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Fall 2023

Feddersen, Richard

This study examines how knowledge displays reflect the way students of German at a university in Jordan position themselves vis-à-vis German identity in the semester prior to studying abroad. It may be tempting to assume that language learners desire some degree of target culture membership, but...

Spring 2010

Kidner, Keely

This thesis focuses on the negotiation of power and identity between Swiss students and instructors in the Swiss classroom. Although Schriftdeutsch1 is the official language of secondary schools in Switzerland, speakers often practice code-switching, which serves many conversational functions...

Fall 2022

Antonova, Anna

This study focuses on the scope, limits, and implications of literary translators’ agency, exploring the gendered aspects of the translators’ creative projects and their impact on the cultural transfer outcomes in the context of Alice Munro’s writing translated into Russian, Ukrainian, and...

Fall 2024

Heinrich, Claudia

This dissertation provides a corpus-based constructional analysis of precipitation events in German (e.g., es regnet ‘it rains’) based on real-world data from Sketch Engine’s deTenTen13 16.5 billion-word web corpus. The research was sparked by a large, cross-linguistic survey of weather event...

Spring 2010

Miller, Veronica Katherine

In standard, written German, causal clauses introduced by the conjunction weil (because) display subordinate, verb-final word order. In spoken German, however, verb-second (V2) or main clause order has been increasingly found to follow weil. Early discussion of weil explored the possible loss...

Spring 2012

Marks, Cynthia A.

This thesis discusses the challenges encountered when translating Hans-Jürgen Greif’s short story “N’appelle pas le chat pour mettre d’accord deux oiseaux” into English. In the first part, the thesis briefly examines a biography of Greif and his previous works, before identifying some of the...