Published since July 15, 2010

Zeitschrift für Angewandte Linguistik

ISSN: 2190-0191

Managing Editors: Jan Gerwinski, Stefan Hauser, Vivien Heller, Saskia Kersten, Katharina König

About this journal

The Zeitschrift für Angewandte Linguistik (ZfAL) is the official publication of the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL) [Society for Applied Linguistics]. It is one of the most important German journals in this field and appears biannually.

ZfAL seeks to represent the entire field of applied linguistics and to give impulses for the academic discourse in all of its subdisciplines (e.g. languages for specific purposes; language and social interaction; intercultural communication; lexicography; media didactics and media literacy; media communication; multilingualism; migration linguistics; phonetics, rhetoric and speech science; writing research; sociolinguistics; language teaching/pedagogy; language criticism; text linguistics and stylistics; translation and interpreting studies, among others). The emphasis of applied linguistics is on the transfer of linguistic methods and insights to the professional practice of those whose work concerns language, language use and communication.

Abstracting and Indexing

Zeitschrift für Angewandte Linguistik is covered by the following services:

Baidu Scholar
BLL Bibliographie Linguistischer Literatur
Cabells Journalytics
CNKI Scholar (China National Knowledge Infrastructure)
CNPIEC - cnpLINKer
Dimensions
EBSCO (relevant databases)
EBSCO Discovery Service
ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
Genamics JournalSeek
Google Scholar
IBR (International Bibliography of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences)
IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences)
J-Gate
JournalGuide
JournalTOCs
KESLI-NDSL (Korean National Discovery for Science Leaders)
Linguistic Bibliography
Linguistics Abstracts Online
MLA International Bibliography
MyScienceWork
Naver Academic
Naviga (Softweco)
Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers
OLC Linguistik
Primo Central (ExLibris)
ProQuest (relevant databases)
Publons
QOAM (Quality Open Access Market)
ReadCube
SCImago (SJR)
SCOPUS
Semantic Scholar
Sherpa/RoMEO
Summon (ProQuest)
TDNet
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory/ulrichsweb
WanFang Data
WorldCat (OCLC)
X-MOL
Yewno Discover

Supplementary Materials

Topics

External Links

GAL homepage

Volume 2023 Issue 78

April 2023

Frontmatter

Publicly Available March 22, 2023

Frontmatter

Page range: I-IV

Download PDF

Artikel

February 15, 2023

Zum Wasserstoffnarrativ und der diskursiven Rolle des Narrativs der Brückentechnologie – Ein empirisch gestützter Definitions-vorschlag

Dorothee Meer

Page range: 1-32

Abstract

In the last few years, usage of the term narrative has increased both in the media and in different scientific disciplines. This development has not been met with unanimous approval. In light of this and building on corpus studies of hydrogen , the following article introduces the term narrative and describes constructions that can be subsumed under narrative other than narrations in a narrower sense. At the same time, it is argued that this reading of the term narrative is suitably broad to be used for relevant developments in current mediated discourse.

Open Access February 14, 2023

Sprachgebrauch in der mündlichen Unterrichtskommunikation. Eine korpusbasierte Wortschatzanalyse

Cordula Meißner

Page range: 33-69

More Download PDF

Abstract

Classroom discourse is the central form of conveying knowledge in schools. Currently, the view on language use in schools is strongly influenced by the concept of academic language. Since learners with different language exposure in German face different learning demands, it is necessary to describe the linguistic register that students newly entering this educational setting will encounter. Against this background, an exploratory study is presented which investigates the vocabulary used by teachers and students in whole group discussion based on the data sets available via the Research and Teaching Corpus of Spoken German (FOLK). For this purpose, an operationalization of vocabulary areas is proposed that distinguishes between basic vocabulary which is further differentiated into everyday words and polyvalent words, i. e. words that also occur in academic German, lexical units that go beyond basic vocabulary but are used across subjects, and (subject-)specific vocabulary. While students show an greater use of (subject-)specific (especially nominal) vocabulary units, teachers show an greater use of polyvalent units of the basic vocabulary. The results also suggest differences in terms of the subject matter. The findings provide a first quantitative insight into the lexical characteristics of knowledge-conveying and -representing language use in classroom discourse, thus allowing hypotheses to be drawn about associated linguistic demands and learning opportunities.

February 14, 2023

Das werden-Passiv in Schulbüchern der Chemie

Sarah Olthoff, Jonas Romstadt

Page range: 70-100

Abstract

The competent use of the specific language of school subjects is fundamental for successful learning and teaching in school. For a language-sensitive design of lessons and empirical foundation of didactic and methodical concepts, knowledge of how students read a text is needed as well as evidence-based knowledge of formal and functional aspects of subject-specific language. A corpus analysis confirms that the passive is a prototypical construction in chemistry textbooks. Thus the competent handling of those sentences is a relevant aspect of subject-specific language competence. The verbs used in the passive sentences in books included in the corpus are predominantly morphologically complex, and can be indicated as chemistry-specific lexis, e. g. related to the sub-microscopic level. Furthermore, they are commonly used in conjunction with abstract agents. On the other hand, these verbs are also encountered to students in everyday (i. e. non-subject-specific) contexts but in these contexts they diverge semantically and are commonly used in conjunction with a human agent. Therefore, the function of the passive sentences differs: While passive sentences with a human agent allow an expression of anonymised actions, the passive sentences with abstract agents enable the verbalisation of abstract processes. The distribution of those functional distinction differs between school subjects and contexts. Abstract agents in passive sentences can support the maintenance of pre-instructional concepts of students, especially if the verbs are not obviously specific for the context of chemistry. Therefore, a specific language-education for school subjects is needed which includes the analysis of formal and functional aspects. The results of the corpus analysis can be used for context-based scaffolding in language-sensitive chemistry lessons.

Rezensionen

February 15, 2023

Muhammad, Yasser. 2021. Islam-Stereotype im deutschsprachigen Salafismusdiskurs. Eine korpuslinguistische Untersuchung anhand ausgewählter Korpora. Berlin: ESV.

Katharina Böhnert, Lukas Knoben

Page range: 101-105

Open Access February 11, 2023

Bau, Matthias, Benjamin Eisenberg, Sven Ender, Beatrix Fehse, Ilka Fladung, Lea Hoffmann, Thomas M. Kania & Ulrich Schmitz. 2022. Vergessene Klassiker der Sprachwissenschaft? Zur Einführung und Erinnerung. Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft. 312 S., € 29,90, ISBN 978-3-95832-278-3.

Maximilian Krug

Page range: 106-109

Download PDF

February 7, 2023

Brommer, Sarah & Christa Dürscheid (Hrsg.). 2021. Mensch. Maschine. Kommunikation. Beiträge zur Medienlinguistik. Tübingen: Narr. 277 S., ISBN 978-3-8233-9471-6 (kostenlos herunterladbares eBook)

Netaya Lotze, Sophia Krüger

Page range: 110-114

February 15, 2023

Heine, Carmen & Dagmar Knorr (Hrsg.). 2021. Schreibwissenschaft methodisch. Berlin: Peter Lang. 270 S., €61,40, ISBN 978-3-631-86261-2.

Zekun Wu

Page range: 115-119

February 11, 2023

Angebote zur Rezension

Page range: 120-122

Volume 78 (2023)

Issue 1

Volume 2023

Issue 78

Volume 2022

Volume 2021

Volume 2020

Volume 2019

Volume 2018

Volume 2017

Volume 2016

Volume 2015

Volume 2014

Volume 2013

Volume 2012

Volume 2011

Volume 2010

Cite Score	0.9
SCImago Journal Rank	0.157
Source Normalized Impact per Paper	1.589

Submit

Before submitting your article to manuskripte-zfal@gal-ev.de please see the ZFAL Style Sheet and our De Gruyter Mouton journal style sheet for information regarding the proper formatting of your manuscript.

For Authors using the citation software "Citavi"

In order to use the journal citation style, please click on the menu Citation > Citation Style > Change Citation Style. Click on Browse Citation Styles and add. Fill in "Zeitschrift für Angewandte Linguistik" in the Name field. Activate the options box in front of the Style Name and click on add and OK.

In the Word Add-In select the Style on the Citavi register card. Click on Citation Style and select Add Citation Style. Fill in "Zeitschrift für Angewandte Linguistik" in the Name field. Activate the options box above the Style Name and click on add and OK.

Please note

Before submitting your article please have a look at our Publication Ethics Statement and our copyright agreement
Once your article is accepted you have the option to publish it open access.
Our repository policy allows you to distribute 30 PDF copies of your published article to colleagues (the PDF has to include the information that it is an author's copy). Please also feel free to distribute the link to the online abstract
If you have any general questions please visit our FAQ page for journal authors

Hybrid Open Access

Authors have the option to publish their article under an open access license. The standard article processing charge for a hybrid open access article is 2,000 Euro (plus VAT if applicable). Please note that corresponding authors from institutions with which we have a transformative agreement, can publish open access without paying the fee. More information on the eligible institutions and articles can be found here.

Editorial

Editor

Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL)

Main editorial contact

Please email your manuscript or questions concerning manuscripts to manuskripte-zfal@gal-ev.de and review requests to rezensionen-zfal@gal-ev.de.

Jan Gerwinski
Universität Siegen
E-mail: gerwinski@germanistik.uni-siegen.de

Stefan Hauser
Pädagogische Hochschule Zug
E-Mail: stefan.hauser@phzg.ch

Vivien Heller
Universität Wuppertal
E-mail: vheller@uni-wuppertal.de

Saskia Kersten
LMU München
E-mail: s.kersten@anglistik.uni-muenchen.de

Katharina König
Universität Münster
E-mail: kkoen_01@uni-muenster.de

Editorial Board

Markus Bieswanger, Universität Bayreuth
Karin Birkner, Universität Bayreuth
Matthias Knopp, Universität zu Köln
Martin Luginbühl, Universität Basel
Matthias Schulz, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

und die Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik

(Deutsch)

Online ISSN: 2190-0191
Print ISSN: 1433-9889
Type: Journal
Language: German
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
First published: July 15, 2010
Publication Frequency: 2 Issues per Year