ZAA - Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture

Heft 2/2000

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Albrecht Neubert: A Modest Essay on Linguistics and Culture

Augustin Simo Bobda 
: Explicating the Features of African English Pronunciation: Some Steps Further (abstract)

Gottfried Graustein
: ‘What do you read my Lord?’ Samuel Johnson Quoting Jonathan Swift (abstract)

Barbara Powaza-Kuko
: Three Birthday Parties in Poland (abstract)

Philipp Schweighauser
: ‘Love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight’: Scrutinizing Lolita’s Body (abstract)

Buchbesprechungen

  • Burkhard Dretzke. Modern British and American English Pronunciation: A Basic Textbook. (Klaus Hansen)

  • Morton Benson, Evelyn Benson and Robert Ilson. The BBI Dictionary of English Word Combinations. (Klaus Hansen)

  • Howard Richler. Take my Words: A Wordaholic’s Guide to the English Language. (Klaus-Dieter Barnickel)

  • Pavol Štekauer. An Onomasiological Theory of English Word-Formation. (Klaus Hansen)

  • Magnus Ljung, ed. Corpus-based Studies in English. (Michael Klotz)

  • Jeffrey Kallen, ed. Focus on Ireland. (Piotr Stalmaszczyk)

  • Jon Erickson and Marion Gymnich. Grundkurs Anglistische Sprachwissenschaft & John F. Davis. Phonetics and Phonology. (Klaus Hansen)

  • Ulrich Bielefeld and Gisela Engel, eds. Bilder der Nation: Kulturelle und politische Konstruktionen des Nationalen am Beginn der europäischen Moderne. (Christian Schmitt-Kilb)

  • Sven Strasen. Poststrukturalismusrezeption in der neueren marxistischen Literaturtheorie. (Peter Kuczynski)

  • Holger Klein, Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Wolfgang Görtschacher, eds. Poetry Now:  Contemporary British and Irish Poetry in the Making. (Frank J. Kearful)

  • William L. Andrews et al., eds. The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. (Heiner Bus)

  • Robert Cook. Sweet Land of Liberty? The African-American Struggle for Civil Rights in the Twentieth Century. (Antje Kley)

  • Gabriele Hansen. Das reduzierte Leben: Leid und Leidbewältigung im Werk Sarah Orne Jewetts. (Angelika Köhler)

  • Walter Bigler. Figures of Madness in Saul Bellow’s Longer Fiction. (Dirk Padeken)



Abstract, Augustin simo Bobda: Explicating the Features of African English Pronunciation: Some Steps Further.
After reviewing the traditional approach to the perception, analysis and explication of deviations in African Englishes, this paper, which focuses on pronunciation, suggests new grounds to explore. These grounds include a reconsideration of the colonial input and an exploration of non-classic intralingual factors like vowel assimilation, the interaction between deviant spelling and deviant pronunciation which, indeed, account for a large number of deviations.  They also include sui generis processes. Finally, the paper stresses the context of learning which does not make the native English model available to the African learner. This particular parameter leads to a reconsideration of Selinker’s (1972) notion of interlanguage which is shown to be inapplicable to the study of features of African English pronunciation.


Abstract, Gottfried Graustein: ‘What do you read my Lord?’ Samuel Johnson Quoting Jonathan Swift.
Following his principle of inserting in his Dictionary of the English Language genuine quotations from earlier and contemporary texts in order to illustrate the various entries, Samuel Johnson included a considerable number of extracts from Jonathan Swift’s works. These quotations from Swift were extracted from the CD-ROM edition of the dictionary and checked with the help of an electronic corpus of Swift’s writings. This yields various interesting insights into the lexicographer’s type and range of reading. The idea is mainly to view Johnson, who was a voracious reader (and not a friend of Swift), as part of the 18th-century scene or establishment, and to obtain less subjective information on the reception of Swift in this context. Studies of this kind are not intended to replace other, direct approaches to writers and writings through biographical, linguistic or sociological investigations, but rather serve as supporting evidence.


Abstract, Barbara PowaZa-Kurko: Three Birthday Parties in Poland.
Harold Pinter wrote his first full-time play The Birthday Party in 1957. Only one critic dared to defend it when it was staged at the Lyric Theatre in London a year later. By the time the play reached Polish stages “the most original, disturbing and arresting talent” of the playwright had been widely recognized. But there were at least two factors which hindered the triumphant entrance of the play in Poland: literary and theatrical tradition and the compulsory communist ideology. They could distort the play, but they could also add new insights and enrich its recep-tion. The article analyses three performances of the Birthday Party in view of the abovementioned factors. The productions under consideration were spaced out in such a way that almost a decade elapsed between each of them (1966, 1977, 1984). That is why I also examine the changes in sensibility, mentality and the perception of foreign culture that account for different receptions of each of the performances.


Abstract,
philipp Schweighauser: ‘Love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight’: Scrutinizing Lolita’s Body.
This article examines some of the more disquieting strains in Nabokov’s Lolita. It argues that the novel’s field of vision is structured in a way that links Humbert’s gaze with his filmic and photographic imagination. More general reflections on the nature of cinematography and photography lead to a reconsideration of Lolita’s premature death as a literalization of the more sinister implications of Humbert’s artistic aspirations. Humbert’s modernist quest for knowledge is shown to coincide with a cinematic and photographic discourse that engulfs Lolita in a semantic web of death. It will be argued that Lyne’s recent cinematic adaptation of the novel lacks precisely in its omis-sion of these morbid undertones.


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