Zugl.: Regensburg, Universiẗat, Diss., 2008.

Zugl.: Basel, Univ., Diss., 2006 u.d.T.: Kalt, Monica: Von der Barmherzigkeit zur Solidarität. Entwicklungspolitische Bewusstseinsarbeit und Tiersmondismus in der Schweiz der 1960er und 1970er Jahre

Zugl.: Hamburg, Univ., Diss., 2008.

Bachelor-Arbeit Univ. St. Gallen, 2006.

University, Diss., 2000--Bonn.

In his diaries analysing the German language during the Nazi period, the German philologist Victor Klemperer notes how certain words are of such importance to a given historical period that they actually reflect the thinking of an era, a claim that forms the basis for this thesis. Based on a combination of Key Word Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis, enhanced by applying Discourse Semantics and History of Concepts, the paper analyses the usage of the term Flüchtling (refugee) in German media during the autumn of 1989, how it is used during this period and how studying this usage provides the reader with access to the mentality of the German public at the time. After describing the relevant theories and methods, the thesis describes the development of the term refugee, both semantically and in legal terms. The international conventions that form the basis for the international legal understanding of the term are presented as well as the applicable German legal framework. It is shown that the term indeed constitutes a key word, and through a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, the usage and connotational shift of refugee is presented in text and tables. The findings are that while the general perception of the German media (and the population) during the summer were neutral to negative, the general euphoria in West Germany about the events in the GDR led to a more positive perception, that culminated in October. After the opening of the Wall in November, refugees all but disappear from the news reporting, and when they are mentioned, it is with the same negative connotation as during the summer.

Wie beeinflusst Terrorismus die sprachliche Konstruktion von Places im urbanen Raum? Die Arbeit widmet sich der spannenden Schnittstelle zwischen Terrorismusdiskurs und urbanem Diskurs. Sie zeigt, wie terroristische Ereignisse durch sprachliche Place-Making-Prozesse Orte im urbanen Raum prägen und Urbanität (re-)konstruieren. Mithilfe eines zirkulären methodischen Ansatzes, der qualitative und quantitative Methoden kombiniert, werden sprachliche Place-Making-Prozesse in massenmedialen Texten korpus- und diskurslinguistisch untersucht. Grundlage der Untersuchung ist ein selbst erstelltes Korpus mit 1,15 Millionen Token. Das Buch liefert nicht nur wertvolle Einblicke in die sprachliche Konstruktion von Urbanität, sondern bietet auch methodische Impulse für die Analyse urbanitätsbezogener sprachlicher Muster. / The dissertation project investigates terrorism discourse in the context of urban discourse and analyzes how terrorist attacks influence the linguistic construction of places in urban space. The study focuses on linguistic patterns and structures in the representation of terrorist attacks, the linguistic representation of the affected locations, the associated linguistic construction of urbanity, and the observable urban place-making processes. The research also tests a circular methodological approach, combining qualitative and quantitative methods to gain a deeper understanding of the linguistic processes associated with urbanity. The investigation is based on a corpus and discourse linguistic analysis of urbanity-related linguistic patterns in a self-compiled corpus, comprising 1.15 million tokens from mass media texts. / Das Dissertationsprojekt untersucht den Terrorismusdiskurs im Kontext des urbanen Diskurses und analysiert, wie terroristische Ereignisse die sprachliche Konstruktion von Orten im städtischen Raum beeinflussen. Die Arbeit konzentriert sich auf sprachliche Muster und Strukturen in der Darstellung von Terroranschlägen, die sprachliche Repräsentation der betroffenen Orte, die damit verbundene sprachliche Konstruktion von Urbanität und die zu beobachtenden urbanen Place-Making-Prozesse. Die Arbeit erprobt zudem ein zirkuläres methodisches Vorgehen, das qualitative und quantitative Methoden kombiniert, um ein tieferes Verständnis für die sprachlichen Prozesse im Zusammenhang mit Urbanität zu erlangen. Die Untersuchung basiert auf einer korpus- und diskurslinguistischen Analyse urbanitätsbezogener sprachlicher Muster in einem selbst erstellten Korpus, das 1,15 Millionen Token aus massenmedialen Texten umfasst.

This paper will offer some arguments to demonstrate that the second type of linguistic relativity becomes a crucial element in all types of intercultural (comparative or merely descriptive) discourse analysis, because of the existence of what I have called elsewhere internationalized genres such as written literature, journalism, scientific discourse, and political discourse (see Blommaert 1990, 1991) This point will be illustrated by refening to Tanzanian Swahili political rhetoric

Zugl.: Bamberg, Univ., Diss.

This paper will offer some arguments to demonstrate that the second type of linguistic relativity becomes a crucial element in all types of intercultural (comparative or merely descriptive) discourse analysis, because of the existence of what I have called elsewhere internationalized genres such as written literature, journalism, scientific discourse, and political discourse (see Blommaert 1990, 1991) This point will be illustrated by refening to Tanzanian Swahili political rhetoric