Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 3,0, http: //www.uni-jena.de/, 100 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: On the basis of questionnaire data, this study seeks to find a tendency for native language influence in the judgement of German-speaking learners of English. Seeing that the concept of language transfer has received diverse weight in the history of second language acquisition (SLA), the present account illuminates the issue anew, with a specific linguistic concern. Inversion structures,...

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, http: //www.uni-jena.de/, 5 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Iris Murdoch's The Black Prince (BP), which was published in 1973, is considered her most successful and brilliant novel by her readers as well as by her critics. Richard Todd describes it as her "closest approach to the 'post-modernist' novel," which is especially in the context of narrative unreliability highly interesting and complex. However, the central theme of this paper concerns the...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Padagogik - Wissenschaft, Theorie, Anthropologie, Note: 1,0, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena (Institut fur Erziehungswissenschaft), Veranstaltung: PS Einfuhrung in die Erziehungswissenschaft (Hermeneutik), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Einleitung Die Auseinandersetzung mit der Frage nach dem "Verschwinden der Kindheit" konzentriert sich im vorliegenden Text auf die sich verstarkenden Einflusse des Mediums Fernsehen und den daraus resultierenden Konsequenzen. Im Hinblick auf die bestehende Referenz dieses Teilkapitels zur Gesamtthematik des...

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 1,7, http: //www.uni-jena.de/ (Institut fur Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: HpS Contrastive Linguistics, language: English, abstract: Introduction Since German and English both belong to the same family of languages, i.e. West Germanic, they are - at least, from an historical point of view - closely related languages. By investigating their respective grammatical structures it is to be discussed whether the existing structural contrasts between English and German grammar...

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,7, http: //www.uni-jena.de/ (Institut fur Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Contemporary African-American Fiction, 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: As the winner of the 1982 PEN-Faulkner Prize1 and being "acclaimed by fiction writers and by popular and scholarly writers alike" David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident could establish itself as an important piece of contemporary literature. Therefore a considerable number of entries and textual analyses...