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Basic Concepts of Discourse Analysis
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Frankfurt (Main) (Institut für England- und Amerikastudien), course: Introduction to Language and Language Learning, 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This paper has been designed to provide an efficient overview of theoretical discourse analysis by discussing the following questions: - What is discourse analysis - defining the difference between the terms text and discourse and discourse analysis itself. As well as: What are the basic concepts and aspects of discourse analysis - taking a closer look at context, coherence, the importance of background knowledge and the differences between spoken and written language. And finally: What are the uses of discourse analysis - investigating on the problem of application and social relevance of discourse analysis.
Anglicisms and their Influence on Other Languages
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,3, University of Frankfurt (Main) (Institut für England- und Amerikastudien), course: Magisterprüfung, 5 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This essay was written as an elaboration for my final oral exam in winter term 2008/2009. It is supposed to give information about the importance of the lish language as a global language and the process of direct loaning as a result, the process of indirect loaning, pseudo and hybrid anglicisms, and aspects of direct and indirect loan coinage. It will also investigate on the prestige status of English and the loaning of sayings, phrases and idioms, and the role of the trend of internationalisation of languages like German or France. It will conclude with an attempt to approach the question whether English will make other es obsolete in the future.
Linguistic Aspects in Machine Translation
Project Report from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 1,3, University of Frankfurt (Main) (Institut f r England und Amerikastudien), course: Translation and Intercultural Communication, 26 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This paper will give a general overview of the venture that is machine translation with particular focus on linguistic aspects. It will display history of MT and will deal with some of the major issues in the realisation of MT like the difficulty of translating prepositions or integrating semantics, as well as the importance of real world knowledge. To illustrate these difficulties with examples on ...
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
Essay from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, University of Frankfurt (Main) (Institut für England- und Amerikastudien), course: Discourses of Slavery, 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This essay has been written as an elaboration of my presentation of the subject "Transatlantic Slave Trade" in the seminar "Discourses of Slavery" in summer term 2007. It is supposed to give essential information concerning the subject. It involves investigations on how the Atlantic Triangle worked (goods, pants, figures), the history of the Slave Trade with particular focus on the 'Middle Passage' (circumstances, figures) as well as negative and 'positive' long term effects of the slave trade on the Americas and on Africa. It concludes with a n overview of important dates related to the Transatlantic Slave Trade. [...]
Die Leistungen und Nicht-Leistungen der Kultur gemäß Freud
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Allgemeine Psychologie, Note: 1,0, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (Institut für England- und Amerikastudien), Veranstaltung: Einführung in die Amerikanische Kultur und Kulturwissenschaft, 7 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Ausarbeitung bezieht sich auf Sigmund Freuds Aufsatz "Das Unbehagen in der Kultur" (1929). Sie beinhaltet eine kurze Biografie Freuds und hebt die besonderen Umstände hervor, die die Entstehung der Schrift umgaben. Außerdem wird "Das Unbehagen in der Kultur" auf folgende Fragestellungen hin untersucht: Worin sieht Freud die Ursache für die Bedingung des Unbehagens in der Kultur? Warum ist der Mensch laut Freud trotz Kultur nicht glücklich? Worin besteht ihm gemäß die Leistung der Kultur? Was leistet sie nicht?
World English(es) on the Examples of India and Nigeria
This paper discusses Indian and West African English as well as English as a global medium
Der Indian New Deal
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Kultur und Landeskunde, Note: 2,0, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (Institut für Historische Ethnologie), Veranstaltung: Politik im indigenen Nordamerika, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die in dieser Arbeit behandelten Aspekte lauten wie folgt: - Klärung der Terminologie ‘Indianer’, ‘Stamm’ und ‘indigen’, mit dem Ziel, einen diplomatischen Denkansatz anzusteuern; - Überblick sowohl über die Vorgeschichte, als auch über die Durchführung des 'Indian Reorganization Act' (IRA) im Zuge des 'Indian New Deal' durch John Collier; - schwerpunktmäßige historische Darstellung der 'Indian Congresses' (T...
Andreas Schulze: On Stage
ON STAGE is the title of Andreas Schulze's exhibition, with which he turns Kunsthalle Nü rnberg into a stage for his surreal visual worlds. Time and again, the great dazzling world of entertainment coincides with trivial everyday aesthetics, art-historical references collide with banal ornaments and knickknack. Large-format images of neat-looking car bodies jostle bumper to bumper for a photograph for a folding panel of a room-filling traffic jam. But Andreas Schulze is taking us for a ride; his images of mobility, progress, dynamism, and status look almost childlike. The artist has always had an eye for the absurdities of our everyday lives. In 1989, he still said that the avant-garde move...
Bastian Hoffmann: Radical Negation
Guided by Dadaist, kinetic and conceptual formal language, the work of Colognebased artist Bastian Hoffmann (*1983) plays an ambivalent game with the everyday: Walls that have a dynamic life of their own, or puddles whose supposed casualness is subject to stringent planning. Each of his works pulls away from fixed expectations and instead replaces them with (sometimes playful and humorous) moments resulting from artistic inspiration. Bastian Hoffmann not only scrutinises the general materiality of the objects he uses. Rather he shows that this materiality, as well as a supposedly normal contextualisation of the objects, is constructed through handling and treatment. Or with his words: As an ...
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