09 Philosophisch-historische Fakultät

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    Alternation preferences affect focus marking in German and English differently
    (2023) Schauffler, Nadja
    This study investigates the interplay between alternation preferences and corrective focus marking in the production of German and English speakers. Both languages prefer an alternation of strong and weak, and both use pitch accenting to indicate focus structure. The objective of the study is to determine whether the preference for rhythmic alternation can account for variations in the prosodic marking of focus. Contrary to previous claims, the results obtained from three production experiments indicate that rhythmic adjustment strategies do occur during focus marking. However, despite the similarities between the two languages, they employ different strategies when alternation and focus marking work in opposite directions. German speakers often employ a melodic alternation of high and low by realizing the first of two adjacent focus accents with a rising pitch accent (L*H), while English speakers frequently omit the first focus accent in clash contexts. This finding is further supported by a second experiment that investigates pitch accent clashes in rhythm rule contexts under various focus environments. The findings suggest that the preference for alternation can influence the prosodic marking of focus and contributes to variation in the realization of information-structure categories.
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    World chess champion and favourite of Hans Frank? : assessing Alexander Alekhine’s closeness to the National Socialist regime
    (Berlin : Christian Rohrer, 2021) Rohrer, Christian; Pickerill, Emily (Übersetzerin)
    Whether Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946) was a “Nazi” is a question the chess community has been asking for decades. This historiographical study examines the closeness of the fourth world chess champion in history to the National Socialist regime. New archival evidence leads directly to the Generalgouvernement, where Alekhine had a dubious connection to the Generalgouverneur Hans Frank: a chess lover and war criminal at the same time. Relegating Alekhine to one side or the other is misleading, since the contextual, causal, logical and chronological connections are far more complex. In the present study, Alekhine’s steps through Europe during the Second World War are brought into a sufficiently coherent sequence and placed in the relevant, equally specific chess-historical and general historical contexts. The result is a new, highly differentiated view of the last years of Alexander Alekhine’s life.
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    Curbad Cannstatt : Entwicklung der Kurmetropole
    (2022) Grimm, Maximilian Friedrich
    Diese Arbeit behandelt die kulturhistorische und städtebauliche Entwicklung eines Kurorts, der zugleich ältester sowie bevölkerungsreichster Stadtbezirk in Stuttgart und überdies industrialisiert ist. Zusätzlich wird die Problematik von Großstädten mit Kurortstruktur, Bädergeschichte und Wellnesstourismus in einem Vergleich untersucht. Im Kontext der gesunden Urbanisierung (Ökostadt/Smart City usw.) sollten die traditionellen Kurstädte in der Stadtplanung allgemein Vorbilder sein. Metropolen mit Kurbetrieb können in ihrer Entwicklung historisch wie gegenwärtig beispielhaft sein.
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    Intonational features of spontaneous narrations in monolingual and heritage Russian in the U.S. : an exploration of the RUEG corpus
    (2023) Zerbian, Sabine; Zuban, Yulia; Klotz, Martin
    This article presents RuPro, a new corpus resource of prosodically annotated speech by Russian heritage speakers in the U.S. and monolingually raised Russian speakers. The corpus contains data elicited in formal and informal communicative situations, by male/female and adolescent/adult speakers. The resource is presented with its architecture and annotation, and it is shown how it is used for the analysis of intonational features of spontaneous mono- and bilingual Russian speech. The analyses investigate the length of intonation phrases, types and number of pitch accents, and boundary tones. It emerges that the speaker groups do not differ in the inventory of pitch accents and boundary tones or in the relative frequency of these tonal events. However, they do differ in the length of intonation phrases (IPs), with heritage speakers showing shorter IPs also in the informal communicative situation. Both groups also differ concerning the number of pitch accents used on content words, with heritage speakers using more pitch accents than monolingually raised speakers. The results are discussed with respect to register differentiation and differences in prosodic density across both speaker groups.
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    New insights into the typology of motion in the history of French: evidence from the manner verb lexicon
    (2024) Piccione, Mariapaola; Rainsford, Thomas
    Our study aims to investigate the Talmyan typology of motion encoding in the history of French focusing on testing Slobin’s (1997, 2004) hypothesis stating that the proportion of manner verbs is greater in s-framed languages and Schøsler’s (2008) hypothesis stating that the difference between s-framed and v-framed languages is to be found in the use of manner verbs and that the nature of the texts might play a role. Our study is methodologically innovative since it tests these hypotheses against a very large dataset using tailored measures. Our findings show an increase in manner saliency (as defined in Slobin 1997, 2004), contrary to what we would expect. This increase in the proportion of manner verbs might be explained by a more general increase in the overall lexical diversity of motion expression in French. Moreover, our results support Schøsler’s hypothesis, as textual factors affect the use of manner verbs.
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    Old Gallo-Romance (OGR) Corpus : annotation phonologique et métrique des plus anciens textes gallo-romans
    (2022) Rainsford, Thomas
    The goal of the Old Gallo-Romance (OGR) Corpus is to unite in a single corpus all Gallo-Romance texts copied before 1130 in a form as faithful as possible to the base manuscript and annotated in depth. In particular, the corpus contains both phonological and metrical layers of annotation. In this article, we present the main innovations implemented in the OGR corpus, with special focus on the creation of a technical infrastructure which assists in the creation of this annotation and exports it in an XML format.
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    Commemorating public figures : in favour of a fictionalist position
    (2020) Berninger, Anja
    In this article, I discuss the commemoration of public figures such as Nelson Mandela and Yitzhak Rabin. In many cases, our commemoration of such figures is based on the admiration we feel for them. However, closer inspection reveals that most (if not all) of those we currently honour do not qualify as fitting objects of admiration. Yet, we may still have the strong intuition that we ought to continue commemorating them in this way. I highlight two problems that arise here: the problem that the expressed admiration does not seem appropriate with respect to the object and the problem that continued commemorative practices lead to rationality issues. In response to these issues, I suggest taking a fictionalist position with respect to commemoration. This crucially involves sharply distinguishing between commemorative and other discourses, as well as understanding the objects of our commemorative practices as fictional objects.
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    Ästhetischer Dünger : Strategien neurechter Literaturpolitik
    (2021) Hoffmann, Torsten
    Die Neue Rechte betreibt seit 2000 eine umfangreiche Literaturpolitik. Aktionen im Literaturbetrieb, eigene Publikationen sowie ein expandierender Literaturjournalismus (der neben Büchern und Zeitschriften auch Internetblogs, Podcasts und Videos umfasst) werden mit zunehmendem Geschick und Erfolg dazu genutzt, neurechte Ideologien im Kulturbetrieb zu verankern. Dies zeigte sich u.a. in der 2020 um die Schriftstellerin Monika Maron geführten Debatte, die der Aufsatz zum Ausgangspunkt nimmt, um die wichtigsten metapolitischen Strategien neurechter Literaturpolitik vorzustellen: eine Veränderung des Lektürekanons, eine politische Funktionalisierung von Ästhetik und ästhetischer Erziehung sowie literaturbetriebliche Aktionen. Abschließend wird am Streit um den Debutroman von Simon Strauß diskutiert, wie sich angemessen (auch literaturwissenschaftlich) auf neurechte Literaturpolitik reagieren lässt.