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"Biste etwa einer von den roten Gebhardts?" - Identities between Family and Society in Klaus Kordon's "Trilogie der Wendepunkte"
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-20)This thesis deals with the "Trilogie der Wendepunkte" ("Trilogy of Turning Points") by Klaus Kordon. The trilogy, consisting of "Die roten Matrosen" (1984), "Mit dem Rücken zur Wand" (1990), and "Der erste Frühling" (1993), ... -
Brave New World: The Correlation of Social Order and the Process of Literary Translation
(University of Waterloo, 2008-12-16)This comparative analysis of four different German-language versions of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) shows the correlation between political and socio-cultural circumstances, as well as ideological differences, ... -
Can women have it all? The (in)compatibility of work and family in Kristine Bilkau’s Die Glücklichen and Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-29)The aim of this thesis is to examine the portrayal of women in contemporary German literature and film against the backdrop of German public discourse on women in the first half of the 2010s. The works selected for this ... -
A Chinese Intellectual's Journey: Lin Shen's adaptation of Daoban Fushide (The Pirated Faust 1999)
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-27)This thesis has as its focus Daoban Fushide 盗版浮士德 (The Pirated Faust), a Chinese staging of Goethe’s Faust I and II, which premiered in Beijing in 1999. The research questions of the study are how the adaptation remains ... -
Communicative practices of resistance in psychotherapy interactions: Patients resistance to solution-oriented questions
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-30)In this thesis, I investigate the practices of linguistic resistance in psychotherapeutic interactions to uncover which communicative practices of resistance patient use in these interactions. I study this interactional ... -
COMPLAINTS ABOUT COVID: An Examination of the Structure and Properties of Complaints about COVID-19 Using Conversation Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-28)In making a complaint, speakers attach a negative assessment to a person, an entity, or an event. Verbalizing such an assessment in interaction transforms a previously individual perception into one that they consider ... -
The Conceptions of Love and Marriage in German Idealism and Romanticism
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-20)In his Elements of the Philosophy of Right, G. W. F. Hegel considers ethical love the basis of marriage and family, which comprises the state and higher ethical entities. For Hegel, marriage should be seen as an immediately ... -
Constructing multilingual selves. Subjective perspectives on learning and living with German as a "heritage" language in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-14)Based on the perception that language students who have a family background in the target language differ from ‘typical’ foreign language learners in important ways, the phenomenon of what has been termed "heritage language ... -
Contesting the centre: Low German-speaking Mennonite identity, language, and literacy constructions
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-01)We make sense of who we are by talking about ourselves with others, telling stories about ourselves, our experiences, and our feelings. When we do this, we construct sociolinguistic spaces in which we speak, live, work, ... -
Culture-in-interaction: Using idiomatic-sounding membership categorizations in German interactions
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-29)Understanding (Verstehen) and establishing common understanding (Verständigung) are foundational to human communication. Interactants not only work to understand their conversational partners, but they also act to ensure ... -
Das Motiv der Werbung in deutscher und russischer Gegenwartsliteratur - dargestellt anhand Raumers Viktor Vogel und Pelevins Generation P.
(University of Waterloo, 2005)This thesis is a the comparative analysis of the motifs of advertising concepts as found in the German novel <em>Viktor Vogel</em>, by Alexandra Raumer, and the Russian novel <em>Generation P. </em>, by Viktor Pelevin. ... -
Das Verhältnis von Mutter und Tochter in Theodor Fontanes Schach von Wuthenow und Effi Briest
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-22)Theodor Fontane’s famous novel Effi Briest (1895) has been widely discussed in secondary literature, and every single aspect of the novel’s complex content and style seems to have been analysed; however, the similarities ... -
Das Wissenschaftskollektiv in den Romanen "Respektloser Umgang" und "Im Schatten des Regenbogens" von Helga Königsdorf
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-27)The author Helga Königsdorf, a scientist herself, deals in several of her literary works with the situation of the scientist in the GDR. The aim of this thesis is to explore the image of the scientist within the two novels ... -
„Denn sie wissen nicht, was sie tun...“ - Opfermythos und Sündenbockritual in Hermann Brochs Die Verzauberung
(University of Waterloo, 2014-02-21)In this thesis I try to examine the role and function of victim and sacrifice in Hermann Broch's novel Die Verzauberung. Since this text has been widely interpreted both with a political and religious approach, my aim is ... -
Der monolinguale Multilingualismus der EU- Sprachenpolitik - Eine Analyse der Reproduktion von EU-ropäischen Sprachideologien - The Monolingual Multilingualism of the EU Language Policy - An Analysis of the Reproduction of EU-ropean Language Ideologies
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-09)„Das Erlernen von neuen Sprachen öffnet neue Realitäten;“ (BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN, 2018, S. 170) – language acquisition opens new realities – so claimed the election program of the German Green Party for the 2019 European ... -
Der Roman als Schlachtfeld der Islaminterpretationen. Die Funktion des Islam in Feridun Zaimoglus Leyla
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-19)Although modern Germany is a multicultural and multireligious society, a fact reflected by the growing number of works on the lives of migrants to Germany by authors from non-German backgrounds, it is still difficult to ... -
Der Stotterer als Sündenbock: Eine marginalisierte Figur in drei deutschen Prosawerken
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-31)The character of the stutterer in three works of German literature is the focus of this master’s thesis, Der Stotterer als Sündenbock: Eine marginalisierte Figur in drei deutschen Prosawerken. Two novels and one story were ... -
Die ,globale Provinz' ? Der Globalisierungsdiskurs am Beispiel von Arnold Stadlers Roman <u>Ein hinreissender Schrotthändler</u> (1999) und Andreas Maiers Roman <u>Klausen</u> (2002)
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This thesis demonstrates how two literary works ? Arnold Stadler's <em>Ein hinreissender Schrotthändler</em> (1999) and Andreas Maier's <em>Klausen</em> (2002) ? can be read as part of the globalization discourse. As a ... -
Die ?asexuelle Witwe? im Identitätskonflikt am Beispiel von Arthur Schnitzlers ?Frau Berta Garlan? und ?Frau Beate und ihr Sohn?
(University of Waterloo, 2006)The role of women in society was an important socio?cultural discourse explored in the literature of the late 19th century. The Austrian author Arthur Schnitzler was a key contributor to this discourse. He was well ... -
Die Bedeutung von High Context Cultures vs. Low Context Cultures im interkulturellen Training
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-08)This thesis discusses the importance and role of Edward T. Hall’s cultural dimension High-Context-Communication and Low-Context-Communication and its impact in the intercultural training. In the first chapter of my thesis, ...