Prof. Helga Kotthoff z univerzity ve Freiburgu prosloví na ÚGS následující přednášky:

Speaking like a mother: indexing gender in mothers' stories in the context of parent-teacher- conferences 28. 11. 2016 v 18:00, místnost 317

Abstrakt:
I am going to analyze mothers’ ways of talking about their children in parent-teacher-conferences in German schools as a case of indirectly indexing gender. I’ll focus on the staging of motherhood in “narrative fragments” (Birkner, 2013) or “small stories” that parents and teachers –especially mothers - employ to assess and characterize their children – and of course to present themselves as moral agents of the two institutions: school and home. In the sequential unfolding of the conference talks – parenting is made “a work process articulated to the work process of schooling” (Baker & Keogh, 1997, 264); both sides display an achievement-oriented habitus (Kotthoff 2012, 2015). In Germany so far schools often end in the early afternoon and mothers are mostly in charge for children’s homework. Interestingly, during the conferences mothers very often stage dialogues with their child at home. They quote themselves as urging the child to study or to behave better or as suggesting competent ways to do homework tasks. The child is quoted with a voice of resistance,
sometimes also of late insight. I will present extracts in which we see how the specific cultural identity as a good mother is staged and I will discuss this narrative practice as involving indirect indexing of gender. 

Deutsch-schweizerische kommunikative Irritationen 29.11.2016 10:50 - 12:25, místnost 318b

Abstrakt:
Im Vortrag skizziere ich kurz Besonderheiten der in der Deutschschweiz gesprochenen Varietäten des alemannischen Dialekts. Dann wende ich mich pragmatischen Besonderheiten des direkten Austauschs zu, wie z.B. unterschiedlichen Konventionen im Siezen und Duzen, Gruß-Konventionen und unterschiedlichem Umgang mit dem Sprechakt der Beschwerde. Schließlich streife ich noch den Arbeitsbereich Krankenhaus in der Schweiz, in dem deutsche Chefärzte sich bei deutschen wie schweizerischen und sonstigen Mitarbeiter(inne)n gleichermaßen durch autoritäres Gebahren unbeliebt machen.