Focusing on the portrayal of women's issues in Downton Abbey, this seminar paper examines the characteristics of Edwardian women and how they relate to the series. It provides an analysis of the societal context and the roles women played during that era, drawing connections between historical realities and the show's depiction. The study aims to enhance understanding of gender dynamics within the narrative of Downton Abbey, making it relevant for discussions in English Language and Literature Studies.
Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject English Language and
Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Bonn (Anglistik),
course: Language in the Mind, language: English, abstract: When homonymous
meanings are assumed to have separate representations in the human mind does
this count for polysemous senses and does the processing advantage differ
between homonymous and polysemous words? Since this is a very new perspective
in psycholinguistics, not many results have been achieved by now. Thus, this
study aims to go further and explain 'the source of the processing advantage'
which could have been observed in previous lexical decision studies with
ambiguous words. In addition this study will focus on the diverse processing
advantages for homonyms and polysemes and attempts to provide a model for the
word representation of homonymous and polysemous words. Accordingly, the
experiment is constituted as a lexical decision task. The used corpus was
adopted from the study of Rodd et al. (2002: 263-264) which built the base for
this study. This corpus was used because the present study only included 20
participants which thus only allows a predication to a limited extent. But by
choosing this corpus parallels can be drawn between those two experiments and
thereby a more general and meaningful statement can be provided.
Mobbing in Schulen wird oft zu spät erkannt und von vielen als harmloses Verhalten abgetan. Diese Studienarbeit beleuchtet die Mythen und Missverständnisse rund um das Thema und hebt die Dringlichkeit hervor, Mobbing ernst zu nehmen. Anhand aktueller Ereignisse, wie dem Vorfall in Berlin Reinickendorf, wird die Relevanz des Themas unterstrichen. Die Arbeit zeigt auf, dass Mobbing eine weit verbreitete Realität an deutschen Schulen ist und fordert ein Umdenken im Umgang mit dieser Problematik.
