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{"title":"The study of World Englishes: Impulses from beyond linguistics","authors":"C. Mair","doi":"10.24053/aaa-2023-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24053/aaa-2023-0001","url":null,"abstract":"The paper argues that, in view of the current boom in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and related developments of globalisation, research on English as a World Language should pay more attention to economic factors. Sociolinguistic models of postcolonial English which emphasise speakers’ desires to express new local identities as the driving force behind the ongoing differentiation of English remain valid, but should be refined through engaging with work on the political economy of language and language planning. The potential benefits of such dialogue across disciplinary boundaries are illustrated in two brief case studies on English in India and in sub-Saharan Africa (where the focus is on recent realignments in the traditional English and French zones of linguistic influence). The paper concludes that establishing English as the global lingua franca for a multilingual world and for multilingual speakers makes economic and political sense for the 21st century world. Multilingualism of the ‘English Plus X’ type should also be embraced by global citizens whose native language is English.","PeriodicalId":41564,"journal":{"name":"AAA-ARBEITEN AUS ANGLISTIK UND AMERIKANISTIK","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49375789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Current perspectives on Learner Corpus Research","authors":"M. Callies","doi":"10.24053/aaa-2023-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24053/aaa-2023-0002","url":null,"abstract":"Learner Corpus Research (LCR) is a relative newcomer to the scene of research paradigms and methodologies within applied linguistics and second language acquisition (SLA) research. In addition to other types of data that have traditionally been used in SLA research, learner corpora provide large-scale principled collections of authentic, continuous and contextualized language use by foreign/second language (L2) learners that are stored in electronic format. They enable the systematic and (semi-)automatic extraction, visualization and analysis of large amounts of learner data in a way that was not possible before. Access to and analysis of learner corpus data is greatly facilitated by the digital medium, and the sheer quantity of data can help to explore SLA phenomena from non-experimental perspectives (Callies 2015). Although the majority of learner corpora may appear relatively small in size when compared to large reference corpora of several major European languages that comprise billions of words of text, they contain datasets for general use that are still many times larger than the oftentimes narrow(er) datasets collected in SLA research through more strictly controlled elicitation techniques. LCR as a field only emerged and became visible at the turn of the 1990s in the context of the popularization of corpus linguistics at large, but has rapidly evolved and grown in scope and sophistication over the past three to four decades. It now bears all signs of an established discipline: it has an academic journal, the International Journal of Learner Corpus Research, that has been publishing studies in LCR since 2013; two handbooks that survey the field and its links to the major neighbouring disciplines of corpus linguistics, SLA and language teaching (Granger, Gilquin and Meunier, eds., 2015; Tracy-Ventura and Paquot, eds., 2021); and a biennial, international conference that has been organised since 2011 under the aegis of the field’s own professional organisation, the Learner Corpus Association, officially founded in 2013. Because of its origin, LCR has initially been a relatively European-centred research field but has in the meantime made significant inroads into North America, South Africa (van Rooy 2019) and the Asia-Pacific region (Jung 2022). It is by now a vibrant and growing international community. This paper provides some perspectives on recent and current achievements and developments in the field, highlights several new trends and initiatives, but also discusses some challenges. The focus will be on LCR and the study of learner English.","PeriodicalId":41564,"journal":{"name":"AAA-ARBEITEN AUS ANGLISTIK UND AMERIKANISTIK","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42593056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Heinz Tschachler, Washington Irving and the fantasy of masculinity. Escaping the woman within. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2022","authors":"Walter Grünzweig","doi":"10.24053/aaa-2023-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24053/aaa-2023-0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41564,"journal":{"name":"AAA-ARBEITEN AUS ANGLISTIK UND AMERIKANISTIK","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47397912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Secrets, leaks and the novel. Writers, British intelligence and the public sphere after World War Two","authors":"Jago Morrison, A. Burton","doi":"10.24053/aaa-2023-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24053/aaa-2023-0004","url":null,"abstract":"This article makes a pioneering effort to explore the relationship between spy fiction, intelligence and the public sphere in Britain after World War Two. The secret British achievements of code-breaking, atomic science and deception in the World War of 1939–45 were outstanding. Similarly, the British contribution to spy fiction in the twentieth century has been seen as exceptional. However, the complex interconnections between the history and fictions of intelligence in the post-war decades have never been closely examined. This is a period during which the British state aggressively sought to suppress memoirs and histories written by wartime secret warriors. Other writers who chose to disclose aspects of their intelligence work through the idiom of spy fiction, however, met with a rather different response. In this period, we argue therefore, the relatively unpoliced spy story emerged as a tolerated form of leakage for wartime secrets. The public reputation of the British security establishment underwent a serious decline in the post-war years, in the wake of successive scandals and defections. British intelligence made a number of attempts to repair its battered image in this era, for example publicising a key case involving a Soviet double agent working for the West. However, fiction remained a key terrain on which an ongoing battle for the reputation of British intelligence continued to be fought out. From the early 1960s a significant new form began to emerge: the ‘New Realism’ of John le Carré. Widely accepted as an authentic image of the British intelligence ‘circus,’ these stories portrayed the British secret state in a strikingly harsh and revealing light. Working directly in response to le Carré, writers like John Bingham sought to counter with an altogether more positive impression of secret service. Again, the spy novel provided a key platform on which struggles over the public image of intelligence were fought out. In this way the essay draws together the history and fictions of the post-war decades to reveal an intimate correspondence between writers, secret service and the public understanding of intelligence.","PeriodicalId":41564,"journal":{"name":"AAA-ARBEITEN AUS ANGLISTIK UND AMERIKANISTIK","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47333292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ELT in the digitale age: We have come a long way","authors":"Thomas A. Stasser","doi":"10.24053/aaa-2023-0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24053/aaa-2023-0006","url":null,"abstract":"Educational Applications and Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered tools have been a source of creativity but also controversy in recent years, also in the EFL classroom. From questions of spell checkers to automated text-generating technologies, educators and researchers alike have debated the utility and limitations of AI-powered tools. This paper looks at the historical development of educational technology, mainly the role of AI in ELT and argues for a creative engineering approach to language learning that leverages the best of the analogue and digital world. Taking the example of the Midjourney bot, this article outlines how AI-powered tools can be used as an assistive catalyst for teaching, such as providing linear remedial drills, grading cloze exercises, analyzing texts, but also generating fully coherent, grammatically, and lexically sound texts. It also identifies key competencies, such as interdependency, required to effectively use AI-powered tools. These skills include being able to use language chunks produced by the AI to adapt and remix texts for new activities and contexts, a skill referred to as “creative engineering”. Drawing on examples from specific EFL teaching scenarios, this paper emphasizes the need for teachers to understand and use AI-powered tools in their teaching, pointing to their potential to elevate language learning in the 21st century ELT classroom.","PeriodicalId":41564,"journal":{"name":"AAA-ARBEITEN AUS ANGLISTIK UND AMERIKANISTIK","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44194066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“We’re always playing ghosts”. A hauntological reading of Winsome Pinnock’s drama Rockets and Blue Lights","authors":"C. Singer","doi":"10.24053/aaa-2023-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24053/aaa-2023-0003","url":null,"abstract":"The Zong-massacre of 1781, when 133 enslaved women, men and children were thrown overboard a slave ship by British crewmembers, has turned into a central event in the discussion and commemoration of the slave trade. Literary texts from poems such as David Dabydeen’s Turner and NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! to novels like Fred D’Aguiar’s Feeding the Ghosts and Lawrence Scott’s Dangerous Freedom (2021) probe different ways of approaching the silences surrounding the crime as well as the ensuing court cases in which the slave ship’s owners demanded compensation for their ‘lost property,’ rather than facing charges of murder. In this article, I will discuss Winsome Pinnock’s Rockets and Blue Lights (2021), which not only revolves around the Zong-massacre but approaches the slave trade by employing discourses and images related to the theoretical concepts of hauntology. Pinnock deconstructs hegemonic historiographies of the slave trade and counters British postcolonial amnesia by means of, what I would like to call, spectral temporalities. These temporalities are presented as non-linear and a-chronological. Full of revenants of the past, in Jacques Derrida’s terms, the play’s trans-temporal plots address the gaps and silences in British Histories. Firstly, this article will outline the Zong massacre and its thematic resurgence in contemporary literature and culture. Secondly, I will read Pinnock’s play with theories of hauntology and spectral temporality. Thirdly, this article will discuss how Rockets and Blue Lights explicitly addresses and dramatizes this paradox double-nature of the presence of the past on the theatre-stage.","PeriodicalId":41564,"journal":{"name":"AAA-ARBEITEN AUS ANGLISTIK UND AMERIKANISTIK","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49493064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Authors of everyday life. Towards learning with literary learner texts in English language education","authors":"D. Becker, Frauke Matz","doi":"10.24053/aaa-2023-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24053/aaa-2023-0005","url":null,"abstract":"In the digital realm of the 21st century, the production and distribution of literature has changed drastically; writing literary texts is no longer a privilege of professional authors and publishers but has transformed into a participatory practice, with non-professional writers sharing their own literary narratives via social media platforms. This digital practice has become particularly relevant among teenagers and young adults as they increasingly use the opportunity of producing and sharing their own literary texts as a means of negotiating their identities and the social environments around them. Literature, thus, enables teenagers to participate in society by voicing their own personal and social concerns. Given their value in the context of engaging in these meaning-making processes on the one hand, and the role and importance of English as one of the lingua francas in digital realms on the other, these digital literary practices also need to be reflected in contemporary English language education (ELE). However, this hardly seems to be the case so far. Although literary texts still play a very prominent role, particularly in English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms in Germany, current approaches to learning with literature still appear to perceive learners as recipients of professional literary texts, while production-oriented perspectives on teenagers as authors of their everyday lives, which go beyond post-reading creative tasks, seem to hold a most marginal position. Thus, digital texts written by learners (i.e., literary learner texts) are hardly considered as source texts. This theoretical contribution argues that contemporary practices of learning with literature need to be complemented by also focusing on literary works created by learners on multiple levels of classroom action. Drawing on interdisciplinary concepts, it explores the relevance of this focus in detail and makes first suggestions for framing literature classrooms based on literary learner texts.","PeriodicalId":41564,"journal":{"name":"AAA-ARBEITEN AUS ANGLISTIK UND AMERIKANISTIK","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47935950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Franz Karl Stanzel, Gratwanderung zwischen Facta und Ficta. Ziele, Zufälle und Umwege in meiner Karriere als anglistischer Literaturwissenschafter. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2022","authors":"Heinz Tschachler","doi":"10.24053/aaa-2023-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24053/aaa-2023-0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41564,"journal":{"name":"AAA-ARBEITEN AUS ANGLISTIK UND AMERIKANISTIK","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43253165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Mathematician as Hero in Audio-Visual Media","authors":"R. Haynes, Raymond Haynes","doi":"10.24053/aaa-2022-0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24053/aaa-2022-0011","url":null,"abstract":"Compared with fiction, audio-visual media both enhance opportunities and impose constraints on the representation of scientist characters. This is true both in depicting the inner life of scientists and in presenting credibly what they actually do when ‘doing science’. Mathematics is arguably the most non-visual and non-verbal of sciences, as the science lacks even the visual apparatus of chemistry. In addition, mathematical symbols and formulae are the most arcane to non-scientists. Thus, the problem for film-makers is the question of how to engage and maintain audience interest while presenting the mathematicians’ experience faithfully and avoiding ‘information dump’. In this article, we focus on the depiction of mathematicians in film, television, and recorded TED talks and the success (or otherwise) of their representation.","PeriodicalId":41564,"journal":{"name":"AAA-ARBEITEN AUS ANGLISTIK UND AMERIKANISTIK","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45416274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction Science and Popular Audio-Visual Media","authors":"Michael Fuchs, Martin Butler","doi":"10.24053/aaa-2022-0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24053/aaa-2022-0010","url":null,"abstract":"Our introduction to this special issue on science and popular audio-visual media sheds light on the intricate interconnections between science (and discourses about science) and different popular audio-visual media. Focusing on the topics of global warming and the ongoing pandemic, on the one hand, and the genres of horror, science fiction, and fantasy, on the other, we illustrate some functions of science and scientists in audio-visual media and also turn to the history of photography and motion pictures and their significance as both scientific tools and entertainment media, before briefly introducing the individual essays included in this issue.","PeriodicalId":41564,"journal":{"name":"AAA-ARBEITEN AUS ANGLISTIK UND AMERIKANISTIK","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41954660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}