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Michaels, Hazel
2015-11-03T14:49:05Z
2015-11-03T14:49:05Z
1916
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18811
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Der arme Heinrich in the thirteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/218372018-01-31T20:07:47Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_735com_1808_408col_1808_1952col_1808_32786col_1808_10179
DeHaven, Michael Ross
2016-11-08T20:39:33Z
2016-11-08T20:39:33Z
2016-05-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14629
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21837
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, 2004; VanPatten, 2007; Lee and Benati, 2009). One of the principles, known as the Lexical Preference Principle (LPP), states that learners will tend to process lexical items over grammar structures when both convey the same information. This study seeks to contribute to the studies investigating this principle by examining whether the presence or absence of redundant lexical cues contributes to or inhibits the learning of German two-way prepositions. Sixty-four participants from ten intact second-semester German classes in three separate semesters at a large, public, mid-western University were assigned to two treatment groups: one where redundant lexical cues were not removed from input-processing exercises following explicit instruction and strategy training (+LC; n=32) and one where those lexical cues were removed from the exercises (-LC; n=32). Participant gains were measured using a pre-test/post-test design surrounding a two-day treatment focusing on German two-way prepositions that was provided to all participants. Quantitative analysis of the test scores reveals no significant difference between treatment groups, suggesting that the experimental condition (+/-LC) had no effect on learning. Think-aloud protocols were collected during the post-test in order to gather data about the extent to which participants were applying the explicit information provided and were making proper form-meaning connections for the target structure. The data collected from these protocols is examined from the perspective of input processing in general and the theoretical framework known as Modular Online Growth and Use of Language (MOGUL) (Truscott and Sharwood Smith, 2004a, 2004b, 2011; Sharwood Smith and Truscott, 2014). Qualitative analysis of these protocols reveals difficulties learners encountered with the German case system that caused difficulties interpreting two-way prepositions. This study contributes to instructed SLA in German by demonstrating the effectiveness of the input processing approach to teaching German grammar. It also reveals possible weaknesses in typical teaching practices. Suggestions are made to address these weaknesses and future research directions are offered to address them.
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Foreign language education
Linguistics
Pedagogy
German
Input Processing
Lexical Preference Principle
MOGUL
Processing Instruction
Two-way Prepositions
Input Processing and the Teaching of German Two-way Prepositions
Dissertation
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/224112020-06-23T20:04:14Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_1951
Hiebert, Sarah Henriette
2017-01-03T15:08:12Z
2017-01-03T15:08:12Z
1930
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22411
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Don Carlos : an interpretation of Schiller's transition from storm and stress to classicism
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/100262020-07-30T13:24:56Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_735com_1808_408col_1808_1952col_1808_32786col_1808_10179
Kohler, Traute
2012-07-22T19:50:55Z
2012-07-22T19:50:55Z
2009-12-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10668
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10026
ABSTRACT Traute Kohler Department of German Languages and Literatures University of Kansas The objective of this research project is to find out whether or not color coding has an effect on second language learning, in particular on learning German grammatical features, by using neurocognitive theory to develop a new approach for teaching German grammar. The experiment was conducted in two separate environments, one in a natural setting of a regular beginner's German class in the German Department (66 subjects), Experiment I; and the other one in a controlled laboratory setting in the Psychology department (82 subjects), Experiment II, both of the University of Kansas. The main goal of this study is to compare the control group (black and white grammatical features in black boxes) with the experimental group (color-coded grammatical features in black boxes), and isolate the effects of color on the acquisition of L2 grammar. The grammatical featured tested were the articles and nouns in the nominative, accusative and dative cases as well as articles and nouns in context with accusative and dative prepositions. These grammatical categories were also tested across time. In the setting of the German class, memory was tested on the day of the first exposure, after one day (which was a repeat exposure), after one week and finally after four weeks. In the laboratory setting of the Psychology Department, memory was tested only after one day. Also the application of words in isolation (non-contextualized) and of words embedded in context of full sentences was tested. The results of the experiment across groups (color vs. non-color), across the different grammatical cases, across times of exposure, and across gender of the nouns were calculated according to the percentages of the correct answers given. An analysis of variance statistical analysis (ANOVA) was run for the dependent variable across all five independent variables. When reporting a statistically significant difference, it is understood that this mean difference reflects a p value of .05, which means a 95% confidence interval was used for the analyses. The overall results of the collected data reveal a statistical significant advantage of color over black and white instructional material, with a 16% overall superior performance by the experimental group over the control group in Experiment I, and with 13% overall better performance by the experimental group over the control group in Experiment II. Memory was enhanced significantly by color coding German grammatical features. Even after four weeks of exposure, the experimental group (color) performed better than the control group (black and white) on the first day of exposure. In conclusion, the data of this experiment suggest that color enhancement can make a statistically significant difference in learning and remembering German grammatical material. The overall results of this research study give reason to propose that color enhancement of particular linguistic features can be considered a promising tool for better learning and retention of German grammar. These findings are not limited to German grammar learning alone; they could be adjusted and applied to foreign language learning in general, supported by the use of neurocognitive theory in developing a new approach for teaching foreign languages.
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Language, linguistics
Foreign language instruction
Color-coding german grammar
German article case system
German article genders
German feminine article
German grammar learning
USING NEUROCOGNITIVE THEORY TO DEVELOP A NEW APPROACH FOR TEACHING GERMAN GRAMMAR The Effect of Color-Coding German Grammar on Language Acquisition
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/85092020-08-27T14:17:15Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_7158
Campbell, Elizabeth
2011-11-23T16:27:05Z
2011-11-23T16:27:05Z
1913
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8509
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The Religion of Gottfried Keller, As Determined by His Prose Writings
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/85102020-08-27T14:19:02Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_7158
Carter, Frances
2011-11-23T16:29:00Z
2011-11-23T16:29:00Z
1913-08
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8510
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Educational Views of Gottfried Keller, as Shown in His Prose- Writings
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/186062018-09-06T14:39:30Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_12535col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_21561
Anderson, Sara Sofia
2015-10-07T16:06:49Z
2015-10-07T16:06:49Z
2015-10-01
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18606
Since 1992, when the Council of Europe created the Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, 25 member
states, including Germany, have ratified the Charter. The Charter protects several minority languages in
Germany, but only one regional language—Low German—is included. My thesis argues that the Charter has
had a positive impact on preserving Low German by supporting developments in education, politics, and daily
life. I demonstrate this using the federal states of Bremen and Lower Saxony as my two case studies. While
these are not the only federal states in the Low German region, the year I spent studying near Bremen in Lower
Saxony (2010-2011) woke my interest in the Low German language and its importance in the culture of these
particular states. Their schools, for example, have implemented creative solutions to fulfill the stipulations of
the Charter. As I show, Bremen and Lower Saxony can serve as models for other regions of Europe that want to
preserve their native regional and minority languages, an important part of their cultural identity.
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“Wi Snackt Wedder Platt!” Bringing Low German back to Bremen and Lower Saxony through the Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
Article
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/225262018-01-31T20:07:50Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_735com_1808_408col_1808_1952col_1808_32786col_1808_10179
Landes, James Michael
2017-01-08T19:07:44Z
2017-01-08T19:07:44Z
2014-05-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:13308
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22526
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 of this work in the context of its original creation offers insights into Goethe's creative processes at the time in relation to the Enlightenment poetic debates of the eighteenth century, through which literary critics, such as J.C. Gottsched (1700-1766) attempted to define the rules by which poetic construction should operate. In examining the Urfaust, one can see how Goethe's poetic aims transcended those of the Enlightenment debate, going far beyond the Enlightenment critics of Gottsched, such as J.J. Bodmer (1698-1783) and J.J. Breitinger (1701-1776) in making the case for additional room for the fantastic in poetic construction. Goethe's criticism of the limits of the Enlightenment to know and explain reality via reason and language leads him to a different approach to the mythological, one based on the primacy of image to language in approximating nature, in which the poet is free to construct a new mythology based on the manipulation of images into a new narrative. In Georg von Welling's (1652-1727) cabbalistic work he finds a cosmogony rich with images, images that he borrows and transforms in creating his own new Faust mythology. In Welling, Goethe finds the counterpole to Gottsched, whose image-rich language provides Goethe with inspiration to respond to the poetic debates of the Enlightenment poetically, as opposed to discursively, through his approach to constructing a mythology.
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Germanic literature
Aesthetics
Enlightenment
Goethe
Gottsched
mythology
Urfaust
Welling
Goethe's Urfaust and the Enlightenment: Gottsched, Welling, and the "Turn to Magic"
Dissertation
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/87312020-09-03T13:41:41Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_7158
Boethius, Jacob E.
2012-02-08T21:52:18Z
2012-02-08T21:52:18Z
1911-05-15
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8731
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Civilization of the Goths, based upon their vocabulary
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/299462020-01-29T09:00:56Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_735com_1808_408col_1808_1952col_1808_32786col_1808_10179
Ballew, William Noble
2020-01-28T18:50:49Z
2020-01-28T18:50:49Z
1997-12-31
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/29946
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 have died out within the next decade. With this realization, research efforts in these communities have been stepped up over the last five years, as we all feel the pressure of a most certain deadline. The researchers of this project, primarily graduate students at the University of Kansas under the supervision of Dr. William Keel, are seeking to record, analyze, and preserve these dialects for future study before they have completely died out. This paper is part of ongoing research into the Low German dialects spoken in the region of Western Missouri in and around Lafayette County, particularly in the towns of Concordia and Cole Camp (Benton County). Thus, this project has both dialectological and historical significance in helping to complete the bigger picture of Germans in America, their language and their culture.
As a specific example, fieldwork in the town of Concordia will be used to illustrate how cultural ties to the German homeland, the historical development of the town, its religious affiliations, and its Low German Club have contributed to a revitalization of sorts in its efforts to preserve its heritage and language. Included will be discussions of the town's history, the basic structure and sounds of the dialect, interesting or unusual characteristics of the spoken dialect, and some of the language behaviors exhibited by various speakers. Finally, some implications of the marketing and death of Concordia Low German will be examined.
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The Low German Dialect of Concordia, Missouri
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/184802020-06-24T16:03:52Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_7158
Brunner, Ellen Mildred
2015-09-21T18:30:53Z
2015-09-21T18:30:53Z
1917
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18480
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A comparison of Goethe�s Go?tz von Berlichingen und Schiller�s Die Ra?uber
Thesis
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/185912017-12-08T21:34:35Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_7158
Lohrding, Edna Rose
2015-10-06T18:33:41Z
2015-10-06T18:33:41Z
1917
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18591
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John the Baptist, a tragedy in five acts and an induction, by Hermann Sudermann
Thesis
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/149382020-06-30T01:36:26Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_7158
Moser, Minnie T.
2014-08-22T18:18:40Z
2014-08-22T18:18:40Z
1914-01-01
Moser, Minnie T. "A Study of Home Life as Seen in Goethe's Works." University of Kansas. 1914.
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/14938
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A Study of Home Life as Seen in Goethe's Works
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/59632020-07-28T15:20:58Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_735com_1808_408col_1808_1952col_1808_32786col_1808_10179
Bagi, Viktoria
2010-03-18T04:12:57Z
2010-03-18T04:12:57Z
2009-10-30
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10604
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/5963
This dissertation investigates the methods used by intermediate, advanced and superior level learners of German when quoting formerly uttered speech in direct discourse. The study shows that that there are different methods of speech reporting at different levels of language proficiency. Each level of speakers in the study used the quotative methods of the earlier level(s), but also added more. Several superior speakers used a quotative structure without a conjugated verb. This was untypical of intermediate and advanced level speakers, who tended to adhere more to the rules of standard German syntax and avoided structures without a conjugated verb. Thus, it seems and that speakers with greater grammatical competence have a more diversified skillset when it comes to varying their quotation methods, which is a sign of greater communicative competence as well. Based on these results, this investigation contributes to our understanding of communicative competence and interlanguage development in German.
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Language, linguistics
Communicative competence
Direct speech
Interlanguage
Pragmatic development
Quotatives
Reported speech
Direct discourse methods in non-native speakers' German language use
Dissertation
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/185722017-12-08T21:31:50Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_7158
Hetzel, Edna Lucile
2015-10-06T18:06:38Z
2015-10-06T18:06:38Z
1916
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18572
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The influence of Sudermann's Frau Sorge on Frenssen's "Jörn Uhl"
Thesis
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/149242017-12-08T21:46:53Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_7158
Kliewer, Johann Carl
2014-08-14T19:05:32Z
2014-08-14T19:05:32Z
1914-06-01
Kliewer, Johann Carl. "Heinrich Von Kleist Und Die Romantik." University of Kansas. June 1914.
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/14924
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Heinrich Von Kleist Und Die Romantik
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/149032017-12-08T21:46:53Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_7158
Jones, Helen Gaile
2014-08-08T18:18:17Z
2014-08-08T18:18:17Z
1914-05-15
Jones H.G. (1914). The omission of the relative pronoun in Hans Sachs’ works. University of Kansas
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/14903
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The omission of the relative pronoun in Hans Sachs’ works
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/112532020-09-30T13:31:26Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_735com_1808_408col_1808_1952col_1808_32786col_1808_10179
Champion, Elke Lorenz
2013-06-17T20:33:53Z
2013-06-17T20:33:53Z
1998
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/11253
Die Aufgabe dieser Arbeit besteht darin, Sidonie Nádherný Einfluß auf das Werk von Karl
Kraus, vor allem auf seine Lyrik, an Hand der Albert Bloch/Sidonie Nádherný-Korrespondenz auszuwerten. Neben den eigentlichen Briefen sind für diese Auswertung Sidonie Nádherný Anmerkungen zu den über fünfzig ihr von Kraus gewidmeten Gedichten und eine Darstellung ihrer frühen Entwicklung, die Aufschlüsse über ihre spätere Beziehung zu Kraus geben kann, von Bedeutung. Ferner wird Blochs Beitrag zum Verständnis des Werkes von Karl Kraus und dessen Beziehung zu Sidonie Nádherný herausgearbeitet und die handschriftliche Korrespondenz zwischen Albert Bloch und Sidonie Nádherný als Typoskript zugänglich gemacht.
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Der Briefwechsel zwischen Sidonie Nádherný und Albert Bloch : September 1947-September 1950 : mit einer Einführung in die Widmungsgedichte von Karl Kraus an Sidonie Nádherný
Dissertation
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/78502020-08-12T13:26:07Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_1951
Aaron, Natalie Marie
2011-08-02T14:46:19Z
2011-08-02T14:46:19Z
2011-04-22
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11420
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/7850
Despite the wealth of literature written about Theodor Storm's life and works, a theme central to many of his novellas has not been thoroughly explored. Much of Storm's literature is built around love relationships. The author's unique concept of love and his somewhat irrational adherence to it in his personal life make the reader's understanding of this ideal especially important for the interpretation of his works. In this analysis, Storm's concept of love is explored and special consideration is given to the pivotal role that communication plays within it. Storm's rejection of religion and consequential dedication to the precepts of secular humanism and love are first examined with respect to his private life. Attention is then turned to Storm's novellas. The love relationships in Immensee, Veronica, Viola tricolor, Schweigen and Der Schimmelreiter are addressed specifically. Most importantly, the communication within them is proven to be crucial to the outcomes of these novellas. The success of intimate communication hinges upon the central characters' acceptance of relatively modern gender roles for their time. This analysis illustrates the importance of the author's modern concept of communication and thereby challenges the popular notion that Theodor Storm is merely a Heimatdichter.
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Germanic literature
European studies
Communication
Love
Marriage
Realism
Storm, Theodor
All You Need Is Love?: The Role of Communication in Theodor Storm's Concept of Love
Thesis
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/190492018-01-31T20:07:54Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_1951
Höhne, Marcus
2015-12-03T03:55:23Z
2015-12-03T03:55:23Z
2015-05-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14041
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/19049
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 dargestellt und beschrieben, in der Wirtschaft vermehrt verarbeitet und teils als Handelsgut exportiert, und entwickelte sich zum Symbol von Einheit und Zusammenhalt in den Köpfen der Menschen, die sich mehr und mehr nach einem einheitlichen Deutschland sehnten. In dieser Arbeit wird analysiert, wie der Wald in Wilhelm Hauffs Kunstmärchen Das kalte Herz dargestellt und mystifiziert wird und auf welche Weise er von den Figuren genutzt und zerstört wird. Dabei wird auf der Basis dreier Werke von verschiedenen Historikern nachgewiesen, dass durch den Wald traditionelle als auch moderne Aspekte vermittelt werden. Außerdem wird diskutiert, in wiefern der Einheitsgedanke in dem besagten Werk zum Tragen kommt und was den „deutschen“ Wald in der damaligen Ziet besonders machte.
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Literature
Germanic literature
Forest
Hauff
Tradition und Moderne im deutschen Wald: Wilhelm Hauffs Das kalte Herz
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/168272018-01-31T20:08:03Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_735com_1808_408col_1808_1952col_1808_32786col_1808_10179
Piltingsrud, Melanie
2015-02-25T05:07:54Z
2015-02-25T05:07:54Z
2014-08-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:13494
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/16827
This dissertation advances research by George Fenwick Jones, Richard Kaeuper, Warren Brown, and Gerd Althoff, analyzing violence and conflict resolution in four Arthurian romances that emerged from a culture that viewed (justified) violence as a legitimate means of attaining and maintaining honor. Using Kaeuper's analysis of the spiritual valorization of knighthood in Holy Warriors: the Religious Ideology of Chivalry (2009) and Jones's analysis of honor in Honor in German Literature, I show functions of spirituality and the pursuit of honor in literary conflicts, discussing how virtues such as mâze and êre served as catalysts for violence as an expectation of the unwritten code of knightly virtues. Fictional violence falls into two major categories: chivalric and non-chivalric. Chivalric violence includes all forms of battle within the vocation of knighthood, such as jousting. Catalysts for chivalric violence include âventiure, minnedienst, vassal obligation, independent fighting, etc., and may involve both intended and unintended violence. Chivalric violence includes violence against, and perpetrated by, other knights, and violence against non-human creatures. Non-chivalric violence includes those categories of violence not within the knightly vocation, such as direct and indirect violence of knights against women, the violence of women toward others, violence against the self, and the wrath of God. Similar, but not identical, to the categories chivalric/non-chivalric are the categories justified/unjustified. I consider these aspects of violence in four courtly works: 1) Erec (circa 1190) and 2) Iwein (circa 1203), by Hartmann von Aue, 3) Wigalois (circa 1210), by Wirnt von Grafenberg, and 4). Parzival (circa 1210), by Wolfram von Eschenbach, analyzing manifestations of violence according to the aforementioned categories, suggesting motivations with consideration to courtly virtue(s) that may have demanded violence, as in the defense of honor or the lack of virtue. This dissertation confirms that the spiritual validity of knightly violence, the preferred form of conflict resolution, is assumed in Arthurian romance; alternative means of resolution invite accusations of cowardice. The concept of êre, so pivotal to the “code” of knightly virtues in the Middle Ages, was intimately and unequivocally linked to violence; this study even contends that it was predicated upon it.
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Germanic literature
Arthurian
conflict
medieval
resolution
romance
violence
Violence and Conflict Resolution in Hartmann von Aue's Erec and Iwein, Wirnt von Grafenberg's Wigalois, and Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival
Dissertation
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/84942020-08-27T13:54:25Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_7158
Laptad, Evadne Mary
2011-11-22T21:55:53Z
2011-11-22T21:55:53Z
1912
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8494
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Martin Luther’s Message to the Modern World
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/184772020-06-24T19:04:52Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_7158
Stewart, Margaret S.
2015-09-21T18:30:44Z
2015-09-21T18:30:44Z
1918
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18477
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Self-confession in Iphigenie, Tasso, and Hermann und Dorothea
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/84492020-08-26T14:51:48Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_7158
Krehbiel, August Robert
2011-11-22T17:34:35Z
2011-11-22T17:34:35Z
1910
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8449
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Die Uli Romane von Jermias Gotthelf (Albert Bitzius)
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/87722020-09-03T14:18:23Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_7158
Stadler, Babetta
2012-02-28T20:37:16Z
2012-02-28T20:37:16Z
1910-05-28
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8772
de
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Johann Gottwerth Müller (von Itzehoe) : Einfluss anderer Schriftsteller seiner Zeit auf sein Werk Siegfried von Lindenberg
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/82862020-08-25T14:46:49Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_7158
Basye, Arthur H.
2011-10-27T15:50:05Z
2011-10-27T15:50:05Z
1906
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8286
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George Grenville and his American Policy
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/84362020-08-26T14:26:41Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_7158
Palmer, Emma Mae
2011-11-22T16:54:19Z
2011-11-22T16:54:19Z
1909
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8436
It is the purpose of this paper to study these three best known of Otto Ludwig’s novels as to technic and style with special reference to the possibility of an influence of Dickens.
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A Study of the Novel of Otto Ludwig based on “Maria,” “Die Heiterethei u. i Widerspiel” and “Zwischen Himmel u. Erde”
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/162622018-03-26T21:34:12Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_735com_1808_408col_1808_1952col_1808_32786col_1808_10179
Winston, Carol Anne
2015-01-15T16:59:40Z
2015-01-15T16:59:40Z
1979-01-01
Winston, Carol Anne. (1979). "The Ackermann aus Böhmen and the Book of Job." University of Kansas
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/16262
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The Ackermann aus Böhmen and the Book of Job
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/188182017-12-08T21:34:35Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_7158
Barteldes, Elsa
2015-11-03T14:49:15Z
2015-11-03T14:49:15Z
1917
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18818
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Hebbel studien mit besonderer berüchsichtigung der dramatischen technik
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/82472020-08-25T13:31:42Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_7158
Myers, Guila Carolyn
2011-10-18T17:55:30Z
2011-10-18T17:55:30Z
1903-05-15
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8247
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The Life of Wilhelm Meister’s Lehrjahr
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/81362020-06-18T01:35:29Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_735com_1808_408col_1808_1952col_1808_32786col_1808_10179
Khramova, Maria
2011-10-09T01:23:21Z
2011-10-09T01:23:21Z
2011-05-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11475
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8136
The uniqueness of the Volga Germans is in that their language was isolated from the linguistic developments in their German homeland and underwent unique changes, while conserving old features of the native dialect. The research subject for the present study is a Lutheran Volga German community in western Kansas that was founded in 1876 by German immigrants from the Volga region. This study focuses on several major areas while describing this community: First, history of the settlement is examined, including origin of the first settlers in Milberger. Second, the present dissertation provides a description of the phonological and morphological system of the dialect spoken by natives of this community. It also pays particular attention to the comparative analysis of the described dialect with the dialects that were spoken in two mother colonies on the Volga that subjects of this study identified as places of origin for their ancestors. Since some informants who were interviewed for this research were able to share the German origin of their ancestors, and their information was backed by genealogical research that is available online, the Milberger dialect was compared with Zhirmunski's description of the Central Franconian koine and the semi-dialect of Darmstadt. The third major area of investigation is the development of the language situation in this community that can be traced back with help of the interviews carried out in 2007-2008 in Russell, Kansas, Neale Carman's fieldwork notes, and available newspaper articles. These materials also allowed analyzing reasons for the language loss in this area. Particularly interesting linguistic features discussed in the present dissertation are diglossia and interferences from Russian and English that had an impact on this dialect. The study provides examples on how the "sectarian" diglossia that exists in this community resulted in leveling of some dialectal features towards High German. The present research also addresses in detail the list of Russian borrowings that was collected in 1910s in Russell, providing points for discussion, on whether some of these words could, in fact, have been borrowed before settlers arrived in Russia.
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Language, linguistics
Dialectology
German studies
The Volga German Dialect Of Milberger, Kansas
Dissertation
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/267022018-09-07T08:00:54Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_12535col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_13046
Cassidy, Lauren
2018-09-06T13:51:28Z
2018-09-06T13:51:28Z
2018-05-31
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26702
“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, including their stances toward what counts as truthful reporting. Previously, researchers have identified the stances of news agencies by conducting linguistic analyses on news articles, showing how new agencies are able to assert their views through textual constructions. However, the expression of stance in German and Russian news articles showing different sides to the same conflict involving the Russian annexation of the Crimean peninsula has remained largely unexplored. To address this gap, I selected articles reporting on Russian involvement in Crimea from a liberal German news source, a conservative German news source, and a Russian-state sponsored news source based in Germany. Using a manual linguistic coder, I identified each instance of positive and negative attitude towards Russian involvement in Crimea within each news article. The analysis reveals that German and Russian news sources use different linguistic constructions to moralize Russian actions in Ukraine, with each side reporting information to support a German or Russian worldview respectively. The study shows how news agencies attempt to align readers with a particular worldview and that even if news sources appear to provide information from multiple sources or perspectives, they can still constitute bias.
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“Annexation or Reunification?” Linguistic Appraisal of German and Russian news reporting on Crimea
Undergraduate research project
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/64052020-08-03T12:57:08Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_735com_1808_408col_1808_1952col_1808_32786col_1808_10179
Wisbey, Evelyn
2010-07-25T21:49:16Z
2010-07-25T21:49:16Z
2010-04-25
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10943
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/6405
This study in Conversation Analysis investigates the organization of other-initiated repair sequences in American learners of German, i.e., it examines how learners deal with troubles in hearing or understanding that they encounter in naturally-occurring talk-in-interaction. Data for the project were collected during informal interaction in three groups of American learners of German, two groups enrolled in German courses at an American university and one group participating in a study abroad program in Germany. The data from the 3 groups was analyzed in terms of (1) the types of troubles these learners encounter, (2) which repair initiation techniques they employ, and (3) how troubles are resolved. The results indicate that there is a systematic relationship between trouble sources, repair initiation strategies, and repair operation strategies that accounts for a large number of repair sequences in the data. Overall, the results indicate that these learners have access to a wide range of repair strategies; however, the organization of repair in these learners differs not only between groups, but also from that documented in native speakers in a number of ways.
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Language, linguistics
Conversation analysis
Conversational repair
German as a second language
Learners
Naturally-occurring interaction
Repair Sequences in American Learners of German Interlanguage
Dissertation
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/184922020-06-24T18:32:48Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_7158
Gault, Cora Hazel
2015-09-21T18:31:25Z
2015-09-21T18:31:25Z
1916
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18492
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Heathen elements existing in the Nibelungenlied : (compared with the older Edda)
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/149232017-12-08T21:46:53Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_7158
Apel, Elizabeth
2014-08-14T18:52:30Z
2014-08-14T18:52:30Z
1915-06-05
Apel, Elizabeth. "Leben Und Bildung In Den Klostern Des Fruhen Mittelalters Nach Scheffels "Ekkehard" Und Freytags "Das Nest Der Zaunkonige" Bearbeitet." University of Kansas. June 05, 1915.
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/14923
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Leben Und Bildung In Den Klostern Des Fruhen Mittelalters Nach Scheffels "Ekkehard" Und Freytags "Das Nest Der Zaunkonige" Bearbeitet
Thesis
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/244402017-12-08T21:42:11Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_1951
Friedrich, Irma
2017-06-08T17:54:22Z
2017-06-08T17:54:22Z
1930
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24440
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A comparison of the German märchen and the English fairy tales
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/231602020-06-23T20:11:31Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_1951
Richert, Elma
2017-02-14T19:29:59Z
2017-02-14T19:29:59Z
1931
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23160
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Hermann Hesse. Eine kritische würdigung seiner romane
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/111832020-09-29T13:44:31Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_1951
Rampelmann, Katja
2013-05-21T21:21:04Z
2013-05-21T21:21:04Z
1993
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/11183
The thesis, Small town Germans examines the lives of German immigrants in Lawrence, Kansas, from 1854 to World War I. German-born immigrants arrived in Lawrence after the Kansas-Nebraska territory was opened for settlement. The numerous Emigrant Aid Companies of the North, and later, the railroads and the Kansas Board of Immigration played an important role in attracting German settlers to Kansas. To serve the growing German community of Lawrence, German immigrants established two German speaking churches in town; the St. Paul's Lutheran church and the German Methodist Episcopal Church. A German-language newspaper, Die Lawrence Germania, was published from 1877 until 1918 to inform its German readers of news from the United States, Germany and Douglas County. Additionally, a German gymnastic and social club, the Turnverein, served Lawrence's Germans as [an] important cultural and social center. By the time of World War I, second generation Germans refused to carry on their parent's ethnic background, and social pressures from the dominant culture forced the German community of Lawrence to disappear. Besides the reconstruction of German life and its institutions in Lawrence, Kansas, the work compares the similarities and differences of German immigrants in metropolitan areas of the United States and small towns. According to the results, Germans in Lawrence had a different immigration experience than the Germans in metropolitan areas, such as Chicago or New York. The acceptance and assimilation of the minority group into the dominant culture led to a faster integration of German immigrants into American society, but also resulted in the decline of the German community.
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Small Town Germans: The Germans of Lawrence, Kansas, from 1854 to 1918
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/221002020-06-23T20:05:47Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_1951
Gabisch, Rose Dominic
2016-11-30T20:31:57Z
2016-11-30T20:31:57Z
1929
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22100
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Eichendorff’s poetry, a study in German romanticism
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/81172020-08-20T14:38:59Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_7158
Lange, Francis Joseph
2011-10-06T16:05:37Z
2011-10-06T16:05:37Z
1894
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8117
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The Tragic Fate in Chiller’s Later Dramas
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/146372017-12-08T21:46:53Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_7158
Garrett, Irene May
2014-07-08T20:09:07Z
2014-07-08T20:09:07Z
1914-05-15
Garrett, Irene May. "Hauptmann's Relation To Christianity" University of Kansas. May 15, 1914.
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/14637
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Hauptmann's Relation To Christianity
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/218402018-01-31T20:07:47Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_735com_1808_408col_1808_1952col_1808_32786col_1808_10179
Frawley, Gabrielle Katherine
2016-11-08T20:51:29Z
2016-11-08T20:51:29Z
2016-05-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14713
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21840
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 and place in the world, as manifest in select works of German exile literature of the period 1933-1945. The thesis pursued in this analysis is that the identity of the individual is inextricably tied to notions of time and space. The loss of the legal right to exist in a specific space at a specific time, a loss that defined the exile experience of refugees from the NS-regime, meant the expulsion of the refugee from a time-space continuum at a given moment to which he could never return. This loss calls into question the possibility of reintegration into this societal continuum, of the possibility of notions of self and place in the world independent of a legally recognized and sanctioned existence. The analysis of select German autobiographical and literary works of the NS-period evidences that the existence of the refugee in the space of the in-between, the space in which the legal, physical and socio-cultural Niemandsländer of exile overlap and coalesce, has profound implications for the refugee’s notions of identity, of his sense of belonging and place in the world. Integral to a discussion of the legality of existence in exile and its implications for identity is a comprehensive definition of identity itself. For this purpose, Richard Jenkins’ tripartite model of individual order, interaction order, and institutional order, as outlined in his work Social Identity (Third Edition), serves as a definition of identity and a foundation for the historical discussion and literary analysis of the four chapters. Chapter One, entitled “The Necessity of a Legally Documented and Sanctioned Existence: The Legal Status of German Refugees of the National Socialist Period (1933-1945),” provides a historical foundation for the subsequent three chapters in its discussion of the processes of legal erasure evident during the NS-period and the implications thereof for the legal status of the refugee in exile from the NS-regime. In the following chapters, representative works of German exile literature in which the experience of the in-between in Niemandsland proves to be of particular significance are discussed under various sub-points of analysis. Egon Schwarz’s autobiography is the focus of Chapter Two, which is titled “The Implications of Legal Otherness for the Refugee’s Notion of Identity: A Case Study of Egon Schwarz’s Keine Zeit für Eichendorff.” In this chapter Schwarz’s experiences in Niemandsland are discussed within the analytical framework of Jenkins’ tripartite model in order to determine the implications of exile and the consequent ruptures in the institutional order for Schwarz’s identity formation in the individual order, specifically his sense of personal agency in processes of identification and the interplay thereof with his notions of belonging and place in the world. Chapter Three focuses on the legal dimension of Niemandsland, specifically how statelessness affects the refugee’s sense of belonging to the national community from which he has been legally expunged. Entitled “The Interplay between Legally Sanctioned Space and Notions of Place in the World as Manifest in Select Works of German Exile Literature, 1933-1945,” this chapter explores the incongruity between legal erasure and the linguistic, cultural and historical ties that endure between the stateless individual and his national community of origin as manifest in select works. The chosen works are representative of the diversity of German writers’ responses to the experience of statelessness in exile from the NS-regime across several genres. The argumentation of the chapter is supported by the analysis of excepts from these works: non-fiction political writings and speeches by Thomas Mann, including “Schrifsteller im Exil” and Deutsche Hörer!, the novels Kind aller Länder by Irmgard Keun and Transit by Anna Seghers, the drama Jacobowsky und der Oberst by Franz Werfel, and the “dialogisierte Tagespolitik” Flüchtlingsgespräche by Bertolt Brecht (White 137). This chapter investigates how the authors of these works employ various techniques to demonstrate the ruptures in the institutional order and their implications for the individual order and identity in exile. The existing scholarship on these works is extensive, but the contribution of this dissertation lies in the fact that these works and their authors are being discussed within a unified analytical framework. In contrast to Chapters Two and Three, the analyses of which deal predominantly with the legal complications faced by the refugee of the NS-period and the implications of statelessness for processes of identification, Chapter Four, in its discussion of Mascha Kaléko’s exile poetry, focuses primarily on the devastating and irretrievable loss of home that exile represented for Kaléko. Titled “Exile in Nirgendland: The Poetry and Exile Experience of Mascha Kaléko,” this chapter explores a leitmotif in Kaléko’s poetry that the refugee is perpetually trapped in a Niemandsland, an in-between space that she refers to as Nirgendland. The four chapters of this dissertation explore the varying implications of legal erasure and statelessness for the refugee’s sense of belonging in the world, proving that the existence of the refugee in the space of the in-between, the space in which the legal, physical and socio-cultural Niemandsländer of exile overlap and coalesce, has profound implications for the refugee’s notions of identity, of his sense of belonging and place in the world.
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German literature
German exile literature
National Socialist Period 1933-1945
Niemandsland
no-man's land
refugees from National Socialist regime
statelessness
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
Dissertation
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/145292018-01-31T20:07:57Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_735com_1808_408col_1808_1952col_1808_32786col_1808_10179
Cunningham, Darren Joseph
2014-07-05T16:17:03Z
2014-07-05T16:17:03Z
2014-05-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:13406
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/14529
Telecollaboration is a pedagogical approach in which geographically distant parties work together for the purposes of culture and language learning. A growing body of literature documents the benefits of telecollaboration for the foreign language classroom, specifically in the area of interlanguage pragmatic development. While peer-peer telecollaborative studies are well represented in this strand of research, there has been a lack of attention to novice-expert telecollaboration, a gap this dissertation seeks to fill. The study investigated the requesting behavior of American learners of German for Professional Purposes (`novices') as they interacted via synchronous Web conferences with German-speaking professionals in Germany (`experts'). Requesting behavior was examined through four focal areas: directness, internal modification, external modification, and appropriateness. In addition to comparing the requesting behavior of novices and experts, the study also examined the effect of interaction with experts and data-driven focused instruction on the development of novices' requesting behavior. The research used a mixed methodology of quantitative and qualitative analytic approaches to evaluate transcribed and coded request sequences. The two groups showed a number of differences: novice speakers used more direct requests than experts, experts used more internal modification than novices, and experts were rated as more appropriate than novices. This result broadly corresponds to previous research findings. In contrast to earlier findings, the two groups showed similarities in their use of external modifiers, including both the frequency and range of use. Novice development was not evident from quantitative analysis, but qualitative analysis revealed individual differences among the learners profiled, including the emergence of an unexpected category of request modification: the modified external support move. Although certain learners were seen to exhibit pragmatic development, other learners showed the opposite trend, namely an overreliance on formulaic language use. In addition to supporting previous research findings about the nature of request production in second language learners, the study confirms the utility of explicit instruction in pragmatic development occurring within a telecollaborative context. It further contributes new understanding to the field of second language acquisition by identifying the limits of existing coding taxonomies for speech act research, and it suggests the need to develop better tools for quantitative research of interlanguage pragmatic development.
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Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Foreign language instruction
Data-driven instruction
German
Interlanguage pragmatics
Online intercultural exchange
Second language acquisition
Telecollaboration
The Development of Pragmatic Competence through Telecollaboration: An Analysis of Requesting Behavior
Dissertation
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/112122020-09-29T14:10:48Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_735com_1808_408col_1808_1952col_1808_32786col_1808_10179
Findlay, Roger L.
2013-06-04T20:05:03Z
2013-06-04T20:05:03Z
1997
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/11212
The reception of Gerhart Hauptmann's dramas in nineteenth-century Russia began in
1889 with the Russian review of Vor Sonnenaufgang as performed in Germany.
Hanneles Himmelfahrt was the first play by Hauptmann to be staged in Russia
(1895), performed by the troupe of the St. Petersburg Theater of the Literary Arts
Circle; the play ran quite successfully, largely due to its social content, which
appealed to both the progressive and reactionary factions of the intelligentsia.
Hannele, followed by Die versunkene Glocke and Michael Kramer, was the most
successful of the six Hauptmann plays performed by the St. Petersburg company. By
1901, Novoe Vremia had proclaimed Hauptmann as Germany's leading dramatist.
Despite the early gains for Hauptmann's dramatic works at the St. Petersburg Theater,
where there were serious deficiencies in directing and stage technique, the
prominance of Hauptmann's plays would have been unthinkable without the main
vehicle which conveyed them, the Moscow Art Theater, without the significant
artistic support from Anton Chekhov or the repertory inclinations of Nemirovich-
Danchenko, and most of all, without the inestimable talents and favor of Russia's
greatest actor-director, Konstantin Stanislavsky. Approximately 1905-06 both a
literary trend away from Naturalism and, more importantly, political considerations
worked to the detriment of continued popularity for Hauptmann's plays. Following
the end of World War I, Russian interest in Hauptmann's works increased
significantly, as Die Weber drew considerable attention for possible use in promoting
political ends; Lenin himself directed that this play be performed on Soviet stages.
Russian interest in Hauptmann's works declined noticeably in the late 1920s, largely
due to the disfavor of Stalin's Commissar of Education Lunacharsky, who greatly
admired Hauptmann, but now viewed the vacillations and symbolism of the author
as negative. The early 1930s saw a culmination of attention to, and publication of,
Hauptmann's dramas, but, overall, a lengthy loss of interest ensued thereafter due to
political hostilities with Germany. Soviet scholarship and dramatic representation
mainly concerned Die Weber and Vor Sonnenuntergang after the war. Post-Soviet
Russia continues to hold Hauptmann in high regard, as indicated by its foremost
institution of higher learning, Moscow State University.
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The Reception of Gerhart Hauptmann's Dramas in Russia
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/222122020-06-23T21:09:27Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_1951
McCoy, Isabel
2016-12-13T18:54:04Z
2016-12-13T18:54:04Z
1929
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22212
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The nature element in Goethe's works, 1765-1788
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Jermann, Thomas C.
2017-02-08T20:26:16Z
2017-02-08T20:26:16Z
1967
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/22730
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Thematic elements in thirty Neo-Latin epithalamia and their correspondences in the German Baroque Hochzeitsgedicht
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Meindl, Joerg
2009-08-31T02:01:12Z
2009-08-31T02:01:12Z
2009-01-16
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10183
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/5444
Old Order Amish are a religious group with three languages in its linguistic repertoire: Pennsylvania German (PG), American English (AE), and Amish High German (AHG). The present dissertation examines how this constellation influences language change, what communicative problems it causes, and how communicative problems are resolved. This is achieved by analyzing patterns of language change, socio-cultural factors of language change, language use in various situations, and strategies that are employed to solve communicative problems in a specific speech situation (the sermons). The methods employed are ethnographic (participant observation, interviews), especially ethnography of speaking, and linguistic (comparative analysis of translation tasks and interviews, discourse analysis) . The dissertation shows that the examined speech community undergoes a change in the occupational structure that increases contacts to AE, but maintains the traditional patterns of PG use. The linguistic analysis shows that PG in the community exhibits AE influence in few areas of the linguistic structure, but in all speech situations.
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Language, linguistics
Communication strategies
German dialects
Language change
Pennsylvania German
Sociolinguistics
Language Use in an Old Order Amish Community in Kansas
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/40122020-07-20T12:23:38Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_735com_1808_408col_1808_1952col_1808_32786col_1808_10179
Littlejohn, John
2008-07-31T04:12:30Z
2008-07-31T04:12:30Z
2008-06-18
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:2470
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/4012
This dissertation examines the dramatic works of Friedrich Wolf from the time of his joining the German Communist party in 1928 until his flight from Germany in 1933. Because Wolf sought to spread the Communist message with these works, this study will use methodology from the study of social movement rhetoric to divine the extent to which the playwright crafted a complete message, i.e., presented a complete and coherent Communist redefinition of society, in them. This analysis reveals that Wolf provided a thorough redefinition of present events and situations, yet he failed to adequately redefine the future, inasmuch as he did not present a plan to overcome this problem nor provide an image of the future utopia which would exist after that plan succeeded. This dissertation furthermore provides insights into factors both political and literary which influence Wolf's suasory focus and shortcomings.
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Germanic literature
Wolf, Friedrich
Redefining Reality: Friedrich Wolf as Communist Movement Rhetor
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/97482020-07-14T15:42:38Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_1951
Frawley, Gabrielle Katherine
2012-06-03T14:49:50Z
2012-06-03T14:49:50Z
2011-12-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11838
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/9748
The concept of die kleine Frau, a notion unique to this analysis, is applied to Irmgard Keun's depiction of young, lower middle class women during the interwar period in her novels Gilgi - eine von uns, Das kunstseidene Mädchen, and Nach Mitternacht. The common process of societal disillusionment culminating in emotional and physical displacement that the protagonists of these novels experience is explored in the context of the everyday and how it was lived by die kleine Frau. As a foundation for the literary analysis of Keun's novels, the socio-economic and -political history of women in Germany from the Weimar Republic through to the prewar NS-Regime is discussed, which further serves to underscore the volatile state of flux that female identity experienced during this time. The concept of der kleine Mann, prominent in 20th century German literature, is explored in order to contextualize Keun's kleine Frau and her distinction from der kleine Mann. Included in the analysis of the common process of societal disillusionment that the protagonists undergo is a discussion of their roles as modern daughters and their consequent incompatibility with the traditional family-unit, which is interpreted as the foundational dimension of their notion of displacement. Finally, the development of the protagonists over the course of the novels, and their common realization of their susceptibility to socio-economic and -political forces is explored. Their inability to establish a satisfying and stable socio-economic position within the social structure culminates in their self-determined flight from their respective situations. This analysis demonstrates that, although each of the novels ends with the protagonist facing an uncertain future, die kleine Frau nevertheless exhibits a paradoxical duality; none of the protagonists are willing to conform to the subjugated societal positions available to them at the end of the novels, and thereby in their flight maintain a degree of self-determination, despite their vulnerability to greater socio-economic and -political forces of the volatile interwar period.
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Germanic literature
Das kunstseidene mädchen
Der kleine mann
Die kleine frau
Gilgi: eine von uns
Keun, Irmgard
Nach mitternacht
Die kleine Frau: Her World in Selected Works of Irmgard Keun
Thesis
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/103122018-01-31T20:08:01Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_735com_1808_408col_1808_1952col_1808_32786col_1808_10179
Stock, Julia Trumpold
2012-10-28T16:58:36Z
2012-10-28T16:58:36Z
2012-05-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:12045
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10312
This dissertation (,,Responsibility through Memory: Luise Rinser's Autobiographical Writing as a Medium for Connecting with Readers") examines how Luise Rinser used her autobiographical work to communicate with her readers and to inform and educate them. Analyzing the autobiographies and diaries as a form to connect with the readers provides new insights into Rinser's autobiographical works. Rinser demonstrated with these autobiographical works that she had the goal to inform, educate, and maybe even manipulate her readers through a very personal medium. She also acquired the role of a contemporary witness, especially as a credible contemporary witness. This brought to light Rinser's position as a Christian and Socialist, an apparent contradiction which Rinser, however, united within herself her entire life. In view of Rinser's focus on a personal genre, such as the diary and the autobiography, and her strong connection with the audience, such an analysis is long overdue. The study focuses on Rinser's autobiographical works between 1946 and 1997, encompassing nine diaries and two parts of an autobiography (1981 and 1994). The dissertation shows how Rinser informs her readers regarding different topics and which methods she uses to reach her goal. An initial analysis of Rinser's first diary Gefängnistagebuch (1946) sheds light on the author's writing process and the meaning of writing for her as well as its role as a model for the later diaries (1970 until 1997). The following chapter demonstrates how Rinser uses her autobiographical work to educate and inform her readers about certain topics. Given Rinser's position as a Socialist and a Christian, this study focuses on a selection of political topics as well as topics related to religion, Catholicism, and faith. Subsequently this dissertation shows how Rinser influenced her readers' perception of current events and situations by making these more personal and showing them from a different angle than the media. The readers' connection with the author is shown in the following chapter. By analyzing letters from readers to Rinser it becomes clear that she did influence them and that, in fact, communication from both sides took place and is represented in Rinser's correspondence with her readers. Finally, the analysis reveals Rinser's way of telling her own truth. This often did not match the factual truth, and caused her to be strongly criticized. This dissertation demonstrates that Rinser was closely connected to her readers, and how the writing initially helped her, while it later became helpful to readers in mastering problems they faced. It also sheds light on how Rinser's way of writing autobiographies and diaries results in an approximation of the two genres to each other, which means the way she wrote diaries is closer to the way of composing an autobiography than it is to the usual way of writing diaries. Furthermore, the study shows how Rinser used the autobiographical genre to educate and inform her readers. It becomes apparent that Rinser's plan to educate her readers is successful, while her second goal, to communicate truth, succeeds only partially. The contribution of this dissertation to Rinser research is important, because this is the first time that the letters from the readers were considered and analyzed. Additionally, the role of her autobiographical work has not been looked at in this manner before.
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Germanic literature
Autobiography
Diary
Reader
Rinser
Verantwortung durch Erinnerung: Luise Rinsers autobiographisches Schreiben als Medium für die Nähe zu den Lesern
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/257692018-09-20T19:42:55Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_735com_1808_408col_1808_1952col_1808_32786col_1808_10179
Van Scoyk, Stefany
2018-01-28T23:15:02Z
2018-01-28T23:15:02Z
2016-08-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14890
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/25769
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. The novelist Stefanie Zweig and the filmmaker Jeanine Meerapfel, as members of the second generation, have composed narratives that create such continuities and their complexities in the search for place and the quest for belonging. This dissertation focuses on Zweig’s novels of the Rothschildallee (2008-2012) and Meerapfel’s feature film Der deutsche Freund (2012), narratives that tell stories of this quest for Heimat from the perspectives of the first and second generations, and analyzes the complexities of this search. To elucidate aspects of this search for place and belonging, this analysis works with conceptual tools borrowed from cultural geography and the Bakhtinian chronotope. The application of material and non-material traces from cultural geography in the analysis of these works reveals the unique character of German-Jewish geography as presented in these narratives. Through the Bakhtinian chronotope, an in-depth analysis of Heimat at a given time and of its changes over time reveals the complex relationships between time, space, and places in both public and private spheres. The house and the threshold emerge as the most important chronotopes in the narratives and evolve from novel to novel and from the written to the cinematic medium. This analysis discusses the challenges of establishing Heimat from the perspective of the parent generation. The house in the Rothschildallee becomes symbolic of German-Jewish culture in its negotiation between the public and private spheres while the threshold here becomes a point of momentous crossings. Furthermore, it identifies the children’s attitudes towards and expectations of the Heimat which their parents created for them. For the child generation, the threshold develops into a significant place of departures and arrivals that reveal the socio-cultural struggles for the younger Sternbergs. Over time, the chronotopes of the house and threshold respond to the processes of dissolution and restoration of Heimat, showing the interdependencies of the public and private spheres. Finally the analysis shows the difficulties in establishing and maintaining Heimat across different houses and thresholds set in various cultural geographies This analysis contributes to the study of Heimat from a German-Jewish perspective and points to developments in German-Jewish literature that has again become part of scholarly discourse in post-World War II literature and cinema. Zweig’s novels commemorate the German-Jewish Bildungsbürgertum and acknowledge the daily struggles involved in establishing Heimat. Meerapfel’s film treats the pursuit of a German-Jewish Heimat as one strand of a much broader story about the post-war quest for a place of home in two countries faced with the aftermath of exile and war crimes.
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German literature
German cinema
German-Jewish literature
Heimat
Jeanine Meerapfel
Stefanie Zweig
The Establishment, Dissolution, and Restoration of Heimat in German-Jewish Narratives by Stefanie Zweig and Jeanine Meerapfel
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/88122020-09-03T14:43:20Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_7158
Trovillo, Bessie
2012-03-20T21:28:41Z
2012-03-20T21:28:41Z
1910
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8812
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Studien in dem Romanstil Otto Ludwigs
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Baumgartner, Milton D.
2011-10-18T17:38:20Z
2011-10-18T17:38:20Z
1903-05-18
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8240
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The Religion of Klopstock
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Kent, Mattie
2014-06-25T17:18:41Z
2014-06-25T17:18:41Z
1911
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/14338
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Die Gleichnisse von dem Wahlverwandschaften
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Hackmann, Emily Elizabeth
2016-11-08T22:44:31Z
2016-11-08T22:44:31Z
2016-05-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14699
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21845
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 by a verb’s lexical aspect in their choice of TA markers, while the DH predicts that learners will be more greatly influenced by a verb’s role in a narrative. Recent research has regarded these two theories as complementary rather than competing, finding support for both hypotheses. However, these newer studies have so far primarily considered the theories’ claims for second language learners of English and Romance Languages. The current study expands on these findings, investigating the effects of lexical aspect and narrative function for L1 English students learning L2 German. This L1-L2 pairing is of particular interest due to the dissimilarities between the aspectual systems of the two languages. The study’s participants were enrolled in a fourth semester university German class. Over the course of one semester, they produced 6 written and 6 oral blogs, in which they told stories about themselves in German related to course themes. In addition, each student produced one written and one oral blog in English. The participants also took part in a mid-semester pedagogical intervention. At the end of the semester, approximately half of the students participated in retrospective interviews, in which they were asked about their opinions of the blogging process and the pedagogical intervention. Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis, the study investigated the effects of the intervention, mode of production, lexical aspect, narrative function, and L1 influence on learners’ TA use in their narratives. The results of the quantitative analysis showed that the DH was a more accurate predictor of tense/aspect use for the study’s participants than was the AH. It was also found that learners differentiated between foreground and background more consistently in written narratives than in spoken blogs. In addition, a visual inspection of the data plots indicated that the learners’ use of TA was similar for the English and German data, in terms of both grounding and lexical aspect. Finally, the results showed that the intervention was successful in helping learners associate past tense with foreground events, as well as in helping them to avoid the use of progressive aspect in their German narratives.
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Linguistics
Aspect Hypothesis
Discourse Hypothesis
German
pedagogical intervention
second language acquisition
tense and aspect acquisition
Story Time: The Expression of Temporal Events in Narration by L2 Learners of German
Dissertation
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/185652017-12-08T21:31:50Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_7158
Kroesch, Edward Daniel
2015-10-06T18:06:33Z
2015-10-06T18:06:33Z
1916
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18565
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The fairy drama
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Garrett, Violetta Belle
2015-11-03T14:48:50Z
2015-11-03T14:48:50Z
1916
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18793
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The humanitarian idea in Lessing’s Nathan der Weise, Goethe’s Iphegenie, and Schiller’s Don Carlos
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Kourehpazhassanalizadeh, Schirin
2017-08-13T22:29:07Z
2017-08-13T22:29:07Z
2015-05-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:14236
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24834
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 persischen und der deutschen, zu analysieren, um zu erläutern, wie er es unternimmt, seine Situation in seinen Gedichten den Lesern zu vermitteln. Hier gibt es eine Lücke in der Forschung und die vorliegende Arbeit über SAID versucht dazu beitragen, die bestehende Forschungslücke zu schließen. Es konnte gezeigt werden, wie SAID als Exilant nicht nur im Exil leben kann, sondern dass er auch in der Fremde eine neue Heimat finden kann. SAID ist ein Beispiel für einen Exilanten, der seine Heimat aufgeben musste, aber durch seine Erinnerung an seine Heimat, verbunden mit einer neuen, nämlich der deutschen Sprache, eine neue Heimat im Exil aufbauen konnte. Er hat sich im „Niemandsland,“ einem dritten Raum, ein Zuhause aufgebaut, welches sicher und frei ist. Es wurde weiterhin gezeigt, dass SAIDs „Niemandsland“ zwischen zwei unterschiedlichen Kulturen dahin führt, dass er seine Heimat in keiner dieser Kulturen eindeutig wiederfinden kann. Er schreibt in einer fremden Sprache über seine Heimat, seine Erinnerungen und seine derzeitige Situation im Exil. SAID benutzt dazu eine von beiden Kulturen inspirierte Bildersprache. Seine Welt und die Bilder werden auf Deutsch weitergegeben. Er versucht somit einerseits, das Fremde mit der fremden Sprache abzubauen. Andererseits baut er den dritten Raum durch die deutsche Sprache und die iranischen Erinnerungen auf.
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German literature
Exile Literature
German Exile Poems
Iranian Author
Migration Literature
Das Gedicht als "Bedürfnis nach einem Ort": Zur Situation und Bildersprache des Exilanten SAID
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/196992017-12-08T21:31:50Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_7158
Funk, Peter Cornelius
2016-01-06T17:16:02Z
2016-01-06T17:16:02Z
1916
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/19699
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Das planzenreich in Go?thes Gedichten von 1771, bis 1786
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/86852020-09-02T14:16:09Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_7158
Lehman, Harvey C.
2012-01-18T19:49:30Z
2012-01-18T19:49:30Z
1913-06
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8685
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The Pronouns of Address of Simplicissimus
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/108072022-11-17T15:56:42Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_735com_1808_408col_1808_1952col_1808_32786col_1808_10179
Johnson, D. Chris
2013-02-15T20:07:34Z
2013-02-15T20:07:34Z
1994
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10807
The town of Schoenchen, Kansas, lies 11 miles south of Hays, Kansas, in Ellis County. Schoenchen was founded in 1876 by German-speaking immigrants from the southern Volga region in Russia. Their forebears first came to Russia largely from the southern Hessian and northeastern Palatine regions of Germany in the second half of the eighteenth century at the invitation of Catherine the Great of Russia.
The Volga German dialect of Schoenchen, Kansas, remained strong for two generations following immigration to Kansas. Most of the grandchildren of the original immigrants were still actively using the dialect as young children during the years between the First and Second World Wars. The use of German began to decline during these years due to strong anti-German sentiment in the United States.
This dissertation describes the current state of the German dialect in Schoenchen, Kansas, which, like most other German dialects in Kansas, is in its last stages of existence. Seven informants participated in recorded interview sessions using interview materials which provided the basis for the Deutscher Sprachatlas and the Deutscher Wortatlas. In addition, informants were asked to describe pictures of rural scenes and to participate in extended question and answer sessions on a variety of topics dealing with life on the Great Plains prior to the 1950s. Some informants also related jokes and short anecdotes. All interviews were bilingual, with translation exercises and other questions presented in English and the informants answering in German. In addition, recordings of dialect interviews made in 1981 also provided data for this study.
Based on the data gathered from these interviews, the phonological, morphological and syntactic systems of the dialect are described and analyzed. In addition, a chapter is devoted to the analysis of Russian and English loanwords in the dialect. The final chapter deals with the decline and impending death of the dialect. The appendices contain all the interview questionnaires, as well as phonetic transcriptions of some translation exercises and selected anecdotes.
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The Volga German Dialect of Schoenchen, Kansas
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/299492020-02-04T09:00:44Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_1951
Dippold, Doris
2020-02-03T23:20:43Z
2020-02-03T23:20:43Z
2002-05-31
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/29949
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 for such research.
This thesis presents the results of research involving twenty-one church congregations in Cole County, Missouri, with a German heritage and representing five different denominations: Roman-Catholic, German-Methodist, Evangelical-Lutheran (Iowa Synod, Missouri Synod} and German-Evangelical. Its goal is to comprehend the process of language shift in these congregations and bring out its dominant influential factors. To achieve that goal, publications and records of the congregations were analyzed in the following four categories: church services, parochial and Sunday schools, church clubs, official records and public relations. Combined with some information gained through interviews with and questionnaires from older church members, those written sources provided data on the general timeline and the factors influencing language shift, and finally, the way the congregations with their members saw and see themselves: as Germans, German-Americans or Americans. These data were compared to the statistics of the denominations and previous research.
The results show clearly that the First World War is just one of many factors,·but not the·major reason of language shift in those German-American congregations. Though it may have initiated the change in some cases or was even being "used" as such an initiator, I am suggesting that shift in language use and cultural perception cannot happen without changes in the social and demographic structure of the immigrant communities. Apart form that, diminishing institutional support leads to language loss as well as loss of cultural awareness.
Those results being extracted, the research also offers valuable insight into questions of ethnicity and identity and is a basis for future work in these areas.
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"It just doesn't sound right": Spracherhalt und Sprachwechsel bei deutschen Kirchengemeinden in Cole County, Missouri : Resultate einer Spurensuche
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/84922020-08-27T13:52:56Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_7158
Harms, Sophia Gerhardine
2011-11-22T21:50:21Z
2011-11-22T21:50:21Z
1912-06
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8492
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A Study of the Position of the Verb in Grimmelshausen’s Simplicius Simplicissimus
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/82852020-08-25T14:44:10Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_7158
Stafford, Helen
2011-10-27T15:47:46Z
2011-10-27T15:47:46Z
1905
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8285
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Lessing, from the Standpoint of His Religious Views Before 1765
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Clarke, Ethel Ermine
2011-11-22T21:31:33Z
2011-11-22T21:31:33Z
1912-06
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8488
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Goethe’s Educational Theories in Wilhelm Meister
Thesis
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/40012018-01-31T20:08:15Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_1951
Kroh, Regine
2008-07-31T03:35:26Z
2008-07-31T03:35:26Z
2008-05-20
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:2450
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/4001
This thesis is concerned with the analysis of the depiction of outsiders in Klaus Mann's stories that were written in exile. Based on a sociological and literary definition of the term "outsider," this study investigates how Klaus Mann's experience of exile is visible in his treatment of outsider figures in these stories and what implications this treatment may have for the literary motif of the outsider. The analysis is divided into two parts, of which the first provides a general analysis of the outsiders in these stories whereas part two focuses on those stories which specifically relate to the exile situation. The study shows that in these stories, outsiders in exile no longer have a choice as to whether or not they want to be outsiders. Lacking this freedom of choice not only has an immense impact on their existential situation but on the function of the outsider-motif as well.
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Germanic literature
Mann, Klaus
Exile
Außenseiter
Outsider
Die Darstellung von Außenseitern in Klaus Manns Erzählungen aus dem Exil
Thesis
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/188272017-12-08T21:34:35Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_7158
Weiss, May
2015-11-03T14:49:24Z
2015-11-03T14:49:24Z
1918
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/18827
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The personal element in Goethe’s early works
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/108472020-09-23T13:18:35Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_1951
Faber, Jenny Susanna
2013-02-17T18:59:00Z
2013-02-17T18:59:00Z
2012-08-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:12414
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10847
The Arthurian Legends Erec and Iwein, adapted from material by Chrétien de Troyes by Hartmann von Aue discuss, among other things, the issue of minne, the Middle High German term for "love." In this study, I use close reading, language analysis, and the historical-critical method to investigate the various types of minne found in Erec and Iwein. Hartmann uses material from classical antiquity, the Aeneid in particular, as an allegory for the minne between Erec and his wife Enite and as a model for the character Vrou Minne, who appears in both works. I aim to demonstrate that Vrou Minne is modeled on the portrayals of goddesses from antiquity and that she becomes more of a developed figure in Iwein. I also demonstrate that in Erec, the minne is divided into three different types: anderre minne, kreftige minne, and guote minne. Anderre minne constitutes the minne Erec and Enite first experience for each other and is dominated completely by sexual pursuits. Kreftige minne is the sort of minne that men experience for Enite, which overwhelms their senses and leads to their ruin. The ideal type of love that Erec and Enite obtain at the end of the story is the balanced guote minne, which is an integral part of their lives as partners and rulers. Iwein discusses the theme of grôze minne between Iwein and his wife Laudine, which does not undergo the same development as depicted in Erec.
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Germanic literature
Medieval literature
Erec
von Aue, Hartmann
Iwein
Love
Minne
Types of Minne in Hartmann von Aue's Erec and Iwein
Thesis
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/122842020-10-07T14:59:58Zcom_1808_1260com_1808_735com_1808_408col_1808_1952col_1808_32786col_1808_10179
Sun, Sonja
2013-09-29T17:26:27Z
2013-09-29T17:26:27Z
2013-05-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:12694
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/12284
Thirty-three students of fourth semester German at the University Kansas participated in the study which sought to investigate whether focused written corrective feedback (WCF) promoted the acquisition of the German case morphology over the course of a semester. Participants received teacher WCF on five two-draft essay assignments under three treatment conditions: Group (1) received focused WCF on German case errors; group (2) received unfocused WCF on a variety of German grammar errors; and group (3) did not receive WCF on specific grammar errors. Combining quantitative and qualitative analyses, the study found that the focused group improved significantly in the accuracy of case forms while the unfocused and the control group did not make any apparent progress. The results indicate that focused WCF was effective in improving case accuracy in subjects' writings in German as a foreign language (GFL) context. WCF did not negatively affect writing fluency or students' attitude toward writing.
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Language arts
Pedagogy
L2 german pedagogy
Written corrective feedback
WRITTEN CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK: EFFECTS OF FOCUSED AND UNFOCUSED GRAMMAR CORRECTION ON THE CASE ACQUISITION IN L2 GERMAN
Dissertation
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/217702017-12-08T21:40:50Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_1951
Foote, Albert
2016-11-01T14:38:42Z
2016-11-01T14:38:42Z
1929
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/21770
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The didactic element in Hartmann's Der Arme Heinrich
Thesis
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/83052020-08-26T13:30:26Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_7158
Linder, Ethel Florence
2011-10-27T20:17:12Z
2011-10-27T20:17:12Z
1907
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8305
The object of this thesis is to examine how Martin Luther observes the word order in the subordinate clauses. The thesis deals with the transposed order with conjunctions that require the transposed order as; als, daß, da, sintemal, ob, wenn, weil, wie, and wo, with the relative pronouns, and with the conjunction din
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Word Order in Subordinate Clauses
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/52642020-07-23T13:46:49Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_1951
Landes, James Michael
2009-06-18T22:58:45Z
2009-06-18T22:58:45Z
2009-01-01
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10311
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/5264
In this thesis the genius aesthetic of Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) is presented as being an important clue to the understanding of the work of Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) on the poet. Herder's failed project appears to account for Heidegger's retreat into the mystical when he formulates his own concept of the poet, even if Heidegger does not explicitly acknowledge this background. Heidegger's awareness of the failed genius aesthetic developed by Herder led him to develop his concept of the poet in such a way as to consciously avoid the problems inherent in Herder's theory. What appears to many as an irrational turn in Heidegger's thought is actually, in part, a consequence of a quite rational attempt to avoid the problems that Herder encountered.
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Germanic literature
Philosophy
Genius
Heidegger, Martin
Herder
Poet
Shakespeare
From Genius to Poet: Herder's Genius Aesthetic as Background to Heidegger's Concept of the Poet
Thesis
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/80922020-08-20T13:40:26Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_7158
Kimball, Cora Lena
2011-09-30T20:50:45Z
2011-09-30T20:50:45Z
1887
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8092
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The Nibelungenlied
Project (Senior Thesis)
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Magerkurth, Helen Conradine
2015-12-04T15:09:58Z
2015-12-04T15:09:58Z
1915
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/19111
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Ein vergleich zwischen Schillers Kabale und Liebe, Hebbels Maria Magdalena und Sudermanns Die Ehre
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/247892017-12-08T21:40:50Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_1951
Warkentin, Abraham
2017-08-11T18:53:47Z
2017-08-11T18:53:47Z
1929
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24789
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Goetz von Berlichingen: Die dreifache bearbeitung von Goethes Goetz in ihrer beziehung zur lebens-Beschreibung
Thesis
oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/115202020-10-07T13:14:23Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_7158
Bahner, Ralph Waldo
2013-07-23T21:14:23Z
2013-07-23T21:14:23Z
1905
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/11520
de
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Gellert, Christian Fürchtegott, 1715-1769
The Religion of Gellert
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oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/108412018-01-31T20:08:10Zcom_1808_735com_1808_408com_1808_1260col_1808_32786col_1808_10179col_1808_1951
Rielley Lyon, Emily
2013-02-17T18:27:27Z
2013-02-17T18:27:27Z
2012-12-31
http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:12433
http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10841
The thesis examines Heine's use of the poetic "I" first in the Heimkehr section of Buch der Lieder, in which the poetic persona is "ein deutscher Dichter, bekannt im deutschen Land," and then considers Heine's use of the poetic narrator "Lazarus" to govern his late poems written from the mattress grave. While the Heimkehr poems bring the poetic persona's disappointment in love together with the poet's own misery at his lack of a place in German literary and political society, Heine's later use of the figure of Lazarus permits a prophetic representation of a particularly modern homelessness: the dissolution of local community and the redefinition of dwelling, which Heidegger calls the basic human act, in terms of ever more technological, disembodied abstraction. In a final step, the later poems, marked by the poet's increased turn toward a second-person interlocutor and enriched by the figure of Lazarus and his literary burden of poverty, are shown to elucidate the most universal human condition of contingency and mortality. The thesis has recourse to literary criticism of other epic poets' use of personal poetic personae and provides close readings of the selected poems while drawing on several Heine scholars to explicate the significance of the poetic narrators of each sequence.
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Germanic literature
Death
German
Heimkehr
Heine
Homelessness
Lazarus
The Lyrical "I" in Heine's Heimkehr and Lazarus Poems
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