Bücher von Annika Onken

Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - Region: Australia, New Zealand, grade: 62% pass = deutsche 3, University of Queensland, course: AUST 6100 Masters Level, language: English, abstract: Walter (1992) states in his essay ¿Defining Australiä that the question what the ¿real¿ Australia is will never be solved but that there exist and keep arising different ideas about it. These various cultural productions have to be questioned as to who produces them and which purposes they serve. National identity creates unity among people in the sense of Benedict Anderson¿s ¿imagined communities¿. Members believe in a set of things about what being Australian includes and excludes. National celebrations as for example Australia Day, the proclamation of Commonwealth or Anzac Day are different media guided events on which Australians are held to feel a ¿collective Australian consciousness¿ (7). Nevertheless, opposing ideas are put under the same national persuasive ¿cloche¿ in order to make differences forgotten. An effective tool to create this nationhood has been myth-making in order to link Australians to a self-picture and ¿transcend contemporary divisions¿ (16).

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, University of Münster, language: English, abstract: 1 IntroductionIn order to learn more about the English language and how it is actually used by the native speaker community I am going to investigate the occurrence of bare passives as modifiers and of relative clauses in be-passive form which can be compared to the former in its function as modifier. With help of the queries I will find out how many of these constructions exist in The Penn Treebank and then take a closer look at the beginning of sentences. Which of these two grammatical phenomenon is more frequent at the beginnings of sentences and why? Firstly in this term paper, I will introduce the grammatical phenomenon of the passive voice with its variants ¿be-passive¿, ¿get-passive¿ and ¿bare passive¿ by contrasting it to the active voice. Furthermore I will explain the development of the different queries needed for the research whose findings will be discussed subsequent to that.

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, University of Münster (Englisches Seminar), course: Negotiating Representations of Native Americans in Native American Feature Films, language: English, abstract: From the day when the first settlers landed on the American coast it had been reported back to their people in Europe what the Native population is like and how they create their cultural lives. Since that time, Native Americans have been externally conceptualized in various forms, as for example in form of the ¿noble savage¿ or the ¿vicious savage¿, and almost never as having a sense of humor (Gruber 142). Humor in connection with Native American characters has among other reasons been avoided by image makers for it would have allowed recipients to identify with such human characteristics (Gruber 7). This would have meant to invalidate a powerful colonial ¿casting mold¿ for dehuminazing stereotypical images about Nativeness. This hegemonic tool proves to be the most enduring one of colonization by replacing guns and troops (Gruber 157) with occupied Non-Native minds. Filmic representation perpetuated these distorted ideas about Native Americans further by drawing on those widespread clichés and inventing new ones (Gruber 142; Mihelich 130), as for example the Native American ¿ecologist¿ (Cornell 109) or the spiritual ¿shaman¿ living in absolute piece with nature. Thus, till today Native Americans are confronted with the task of dealing with biased images of themselves which are externally imposed on them by the surrounding dominance of Non-Native societies and discourses. In this paper I will discuss how Native filmmakers Chris Eyre and Sherman Alexie effectively use just this powerful genre of popular culture to tackle habituated representations of Native Americans and offer Native versions of Nativeness. In Smoke Signals (1998) they rework and transform existing stereotypes by creating a meta level on which the powerful mechanism of image making is exposed. This meta level can be established through the use of humor (Gruber 35). I will fill a desideratum in this context by breaking the concept of ¿humor¿ down into its single aspects and then applying those to humorous material in Smoke Signals whereby distilling various strategies, not only the means for survival, which are used to pursue the subversive aim. In a structural approach I will have a closer look at which aspects of humor are actually used and what kinds of strategies originate from them considering a mixed audience consisting of Native as well as Non-Native viewers.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Beziehungen und Familie, Note: 1,0, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Veranstaltung: Zur Zukunft der Familie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Nach den Entwicklungen der Rechtslage homosexueller Personen, ausgehend von staatlicher und gesellschaftlicher Diskriminierung über Tolerierung der Homosexualität, hin zur rechtlichen und gesell-schaftlichen Akzeptanz (Rijsbergen 2005: 90) mit dem Trend zur weiteren Angleichung (Maier 2009: 198), drängt sich ein Blick in die Zukunft auf. Angelehnt an Pierre Bourdieus Kapitaltheorie lässt sich fragen, mit welchem und wie gewertetem Kapital homosexuelle Personen bzw. gleichgeschlechtliche Beziehungen ohne und mit Kindern zukünftig am ¿Spiel des Lebens¿ teilnehmen könnten. Könnten homosexuelle Personen, Paare und Familien bezüglich ihres sozialen, kulturellen und ökonomischen Auftretens wegweisend, ja sogar Vorbilder, für die zukünftige Gesellschaft sein?Im Folgenden werde ich zunächst auf das soziale, das kulturelle und das ökonomische Kapital von homosexuellen Einzelpersonen eingehen. In einem zweiten Schritt wird die Beziehungs- bzw. Familiengestaltung von gleichgeschlechtlichen Partnerschaften ohne und mit Kindern im Vordergrund stehen.

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, University of Münster (Englisches Seminar), course: Psycholinguistics, language: English, abstract: Fossilization is commonly described in SLA literature as a ¿phenomenon of non-progression of learning despite continuous exposure to input, adequate motivation to learn, and sufficient opportunity for practice¿ (Han 13). The Question behind this notion is: Are adults able to ever acquire native-like competence in an L2? And if some learners are, what does this mean with respect to a majority of learners who seem not to be (cf. Han 13)? This bifurcation of possible outcomes in learning a second language is mirrored in the large variety of terms used to describe the concept of ¿fossilization¿. Among others, it is described ¿as ¿virtual halt¿, ¿linguistic monstrosities¿, ¿plateau¿, ¿rigor mortis¿, ¿stopping short¿, ¿fossilized variation¿, ¿permanent optionality¿, ¿siestä [and] ¿endstate¿¿(Han 13 - 14). Such a range of labels reveals differing conceptual ideas about the topic¿s nature concerning its powers of spread within the learner¿s interlanguage, its finitude, reoccurring continuation and inevitableness. The terms ¿linguistic monstrosities¿ and ¿fossilized variation¿ rather hint at only parts of the interlanguage being affected by fossilization as opposed to the notion of a completely ¿fossilized interlanguage¿. The term ¿virtual halt¿ supports this idea that while some aspects seem to be fossilized others might continue to develop. Whereas the terms ¿rigor mortis¿ and ¿endstate¿ convey an understanding of fossilization¿s lethal and final everlastingness prohibiting any further linguistic development whatsoever, the terms ¿siestä, ¿plateau¿ and ¿permanent optionality¿ ,on the other hand, consider the concept to be negotiable in some sense holding an option of resuming linguistic development. In this paper I will very briefly outline some of the major stopping points in the more than three-decade evolution of the concept ¿fossilization¿ and illustrate key conceptional issues. Relating to these difficulties I will look at recent voices who express the need for more comprehensive empirical research and rethinking of hitherto approaches and convictions. In doing so, the focus will also be on fossilization in relation to second language instruction.