Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

Ordnungsmuster

English translation:

academic structures / academia's organizational (administrative) patterns

Added to glossary by Bernhard Sulzer
Sep 18, 2008 18:23
15 yrs ago
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German term

Ordnungsmuster

German to English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature Literary Analysis
This term appears in a literary analysis paper to be presented at a conference on a particular author. The context:

Er auffordert, die politischen Strukturen, akademischen Ordnungsmuster und medialen Funktionsweisen jenes Mehrheitsdiskurses zu analysieren.

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Jan 10, 2009 18:23: Bernhard Sulzer Created KOG entry

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academia's organizational (administrative) patterns

without knowing more, I interpret it as a critical stance towards the establishment or the majority of a certain group, and therefore think it relates to the way academic structures are organized (administered)

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Note added at 38 mins (2008-09-18 19:01:34 GMT)
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or, you could try the word structure
as in prevalent (predominant) academic structure(s)
Peer comment(s):

agree Ingeborg Gowans (X) : quite p[ossibly; I find the German wording somewhat bizarre; "er auffordert..."?
21 mins
thank you Ingeborg; yes, "auffordert" should be at the end of a (partial, subordinate) sentence, then it'be okay.:)
agree Helen Shiner : 'academic' instead of 'academia's' would be better.
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thanks Helen, and yes 'academic' (academia-like - I know that's not a word) might be the better way to go:)
agree Stephen Reader : Tentatively. I'm an Eng. native speaker and only a childh'd (CH-) German one - but mightn't Ak. Ordnungsmuster mean, here, how academia 'sorts' ([ein-]ordnet) the subj. of debate in qn? Wartet 'mal, bitte...
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Thank you, Stephen. Great thoughts, as always.:)
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Structures is it!"
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patterns of systematisation (US: -ization,)/ classification

Again, tentative (cf. me @ Bernhard) - 'but' I u/stand quote as author's plea to question the unnamed "Mehrheitsdiskurs" in ***its*** pol. structures, academic assumptions/perspective and use of ("the") media (as, well, its media...).
Confidence level between medium and medium rare, really.
With Bernhard re. 'Er auffordert', presumably sth. like "(clause)+...**indem** er auff-."...etc.
Peer comment(s):

agree Bernhard Sulzer : academic structures (my second suggestion) might be closer to your interpretation than my first - or the academia-like structural patterns/patterns of organization/systematis(z)ation??
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Danke (auch für d. Komplimente!) & Grüße nach Österrreich
agree Liliana Galiano : patterns of classification, I'd say.
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yes, doesn't jar so, does it - thanks, Ursula
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