Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, grade: 1,0, http: //www.uni-jena.de/ (Institut fur Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Teaching the New English Cultures, 22 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Several current curricula for the German secondary EFL classroom (Rahmenrichtlinien) now include some of the so-called new English cultures, like Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. Especially Canada, considering its geographical and cultural proximity to the nowadays almost omnipresent USA, presents itself as a...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Romanistik - Franzosisch - Linguistik, Note: 1,0, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena (Romanistisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Die Academie francaise, 30 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Arbeit untersucht die Anfange und das fruhe Schaffen der Accademia della Crusca und mochte aufzeigen, inwieweit diese italienische Institution der Sprachpflege (und gleichzeitig die erste europaische ihrer Art) als Vorbild auf Frankreich und dessen Academie francaise gewirkt haben konnte. Welche Charakteristika der italienischen...

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, grade: 1,7, http: //www.uni-jena.de/ (Institut fur Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Seminar, 12 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The object of this analysis is the triplet of (ostensible) synonyms,, and, all of which express an action of subjection and therefore share at least a part of their meaning. Also, all three of them are (in most contexts) commonly translated into German as 'unterdrucken'. The question is to what extent they may be called synonymous. In order to...

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, http: //www.uni-jena.de/ (Institut fur Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Seminar, 13 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: "Coppard wrote a handful of the best short stories of the English language and ...] contributed significantly to the movement of the short story from being a truncated novel to acquiring its own form." (Frank Edmund Smith) Alfred Edgar Coppard's short stories surely have proven worth a closer examination, and that is why I undertake to...

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, http: //www.uni-jena.de/ (Institut fur Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: The Crisis of Masculinity - The American Drama of the 1960s to 1980s, 12 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Rabe's play is set in a Hollywood Hills house shared by the characters Eddie and Mickey, the place of their meetings with their friends Phil and Artie as well as with the female characters. Each of the four men has to find ways to meet the necessary requirements of Hollywood business, and to cope with...

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, http: //www.uni-jena.de/ (Institut fur Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Hauptseminar "Metalanguage - abstract and imagistic," language: English, abstract: A property of human language which makes it stand out among the ways living creatures communicate is its reflexive capacity. This capacity manifests itself as what is called metalanguage, i.e. reference to general regularities of language, reports or explicit descriptions of linguistic action, indexical forms varying with the...