Un problème relationnel évident entre l’Eglise Catholique et les Média constituait le point de dé... more Un problème relationnel évident entre l’Eglise Catholique et les Média constituait le point de départ de cette thèse de doctorat. Des membres de l’Eglise se plaignent à répétition de la machinerie des Média et leur préférence pour les scandales et des accroches négatives. La critique est que l’image de l’Eglise créée par les Média ne correspond pas à la réalité, les aspects positifs sont souvent ignorés. Mais de quelle façon les Média représentent effectivement l’Eglise ? La thèse répond à cette question en démontrant les conditions de communication médiatiques ainsi qu’en décrivant l’image de l’Eglise dans les discours journalistiques.The relationship between the Catholic Church and the media is apparently difficult. Members of the church frequently complain about the media’s partiality for scandals and negative headlines. The Catholic Church, they say, is portrayed in an excessively bad light, while positive aspects are overlooked. But how does the press actually write about the C...
Tourism is one of the most important sectors of the Tyrolean economy, one based on intensive cont... more Tourism is one of the most important sectors of the Tyrolean economy, one based on intensive contact between tourists and hosts. In the SPIRIT Tirol research project (Sprachen und Varietäten in Regionen mit intensivem Tourismus am Beispiel Tirols) [Languages and varieties in regions with intensive tourism using the example of Tyrol], we deal with situations involving language contact in tourism. By analysing interviews with individuals from different age groups, both service providers and hosts renting different types of accommodation in different Tyrolean locations, we try to identify the linguistic strategies and attitudes toward language that these tourism professionals adopt. In this article, we concentrate on one group: hosts who rent private accommodations. Starting in the 1950s and 1960s, the rental market for private accommodations expanded enormously, bringing with it an intrusion of tourists into private living space that quickly exerted a noticeable influence on the perso...
The relationship between the Catholic Church and the media is apparently difficult. Members of th... more The relationship between the Catholic Church and the media is apparently difficult. Members of the church frequently complain about the media’s partiality for scandals and negative headlines. The Catholic Church, they say, is portrayed in an excessively bad light, while positive aspects are overlooked. But how does the press actually write about the Church? By illustrating media-related terms of communication and characterizing the Church’s image in press-discourse, the current thesis answers this question.On the assumption that impartial reality is not available and therefore not illustratable, news coverage never reflects reality, but reconstructs it. Reality as transported by the media is affected by ideas about life and moral concepts not only by journalists, but also by editorial boards, cultures and other media-related terms of communication. Thereby, and through factors influencing the selection of news, e.g. focussing on “hot potatoes” and bad news, coverage of the Church turns out one-sided and negative.This thesis is, on the one hand, a media-linguistic investigation, but also uses an interdisciplinary approach by drawing upon knowledge of linguistic sub-disciplines as well as of media- and communication science.In 2009, a sample of 212 articles of Austrian and French daily newspapers was investigated by means of “Inhaltsanalyse” (content analysis) following Werner Fruh and “Kritischer Diskursanalyse” (critical discourse analysis) following Siegfried Jager”. The articles (Austria: Die Presse, Der Standard, Kronen Zeitung; France: Aujourd’hui en France, Le Figaro, Le Monde) were reviewed with regard to content, topic and language. Only such articles were chosen, which were information- and opinion-centred and in line with the editorial board.Additionally, journalists of the mentioned newspapers were interviewed to gain information on the coverage of religious issues and the attitude of the editorial staff towards the Catholic Church.The content analysis was, on the one hand, aimed at the classification of reported topics. On the other hand, news factors should be identified, which were relevant for the selected events. Finally, the content analysis should gain information on to what extent topic structure and distribution of news factors differed between the newspapers.The discourse analysis particularly aimed at classifying content and language of explicit and implicit comments in the articles. In addition, linguistic characteristics of coverage of the Catholic Church should be identified, as far as they allowed conclusions to be drawn with respect to underlying ideologies.Finally, press photos should be analysed in terms of ideological and evaluative contents. Comparison of the different newspapers should permit to trace the individual editorial staff’s principles and identify country-and culture-specific differences, as the relationship between state and church is regulated differently. While in France there is a very strict disestablishment of state and church (Laizism), in Austria there is a system of cooperation, which is founded in a concordat.This thesis shows, that all of the reviewed daily newspapers consider the topic “Catholic Church” as socio-politically relevant. At the same time, no consistent disapproval of the Church by means of the media was visible. This becomes evident by the quite extensive and frequent coverage that expands for example into the rubric “politics”. Furthermore, all of the reviewed newspapers had one journalist being in charge of topics concerning catholic matters, and who was socialised in - and in many cases - is close to the Church....
Zusammenfassung: Dieser Beitrag beschreibt zunächst die Besonderheiten der Urlaubsdestination Öst... more Zusammenfassung: Dieser Beitrag beschreibt zunächst die Besonderheiten der Urlaubsdestination Österreich und damit den Kontext, in dem Sprachkontakt zwischen Gästen und GastgeberInnen stattfindet. Nach einem Exkurs über die sprachlichen Anforderungen, die der Tourismus für die GastgeberInnen mit sich bringt, sowie über den Fremdsprachenerwerb im österreichischen Bildungssystem wird ein Überblick über die bisherige linguistische Forschung zu Tourismus in Österreich gegeben. In der zweiten Hälfte des Beitrags werden schließlich erste Ergebnisse hinsichtlich der Rolle von regionalen Varietäten und Fremdsprachen im Tourismus am Beispiel des Bundeslandes Tirol präsentiert, das zu den wichtigsten touristischen Hotspots der Alpen zählt.
School social workers deal with a highly sociolinguistically diverse target group in a monolingua... more School social workers deal with a highly sociolinguistically diverse target group in a monolingually constructed school environment. On the basis of qualitative interviews analysed by means of content analysis, this article traces how school social workers perceive multilingualism in their field of work. Which communicative practices do they use to enable communication in this linguistically diverse environment? Where do they experience challenges? Multilingualism is understood in terms of the language repertoire and includes not only different languages but also different varieties within a language. The school social workers describe a variety of communicative practices ranging from a careful, empathetic linguistic recipient design to multimodal and multimedia practices. Language barriers due to the lack of a shared language, are perceived as the “greatest challenge” that can only be mitigated but not overcome by interpreting services.
Un problème relationnel évident entre l’Eglise Catholique et les Média constituait le point de dé... more Un problème relationnel évident entre l’Eglise Catholique et les Média constituait le point de départ de cette thèse de doctorat. Des membres de l’Eglise se plaignent à répétition de la machinerie des Média et leur préférence pour les scandales et des accroches négatives. La critique est que l’image de l’Eglise créée par les Média ne correspond pas à la réalité, les aspects positifs sont souvent ignorés. Mais de quelle façon les Média représentent effectivement l’Eglise ? La thèse répond à cette question en démontrant les conditions de communication médiatiques ainsi qu’en décrivant l’image de l’Eglise dans les discours journalistiques.The relationship between the Catholic Church and the media is apparently difficult. Members of the church frequently complain about the media’s partiality for scandals and negative headlines. The Catholic Church, they say, is portrayed in an excessively bad light, while positive aspects are overlooked. But how does the press actually write about the C...
Tourism is one of the most important sectors of the Tyrolean economy, one based on intensive cont... more Tourism is one of the most important sectors of the Tyrolean economy, one based on intensive contact between tourists and hosts. In the SPIRIT Tirol research project (Sprachen und Varietäten in Regionen mit intensivem Tourismus am Beispiel Tirols) [Languages and varieties in regions with intensive tourism using the example of Tyrol], we deal with situations involving language contact in tourism. By analysing interviews with individuals from different age groups, both service providers and hosts renting different types of accommodation in different Tyrolean locations, we try to identify the linguistic strategies and attitudes toward language that these tourism professionals adopt. In this article, we concentrate on one group: hosts who rent private accommodations. Starting in the 1950s and 1960s, the rental market for private accommodations expanded enormously, bringing with it an intrusion of tourists into private living space that quickly exerted a noticeable influence on the perso...
The relationship between the Catholic Church and the media is apparently difficult. Members of th... more The relationship between the Catholic Church and the media is apparently difficult. Members of the church frequently complain about the media’s partiality for scandals and negative headlines. The Catholic Church, they say, is portrayed in an excessively bad light, while positive aspects are overlooked. But how does the press actually write about the Church? By illustrating media-related terms of communication and characterizing the Church’s image in press-discourse, the current thesis answers this question.On the assumption that impartial reality is not available and therefore not illustratable, news coverage never reflects reality, but reconstructs it. Reality as transported by the media is affected by ideas about life and moral concepts not only by journalists, but also by editorial boards, cultures and other media-related terms of communication. Thereby, and through factors influencing the selection of news, e.g. focussing on “hot potatoes” and bad news, coverage of the Church turns out one-sided and negative.This thesis is, on the one hand, a media-linguistic investigation, but also uses an interdisciplinary approach by drawing upon knowledge of linguistic sub-disciplines as well as of media- and communication science.In 2009, a sample of 212 articles of Austrian and French daily newspapers was investigated by means of “Inhaltsanalyse” (content analysis) following Werner Fruh and “Kritischer Diskursanalyse” (critical discourse analysis) following Siegfried Jager”. The articles (Austria: Die Presse, Der Standard, Kronen Zeitung; France: Aujourd’hui en France, Le Figaro, Le Monde) were reviewed with regard to content, topic and language. Only such articles were chosen, which were information- and opinion-centred and in line with the editorial board.Additionally, journalists of the mentioned newspapers were interviewed to gain information on the coverage of religious issues and the attitude of the editorial staff towards the Catholic Church.The content analysis was, on the one hand, aimed at the classification of reported topics. On the other hand, news factors should be identified, which were relevant for the selected events. Finally, the content analysis should gain information on to what extent topic structure and distribution of news factors differed between the newspapers.The discourse analysis particularly aimed at classifying content and language of explicit and implicit comments in the articles. In addition, linguistic characteristics of coverage of the Catholic Church should be identified, as far as they allowed conclusions to be drawn with respect to underlying ideologies.Finally, press photos should be analysed in terms of ideological and evaluative contents. Comparison of the different newspapers should permit to trace the individual editorial staff’s principles and identify country-and culture-specific differences, as the relationship between state and church is regulated differently. While in France there is a very strict disestablishment of state and church (Laizism), in Austria there is a system of cooperation, which is founded in a concordat.This thesis shows, that all of the reviewed daily newspapers consider the topic “Catholic Church” as socio-politically relevant. At the same time, no consistent disapproval of the Church by means of the media was visible. This becomes evident by the quite extensive and frequent coverage that expands for example into the rubric “politics”. Furthermore, all of the reviewed newspapers had one journalist being in charge of topics concerning catholic matters, and who was socialised in - and in many cases - is close to the Church....
Zusammenfassung: Dieser Beitrag beschreibt zunächst die Besonderheiten der Urlaubsdestination Öst... more Zusammenfassung: Dieser Beitrag beschreibt zunächst die Besonderheiten der Urlaubsdestination Österreich und damit den Kontext, in dem Sprachkontakt zwischen Gästen und GastgeberInnen stattfindet. Nach einem Exkurs über die sprachlichen Anforderungen, die der Tourismus für die GastgeberInnen mit sich bringt, sowie über den Fremdsprachenerwerb im österreichischen Bildungssystem wird ein Überblick über die bisherige linguistische Forschung zu Tourismus in Österreich gegeben. In der zweiten Hälfte des Beitrags werden schließlich erste Ergebnisse hinsichtlich der Rolle von regionalen Varietäten und Fremdsprachen im Tourismus am Beispiel des Bundeslandes Tirol präsentiert, das zu den wichtigsten touristischen Hotspots der Alpen zählt.
School social workers deal with a highly sociolinguistically diverse target group in a monolingua... more School social workers deal with a highly sociolinguistically diverse target group in a monolingually constructed school environment. On the basis of qualitative interviews analysed by means of content analysis, this article traces how school social workers perceive multilingualism in their field of work. Which communicative practices do they use to enable communication in this linguistically diverse environment? Where do they experience challenges? Multilingualism is understood in terms of the language repertoire and includes not only different languages but also different varieties within a language. The school social workers describe a variety of communicative practices ranging from a careful, empathetic linguistic recipient design to multimodal and multimedia practices. Language barriers due to the lack of a shared language, are perceived as the “greatest challenge” that can only be mitigated but not overcome by interpreting services.
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