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  1. Hemingway's venetian muse Adriana Ivancich
    Autor*in: Knigge, Jobst C.
    Erschienen: 2012
    Verlag:  Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Humboldt-Universität, Leitung und Verwaltung

    Abstract ; The essay centers on the relationship between Ernest Hemingway and Adriana Ivancich. When the writer met the then eighteen year old girl in Venice in 1948 he was nearly 50 years old, depressed and in a creative crisis. Since 1940 he had... mehr

     

    Abstract ; The essay centers on the relationship between Ernest Hemingway and Adriana Ivancich. When the writer met the then eighteen year old girl in Venice in 1948 he was nearly 50 years old, depressed and in a creative crisis. Since 1940 he had not published anything serious. The platonic love story renewed his spirits. He overcame his writers block. The relationsship inspired the novel "Across the River and into the Trees" and to a lesser degree "The Old Man and the Sea". For five years the affair dominated Hemingway's emotional life, culminating in Adriana's several months long stay on his finca in Cuba. The essay follows the influence Adriana had on his writings and his personal life. Both Ernest and Adriana were left with a lasting mark. Adriana could never free herself of the father figure that overshadowed her life. Both the author and his muse ended in suicide.

     
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    Schlagworte: Ernest Hemingway; Adriana Ivancich; Across the River and into the Trees; The Old Man and the Sea; Venice; Cuba
  2. Von Frauen begraben: Zur Generierung des Frauenlob-Bildes in Mittelalter und Neuzeit
    Autor*in: Lange, Judith; Schöller, Robert
    Erschienen: 2012
    Verlag:  de Gruyter

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  3. "Old proverbs in new skins – an fMRI study on defamiliarization"
    Autor*in: Altmann, Ulrike; Lubrich, Oliver; Bohm, Isabel; Menninghaus, Winfried; Jacobs, Arthur
    Erschienen: 2012
    Verlag:  Frontiers Research Foundation

    Other ; We investigated how processing fluency and defamiliarization (the art of rendering familiar notions unfamiliar) contribute to the affective and esthetic processing of reading in an event-related functional magnetic-resonance-imaging... mehr

     

    Other ; We investigated how processing fluency and defamiliarization (the art of rendering familiar notions unfamiliar) contribute to the affective and esthetic processing of reading in an event-related functional magnetic-resonance-imaging experiment.We compared the neural correlates of processing (a) familiar German proverbs, (b) unfamiliar proverbs, (c) defamiliarized variations with altered content relative to the original proverb (proverb-variants), (d) defamiliarized versions with unexpected wording but the same content as the original proverb (proverb-substitutions), and (e) non-rhetorical sentences. Here, we demonstrate that defamiliarization is an effectiveway of guiding attention, but that the degree of affective involvement depends on the type of defamiliarization: enhanced activation in affect-related regions (orbito-frontal cortex, medPFC) was found only if defamiliarization altered the content of the original proverb. Defamiliarization on the level of wording was associated with attention processes and error monitoring. Although proverb-variants evoked activation in affect-related regions, familiar proverbs received the highest beauty ratings.

     
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  4. Escenografías suicidas de Alejandra Pizarnik: hacia la elipsis
    Autor*in: Quesada Goméz, Catalina
    Erschienen: 2012
    Verlag:  Universidad de Granada, Facultad de Filosofia y Letras

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    DDC Klassifikation: Spanische, portugiesische Literaturen (860); Spanisch, Portugiesisch (460)
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  5. But is it a Tree? Application of Graph Analysis to Texts and their Stemmata
    Autor*in: Andrews, Tara Lee
    Erschienen: 2012
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    Schlagworte: rhetoric & criticism; medieval & eastern philosophy
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  6. Trees of Texts - Models and methods for an updated theory of medieval text stemmatology
    Autor*in: Macé, Caroline; Andrews, Tara Lee
    Erschienen: 2012
    Verlag:  Hamburg University Press

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  7. Palauan English as a newly emerging postcolonial variety in the Pacific
    Autor*in: Britain, David; Matsumoto, Kazuko
    Erschienen: 2012
    Verlag:  東京大学大学院総合文化研究科言語情報科学専攻

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  8. Aspect in the imperative across Slavic - a corpus driven pilot study
    Autor*in: von Waldenfels, Ruprecht
    Erschienen: 2012
    Verlag:  University of Oslo

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  9. All men become brothers. The use of kinship terms for non-related persons as a sign of respect or disrespect
    Autor*in: Hentschel, Elke
    Erschienen: 2012
    Verlag:  Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät an der Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder)

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  10. The power of emotional valence – from cognitive to affective processes in reading
    Autor*in: Menninghaus, Winfried; Lubrich, Oliver; Bohm, Isabel; Altmann, Ulrike; Jacobs, Arthur
    Erschienen: 2012
    Verlag:  Frontiers Research Foundation

    Other ; The comprehension of stories requires the reader to imagine the cognitive and affective states of the characters. The content of many stories is unpleasant, as they often deal with conflict, disturbance or crisis. Nevertheless, unpleasant... mehr

     

    Other ; The comprehension of stories requires the reader to imagine the cognitive and affective states of the characters. The content of many stories is unpleasant, as they often deal with conflict, disturbance or crisis. Nevertheless, unpleasant stories can be liked and enjoyed. In this fMRI study, we used a parametric approach to examine (1) the capacity of increasing negative valence of story contents to activate the mentalizing network (cognitive and affective theory of mind, ToM), and (2) the neural substrate of liking negatively valenced narratives. A set of 80 short narratives was compiled, ranging from neutral to negative emotional valence. For each story mean rating values on valence and liking were obtained from a group of 32 participants in a prestudy, and later included as parametric regressors in the fMRI analysis. Another group of 24 participants passively read the narratives in a three Tesla MRI scanner. Results revealed a stronger engagement of affective ToM-related brain areas with increasingly negative story valence. Stories that were unpleasant, but simultaneously liked, engaged the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), which might reflect the moral exploration of the story content. Further analysis showed that the more the mPFC becomes engaged during the reading of negatively valenced stories, the more coactivation can be observed in other brain areas related to the neural processing of affective ToM and empathy.

     
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  11. Cognitive load of academic writing in L2 English vs. in L1 plus translation
    Autor*in: Alves, Fabio; Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen; García, Adolfo; Pagano, Adriana; Andermatt, Katrin; Delorme Benites, Alice; Ferreguetti, Kicila; Fonseca, Norma; Nunes, Leonardo; Teixeira, André; Schaub-Torsello, Romina
    Erschienen: 2019

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    DDC Klassifikation: Rhetorik, Sammlungen von Literatur (808)
    Schlagworte: Academic writing; Post-editing; Cognitive load
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  12. Thinking with the computer : how do new writing tools influence higher-order cognition?
    Autor*in: Kruse, Otto; Benetos, Kalliopi; Rapp, Christian
    Erschienen: 2019

    In the age of cloud computing and machine learning, innovative writing technologies appear to offer promising new ways of influencing thought processes and higher-order cognition of writers. These new tools support writers by helping them manage the... mehr

     

    In the age of cloud computing and machine learning, innovative writing technologies appear to offer promising new ways of influencing thought processes and higher-order cognition of writers. These new tools support writers by helping them manage the complex interrelation between thinking, language use, communication, and text production. We will offer a short synopsis of the principal technological solutions and picture what their pedagogical impact on the teaching and learning of writing might be. Then, we will give three different examples of how new tools try to support the thinking behind writing.

     
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  13. Digitalization of writing : do we really understand how much writing is changing? : and do we react properly to the challenges, digitization poses on teaching and research?
    Autor*in: French, Amanda; Rapp, Christian; Kruse, Otto; Anson, Chris; Benetos, Kalliopi
    Erschienen: 2019

    Although all members of EATAW will have their own thoughts on digitalization and, recently, more publications are devoted to this topic, we miss coherent discourses and feel that other contexts (mainly from the IT disciplines) have taken the lead in... mehr

     

    Although all members of EATAW will have their own thoughts on digitalization and, recently, more publications are devoted to this topic, we miss coherent discourses and feel that other contexts (mainly from the IT disciplines) have taken the lead in these discussions. For future EATAW conferences, we suggest placing a strong emphasis on digitalization and would like to discuss which aspects of it should be stressed most. For a first step, it would be great to initiate an exchange on hot issues in teaching and research related to digitalization and explore ideas for future collaboration. Christian Rapp and Otto Kruse will give an introduction to the session and explain the idea of it with a short input about some problems connected to the challenges of new digital tools for the teaching of writing and the question of whether and how much writing teachers should take over control and ownership of the new technology or leave it to the IT and E-Learning disciplines. Kalli Benetos will talk about the need for researchers and educators to put DESIGN and intent before technology in adopting more design-based research approaches to drive technology development and uses, instead of being led by "market forces". Chris Anson will address the following question: What are the consequences - ethical, developmental, rhetorical, and interpersonal - of having computers “read” and evaluate student writing?

     
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  14. Leveraging corpus linguistic methods to provide writing aids
    Autor*in: Bubenhofer, Noah; Kruse, Otto; Rothenhäusler, Klaus
    Erschienen: 2019

    The ThesisWriter tool (https://thesiswriter.zhaw.ch/) provides a component that offers linguistic help to users. We describe the compilation of the corpus and the procedures used to automatically identify typical language use in scientific writing,... mehr

     

    The ThesisWriter tool (https://thesiswriter.zhaw.ch/) provides a component that offers linguistic help to users. We describe the compilation of the corpus and the procedures used to automatically identify typical language use in scientific writing, that build the backbone of this module.

     
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    Schlagworte: Korpuslinguistik; Schreibforschung; Digitale Linguistik
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  15. Keynote : Ethics in financial communication : an Applied Linguistics perspective on the language of numbers
    Autor*in: Whitehouse, Marlies
    Erschienen: 2019
    Verlag:  Groupe d’Étude et de Recherche en Anglais de Spécialité (GERAS)

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  16. Going deep, reaching far : facing the methodological challenges of finding sustainable solutions to socially relevant problems of text production : lecture held at Jyväskylä University, Finland, 18 January 2019
    Autor*in: Whitehouse, Marlies; Perrin, Daniel
    Erschienen: 2019
    Verlag:  Jyväskylä University

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  17. Seamless writing : how the digitisation of writing transforms thinking, communication, and student learning
    Autor*in: Kruse, Otto; Rapp, Christian
    Erschienen: 2019
    Verlag:  Springer

    This chapter extends the scope of the term ‘seamless learning’ to include writing as one of the most prominent learning activities in education. The seamless learning concept is used to analyse the ongoing flow of digital innovation with respect to... mehr

     

    This chapter extends the scope of the term ‘seamless learning’ to include writing as one of the most prominent learning activities in education. The seamless learning concept is used to analyse the ongoing flow of digital innovation with respect to the changing instructional and intellectual positioning of writing in its various contexts. The term ‘seams’ is interpreted as frictions or barriers in the writer’s experience, and the concept of ‘seamlessness’ refers to coherence in the practice and learning of writing. In order to understand the impact of digitisation on writing, this chapter recaps on the major development steps of digital writing technology, before offering an example of an integrated learning platform for the writing of academic theses which intends to offer students a seamless writing experience. The results indicate that the term seamlessness in the context of writing should not be directly associated with mobile learning or to the ubiquitous learning opportunities which are qualities that writing technologies have already offered for some time. Other more recent technological changes have provided considerably greater impact on what the authors term as ‘seamless writing’.

     
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  18. Modeling writing phases : interdisciplinary method building – an interim report
    Autor*in: Fürer, Mathias; Gantenbein, Thomas; Perrin, Daniel; Sick, Beate; Wildi, Marc
    Erschienen: 2012

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    Schlagworte: Statistical modeling; Writing process; Writing; Writing research
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  19. Modeling writing phases : interdisciplinary method building – an interim report
    Autor*in: Perrin, Daniel; Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen; Fürer, Mathias; Gantenbein, Thomas
    Erschienen: 2012

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    Schlagworte: Statistical modeling; Writing process; Writing; Writing research
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  20. Introduction : teaching and learning writing
    Autor*in: Castelló, Montserrat; Kruse, Otto
    Erschienen: 2012
    Verlag:  Emerald

    In the multilingual context of European higher education, both the need to study new linguistic situations in diverse educational contexts and the pressure to meet the demands of contemporary teaching are challenging tasks for writing research. Over... mehr

     

    In the multilingual context of European higher education, both the need to study new linguistic situations in diverse educational contexts and the pressure to meet the demands of contemporary teaching are challenging tasks for writing research. Over the past 30 years, the study of teaching and learning of writing constitutes a major field of interdisciplinary research which has compiled a substantial body of knowledge but still expands with respect to new research questions, new research fields and new methodologies. This expansion is particularly evident in this section on the teaching and learning of writing, which contains a large number of contributions on writing and reading processes, teaching methods, learner characteristics and text genres. The perspectives of the studies vary, as do the subjects studied, the contexts, the purposes of writing and the educational situations. The section is organized into five major sections which have been defined on the basis of the main research lines or research perspectives followed: – Focus on writing instruction – Focus on writing process – Focus on text assessment – Focus on learner and teacher variables – Focus on genre This classification is somewhat arbitrary, as most studies touch on more than one field. Still, we feel that each of the following papers has a main focus that allows classification into one of the proposed subsections. Other variables and study characteristics were excluded from the classification, as, for example the participants’ characteristics (e.g. with or without learning disabilities (LD)), the educational level (primary, secondary or higher education), the methodological approach (descriptive, correlational or experimental) and the theoretical approach. Some of the papers may share several or even all of these characteristics but are placed in different sections on the basis of their main research focus.

     
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    Schlagworte: Writing research; Intervention; Academic writing; Teaching; Learning; Development
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  21. The place of writing in translation : from linguistic craftmanship to multilingual text production
    Autor*in: Kruse, Otto
    Erschienen: 2012
    Verlag:  Parlor

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    Schlagworte: Translation; University; Academic writing; Text production; Skill; Fluency
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  22. Writing cultures and genres in european higher education
    Autor*in: Chitez, Madalina; Kruse, Otto
    Erschienen: 2012
    Verlag:  Emerald

    The article sets out with the question of how writing cultures in a multilingual setting of 50 countries and even more languages like Europe can be studied. Each country formed its own system of higher education and looks back to its own lines of... mehr

     

    The article sets out with the question of how writing cultures in a multilingual setting of 50 countries and even more languages like Europe can be studied. Each country formed its own system of higher education and looks back to its own lines of teaching traditions. In spite of attempts to “harmonize” higher education through what is called the “Bologna Process”, communication on writing in Europe is still lacking a consistent terminology, especially on genre and writing practices. The article gives a short overview on genre theory and defines what “educational genres” are and how they develop. Examples are given on their relationships to writing practices and writing cultures. The contribution of contrastive and cross-cultural research to an understanding of national writing cultures is discussed and difficulties in interpreting contrastive studies are mentioned. Writing and genre use, it is argued, are framed by a large set of context conditions like classroom practices, curricular organization, institutional and disciplinary writing cultures as well as national and language-specific conditions so that it is difficult to interpret results from contrastive research. By outlining the writing cultures of France, Germany, Italy, and Romania, four examples are given of how national cultures may develop and which role genres play in shaping writing practices. The article concludes with some remarks on developmental trends of writing cultures.

     
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    Schlagworte: Contrastive research; Bologna process; Writing cultures; Higher education; Writing competence; Writing didactics
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  23. The bilingual academic phrasebook : can it support writers? And how?
    Autor*in: Kruse, Otto; Gautschi, Curtis
    Erschienen: 2019

    This presentation reports on the creation of a bilingual academic phrasebook (or two corresponding phrasebooks in English and German), which is based on two corpora of 20,000 English and 16,000 German documents, as a work in progress. Built on the... mehr

     

    This presentation reports on the creation of a bilingual academic phrasebook (or two corresponding phrasebooks in English and German), which is based on two corpora of 20,000 English and 16,000 German documents, as a work in progress. Built on the Manchester Phrasebank methodology, the present project focuses on collecting phrases and examining connections between the two languages. What we refer to as a phrasebook is a collection of expressions used to perform the most important speech acts in academic papers. As an inventory of frequently used expressions in research articles and theses, the collection is a representation of the functional aspects of academic language and, as such, may be viewed as a rhetoric for academic texts. In the presentation, we describe how phrases are selected and organized along the IMRD sequence in order to correspond with the composition process. We also outline a theoretical framework grounded in genre theory, rhetoric and linguistics to provide the basis for the phrasebook’s planned pedagogical uses, as well as lay some foundations for this branch of research. In addition, we demonstrate how the phrases may be used to support authors in a digital learning environment called Thesis Writer, in which the phrases are available to writers when their papers demand certain speech acts. The most important part of our presentation will be a reflection on the parallelism of German and English expressions, with a brief overview of some of the similarities and differences in frequencies found when comparing the two languages. While the phrasebook is a key component in the structure of Thesis Writer, our intention is to make it available as a separate digital tool to be used independently. Concluding, we summarize our experience thus far with the uses and limitations of academic phrases in the teaching of academic writing, both in L1 and L2.

     
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  24. EFL placement testing for engineering students with automated essay scoring : new applications for natural language processing
    Autor*in: Gautschi, Curtis
    Erschienen: 2019

    The implementation of internationalisation strategies by higher education policymakers has led to a steady increase in English-taught programmes (Wächter & Maiworm 2014). The recognition of English as an economic (Ehrenreich 2010) and academic... mehr

     

    The implementation of internationalisation strategies by higher education policymakers has led to a steady increase in English-taught programmes (Wächter & Maiworm 2014). The recognition of English as an economic (Ehrenreich 2010) and academic (Ljosland 2011) lingua franca also applies to Engineering, where the proficient use of English is highly valued (Minsch et al. 2017), and practical skills, such as the writing of technical reports, are expected outcomes from engineering students' university level education (Karras et al., 2015: 8-13). In spite of its importance, the placement testing of writing skills, regrettably, tends to be avoided on the grounds that it is too time-consuming. This is especially true when large numbers of new students are involved. However, advancements in computerized text analysis in the form of Automated Essay Scoring (AES) show great promise in responding to this need. This paper describes the design, results and further development of an AES tool and CEFR-level prediction algorithm that was created and experimentally implemented at a major University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland as part of an online English placement test for first-year engineering students. In line with current research in AES, the algorithm was developed employing a prediction-accuracy pseudo-black box approach (see Vanhove et al. 2019, Yannakoudakis 2013) using a small training corpus of texts with known CEFR levels (N=50). The tool's advantages will also be discussed. Written and run entirely in an R environment (R Core Team 2017, version 3.4.3) using the koRpus package (Michalke 2017) as the tool's workhorse, the user has complete control over the tool's implementation, and can integrate it with other advanced text analyses possible in R (e.g., text mining, word embedding). The algorithm requires a minimum of resources, is simple to use and is cost-effective. As the tool can handle bulk grading of large numbers of texts, it is ideal for placement testing. Further, the AES algorithm is efficient. In ...

     
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  25. Digital support for academic writing : a review of technologies and pedagogies
    Autor*in: Strobl, Carola; Ailhaud, Emilie; Benetos, Kalliopi; Devitt, Ann; Kruse, Otto; Proske, Antje; Rapp, Christian
    Erschienen: 2019
    Verlag:  Elsevier

    This paper presents a review of the technologies designed to support writing instruction in secondary and higher education. The review covers tools to support first and second language writers and focuses on instructional affordances based on their... mehr

     

    This paper presents a review of the technologies designed to support writing instruction in secondary and higher education. The review covers tools to support first and second language writers and focuses on instructional affordances based on their technological specifications. Previous studies in this field centred on Automated Writing Evaluation, Automated Essay Scoring and the rarer Intelligent Tutoring Systems, addressing mainly essay writing needs in US secondary school instruction. With technology-enhanced learning becoming more ubiquitous and widespread, new technologies and tools catering to a broader range of genres, pedagogical settings, and approaches are emerging. We present a systematic analysis of 44 tools across 26 quantitative and qualitative features related to writing processes, pedagogical approaches, feedback modalities and technological specifications. The results uncover an imbalance of available tools with regard to supported languages, genres, and pedagogical focus. While a considerable number of tools support argumentative essay writing in English, other academic writing genres (e.g., research articles) and other languages are under-represented. With regard to the pedagogical focus, automated support for revising on the micro-level targeting factual knowledge (e.g., grammar, spelling, word frequencies) is well represented, whereas tools that support the development of writing strategies and encourage self-monitoring to improve macrolevel text quality (e.g., argumentative structure, rhetorical moves) are infrequent. By mapping the state of the art and specifying direction for further research and development, this review is of interest to researchers, policymakers, tool developers, and practitioners of writing instruction in higher and secondary education institutions.

     
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Unbestimmt
    Format: Online
    DDC Klassifikation: Rhetorik, Sammlungen von Literatur (808)
    Schlagworte: Distance education and telelearning; Evaluation of CAL system; Interactive learning environment; Pedagogical issue
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