The influence of anti-gender movements is on the rise globally as they seek to prevent the expansion of transgender rights. In Germany, the anti-gender debate has gained renewed intensity in the wake of the publication of the draft Self-Determination Act in June 2022. Within this discourse, two prominent groups of actors emerged: gender-critical feminists and right-wing populists. Despite their divergent ideological and political positions, the affordances of social media provide them with a platform for collaborative interactions. Thus, under issue-related hashtags, the boundaries between these actors are becoming increasingly blurred. This research utilizes affect theory and analysis of hashtag activism to investigate the collective protest on Twitter against the proposed Self-Determination Act. Employing social network analysis (SNA), the study identifies pivotal structures and actors within the #FrauenSagenNein (#WomenSayNo) network. Additionally, qualitative content analysis delves into the narratives and sentiments employed in constructing hostile portrayals of transgender individuals. The findings illustrate that #FrauenSagenNein served as a bridging tool that connects gender-critical feminists and right-wing populist actors, leading to their intersection. Based on these findings, it is vital to critically monitor such alliances to counter the spread of binary gender norms and heteronormative beliefs.
Weniger anzeigenDiese Arbeit analysiert den Krisenbegriff und seine Bedeutung für den soziopolitischen Denkrahmen von Zukunftsvisionen. Einführend untersucht die Arbeit die Implikationen des Krisenbegriffs und beschreibt, wie dieser in öffentlichen Narrativen besondere Wirkmacht entfaltet. Eine hermeneutische Interpretation der ersten „Rede zur Zeitenwende“, in der Olaf Scholz die zukunftsprägenden Auswirkungen des russischen Angriffskriegs auf die Ukraine adressiert, veranschaulicht sowohl die Chancen als auch die Probleme eines auf dem Krisenbegriff gründenden Zukunftsentwurfs. Insbesondere zeigt die Interpretation auf, dass Scholz den Krisenbegriff als ‚Zeitenwende‘ neu formuliert, um so die erfolgreiche Bewältigung der Krise narrativ vorwegzunehmen und zu suggerieren, dass die Zukunft nach der Krise sowohl im normativen als auch im epistemischen Sinn gesichert ist.
Die vorliegende Arbeit verfolgt zwei wesentliche Ziele. Zum einen soll sie aufzeigen, inwiefern der Krisenbegriff den erkenntnistheoretischen Denkrahmen möglicher Zukünfte setzt und damit ein besonderes Zeitverständnis formt. Zum anderen soll sie die soziopolitischen Implikationen eines solchen krisengeprägten Zukunftsdenkens problematisieren. Als Behauptung einer bereits bewältigten Krise verdeutlicht das Narrativ der ‚Zeitenwende‘ einerseits, dass Zukunftssicherheit – in Form einer einzig möglichen und einig gewünschten Zukunft – zur legitimierenden Grundlage nationaler Deutungshoheit und politischer Handlungsmacht wird. Andererseits blendet ein solches Narrativ, das zukunftssichere Handlungs- und Gestaltungsfähigkeit als Antwort auf die Krise betont, alternative Zukunftsentwicklungen nicht nur aus, sondern lässt sie sogar undenkbar werden. Abschließend reflektiert diese Arbeit deshalb kritisch die Grenzen des Denkrahmens öffentlich wirkmächtiger Narrative, welche die Krise zum Ausgangspunkt eines Zukunftsentwurfs im Namen einer bestimmten und einigen Gemeinschaft machen.
Weniger anzeigenSince the two narratives of strategic autonomy and European sovereignty first appeared in the EU in 2016 and 2017, they have been omnipresent. At the same time, Donald Trump was elected as U.S. president and a series of difficulties in transatlantic relations began. Although transatlantic relations have been tumultuous in the past, statements by experts and leaders prompt speculation that the Transatlantic Security Community (TSC) has undergone deeper changes this time around. Therefore, this paper analyzes the extent to which the EU’s Common Security and Defense policies (CSDPs) have been justified from 2016 to 2020 given the evolving TSC. In doing so, it becomes clear that the TSC is not the only explanation for the EU’s recent CSDPs but is merely one of many.
Weniger anzeigenOn-demand streaming is on the rise, also in academic teaching. Libraries of all kinds are therefore expanding access to streaming content for their patrons. Despite this development, knowledge about the actual trends, strategies and needs related to the sustainable accessibility and use of streaming content in higher education is still limited. To address and fill the knowledge gap Ithaka S+R1 in 2021 started its project “Making Streaming Media Sustainable for Academic Libraries”. The project’s objective was to collect and connect data about the use of video content and streaming resources and thereby aimed at contributing to a more comprehensive understanding of the potential of streaming media. Freie Universität Berlin’s university library participated in the project alongside the libraries of 23 US-American and Canadian universities and colleges. This reports shows insights from nine interviews with faculty at Freie Universität Berlin.
Weniger anzeigenDie um 1600 vertretenen Spielarten der sogenannten ‚Alchemie‘ zeichnen sich durch einen außerordentlichen Reichtum an Formen der Darstellung aus, die ihrerseits mit mannigfaltigen Dynamiken des Wissenstransfers einhergehen. Der Sammelband widmet sich diesen Dynamiken und Darstellungsformen, wobei das Werk Michael Maiers (1568–1622) im Mittelpunkt steht. Das (al)chemische Wissen, das Maier in seinen Schriften auf allegorischem Wege in rätselhafter und geheimnisvoller Form vermittelt, begegnet zeitgleich in den ersten Lehrbüchern der ‚Chemie‘ in unverschlüsselter Form. Der spielerische, späthumanistische Impetus, mit dem Maier dieses Wissen in Emblemen und Epigrammen, in anakreontischen Versen und in Dialogen vermittelt, kontrastiert dabei deutlich mit paracelsistischen Formen (al)chemischen Wissens und seiner spiritualistischen Ausrichtung. Die Beiträge des Bandes lassen die (Al)Chemie um 1600 insgesamt als ein komplexes Geflecht von epistemischen Strängen sichtbar werden, die jeweils an verschiedene Wissenstraditionen anknüpfen, einander kreuzen, sich überlagern und miteinander in Wechselwirkung stehen.
Weniger anzeigenBased on the assumption that every transfer of knowledge is, implicit or explicit, accompanied by an evaluation of its efficiency, the contributions of Beyond the State Examinations strive to explore various types of knowledge evaluation in premodern Korea. While most previous research in this area focused on the government service examination system, which served as the backbone of the civil and military structure of the Chosŏn state (1392–1910), the present volume explores new perspectives on both formal and informal modes of knowledge evaluation employed in Buddhist communities, literati gatherings, educational settings, military circles or among women. It shows that the male, elite-centered state examination system and its top-down hierarchy was only one, often critically questioned, type of knowledge assessment practices in Chosŏn society. A broader understanding of knowledge evaluation raises questions such as who assessed Buddhist enlightenment, how military prowess was measured, or why knowledge of literary allusions could not only bring success or failure in the state examinations, but was also a notable form of entertainment for its participants.
Weniger anzeigenOne of the primary objectives of protests and demonstrations is to bring social, political, or economic issues to the attention of politicians and the wider population. While protests can have a mobilizing and persuading effect, they may reduce support for their cause if they are perceived as a threat to public order. In this study, we look at how local or spontaneously organised xenophobic demonstrations affect concerns about hostility towards foreigners and worries about immigration among natives in Germany. We use a regression discontinuity design to compare the attitudes of individuals interviewed in the days immediately before a large far-right demonstration and individuals interviewed in the days immediately after that demonstration. Our results show that large right-wing demonstrations lead to a substantial increase in worries about hostility towards foreigners of 13.7% of a standard deviation. In contrast, worries about immigration are not affected by the demonstrations, indicating that the protesters are not successful in swaying public opinion in their favour. In the heterogeneity analyses, we uncover some polarisation in the population: While worries about hostility against foreigners increase and worries about immigration decrease in left-leaning regions, both types of worries increase in districts where centre-right parties are more successful. Lastly, we also show that people become more politically interested in response to protests, mainly benefiting left-wing parties, and are more likely to wish to donate money to help refugees.
Weniger anzeigenSynopsis: This edited volume pays tribute to traditional and innovative language contact research, bringing together contributors with expertise on different languages examining general phenomena of language contact and specific linguistic features which arise in language contact scenarios. A particular focus lies on contact between languages of unbalanced political and symbolic power, language contact and group identity, and the linguistic and societal implications of language contact settings, especially considering contemporary global migration streams.
Drawing on various methodological approaches, among others, corpus and contrastive linguistics, linguistic landscapes, sociolinguistic interviews, and ethnographic fieldwork, the contributions describe phenomena of language contact between and with Romance languages, Semitic languages, and English(es).
Weniger anzeigenSynopsis: Bereits Jacob Grimm bemerkte im Band 2 seiner Geschichte der deutschen Sprache (1848), dass adjektivische Genuskongruenz mit gemischtgeschlechtlichem Personenbezug in den älteren Sprachstufen des Deutschen häufig das Neutrum aufweist. Askedal (1973) widmete diesem Thema eine ausführliche Studie auf Basis kritischer Editionen einer Handvoll alt- und mittelhochdeutscher literarischen Werke. Die Standardwerke zur historischen Grammatik des Deutschen beschränken sich bislang darauf, diese Regel undifferenziert nach grammatischem Kontext lediglich zu konstatieren.
Die vorliegende Studie zeichnet das Phänomen der Gender Resolution (Corbett 1983) im Mittelhochdeutschen nach. Dies geschieht auf handschriftennaher Grundlage anhand der Geschäftsprosa der Urkunden des Corpus der altdeutschen Originalurkunden bis zum Jahr 1300 (Wilhelm et al. 1932–2004) sowie der erst seit wenigen Jahren verfügbaren Transkriptionen der Haupthandschriften aller drei Rezensionen der Kaiserchronik als literarischem Vergleichstext. Die Studie setzt sich zum Ziel, bestehendes Wissen über dieses grammatische Phänomen zu validieren und im Rahmen eines zeitgemäßen grammatiktheoretischen Modells zu reflektieren. Zu diesem Zweck wird systematisch Variation in der Kongruenzform des Quantors mittelhochdeutsch bėide ‘beide’, der sich auf ein Referentenpaar bezieht, in den typischen Kontexten seines Auftretens hinsichtlich morphologischer, semantischer und syntaktischer Zusammenhänge detailliert untersucht.
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Already Jacob Grimm noted in volume 2 of his Geschichte der deutschen Sprache (1848) that adjectival forms with reference to mixed-gender human groups often showed neuter agreement in the historical stages of German. Askedal (1973) as well dedicated an extensive study to this issue, based on critical editions of a handful of Old and Middle High German literary texts. Standard reference works on historical German grammar so far merely state the rule without further differentiation by grammatical context.
This survey traces the phenomenon of gender resolution (Corbett 1983) in Middle High German. Evidence is collected on a true-to-manuscript basis consisting of the businesslike prose of the Corpus der altdeutschen Originalurkunden bis zum Jahr 1300 (Wilhelm et al 1932–2004) as well as the main manuscripts of all three recensions of the Kaiserchronik as a literary object of comparison, transcriptions of which have only in recent years been made available. The survey aims to validate existing knowledge on this grammatical phenomenon and to reflect on it in a modern grammar-theoretical framework. For this purpose, variation in the agreement form of Middle High German bėide ‘both’, which refers to a pair of antecedents, is evaluated systematically and in great detail in its typical use contexts with regard to morphological, semantic, and syntactic circumstances.
Weniger anzeigenSynopsis: On the premise that syntactic variation is constrained by factors that may not always be immediately obvious, this volume explores various perspectives on the nominal syntax in the early Germanic languages and the syntactic diversity they display. The fact that these languages are relatively well attested and documented allows for individual cases studies as well as comparative studies. Due to their well-observable common ancestry at the time of their earliest attestations, they moreover permit close-up comparative investigations into closely related languages. Besides the purely empirical aspects, the volume also explores the methodological side of diagnosing, classifying and documenting the details of syntactic diversity. The volume starts with a description by Alexander Pfaff and Gerlof Bouma of the principles underlying the Noun Phrases in Early Germanic Languages (NPEGL) database, before Alexander Pfaff presents the Patternization method for measuring syntactic diversity. Kristin Bech, Hannah Booth, Kersti Börjars, Tine Breban, Svetlana Petrova, and George Walkden carry out a pilot study of noun phrase variation in Old English, Old High German, Old Icelandic, and Old Saxon. Kristin Bech then considers the development of Old English noun phrases with quantifiers meaning ‘many’. Alexandra Rehn’s study is concerned with the inflection of stacked adjectives in Old High German and Alemannic. Old High German is also the topic of Svetlana Petrova’s study, which looks at inflectional patterns of attributive adjectives. With Hannah Booth’s contribution we move to Old Icelandic and the use of the proprial article as a topic management device. Juliane Tiemann investigates adjective position in Old Norwegian. Alexander Pfaff and George Walkden then take a broader view of adjectival articles in early Germanic, before Alexander Pfaff rounds off the volume with a study of a peculiar class of adjectives, the so-called positional
Weniger anzeigenSynopsis: The approximately 500 Bantu languages spoken across vast areas of Central, Eastern and Southern Africa are united by the presence of a number of broad typological similarities, including, for example, complex noun class system and agglutinative verbal morphology. However, the languages also exhibit a high degree of micro-variation. Recent work has demonstrated fine-grained morphosyntactic variation across many Bantu languages focusing on grammatical topics such as double object constructions, inversion constructions, or object marking, adopting formal, comparative and typological perspectives.
Continuing in this vein, this volume builds on the momentum of the dynamic field of morphosyntactic variation in Bantu and contributes to the growing body of work which examines morphosyntactic variation, with a regional focus on the Bantu languages of East Africa. The East African region is characterized by high linguistic complexity in terms of the number of languages spoken, in terms of the four different linguistic phyla present, and in terms of the inherent sociolinguistic dynamics.
The current volume explores this complexity further by bringing together studies which investigate features of morphosyntax of an individual language as well as those which develop an in-depth examination of a single morphosyntactic phenomena in a small sample of languages.
The book seeks also to add to the descriptive status of the languages under examination, as well as raising questions relating to language, language contact, language change, and micro-variation in related languages spoken in close geographic proximity.
Weniger anzeigenSynopsis: This book is an investigation into aspects of prosody, intonation and the prosody-syntax interface in Totoli, an endangered Austronesian language. With a strongly data-driven approach, the study integrates a combination of experimental evidence from both production and perception with corpus-based evidence through descriptive and inferential statistics.
The study takes the prime structuring unit of speech – the Intonation Unit – as its principal unit of investigation. It presents a thorough description of the IU, develops an intonational model of it, and investigates the syntactic units it contains. The author argues that the data is best analysed by assuming recursive embedding of Intonation Units into Compound Intonation Units.
This research represents a significant advancement in our understanding of the nature of prosodic systems found in the languages of the region and in intonational systems in general. It is one of the few investigations into the intonation of Austronesian languages and its analytical proposals are relevant both to prosodic theory and to phonological typology.
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