Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Systeme - Allgemeines und Vergleiche, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Zum Zwecke einer umfassenden theoretischen Fundierung meiner Analyse werde ich zunachst den Aspekt der politischen Kommunikation in Demokratien beleuchten und hierbei speziell auf die Wahlkampfkommunikation eingehen. Das populare Mediokratie-Modell soll dazu dienen, die Ausrichtung der Politik in den USA an der Logik des Mediensystems erklaren zu konnen. Hierbei werden Erkenntnisse aus der politische Kommunikationsforschung hinzugezogen. In einem zweiten, und...

Essay from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Queensland, course: Generative Syntax, language: English, abstract: This essay is going to provide an in-depth account for the phenomenon of wh-movement in English along the lines of Chomsky's Government and Binding theory (GB), a transformational approach in which wh-movement is described as constituent movement. The analysis will mainly focus on wh-movement in interrogative sentences. First, the theory of Government and Binding is being briefly presented and the term...

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict Studies, Security, grade: 1,0, University of Tubingen, course: Course 'Normative Theories of International Relations', 18 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Somalia, Serbia-Montenegro, Iraq - These are just three of several countries that were exposed to external military intervention in recent times. Although this kind of intervention is in principle prohibited under international law under Article 2 of the United Nations Charter, states have not been...

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, University of Tubingen, language: English, abstract: The core of this paper is an empirical study in which non-native speakers of English were interviewed and asked to engage in "languaging" about their spoken linguistic output. The theoretical foundation of the empirical study primarily lies in Merrill Swain's research on the output hypothesis in which she considers the activity of producing language - which she later defines as "languaging" - to be of high importance for making...