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{"title":"2. Public Information Messages: A Contrastive Genre Analysis of State-Citizen Communication","authors":"A. Barron","doi":"10.1515/east-2016-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/east-2016-0003","url":null,"abstract":"Public information messages are an important means of state-citizen communication in today’s societies. Using this genre, citizens are directed to “never ever drink and drive”, to “slow down” and to “learn to say no”. Yet, this book presents the first in-depth analysis of public information messages from a linguistic perspective, and indeed also from a cross-cultural perspective. Specifically, the study, adopting genre analysis, contrasts a corpus of state-run national public information campaigns in Germany and Ireland. A taxonomy of moves is developed inductively and the interactional features of the genre are analysed and related to the context of use. The comprehensive discussion of theoretical and methodological issues, the in-depth analysis and the extensive bibliography make this book of interest to researchers and students in (contrastive) discourse analysis, (cross-cultural) pragmatics, contrastive rhetoric, advertising, social psychology, mass communication and media studies. Copy-writers will also profit from the insights gained, particularly within the context of an increase in Europe-wide public information campaigns.","PeriodicalId":139049,"journal":{"name":"English and American Studies in German","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129204787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"EDITORIAL NOTE","authors":"Paul Meyer","doi":"10.1515/9783110239393.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110239393.x","url":null,"abstract":"The author’s summaries in this issue of EASG cover book-length studies that appeared in 2010 or earlier in the German-speaking countries. Our policy is to document the annual work in English and American studies in these countries as completely as possible. We longer confi ne ourselves to German-language publications. Most of the treatises and doctoral dissertations summarized are available in book form. For dissertations unpublished but offi cially deposited, the titles to the summaries locate the universities of origin for interlibrary loans. EASG also includes editors’ summaries of annuals, anthologies, casebooks, Festschriften, manuals, conference proceedings etc. Apart from the work of English and American studies departments, we have also been trying to include studies concerning English-speaking countries from other disciplines, thereby hoping to increase mutual visibility and foster interdisciplinary dialogue. The editorial team wishes to express gratitude to all contributors, including those to the past volumes. A very special expression of gratitude and farewell goes to Hermine RoentgenShoukry, who retired in November 2010. For the last few years, she has worked assiduously for the project. Her contribution was invaluable in the acquisition of contributions, in keeping in touch with contributors and in maintaining a pleasant atmosphere among the team in times of stress. Knowing we are all fallible human beings, we would also like to apologize for all errors and oversights that could not be avoided for all our enthusiasm and good will. They will, hopefully, be pointed out to us by observant readers in the near future. Last but not least, we wish to thank the publishing house for the opportunity to continue this useful publication. We would like to encourage all our readers to hand in summaries of their book publications as soon as possible and especially to point out to young graduates of English and American studies in German-speaking countries this opportunity of documenting and publicising their publications.","PeriodicalId":139049,"journal":{"name":"English and American Studies in German","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130619806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"10. Talk by television viewers watching live football matches: coherence through interactionality, intertextuality, and multimodality.","authors":"Cornelia Gerhardt","doi":"10.1515/9783484431225.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783484431225.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":139049,"journal":{"name":"English and American Studies in German","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116823874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"49. Stories of Empire: narrative strategies for the legitimation of an imperial world order.","authors":"Christa Knellwolf King, M. Rubik","doi":"10.1515/9783484431225.91_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783484431225.91_1","url":null,"abstract":"By utilising cognitive and narrative methodology to interpret the discourses that established and challenged colonialist mentalities, this collection of essays outlines new approaches to the understanding of the imaginary foundations of empire. Its multidisciplinary approaches to the cross-fertilisations between historical documents and fi ctional projections shed light on the techniques that were used to transform the abstract conception of empire into a concrete set of relationships that legitimated colonialist supremacy over the subjugated parts of the world. The contributors to this volume identify a number of typical stories that gave voice to contemporary views about the respective place of different cultures on a rigidly defi ned hierarchy of societal progress and civilisation. Analyses of narrative patterns, that is formulae for imperial story telling and postcolonial subversions, are complemented with interpretations of prominent metaphors and generic conventions that implied that colonised peoples were in need of imperial guidance. The essays offer innovative discussions of historical documents, travel writing, and literary works that favoured and challenged imperial mentalities.","PeriodicalId":139049,"journal":{"name":"English and American Studies in German","volume":"2009 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130427427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"27. Literature and values: literature as a medium for representing, disseminating and constructing norms and values.","authors":"S. Baumbach, H. Grabes, Ansgar Nünning","doi":"10.1515/9783484431225.48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783484431225.48","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":139049,"journal":{"name":"English and American Studies in German","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134134171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"86. The bilingual reform. A paradigm shift in foreign language teaching.","authors":"W. Butzkamm, J. Caldwell","doi":"10.1515/9783484431225.152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783484431225.152","url":null,"abstract":"This work has been written expressly to debunk an unjustifi ed myth that has permeated foreign and second language teaching in regular classrooms for decades to the evidenced detriment of the learning in such classrooms. It is a myth, founded on no sustainable theoretical basis, that has been promulgated both offi cially and through an ingrained tradition: the mother tongue of the L2 learner is asserted or understood to be a serious impediment to learning the new language. The consequent corollary is that it should be excluded systematically from the L2 classroom. The book addresses this gross error, focussing on the regular foreign language classroom with its necessarily limited time, usually in a range from four to six hours per week in toto. The situation is certainly not so dire in full immersion contexts, particularly where a young immigrant child is learning the new language and through the new language and living in the target language environment, though the approach suggested for the effective use of the mother tongue still has much to offer such contexts where actual lessons are involved. The book expounds a tightly justifi ed praxis for mother tongue use in the classroom, drawing on both the relevant theories which demonstrably support its use and practical classroom strategies that have been evolved by practitioners and researchers. The emphasis is on effective and effi cient use of the mother tongue in carefully defi ned circumstances. The authors insist that the L2 must prevail as the predominant medium and working language of the classroom, since it would be nonsense to suggest that one learns a language by mainly speaking another. However, ignoring (1) the conceptual knowledge imbedded in the mother tongue, (2) the communicative skills developed via the mother tongue, and (3) the understandings about how language works that the learner has been developing since birth is equally nonsense. In a deep sense, we only learn language once, since our fi rst language – and a second language acquired early like a mother tongue – lays the foundations for further language learning. It makes excellent biological sense for a new language to piggyback on this open channel of communication. From research evidence drawn from many sources, both empirical and qualitative, it is shown that the absence of meaning where purely monolingual approaches have been used has inevitably resulted in disillusionment and impeded progress for the vast majority of such learners. So at a fi rst level, the mother","PeriodicalId":139049,"journal":{"name":"English and American Studies in German","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132620663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"38. Wolfgang Clemen im Kontext seiner Zeit: Ein Beitrag zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte vor und nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg [Wolfgang Clemen in context: studies concerning the history of German scholarship before and after the Second World War].","authors":"Ina Schabert, Andreas Höfele, M. Pfister","doi":"10.1515/9783484431225.66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783484431225.66","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":139049,"journal":{"name":"English and American Studies in German","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126598801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"58. Theories and texts. For students by students.","authors":"Walter W. Hölbling, Justine Tally","doi":"10.1515/9783484431225.105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783484431225.105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":139049,"journal":{"name":"English and American Studies in German","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130730153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"15. Focus on non-native Englishes. Anglistik (Special Issue) 20(2).","authors":"C. Bongartz, Joybrato Mukherjee","doi":"10.1515/9783484431225.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783484431225.27","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":139049,"journal":{"name":"English and American Studies in German","volume":"2009 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131257858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"44. Figuren und Figurenwelten: Eine Untersuchung zum Erzählwerk von Jane Austen und Charles Dickens [Characters and character worlds: an examination of the narrative prose of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens].","authors":"Andrea Stiebritz","doi":"10.1515/9783484431225.78","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783484431225.78","url":null,"abstract":"The volume traces the ramifi cations of this momentous change by discussing Georgics, local poetry, travel accounts, melodramas, tales, novels and romances from the early 18th century to the1850s ; among the works analysed in detail are Dyer’s Fleece, Jago’s Edge Hill, Wordsworth’s Excursion (Books 8 and 9), industrial melodramas (Walker’s Factory Lad), as well as tales, romances and novels by Jane Marcet, Harriet Martineau, Charles Tayler, G.M.W. Reynolds, Charlotte Elizabeth, Charles Kingsley (Alton Locke), Frances Trollope (Michael Armstrong), Benjamin Disraeli (Sybil), Elizabeth Gaskell (Mary Barton; North and South) and Charles Dickens (Hard Times). The methodological approach is based on the concept of “Funktionsgeschichte”, which was developed by Erwin Wolff, Wolfgang Iser and others; this approach distinguishes itself from others by focusing above all on the way in which literature relates to other discourses, and by emphasising this relational aspect rather than the belief that all literary texts carry “messages” or represent (political) positions: thus Elizabeth Gaskell’s and Dickens’ industrial novels are shown to invite their readers to experience new and differing points of view and, by refl ecting upon them, come to their own conclusions, rather than having to accept ready-made answers from the authors.","PeriodicalId":139049,"journal":{"name":"English and American Studies in German","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131409560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}