Talk:German studies

message: I've moved the content of German (studies) to German studies as the latter was a two-line article describing German studies and the former a full article on German studies.
Reading the talk page below (which I also moved) the consensus seems to be that the name should be "German studies". If I'm mistaken - the discussion is rather bitty - feel free to rename the page! Saint|swithin 07:28, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Moved this page from [[German (studies)]]

message: I have to admit that I have only the barest grasp on the mechnaics of Wik (and I can rarely find or understand the "instructions."  STill, I want to work on the project.  That's why the funny title above.  I filled in a new name, but "newname" is what I got here.  Go figure.  Any-way, as I have written before (see below), Germanistics is a lousy name, since it is hardly ever used, being an ganglicization of Germanistiks not used by major German departments in the U.K. or the U.S.  German Language and Literature and German Studies are both more common, as are German and Germanic Languages and Literatures (both probably inappropriate for our article).  Few non-Germans would think to look under "Germanistics."
I just spent over an hour translating and correcting/commenting on the whole German version.  I put it hereon editing talk for others to clean up.  Instead it's gone. Kdammers 2 July 2005 09:15 (UTC)
I'll try it again, but I'm not translating the whole thing again at one fell swoop.  The way I'll do it is  paste it here (editng talk) and I and others can gradually translate it if it doesn't disappear. Kdammers 4 July 2005 08:23 (UTC)  Some of the content is  not right on, so it should be changed before or after translation.  Comments are  |thus.|  In addition, some additional material should be added for non-German-speakers (e.g., re Hochdeutsch).
Well, I see my change have disappeared again! "Sysiphos." Kdammers 04:05, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: (from old page) Suggestions for improvement

message: To venture comment on the origins of the linguistic efforts, perhaps it is necessary to acknowledge that terminology which describes maintenance and repair of original structures is different from that used to describe the building process.
Germany has a number of ancient castle-type structures having extremely remote or otherwise high-altitude/mountaintop locations, which became a cause for contention when 'the English' thought to claim them from afar with intent to update and repair them for themselves.  Similar to controversies about the construction of the Egyptian pyramids, the original scen-arios of castle construction give some insight about how to maintain and repair them, but need modern-day linguistics to conceptualize such activity  --  'Germanistics' as a term pro-vides allusion to issues of floral 'loft' necessary to sustain ongoing repair and maintenance protocols, as well as to the physiological state of human populations which is necessary to sustain such protocols.   11/19/2005  00:24, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  interpretation  

message: To include every university in the world which offers studies in Germanistics (or whatever it is supposed to be called) seems to be beyond the scope of a page like this. It would include thousands of institutions. u p p l a n d 08:18, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: List of institutions

message: I've moved the content of German (studies) to German studies as the latter was a two-line article describing German studies and the former a full article on German studies.
Reading the talk page below (which I also moved) the consensus seems to be that the name should be "German studies". If I'm mistaken - the discussion is rather bitty - feel free to rename the page! Saint|swithin 07:28, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Moved this page from [[German (studies)]]

message: We definitely need a redirect for  "German language and literature." Can some-one who knows how to make one give us one please.Kdammers 04:49, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect needed 

message: It seems the bibliography should contain only works that are about German studies as a discipline, and not just examples of German studies (which would include tens of thousands of titles); perhaps it should also contain a few broad works on the history of German literature/culture, like the Cambridge one.  What do others think?  Sindinero (talk) 13:55, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliography 

message: "German linguistics is traditionally called philology in Germany" No, philology in the German view is linguistics plus literary studies. An "Einzelphilologie" ("single philology") means the sum of the linguistics and literary studies of a given language. So "German philology" is pretty much the equivalent of "German studies" (at some universities "Germanistik" is even called "Deutsche Philologie" and it's absolutely the same.--78.51.196.217 (talk) 00:01, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Having studied linguistics (of no particular language) in Germany, I must confirm that. I did not find a single university in Germany, where "linguistics of some special language" could be had without an extensive historic and contemporary literary component, which I was not very interested in. So, the only way to go was to study some sort of General Linguistics - named and packaged differently at different universities - and attend extracurricular lessons in the linguistics of an "Einzelphilologie". --Purodha Blissenbach (talk) 07:06, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Philology 

message: I think it'd be interesting to mention that in Germany there is a pretty strict distinction between "Literaturkritik" ("literary criticism") and "Literaturwissenschaft" ("literary science"). Literaturkritik is more about making judgements about the quality of an author and his work, it's more about journalists discussing (mostly contemporary) literature while Literaturwissenschaft belongs to the academic sphere, explores the literature of all times and usually tries to avoid normative statements. This distinction is taken pretty seriously. Sometimes, when we discussed questions like "is Goethe more important than Kafka?" our lecturer would say: "wir wollen hier keine Literaturkritik betreiben" "we are not engaging in literary criticism here" or something of that sort.--78.51.196.217 (talk) 00:24, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Literaturkritik (literary criticism)/Literaturwissenschaft (literary science) 

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