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German Dialect Recordings from Kansas and Missouri [9]
This collection contains recorded interviews conducted by KU researchers since 1980.
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“Zum ersten Mal sah ich ein Bild:” Goethe’s Cognitive Viewing Subject as Scientist and Artist
(University of Toronto Press, 2019)This article investigates the significance of Goethean natural science for the development of abstract modes of painting that would emerge with Wassily Kandinsky in the early twentieth century. While early abstractionists ... -
Rumpelstiltskin’s (Queer) Secret: Nonbinary Bodies Buried between the Lines of the Brothers Grimm
(Wayne State University Press, 2021-04-01)The strangeness of "Rumpelstiltskin" continues to fascinate audiences and perplex folklorists long after reaching the Grimms from women storytellers in the spinning chamber. Despite its discovery in the tale, Rumpelstiltskin's ... -
Discovery Learning: Teaching Languages with Corpora
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Data-driven learning for languages other than English: The cases of French, German, Italian, and Spanish
(EuroCALL, 2020-12-13)This paper summarises the contributions to EuroCALL’s CorpusCALL SIG Symposium for the year 2020. In line with this year’s EuroCALL conference theme, ‘CALL for widening participation’, the Symposium centred around the theme ... -
KU Questionnaire MO04 2019 Benton County
(2019)KU Questionnaire sentences recorded in 2019 for the West Low German dialect of Cole Camp, MO. Female speaker born in 1951. -
Wenker Sentences MOO3 1995 Lafayette County
(1995)Wenker Sentences recorded in 1995 for the West Low German dialect of Concordia, MO. Female speaker born in 1916. -
Stopping the Trains to Auschwitz, Budapest, 1944
(2020-10-01)Despite Hitler’s and Eichmann’s secret machinery for the deportation of Jews from the Hungarian provinces, dramatic events finally interrupted the progress of their unprecedented crimes. Although many thousands had already ... -
User Guide - KU ScholarWorks Collection of German Dialects of Kansas and Missouri
(2020-08)This User Guide contains information helpful to learning more about the methodology used to collect and preserve the recordings of German dialects of Kansas and Missouri -
KU Questionnaire and Wenker Sentences MO07 2014 Perry County
(2014)KU Questionnaire and Wenker sentences recorded in 2014 for the Upper Saxon East Middle German dialect of Frohna, MO. Male speaker born in 1935. -
Corpora as open educational resources for language teaching
(Wiley, 2020-06-09)Corpora, large electronic collections of texts, have been used in language teaching for several decades. Also known as Data‐Driven Learning (DDL), this method has been gaining popularity because empirical research has ... -
Corpus-Informed Pedagogy in a Language Course: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation
(IGI Global, 2020)Data-Driven Learning (DDL), or a corpus-based method of language teaching and learning, has been developing rapidly since the turn of the century and has been shown to be effective and efficient. Nevertheless, DDL is still ... -
Der Mythos des faustischen Teufelspakts: Geschichte, Legende, Literatur
(DeGruyter, 2019-08)The tale of Faust is inspired by a deal with the devil, a legacy of witch persecution. The anonymous author of the Faust Book of 1587 used such a deal as a plot device. Despite Christopher Marlowe’s masterpiece, based on ... -
"It just doesn't sound right": Spracherhalt und Sprachwechsel bei deutschen Kirchengemeinden in Cole County, Missouri : Resultate einer Spurensuche
(University of Kansas, 2002-05-31)A major focus of current sociolinguistic research is the issue of minority language maintenance and language shift. German-American speech islands, existing well into the twentieth century, are providing a valuable basis ... -
The Low German Dialect of Concordia, Missouri
(University of Kansas, 1997-12-31)A resurgence of interest recently in various German dialects present in many regions of the United States has led to the gathering of data in many small towns throughout the Midwest whose dialects and dialect speakers will ... -
Integrating Research Skills into the German Studies Curriculum
(2019-05-10)The faculty expected students in the capstone course to complete requirements for a content-rich course and also produce a research paper in German, but discovered that most students did not have the research skills to ... -
Language Corpora for L2 Vocabulary Learning: Data-Driven Learning Across the Curriculum
(Cenage Learning, 2018)Empirical Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA) research on L2 vocabulary has shown that Data-Driven Learning (DDL), or teaching and learning languages with the help of corpora (large, structured electronic collections ... -
Apocalypse Now: On Heinrich von Kleist, Caspar David Friedrich, and the Emergence of Abstract Art
(Wiley Online Library, 2013)While discussions of abstract art usually imply that the movement began in the twentieth century, its conceptualization pre‐dates its identification as a distinct tendency in the visual arts. One early text that articulates ... -
It's Not Easy Being Green: The Failure of Abstract Art in Gottfried Keller's Der grüne Heinrich
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016)This article revisits the art and artists of Gottfried Keller’s Der grüne Heinrich, a novel concluding with a conservative stance against artistic innovation, in order to explore how pre–twentieth-century literary fiction ... -
Review of Organismus und Gesellschaft: Der Körper in der deutschsprachigen Literatur des Realismus (1830 - 1930)
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“Annexation or Reunification?” Linguistic Appraisal of German and Russian news reporting on Crimea
(Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)“Fake News” has reached new heights of contestation within recent times around the globe. Appraisal Theory provides a framework through which instances of news platforms’ positive and negative judgments can be identified, ...
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