{"title":"Affordances of a New Language: Abbas Khider’s Claim to Community in German for Everyone","authors":"C. Stan","doi":"10.1215/0094033x-9305526","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Tramps Abroad Abbas Khider’s fifth book, Deutsch für alle: Das endgültige Lehrbuch (German for Everyone: The Definitive Manual, 2019), is a slender tome of heavy laughter. Ostensibly motivated by a desire to help foreigners learn the language and natives to bring German among the elegant and accessible languages of the world, Khider echoes Mark Twain’s sentiment that the study of German is “harassing and infuriating.” Surely, the author of Tom Sawyer wrote inATramp Abroad (1880), “There is not another language that is so slip-shod and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp”; when German speakers finish a very long sentence, they themselves must experience a “touching inquisitiveness” as towhat they have just said, he told journalists andwriters at the ConcordiaClub inVienna in 1897. Like linguists inpursuit of an ideal language, Twain and Khider streamline sentences, articles, and prepositions, straight-facedly","PeriodicalId":46595,"journal":{"name":"NEW GERMAN CRITIQUE","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"NEW GERMAN CRITIQUE","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1215/0094033x-9305526","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Tramps Abroad Abbas Khider’s fifth book, Deutsch für alle: Das endgültige Lehrbuch (German for Everyone: The Definitive Manual, 2019), is a slender tome of heavy laughter. Ostensibly motivated by a desire to help foreigners learn the language and natives to bring German among the elegant and accessible languages of the world, Khider echoes Mark Twain’s sentiment that the study of German is “harassing and infuriating.” Surely, the author of Tom Sawyer wrote inATramp Abroad (1880), “There is not another language that is so slip-shod and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp”; when German speakers finish a very long sentence, they themselves must experience a “touching inquisitiveness” as towhat they have just said, he told journalists andwriters at the ConcordiaClub inVienna in 1897. Like linguists inpursuit of an ideal language, Twain and Khider streamline sentences, articles, and prepositions, straight-facedly
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Widely considered the top journal in its field, New German Critique is an interdisciplinary journal that focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century German studies and publishes on a wide array of subjects, including literature, film, and media; literary theory and cultural studies; Holocaust studies; art and architecture; political and social theory; and philosophy. Established in the early 1970s, the journal has played a significant role in introducing U.S. readers to Frankfurt School thinkers and remains an important forum for debate in the humanities.
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