4 Nov

Öko-Dschihad

Veranstaltungsort: Stiftungssaal (Universität Klagenfurt)

Wie geht die muslimische Welt mit dem Thema Ökologie um?Wodurch zeichnet sich ein Öko-Islam aus?Wann und wo entstanden die ersten nachhaltigen Initiativen?Wie leben Muslim*innen dieses Bewusstsein in ihrem Alltag?Mit diesen Fragen beschäftigt sich Ursula Fatima Kowanda-Yassin und nimmt uns auf eine spannende Reise durch die mannigfaltige Welt muslimischer Nachhaltigkeitsbestrebungen mit.Vortragende:Dr.in phil. Ursula Fatima Kowanda-YassinDiplomierte Coach, Islamwissenschaftlerin und ReligionspädagoginAnmeldung: khg@aau.at

7 Nov
Recurring

Deutsch Intensivkurs H3

Veranstaltungsort: n.n. (AAU und JGH)

Deutsch Intensivkurs für Teilnehmer/innen ab 17 Jahren, verschiedene Niveaustufen: Einstufungstest am ersten Kurstag; 2- bis 6-wöchige Variante möglich;kommunikativer Sprachunterricht24 UE (à 45 Min.) pro Woche

7 Nov

The Roots of Metaphor: The Duality of Thought and Language

Veranstaltungsort: HS 3

Metaphor has long been thought to involve two things, frequently labeled domains—a target domain people are seeking to understand, and a source domain to help with that understanding. Whether the connection between these domains allows for one-way or two-way traffic, is a matter of much debate. And what those domains actually are, as some kind of conceptual structures, is also a slippery issue (Gibbs, 2017). But that metaphor involves two of these things, is a well-received idea. Moreover, recent research has noted that most forms of figurative language, including metaphor, also invoke exactly two of these “domains”, though they do different things with them than does metaphor. So two seems a magic number of sorts, in figurative language and metaphor (Colston, 2019). Why might this be? The idea suggested here is that it isn’t so much that metaphor just happens to involve two domains, but rather that cognition in general, involves representation (whether in an information processing, an embodied cognition, or in some other sense), of a single or multiple domains, but that once it moves from handling one domain to two, something very special is enabled. Having the neural machinery to hold one concept in mind, while invoking a second one, allows for a wide variety of cognitive processes, resembling and including metaphorical thought (and language). People can compare (which is bigger?), contrast (which is better?), substitute (a long stick STANDS FOR a long arm), as well as metaphorize (contentment IS warm sunshine). So such an ability seems to bridge the very earliest possibilities in thought about more than one thing at a time, all the way up to the most profound and meaningful poetic metaphors (Rasse, 2022).