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This essay analyses, with particular reference to Friedrich Dürrenmatt's speech “Die Schweiz — ein Gefangnis”[Switzerland - a Prison] and also to his criticism of the Swiss Confederation expressed in other speeches and essays, aspects of the detective novels “Thumbprint” (“Wachtmeister Studer”, 1936) by Friedrich Glauser and “The Judge and his Hangman” (“Der Richter und sein Henker”, 1952) by Friedrich Dürrenmatt which deal critically with contemporary social issues. The essay points out that Glauser, who is little known even today and who, in his detective novels, made use of his own difficult experiences with his family and with his country, had an obvious influence on the conception of Dürrenmatt's detective novels, even though the latter denied this. Yet several striking parallels between the novels under discussion tend to demonstrate the contrary. These parallels are merely flagged up in this essay, however, whilst the main emphasis is on the criticism of Switzerland which, in both novels, basically concurs.
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The analysis presented in this paper pertains to concepts constituting basic domains, such as time, space, temperature, colour or taste. The subject of analysis are conceptualizations which can arise during the processing of the afore mentioned concepts in the context of the domains themselves as well as of the expressions in which the concepts are contained. The aim of the analysis is to answer the question as to whether all the analysed domains are of homogenous nature or maybe there exist some processual differences between them, and if so, what they are.
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This text presents a translation analysis of the so called "realia", which are part of culinary names rendered from Polish into German. The basis consists of the Polish culinary names which can be found on genuine menus and their translation found on Internet websites. The renditions proposed on the menus are compared with their equivalents provided in bilingual dictionairies. The point of departure for the analysis is Koller (2004). Due to the great diversity of strategies applied in the translation of culinary names, it is possible to indicate those which ought to be utilized in the translation of realia. The conducted analysis highlights the vital aspects and role of cultural competence in translation and translator education.
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The literary output of the Austrian prose writer Ferdinand von Saar reflects the salient presence of the considerations on the disturbance of the existing order and on the order which can pose a threat to itself. Being an attentive observer and participant of the political, economic, social and cultural changes taking place in the second half of the 19th century, Saar in his novels managed to depict the changes in the world contemporary to him subtly but expressively. The disturbance of order in the urban structure and in interpersonal relations resulting from the sudden industrialization and progressing urbanization in Saar's stories is shown directly by means of contrasting the past with the presence. What is, however, shown in an oblique way, e.g. with the use of the symbolic ornamentation typical for literary realism, is the changing order pertinent to the relations between men and women. In this respect it is worth mentioning that this order, due to its restrictive system of norms, can pose a threat to the integrity of an individual representing the existing social order.
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The picture of a society in “Alles fiber Sally”, Arno Geiger's novel, presented from the perspective of a contemporary family and marriage, has been submitted to the analysis whose aim was to find any possible traces referring to "a new bourgeois class". This category can be used to describe neoconservative trends in the attitudes of the citizens of Europe on the verge of 20th and 19th centuries. Contemporary researchers regard the coincidence of the process of individualization and traditional middle class values that lasting for the last three years to be a new quality of culture. The analysis of the novel focuses on the theme of women's emancipation as both the starting point and as a reference point for the contemporary model of socialization.
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Urs Faes in his literary work deals with the analysis of the history of his country and his own past. Memories are the main driving force of his work, therefore he focuses on the phenomenon of memory and its functions in relation to the literary possibilities. The key task of the author is to look at the facade of everyday life and indicate what actually lies behind the normality and order. In this way, he discovers repressed memories,unfulfilled longings, unresolved guilt and escape from the existential shocks. This article is based on his four novels „Sommerwende“, „Augenblicke im Paradies“, „Und Ruth“ and „Liebesarchiv“ which could be called a tetralogy. It is an attempt to characterize typical features of the poetics written by this Swiss author
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Nautical dictionaries in the period of Enlightenment have significantly contributed to the spread of maritime terminology in the society. For example the multilingual dictionary „Allgemeines Wörterbuches der Marine“ by Johann Hinrich Roding contains approximately 5000 lexicographic entries - including 106 phrasemes used by sailors, shipbuilders or waterfront workers. The aim of this article is to answer following questions: What kind of phrasemes from which subject areas are included in this work? How important are the phrasemes in the macro- and microstructure of the dictionary? How does the author describe and explain their meaning? And finally - are these expressions still used in the contemporary German language or to what extent did the technological and social transformations cause their decline?
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This article is devoted to three works by Austrian Nobel prize winner Elfriede Jelinek which deal with the contemporary economic crisis and with the mechanisms of financial economics. The analysis presented focuses mainly on the immaterial and unreal nature of today's market whose essence and methods of operating is reminiscent of a spectre. This immaterial aspect of the economic and financial system is demon strated on the example of an ambiguous and ambivalent language employed by Jelinek and in the fictionalization processes and disappearance of references, which are characteristic of market functioning. The works analysed also point out to human apparitions, or social outcasts (Z. Bauman's Wasted Lives) as effects of the spectres of financial capitalism. Deprived of money and property, they fight for survival as underdogs
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The dictionary of loan words of Friedrich Erdmann Petri had its first edition in 1806, and in 1929 appeared the 42nd edition. The dictionary contains grammatical, etymological, semantic description but it also suggests indigenous word equivalents to eliminate loan words - and so it belongs to the descriptive-germanising lexicographic works. A lot of foreign words listed in this dictionary are not used in present German.
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The article is an individual phraseographic analysis realized on example of a verbal idiom in Watte packen. The aim of the analysis is to establish the relation between an explication of meaning of a phraseme in large monolingual dictionaries, the choice of equivalents in large bilingual dictionaries and the real language use in German corpus DWDS.
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The article was dedicated to three novels by Swiss author Urs Widmer: „Der Geliebte der Mutter“ (“My Mother's Lover”), Das Buch des Voters (“My Father's Book”) and “Ein Leben als Zwerg” (“Life as a Dwarf”), which - although they could also be read separately - form a family trilogy because all three depict the lives of the members of the same Swiss Family. However, their diverse passions are in the foreground and have a decisive influence over the life of the title characters. The books can also be referred as a 'trilogy of passions'. The article characterize precisely these passions as well as their negative or positive impact on the protagonists. At the same time, it refers to a variety of works of music and literature which relates and reflects each of those main passions in different ways. On the one hand, we consider the autobiographical background of the first two novels. On the other hand, the importance of fiction is highlighted in the third novel and was conceived as a fitting counterpart to the two earlier novels.
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This article tackles the topic of regional myths at the turn of the 20th century in the Pomeranian region as found - or not - in literary works written at the time in that region. The author analyzes three examples of myths: two of them are traditional elements of the Pomeranian cultural heritage, as shaped around 1900; the third is a failed attempt to create a local (Szczecin) myth at the turn of the 20th century and the following years. The analyzed texts were published in books and elsewhere (e. g. on postcards) or could be found as anonymous pieces, saved in handwritten copies.
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The paper is an attempt for a complex interpretation of Thomas Glavinic's novel „Der Kameramörder“. The murder of two children depicted in there impresses with signs of violence and cruelty, while author's beloved persuasive figures are irritation and absurd intensifying of suspense. The paper is composed of two parts. In the first of them the priority is given to a traditional interpretation which suggests itself at once, a pure literary one, where emphasis is put on language. In the second part an alternative interpretation is underlined: despite the apparent suggestions of the plot the narrator wasn't the perpetrator but one of many possible offenders. Thus the weight of interpretation is moved towards medial and social aspects.
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The article is an attempt at characterizing language learning in tandem from both theoretical and empirical perspectives, exploiting the results of a pilot study devoted to creative writing in German-Polish Internet tandems.
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Ciprian Nițu, Cosmopolitismul. Către o nouă paradigmă în teoria politică, Iași, Editura Adenium, 2014
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