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Möglichkeiten und Grenzen verstehenden Erklärens am Beispiel sprach- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Annäherungen an Auto-/Biographien
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Reviewed workFranceschini, Rita: Biographie und Interkulturalität: Diskurs und Lebenspraxis. Tübingen: Stauffenburg 2001. 3-8607-044-7
Abstract Rita Franceschini has edited a book that deals with various elements of auto-/ biographical and multicultural studies. Most of the authors' arguments draw on linguistic, literary and ethnological approaches. In several chapters attempts are made to exemplify the interdependencies between biography a... view more
Rita Franceschini has edited a book that deals with various elements of auto-/ biographical and multicultural studies. Most of the authors' arguments draw on linguistic, literary and ethnological approaches. In several chapters attempts are made to exemplify the interdependencies between biography and culture, specifically between individual and collective constructions of reality. In addition, various chapters focus on biographical structural effects resulting from speakers’ experience with foreign language challenges in bilingual or even trilingual contact situations. The review of the volume is framed by a cultural heuristic of an understanding explaining concept (Max Weber); the reviewer's criticism is supported by qualitative standards of socio-pragmalinguistic and textlinguistic work. From this point of view evidence is provided that explains why literary studies' approaches tend to employ individual
sampling procedures as well as other default procedures in gaining methodically controlled insights into properties and dimensions at issue. The linguistic contributions are discussed at length because of their efforts to connect micro- and macro-theoretical perspectives to each other, as such efforts are viewed as building blocks of a cultural
studies' approach to research on (language) biographies.... view less
Keywords
culture; intercultural factors; biography; life situation
Classification
Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature
Document language
German
Publication Year
2004
Page/Pages
p. 154-170
Journal
Historical Social Research, 29 (2004) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.29.2004.4.154-170
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; reviewed