Published by De Gruyter

Empirische Linguistik / Empirical Linguistics

Edited by: Wolfgang Imo and Constanze Spieß

ISSN: 2198-8676

e-ISSN 2198-8714

Overview
Volumes

This series takes account of the fact that empirical approaches based on qualitative or quantitative methods of corpus linguistics have become a central paradigm within linguistics. Usage-based approaches can be found on all linguistic levels, ranging from phonological and prosodic studies to those in the fields of morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics (the latter is especially prolific with, for example, discourse analysis, text linguistics or conversation analysis) as well as sociolinguistics and the analysis of media and computer-mediated communication. The series intends to offer a thematically open platform for different approaches within synchronous linguistics as well as for interdisciplinary works with a linguistic focus which devise new ways of working empirically and which intend to develop new data-based methods and theoretical models for empirical linguistic analyses.Both monographs and edited volumes with a synchronous empirical approach are published. The publication language is either German or English. All submissions are peer-reviewed.

External Reviewers:
Magnus P. Ängsal (Göteborg, Sweden),
Michael Beißwenger (Duisburg-Essen, Germany),
Pia Bergmann (Jena, Germany),
Noah Bubenhofer (Dresden, Germany),
Helen Christen (Fribourg, Switzerland),
Waldemar Czachur (Warsaw, Poland),
Ulla Fix (Leipzig, Germany),
Karina Frick (Zurich, Switzerland),
Stephan Habscheid (Siegen, Germany),
Jörg Hagemann (Freiburg, Germany),
Mathilde Hennig (Gießen, Germany),
Katharina König (Münster, Germany),
Alfred Lameli (Marburg, Germany),
Jens Lanwer (Münster, Germany),
Konstanze Marx (Mannheim, Germany),
Marcus Müller (Darmstadt, Germany),
Thomas Niehr (Aachen, Germany),
Martin Pfeiffer (Freiburg, Germany),
Hannes Scheutz (Innsbruck, Austria)
Anja Stukenbrock (Lausanne, Switzerland),
Georg Weidacher (Graz, Austria),
Evelyn Ziegler (Duisburg-Essen, Germany),
Alexander Ziem (Düsseldorf, Germany).

Open Access:
Thanks to a pilot project with the FID Linguistik, six upcoming volumes will be published in gold open acceess between 2019 and 2021. All volumes already published have been tranformed to open access publications.
https://www.linguistik.de/

Book Open Access 2022

Die Vergangenheitstempora im Alemannischen Deutschlands

Eine korpusbasierte quantitative und qualitative Untersuchung

Jens Leonhard, Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg

Volume 17 in this series

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In this volume, corpus-linguistic methods and spontaneous language data have been utilized to prove that the tense forms preterite and pluperfect have reestablished themselves in German Alemannic. The reason for this is the influence of standard language. The partial reversal of the disappearance of the preterite is not process of suppression; rather, the four tenses praeterite, perfect, pluperfect and double perfect form a complementary system.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110765113
ISBN:: 9783110765113
ISBN:: 9783110765083
ISBN:: 9783110765151
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Dialectology
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2021

Selbstreparaturen in der schriftlichen Interaktion

Eine kontrastive Analyse deutscher und russischer Kurznachrichtenkommunikation

Irina Mostovaia, Fachinformationsdienst Linguistik

Volume 16 in this series

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This empirical study examines self-initiated and other-initiated self-repairs in German and Russian SMS communication by applying methods from conversation analysis and interactional linguistics. It describes the sequential organization and functions of self-repairs in the analyzed data from the two languages and contrasts them with each other.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110681710
ISBN:: 9783110681710
ISBN:: 9783110681611
ISBN:: 9783110681772
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Other Languages of Europe
Subject:: Slavic Languages
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Contrastive Linguistics
Subject:: Narrative Analysis
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2020

Kasus im Korpus

Zu Struktur und Geographie oberdeutscher Kasusmorphologie

Sophie Ellsäßer, Fachinformationsdienst Linguistik

Volume 15 in this series

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This study provides a new methodological approach to the corpus-based analysis of case marking in spoken language and provides the first quantitatively based insights into the construction of a dialectal case system and its interaction with morphosyntactical and semantic categories as well as the morphological organisation of space by linking morphological-theoretical questions with typological and dialect-geographical questions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110681703
ISBN:: 9783110681703
ISBN:: 9783110681604
ISBN:: 9783110681826
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Dialectology
Subject:: Linguistic Typology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2020

Namenwechsel

Die soziale Funktion von Vornamen im Transitionsprozess transgeschlechtlicher Personen

Miriam Schmidt-Jüngst, Fachinformationsdienst Linguistik

Volume 14 in this series

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This interdisciplinary study examines how transgender individuals change their names in the course of their gender transition. It reveals the enormous social significance of first names in interpersonal communication and managing gender – along with other social differences – thereby showing the close interrelationships between language, law, and society in this realm.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110689402
ISBN:: 9783110689402
ISBN:: 9783110689259
ISBN:: 9783110689419
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Gender
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Semiotics
Subject:: Social Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Onomastics
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2020

Verfestigungen in der Interaktion

Konstruktionen, sequenzielle Muster, kommunikative Gattungen

Beate Weidner, Katharina König, Wolfgang Imo, Lars Wegner, Fachinformationsdienst Linguistik

Volume 13 in this series

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The theoretically and empirically based contributions in this edited volume in honour of Susanne Günther examine different consolidations on the level of interaction. They span from relatively detailed formats such as consolidated practices and actions up to the major forms of communicative genres. It also examines non-verbal routine patterns such as gestures.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110637502
ISBN:: 9783110637502
ISBN:: 9783110634617
ISBN:: 9783110634532
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Genres and Media in Cultural Studies
Subject:: General Genre and Media Studies
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Discourse
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Narrative Analysis
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2020

Prosodie und Konstruktionsgrammatik

Wolfgang Imo, Jens Philipp Lanwer, Fachinformationsdienst Linguistik

Volume 12 in this series

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Most forms of construction grammar offer a usage-based model of grammar. To date, construction grammar researchers have been dismissive of prosody. This anthology seeks to redress this gap in the research, examining the extent to which prosodic characteristics may be viewed as more or less stable characteristics of linguistic constructions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110637489
ISBN:: 9783110637489
ISBN:: 9783110777413
ISBN:: 9783110634624
ISBN:: 9783110634501
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Interfaces
Subject:: Discourse
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Construction Grammar
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2020

Bewertungsinteraktionen in der Theaterpause

Eine gesprächsanalytische Untersuchung von Pausengesprächen im Theaterfoyer

Christine Hrncal, Fachinformationsdienst Linguistik

Volume 11 in this series

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This study inquires into the specific forms of critical interaction that occur in conversations during intermissions in the theater lobby. Using conversational analysis, it reconstructs how the assessments shared during these interactions impact audience members’ attitudes to the content of the theater piece. The book adds to our understanding of the little-studied area of non-professional private communication about performative art.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110664546
ISBN:: 9783110664546
ISBN:: 9783110664164
ISBN:: 9783110664492
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Discourse
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Communication Science
Subject:: Interpersonal Communication
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2018

Sprachliche Muster

Eine induktive korpuslinguistische Analyse wissenschaftlicher Texte

Sarah Brommer, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)

Volume 10 in this series

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The study examines patterns of language usage in scientific texts and describes the academic style based on a data-derived corpus analysis at the formal and pragmatic levels. Theoretically grounded in multiple linguistic subdisciplines, the book offers an important contribution to the description of text types, the discussion of norms, and research on writing.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110573664
ISBN:: 9783110573664
ISBN:: 9783110573749
ISBN:: 9783110573657
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics, other
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: General Linguistics
Subject:: Narrative Analysis
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2017

Empirische Erforschung internetbasierter Kommunikation

Michael Beißwenger

Volume 9 in this series

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The volume presents seven research papers written in connection with the interdisciplinary DFG Network “Empirical Investigation of Internet-based Communication.” It addresses issues related to the modeling and analysis of language and interaction on the internet, drawing on written and multimodal data.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110567786
ISBN:: 9783110567786
ISBN:: 9783110566147
ISBN:: 9783110566222
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Genres and Media in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Digital Media and Communication
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Media
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2018

Modalpartikeln als multimodale Konstruktionen

Eine korpusbasierte Kookkurrenzanalyse von Modalpartikeln und Gestik im Deutschen

Steven Schoonjans

Volume 8 in this series

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This study presents the gestures typically combined with seven German modal particles (denn, doch, eben, eigentlich, einfach, halt, and ja) and analyzes the degree to which the co-occurrences discovered should be seen as multimodal constructions as defined by construction grammar. The study also explores the grammaticalization of such gestures (especially head-shakes and pointing gestures).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110566260
ISBN:: 9783110566260
ISBN:: 9783110563313
ISBN:: 9783110563788
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Multimodality
Subject:: Construction Grammar
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2017

Elliptische Strukturen in SMS

Eine korpusbasierte Untersuchung des Schweizerdeutschen

Karina Frick

Volume 7 in this series

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Because of their brevity and speed, text messages are often considered elliptical. This publication uses a Swiss German corpus of text messages to examine the validity of this assumption. It statistically analyzes pre-field and middle-field omissions as well as ellipsis of articles and prepositions. In addition, the authors examine whether newer technologies – such as the use of emojis in WhatsApp – influence elliptical structures.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110517859
ISBN:: 9783110517859
ISBN:: 9783110515862
ISBN:: 9783110515817
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Communication Science
Subject:: Interpersonal Communication
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2017

Jugendkommunikation und Dialekt

Syntax gesprochener Sprache bei Jugendlichen in Osttirol

Melanie Lenzhofer

Volume 6 in this series

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By examining communication among young people in East Tyrol, this study offers for the first time detailed insight into everyday conversation between Austrian adolescents. The central theme of this corpus-based analysis is to discover the areas of syntactic variation in which one can detect preferential use of particular syntactic constructions by adolescents and the role played by specific dialectical features of Bavarian.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110503302
ISBN:: 9783110503302
ISBN:: 9783110501469
ISBN:: 9783110498707
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Dialectology
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2016

Lehrkraft-Eltern-Interaktionen am Elternsprechtag

Eine gesprächs- und gattungsanalytische Untersuchung

Lars Wegner

Volume 5 in this series

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This study uses a corpus of authentic language data to examine the linguistic and communicative practices whereby participants develop the social institutional reality of the "parent-teacher conference." The focus is on a linguistic analysis of the conversational acts that constitute the genre: informing, counseling, and assigning responsibility.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110476019
ISBN:: 9783110476019
ISBN:: 9783110474084
ISBN:: 9783110474213
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Discourse
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Discourse Analysis
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Communication Science
Subject:: Interpersonal Communication
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2015

Regionale Alltagssprache

Theorie, Methodologie und Empirie einer gebrauchsbasierten Areallinguistik

Jens Philipp Lanwer

Volume 4 in this series

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This study focuses on a previously untapped interface between discourse and areal linguistics. It assigns a different primary status to usage at the stage of theory development. Using actual discourse data from Northern Germany, it provides an integrated comparative description of areal linguistic variations in terms of their linguistic structure and discursive function.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110424140
ISBN:: 9783110427394
ISBN:: 9783110424140
ISBN:: 9783110424270
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Dialectology
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2015

Anaphora Resolution and Text Retrieval

A Linguistic Analysis of Hypertexts

Helene Schmolz

Volume 3 in this series

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This book covers anaphora resolution for the English language from a linguistic and computational point of view.
First, a definition of anaphors that applies to linguistics as well as information technology is given. On this foundation, all types of anaphors and their characteristics for English are outlined. To examine how frequent each type of anaphor is, a corpus of different hypertexts has been established and analysed with regard to anaphors. The most frequent type are non-finite clause anaphors - a type which has never been investigated so far. Therefore, the potential of non-finite clause anaphors are further explored with respect to anaphora resolution. After presenting the fundamentals of computational anaphora resolution and its application in text retrieval, rules for resolving non-finite clause anaphors are established.
Therefore, this book shows that a truly interdisciplinary approach can achieve results which would not have been possible otherwise.

Open Access:
In July 2019, this volume was retroactively turned into an Open Access publication thanks to the support of the Fachinformationsdienst Linguistik.
https://www.linguistik.de/

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110416756
ISBN:: 978-3-11-041674-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-041675-6
ISBN:: 9783110416817
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2014

Spracheinstellungen und Identitätskonstruktion

Eine gesprächsanalytische Untersuchung sprachbiographischer Interviews mit Deutsch-Vietnamesen

Katharina König

Volume 2 in this series

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This study examines statements about language attitudes expressed by bilingually raised Germans of Vietnamese origin during language biographical interviews in search of specific conversational features. A further focus of the research is on the linguistic construction of different “language spaces” in which the interviewees position themselves as multilingual individuals.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1524/9783110352245
ISBN:: 978-3-11-035171-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-035224-5
ISBN:: 9783110377149
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Language Contact
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Communication Science
Subject:: Intercultural Communication
Publisher:: De Gruyter (A)

Book Open Access 2015

Metapher und Metonymie

Theoretische, methodische und empirische Zugänge

Constanze Spieß, Klaus-Michael Köpcke

Volume 1 in this series

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The contributions of this volume examine the phenomena of metaphor and metonymy from different perspectives. They adopt current tendencies in metaphor and metonymy research, discuss theoretical and methodological questions based on empirical analyses, and outline new approaches in both single-language and cross-linguisic research.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110369120
ISBN:: 978-3-11-037498-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-036912-0
ISBN:: 9783110380057
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Cognitive Linguistics
Subject:: Discourse Analysis
Publisher:: De Gruyter (A)

Book 2023

Personenreferenz im Dialekt

Grammatik und Pragmatik inoffizieller Personennamen in Dialekten des Deutschen

Theresa Schweden

Volume 18 in this series

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Systems for referring to persons are more complex in most German dialects than in standard German. Using a mixed methods approach of direct and indirect methods, this study examines structural and pragmatic variation in dialectal reference to persons. In addition to language maps, individual dialect studies in particular offer revealing insights into the interplay between grammar and pragmatics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110987706
ISBN:: 9783110987706
ISBN:: 9783110988062
ISBN:: 9783110999204
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Dialectology
Subject:: Onomastics
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Publisher:: De Gruyter