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==Do., 10.4.2008: Cornelia Hamann/ Birger Kollmeier, Sprachverstehen im fluktuierenden Störschall== | ==Do., 10.4.2008: Cornelia Hamann/ Birger Kollmeier, Sprachverstehen im fluktuierenden Störschall== | ||
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==Di., 29.4.2008: Eva Ogiermann, "Universal Speech Acts? Theory vs. Practice"== | ==Di., 29.4.2008: Eva Ogiermann, "Universal Speech Acts? Theory vs. Practice"== | ||
− | [[User:Eva Ogiermann|Eva Ogiermann]] | + | [[User:Eva Ogiermann|Eva Ogiermann]], Universität Oldenburg: |
:This presentation discusses the extent to which speech acts have been regarded as, and shown to be, universal in previous as well as my own research. I will begin with early pragmatic theory by looking at how speech acts have been portrayed in the writings of Austin, Searle and Grice. | :This presentation discusses the extent to which speech acts have been regarded as, and shown to be, universal in previous as well as my own research. I will begin with early pragmatic theory by looking at how speech acts have been portrayed in the writings of Austin, Searle and Grice. | ||
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==Do., 22.5.2008: Stefanie Gropper / Ingrid Hotz-Davies: "Exzentrische Positionierungen"== | ==Do., 22.5.2008: Stefanie Gropper / Ingrid Hotz-Davies: "Exzentrische Positionierungen"== | ||
− | Stefanie Gropper und Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Tübingen | + | Prof. Dr. Stefanie Gropper und Prof. Dr. Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Universität Tübingen: |
:Exzentrik und Exzentrizität – und bereits das ist eine Unterscheidung, die wir einführen werden – ist eine bisher überraschend wenig erforschte oder verstandene Befindlichkeit. In der Tat: bereits die Annahme, es sei ein Befindlichkeit – und wenn ja: in wessen Augen? – ist eine Annahme, die nicht selbstverständlich ist und die zu diskutieren wäre. Denn wir haben es mit einem sehr schwierigen Phänomen zu tun, das in der bisherigen Forschung (sofern es sie gibt) gerne allzu vorschnell und nicht weiter hinterfragt in bestehende Wissenskonventionen eingeordnet, ihnen untergeordnet wird noch bevor auch nur die Grenzen und Möglichkeiten des Gegenstands angemessen befragt wurden. Angesichts dieses Befunds haben wir uns zusammengetan und angefangen, das Phänomen der Exzentrizität/Exzentrik auch mit einem neuen Verfahren der Zusammenarbeit auszuloten, immer von der Annahme geleitet, dass wir nicht tatsächlich wissen – und beim derzeitigen Diskussionsstand wissen können –, was unser Forschungsgegenstand ist und wie er funktioniert. | :Exzentrik und Exzentrizität – und bereits das ist eine Unterscheidung, die wir einführen werden – ist eine bisher überraschend wenig erforschte oder verstandene Befindlichkeit. In der Tat: bereits die Annahme, es sei ein Befindlichkeit – und wenn ja: in wessen Augen? – ist eine Annahme, die nicht selbstverständlich ist und die zu diskutieren wäre. Denn wir haben es mit einem sehr schwierigen Phänomen zu tun, das in der bisherigen Forschung (sofern es sie gibt) gerne allzu vorschnell und nicht weiter hinterfragt in bestehende Wissenskonventionen eingeordnet, ihnen untergeordnet wird noch bevor auch nur die Grenzen und Möglichkeiten des Gegenstands angemessen befragt wurden. Angesichts dieses Befunds haben wir uns zusammengetan und angefangen, das Phänomen der Exzentrizität/Exzentrik auch mit einem neuen Verfahren der Zusammenarbeit auszuloten, immer von der Annahme geleitet, dass wir nicht tatsächlich wissen – und beim derzeitigen Diskussionsstand wissen können –, was unser Forschungsgegenstand ist und wie er funktioniert. | ||
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==Di., 10.6.2008: Manuela Schönenberger, "Article use by native speakers of Russian in L2 and L3 English"== | ==Di., 10.6.2008: Manuela Schönenberger, "Article use by native speakers of Russian in L2 and L3 English"== | ||
− | Manuela Schönenberger | + | Dr. Manuela Schönenberger: |
:The core concept in Chomsky's Principles and Parameters theory is Universal Grammar (UG), which consists of principles and parameters. While principles are invariant (universal), parameters are variable (language specific) and are set during the process of language acquisition. In applying this theory to Second Language Acquisition there are two immediate questions to address: Do learners of a foreign language still have access to UG after they have acquired their first language (mother tongue)? And is there transfer between languages, e.g. from one's mother tongue to a 2nd language, or from a 2nd language to a 3rd? Our study investigates article use in English by native speakers of Russian–which does not have any articles–and compares Russians whose 2nd language is English (L2) with Russians who have learned German (L2) before learning English (L3). We examine the article-choice parameter proposed by Ionin and colleagues (2003, 2004, 2006, 2008). Articles are assumed to be set according to either definiteness (e.g. English, German) or specificity (e.g. Samoan). In Ionin et al.'s studies, carried out in the United States, article misuse is common in the L2 English of Russians, while in our data article omission is predominant and article misuse is hardly attested at all. Moreover, article omission is much more pronounced in the group of Russian speakers with L2 English than in that with L3 English. Furthermore there is some evidence for transfer of German word order in the latter group. | :The core concept in Chomsky's Principles and Parameters theory is Universal Grammar (UG), which consists of principles and parameters. While principles are invariant (universal), parameters are variable (language specific) and are set during the process of language acquisition. In applying this theory to Second Language Acquisition there are two immediate questions to address: Do learners of a foreign language still have access to UG after they have acquired their first language (mother tongue)? And is there transfer between languages, e.g. from one's mother tongue to a 2nd language, or from a 2nd language to a 3rd? Our study investigates article use in English by native speakers of Russian–which does not have any articles–and compares Russians whose 2nd language is English (L2) with Russians who have learned German (L2) before learning English (L3). We examine the article-choice parameter proposed by Ionin and colleagues (2003, 2004, 2006, 2008). Articles are assumed to be set according to either definiteness (e.g. English, German) or specificity (e.g. Samoan). In Ionin et al.'s studies, carried out in the United States, article misuse is common in the L2 English of Russians, while in our data article omission is predominant and article misuse is hardly attested at all. Moreover, article omission is much more pronounced in the group of Russian speakers with L2 English than in that with L3 English. Furthermore there is some evidence for transfer of German word order in the latter group. | ||
==Di., 24.6.2008: Nadja Gernalzick: "Planetarity in Literature and Literary Studies"== | ==Di., 24.6.2008: Nadja Gernalzick: "Planetarity in Literature and Literary Studies"== | ||
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+ | Prof. Dr. Nadja Gernalzick, Universität Oldenburg: | ||
==Mo., 30.6.2008, 19:00: Jakob Dittmar, "Alternative worlds in computer games: utopias, dystopias, or what?"== | ==Mo., 30.6.2008, 19:00: Jakob Dittmar, "Alternative worlds in computer games: utopias, dystopias, or what?"== | ||
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:When looking at computer games as utopias/dystopias we can describe them as imagined communities that are engaged in processes of nation building, for example. We will look at gamers in “our” world and avatars in the specific worlds of their own... | :When looking at computer games as utopias/dystopias we can describe them as imagined communities that are engaged in processes of nation building, for example. We will look at gamers in “our” world and avatars in the specific worlds of their own... | ||
− | ==Di., 1.7.2008: Georgiana Banita , "Emersons's Planetary Ethics" == | + | ==Di., 1.7.2008: Georgiana Banita , "Emersons's Planetary Ethics"== |
− | Georgiana Banita M.A., | + | Georgiana Banita M.A., Universität Konstanz: |
:In her recent book Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time (2006) Wai Chee Dimock argues that “rather than being a discrete entity, American literature is better seen as a crisscrossing set of pathways, open-ended and ever multiplying, weaving in an out of other geographies, other languages and cultures.” However, despite her injunction to inclusion and planetarity, Dimock maintains the concept of national literature as a heuristic for her study. This talk investigates the implications of this tension between national and global concerns by considering the pioneering comparative work of Emerson, with a focus on his literary ethics. I aim to show that planetarity – while part of a modernist theoretical discourse – goes back to the incipient colonial rhetoric of Transcendentalism and retains many of its problems until today. | :In her recent book Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time (2006) Wai Chee Dimock argues that “rather than being a discrete entity, American literature is better seen as a crisscrossing set of pathways, open-ended and ever multiplying, weaving in an out of other geographies, other languages and cultures.” However, despite her injunction to inclusion and planetarity, Dimock maintains the concept of national literature as a heuristic for her study. This talk investigates the implications of this tension between national and global concerns by considering the pioneering comparative work of Emerson, with a focus on his literary ethics. I aim to show that planetarity – while part of a modernist theoretical discourse – goes back to the incipient colonial rhetoric of Transcendentalism and retains many of its problems until today. | ||
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:As a case in point, Emerson unveils the insufficiency of propounding a methodology of planetary ethics without supporting it with a strong foundation in individual solidarity and moral agency. To better grasp the potential of literary “worldling” as a process of ethical globalization, we need to look closely into the against-the-grain processes of estrangement and abjection, one of which has been the deeply-engrained transcendentalist doctrine of individualism and self-reliance. In light of this reconsideration, we can re-read Spivak and Dimock’s planetary critique and strengthen it with some useful objections. | :As a case in point, Emerson unveils the insufficiency of propounding a methodology of planetary ethics without supporting it with a strong foundation in individual solidarity and moral agency. To better grasp the potential of literary “worldling” as a process of ethical globalization, we need to look closely into the against-the-grain processes of estrangement and abjection, one of which has been the deeply-engrained transcendentalist doctrine of individualism and self-reliance. In light of this reconsideration, we can re-read Spivak and Dimock’s planetary critique and strengthen it with some useful objections. | ||
− | ==Di., 1.7.2008: Thomas Wägenbaur, "Buckminster Fuller and the Global Brain" | + | ==Di., 1.7.2008: Thomas Wägenbaur, "Buckminster Fuller and the Global Brain"== |
− | + | Prf. Dr. Thomas Wägenbaur, TU Berlin, Institut für Sprache & Kommunikation, Abt. Medienwissenschaft | |
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==Termin noch offen: Maike Engelhardt: "Qualitative Forschung"== | ==Termin noch offen: Maike Engelhardt: "Qualitative Forschung"== | ||
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Contents
- 1 Summer 2008
- 1.1 Do., 10.4.2008: Cornelia Hamann/ Birger Kollmeier, Sprachverstehen im fluktuierenden Störschall
- 1.2 Di., 29.4.2008: Eva Ogiermann, "Universal Speech Acts? Theory vs. Practice"
- 1.3 Do., 22.5.2008: Stefanie Gropper / Ingrid Hotz-Davies: "Exzentrische Positionierungen"
- 1.4 Di., 10.6.2008: Manuela Schönenberger, "Article use by native speakers of Russian in L2 and L3 English"
- 1.5 Di., 24.6.2008: Nadja Gernalzick: "Planetarity in Literature and Literary Studies"
- 1.6 Mo., 30.6.2008, 19:00: Jakob Dittmar, "Alternative worlds in computer games: utopias, dystopias, or what?"
- 1.7 Di., 1.7.2008: Georgiana Banita , "Emersons's Planetary Ethics"
- 1.8 Di., 1.7.2008: Thomas Wägenbaur, "Buckminster Fuller and the Global Brain"
- 2 Winter 2008/09
Summer 2008Do., 10.4.2008: Cornelia Hamann/ Birger Kollmeier, Sprachverstehen im fluktuierenden StörschallProf. Dr. Cornelia Hamann, Institut für Fremdsprachenphilologien und Prof. Dr. Birger Kollmeier, Institut für Physik sprechen zu Sprachverstehen im fluktuierenden Störschall. Di., 29.4.2008: Eva Ogiermann, "Universal Speech Acts? Theory vs. Practice"Eva Ogiermann, Universität Oldenburg:
Do., 22.5.2008: Stefanie Gropper / Ingrid Hotz-Davies: "Exzentrische Positionierungen"Prof. Dr. Stefanie Gropper und Prof. Dr. Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Universität Tübingen:
Di., 10.6.2008: Manuela Schönenberger, "Article use by native speakers of Russian in L2 and L3 English"Dr. Manuela Schönenberger:
Di., 24.6.2008: Nadja Gernalzick: "Planetarity in Literature and Literary Studies"Prof. Dr. Nadja Gernalzick, Universität Oldenburg: Mo., 30.6.2008, 19:00: Jakob Dittmar, "Alternative worlds in computer games: utopias, dystopias, or what?"
Di., 1.7.2008: Georgiana Banita , "Emersons's Planetary Ethics"Georgiana Banita M.A., Universität Konstanz:
Di., 1.7.2008: Thomas Wägenbaur, "Buckminster Fuller and the Global Brain"Prf. Dr. Thomas Wägenbaur, TU Berlin, Institut für Sprache & Kommunikation, Abt. Medienwissenschaft Winter 2008/09Termin noch offen: Maike Engelhardt: "Qualitative Forschung"Details folgen. Di., 4. Nov. 2008: Kalí Tal, "Trauma"Details folgen. Di., 2. Dez. 2008: Isabel Karremann (Thema noch offen)Details folgen. Termin offen: Christina Meyer, Trauma and Popular Culture. Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No TowersChristina Meyer on her topic:
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