Himmel und Erde : Ptolemaios, der Astronom und Geograph
Other ; Es gibt kaum einen Gelehrten der Antike, der das Weltbild so nachhaltig geprägt hat wie Klaudios Ptolemaios aus Alexandria (2. Jahrhundert n. Chr.). Sein astronomisches Hauptwerk, der Almagest, hatte mit der Propagierung des geozentrischen...
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Other ; Es gibt kaum einen Gelehrten der Antike, der das Weltbild so nachhaltig geprägt hat wie Klaudios Ptolemaios aus Alexandria (2. Jahrhundert n. Chr.). Sein astronomisches Hauptwerk, der Almagest, hatte mit der Propagierung des geozentrischen Weltbildes für anderthalb Jahrtausende die Vorstellungen vom Aufbau des Kosmos geprägt, bis das nach ihm benannte «ptolemäische Weltsystem» im 16. Jahrhundert durch die «kopernikanische Wende» abgelöst wurde. Etwa 150 Jahre vor dieser Wende ist das andere grosse Hauptwerk des Ptolemaios, die Geographie, im Westen bekannt geworden und hat besonders mit seiner neuartigen Weltkarte das mittelalterliche, noch von der Scheibengestalt geprägte geographische Weltbild revolutioniert. Die Ausstellung versucht, diese zwei Werke vorzustellen: Sie zeigt die ernst zu nehmenden Argumente, die Ptolemaios zur Verteidigung des geozentrischen Weltbildes anführt. Ausserdem stellt sie das geographische Werk vor mit seinen Projektionsmethoden, seinen zahlreichen Koordinatenangaben und seinen aus der Antike überlieferten farbigen Karten. Die Ausstellung steht im Zusammenhang mit dem Berner Ptolemaios-Projekt, das eine vollständig neu bearbeitete zweisprachige Ausgabe der ptolemäischen Geographie zum Ziel hat.
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Contact, Mobility and Authenticity: Language Ideologies in Koineisation and Creolisation - Poster for CSLS
Other ; How are new dialects and new languages represented and evaluated in public discourse?
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Other ; How are new dialects and new languages represented and evaluated in public discourse?
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Angemessenheit. Pragmatische Perspektiven auf ein linguistisches Bewertungskriterium ; Bericht zur Tagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Linguistische Pragmatik (ALP e. V.) an der Universität Leipzig am 3. März 2015
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Other ; Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich. ; Other ; This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
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Wutreden – Konstruktion einer Gattung in den digitalen Medien
Other ; Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich. ; Other ; This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence...
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Other ; Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich. ; Other ; This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively. ; Abstract ; This paper proposes a reception-oriented and discursive concept of genre by using the example of „Wutreden“, i. e. public and medially distributed rants and their coverage in (online) media and Web 2.0. On the basis of a corpus of video recordings and transcriptions of Wutreden as well as comments made by journalists and users, it is shown that neither their linguistic features nor their situational functions qualify Wutreden as a distinct genre. Rather, the medial and internet-based recontextualisations of Wutreden build an orienting framework for the reception of discourse. It is these recontextualisations that put disparate speech events in order, so that they can be received as instances of one single genre. The analysis of accompanying discourse like media reports, user comments, and tweets as well as the multimodal surroundings of the respective videos shows, that such documents of reception reflect a genre awareness of Wutreden which will shape their reception as well as the follow-up discourse. The increase of Wutreden in the recent past as appears to be as a result of altered conditions of reception in online environments – conditions, which the linguistic study of genre and genre change within digital media should not neglect.
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10001 manuscripts in practice: Perl, XML, medieval chronicles, and why Unicode rocks
Other ; I work in the field of Armenian historiography. This means I get to play with medieval manuscripts. The things I'm doing with the manuscripts are theoretically interesting, but pretty boring in practice, so I'm using Perl to program away the...
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Other ; I work in the field of Armenian historiography. This means I get to play with medieval manuscripts. The things I'm doing with the manuscripts are theoretically interesting, but pretty boring in practice, so I'm using Perl to program away the most boring bits. I will talk about the problems of text criticism in general, what sorts of things can and can't be done by the computer, my initial aversion to XML, how I was shown (some of) the error of my ways, and how I'm combining a bunch of isolated pieces of technology that were mostly already in use to achieve fame and fortune in the world of Armenian studies.
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Beyond the tree of texts: Building an empirical model of scribal variation through graph analysis of texts and stemmata
Other ; Stemmatology, or the reconstruction of the transmission history of texts, is a field that stands particularly to gain from digital methods. Many scholars already take stemmatic approaches that rely heavily on computational analysis of the...
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Other ; Stemmatology, or the reconstruction of the transmission history of texts, is a field that stands particularly to gain from digital methods. Many scholars already take stemmatic approaches that rely heavily on computational analysis of the collated text (e.g. Robinson and O’Hara 1996; Salemans 2000; Heikkilä 2005; Windram et al. 2008 among many others). Although there is great value in computationally assisted stemmatology, providing as it does a reproducible result and allowing access to the relevant methodological process in related fields such as evolutionary biology, computational stemmatics is not without its critics. The current state-of-the-art effectively forces scholars to choose between a preconceived judgment of the significance of textual differences (the Lachmannian or neo-Lachmannian approach, and the weighted phylogenetic approach) or to make no judgment at all (the unweighted phylogenetic approach). Some basis for judgment of the significance of variation is sorely needed for medieval text criticism in particular. By this, we mean that there is a need for a statistical empirical profile of the text-genealogical significance of the different sorts of variation in different sorts of medieval texts. The rules that apply to copies of Greek and Latin classics may not apply to copies of medieval Dutch story collections; the practices of copying authoritative texts such as the Bible will most likely have been different from the practices of copying the Lives of local saints and other commonly adapted texts. It is nevertheless imperative that we have a consistent, flexible, and analytically tractable model for capturing these phenomena of transmission. In this article, we present a computational model that captures most of the phenomena of text variation, and a method for analysis of one or more stemma hypotheses against the variation model. We apply this method to three ‘artificial traditions’ (i.e. texts copied under laboratory conditions by scholars to study the properties of text variation) and four genuine medieval traditions whose transmission history is known or deduced in varying degrees. Although our findings are necessarily limited by the small number of texts at our disposal, we demonstrate here some of the wide variety of calculations that can be made using our model. Certain of our results call sharply into question the utility of excluding ‘trivial’ variation such as orthographic and spelling changes from stemmatic analysis.
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Zur Einführung. Wasser in der mittelalterlichen Kultur
Other ; Water is life. Individual organisms, social formations, and cultural achievements all depend on water. It is used in both pragmatic and symbolic contexts. Being a life-sustaining as well as a destructive force, water connects and divides,...
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Other ; Water is life. Individual organisms, social formations, and cultural achievements all depend on water. It is used in both pragmatic and symbolic contexts. Being a life-sustaining as well as a destructive force, water connects and divides, absolves and dissolves. Society as a whole and individual institutions alike need to engage with, and adapt to, these ambivalent aspects of water. As a natural element, water provokes cultural reactions in regard to its utilisation, evaluation, and symbolism. The different functions water fulfils in the natural world are also addressed and negotiated in literature and the visual arts. This article provides a short introduction into the main research questions of the interdisciplinary conference of the “Mediavistenverband e. V.” held in Bern, Switzerland in March 2015, it gives a concise overview on previous publications in this field and it summarizes the findings of the overall volume.
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Haketia in Morocco. Or, the story of the decline of an idiom
Other ; This contribution takes a diachronic look at the political, social, cultural and economic reasons behind the decline of Haketia, which has become one of the most symbolic icons in the collective memory of the Hispano-Moroccan Sephardic Jews...
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Other ; This contribution takes a diachronic look at the political, social, cultural and economic reasons behind the decline of Haketia, which has become one of the most symbolic icons in the collective memory of the Hispano-Moroccan Sephardic Jews in their new settlements. The article has three parts: it opens with a general section that introduces the concept of Sephardic Jew and sets out the linguistic varieties of this ethnic group; a second section contextualises the sociocultural and linguistic history of Sephardic Jews in Morocco after their expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula and up until 1860, the year of the Spanish military foray into North Morocco; and a third and central section examines the causes of the decline of Haketia and the current situation. The article concludes with glottopolitical reflections on the evolution of this idiom, the tension between a colonised and a colonising tongues, and the role of language in ethnic-cultural identity, all of which prove how linguistic homogeneity and linguistic difference can be considered the result of ideological expressions in the social and political processes of a given region.
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The Kitāb al-ʾInṣāf by Ibn al-Anbārī in electronic form
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The Kitāb Sībawayhi in electronic form
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