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"It just doesn't sound right": Spracherhalt und Sprachwechsel bei deutschen Kirchengemeinden in Cole County, Missouri : Resultate einer Spurensuche
(University of Kansas, 2002-05-31)A major focus of current sociolinguistic research is the issue of minority language maintenance and language shift. German-American speech islands, existing well into the twentieth century, are providing a valuable basis ... -
The Low German Dialect of Concordia, Missouri
(University of Kansas, 1997-12-31)A resurgence of interest recently in various German dialects present in many regions of the United States has led to the gathering of data in many small towns throughout the Midwest whose dialects and dialect speakers will ... -
“Annexation or Reunification?” Linguistic Appraisal of German and Russian news reporting on Crimea
(Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)“Fake News” has reached new heights of contestation within recent times around the globe. Appraisal Theory provides a framework through which instances of news platforms’ positive and negative judgments can be identified, ... -
The Establishment, Dissolution, and Restoration of Heimat in German-Jewish Narratives by Stefanie Zweig and Jeanine Meerapfel
(University of Kansas, 2016-08-31)Writers and filmmakers of second-generation Holocaust survivors often seek to establish tenuous continuities between their parents’ pre-exile Heimat and their own experiences of German culture through their artistic works. ... -
Das Gedicht als "Bedürfnis nach einem Ort": Zur Situation und Bildersprache des Exilanten SAID
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Abstract In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird versucht, nicht nur SAIDs Position in seinem „Niemandsland“, wie er es nennt, zu verdeutlichen, sondern es wird auch versucht, seine Schreibweise zwischen den zwei Kulturen, der ... -
Goetz von Berlichingen: Die dreifache bearbeitung von Goethes Goetz in ihrer beziehung zur lebens-Beschreibung
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A comparison of the German märchen and the English fairy tales
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Hermann Hesse. Eine kritische würdigung seiner romane
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Thematic elements in thirty Neo-Latin epithalamia and their correspondences in the German Baroque Hochzeitsgedicht
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Goethe's Urfaust and the Enlightenment: Gottsched, Welling, and the "Turn to Magic"
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)The Urfaust, composed in the early 1770s, is the first draft of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's (1749-1832) masterpiece, Faust, Teil I (1808). While this early draft is relatively unexamined in its own right, an examination ... -
Don Carlos : an interpretation of Schiller's transition from storm and stress to classicism
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The nature element in Goethe's works, 1765-1788
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Eichendorff’s poetry, a study in German romanticism
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Story Time: The Expression of Temporal Events in Narration by L2 Learners of German
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)The Aspect Hypothesis (AH) and the Discourse Hypothesis (DH) have each been used to explain how learners acquire tense and aspect (TA) in a second language. The AH predicts that learners will be more strongly influenced ... -
The Legality of Existence in Exile from National Socialism: The Legal Delineation of Identity and Its Implications for Individuation and Migration as Manifest in German Exile Literature of the Period 1933-1945
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)This dissertation examines the legal status of refugees from the National Socialist (NS) regime and explores thereby the implications of statelessness for the refugee’s experience in exile, specifically his sense of belonging ... -
Input Processing and the Teaching of German Two-way Prepositions
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)A number of studies in the last twenty years have focused on the input processing principles related to VanPatten’s approach to teaching grammar known as Processing Instruction (VanPatten and Cadierno, 1993; VanPatten, ... -
The didactic element in Hartmann's Der Arme Heinrich
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Das planzenreich in Go?thes Gedichten von 1771, bis 1786
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Ein vergleich zwischen Schillers Kabale und Liebe, Hebbels Maria Magdalena und Sudermanns Die Ehre
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Tradition und Moderne im deutschen Wald: Wilhelm Hauffs Das kalte Herz
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)Der Wald war zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts für die Menschen in den zahlreichen deutschen Kleinstaaten in vielerlei Hinsicht von Bedeutung. Er wurde in der Kunst und Literatur als romantischer und idyllischer Rückzugsort ...
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