Articles & Papers

In this paper, we analyze the term reconciliation as well as Versöhnung in political and religious communication. Against this background, we are interested in how far political as well as religious dimensions of the terms come together, which we describe as a process of conceptual […]

Ausgehend von Fragen nach dem Status von Beziehung/Relationalität in der Linguistik werden entlang ausgewählter Lektüren von Henri Bergson, Édouard Glissant und Donna Haraway Vorschläge für vier Koordinaten einer Postmigrantischen Linguistik als Linguistik der Beziehungen umrissen. Die Beschäftigung erfolgt vor dem Hintergrund allgemeiner Fragen an die […]

Assoziationen, die wir mit bestimmten Einzelsprachen verbinden, sind nicht nur von unseren persönlichen Erfahrungen und (Sprach-)Kenntnissen, sondern auch von diskursiv vermittelten Attributen, die Sprachen zugeschrieben werden, geprägt. Auch wenn man eine Sprache nicht selbst beherrscht, verbindet man mit ihr möglicherweise bestimmte Vorstellungen, beispielsweise hinsichtlich ihrer […]

Wissenschaftsfreiheit betrifft uns alle. Sowohl Personen außerhalb der Wissenschaft, insofern sie vom gesellschaftlichen Einfluss wissenschaftlichen Handelns betroffen sind, als auch diejenigen, die selbst wissenschaftlich tätig sind. Dieses Betroffen-Sein tritt im wissenschaftlichen Alltag häufig in den Hintergrund; Wissenschaftsfreiheit ist schließlich nicht das Ziel oder Ergebnis wissenschaftlicher […]

We explore how cultural heritage impacts climate policies in UNESCO World Heritage cities, where changes to the built environment are limited. Drawing on qualitative case study research in the German World Heritage cities of Lübeck, Regensburg, and Bamberg, we reveal that significant departmental conflicts between […]

When debating academic freedom in Germany, the term cancel culture, originating from North-American contexts, is commonly used to express concerns about a threat to academic freedom as posed by a narrowing of boundaries of discourse. In the semantic battels regarding Wissenschaftsfreiheit (academic freedom), this perspective […]

This paper discusses how the category of declarative speech acts can be used in the context of discourse analysis. For this purpose, similarities as well as differences between the works of Searle and Foucault are being discussed in order to illustrate the possibilities and challenges […]

Against the backdrop of the notion of disruption, this article scrutinises cur-rent concepts of discursive events and places them in relation to one another. The disrup-tive events derived from this are understood as a subcategory of discursive event. Using the example of the feminist abortion […]

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) represents positions that contradict fundamental trade union values. Trade union representation of employees’ interests is not compatible with membership of the AfD. Trade unions can therefore declare the AfD to be an opposing organization by means of an incompatibility resolution […]

According to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), the AfD is now “definitely right-wing extremist”. It represents positions that fundamentally contradict fundamental trade union values. In this second part, I will show that the exclusion of AfD members from trade unions is also possible – contrary to what a recent decision by the Berlin II Regional Court suggests.

Contemporary television news programmes are often complex examples of hybrid communication (see Bucher, ‘Multimodal understanding or reception as interaction’, 2011). Television news presents related as well as unrelated information in both a linear and non-linear fashion by combining the news read with a variety of […]