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Communication of stereotypes in the classroom: biased language use of German and Turkish adolescents
(2014)
Little is known about the linguistic transmission and maintenance of mutual stereotypes in interethnic contexts. This field study, therefore, investigated the linguistic expectancy bias (LEB) and the linguistic intergroup bias (LIB) among German and Turkish adolescents (13 to 20 years) in the school context. The LEB refers to the general phenomenon of describing stereotypes more abstractly. The LIB is the tendency to use language abstraction for in-group protective reasons. Results revealed an unmoderated LEB, whereas the LIB only occurred when foreigners were in the numerical majority, the classroom composition was perceived as a learning disadvantage, or the interethnic conflict frequency was high. These findings provide first evidence for the use of both LEB and LIB in an interethnic classroom setting.
Betrachtet man "Verfallserscheinungen" des Verbalsystems wie Übergänge stark > schwach, so zeigt sich, dass hier weder Rezenz noch Verfall zu konstatieren ist. Mit diachroner und analytischer Tiefe offenbart sich ein gestaffelter, systematischer Komplexitätsabbau, der seine Hochphase im Frühneuhochdeutschen hat und sich schlecht mit der Passivität und Chaos implizierenden Verfallsmetapher verträgt: Reorganisation statt Dekadenz. Entwicklungen wie der präteritale Numerusausgleich ('ich sang' – 'wir sungen' > 'ich sang' – 'wir sangen') oder die Herausbildung der vereinfachten Ablautalternanz X–o–o sind nie nur Komplexitätsreduktion, sondern immer auch Systematisierung; sie bremsen Verfall. Dabei ist der Gewinn an Systematik i.d.R. nicht Normautoritäten geschuldet, sondern ihm liegen sprachsystematische, kognitive und frequenzielle Faktoren zugrunde.
Einführung
(2014)
We present a technique called event mapping that allows to project text representations into event lists, produce an event table, and derive quantitative conclusions to compare the text representations. The main application of the technique is the case where two classes of text representations have been collected in two different settings (e.g., as annotations in two different formal frameworks) and we can compare the two classes with respect to their systematic differences in the event table. We illustrate how the technique works by applying it to data collected in two experiments (one using annotations in Vladimir Propp’s framework, the other using natural language summaries).
We present the German Sentiment Analysis Shared Task (GESTALT) which consists of two main tasks: Source, Subjective Expression and Target Extraction from Political Speeches (STEPS) and Subjective Phrase and Aspect Extraction from Product Reviews (StAR). Both tasks focused on fine-grained sentiment analysis, extracting aspects and targets with their associated subjective expressions in the German language. STEPS focused on political discussions from a corpus of speeches in the Swiss parliament. StAR fostered the analysis of product reviews as they are available from the website Amazon.de. Each shared task led to one participating submission, providing baselines for future editions of this task and highlighting specific challenges. The shared task homepage can be found at https://sites.google.com/site/iggsasharedtask/.
In recent years, reading has become an increasingly digital experience. In addition to various subjective impressions about the quality of reading from digital media, e.g. that it is more effortful than reading conventional books, a number of more scientific questions arise at the interface of reading research and book studies. Here, we summarize several new insights on reading effort and reading behavior on digital media. Part one reviews a study in which young and elderly adults read short texts on three different reading devices: a paper page, an e-reader and a tablet computer and answered comprehension questions about them while their eye movements and EEG were recorded. Older adults showed faster mean fixation durations and lower EEG theta band voltage density – known to covary with memory encoding and retrieval – when reading from a tablet computer in comparison to the other devices. Young adults showed comparable fixation durations and theta activity for all three devices. These results can be explained by better text discriminability (higher contrast) of the tablet computer. Older readers may benefit from this enhanced contrast because contrast sensitivity decreases with age. In the second part, we present an explorative study about the influence of font type and typographic alignment (flush left vs. justified) on reading from a tablet computer. Importantly, the eyes do not fall between – increasingly larger – spaces, as expected, but – to the contrary – use these spaces for planning an optimal fixation of the next word. In summary, the perspective presented here provides initial evidence about the fruitfulness of interdisciplinary research between experimental reading, neurocognition and book studies.
Der korpuslinguistische Ansatz des Projekts »Korpusgrammatik« eröffnet neue Perspektiven auf unsere Sprachwirklichkeit allgemein und grammatische Regularitäten im Besonderen. Der vorliegende Band klärt auf, wie man korpuslinguistisch nach dem Standard fragen kann, wie die Projektkorpora aufgebaut und in einer Korpusdatenbank erschlossen sind, wie man in einem automatischen Abfragesystem der Variabilität der Sprache zu Leibe rückt und sie sogar messbar macht, schließlich aber auch, wo die Grenzen quantitativer Korpusanalysen liegen. Pilotstudien deuten an, wie der Ansatz unsere grammatischen Horizonte erweitert und die Grammatikografie voranbringt.
Sachen charakterisieren
(2014)
Schreiben nach Engelbart
(2014)
Douglas Engelbart hat 1968 mit seinem On-Line System das erste Mal gezeigt, wie ein Computer als interaktives Schreibwerkzeug genutzt werden kann. Der Beitrag zeichnet diese Urszene der Textverarbeitung nach, beschreibt die wesentlichen Entwicklungslinien, die das digitale Schreiben seitdem genommen hat, und erläutert die zentralen Konzepte, die es zunehmend prägen: Hybridität, Multimedialität und Sozialität.
Der folgende Artikel ist ein bearbeiteter Auszug aus Henning Lobins “Engelbarts Traum. Wie der Computer uns Lesen und Schreiben abnimmt” Frankfurt am Main / New York: Campus, 2014.
This paper seeks to apply the principles of the famous 3-Circle-Model devised for the description of the ecolinguistic position of English world-wide to the position of German around the world.
On the one hand, the 3-Circle-Model for English with its "Inner", "Outer" and "Extended/Expanding" Circles was invented by Kachru in the 1980s and has since then been adopted, refined and criticised by numerous authors. The situation of German world-wide, on the other hand, has only been scarcely discussed in the past 20 years. While the global extension of German is obviously by far weaker than that of English, there are also a number of noteworthy similarities in terms of historical spread and the current position of these two languages.
This paper therefore discusses the analogies of global English and German by establishing three circles for German: the Inner Circle for the core German-speaking area, i.e. Germany, Austria and Switzerland; the Outer Circle including a number of German minority areas (mostly in Europe), and finally the Extended Circle which may be denoted as "Crumbling" rather than "Expanding". The latter comprises traditional German diaspora communities in different parts of the world which either result from migration, but also reflect the previous functions of German as a language of culture and as a lingua franca in regions like Eastern Europe. The paper argues that there are some striking structural similarities, but also shows the limits of this comparison.
Uncertain about Uncertainty: Different ways of processing fuzziness in digital humanities data
(2014)
The GeoBib project is constructing a georeferenced online bibliography of early Holocaust and camp literature published between 1933 and 1949 (Entrup et al. 2013a). Our immediate objectives include identifying the texts of interest in the first place, composing abstracts for them, researching their history, and annotating relevant places and times. Relations between persons, texts, and places will be visualized using digital maps and GIS software as an integral part of the resulting GeoBib information portal. The combination of diverse data from varying sources not only enriches our knowledge of these otherwise mostly forgotten texts; it also confronts us with vague, uncertain or even conflicting information. This situation yields challenges for all researchers involved – historians, literary scholars, geographers and computer scientists alike. While the project operates at the intersection of historical and literary studies, the involved computer scientists are in charge of providing a working environment (Entrup et al. 2013b) and processing the collected information in a way that is formalized yet capable of dealing with inevitable vagueness, uncertainty and contradictions. In this paper we focus on the problems and opportunities of encoding and processing fuzzy data.
This paper presents challenges and opportunities resulting from the application of geographical information systems (GIS) in the (digital) humanities. First, we provide an overview of the intersection and interaction between geography (and cartography), and the humanities. Second, the “GeoBib” project is used as a case study to exemplify challenges for such collaborative, interdisciplinary projects, both for the humanists and the geoscientists. Finally, we conclude with an outlook on further applications of GIS in the humanities, and the potential scientific benefit for both sides, humanities and geosciences.
Vernetzung statt Vereinheitlichung. Digitale Forschungsinfrastrukturen in den Geisteswissenschaften
(2014)
Die Entwicklung der digitalen Infrastruktur am Hamburger Zentrum für Sprachkorpora (HZSK) kann als Beispiel für die Evolution individueller technischer Einzellösungen hin zu fachspezifischen virtuellen Arbeits- und Forschungsumgebungen, die im Rahmen supranationaler Forschungsinfrastrukturen für die digitalen Geisteswissenschaften miteinander vernetzt sind, angesehen werden. Im Fokus steht im konkreten Fall des HZSK die Sicherung der langfristigen Zugänglichkeit von Forschungsdaten (multimedialen Daten gesprochener Sprache) durch die Entwicklung einer virtuellen Forschungsumgebung, die einerseits an die zentrenbasierte Forschungsinfrastruktur CLARIN-D angebunden ist und andererseits fachspezifische Benutzerschnittstellen schafft.
Die vorliegende empirische Untersuchung befasst sich mit einer Umfrage zur Wörterbuchbenutzung bei 41 Studentinnen und Studenten des Dipartimento di Filologia, Letteratura e Linguistica der Universität Pisa, dasselbe Department, an dem auch das deutsch-italienische sprachwissenschaftliche Online-Wörterbuch DIL erarbeitet worden ist (vgl. Flinz: 2011). Die schriftliche Umfrage wurde in Anlehnung an Hartmanns 5. Hypothese „An analysis of users´ needs should precede dictionary design“ (1989) durchgeführt. Die wichtigsten Ergebnisse waren von großer Bedeutung für die Gestaltung der makro- und mikrostrukturellen Eigenschaften des Fachwörterbuches. Die Ergebnisse der Untersuchung und die daraus folgenden Reflektionen werden in thematischen Kernblöcken vorgestellt.