Inaug.-diss.--Kiel. / Lebenslauf. "Literaturverzeichnis": p. [vii]-xv.

Thesis (doctoral)--Uppsala University, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [150]-155) and index.

Inaug.-diss.--Kiel. / Lebenslauf. "Literaturverzeichnis": p. [vii]-xv.

Names perform a key function in texts: through their direct reference to extra-linguistic objects, they provide immediate information about who is doing what, who is affected by what, and about the places involved. Thus, names also play a key role in the computer-based processing of texts. For the use of semantic technologies, names and definite descriptions must be marked up in texts. This set of references to extra-linguistic objects is largely subsumed beneath the term ‚named entities‘ (NE) in information technology. This paper discusses, first, the technical processes, methods and possible ways of representing the contexts of large sets of names/named entities and, second, the challenges posed by allonymic and orthographic variants of names in text processing. Third, the substantive focus is on the differentiation between name and definite description in the Early High German mining documents „Schwazer Berglehenbuch“ and „Verleihbuch der Rattenberger Bergrichter“, which provide information on individuals, places, mines and dates linked by the legal act of lending.

The motif of the doppelgänger has been present in literature and the visual arts, but also, more or less concealed, in music, from classical antiquity until today and may manifest itself in the most various forms, dependent on genre, epoch, and culture. This has led criticism to consider the motif of the doppelgänger as a genre in its own right and to propose, especially during the last years, numerous classifications of the ways in which this psychological and anthropological phenomenon is treated in the arts. In the present study I have concentrated my attention on creations in which the doppelgänger represents the disturbing aspects of the hero’s ego. This motif was especially prominent in German late romanticism and has considerably spread during the last decades in cinematography and in fantastic literature. Though there exists a large amount of criticism on the motif of the doppelgänger, what has hardly been analyzed up to now is the role of the characters’ and their doppelgängers’ names. Therefore the aim of my study was to exemplify by means of numerous examples from antiquity until present times the role the proper name has played in literature and other arts dedicated to the theme of the doppelgänger.

In comparison with personal names toponyms have been rather neglected in studies on literary onomastics. Place names may seem less promising for onomastic research because authors tend to anchor their narratives in the actual world much more than characters. However, place names in literature fulfil important tasks: they mainly contribute to the fictional constitution of space. The question whether the actual counterparts of fictional place names are of any importance for the reader has been discussed very controversially. But place names may also help to create a certain mood or local colour. They even may indicate the passing of time. As all these phenomena are based on mental processes which take place in the reader’s brain this paper tries to study them with the help of actual cognitive science.

Although it has spread mainly as a lingua franca, Kiswahili, Kenya`s national language, is increasingly becoming the language of intercultural communication. Most interestingly, Kiswahili is catching up as the medium of intra-group conversation in many rural up-country areas in Kenya. Not only do most Kenyan women wear lesos and kangas bearing Kiswahili proverbial sayings but the youth form different language communication almost invariably converse and interact through the medium of share or just Kiswahili. This brief paper sets out to speculate on the nature of Swahili lexical diffusion in up-country Kenya. Observation is made of the plorification of common Swahili names in both urban and rural areas far from the Swahili speaking coast. The paper argues that given the ever-growing tendency for non-Swahili speaking Kenyan up-country communities to adopt and use Swahili names represents a forum of intercultural communication. There seems to be a deliberate socio-cultural and political preference for Swahili names not just to denote borrowed Swahili concepts in the up-country communities but to forge a `nationalistic`culture as opposed to a localized and ethnic culture.

Heidrun Wiesenmüller von der Hochschule der Medien in Stuttgart stellte die an der Württembergischen Landesbibliothek entwickelte systematische Oberfläche zur Recherche von kartographischen Materialien (OSKAR) vor. Darüber hinaus problematisierte sie die sachliche Recherche nach Karten insgesamt: Diese ist mit verbalen Mitteln völlig unzulänglich und bleibt auch mit klassifikatorischen unbefriedigend. Es gibt jedoch schon Systeme, bei denen die Benutzer den gewünschten geographischen Raum auf einer Übersichtskarte markieren können. Grundlage für die Ausgabe der passenden Treffer ist die Erfassung von Koordinaten bei der Erschließung der Materialien. Der Wunschtraum aller Kartenbibliothekare ist die Schaffung eines Verbundkatalogs aller Kartensammlungen in Bibliotheken, Archiven, geographischen Instituten etc., der auch eine Recherche in der geschilderten Weise ermöglicht. Zur Einführung: http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/forum/forum2003_1.pdf

Thesis (doctoral)--Université de Paris IV, 1974. / Includes bibliographical references (v. 2, p. 847-1167) and index.

Inaug.-disc.--Tübingen. / Lebenslauf. "Quellen": p. 93-95.