Through a series of autobiographical snapshots the author confronts his life as a sequence of picked‑up views. The emphasis will be on the new things Gerd Antos learned with and within linguistics over the course of his career. Linguistics as a life‑long ‘learning by doing’ as it were.
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Anhand einer Reihe von autobiographischen „Selfies“ wird ein Leben als eine Folge von aufgeschnappten Meinungen konfrontiert. Vor allem mit dem, was Gerd Antos in und mit der Linguistik im Laufe sejner Karriere dazugelernt hat. Linguistik sozusagen als ein lebenslanges learning by doing.
Behind the meaning of social keywords often there are meanings dependent on time, group and discourse. In a particular usage, these meanings resonate subliminally. These hidden, but sometimes very effective meanings are the subject of the so-called “sub-semantics” and are difficult to record in dictionaries. Against this backdrop, I consider the question of what makes a catchword so catchy based on many examples. Thereby, I focus on so-called “Teflon words” such as “success” which have the ability to drip off any criticism, doubt or common sense like in a Teflon pan. In particular, it is about the question why certain words especially from the fields of consumption, economy and politics have such a highly collective “self-persuasiveness” for certain groups and periods of time. In the attempt to answer these questions I refer to the Polish philosopher of science Ludwik Fleck.
Dieser Artikel fasst die Aktivitäten und Erträge des Projekts „Germanistische Institutspartnerschaft“ (GIP) von 2016 bis 2019 zusammen, an dem Wissenschaftler*innen, Doktorand*innen und Studierende der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg und der Adam-Mickiewicz-Universität Poznań mitwirkten. Durch das vom DAAD geförderte Projekt konnten die beiden Germanistiken ihre Zusammenarbeit in Forschung und Lehre intensivieren. Das Projekt gab auch Studierenden beider Hochschulen die Möglichkeit, gemeinsame Lehrveranstaltungen zu besuchen und gemeinsame Projekte durchzuführen.