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Showing 1 to 20 of 116 for “"German language"”.
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Solidarity and power in German : language as political action : a contribution to the socio-cultural history of the German language
Germany's latest attempt at unification raises again the question of German nationhood and nationality. The present study examines the links between the development of the German language and the political history of Germany, principally in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By examining the …
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The Literary Response of German-Language Authors to Selma Lagerlof
… It also adds to our knowledge of Scandinavian-German literary relations during the early years of this century. Since the German writers who responded to Lagerlof not only, in most instances, are central to the literary canon but also represent widely divergent literary orientations, Lagerlof's …
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Analysing Contemporary German-Language Literature through a Translingual-Intermedial Framework
… and Latin American writers living and working in Germany. This dissertation seeks to fill this gap through an application of translingual analytical paradigms to three Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking writers: José F. A. Oliver (born in Hausach to Spanish Gastarbeiter parents in 1961), Bettina …
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From Baader to Prada The Representation of Urban Terrorism in German-Language Film
… the Red Army Faction (RAF) experienced by West Germany in the 1970s, and its legacy. At the height of its activity, the RAF violently shook the foundations of postwar German democracy with a string of politically motivated attacks against the Federal Republic which brought the state's democratic …
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Landeskunde: Its Role and Functions in the Irish German Language Classroom An Empirical Study
… forward throughout the development of foreign language teaching regarding the composition of Landeskunde, it’s aims and functions. The development of Landeskunde and its changing role within the Communicative Approach and the Intercultural Approach is also investigated. Chapter two looks at the …
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Validation of a German Language Placement Test Based on a Modified C -Test Procedure
… modified C-test procedure might be an effective language testing procedure that is more compatible with current validity theory than the original C-test procedure.
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"There is a place where the dreams live" : portrayals of the South Sea in German language tourist brochures
… situational approach, I critically read eighteen German language travel catalogues. The South Sea's core place image emerges as the enduring dream of a feminised, exotic yet comforting paradise. This Fernweh dream occupies the outermost margin of eurocentric symbolic and geographic imagination. My …
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Teaching and learning German language and culture in higher education in Britain:problems, challenges and didactical implications. A case study
… the institutionalised teaching and learning of German language and culture in the context of German Studies in British Higher Education (HE). This investigation focuses on teaching and learning experiences in one department of German Studies in the UK, which is the micro-context of the present …
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Structural changes observed in the German language as used in Namibia: A study on the basis of texts from the Allgemeinen Zeitung
… study titled Structural changes observed in the German language as used in Namibia: A study on the basis of texts from the Allgemeinen Zeitung analyses and examines the structural changes in German Language as it is used in Namibia. The German language found its way to Namibia during the German …
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Ideologies, Histories, and Representations of Work and Labour in Contemporary German-Language Literature: Forced Labour, Sex Work, and State Socialist Labour Ideologies
… dissertation is concerned with the ways in which German-language authors writing between the last third of the twentieth century and now engage with histories, ideologies, and forms of work and labour that exist outside of the realm of conventional wage labour. My specific areas of focus are …
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Language background and use among the German minority in Poland
The German minority in Poland has a special history that includes many changes, many difficulties, but also many victories. To further understand this group of people, their background, and their use of the German language, this study first examines the multiple population shifts among the German …
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Englische Ausdrücke in der deutschsprachigen Werbung zwischen den Jahren 2000 und 2021
… study of seven selected English expressions in German-language advertising, between the years 2000 and 2021. The empirical study is based on a survey. The introduction explains the choice of the topic and describes the course and goal of the work. In the first, theoretical part, all the …
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Gender and style in the translation and reception of Ingeborg Bachmann’s ‘Todesarten’ texts
… significantly influenced the descriptions by German-language critics in the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s of the author herself, as well as their evaluations of her work. Bachmann’s extended metaphors, ambiguity, iconicity, transitivity structures and intertextuality suggest that her prose texts, and …
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"""For God, Mac, and country"": The political worlds of midwestern Germans during the Civil War era"
German immigrants residing in the Old Northwest during the Civil War enjoyed a rich and unique political culture. As Democrats and as foreign-born citizens, German midwesterners remained actively involved in party politics throughout the Civil War. German Democrats focused on the draft, civil …
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The Lieder of Richard Strauss
… lines, his opera and song and to see how the German language affects or does not affect the vocal line of the Lieder.
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Crossing the lexicon: Anglicisms in the German hip hop community
The influence of English on German has been an ongoing subject of intense popular and academic interest in the German sphere. In order to better understand this language contact situation, this research project investigates anglicisms—instances of English language material in a German language …
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Vokiečių kalbos mokymo(si) motyvacija mokykloje /
… is the motivation of learning and teaching German as a foreign language in Lithuanian schools. The research aims to find out what motivational factors have the greatest impact on the learning and teaching experiences of the German language. This study utilised a qualitative research design …
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German literature and education for conscientization
… a critical pedagogical framework to teaching German literature to Maltese adolescents at Sixth Form level - through the combination of critical content and pedagogy, as advocated by the critical pedagogists themselves. This critical approach to teaching will thus serve not only to teach …
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An intercultural teambuilding training program designed for a corporate multicultural team in the U.S. and Germany
… for the most part of U.S. Americans and Germans based in either Boston, MA, or Frankfurt, Germany. The overall objective of the workshops was to help raise awareness and gain understanding about cultural variables that affect the performance of a multicultural team. The desired outcome of …
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