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Ordnungsmuster

English translation: academic structures / academia's organizational (administrative) patterns

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German term or phrase:Ordnungsmuster
English translation:academic structures / academia's organizational (administrative) patterns
Entered by: Bernhard Sulzer

18:23 Sep 18, 2008
German to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Literary Analysis
German term or phrase: Ordnungsmuster
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.

Thank you!
Casey Butterfield
United States
academia's organizational (administrative) patterns
Explanation:
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)
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Bernhard Sulzer
United States
Local time: 01:49
Grading comment
Structures is it!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
2 +3academia's organizational (administrative) patterns
Bernhard Sulzer
3 +2patterns of systematisation (US: -ization,)/ classification
Stephen Reader


  

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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +3
academia's organizational (administrative) patterns


Explanation:
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)

Bernhard Sulzer
United States
Local time: 01:49
Meets criteria
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 55
Grading comment
Structures is it!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
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.
2 hrs
  -> 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...
3 hrs
  -> Thank you, Stephen. Great thoughts, as always.:)
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
patterns of systematisation (US: -ization,)/ classification


Explanation:
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.

Stephen Reader
Local time: 07:49
Meets criteria
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
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??
20 hrs
  -> Danke (auch für d. Komplimente!) & Grüße nach Österrreich
agree  Liliana Galiano: patterns of classification, I'd say.
2 days 12 hrs
  -> yes, doesn't jar so, does it - thanks, Ursula
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