Etc 2, 2002

Empirische Text- und Kulturforschung 2, 2002

Empirical Text and Culture Research 2, 2002

Contents 1/2001
General
Winfried Nöth
Self-reference in systems theoretical and semiotic interpretations 1
Analyses
Michael Fleischer
The image of beverages in the Polish, German and French cultures 8
Zuzana Martináková-Rendeková
The Postmodern Age - the birth of a new paradigm or the end of an old one? 48
Peter Ernst
A short cultural history of <Standing> 60
Arne Ziegler, Karl-Heinz Best, Gabriel Altmann
Nominal style 72
Reports
Jeff Bernard
Report. Form - Structure - Composition. Pragmatics & Reception 86
Emmerich Kelih; Peter Grzybek
Word length in texts. international Symposion on quantitative text analysis 89
Reviews
Michael Elmenthaler (Hrsg.), Regionalsprachen, Stadtsprachen und Institutionssprachen im Prozeß (A. Ziegler) 92
Ludek Hrebicek, Variation in sequences (G. Altmann) 95
Books received 100
Editorial board:
Michael Fleischer (m.fleischer@k.pl), Walter a. Koch (Walter_A_Koch@yahoo.de) , Otto Rottmann (02331962070-0001@t-online.de), Arne Ziegler (arneziegler@compuserve.com)
Publisher:
RAM-Verlag (RAM-Verlag@t-online.de)

 

1. Conception and objectives
1.1 Empirical culture research in the following areas:
- Methodology of culture science
- Constructivist communication science
- Quantitative and qualitative culture analysis
- Functional laws governing the culture system
- Procedural and systemic character of cultures
- Evolutin of culture, memetics
- Discourse theory and analysis
- Functional nature of social systems
1.2. Empirical text research in the following areas:
- Methodology of text research
- Qualitative and quantitative linguistic methods of text analysis
- Text-grammatical descriptions
- Differentiation, typology, classification of texts, text types
- Communication areas and practice of texts
- Regularities in text generation and text behaviour
- History of text types, evolutionary text modification processes
- Imparting of knowledge in texts
- Discourse-semantic and cognitive text creation
 
1.3. System-theoretical constructivist research of fundamentals
- General system theory in the area of culture research
- Application of systems theory in the object area "Culture"
- Manifestations of discourses and interdiscourses, subcultures and cultures
- Evoltionary processes and mechanisms in culture
- Research in the areas "complexity", "chaos", "order"
2. Essentials of the journal
- Interdisciplinary empirical research
- Verification / falsification of the results
- Objectivity claim of the analysis (intersubjectivity)
- Studies in object properties and characteristics
- Interrelation between theory and object
3. Requirements to be met by contributions
- Language: German or English
- Format: file in standard text processing format (preferably - WinWord)
4. Technical
- Permanent items: theory, analysis, reports, projects, feedbacks, reviews
- Publication: internet, CD-ROM and printed
- Size: 100 A4-pages
- Orders directly to the publisher
Editorial board
Michael Fleischer (m.fleischer@k.pl), Walter a. Koch (Walter_A_Koch@yahoo.de) , Otto Rottmann (02331962070-0001@t-online.de), Arne Ziegler (arneziegler@compuserve.com)
Verlag

RAM-Verlag (RAM-Verlag@t-online.de)

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