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Valence sound symbolism across language families: a comparison between Japanese and German
(2022-12-13)
Vowels are associated with valence, so that words containing /i/ (as in English meet) compared with /o/ (as in French rose) are typically judged to match positively valenced persons and objects. As yet, valence sound symbolism has been mainly observed for Indo-European languages. The present research extends this to a comparison of Japanese-speaking and German-speaking participants. Participants invented pseudo-words as names for faces with different emotional expressions (happy vs. neutral vs. sad vs. angry). For ...
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Textkomplexität und Textverstehen
(De Gruyter, 2023-04-03)
In everyday language, complexity as a term is characterised by semantic fuzziness and usually describes phenomena that are difficult to assess. For disciplines that study the understanding of texts, it has proven useful to define text complexity as the set of dynamic interactions that arise when the linguistic and cultural levels of a text are activated in the process of understanding. These activations, which lead to semantic constructions and a mental model of the text, are complex and difficult to grasp, as they ...
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Multilingualism is associated with small task-specific advantages in cognitive performance of older adults
(2023-10-07)
The protective effects of multiple language knowledge on the maintenance of cognitive functions in older adults have been discussed controversially, among others, because of methodological inconsistencies between studies. In a sample of N = 528 German monolinguals and multilinguals (speaking two or more languages) older than 60 years, this study examined (1) whether speaking multiple languages is positively related to performance on tasks of interference suppression, working memory, concept shifting, and phonemic and ...
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Wie kommen Tierlaute in einen Text?
(2023-08-07)
In der empirischen Tierforschung spielen Tierlaute eine entscheidende Rolle für die Zuschreibung geistiger Fähigkeiten. In diesem Zusammenhang werden die flüchtigen und einmaligen Lautereignisse tierlicher Vokalisation in wiederholt rezipierbare textuelle Zeichen transformiert und fixiert. Am Beispiel der Forschungen von Anne Marijke Schel et al. (2013a) zur Intentionalität von Schimpansen zeigt der Beitrag, wie die Sichtbarmachung von Lauten mit der Zuschreibung dieser geistigen Fähigkeiten einhergeht. Um dieses ...
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Examining the glottal stop as a mark of gender-inclusive language German
(2024-02-02)
Grammatical gender form influences readers’ mental gender representations. Previous research demonstrates that the generic masculine form leads to male-biased representations, while some alternative forms lead to female-biased representations. The present research examines the recently introduced glottal stop form in spoken language in German, where a glottal stop (similar to a short pause), meant to represent all gender identities, is inserted before the gender-specific ending. In two experiments (total N = 1188), ...
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Gender Representations Elicited by the Gender Star Form
(2022-02-28)
In many languages, masculine language forms are not only used to designate the male gender but also to operate in a generic fashion. This dual function has been found to lead to male biased representations when people encounter the generic masculine. In German, the now predominant substitute is the gender star form (e.g., Athlet*innen). In two experiments, we examined gender representations elicited when reading the gender star form (vs. generic masculine vs. pair forms). We found that, following the generic masculine, ...
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Phenomena-centered Text Analysis (PTA): a new approach to foster the qualitative paradigm in text analysis
(2021-12-06)
Content or text analysis is one of the most common evaluation methods employed in qualitative research. Despite its wide application, however, a clear structure of how such evaluation should be conducted is often lacking due to the complexity of qualitative data. As a consequence, highly differentiated category systems with small-step subdivisions of categories and sub-categories are often used, leading to a loss of context both among categories and for the content as a whole.
The aim of this paper is to describe ...
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Problematische Ablehnungskonstruktionen
(2020-02-14)
Der Beitrag diskutiert rechtspopulistische, menschenfeindliche Rhetoriken zu Fragen von Sozialstaat und Erziehung kritisch. Anlass ist die Wahrnehmung, dass entspreche Sprachspiele zunehmend auch in der Praxis der Sozialen Arbeit artikuliert werden, ohne dass sie als solche identifiziert und kritisiert würden.
Rechte, nationale, xenophobische, antisemitische, rassistische, homophobe und andere Positionen aus dem Spektrum der gruppenbezogenen Menschenfeindlichkeit zu erkennen, fällt zunehmend schwerer. Zuweilen ...