Browsing Germanic and Slavic Studies by Title
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Shifts of Power: Gender(de)konstruktion und -inszenierung in Türkisch für Anfänger
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-31)Between 2006 and 2008 the German television series “Türkisch für Anfänger“ (Turkish for Beginners) about the life of a multiculturally blended family in Berlin was aired on the television network ARD. This thesis analyzes ... -
Sind wir nicht alle ein bisschen Dora? Eine Untersuchung der Funktion psychischer Krankheit anhand der Raumkonstruktion in Irena Vrkljans Buch über Dora
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-03)We often encounter mental illness in our daily lives. People who are diagnosed with a mental disorder are marked as different and thereby stigmatized and confined to spacial isolation. This thesis analyzes the function of ... -
Soziokulturelle Theorie und Selbstdarstellung von Lernenden in einem interaktiven online L2 Lernkontext
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-12)Abstract This study in second language acquisition (SLA) investigates the influence of self-portrayal of language learners in an interactive online L2 learning environment from a social-interactionist research perspective. ... -
Spannung zwischen Realität und Fiktion: Die Rolle des Autors in Cornelia Funkes Roman Tintenherz
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-26)This thesis explores the tension between fiction and reality in Cornelia Funke’s novel Tintenherz (Inkheart), and the importance of the figure and the function of the author as an influential character of the perception ... -
The Stage History of Goethe's Faust I in Imperial Russia: Performance and Archival Record
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-27)This dissertation is devoted to the stage history of Goethe’s Faust I in Imperial Russia with the goal of initiating academic discussion of this previously ignored topic. The significance of this study lies not only in the ... -
Teachers' subjective perspectives on foreign language vocabulary learning and teaching
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-09)This study examines the beliefs and subjective theories teachers hold about vocabulary learning and teaching. Recent research into teacher cognition has repeatedly shown that teachers’ perspectives on languages, language ... -
Television in Literature
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-31)In this master thesis I discuss a topic which is highly neglected. We do see people reading all the time. When we see a person holding a book in his or her hands in the bus, we associate this person as being smart and ... -
Topography and Nature Symbolism in Thomas Mann’s ‘Zauberberg’
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-31)In my master's thesis I examine the meaning of topography and nature symbolism in Thomas Mann's novel "The Magic Mountain". I select text passages and chapters that exemplify the importance of mountains, height and snow ... -
Tor für Deutschland! Vergleichende Analyse von Fußball-Live-Reportagen 1974 und 2006
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-26)This thesis is a contribution to the research of media discourse. During the last decades the media landscape has changed dramatically. These changes have been especially evident in German TV programs and the rise of private ... -
Towards a Posthumanist Eco-Zoopoetics: Kafkas‘ Tiergeschichten and Yoko Tawadas Etüden im Schnee
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-09)The burgeoning trans-disciplinary field of (post-humanist) eco-zoopoetics is concerned with the question of how the human can represent animals and nature without ignoring their otherness. My thesis argues that literature ... -
Transnational Identity in Online Discourse – Netflix’s Sense8 and accompanying Twitter communication
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-28)Digital media has become ubiquitous and immensely shapes communitarisation, and thus identity construction. As media does not rely on physical border crossing to bring us in con-tact with different subject positions, ... -
Transtextual Narratives about the European Union. A qualitative research on structuring, sense-making constructions of reality from a linguistic perspective
(University of Waterloo, 2024-03-28)Narratives are never finished products, but constantly evolving linguistic constructs. Actors use them to position themselves and develop the narratives further in the process. In this respect, narratives are to be understood ... -
“tu_s oben DRAUFlegen”: tun-constructions as context-sensitive practices in German
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-21)There are a variety of syntactic formats available to get others to do something in German interaction. To make a request or give an instruction, speakers of German may use an imperative, a declarative, a single word, or ... -
Uebersetzungsentscheidungen im kulturellen Kontext: Drei deutsche Uebersetzungen von J.D. Salingers <em>Catcher in the Rye</em>
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This master's thesis examines the three German translations of J. D. Salinger's novel <em>The Catcher in the Rye</em> (1951): <em>Der Mann im Roggen</em>, published in 1954 by Diana Verlag and translated by Irene Muehlon; ... -
=und wenn_s nun mal heißt dass die männer mehr leistung BRINgen?: An interactional to the functions of the modal particle „nun mal“ approach
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-30)Human interaction is mainly based on conversation. Without conversations, we would not be able to communicate with each other. To communicate, we use words and each word has different and specific meaning. In the German ... -
Unrechtsstaat or “Normal” State? Authenticity and the Portrayal of the German Democratic Republic on Film
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-21)This thesis investigates how the display of authenticity in Wolfgang Becker’s 2003 film Good Bye, Lenin! and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s 2006 film Das Leben der Anderen provides a common basis for accepting both ... -
Utopie und utopische Motive in Thorsten Beckers Schönes Deutschland
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-16)Thorsten Becker’s novel Schönes Deutschland appeared in 1996, six years after German reunification. Numerous people in both eastern and western Germany had hopes for a golden future in which the two Germanies would become ... -
Vernichtetes Geld und vernichtendes Geld Das Geldmotiv in den zwei zeitgenössischen Romanen "Die Nacht der Händler" von Gert Heidenreich und "MOI" von Heiko Michael Hartmann
(University of Waterloo, 2004)The present work deals with the motif of money in contemporary German literature, taking as examples the two novels <i>Die Nacht der Händler</i> (1995) by Gert Heidenreich and <i>MOI</i> by Heiko Michael Hartmann (1997). ... -
Was ist link(s) und recht(s)? Eine Untersuchung der moralischen Gesetzmäßigkeiten in Goethes Die Wahlverwandtschaften
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-24)Abstract This thesis asks the question "Does the use of the words 'left' and 'right' (links / rechts), and their various lexical forms in Goethe‘s Wahlverwandtschaften constitute a systematic pattern which can be applied ... -
“We call them Tracht”: Transcultural Positioning through Code-Switching and Repair
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-27)This thesis examines instances of language alternation and code-switching in the context of recorded face-to-face interviews. The participants in this study include two groups: German speaking immigrants who left Europe ...