Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Germanistik 2026.2

4. Februar 2026

Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Germanistik 2026.2

von

Viola Voß

Variationspragmatik: Regionale Vielfalt und situative Unterschiede im Sprachgebrauch

Dieser Band greift das Desiderat einer germanistischen Variationspragmatik auf. Dazu versammelt er Beiträge, die sich pragmatischer Variation im Deutschen insbesondere aus diatopischer und diaphasischer Perspektive widmen. Berücksichtigung finden sowohl klassische Bereiche der Pragmatik (z. B. Deixis, Sprechakte, pragmatische Marker) wie auch Ansätze einer weit gefassten Pragmatik (z. B. Schreibregister, Text- und Wissensorganisation, Metapragmatik). Hierbei kommen vielfältige Methoden zum Einsatz. Insgesamt gibt der Band einen Einblick in das breite Spektrum an Objektbereichen und Anwendungsfeldern der (germanistischen) Variationspragmatik. Er leistet somit einen fundierten Beitrag zur empirischen Untersuchung pragmatischer Variation sowie zur Methodologie- und Theoriebildung der Variationspragmatik.
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The Speaking Muse: Literary Declamation in Germany, 1750-1900

The Speaking Musechallenges the dominant narrative of the print’s monopoly in German media studies, examining how oral reading practices such as literary declamation flourished alongside silent reading practices.
How did German readers experience the German literary canon in the 18th and 19th centuries – through silent reading or by ear?The Speaking Muse: Literary Declamation in Germany, 1750–1900traces the impact of a forgotten culture of literary orality in the German-speaking world, from its early flourishing in the late 18th century to its popularization in the Wilhelmine era. In the wake of the “reading revolution” of the 18th century, oral reading practices proliferated alongside silent ones and became a central element in what Abigail Williams has called the “social life of books” for a diverse range of audiences and participants.
Mary Helen Dupree shows how the culture of literary declamation, from recitation anthologies to declamatory concerts that combined music and spoken word, afforded new opportunities for interacting with literature for a variety of audiences, including women and marginalized “others,” while fostering innovations in publication, pedagogy, and performance.
Working at the intersection of literary history, performance studies, sound studies, and print history,The Speaking Museshows that the cultures of declamation and print in the 18th- and 19th-century German-speaking world were not strictly exclusionary, but were intertwined.
How did German readers experience the German literary canon in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—through silent reading or through the ear? The Speaking Muse: Literary Declamation in Germany, 1750–1900 traces the cultural impact of a forgotten culture of literary orality in the German-speaking world, from its early flourishing in the late eighteenth century to its popularization as a mass medium in the Wilhelmine era. In the wake of the “reading revolution” of the late eighteenth century, oral reading practices proliferated alongside silent ones and became a central element in what Abigail Williams has called the “social life of books” for a diverse range of audiences and participants in the German-speaking world. From recitation anthologies to declamatory concerts that combined music and spoken word, the culture of literary declamation afforded new opportunities for interacting with literature to a variety of audiences, including women and marginalized “others,” while fostering innovations in publication, pedagogy, and performance.
zum Buch im ULB-KatalogPlus
zum Buch auf der Verlags-Website