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"Strengste Verschwiegenheit auf Manneswort" - Eine Analyse von Heiratsannoncen im Kaiserreich
(2017-12-05)This thesis analyses an ideal fitting to the requirements of a communicative situation, consisting of the requirements of the 19th century marriage market and media dispositive in a restricted and criticized space of ... -
A Study in Industrial Health: Coal Miners in Eastern India, 1890s-1952
(2017-10-11)Research Approach: My work fuses the major themes of the labour historiography of India as well as the history of health and technology. I propose to discuss the major themes of labour history like the nature of labour ... -
Die semantische Entwicklung von Intensivierern
(2017-09-13)The object of the present work are intensifiers, i.e. degree adjectives and degree adverbs which express a high level of a reference word’s quality. The research focusses on the development of the lexemes which originally ... -
Zur Ontologie fiktiver Entitäten und ihrer Beschreibung in der Fiktionstheorie und Literaturwissenschaft
(2017-08-02)The way we describe fictional entities in different contexts suggests conflicting ontologies. For example, we sometimes explicitly deny the existence of Sherlock Holmes („Holmes doesn’t really exist“), while at other times ... -
Ende des neuseeländischen Kinos?
(2016-12-13)New Zealand is a young post-colonial nation that has only been able to emancipate itself from England after a lengthy nation-building process. Even nowadays, New Zealand’s national identity is rather fragile. The process ... -
"Ich dichte in die wüste Zeit" - Ich-Konstruktionen in der Lyrik der deutschsprachiger Schriftsteller_innen Israels
(2016-02-01)This study examines a subject that has been disregarded in literary history, namely Israeli literature written in the German language. Two authors, Jenny Aloni and Netti Boleslav, as well as their poetry, are used as ... -
The Qurʾānic Narratives Through the Lens of Intertextual Allusions: A Literary Approach
(2015-05-22)Intertextuality, as an overarching concept concerning the interrelations between texts, can be defined as "the ways in which texts refer to and build on other texts." The narratives of the Qurʾān are amongst the clearest ... -
Abhängige Sätze in einem fragebasierten Diskursmodell
(2015-01-20)In this thesis, different types of dependent clauses will be investigated with respect to their behavior in a question-driven discourse model. It will be argued that one group of dependent clauses is conventionally marked ... -
Die Methode Nöldekes zur chronologischen Anordnung der Suren und Verse des Korans in seinem Buch „Geschichte des Qorāns“ Eine analytisch-kritische Studie
(2014-12-15)Theodor Nöldeke (1836-1930) was one of the most famous orientalists of the 19th century who dealt not only with Oriental languages, but addressed also historical questions. Nöldeke was thus called both a philologist and a ... -
Subjektellipsen in Koordinationsstrukturen. Theoretische Fundierung und empirische Erkenntnisse
(2014-09-19)Subject gaps in coordinative structures are not easy to analyse, especially subject gaps in an asymmetric coordination like the so-called SGF-coordination (subject gaps in final-frontal structures). The thesis gives a broad ... -
Haben Tiere Rechte?
(2014-02-18)In this dissertation the question is examined, if it is justified to ascribe rights to animals. The theory of animal rights of American philosopher Tom Regan ranks as one of the most important approaches of animal ethics. ... -
Die sprachliche Behandlung von türkischen Migranten
(2013-12-11)Parliamentary discussions about foreign affairs and their legal regulation form an essential component of the (public) discourse about the use of the language of Turkish immigrants in general. There is a close interaction ... -
Kollektive und Menschenrechte als moralische Rechte
(2013-08-02)Both from a legal and a moral perspective, human rights are an essential component of the current normative reality. In the field of moral philosophy there is a marked tendency to consider that human beings as individuals ... -
Die Normativität sprachlicher Bedeutung
(2013-01-25)In this book I offer a novel defence of the thesis that linguistic meaning is normative. In the first chapter I present the problem of semantic normativity and distinguish it from various related problems. In addition I ... -
Sammeln für die Wissenschaft?
(2010-08-25)Plans from 1733 already suggested equipping the University of Göttingen with a natural history collection. Only in 1773, however, did the Georgia Augusta obtain a so called Academic Museum. Its collection contained ... -
Qualitätsentwicklung einer außerschulischen Biodiversitätsbildung
(2009-10-08)Extra-curricular education centres can complement classroom education well. Especially, the Regionale Umweltbildungszentren of the federal state of Lower Saxony are asked to do so. This ... -
Neopaganismus Online
(2009-04-14)This qualitative-hermeneutic study about contemporary neo-paganism on the internet explores the effect the medium World Wide Web has on neo-pagans and their construction of identity. The following three issues are elaborated ... -
Gedankenexperimente - Eine Familie philosophischer Verfahren
(2008-11-05)Though thought experiments are extensively used in philosophy, many philosophers find thought experiments with strange scenarios problematic. It is possible to show such criticism to be ... -
Der Weg der Sa`dīya
(2007-11-12)Four manuscripts defending the Sa`dīya are believed to be the foundation for this study of belief, doctrine, and practices as exhibited by the Islamic Sufi Order. The manuscripts date from the 18th and 19th centuries ...