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Download Download This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Un- ported License (CC BY-SA 3.0). To view the detailed copy if this license, visit http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Every effort was made to trace all copyright holders, but if any have been over- looked, the publisher will be pleased to include any necessary credits in subsequent prints or digital editions. Student Journal English Department Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster 2018 Satura For Chip, who never gave up on his dream L.N. For my parents, who brought me this far N.T NOTE FROM THE EDITORS elcome to the first volume of Satura, the student journal of the English Department Wof the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. This issue is the culmination of a ten month labor of love on the part of the Satura team. 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Laura Ntoumanis Natalia Tolstopyat Editors-in-Chief TABLE OF CONTENTS Linguistics Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler and the Naming of the Shrew 1 On Abusive Influence on the Language of Science by Political Leadership Lars Engelmann “Refugees welcome” 7 Analysing Transgressive Stickers along Münster's Harbour Lena Kastner, Theresa Spreckelsen, Yasmina Talhaui The Linguistic Construction of Power along the Concepts of Race, Class 15 and Speciesism in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Dorit Neumann Toward interdisciplinary research-based teaching in linguistics Integrating students into project-oriented teaching and research 21 practices at the intersection of (applied) English linguistics and TEFL Philipp Meer Literary and Cultural Studies Altruistic Reconstructions An Examination of Charles Taylor's Philosophical Anthropology in Man of La 29 Mancha (1972) and Zorba the Greek (1964) Vahid Aghaei A Brief Gramscian Analysis of the First Five Years of the AKP How the Organic Intellectuals of Turkey Helped Cement the Power of 35 Erdoğan and his Party Can Çakir About Writing and Journals 41 Joschka A. Hüllmann “In America, You Are Black, Baby” Negotiating Colour-Blindness in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah (2013) 45 Anja Keil Games for Girls? A Glance Inside the Gendered Language and Symbols of Videogame Marketing 51 Allison McDaniel A Landscape Lullaby? The Function of (Post-) Pastoral Elements in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go 57 Lisa Musial How to Get Away with Murder The Symbol of Hair in ABC's 63 Marlene Salzburg Big Small Steps Childhoods on the Move 69 Jessica Sanfilippo-Schulz Out of Time Temporal and Heteropatriarchal Confinements in Sarah Waters' Finger- 77 smith Corinna Wolters Book Studies 85 A Brief History of Book Studies in Münster Ellen Barth 91 BookTube, Book Clubs, and the Brave New World of Publishing Natalia Tolstopyat 97 The Women’s Prize for Fiction and Book Studies Simon Rosenberg Teaching English as a Foreign Language 105 Film: A Motivating and Effective Medium for Teaching English? Summary of a Master’s Thesis on the Use of Films in English Foreign Language Teaching in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Nathalie Naylor Creative Writing 113 Creative Writing at the English Department of WWU Münster Sigrun Meinig Part 1 114 Complementary opposites Gesine Heger 114 Dating Anja Keil 114 Gulliver Laura Ntoumanis 115 Atrax Jessica Sanfilippo-Schulz Carnivore 115 Svea Türlings Train Ride 115 Anja Ziejewski Driftwood 116 Dorit Neumann 116 Just Kidding Alisa Preusser 116 Newspaper Clipping Corinna Wolters Part 2 117 Arachne Corinna Wolters 117 Aries Laura Ntoumanis 118 Yourself Alisa Preusser I Wonder 118 Gesine Heger Banquet 119 Anja Ziejewski Apoptosis 120 Svea Türlings Awakening 121 Dorit Neumann Dead Ends 122 Jessica Sanfilippo-Schulz Striving, Halls 122 Anja Keil 123 About the Creative Writers 126 Acknowledgements 128 Editorial Team LINGUISTICS SATURA VOL.1 2018 Donald Trump, Adolf Hitler and the Naming of the Shrew On Abusive Influence on the Language of Science by Political Leadership LARS ENGELMANN n March 3, 1942 Adolf Hitler read a newspa- be translated to pointed, which refers to the ani- Oper article in the Berliner Morgenpost which mal’s nose. Maus translates to mouse. Fledermaus agitated him. He ordered Martin Bormann, head of is a bit more complicated. The first part of the com- the Nazi Party’s head office, one of Hitler’s most pound is a word that is no longer used on its own in trusted deputies and unofficially the second most the German language. The Origin of Fledermaus can powerful man in Germany at the time, to write the be traced back to the eighth century, when it was following letter to the chief of the Reich Chancellery Hans written fledarmūs, whereas fledar relates to flattern, Lammers: a verb that translates to to flutter (Kluge 301, 300). According to Berliner Morgenpost, the members In yesterday’s paper, the Fuhrer read a note of the Society for Mammalian Biology decided to about the fifteenth general meeting of the change the name of bats to Fleder and call shrews Society for Mammalian Biology and the re- Spitzer (qtd. in Hutterer). namings the society decided on.1 Thereupon, The reason for renaming these animals lies the Fuhrer ordered me to inform the respon- in the linguistic component they have in common: sible people with desirable clarity that these Maus. Neither of the two animals is biologically changes have to be revoked immediately. a mouse. The risk of mistaking a bat for a mouse If the members of the Society for Mamma- is relatively low, due to its ability to fly. Bats belong lian Biology are not able to do something to their own order called Chiroptera. With shrews, more essential to the war effort or some- this risk of falsely identifying them as mice is a lot thing smarter, they could perhaps be put bigger. They share a habitat with and have a simi- to use at a working battalion at the Russian lar appearance to mice, hence it is easy to mistake front. If another feeble-minded renaming one for the other. Most Germans probably believe like this occurred again, the Fuhrer would they actually belong to the same family. Taxono- take action accordingly. Terms, which have mists classify shrews as Eulipotyphla, which are been used for years, are not to be changed also called Insectivora – animals which feed almost in this manner. (Bormann; translation mine) exclusively on insects. According to this taxonomy, shrews are more closely related to hedgehogs and What did the German Society for Mammalian Biology moles than to mice (Beck et al.). This is the reason decide on that caught the attention of Adolf Hitler German scientists in 1942 decided to abandon the in the middle of World War II? They renamed shrews term Spitzmaus: it is scientifically inaccurate and and bats. In German, shrews are called Spitzmaus leads to misunderstandings. After the members of and bats are called Fledermaus. These are com- the Society for Mammalian Biology received Hitler’s pound nouns. Spitzmaus is formed by joining threat to be deported to Russia and be forced to work the adjective spitz and the noun Maus. Spitz can for the military, they revoked the name changes. 1 Actually, it was the 16th general meeting. The number 15 was Hitler’s successful attempt to prevent falsely attributed by the editor of Berliner Morgenpost, who the application of a less misleading and more wrote the aforementioned article. See: Hutterer. 1 SATURA VOL.1 2018 scientifically accurate term for shrews in German snow on the ground, snow packed hard like is an example of how the abuse of power can shape ice, slushy snow, wind-driven flying snow – scientific discourse and subsequently the percep- whatever the situation may be.
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