Anglistentag 1994 Graz

Frontmatter
PREFACE
Contents
SECTION I: IRELAND
INTRODUCTION (Kosok)
THE LITERARY TRADITION OF IRISH DRAMA (Kilroy)
"A LABOUR OF SOME KIND OF LOVE": IRISH WRITERS AND THE IRISH LANGUAGE (Cronin)
IRISH ENGLISH AND IRISH CULTURE IN DICTIONARIES OF ENGLISH (Görlach)
1. Introduction
2. Analysis and summary of findings
2.1. Dictionaries used
2.2. Comparison of dictionaries
2.3. Comparison of word groups
2.4. Style
2.5. 'Diachronic lexicography'
3. Are dictionaries of IrE needed?
3.1. The status of a language and lexicography
3.2. An exclusive dictionary of IrE
3.3. An inclusive dictionary of IrE
References
A EUROPE OF REGIONS? REGIONALISM AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY ANGLO-IRISH FICTION (Schwend)
POLITICS AND HISTORY IN IRISH POETRY SINCE WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (Imhof)
SELF-FASHIONING IN THE IRISH RENAISSANCE: MOORE, JOYCE, AND THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL INTERTEXT (Huber)
1. Prologomenon
2. The 'Central Metaphor' of Irish Autobiography and Its Manifestations
2.1 National Allegory
2.2 The Motif of Exile and Return
3. Further Instances of the Moore-Joyce-Intertext
4. Conclusion
References
"THE MYTHICAL METHOD": SEAMUS HEANEY'S STANCE TOWARDS MODERNISM (Osterwalder)
IMPERSONATING IRELAND: LADY MORGAN'S THE WILD IRISH GIRL AND MARIA EDGEWORTH' S THE ABSENTEE (Mergenthal)
GEORGE RUSSELL (AE): PRACTICAL POET IN THE IRISH CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT (Fleischmann)
ANGLO-IRISH LITERATURE: ONE OF THE 'NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH'? (Kosok)
SECTION II: TENSE, ASPECT, AND MODALITY
INTRODUCTION (Bublitz)
A SIMPLEST ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH TENSE-ASPECT SYSTEM (Klein)
1. Introduction
2. The categories TENSE and ASPECT
3. Types of lexical content
4. The English tense-aspect system
5. Conclusion
References
ON ANALYZING THE TENSE-ASPECT SYSTEM OF ENGLISH: A STATE-OF-THE-ART REPORT (König)
1. Introduction
2. The Tense-Aspect System of English
3. The Meaning of Tense
4. The Meaning of Aspect in English
5. A Diachronic Perspective
6. A Typological Perspective
7. Conclusion
References
BETWEEN ASPECT, ACTIONALITY AND MODALITY: THE FUNCTIONS OF THE EXPANDED FORM (Lucko)
COMPOSITIONALITY AND THE PERFECT (Kortmann)
1. Compositionality
2. A Compositional Analysis of the Perfect
3. The Present Perfect in English
3.1 The Time Adverbial Constraint and the Semantic Parallelism of Present Perfect, Past Perfect, and Future Perfect
3.2 The Present Tenses Report States Only (Salkie 1989)
3.3 The Position-Definiteness Constraint (Klein 1992)
3.4 The 'Perfect Interval' and the Division of Tasks Between Present Perfect and Past Tense (Stump 1985)
3.5 Basic Uses of the Present Perfect (Progressive)
4. Conclusion
References
PAST TENSE AND PRESENT PERFECT IN THE BROWN AND THE LOB CORPORA (Meyer)
1. Outline of approach and basic assumptions
2. The corpora: Analysis, tagging and text categories
3. Statistical survey of PresPerf and PT verb forms in both corpora
3.1. General survey
3.2. Ratios Progressives/Simple forms
4. Neutralisation of the PT-PresPerf contrast in modal VPs and PastPerf forms
5. Iterative interpretation of PresPerf and PT
6. SPast and PastProg
6.1. A definition of the Past Tense for BrE and AmE
6.2. The Past Tense of politeness
6.3. Standard functions of the Past Progressive
6.4. The Past Progressive introduced by private and mental verbs
6.5. PastProg expressing future reference in the past
7. The Present Perfect
7.1. A remark on Comrie
7.2. Meaning
7.3. Unusual and forced interpretations of PresPerfProg
8. Adverbials and the Present Perfect Progressive
9. Adverbials and PresPerf
9.1. The adverbs recently and just
9.2. Unusual adverbials for PresPerf
References
ON THE FOREGROUNDED PROGRESSIVE IN AMERICAN CONVERSATIONAL NARRATIVE: A NEW DEVELOPMENT? (Couper-Kuhlen)
1. Introduction
2. Traditional views of the progressive in narration
3. Narrative conventions for aspectual use in a modem framework
4. The data: A foregrounded use of the progressive?
5. The foregrounded progressive- a new development?
6. Accounting for the foregrounded progressive
References
WHY IS THE PROGRESSIVE BECOMING MORE FREQUENT IN ENGLISH? A CORPUS-BASED INVESTIGATION OF LANGUAGE CHANGE IN PROGRESS (Mair & Hundt)
1. Background
2. Suspected Changes in the Use of the Progressive
3. The Corpus Data
4. Discussion
5. Concluding Remarks
References
THE PROGRESSIVE AND ADVERBIAL COLLOCATIONS: CORPUS EVIDENCE (Freckmann)
1. Introduction
2. Four major types of progressive-adverbial co-occurrences
3. Corpus Data and Discussion
4. Adverbials and verbs as starting points
References
ASPECT IN CONTACT (Tristram)
1. Preliminary remarks
2. The Data in English and Insular Celtic
2.1 Present-Day English (BrE)
2.2 Modern Welsh
2.3. Modem Breton
2.4 Modern Irish
3. Analogous properties
4. Questions and suggestions
References
SECTION III: NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN LITERARY AESTHETICS
INTRODUCTION (Grabes)
ON TRANSLATABILITY: VARIABLES OF INTERPRETATION (Iser)
THE AESTHETIC IN RECENT THEORY AND LITERARY ART (Grabes)
THE AESTHETIC, THE ANTI-AESTHETIC AND THE NON-AESTHETIC (Hoffmann)
1. Problems, Systems of Differentiation
2. Historical Considerations
3. Re-Interpretation of the Aesthetic Discourse and the Proliferation of Aesthetics
3.1. The Aesthetic and the Non-Aesthetic in the Theoretical Discourse
3.2. Aesthetics in the Cultural Environment
4. Postmodem Literature
5. The Visual Arts and the Artworld
References
AESTHETICS AND POSTMODERN REALITY CONSTRUCTS (Mohr)
SHAKESPEARE WITHOUT ART: RECENT CRITICISM OF KING LEAR (Uhlig)
TOWARDS A NEW METAPHYSICS OF ART? (Olejniczak)
0. A Question Mark
1. The Platonic Tradition
2. Approaches to Post-Metaphysical Aesthetics
3. Real Presences
4. Pre-texts (I): Levinas
5. Pre-texts (II): After Babel
6. Pre-texts (III): Coleridge
7. Conclusion. Further Question Marks
LITERATURE AND VALUE: BACK TO A NEW HUMANISM? (Göbel)
SECTION IV: CONTEMPORARY PLAYS IN ENGLISH IN THE GYMNASIALE OBERSTUFE
INTRODUCTION (Glaap)
CURRICULAR GOALS OF READING MODERN DRAMA: TEXTUAL STRATEGIES OF SAMUEL BECKETT AND HAROLD PINTER (Ahrens)
1. The Dialectics of Fiction and Reality as a Teaching Problem
2. Historical Perspectives in Teaching Drama
3. Curricular Goals of Reading Drama
3.1. General Goals
3.2. Reception Theory as the Basis of the Dramatic Interpretation Model
4. Elements of a Dramatic Interpretation of the Plays of Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter
4.1. The Analytic Play
4.2. The Existential Uncertainty as an Appealing Principle
4.3. The Metafictional Function of the Stage Dimension
5. Conclusions
References
ATTEMPTING TO SQUARE THE CIRCLE: TOWARDS A SYSTEMATIC SELECTION OF MODERN PLAYS IN TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE (Mengel)
(0) Introduction
(1) The priority of literature to didactic or methodological considerations
(2) A hierarchy of successive decisions
(3) A dynamic canon open towards the future
(4) The inclusion of the New Literatures in English
(5) Statements about major currents, trends, or tendencies
(6) Approaches based on overarching concepts and theories
(7) The principle of economy
(8) The combination and integration of literary and cultural studies
(9) Conclusion
References
HOW TO READ PLAYS IN THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM: HAROLD PINTER'S THE DUMB WAITER (Bredella)
BREAKING NEW GROUND: PLAYS FROM VARIOUS ENGLISH-SPEAKING CULTURES FOR THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSROOM (Glaap)
Thematic Unit 1: Coming-of-Age Plays
Drew Hayden Taylor, Toronto at Dreamer's Rock
Henry Beissel, Inook and the Sun
Thematic Unit 2: Education and Schooling
Roger Hall, Multiple Choice
Thematic Unit 3: Approaching an Unfamiliar Country
Robert Lord, Joyful and Triumphant
Thematic Unit 4: Exploring Cultural Identity
Renee, Form
Dennis Foon, New Kid
References
THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH THROUGH DRAMA (Volk)
1. The problem of a play 'on the page': dealing with the script in the classroom
2. A purpose-oriented approach to teaching English through drama
3. The teaching potential of Absurd Person Singular
3.1. A summary of the play
3.2. Absurd Person Singular: some teaching objectives
4. Absurd Person Singular and the purpose-oriented approach
5. Concluding Remarks
References
FROM PAGE TO STAGE (Page)
SECTION V: VARIA
CONTRASTIVE ECOLINGUISTICS - A NEW FIELD FOR LINGUISTIC PLOUGHSHARES? (Graz)
1. The Ecology of Language
2. Ecolinguistics
2.1. Ecological Terminology
2.2. The Anthropocentrism of Language
2.2.1. Utility naming
2.2.2. Distancing and objectivization
2.2.3. Euphemism
2.2.4. Growthism
References
AN APPROACH TO THE INTEGRATED ANALYSIS OF ARGUMENTATIVE ENGLISH DISCOURSES (Thiele)
1. Discourse
2. Argumentative English discourses
3. An integrated analysis
4. Sample analyses
4.0 General
4.1 The samples
4.2 CC analysis
4.3 WU analysis
5. Conclusion
References
APPENDIX
ALDOUS HUXLEY AND THE MODERNIST CANON (Firchow)
SECRECY AND SURVEILLANCE: THE DISCOURSES OF POWER IN THE REALISTIC FICTION OF 1886 (Feldmann)
THE ABORIGINAL LANDSCAPE OF THE DREAMING IN MODERN VISIONARY DISCOURSE (Schaffeld)
1. Indigenizing the European Text: The Poetics of the Jindyworobah
2. The Icon-Texture of the Aboriginal Landscape of the Dreaming
3. The Dreamtime in the Poetic Discourse of the Australian Nationalists
4. Tribal Voices: Yothu Yindi and the Visionary Potential of the Landscape
References
SOUR KRAUTS WRAPPED IN ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS (Husemann)
1. Kraut-Bashing
2. The Economics of Envy
3. D-Day Commemorations 1994
4. Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder
5. "THANK GOD FOR THE GERMANS!"
HASSLICHE UND ANDERE STEIRER. IHR BEITRAG ZUR 'QUIDDITY' DER ENGLISCHEN LITERATUR (Stanzel)
SHAWS INTERLUDE THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS (Riehle)