Ausgabe 94/2023
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Antisemitische Topoi im digitalen Aktivismus: Der Israel-Palästina-Konflikt auf Instagram
Laura Levstock
During the violent outbreaks of the Israel-Palestine-conflict in May 2021, two extreme opinions took a very strong stand on various social media platforms. For instance, on the visual-based platform Instagram, where a particular cartoon was posted and shared multiple times. This cartoon, consisting of ten images, seeks to explain the conflict from one perspective, defending and supporting the pro-Palestinian side. As the conflict was transported to social media, the reproduction of antisemitic posts increased. As a case in point, I will examine the cartoon for antisemitic topoi in this article. The relevance of this analysis is to reveal the (often hidden) reproduction of antisemitism on social media, particularly when considering the problematic situation in the Middle East. Furthermore, this article will highlight the relevance of the sparseness of linguistic analysis of political activism on social media, especially on Instagram.
Schlagwörter: Antisemitismus, digitaler Aktivismus, Topoi
»Des reine Hochdeutsch bring ich net zamm.« Lautliche Merkmale des Regionalakzents im Ostfränkischen
Jeffrey Pheiff / Tillmann Pistor
We investigate the consonant and vowel inventories as well as unstressed syllables in the spoken Standard German of speakers from the East Franconian dialect region in the German states of Thuringia and Bavaria. Using a sub-corpus of speech samples from »Regionalsprache.de (REDE)« with speech data for two generations of speakers from four towns, we document the features, investigate whether these features are dialect reflexes, and give an overview of their salience. In total, we find 23 regional features, most of which are given a moderate to high degree of subjective dialectality in listeners’ judgments. Furthermore, our analysis shows that consonant and syllable phenomena are geographically distributed along Upper and Lower East Franconian lines, suggesting an influence of the Steigerwaldschranke on the regional accent.
Schlagwörter: Ostfränkisch, Regionalakzent, Phonetik, Phonologie, Dialektologie, Salienz
Das Kinderinterview – eine Methodenreflexion
Maria Weichselbaum
The inclusion of children’s perspectives in the research process remains rare. One reason for this could be the lack of reflection on adequate methodological approaches. This paper addresses the research gap of interviews with children by methodically examining five interviews conducted on the topic of language and linguistic action in kindergarten. For this purpose, the state of knowledge of research methods about interviews with children is first outlined. Afterwards, the conduct of the interviews is outlined, and new findings are discussed in a methodological reflection. It is shown that initial stimuli are useful for interviews with children and that even young children provide answers to complex question content. Of relevance are, on the one hand, the type and diversity of the questions and, on the other hand, the interviewer’s behavior, which changes the child’s response behavior.
Schlagwörter: Kinderinterviews, Kindergartenkinder, Methodenreflexion, Kindheitsforschung
Citizen Science goes Sprachwissenschaft: Das Projekt ›VisibLL – Schüler*innen erforschen die (un)übersehbare Mehrsprachigkeit der Wiener Linguistic Landscape‹
Barbara Soukup / Elissa Pustka / Lisa Krammer / Sophia Seereiner
The project 'VisibLL – High school students explore the (in)visible multilingualism of the Viennese Linguistic Landscape' is discussed to show how citizen science can be fruitfully applied within linguistics. VisibLL focuses on socio-contextual and linguistic patterns of written multilingualism in Viennese public space. We outline our research focus, goals and strategies, the data collection app Lingscape, participants, activities to date, as well as early results and outcomes. We preview upcoming activities and position our project within citizen science at large.
Schlagwörter: Linguistic Landscape, Citizen Science, Multilingualism, Didactics, Vienna, Schools
On being bimbo: Digitally mediated persona construction on TikTok
Carina Lozo
Der Begriff »Bimbo« ist im englischsprachigen Raum ein bekanntes Pejorativ für dümmlich naive, aber attraktive Frauen. Ein Internetphänomen auf der Social-Media-Plattform TikTok, das bimbo-movement, schreibt diesem Begriff jedoch eine neue Bedeutung zu. Durch Persiflage und eine spezifische Ästhetik übernimmt diese Bewegung den Begriff »Bimbo«, befreit ihn von seinen negativen Konnotationen und deutet ihn feministisch um. Mit einer multimodalen Inhaltsanalyse untersuche ich die komplexen semiotischen Mittel, durch die eine Bimbo-Persona auf TikTok konstruiert wird. Die Analyse zeigt damit sowohl die Wirkmächtigkeit als auch deren Grenzen auf, die ein strategischer Einsatz von Satire und die Verknüpfung von Weiblichkeit mit linken politischen Idealen innerhalb eines feministischen Diskurses entfalten können.
Schlagwörter: Identity construction, multimodal content analysis, TikTok, bimbo, feminist discourse, social media, gender stereotypes
Rezension
Christine Czinglar
Brizić, Katharina. 2022. Der Klang der Ungleichheit: Biografie, Bildung und Zusammenhalt in der vielsprachigen Gesellschaft. Münster: Waxmann. 314 Seiten, broschiert, 39,90 €. ISBN 978-3-8309-4594-9 314. Open Access: https://www.waxmann.com/index.php?eID=download&buchnr=4594