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Die neue Reihe bietet die Plattform für ein sich gerade im Bereich der Linguistik ausformendes neues Forschungsprogramm namens "Koloniale und Postkoloniale Linguistik". Die Inspiration für diese neue linguistische Teildisziplin stammt aus der Missionarslinguistik und der rezenten Diskussion über die Zusammenhänge zwischen Sprache, Linguistik und Kolonialismus. Die Zusammenführung dieser beiden Perspektiven zeichnet die "Koloniale und Postkoloniale Linguistik" besonders aus.KPL/CPL macht in erster Linie solche Texte der interessierten Öffentlichkeit (Linguisten, Historiker, Muttersprachler der Objektsprachen usw.) in kommentierter Form zugänglich, die über die Sprachen der ehemaligen europäischen Überseebesitzungen handeln und während der Kolonialepoche abgefasst wurden. Spezielles Augenmerk wird auf bisher unveröffentlichte oder heute nur schwer zugängliche Texte gelegt. In KPL/CPL werden ausserdem Studien veröffentlicht, die der Frage nachgehen, inwiefern die kolonialzeitlichen linguistischen Texte den politischen und kulturellen Diskurs des Kolonialismus reflektieren. In der Reihe erscheinen sowohl Monographien als auch Sammelbände. Alle Manuskripte unterliegen einem Begutachtungsverfahren (double blind). Die bevorzugten Publikationssprachen sind Englisch und Deutsch.Herausgeberrichtlinien für die Reihe und Hinweise zur Manuskripteinreichung finden Sie unter:http://www.ids-mannheim.de/lexik/LexikalischerWandel/kpl-cpl.In the Americas, both indigenous and postcolonial languages today bear witness of massive changes that have taken place since the colonial era. However, a unified approach to languages from different colonial areas is still missing.The present volume studies postcolonial varieties that emerged due to changing linguistic and sociolinguistic conditions in different settings across the Americas. The studies cover indigenous languages that are undergoing lexical and grammatical change due to the presence of colonial languages and the emergence of new dialects and creoles due to contact. The contributions showcase the diversity of approaches to tackle fundamental questions regarding the processes triggered by language contact as well as the wide range of outcomes contact has had in postcolonial settings.The volume adds to the documentation of the linguistic properties of postcolonial language varieties in a socio-historically informed framework. It explores the complex dynamics of extra-linguistic factors that brought about the processes of language change in them and contributes to a better understanding of the determinant factors that lead to the emergence and evolution of such codes

This paper addresses the paucity of research on women's language use in regional Japan by investigating Iwate Dialect (ID) and Japanese Women's Language (JWL) in face-to-face interactions among women in northeastern Japan. By bringing a consideration of region to bear on investigations of women's language use in Japan, the aim is to contribute to work that breaks down essentialist categories of "the way Japanese women speak" to a more fruitful focus on the range of resources women employ in situated interactions. Analysis is based on ethnographic data and a close analysis of interactions, and focuses on speakers' use of ID and JWL as devices for negotiating roles. Findings show ID is used by speakers in hesitating to take on a high-status role, and to mitigate direct challenges to claims made by other participants. JWL features are used when reiterating a point or disclaiming a role.

Communicative efficiency can be measured with conventions. Besides linguistic means, pictures and diagrams are also an expression of such conventions. In the practice of technical editing, this refers to multimodal text types with technical language elements, photographs, technical drawings, various types of diagrams, etc. Alexander Holste uses the example of the text type specification sheet to show how an inter-disciplinary team of engineers, lawyers, business economists, etc. negotiates these conventions. The different, technically justified ideas of the text type conventions, especially with regard to the choice of multimodal means of expression, become clearly apparent. Requirement specifications are created in the context of the tendering of public contracts by public authorities. Since such contracts represent an important field of work for the companies involved, the efficient design of the specifications is highly relevant from a business management point of view. Alexander Holste, Dr. phil., studied German as well as business administration in Essen and Turin and headed the technical editorial department of a public transport company before he started teaching professional and scientific writing at the University of Duisburg-Essen in 2009, especially for engineering scientists. His research interests lie in the fields of semiotics, text linguistics, technical communication and writing didactics.

How has reproduction transformed works of art and literature, their dissemination and their reception? And how does it continue to do so? In what ways have our definitions and practices of reproduction changed over the last centuries thanks to new printing, photographic and digital techniques? These questions are timely. From the medieval copy to contemporary digital culture, including the rise of the printing press and engraving techniques in the Renaissance and the Ancien Régime , myriad modes of reproduction informed both our access to texts and images and our ways of reading, seeing, understanding, discovering and questioning the world. Dans quelle mesure la reproduction transforme-t-elle les œuvres, leur diffusion et leur réception ? De quelles manières les conceptions et les usages de la reproduction ont-ils subi des transformations majeures au cours des derniers siècles avec la diffusion des pratiques d'impression, de la photographie et des techniques numériques ? Ces questions sont d'une actualité incontournable. De la copie médiévale à la culture numérique contemporaine, en passant par l'essor de l'imprimerie et les techniques de gravure à la Renaissance et sous l'Ancien Régime, les différents modes de reproduction informent non seulement nos accès aux textes et aux images, mais aussi nos manières de lire, de voir, de comprendre, découvrir et d'interroger le monde

Introduction -- Instagram's Creative Industry -- Brevity and Authenticity -- Feeling Community, Selfcare, Healing -- At the Other End of the Popularity Scale: DIY and imitation in the long tail -- Why all the struggle? Ambivalences and dream scenarios.

(First published in French in Geopolitique et histoire, 1995, pp 243-276.) As a significant moment in the history of social views of space, maps have become, during the first half of the twentieth century, powerful instruments in geopoliticians' hands. The author examines numerous maps published in Karl Haushofer's journal Zeitschrift fur Geopolitics & identifies major figures of its rhetoric, such as the invention of an enemy or the idea that Germany is encircled by its neighbors. Geopolitical maps can be used to found on geometric forms, instead of geographical contexts, the political legitimacy of war. Based on the figure of metonymy those images create a "uchrony," a utopian vision of territory completely detached from history. 26 Maps. Adapted from the source document.

The dataset contains images of 10 out of 32 notified Indian basmati seeds varieties (by the Government of India). Indian basmati paddy varieties included in the dataset are 1121, 1509, 1637, 1718, 1728, BAS-370, CSR 30, Type-3/Dehraduni Basmati, PB-1 and PB-6. Moreover, several images of other seeds and related entities available in the household have also been included in the dataset. Thus, the dataset contains 11 classes such that ten classes contain images from ten different basmati paddy varieties. In contrast, the 11th class- named "Unknown" contains images from a mixture of two morphologically similar paddy varieties (1121 and 1509), different pulses, other grains and related food entities. The Unknown class is useful in discriminating the paddy seeds from other types of seeds and related food entities. All the images were captured (in standard conditions) manually using an apparatus developed in-house and a tablet with a five-megapixel camera (5MP). The camera was used to capture 3210 RGB coloured images in JPG format. The data pre-processing was performed to generate the ready-to-use images for training and testing machine learning-based models. AI-based paddy seed variety classification models have been developed using the dataset. The dataset can be used to generate different types of AI-based models for adulteration detection, automated classification models (along with independent devices) at the time of rice threshing, and to increase the classification potential (Supplementing images representing additional basmati varieties).

This article is an extension of the arguments and examples offered in 'Materia Prima, text-as-image' (Calvert 2012), where the materiality of language was foregrounded, rather than its transparent role in communication. The claims of neutrality to content in 'The Crystal
Goblet', made by Beatrice Warde, alongside ideas from various philosophical sources were contrasted with the work of concrete poets, artists and designers, whose free play with materiality in language upsets those relatively uncomplicated notions of transparency to content. The current
article proposes that in the next stage of this argument, we might think of the materiality of language in terms of a kind of 'event', or 'constellation', in which the raw materials of language (whether writing/typography/speech) are fully mobilized and enacted. This
performative stage, which harnesses the dynamic attributes of language, is grounded by reference to Deleuze's theory of the event, as well as Adorno and Benjamin's notion of 'constellation'. Katherine Hayles, Villém Flusser and others are used to support the
contention that we might think of materiality and performativity/gesture in language as a form of content. Lyotard's Discourse, Figure is invoked as a way to describe a different space of interaction between the textual and the figural, one where the distinction between them is erased.
Examples from art/design/typography are offered to support these points.

In the last three decades the field of endangered and minority languages has evolved rapidly, moving from the initial dire warnings of linguists to a swift increase in the number of organizations, funding programs, and community-based efforts dedicated to documentation, maintenance, and revitalization. Sustaining Linguistic Diversity brings together cutting-edge theoretical and empirical work from leading researchers and practitioners in the field. Together, these contributions provide a state-of-the-art overview of current work in defining, documenting, and developing the world's smaller lang