“I think I can see from another perspective now” – Short-Term Study Abroad and Intercultural Development by Wai Meng Chan

“…This article presents a study of the impact of two short-term study abroad programmes in Germany on the intercultural development of German-language students from a Singapore university language centre. …”
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Komischer Diskurs: kognitiv und kulturbedingt by Oksana Zubach

“…The article accepts relevant criteria (sociological, psycholinguistic, communicative, pragmatic, gender-sensitive, etc.) that reflect the expression of humorous elements in the German language and culture. The analysis of comic discourse focuses on the interaction between the sender of information, who conveys his own intentions in the statement, and the recipient of information, who in turn interprets information in terms of background knowledge. …”
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A little-known source about the initial stage of Mongol penetration into Crimean Gothia by Kuzenkov Pavel V., Mogarichev Yurii М.

“…Torquatus), who compared the language of the Crimean Goths specifically with the Saxon (Low German) dialect of the German language, is of the value.…”
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Ревизия классики украинской зарубежной лингвистики: гендерная проблематика в системе взглядов Юрия Шевелева (на материале статьи Über die Besonderheiten der Sprache der Frauen)... by Tetyana Kosmeda

“…In this regard, the little-known German-language research of Yuri Sherekh (Shevelev) Über die Besonderheiten der Sprache der Frauen (1952), which outlines the specificity of female speech at almost all language levels, appears to be of great value. …”
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The problem of foreign borrowings in German scientific-and-technical terminology by A. M. Klyoster, M. S. Shumaylova

“…The paper presents the study of foreign borrowings in scientific and technical terminology, which are, on the one hand, influenced by the German language, by graphical, grammatical and lexical assimilation; on the other hand, themselves have an impact on the adoptive language. …”
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THE DEFINING FEATURES OF SOFT POWER STRATEGY IN GERMAN FOREIGN POLICY by L. R. Rustamova

“…Organizations involved in exchange programs, scientific cooperation contribute to the expansion of German language and culture. A distinctive feature of German "soft power" organizations is that, despite the financing from the state, they retain the civilian nature of their activities, which is a necessary condition for the successful application of the concept. …”
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THE PROBLEM OF EQUALENT TRANSLATION OF ONIMS FROM GERMAN INTO RUSSIAN by M. A. Chigasheva

“…The distinctive feature of the modern German language is popularity of such lexical tokens as the linguistic expressive means, their clearly expressed negative connotation and the loss of relatedness with concrete people. …”
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Tysk som tillægskompetence – lærendes motivation, behov og erfaringer by Mirjam Gebauer, Aase Voldgaard Larsen, Anne Grethe Julius Pedersen, Simon Holleufer, Ida Vejnø

“…The study provides insights into a broad variety of motivational factors, needs, persistence, and experiences from both previous German language learning and the GAC-courses. The findings of the study point towards both career-strategic and personal goals as key factors for the motivation of the participants. …”
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Emotional-expressive meaning component of the German Computer Terms by M. S. Shumaylova

“…The findings can be used in the German language teaching, in the development of training aids and dictionaries, in the work of terminology systematization, unification and standardization…”
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Matrimonial rights and the expectations related to marriage in newspaper ads by the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries in Croatia by Lachner Višnja Z., Kordić Ljubica M.

“…The corpus of ads is excerpted from the local newspapers of Osijek Die Drau and Slavonische Presse, published in the German language in the explored historical period. The issues of both newspapers published bet ween 1870 and 1938 are available in digitalized versions. …”
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A Case Study Assessing the Auditory and Speech Development of Four Children Implanted with Cochlear Implants by the Chronological Age of 12 Months by Birgit May-Mederake, Wafaa Shehata-Dieler

“…Speech production and grammar development were evaluated using a German language speech development test (SETK), reception of grammar test (TROG-D) and active vocabulary test (AWST-R). …”
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The Example of Herta Müller, A Nobel Literature Prize Author, in The Relationship of Tourism and Literature by Yüksel Gürsoy

“…His childhood and youth years passed in a village of 400 homes, where everybody knows each other and German language Sualya dialect is spoken. In this village, the farmers, many craftsmen, and workers working in the factories in the city were living. …”
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Digital screening tool for the assessment of cognitive impairment in unsupervised setting—digiDEM-SCREEN: study protocol for a validation study by Elmar Graessel, Nikolas Dietzel, Hans-Ulrich Prokosch, Peter L Kolominsky-Rabas, Peter Heuschmann, Michael Zeiler, Klaus Kammerer, Ulrich Frick, Rüdiger Pryss

“…The study aims to validate a digital cognitive screening test (digiDEM-SCREEN) as an app in the German language.Methods and analysis This is a multicentre study in Bavaria. …”
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Aetiological research on the health of migrants living in Germany: a systematic literature review by Oliver Razum, Florian Fischer, Ina Danquah, Claudia Hövener, Patricia Nayna Schwerdtle, Tracy Bonsu Osei, Isabel Mank, Raissa Sorgho

“…The main objective was to systematically identify, evaluate and synthesise population-based studies that investigated exposure–outcome relationships among migrant groups in Germany.Methods In November 2019, we searched PubMed and LIVIVO, and updated this search in November 2020, to identify peer-reviewed publications that fulfilled our eligibility criteria: English or German language; study on disease aetiology among major migrant groups in Germany, according to the latest microcensus; publication date from inception to 01 November 2020 and observational or experimental study designs. …”
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Time-dynamic associations between symptom-related expectations, self-management experiences and somatic symptom severity in everyday life: an ecological momentary assessment study... by Bernd Löwe, Yvonne Nestoriuc, Anne Toussaint, Stefanie Hahn, Franz Pauls, Simon Kirchhof

“…Multilevel mixed-effects linear regression analyses were conducted for data analysis.Setting Data was collected in real-time from university students via smartphones, with three predetermined assessments per day over seven consecutive days.Participants A total of 104 students (63.5% male, 0% diverse) who were 18 years or older, possessing sufficient German language skills and had access to an Android-powered smartphone were included.Interventions Participants were randomised to one of two different expectation framing groups, either receiving questionnaires for the expected impairment due to somatic symptoms (negative framing) or for the expected freedom from impairment due to somatic symptoms (positive framing).Primary outcome measures Somatic symptom severity was assessed using an adapted version of the Patient Health Questionnaire, with 11-point instead of 3-point Likert-scales. …”
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Un cas de grammaticalisation ratée ? Étude diachronique de l’emploi du verbe stand en anglais by Maarten Lemmens

“…While Modern English does not use the posture verbs all that much compared to the other Germanic languages where these verbs have become basic locative verbs, the older uses show that English stand (as well as the other posture verbs sit and lie) was used in a way quite similar to what is found in other Germanic languages today. …”
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Quasiendozentrische Komposita – gibt es Platz fur einen neuen Typ? by Andrzej Szubert

“…Compounds are the most widespread morphological products in Danish as well as in other Germanic languages. Compounding is also the simplest morphological process. …”
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A cross-language perspective on the MAIDAN-concept by Yehorova Olesia, Prokopenko Antonina

“…Specifically, leaning on lexicographic data the study focuses on reconstructing the notional layer (informative core) of the concept and on identifying the differences of its content as featured in kin Slavic (Ukrainian and Russian) and distant Germanic (English and German) languages and linguocultures. The paper suggests a consecutive methodology based on lexicographic methods of analysis. …”
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Subject-Object binding dependencies in Romanian by Alina Tigău

“… This paper dwells on an interesting contrast between Romance (Romanian, Spanish a.o.) and Germanic languages (English, German a.o.) with respect to the syntax and the interpretation of the direct object (DO). …”
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Share on vk Share on google_plusone_share Share on twitter Share on email More Sharing Services The Swedish language of formal communication in the modern and contemporary times by I.V. Matytsina

“…The study is of high importance, because this functional style of the Swedish language has been insufficiently investigated despite the regulation and normalization processes in it are of obvious interest to specialists in the Germanic languages. The main research method is synchronic analysis enabling examination and description the material in terms of the existing norms. …”
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