were conducted for suicides who died between March 1997 and July 2006.Results332 individuals belonging to the three major South Tirolean ethnic groups (Germans, Italians, Ladins [Ladin is a Rhaeto-Romance language related to the Venetian and Swiss Romansh languages]) died by suicide. Around 23% of the victims had experienced suicidal behaviour among family members, and more than 31% of them had experienced trauma during their childhood. Germans were 1.37 times more at risk to commit suicide than Italians (95% CI: 1.04/1.80; z = 2.26, p < .05). 69% of the suicides had attended school for less than 8 years: Germans (OR = 4.62; 95% CI: 2.52/8.47; p < .001) and Ladins (OR = 11.24; 95% CI: 2.99/42.30; p < .001) were more likely to have lower education than Italians. There were several differences by ethnicity and sex but no sex-by-ethnicity interactions.ConclusionsThe study indicated that suicide, an alarming health and social problem in South Tirol, may require different preventive interventions for men and women and for those of different ethnicities.
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Warren, Richard. "Charles Gleyre's ‘Les Romains’: Classics and nationalism in Swiss art." Nations and Nationalism 22, no. 2 (March 1, 2016): 248–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nana.12149.
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Gyimóthy, Szilvia. "Transformations in destination texture: Curry and Bollywood romance in the Swiss Alps." Tourist Studies 18, no. 3 (May 10, 2018): 292–314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468797618771692.
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This article takes heterogeographical approaches to understand Bollywood-induced destination transformations in Switzerland. Positioned within the theoretical field of mediatized mobility, the study contextualizes Bollywood-induced tourism in Europe the concept of texture. Textural analysis (based on Lefebvre’s trialectics of space) combines the analysis of material performances and communicative representations converging in the production/consumption of tourism spaces. The article contributes threefold. First, it reviews the phenomenon of nonwestern popular cultural tourism through the theoretical lens of mediatized mobility. Second, the article offers methodological reflections on textural analysis and strategies to capture the entanglements of popular cultural representations and performances simultaneously. Third, through an analytical deconstruction of Bollywood’s imaginaries and disruptive new tourism practices in Switzerland, it discusses the placemaking potentials and challenges of concurrent narratives in cosmopolitan tourism destinations.
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Steinmann, Philippe. "L'apport de l'AR-WSL aux bureaux d'ingénieurs forestiers de Suisse romande | The Contribution of AR-WSL to the Private Forestry Offices of French Speaking Switzerland." Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Forstwesen 151, no. 7 (July 1, 2000): 230–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.3188/szf.2000.0230.
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WSL and its branch station Antenne romande frequently reveal the latest news and developments in the field of Swiss forestry. The new concept of AR-WSL and its reinforcement with additional academic personnel represent a new challenge to private forest engineering offices in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. There, the future of forestry depends on its interdisciplinary cooperation with other institutions which are active in landscape management.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Swiss Romansh"
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Schlaifer, Clara. "L’imaginaire des langues chez Charles-Albert Cingria : un parcours poétique, politique et rhétorique." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA058.
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Charles-Albert Cingria (1883-1954), écrivain de Suisse romande, a été longtemps chroniqueur à La NRF et a mené son activité littéraire aussi bien en Suisse qu'à Paris. Pourtant, il est très peu étudié en France. La question des langues est, chez ce voyageur polyglotte, au centre d'une constellation de considérations poétiques, esthétiques et rhétoriques qui donnent toute sa spécificité à cette oeuvre inclassable. Dans le contexte politique de la première moitié du XXe siècle, éclairé ici par la perspective de l'histoire des idées, ses conceptions sur les langues le placent dans la lignée des Anti-Lumières. Son oeuvre labyrinthique a par ailleurs été peu abordée dans sa globalité même, car elle résiste à toute les catégories d'ordinaire en usage, aussi bien sur le plan générique, thématique ou formel que sur le plan idéologique, tout en donnant au lecteur l'impression d'une oeuvre riche d'échos. Nous prenons ici le risque de la cohérence en choisissant pour fil rouge l'ensemble des représentations sur la langue et les langues dans un discours libéré de ses prétentions scientifiques. Ce parcours se fait d'abord à l'échelle d'un pamphlet précoce contre l'espéranto, puis au niveau de l'oeuvre entière, montrant qu'il relève chez Cingria d'une conception esthétique du monde perçu comme cosmos. L'imaginaire des langues repose enfin sur les mêmes principes que sa stratégie argumentative : au nom du naturel, la monstration prime sur la démonstration et l'évidence sur l'administration des preuves, aboutissant ainsi à des textes dont l'obscurité résulte paradoxalement d'une volonté de les rendre plus tangibles et incarnésCharles-Albert Cingria (1883-1954), a Swiss francophone writer, was a long-time columnist for La NRF. He wrote and lived in Paris as well as in his native Switzerland, but has been little studied in France. As a traveller and polyglot, he makes the observation of languages central to a constellation of poetic, aesthetic, and rhetorical considerations in his distinctive, unclassifiable work. In the political context of the beginning of the 20th century, studied here from the history of ideas’ perspective, his ideas about languages set him in the Anti-Enlightenment tradition. His labyrinthine work has never before been studied as a whole, perhaps because it refuses ordinary categorizations. On the level of genre, theme, and form, as well as on an ideological level, Cingria’s work thwarts conventional understanding, while letting the reader feel the echoes and resonances that fill the text. The author chooses to consider this work as coherent, and opts to view Cingria’s work through the lens of a main theme: its representations of language and languages within a discourse freed from scientific pretensions. This journey through Cingria’s thought begins with examining his early diatribe against Esperanto, then moves to a broader discussion of his work, showing that his representation of languages concerns above all an aesthetic conception of the world perceived as cosmos. The imaginary of languages ultimately rests on the same principles as his argumentative strategy: in the name of nature and the natural, obviousness takes precedence over demonstrating. These principles give rise to texts whose obscurity results, paradoxically, from the desire to make them more embodied and more concrete
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jelena, zivojinovic. "The development of the Latin gerund in Rhaeto-Romance." Doctoral thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11562/1048695.
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This dissertation aims to shed light on variation and change in the category of gerund in Ladin, Swiss Romansh and Friulan by tracing its development from Classical Latin and by contextualizing this diachrony within the central-eastern Alpine area. This work combines a solid overview of the current literature made of the existing grammars (for instance, Chiocchetti and Iori 2002; Zof 2008; Forni 2019) and the scientific production (for instance, Gruenert et al. 2008; Casalicchio 2013, but also De Roberto 2013; Vangaever 2018) with a multilevel empirical approach based on three corpora: a corpus of fieldwork data gathered through the administration of a translation task in the local Middle and High schools, a corpus of modern written texts incorporating newspaper articles, school texts, scientific articles and literary texts and lastly, a corpus of 17th-19th century texts. The final outcome allows the assessment of variation and contact-induced phenomena in synchrony drawing on the analysis of processes of change in diachrony.
Books on the topic "Swiss Romansh"
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Deplazes, Gion. Die Rä̈toromanen: Ihre Identität in der Literatur. Disentis, CH: Desertina, 1991.
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Walzer, Pierre Olivier. Galerie romande. Lausanne: L'Age d'homme, 2000.
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La presse romande. Lausanne: Antipodes, 2017.
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Claude, Beausoleil, ed. La Poésie suisse romande: Anthologie. [Trois-Rivières, Québec]: Écrits des Forges, 1993.
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The house on Swiss Avenue. [United States]: Double Mountain Press, 2013.
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Sozzi, Giorgio P. Figure e libri nella Svizzera romanda del XX secolo. Napoli: Federico & Ardia, 1994.
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Codazzi, Paola, and Caroline Werlé. Rythmes, voix et mouvances poétiques en Suisse romande. Paris: Orizons, 2021.
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1966-, Küpfer Jacques, and Delafontaine-Küpfer Catherine 1968-, eds. L'anthologie de la poésie romande d'hier à aujourd'hui. Lausanne: Favre, 2007.
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Roger, Francillon, Jakubec Doris, Maggetti Daniel, and Nationales Forschungsprogramm 21--Kulturelle Vielfalt und Nationale Identität., eds. Littérature populaire et identité suisse: Récits populaires et romans littéraires : évolution des mentalités en Suisse romande, au cours des cent dernières années. Lausanne, Suisse: L'Age d'homme, 1991.
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Caroline, Calame, Giroud Jean-Charles, Schlup Michel, and Association des amis de l'affiche suisse., eds. L' affiche en Suisse romande durant l'entre-deux-guerres. Genève: Association des amis de l'affiche suisse, 1994.
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García Portilla, Jason. "a) Switzerland: Extreme Positive Case Study (Worldwide)." In “Ye Shall Know Them by Their Fruits”, 269–97. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78498-0_18.
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AbstractHistorically, Switzerland’s population and cantonal system have been characterised by mixed denominational distribution (Roman Catholics and Protestants). Even if the two main denominations have not always coexisted harmoniously, and despite internal differences, Switzerland is nowadays the most competitive (prosperous) country worldwide with well-recognised political, economic, and social stability.The Swiss case explored the nexuses of prosperity and of a religiously mixed society in which the Protestant Reformation played a prominent historical role in shaping federal institutions. Following the 1848 anti-clerical Constitution, many Conservative Catholics remained in mountainous and rural areas, in an attempt to keep the ancient order. The Catholic ancient order included maintaining the pervasive influence of the Roman Church-State on virtually every moral and social aspect, including education (i.e. the “maintenance of ignorance”). In turn, liberals and Protestants mostly remained in flat areas that were subsequently industrialised. Currently, the historical Protestant cantons tend to be the most competitive, and the mountainous Roman Catholic cantons the least competitive, in the Swiss Confederation. Historically mixed confessional cantons (e.g. Thurgau and St. Gallen) perform in the middle of the cantonal ranking of competitiveness (11th and 13th, respectively, out of 26 cantons). Protestantism in Switzerland may have also contributed to prosperity via democratisation, state secularism and the creation of trust and moral standards. Yet, the influence of Protestantism owes more to its accumulated historical impact on institutions than to the proportion of current followers.
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Khare, Sarth. "Gurgaon: Unfinished City, a photographic essay." In Embodying Peripheries, 258–73. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-661-2.12.
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As Gurgaon expands horizontally and vertically, it continues to transition from farms to urban villages to a concrete maze. This photographic project documents the growth of Gurgaon a city recently developed near India's capital, Delhi. It is a booming financial and industrial center, home to most Multinational Corporations (MNCs) and has third highest per-capita income in India. As its advocates often like to point out, Delhi’s booming neighbor has 1,100 high-rises, at least 30 malls and thousands of small and big industries. On the other hand, as its detractors unfailingly like to note, the dust bowl’s population has grown two and a half fold, it has 12-hour power blackouts, and its groundwater would probably not last beyond this decade. Gurgaon's transformation began sometime around 1996, with the advent of Genpact, then a business unit of General Electric. Other multinational companies followed it slowly thereafter. It helped that the city was a few kilometers away from Delhi. Two decades on, Gurgaon is already "on its deathbed." From 0.8 million in 2001, the city is expected to reach a population of 6.9 million in 2031. It is speckled with glass buildings with curtain walls, and swish apartment blocks with Greco-Roman influences, but there is little water or power for them. These numbers alone don’t capture the lived reality of Gurgaon, though. The skyline that its older residents were accustomed to has completely disappeared. And yet on the periphery, one sees the "Unfinished City" growing. The landscapes and flora shouting; their sentiments brutalized by evictions and concrete. Slaughtered farms now seem witness to monstrosity with desolate faces and fading memories. Set in 2014 the project explores the ephemerality of Gurgaon’s glamor and defective town planning. Families had been displaced, laborers’ children were growing up on heaps of cement, and farmlands had turned into things of memories.
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"Does the territoriality principle work in practice? The principle’s applicability to the Romansh area in the Swiss Canton of Grisons." In Methods in Contemporary Linguistics, 463–86. De Gruyter Mouton, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110275681.463.
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Anderson, Stephen R. "Failing One’s Obligations: Defectiveness in Rumantsch Reflexes* of DĒBĒRE." In Defective Paradigms. British Academy, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197264607.003.0002.
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This chapter examines the Surmiran dialect which is a form of Swiss Rumantsch. Surmiran is a Romance language which is one of the spoken languages in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. The emphasis of this chapter is on a single verb which lacks many of the forms other verbs possess, hence forcing the speakers to use a distinct, but almost synonymous verb as an alternative. Treated within a broader context, the verb dueir in Sumiran which is a Latin reflex of the dēbēre, provides an opportunity to evaluate how gaps should be treated within the context of Optimal Theory. This defectiveness in the Surmiran dueir was a result of the morphologization of the vowel alternations of the Swiss Rumantsch.
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Tietz, Christiane. "“To Always Work Somewhat Faster”." In Karl Barth, 100–120. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198852469.003.0006.
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Barth’s first commentary on the Epistle to the Romans led to the invitation to become honorary professor for Reformed theology in Göttingen. Barth began his teaching by giving exegetic lectures and lectures on the Reformed tradition to become acquainted with its great texts. He found teaching burdensome and frequently complained to Swiss friends about his inability to master the academic challenges. His lectures on “Instruction in the Christian Religion” became his first attempt to delineate his own dogmatics. Barth quickly developed a good rapport with his students, but the relationships to his colleagues proved to be difficult. He travelled frequently to give lectures throughout Germany, and many interested in his theology visited him in Göttingen. Barth was moved by the tense economic situation in Germany, but troubled by German nationalism.
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Rady, Martyn. "1. Dynasties and empires; titles and peoples." In The Habsburg Empire: A Very Short Introduction, 1–17. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198792963.003.0001.
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After the house of Windsor, the Habsburgs are the best-known dynasty in Europe. Their history is tied up with most European countries. ‘Dynasties and empires; titles and people’ outlines the origins of the Habsburgs and describes the building of their empire through the acquisition of lands, kingdoms, and titles, either by war or by marriage. The earliest known Habsburg was Radbot (c.985–1045), who built Castle Habsburg in the Swiss Aargau that was, for several centuries, the principal seat of the family. The successful marriage schemes of Maximilian (Holy Roman Emperor from 1508) ensured the spread of the Habsburgs through most of Europe and into the New World.
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Sherman, Nancy. "Who Were the Stoics?" In Stoic Wisdom, 17–42. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197501832.003.0002.
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This lesson introduces readers to the ancient Greek and Roman Stoics—who they were, their ideas in historical context, and their legacy. The arc of Stoic influence is long and strong. Stoic DNA is embedded in Judaism and Christianity, medieval and Renaissance thought, Enlightenment writing, and American intellectual thought. And it influenced American political thought: Jefferson read the Roman Stoics. So, too, did Washington. Seneca is the flawed protagonist in this work. He yearns for self-freedom in an ecosystem larger than himself. He’s a pragmatic philosopher who knows all too well the muddy waters of politics and power. He swims in those currents, as Nero’s tutor, political advisor, and speechwriter. His struggle to find inner freedom as Nero’s minister offers a sharp lesson in moral aspiration and moral compromise.
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Shaver, Stephen R. "Identity." In Metaphors of Eucharistic Presence, 106–37. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197580806.003.0004.
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This chapter focuses on the divide between Christian traditions that understand “this is my body” as true in the proper sense (what George Hunsinger calls “real predication”) and those that do not. It traces the development of this divide to the Western eucharistic controversies of the sixteenth century. The author argues that both Roman Catholics and Lutherans (on one side) and Swiss Reformers and the Radical Reformation (on the other) shared an assumption that language must be either literal or figurative, with only the former adequate for proper truth claims. The author also analyzes the eucharistic controversy between Luther, who understood “is” as an example of literal predication, and Zwingli, who saw it as a rhetorical trope and thus not properly true. The chapter concludes by arguing that a cognitive understanding of language can transcend this dichotomy since figurative language can indeed be capable of proper truth claims.
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Diaz-Andreu, Margarita. "Evolutionism and Positivism (c. 1860–1900)." In A World History of Nineteenth-Century Archaeology. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199217175.003.0022.
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This was the way that one of the executive members of the Swiss National Museum phrased, at the end of the nineteenth century, the changes that had taken place in the previous decades: the interest in the national past was replacing the former emphasis on the Great Civilizations. Another transformation that had occurred was that the study of prehistory, rather than the history of the Roman and medieval periods, was definitively on the agenda. This change of emphasis, which took place between the 1860s and 1880s, had been in motion throughout the century but had finally crystallized in the last two decades of the century. By then, nationalism had transformed its character into a predominantly conservative doctrine. Another adjustment was also apparent. The acceptance of evolutionism had emerged as a major scientific theory to explain change. Issues of nationalism, regionalism, and imperialism became intertwined with scientific theory and further nourished the interest in the remote past. The development of methods to study evolution in the natural sciences promoted a scientific approach to the prehistoric period. At the same time, this affected attitudes towards the Roman and the medieval past. In this chapter, therefore, I reject the view expressed by other historians of archaeology such as Trigger (1989: 148) and to a certain degree Sklenár (1983: 123–6), who think that nationalism constituted a threat to cultural evolutionism and its eventual dismissal. This, they think, took place when scholars moved towards the adoption of the culture-historical perspective in the first decades of the twentieth century. The following pages will reveal, however, that the belief in evolutionism was not contrary to the nationalist cause. Late nineteenth-century archaeologists believed in the evolutionary theories to a greater or lesser extent. Despite this, they also became deeply implicated in the construction of their national past, to a degree not seen in previous decades. Culture-history did not oppose evolutionism; it accepted its tenets and moved beyond them.
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Niederberger, Anne Arquit, Marina Martynova, and Alexander Lüchinger. "Methodology to prepare projects eligible for joint implementation. JI projects portfolio development in Russia and the Swiss JI project in Romania as an example." In Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies 4, 521–27. Elsevier, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-008043018-8/50084-9.
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Rahmonov, T., and S. Ermakov. "VARIETY OF LANGUAGES IN SWITZERLAND." In Manager of the Year. FSBE Institution of Higher Education Voronezh State University of Forestry and Technologies named after G.F. Morozov, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.34220/my2021_258-261.
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Switzerland is located at the junction of western, central and southern Europe, is landlocked and borders Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. The country is geographically divided between the Alps, the Swiss plateau and the Jura, covering a total area of 41,285 km². While the Alps occupy most of the territory, Switzerland’s population of approximately 8.5 million people is mainly concentrated on the plateau, where the largest cities are located, including two global ones – Zurich and Geneva. Switzerland is at the crossroads of Germanic and Romance Europe and has four main linguistic and cultural regions: German, French, Italian and Romansh.
Reports on the topic "Swiss Romansh"
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Prisacariu, Roxana. Swiss immigrants’ integration policy as inspiration for the Romanian Roma inclusion strategy. Fribourg (Switzerland): IFF, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.51363/unifr.diff.2015.05.
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While the knowledge on immigrants’ integration consolidated through the last 50 years, the Roma studies and the research on the Roma inclusion seems at the beginning. The purpose of this research was to assess if and to what extent the Swiss experience in immigrants’ integration may inspire an efficient approach to Roma inclusion in the Romanian society. After highlighting conceptual vagueness, resemblance and difference in the overall social status of Romanian Roma and immigrants in Switzerland and official approaches to the integration or inclusion of each, the research concludes that the Romanian policy on Roma inclusion presumably can be better anchored in the integration conceptual framework and benefit from immigrants’ integration experience. The Romanian choice for framing its Roma policy as ‘inclusion’ rather than for ‘integration’ may be appropriate as it applies to a historic minority of citizens needing social justice. The use of an immigration integration policy as model for a Roma inclusion strategy is limited due to the stronger legit-imation of historic minorities for shared-ownership of public decision-making. That is the Swiss example of immigrants’ integration could only serve Romania as a minimum standard for its Roma inclusion strategy. It can benefit from the Swiss experience on immigrant's integration policy in terms of conception, coordination, monitoring and transparency may be beneficial, while the Roma political participation may find inspiration from the Swiss linguistic communities’ participatory mechanisms. The on-going reciprocal learning process connecting academia and public authorities able to transform science into action and experience in knowledge may inspire the Romanian authorities.