History of concepts: comparative perspectives
Although vastly influential in German-speaking Europe, conceptual history (Begriffsgeschichte) has until now received little attention in English. This genre of intellectual history differs from both the French history of mentalités and the...
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Although vastly influential in German-speaking Europe, conceptual history (Begriffsgeschichte) has until now received little attention in English. This genre of intellectual history differs from both the French history of mentalités and the Anglophone history of discourses by positing the concept - the key occupier of significant syntactical space - as the object of historical investigation. Contributions by distinguished practitioners and critics of conceptual history from Europe and America illustrate both the distinctiveness and diversity of the genre. The first part of the book is devoted to the origins and identity of the field, as well as methodological issues. Part two presents exemplary studies focusing either on a particular concept (such as Maurizio Viroli's 'Reason of the State') or a particular approach to conceptual history (e.g. Bernard Scholz for literary criticism and Terence Ball for political science). The final, most innovative section of the book looks at concepts and art - high, bourgeois and demotic. Here Bram Kempers discusses the conceptual history of Raphael's frescos in the Stanza della Segnatura of the Vatican; Eddy de Jongh examines the linguistic character of much Dutch genre painting; and Rolf Reichardt considers the conceptual structure implicit in card games of the French Revolution, used to induct those on the margins of literacy into the new revolutionary world-view.
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Is there a strong match between the construct of general proficiency in the minds of native speaker non-teachers and native speaker teachers? An exploratory study
In spite of the fact that assessment criteria in general proficiency testing (GPT) is an area of extreme importance, being the expression of the underlying general proficiency construct, little has been said in the literature regarding the source of...
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In spite of the fact that assessment criteria in general proficiency testing (GPT) is an area of extreme importance, being the expression of the underlying general proficiency construct, little has been said in the literature regarding the source of such assessment criteria. Unfortunately, even less has been done towards answering the important question of whether the application of exclusively teacher-based perceptions to GP assessment criteria is sound, given the act that context of use and test interpretation involves the general public. This paper outlines a rater cognition study that explored the GP construct by examining unguided reactions of 2 non-teacher native speakers (NSs) with 2 NS teachers. Notable quantitative and qualitative differences were found. The findings suggest that the construct of GP as rooted in the perspectives of teachers trained in the use of rating scales has questionable utility to the actual contexts where GP test scores will be interpreted, and where the abilities measured in GP tests will actually be used.
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Tempori aptari decet
Zusammenfassung: Bereits in den frühesten literarischen Zeugnissen erscheint die Medea-Figur als überaus vielschichtige Gestalt, deren Facetten vom unschuldig-naiven Mädchen bis zur Kindsmörderin reichen. Diese Ambivalenz ist wesentlicher Bestandteil...
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Zusammenfassung: Bereits in den frühesten literarischen Zeugnissen erscheint die Medea-Figur als überaus vielschichtige Gestalt, deren Facetten vom unschuldig-naiven Mädchen bis zur Kindsmörderin reichen. Diese Ambivalenz ist wesentlicher Bestandteil des Mythenkerns. Insbesondere in den beiden erhaltenen antiken Medea-Tragödien (Euripides, Seneca) kommt ihr dementsprechend eine zentrale Funktion zu. In der Arbeit wird zum einen untersucht, wie diese Ambivalenz mit jeweils zeitgenössischen Diskursen verbunden wird, zum anderen wird der Einfluss literarischer und außerliterarischer Diskurse auf den Mythos und seine Rezeption nachgezeichnet. Beide Aspekte müssen bei der Interpretation literarischen Mythendarstellungen berücksichtigt werden. Neben der Interpretation der beiden Tragödien widmet sich die Arbeit daher auch den Medea-Darstellungen in der Literatur zwischen Euripides und Seneca und geht insbesondere auf Werke von Ennius, der augusteischen Liebeselegiker (Properz, Tibull), Horaz und Ovid ein.
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