The present volume is a collection of papers on Contrastive Pragmatics, involving research on interlanguage and cross-cultural perspectives with a focus on second language acquisition contexts. The subdiscipline of pragmatics is seen from a multilingual and multicultural perspective thus contributing to an emerging field of study, i. e. intercultural pragmatics which can be made fruitful to second language teaching/learning and contrastive analysis. The book is an important contribution to general linguistics, pragmatics, cross-cultural communication, second language acquisition, as well as minority issues in multilingual settings.
The present book is a collection of selected papers held at the 23rd International LAUD Symposium on «The Cultural Context in Communication Across Languages» (26-31 March 1997) in Duisburg, Germany. The papers included in this volume highlight several aspects pertaining to the cultural dimension of foreign language teaching and learning. The topics covered range from theoretical accounts on text, language, and culture through to empirically-based aspects of non-native discourse as well as sociolinguistic and cultural awareness in foreign language teaching. Finally, the volume brings together contributions from a wide variety of languages and cultural settings. The Cultural Context in Foreign Language Teaching will interest students of educational linguistics and language pedagogy, intercultural communication and discourse analysis.
This volume grew out of the 36th International LAUD Symposium, which was held in March 2014 at the University of Koblenz-Landau in Landau, Germany. There is general consensus among language experts that slightly more than half of today’s 7,000 languages are under severe threat of extinction even within fifty to one hundred years. The 13 papers contained in this volume explore the dramatic loss of linguistic diversity, why this matters, and what can be done and achieved to document and support endangered languages especially in the context of an ever increasing globalized world. The issue of vanishing languages is discussed from a variety of methodologies and perspectives: sociolinguistics, language ecology, language contact, language policy/planning, attitudes and linguistic inequalities.
This volume grew out of the 30th International LAUD Symposium, held in 2004 at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. It constitutes a collection of papers by prominent linguists who explore the interdisciplinary area of language and power. The papers focus on the theoretical and sociolinguistic problems related to the role of power in language policy and language planning situations in multilingual settings, code switches, and associated topics. The fate of African minority languages and their speakers is of particular concern.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications.It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other.The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
The two main theories on the rise and development of pidgin and especially creole languages are presented by their main Derek Bickerton for the nature hypothesis, i.e. the triggering of the bioprogramme of universals, and Peter Mühlhäusler for the nurture hypothesis, i.e. the social needs experienced by the speakers of a newly developing variety. Most of the other papers discuss the data on pidgins and creoles in the light of either of the two conflicting hypotheses. These data are related to a variety of languages such as Black English in South Carolina (USA); Negro-Dutch in St. Thomas Island; a French-based pidgin in Burundi; Khoi-Khoi Dutch, Malay Afrikaans and Afrikaans as a creolised and partly decreolised standard in South Africa; the Mexican-Indian language Cora and British Jamaican English. These data reveal that the traditional pidgin-creole dichotomy must be widened into a much more complex continuum, comprising not only a pidgin and creole phase, but also a post-creole phase, and a near-standard or new standard phase and that it must account for intricate processes of massive borrowing.
This peer-reviewed collection brings together the latest research on language endangerment and language rights. It creates a vibrant, interdisciplinary platform for the discussion of the most pertinent and urgent topics central to vitality and equality of languages in today's globalised world. The novelty of the volume lies in the multifaceted view on the variety of dangers that languages face today, such as extinction through dwindling speaker populations and lack of adequate preservation policies or inequality in different social contexts (e.g. access to justice, education and research resources). There are examples of both loss and survival, and discussion of multiple factors that condition these two different outcomes. We pose and answer difficult questions such as whether forced interventions in preventing loss are always warranted or indeed viable. The emerging shared perspective is that of hope to inspire action towards improving the position of different languages and their speakers through research of this kind.
Rechtsbehelfe im Ursprungsstaat (local remedies), Aufhebung im Ursprungsstaat und inländisches Exequaturverfahren
Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Jura - Zivilprozessrecht, Note: Vollbefriedigend (12 Punkte), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Veranstaltung: Seminar: Aktuelle Probleme der deutschen und internationalen Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Arbeit behandelt zwei aktuelle Probleme der internationalen Schiedsgericht in Bezug auf das deutsche Exequaturverfahren gem. § 1061 ZPO. Erstens die Frage, wie das Verstreichenlassen von Rechtsmittelfristen im Ursprungsland bei der Erteilung des Exequatur in Deutschland zu beurteilen ist. Hier existiert eine, nicht zuletzt durch Wegfall des § 1044 a.F. ZPO, uneinheitliche und interpretationsbedürftige Rspr. Hierbei soll zunächst zwischen bisheriger und jetziger Rechtslage, sowie aufgrund der unterschiedlichen Behandlung in der Rechtsprechung zwischen fristgebundenen und -ungebundenen Rechtsbehelfen unterschieden werden. Zweitens den Fall, dass ein Schiedsspruch im Zeitpunkt der Beantragung des Exequatur im Vollstreckungsland von den Gerichten seines Ursprungslands bereits aufgehoben wurde. Hier ist insbesondere der Anerkennungsversagungsgrund des des Art. V Abs. 1 e), welcher die Aufhebung am Schiedsort als Versagungsgrund qualifiziert, problematisch. Was zunächst selbstverständlich erscheint, führt dazu, dass diese Regelung ein Einfallstor lokaler Aufhebungsstandards bildet und ein trojanisches Pferd im System der ansonsten in Art. V UNÜ abschließend geregelten Aufhebungsgründe darstellt.
Die Arbeit setzt sich zum Ziel, Kommunikationsereignisse eines anglokaribischen Gottesdienstrituals in einer Pfingstkirche zu beschreiben und diese in ihrer kulturspezifischen Ausprägung als Totalkommunikation zu begreifen. Die emotiv-expressive Gestaltungsweise erfordert aufgrund ihres ekstatischen Ritualvollzugs eine Analyseperspektive, die sowohl verbalen als auch nonverbalen Phänomenen in adäquater Weise Rechnung trägt. Daher wurde - aufbauend auf dem von Dell Hymes begründeten soziolinguistischen Ansatz der Ethnographie der Kommunikation - eine ethnosemiotische Perspektive zugrunde gelegt, die kommunikative Kompetenzen der Gemeindeteilnehmer zu ergründen sucht. Im Mittelpunkt des empirisch-orientierten Interesses lag daher die Bedeutsamkeit der persönlichen Kenntnis der Gemeindemitglieder sowie die Notwendigkeit der teilnehmenden Beobachtung als wichtigste Methode ethnographischer Feldforschung.
