series: Reihe Germanistische Linguistik

Published by De Gruyter

Reihe Germanistische Linguistik

Edited by: Noah Bubenhofer and Britt-Marie Schuster

ISSN: 0344-6778

Overview
Volumes

The German Linguistic Studies Series is a comprehensive and outstanding forum in its field. It has borne the name of its subject in its title since the foundation of the series in the eighth decade of the last century.
The series is comprehensive in the broad spectrum of topics covered (language levels, varieties, communication forms, epochs) in the range of research perspectives (theoretical and empirical studies, fundamental research and applications, interdisciplinarity with psychology, the social sciences etc.) and methodologies (the sole criterion is quality), in the rhythm of research (trends are perceived and also set, achievements are secured) and in the forms of presentation (monographs, textbooks, collected volumes, dictionaries).
Professorial theses, outstanding doctoral theses, pioneering research findings from wider contexts, but also the surprising ‛stroke of genius’ set the standards for inclusion in the series.

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book: Vergemeinschaftung und Distinktion

Book Open Access 2021

Vergemeinschaftung und Distinktion

Eine gesprächsanalytische Studie über Positionierungspraktiken in Diskussionen über TV-Serien

Kristin Weiser-Zurmühlen, Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld

Volume 327 in this series

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One of the reasons for the social significance of pop-cultural formats like TV series is how they are communicatively processed in interactions. This book uses video recordings of conversations between students about series to develop an analytical model that allows researchers to investigate community-forming activities and knowledge construction, and to relate them to the media and aesthetic resources of series for practices of positioning.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110727845
ISBN:: 9783110727845
ISBN:: 9783110727869
ISBN:: 9783110727821
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Media
Subject:: Popular Culture
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Discourse Analysis
Subject:: Narrative Analysis
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2021

Toponyme

Standortbestimmung und Perspektiven

Kathrin Dräger, Rita Heuser, Michael Prinz

Volume 326 in this series

Toponomy has a long tradition but has been marginalised in the field of German linguistics in recent decades. This volume shows that toponyms provide great potential for new insights in a number of research fields, develops innovative research questions and methods, and sounds out the intersections between linguistic toponomy and relevant neighbouring disciplines.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110721140
ISBN:: 9783110721140
ISBN:: 9783110721171
ISBN:: 9783110721133
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Lexicography
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Onomastics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Prototypen – Schemata – Konstruktionen

Book Open Access 2021

Prototypen – Schemata – Konstruktionen

Untersuchungen zur deutschen Morphologie und Syntax

Anja Binanzer, Jana Gamper, Verena Wecker, Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB)

Volume 325 in this series

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Prototype, schema and construction are three central concepts that can be used to model mental representations of grammatical structures and relations within the frame of functional-cognitive grammar theories. This volume reviews these concepts using new linguistics analyses of the morphology and syntax of the German language from applied disciplines, taking into consideration a wide methodological spectrum.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110710595
ISBN:: 9783110710595
ISBN:: 9783110710588
ISBN:: 9783110710694
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Cognitive Linguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Diskurserwerb in Familie, Peergroup und Unterricht

Book Open Access 2020

Diskurserwerb in Familie, Peergroup und Unterricht

Passungen und Teilhabechancen

Uta Quasthoff, Vivien Heller, Miriam Morek, OA-Fonds Universitätsbibliothek Duisburg-Essen

Volume 324 in this series

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Why are linguistic skills and educational success so intertwined with the parental home? What role do debate and explanation play in lessons, the family and the peer group for the development of different opportunities to participate? This volume examines various discursive acquisition contexts for children of secondary school age in terms of how they meet school requirements by looking at three major empirical studies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110707168
ISBN:: 9783110707168
ISBN:: 9783110707250
ISBN:: 9783110706789
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Discourse Analysis
Subject:: First Language Acquisition
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Sprache des Sterbens – Sprache des Todes

Book 2021

Sprache des Sterbens – Sprache des Todes

Linguistische und interdisziplinäre Perspektivierungen eines zentralen Aspekts menschlichen Daseins

Christian Braun

Volume 323 in this series

Certainty about the unavoidability of death and about having to die on the one hand and uncertainty about life after death on the other are characteristics of our existence that have led to a wealth of cultural responses since time immemorial. The contributions in this volume examine engagements in language with the topics of death and dying, which have been largely ignored in linguistic research to date.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110694734
ISBN:: 9783110694734
ISBN:: 9783110694802
ISBN:: 9783110694710
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Hexenverhörprotokolle als sprachhistorisches Korpus

Book 2020

Hexenverhörprotokolle als sprachhistorisches Korpus

Fallstudien zur Erschließung der frühneuzeitlichen Schriftsprache

Renata Szczepaniak, Lisa Dücker, Stefan Hartmann

Volume 322 in this series

Witch trial protocols are important written witnesses to the early modern period. The examination of such protocols as a language-history corpus requires an interdisciplinary approach, given the special context of their creation. Against this backdrop, this volume seeks to illustrate the potential offered by witch trial protocols as a historical corpus for conducting studies in corpus linguistics, graphematics, and morphosyntax.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110679649
ISBN:: 9783110679649
ISBN:: 9783110678918
ISBN:: 9783110992601
ISBN:: 9783110679670
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Kasusmarkierung im Russischen und Deutschen

Book 2020

Kasusmarkierung im Russischen und Deutschen

Eine Untersuchung bei bilingualen Vorschulkindern mit und ohne auffällige Sprachentwicklung

Antonina Werthmann

Volume 321 in this series

This extensive research report on language acquisition focuses specifically on case acquisition. It presents the findings of a longitudinal study that examined the development of case marking in Russian and German in simultaneously and successively bilingual Russian-German speaking four- to five-and-a-half-year-old preschool children with and without language development problems.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110645743
ISBN:: 9783110645743
ISBN:: 9783110646047
ISBN:: 9783110645613
ISBN:: 9783110777499
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Other Languages of Europe
Subject:: Slavic Languages
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Bilingualism and Multilingualism
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Funktionsverbgefüge des Deutschen

Book Open Access 2021

Funktionsverbgefüge des Deutschen

Untersuchungen zu einer Kategorie zwischen Lexikon und Grammatik

Volker Harm

Volume 320 in this series

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This study suggests a new definition of the highly disputed class of noun-verb combinations. The new approach offered here does not begin, as before, with the verb, but rather, examines the semantic and pragmatic properties of the noun-verb construction as a whole. Another important aim is to explain the status of noun-verb combinations in the transitional realm between lexicon and grammar, and between regularity and irregularity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110661255
ISBN:: 9783110661255
ISBN:: 9783110659672
ISBN:: 9783110660012
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Cognitive Linguistics
Subject:: Lexicology
Subject:: Construction Grammar
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Sprachgebrauch in der Politik

Book 2019

Sprachgebrauch in der Politik

Grammatische, lexikalische, pragmatische, kulturelle und dialektologische Perspektiven

Annamária Fábián, Igor Trost

Volume 319 in this series

In studying language usage in politics, this collection of essays amplifies the earlier methodological focus in German linguistics on discursive, lexical, and pragmatic analysis to include grammatical, cultural, and dialectological perspectives. It also takes into account research from English and Romance studies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110640731
ISBN:: 9783110640731
ISBN:: 9783110736557
ISBN:: 9783110637731
ISBN:: 9783110637724
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Cognitive Linguistics
Subject:: Discourse Analysis
Subject:: Functional Theories of Grammar
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Expressivität im Deutschen

Book 2019

Expressivität im Deutschen

Franz d’ Avis, Rita Finkbeiner

Volume 318 in this series

Expressivity refers to a dimension of meaning that is difficult to grasp either theoretically or descriptively. This volume concentrates on the analysis of expressive phenomena in German from various perspectives and at different levels of linguistic description. Based on empirical-descriptive studies, it develops different theoretical and methodical paths to access the phenomenon.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110630190
ISBN:: 9783110630190
ISBN:: 9783110627725
ISBN:: 9783110627558
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Interfaces
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Schriftsprachliche Profile von Fünftklässlern

Argumentative Briefe im Zusammenspiel unterschiedlicher textueller, familiärer und individueller Ressourcen

Madeleine Domenech

Volume 317 in this series

This empirical sociolinguistic study of written language skills examines persuasive letters written by fifth-graders. Based on extensive data from the FUnDuS Project, it integrates resource-based variables related to text (argumentation structure), family (socioeconomic status), and individual (native language, writing experience) to develop four profiles of written language skills.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110623468
ISBN:: 9783110623468
ISBN:: 9783110619300
ISBN:: 9783110619362
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Bilingualism and Multilingualism
Subject:: Narrative Analysis
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Schweizerdeutsch und Sprachbewusstsein

Book Open Access 2019

Schweizerdeutsch und Sprachbewusstsein

Zur Konsolidierung der Deutschschweizer Diglossie im 19. Jahrhundert

Emanuel Ruoss, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)

Volume 316 in this series

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Little is known about the conditions that led to German-Swiss diglossia. Based on public discourse about Swiss German, the study shows that with respect to the history of language awareness, today’s typical bilingualism in Swiss German and standard German became consolidated in the 19^th century in close relation to societal processes. The study is a major contribution to the linguistic history of German-speaking Switzerland.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110610314
ISBN:: 9783110610314
ISBN:: 9783110608854
ISBN:: 9783110609165
ISBN:: 9783110765960
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Discourse Analysis
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Markierung des Genitiv(s) im Deutschen

Book 2018

Die Markierung des Genitiv(s) im Deutschen

Empirie und theoretische Implikationen von morphologischer Variation

Christian Zimmer

Volume 315 in this series

The genitive marker -s of strong masculine and neuter nouns is sometimes omitted in German (e.g. des Tsunami/Tsunamis). Based on comprehensive corpus studies, this book describes and explains this variability, comparing it to related phenomena (such as the plurals of loan words). Building on these findings, it examines the theoretical implications of these phenomena – for example, in connection with the system of German declension classes.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110557442
ISBN:: 9783110557442
ISBN:: 9783110555301
ISBN:: 9783110555486
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:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Linguistische Kulturanalyse

Book 2019

Linguistische Kulturanalyse

Juliane Schröter, Susanne Tienken, Yvonne Ilg, Joachim Scharloth, Noah Bubenhofer

Volume 314 in this series

Linguistic cultural analysis is a fairly new branch of linguistic research that has seen increasing recognition in recent years. The seventeen contributions in this volume present the field’s latest scholarship while developing perspectives for its future.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110585896
ISBN:: 9783110585896
ISBN:: 9783110583595
ISBN:: 9783110583052
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: General Cultural Studies
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: BAND Adjektive

Book 2018

BAND Adjektive

Grammatik, Pragmatik, Erwerb

Carolin Baumann, Viktória Dabóczi, Sarah Hartlmaier

Volume 313 in this series

Adjectives are defined grammatically by their primary attributive function; pragmatically, they shift between evaluation and description, and in adjective acquisition, the speaker has to overcome a space between a primary interactional relationship and progressive conceptualization. This volume aims at combining a presentation of grammatical and pragmatic aspects of the adjective along with problems of adjective acquisition.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110584042
ISBN:: 9783110584042
ISBN:: 9783110581560
ISBN:: 9783110709667
ISBN:: 9783110581737
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Contrastive Linguistics
Subject:: First Language Acquisition
Subject:: Functional Theories of Grammar
Subject:: Psycholinguistics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Ausstellungskommunikation

Book Open Access 2021

Ausstellungskommunikation

Eine linguistische Untersuchung multimodaler Wissenskommunikation im Raum

Wolfgang Kesselheim, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)

Volume 312 in this series

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This study investigates museum exhibitions as multimodal communication offerings, of which texts and exhibits are just as much a part as exhibition architecture and design. It reconstructs the communicative potential of exhibitions from a text-linguistic and semiotic perspective before using conversation analysis to examine how visitors use exhibitions to construct knowledge about the exhibition topic.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110572933
ISBN:: 9783110572933
ISBN:: 9783110572902
ISBN:: 9783110573404
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Discourse
Subject:: Semiotics
Subject:: Semiotics, other
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Narrative Analysis
Subject:: Multimodality
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Literater Sprachausbau kognitiv-funktional

Book 2018

Literater Sprachausbau kognitiv-funktional

Funktionswort-Konstruktionen in der historischen Rechtsschriftlichkeit

Marie-Luis Merten

Volume 311 in this series

The study uses the methodology of sociocultural construction grammar to trace the linguistic development of Middle Low German. Using historical legal texts as an example, it describes and explains the development and transformation of function word constructions. These developments are understood as socio-genetic processes that contribute to differentiating the communal “constructicon” of legal writers.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110575002
ISBN:: 9783110575002
ISBN:: 9783110572803
ISBN:: 9783110572612
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Cognitive Linguistics
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Construction Grammar
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die an die Schüler/-innen gerichtete Sprache (SgS)

Book 2018

Die an die Schüler/-innen gerichtete Sprache (SgS)

Studien zur Veränderung der Lehrer/-innensprache von der Grundschule bis zur Oberstufe

Katrin Kleinschmidt-Schinke

Volume 310 in this series

Do teachers of German and biology shift the ways they talk to students between primary and secondary school, increasing their emphasis on conceptual literacy? Do they employ linguistic interactional tools in their teaching to help their students acquire relevant vocabulary? This video study focuses on teacher talk across four school grades and two curriculum subjects.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110569001
ISBN:: 9783110569001
ISBN:: 9783110566345
ISBN:: 9783110736403
ISBN:: 9783110566109
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Narrative Analysis
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Psychology
Subject:: Development Psychology
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Konstruktion von Sprache und Sprachwissen

Book Open Access 2018

Konstruktion von Sprache und Sprachwissen

Eine empirische Studie zur Schriftsprachaneignung sprachstarker und sprachschwacher Kinder

Pascale Schaller, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)

Volume 309 in this series

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This study examines the empirical differences between children with strong and weak language skills in the area of written language acquisition. While learning age has been extensively studied by researchers as the critical factor in variation between individuals, this study also considers global language competence. In conducting the study, the author used standardized language level measurements, psychological tests, and questionnaires.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110555165
ISBN:: 9783110555165
ISBN:: 9783110553277
ISBN:: 9783110553437
ISBN:: 9783110709551
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Assessment and Testing
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: First Language Acquisition
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Textkommunikation

Book 2017

Textkommunikation

Ein textlinguistischer Neuansatz zur Theorie und Empirie der Kommunikation mit und durch Schrift

Heiko Hausendorf, Wolfgang Kesselheim, Hiloko Kato, Martina Breitholz

Volume 308 in this series

The study begins from two premises not previously considered together: that written communication represents a social reality sui generis, and that this social reality is constituted in the medium of writing. The authors invoke a new understanding of the concept of readability as a fundamental condition for communication with and through writing, and elaborate its theoretical and empirical implications.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110557435
ISBN:: 9783110557435
ISBN:: 9783110553840
ISBN:: 9783110555707
ISBN:: 9783110647792
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Discourse
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Multimodality
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Communication Science
Subject:: Communication Theory
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Abschied nehmen

Book 2016

Abschied nehmen

Veränderungen einer kommunikativen Kultur im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert

Juliane Schröter

Volume 307 in this series

Farewells are a universal element of human experience, but their situational expressions and communicative structures are highly variable. In this history of leave-taking, Juliane Schröter shows how various forms of leave-taking changed during the 19^th and 20^th centuries and the ways these changes are linked to other cultural transformations.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110468557
ISBN:: 9783110468557
ISBN:: 9783110466430
ISBN:: 9783110466423
Subject:: Cultural Studies
Subject:: Topics in Cultural Studies
Subject:: Emotions
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Zur Karriere von ›Nähe und Distanz‹

Book 2016

Zur Karriere von ›Nähe und Distanz‹

Rezeption und Diskussion des Koch-Oesterreicher-Modells

Helmuth Feilke, Mathilde Hennig

Volume 306 in this series

The notion of a 'language of immediacy and language of distance' by Peter Koch and Wulf Oesterreicher has been widely applied since its initial publication in 1985, especially in the field of German Linguistics. This edited volume documents the approach's discussion in the areas of Variational Linguistics, Language History and Media Theory. Also, the book provides theorectical explanations as to why the concept continues to be so successful.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110464061
ISBN:: 9783110464061
ISBN:: 9783110462159
ISBN:: 9783110462319
ISBN:: 9783110611809
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: History of Linguistics
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Der Majuskelgebrauch im Deutschen

Book 2016

Der Majuskelgebrauch im Deutschen

Groß- und Kleinschreibung theoretisch, empirisch, ontogenetisch

Hans-Georg Müller

Volume 305 in this series

This study examines the function and acquisition of German capitalization. It aims to generalize previous theoretical approaches to develop an integrated model. The empirical portion investigates performance data from approx. 5,700 subjects, extending the findings into an acquisition model. Using neural network simulations, it differentiates between types of learners and offers evidence for qualitative shifts in learning strategy.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110460964
ISBN:: 9783110460964
ISBN:: 9783110459265
ISBN:: 9783110457964
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Subject:: Writing Systems and Orthography
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Das Partizipialattribut im Deutschen zwischen System und Norm

Book 2016

Das Partizipialattribut im Deutschen zwischen System und Norm

Zur Systemkonformität von PII+habend

Thi Thu Hien Dang

Volume 304 in this series

The book addresses previously little-known forms of the German participial attribute (PA), which is from a verbal complex (= complex PA) rather than from a verb. It describes and examines different types of complex PAs in terms of their frequency of use and acceptability. The heart of the work is an exemplary determination of the systemic status of a grammatical structure based on the Type PII + habend.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110449129
ISBN:: 9783110449129
ISBN:: 9783110447156
ISBN:: 9783110445107
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:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Das Nachfeld im Deutschen

Book 2015

Das Nachfeld im Deutschen

Theorie und Empirie

Hélène Vinckel-Roisin

Volume 303 in this series

This is the first study devoted exclusively to the typically overlooked non-sentential usage form of the “postfield” (Nachfeld) in German. The essays present findings from empirical studies and examine theoretical aspects related to syntax, information structure, stylistics/pragmatics, and language acquisition. They address written as well as spoken language from both synchronic and diachronic viewpoints.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110419948
ISBN:: 9783110425345
ISBN:: 9783110419948
ISBN:: 9783110420043
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Was tun mit dem Verb?

Book 2015

Was tun mit dem Verb?

Über die Möglichkeit und Notwendigkeit einer didaktischen Neuerschließung des Verbs

Birgit Mesch, Björn Rothstein

Volume 302 in this series

What is to be done with the verb? Parts of speech, and the verb in particular, have always been a key focus of school grammar instruction, even though there has never been a canonical analysis of the German verb in academic linguistics or language didactics. This compendium suggests productive approaches for exploiting the grammatical and didactic potential of the verb.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110376630
ISBN:: 978-3-11-037620-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-037663-0
ISBN:: 9783110578980
ISBN:: 9783110393385
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Das Paradigma deutscher Modalpartikeln

Book 2014

Das Paradigma deutscher Modalpartikeln

Dialoggrammatische Funktion und paradigmeninterne Oppositionen

Lena Brünjes

Volume 301 in this series

Are modal particles grammatical signs? This study investigates whether the modal particle meets the two key criteria forclassifying itas a grammatical element. Do all modal particles have a relational function? And do they constitute a grammatical paradigm? Describing this paradigm lends insight into the distribution and significance of specific particles and the internal structure of this part of speech.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110375350
ISBN:: 978-3-11-037529-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-037535-0
ISBN:: 9783110394177
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Junktion und Schreibentwicklung

Book 2014

Junktion und Schreibentwicklung

Eine empirische Untersuchung narrativer und argumentativer Schülertexte

Miriam Langlotz

Volume 300 in this series

Until now, researchers in linguistics and writing development have devoted little attention to the junction as a grammatical means to link the propositions in a text. In this representative corpus study, junctional analyses use an expanded model of junctions to examine writing development, thereby opening up new prospects for research in grammar and writing development.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110357585
ISBN:: 978-3-11-035708-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-035758-5
ISBN:: 9783110394450
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Adjektiv-Adverb-Abgrenzung im Deutschen

Book 2014

Die Adjektiv-Adverb-Abgrenzung im Deutschen

Zu grundlegenden Problemen der Wortartenforschung

Claudia Telschow

Volume 299 in this series

The demarcation between adjectives and adverbs has been a matter of ongoing controversy in German linguistics. This book starts by presenting traditional options for categorizing words such as schnell [quick/ly] and sofort [immediate/ly]. Building on this history, it proposes a model of parts of speech that integrates lexicography and word formation research to include adjective-adverb connections in addition to strict categorization.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110341485
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034117-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-034148-5
ISBN:: 9783110373394
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Morphology
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: ›Nichts anderes als ein Austausch von Worten‹

Book 2013

›Nichts anderes als ein Austausch von Worten‹

Sprachliches Handeln in der Psychotherapie

Claudio Scarvaglieri

Volume 298 in this series

According to Freud, psychotherapy is “nothing more than an exchange of words.” This linguistic study explores how it is that such an exchange can, by itself, cure psychological illnesses, and examines key moments of actual therapeutic discourse. The detailed analyses of the dialogues reconstruct how mental structures are altered through language, thereby expanding our overall understanding of the relationship between language and psyche.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110319033
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031885-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031903-3
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Communication Science
Subject:: Health Communication
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Schulgrammatik und Sprachunterricht im Wandel

Book 2013

Schulgrammatik und Sprachunterricht im Wandel

Klaus-Michael Köpcke, Arne Ziegler

Volume 297 in this series

The compendium offers an up-to-date picture of international research on language didactics. The aim is to re-examine the importance of grammar in the university training of future teachers by confronting established assumptions about working with grammar and language instruction in primary schools with newer concepts emerging from linguistic research.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110316179
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031590-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-031617-9
ISBN:: 9783110578904
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Functional Theories of Grammar
Subject:: History of Linguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Kommunikation und Öffentlichkeit

Book 2012

Kommunikation und Öffentlichkeit

Sprachwissenschaftliche Potenziale zwischen Empirie und Norm

Susanne Günthner, Wolfgang Imo, Dorothee Meer, Jan Georg Schneider

Volume 296 in this series

For a number of years, there has been concernin Germany about the “decline of language”. From a linguistic perspective, this hypothesis cannot be substantiated. Public debate, however, does raise some new questions about the stability and mutability of language norms. This volume undertakes a linguistic examination of the relationship between empiricism and standards in various forms and domains of communication.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110289916
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028970-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028991-6
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Erzählen als Form – Formen des Erzählens

Book 2012

Erzählen als Form – Formen des Erzählens

Friederike Kern, Miriam Morek, Sören Ohlhus

Volume 295 in this series

The articles in this volume provide an insight into the richness of narrative. In the process they focus on two main areas: oral narrative as part of everyday interaction and the acquisition of narrative abilities as part of more comprehensive discursive competencies. From a linguistic perspective, the variance of the narrative form also points to the esthetic dimensions of literary narrative. The concept of this volume is derived from the work of Uta Quasthoff, whose 65th birthday prompted its creation and publication.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110280579
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028043-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-028057-9
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Discourse Analysis
Subject:: Neurolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Communication Science
Subject:: Interpersonal Communication
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Kommunikationsreihen aus Gesprächen und Textkommunikaten

Book 2011

Kommunikationsreihen aus Gesprächen und Textkommunikaten

Zur Kommunikation in und zwischen Gesellschaften

Sigurd Wichter

Volume 294 in this series

The theory of communication series is suggested as an alternative to discourse linguistics because it focuses not only on mass communications with reference to a thematic context, but examines every social communication including interpersonal communication between two persons or within a small group. Each element of communication is subject to three areas of level: (1) speech act and speech act sequences; (2) communication (conversations, text-based communication); (3) series as purpose-constituted consequences of communication. Series can be recursively embedded, extending as far as society-related and international series. Series are diachronic quantities with evolutionary levels.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110234107
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023409-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023410-7
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Communication Science
Subject:: Intercultural Communication
Subject:: Interpersonal Communication
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Grammatik – Lehren, Lernen, Verstehen

Book 2011

Grammatik – Lehren, Lernen, Verstehen

Zugänge zur Grammatik des Gegenwartsdeutschen

Klaus-Michael Köpcke, Arne Ziegler

Volume 293 in this series

This volume gives an up-to-date view of international research on the practice and theory of language teaching. It shows the relevance of grammar research to the demands of language teaching today, set between German lessons, teacher training and study of the German language. It also contributes to a confrontation of established views of grammar work at school and in lessons with current linguistic approaches.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110263183
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026317-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026318-3
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Functional Theories of Grammar
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Komposition und Kompositionalität

Book 2011

Komposition und Kompositionalität

Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der semantischen Dekodierung von Substantivkomposita

Verena Klos

Volume 292 in this series

This book systematically applies the so-called principle of compositionality to substantive composition and investigates whether this semantic principle can be judged a sufficient basis for the understanding of unknown terms. The central question concerns how far the meaning of a substantive composite with two nominal elements can be ‘calculated’ from the meaning of its constituents. Using various empirical studies, the author shows that the principle of compositionality must be reformulated.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110258875
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025886-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-025887-5
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Cognitive Linguistics
Subject:: Psycholinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Polemik und Argumentation in der Wissenschaft des 19. Jahrhunderts

Book 2010

Polemik und Argumentation in der Wissenschaft des 19. Jahrhunderts

Eine pragmalinguistische Untersuchung der Auseinandersetzung zwischen Carl Vogt und Rudolph Wagner um die 'Seele'

Steffen Haßlauer

Volume 291 in this series

Carl Vogt’s quarrel with Rudolph Wagner is considered to be a culmination of the materialism dispute in the 19th century. Out of this basically academic issue on the nature of human mental functions, a personal dispute quickly developed which was unrivalled in thematic incisiveness and expression. The aim of this study is the detailed linguistic analysis of the polemics and argumentation in this dispute based on extensive text excerpts, in which for the first time detailed linguistic studies on Vogt and Wagner are presented.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110229950
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022994-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-022995-0
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics, other
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: History of Linguistics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: "Terrorismus" zwischen Ereignis und Diskurs

Book 2011

"Terrorismus" zwischen Ereignis und Diskurs

Zur Pragmatik von Text-Bild-Zusammenstellungen in Printmedien der 1970er-Jahre

Martin Steinseifer

Volume 290 in this series

Text-image combinations can authenticate events and establish a visual memory. Here this phenomenon is explored: A pragmatic theory of text-image relationships is developed and empirically tested on the example of print media reports about terrorism in the FRG during the 1970s. The analyses show how texts unambiguously illuminate the meaning of images and how photographs substantiate and intensify interpretations of spectacular events to an extent which cannot be attained through language alone. It thus becomes clear that “terrorism” is not only to be understood as a kind of violence, but also as a series of media events.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110229387
ISBN:: 9783110229370
ISBN:: 9783110229387
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Communication Science
Subject:: Mass Communication
Subject:: Visual Communication
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Schriftsystem und Schrifterwerb

Book 2010

Schriftsystem und Schrifterwerb

linguistisch – didaktisch – empirisch

Ursula Bredel, Astrid Müller, Gabriele Hinney

Volume 289 in this series

The collective volume brings together the linguistic and didactic findings on the structure and acquisition of the German writing system. Based on current research on the German written language it is shown that its structures can be systematically described in the core area. The book discusses whether these insights can be used for didactic conceptions on written language acquisition. Concrete examples from German instruction illustrate the acquisition problems and discuss effective learning measures based on learning by discovery.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110232257
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023224-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023225-7
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Neurolinguistics
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Das Textsortenspektrum im fachinternen Wissenstransfer

Book 2010

Das Textsortenspektrum im fachinternen Wissenstransfer

Untersuchung anhand von Fachzeitschriften der Medizin

Cornelia Weinreich

Volume 288 in this series

This work focuses on the development of the spectrum of text types in medical journals in order to enable statements on science culture and knowledge transfer within one scientific field. What changes could be determined in three medical journals over a period of 30 years and what effects do these changes have on science culture? The empirical evaluation reveals interesting developments.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110231748
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023173-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023174-8
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Communication Science
Subject:: Health Communication
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Lexikon und Grammatik in Interaktion

Book 2010

Lexikon und Grammatik in Interaktion

Lexikalische Kategorisierungsprozesse im Deutschen

Tilo Weber

Volume 287 in this series

What are the elementary building blocks of language? Which categories can they be assigned to, based on which criteria? What function do parts of speech or lexical categories have for the speakers of a language? This study provides answers to these theoretical questions, showing on the example of German that lexical categorization is dependent on cognitive and functional conditions ― not as a static structure, but rather as a dynamic process. The empirical part of the study shows that this has consequences, especially for writers of German.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110231540
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023153-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023154-0
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Auf dem Weg zur Fachsprache

Book 2010

Auf dem Weg zur Fachsprache

Sprachliche Professionalisierung in der psychiatrischen Schreibpraxis (1800-1939)

Britt-Marie Schuster

Volume 286 in this series

This monograph illuminates the origin and development of psychiatric terminology from a linguistic perspective. The study begins with the period around 1800 when the first mental hospitals were founded, then goes on to describe the consolidation of academic psychiatry at the beginning of the 20th century and ends by elucidating the use of psychiatric terminology during the Nazi era. The development of a specialized vocabulary and the kinds and styles of texts specific to psychiatry are presented using case studies derived from the evaluation of extensive source material.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110231182
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023117-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-023118-2
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Discourse Analysis
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Philosophie der Schrift

Book 2009

Philosophie der Schrift

Elisabeth Birk, Jan Georg Schneider

Volume 285 in this series

The volume brings together papers on new developments in the theory of writing systems, above all from the perspectives of linguistics, philosophy, media theory and language education. Firstly there is the question of the methods and categories used for analysing writing, and how written language as a medium is different from spoken language. Secondly, the influences of alphabetic scripts on the historical development of these disciplines are traced, and various types of writing system are described in relation to each other. The starting point for the contributors was Christian Stetter's work on the theory of written language, especially his theses that alphabetic script is not to be seen as a kind of phonetic script and that the specific characteristics of this writing system have had a decisive influence on the genesis of formal language reflection in linguistics and philosophy. The papers in the volume reflect on the difficulties of spelling reform and on didactic controversies around the acquisition of written language, on the pragmatics of writing and on the aesthetics of various types of script.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783484971394
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31285-2
ISBN:: 978-3-484-97139-4
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Semiotics
Subject:: Zoosemiotics
Subject:: Semiotics, other
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy, other
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Hofmannsthals Sprachgeschichte

Book 2009

Hofmannsthals Sprachgeschichte

Linguistisch-literarische Studien zur lyrischen Stimme

Tobias Heinz

Volume 284 in this series

The study provides a deciphering reading of the language-reflexive and poetological poems of the Austrian poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal, whose texts are interpreted as encrypted signatures of the epoch. The linguistic artistry of the lyric work is opened up and made legible as a document of linguistic history.

The linguistic analysis starts from the conviction that the selected poems by Hofmannsthal arise from an individual experience of language which gains its aesthetic presence in the lyrical text. By approaching an outstanding protagonist of modernism, the account adds an important chapter in German-Austrian language history. The poems as an expression of a literary linguistic awareness are placed in a context with reflexive statements on language, critical linguistic notes and documents of engagement with language culture. This (linguo-)political, social and cultural contextualisation provides the prerequisite for sketching Hofmannsthal’s literary language work - here in his lyric poetry - as a paradigm of classical modernism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783484971257
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31284-5
ISBN:: 978-3-484-97125-7
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Theory
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies and Linguistics
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Oberfläche und Performanz

Book 2009

Oberfläche und Performanz

Untersuchungen zur Sprache als dynamischer Gestalt

Angelika Linke, Helmuth Feilke

Volume 283 in this series

With surface and performance, this collected volume places two concepts centre-stage which could be regarded as key terms for the object of linguistics. At the same time, they delineate the field which the papers in the volume sound out both theoretically and in empirical studies.

An introductory section containing methodological explorations of surface and performance is followed by three thematically distinct sections. The first main section contains papers examining surface and performance from the aspect of order. A second block is concerned with understanding as a quality of communication essential to the concept of language, and a third section focuses on the concepts of mediality and medium. The volume presents the proceedings of a conference held on Monte Verità (Switzerland), which followed on epistemologically from an earlier conference and the resultant collected volume (Linke/Ortner/Portmann: Sprache und mehr. Ansichten einer Linguistik der sprachlichen Praxis. Tübingen 2003). The present volume progresses the discussion of how the object of linguistics is understood and demonstrates the innovative potential of a linguistics oriented on the materiality of linguistic surface structures and which explicitly sees its object as the dynamics and communicative added value of linguistic performance.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783484971240
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31283-8
ISBN:: 978-3-484-97124-0
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Semiotics
Subject:: Zoosemiotics
Subject:: Semiotics, other
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Generative Linguistics
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Dargestellte Autorschaft

Book 2009

Dargestellte Autorschaft

Autorkonzept und Autorsubjekt in wissenschaftlichen Texten

Felix Steiner

Volume 282 in this series

Academic texts are regarded as impersonal texts. They follow what is known as the “I” taboo. The present study resolves the question of how the “I” is to be seen in academic texts. The concept of the author moves on a multiplicity of levels. On the one hand, typical academic acts (such as “solving a research problem”) are continually being explicated, on the other, typical attitudes are also being indicated (such as uncertainty). In the model, the marking levels are integrated. Thus the ‘author in the text‚ can be determined both as typical of a domain and as an individual figure.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783484971059
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31282-1
ISBN:: 978-3-484-97105-9
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Funktionsverbgefüge - empirisch

Book 2008

Funktionsverbgefüge - empirisch

Eine korpusbasierte Untersuchung zu den nominalen Prädikaten

Alain Kamber

Volume 281 in this series

The study sees itself as a strictly empirical investigation into light verb constructions (LVC) in present-day German which focuses on the faits de langue in the Saussurean sense. It takes as its starting point ten functional verbs regarded in the literature as ‘typical’. As well as providing quantitative data, it also presents a detailed analysis of the contexts in which they are used – their internal and external valency. The analysis of the complements deals both with their syntactic form (description of the LVC patterning) and with the semantically determined combinations into which they can enter.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783484970311
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31281-4
ISBN:: 978-3-484-97031-1
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Lexicology
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Wissenschaftliche Textkompetenz

Book 2007

Wissenschaftliche Textkompetenz

Sprachgebrauch und Schreibentwicklung in wissenschaftlichen Texten von Studenten und Experten

Torsten Steinhoff

Volume 280 in this series

German universities presume students are able to produce academic texts. At the same time, it is an everyday experience for students to have major problems when it comes to academic writing. The study demonstrates that a language acquisition problem lies at the heart of these difficulties, the problem of acquiring academic textual competence. A multi-stage model of development is presented, based on the analysis of comprehensive corpora of student essays and specialist articles written by experts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110973389
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31280-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-097338-9
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: First Language Acquisition
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Sprachhandeln und Medienstrukturen in der politischen Kommunikation

Book 2007

Sprachhandeln und Medienstrukturen in der politischen Kommunikation

Stephan Habscheid, Michael Klemm

Volume 279 in this series

Do popular forms of representing politics in the media endanger the quality of public communication? Or do they provide an appropriate modern entertaining way of putting politics across to wide sectors of the public? The present volume takes up this current discussion from a linguistic point of view. Anybody enquiring into changing political processes an a media society should look carefully at the evidence and beware of idealising myths, false comparisons and overhasty conclusions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110972405
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31279-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-097240-5
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Communication Science
Subject:: Mass Communication
Subject:: Public and Political Communication
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Deutscher Wortschatz im 17. Jahrhundert

Book 2007

Deutscher Wortschatz im 17. Jahrhundert

Methodologische Studien zu Korpustheorie, Lexikologie und Lexicographie von historischem Wortschatz

Matthias Schulz

Volume 278 in this series

Matthias Schulz examines corpus theory, lexicology and lexicography with reference to historical vocabulary and its lexical structures. The author first analyses how historical lexes and lexical structures are collected and examined and then selects 85 texts from everyday life in the 17th century. These form the basis for his own analyses of individual areas of lexis. His case studies reveal lexical structures in 17th century vocabulary. The corpus used in his study is online available: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/36681.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110612936
ISBN:: 9783110612936
ISBN:: 9783484312784
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Lexicography
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Lexicology
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Grammatik in der Universität und für die Schule

Book 2007

Grammatik in der Universität und für die Schule

Theorie, Empirie und Modellbildung

Klaus-Michael Köpcke, Arne Ziegler

Volume 277 in this series

This volume draws together current studies and research findings from the fields of university research into German grammar and grammar teaching in schools. The contributors outline the relevance of grammatical research in meeting the demands of present-day school German teaching between the requirements of competence in grammar, literature, language and text, and confront established views of grammar teaching
in schools with topical problems.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110975918
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31277-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-097591-8
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Spielarten des Komischen

Book 2007

Spielarten des Komischen

Ernst Jandl und die Sprache

Anne Uhrmacher

Volume 276 in this series

Ernst Jandl (1925–2000) is a spectacular phenomenon. For an avant-garde experimental lyric poet he achieved a completely unusual level of popularity. Poems such as ottos mops (‘fritz’s bitch’) have long been in common currency. It is not the case, as is often argued, that laughing at Jandl’s poems is not a coincidental effect of his
unusual use of language. There are multiple varieties of humour which Jandl transforms anew in his language. Despite this, the comic aspects of Jandl’s work have hardly been researched. Anne Uhrmacher uses careful analysis to get to the bottom of his unparalleled effectiveness.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110975901
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31276-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-097590-1
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Construction Grammar und Gesprochene-Sprache-Forschung

Book 2007

Construction Grammar und Gesprochene-Sprache-Forschung

Konstruktionen mit zehn matrixsatzfähigen Verben im gesprochenen Deutsch

Wolfgang Imo

Volume 275 in this series

Imo undertakes an empirical analysis of constructions with ten verbs capable of being used in matrix sentences to combine the approaches of “Conversation Research”, “Conversational Analysis” and “Interactional Linguistics” with the theory of language and grammar advanced by “Construction Grammar”. He enquires into the advantages which the theory-poor “Conversational Research” could derive from a framework theory and examines whether “Construction Grammar” is adequate to the task of providing this framework, i.e. is able to describe the units of spoken language.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110975895
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31275-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-097589-5
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Substantivvalenz

Book 2007

Substantivvalenz

Korpusgestützte Untersuchungen zu Argumentrealisierungen deutscher Substantive

Matthias Hölzner

Volume 274 in this series

Matthias Hölzner undertakes a systematic analysis of the valency behaviour of selected nouns in authentic texts. The studies are based on a multi-dimensional noun valency concept and provide important insights into the realisation of arguments within the noun phrase. As the analyses show, the arguments of valent nouns are however frequently realised outside the noun phrase, i.e. at the sentence or text level. Matthias Hölzner demonstrates how these freedoms in realising arguments in texts are used as a means of establishing coherence.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110970081
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31274-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-097008-1
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
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Grammatikkenntnisse für Rechtschreibregeln?

Book 2007

Grammatikkenntnisse für Rechtschreibregeln?

Drei deutsche Rechtschreibwörterbücher kritisch analysiert

Sabine Mayr

Volume 273 in this series

Which spelling rules require less grammatical knowledge – the 'old' ones or the reformed ones? Sabine Mayr examines the rules given in three popular 'old' and 'new' spelling dictionaries (Duden, 20. ed. 1991 and 22. ed. 2000; Bertelsmann 1999) to determine which grammatical terms they assume the users know, where comprehension problems arise and whether or how these are solved (e.g. which grammar gives further assistance). The comparison shows that with the spelling reform the comprehensibility of the rules had also improved somewhat.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110970074
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31273-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-097007-4
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Writing Systems and Orthography
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Studien zur Ontogenese wissenschaftlichen Schreibens

Book 2007

Studien zur Ontogenese wissenschaftlichen Schreibens

Thorsten Pohl

Volume 271 in this series

In this book, writing done by students in an academic context is investigated as a writing development phenomenon. A style-biographical part-corpus (various pieces of written work for seminars by a student author) and two experimental, quantitative part-corpora (writing samples from a fill-in-the-gaps test and parodistic introductory texts) are drawn upon to reconstruct the acquisition process in which student writers gradually conform to the institutional requirements bound up with the style of writing employed in academic texts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110946116
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31271-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094611-6
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: »Wollt Ihr den totalen Krieg?«

Book 2006

»Wollt Ihr den totalen Krieg?«

Eine semiotische und linguistische Gesamtanalyse der Rede Goebbels' im Berliner Sportpalast am 18. Februar 1943

Jens Kegel

Volume 270 in this series

Up to the present Goebbels' speech at the Sportpalast has been regarded as a supreme example of manipulation, not least because it has frequently been reduced to the one question cited in the title of this study. As 'total war' has also been misinterpreted, the investigation goes beyond a purely linguistic analysis to examine the speech in pragmatic terms as a semiotic totality. In this endeavour it addresses not only linguistic and rhetorical features, but also religious, semiotic, psychological, historical, and sociological phenomena, drawing additionally on text, sound, and film documents for the purpose. The result is a reevaluation of the speech itself, of Goebbels, and of the manipulation theory.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110928730
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31270-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092873-0
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Contemporary History until 1945
Subject:: Other Topics
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics, other
Subject:: Semiotics
Subject:: Semiotics, other
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Zugänge zur Grammatik der gesprochenen Sprache

Book 2006

Zugänge zur Grammatik der gesprochenen Sprache

Vilmos Ágel, Mathilde Hennig

Volume 269 in this series

This collection of articles derives from a conference organized in Szeged (Hungary) in 2003. It represents a contribution to the ongoing discussion on approaches to the grammar of spoken language. Proceeding on the conviction that existing theoretical deficits can only be offset by broad discussion of all potential sources of theoretical insight, the volume discusses various approaches to a more precise grammatical definition of spoken language, including construction grammar, interactional linguistics, the theory of proximate and distanced speech, and ideas on the constitution of meaning in spoken language.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110936063
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31269-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093606-3
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Communication Science
Subject:: Interpersonal Communication
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Argumentationsanalyse textlinguistisch

Book 2006

Argumentationsanalyse textlinguistisch

Argumentative Figuren für und wider den Golfkrieg von 1991

Marcel Eggler

Volume 268 in this series

How do we argue in exceptional situations? What argumentative patterns do we fall back on in a bid to justify decisions with major ethical repercussions? What kinds of text are produced under these circumstances? The book analyses two prototypic editorials on the Gulf War of 1991 with a view to demonstrating how discourses function in explosive situations, how they can be analysed, and how they can be tested for coherence. The study gives equal attention to compliance with the rules of argumentation, subtle floutings of these rules, and totally unwarranted conclusions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110936070
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31268-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093607-0
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Contemporary History until 1945
Subject:: Other Topics
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics, other
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Begründen im Gespräch

Book 2006

Begründen im Gespräch

Eine Untersuchung sprachlicher Praktiken zur Realisierung von Begründungen im gesprochenen Deutsch

Christine Gohl

Volume 267 in this series

The study examines the structure and function of explanatory practices (Begründen) in everyday German conversation. It indicates, among other things, the forms of explanation favoured by speakers operating in various contexts, e.g. on what occasions they opt for a grammatically unmarked construction as opposed to one introduced by a conjunction or some other grammatically marked connection. Syntactic, semantic, prosodic, and action-related parameters are discussed in their respective usage context. In addition to the empirical analysis the study also investigates issues connected with the representation of linguistic units in grammar and the lexicon.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110928631
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31267-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092863-1
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Kunst, Diskurs und Nationalsozialismus

Book 2006

Kunst, Diskurs und Nationalsozialismus

Semantische und pragmatische Studien

Dina Kashapova

Volume 266 in this series

The book discusses the central concepts of National Socialist art policy: 'degenerate art' and 'German art'. With the aid of linguistic discourse analysis the history of these concepts is traced from their emergence in the 18th century and their development investigated up to the deontic potential they were invested with in National Socialist criticism of literature and art. The author demonstrates how these two concepts were drawn upon in word and text as a foundation for bans on artists and the burning of paintings in the Third Reich.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110945874
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31266-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094587-4
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Constitutional and Legal History
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Deutsch-amerikanische Alltagskommunikation

Book 2006

Deutsch-amerikanische Alltagskommunikation

Zur Beziehungsarbeit in interkulturellen Gesprächen

Hiltraud Casper-Hehne

Volume 265 in this series

The study is devoted to intercultural communication between German and North American students. Conversations in German between English-speaking North American learners of German and German native speakers are analyzed on the basis of a framework model relating to the linguistic work involved in everyday encounters and the differences and commonalities such work displays. The conversations discussed involve narrative, discursive, and directive dimensions, and contain differing degrees of face threatening. The analysis covers all the elements typical of conversations.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110960761
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31265-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096076-1
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: English
Subject:: German
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Communication Science
Subject:: Intercultural Communication
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Phraseologisches Wörterbuch des Mittelhochdeutschen

Book 2006

Phraseologisches Wörterbuch des Mittelhochdeutschen

Redensarten, Sprichwörter und andere feste Wortverbindungen in Texten von 1050-1350

Jesko Friedrich

Volume 264 in this series

The Phraseological Dictionary of Middle High German contains phrasemes, i.e., proverbs, idioms, formulaic greeting and farewell expressions, imprecations, standardized pairings (like 'good and bad'), and other firmly established word-combinations, arranged in alphabetical order under different headings. The material is drawn from several hundred texts dating from the period 1050-1350, Minnesang, heroic epics, Arthurian romance, non-fictional literature, etc. The dictionary proper is preceded by a study on the identification, classification, and lexicographic description of established word-combinations in historical texts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110945881
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31264-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094588-1
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Generative Linguistics
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Sprachgeschichte von unten

Book 2005

Sprachgeschichte von unten

Untersuchungen zum geschriebenen Alltagsdeutsch im 19. Jahrhundert

Stephan Elspaß

Volume 263 in this series

The study describes everyday 19th century written German as the 'unmarked case' displaying developments that are crucial for the understanding of the tendencies discernible in the present-day form of the language. Based on analyses of 19th century emigrant correspondence, 'Language History from Below' advocates a dual shift in perspectives for research on language (history): first a greater concern for language use in broad sectors of the population, and second a focus on the socio-communicative foundations of German as a modern cultural idiom.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110910568
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31263-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091056-8
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Sprachgeprägte Frauenbilder

Book 2005

Sprachgeprägte Frauenbilder

Soziale Stereotype im Mädchenbuch des 19. Jahrhunderts und ihre diskursive Konstituierung

Christa Stocker

Volume 262 in this series

Social stereotypes (e.g. images of women) are language-based and are thus reflected in a society's designative and descriptive practices. With reference to literary discourse in 19th century girls' books, the present study develops a method for the reconstruction of such language-based images by analyzing (a) references to persons and (b) collocations. The author demonstrates inter alia how the category of the Backfisch (a now largely obsolete but formerly widely used expression for »teenage girl«) and the image of women bound up with it developed between 1850 and 1914. Thus the book also represents a contribution to the history of mentality in the 19th century.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110910575
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31262-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091057-5
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Aporien der Gerechtigkeit

Book 2005

Aporien der Gerechtigkeit

Politische Rede der extremen Linken in Deutschland und Russland zwischen 1914 und 1919

Elizaveta Liphardt

Volume 261 in this series

This is a contrastive politico-linguistic study analyzing the semantic operations serving specific communication strategies in speeches by representatives of the extreme left. Speeches by Lenin, Trotsky, Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg form the empirical basis for the study. Central to the analysis are concepts and catchwords attaining a special impact in the language use displayed by the extreme left in setting itself off from the moderate social democrats (1914-1919). The analysis itself examines concept-splitting mechanisms and techniques of semantic upgrading and stigmatization.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110911862
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31261-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091186-2
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics, other
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: >Sprechen Sie nach dem Piep<

Book 2005

>Sprechen Sie nach dem Piep<

Kommunikation über Anrufbeantworter. Eine gesprächsanalytische Untersuchung

Rainer Knirsch

Volume 260 in this series

This study inquires into the difficulties besetting communication via answering machines and ways of dealing with those difficulties. It regards communication from the perspective of conversation analysis and centres both on the pre-recorded texts callers are confronted with and on messages left by callers. It transpires that communication via answering machines is subject to the tensions existing between oral and written language, dialogue and monologue, and interpersonal and mass communication. The complex demands made on both participants produce interesting phenomena related to the acquisition process involved in the use of this medium.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110918311
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31260-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091831-1
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Brisante Semantik

Book 2005

Brisante Semantik

Neuere Konzepte und Forschungsergebnisse einer kulturwissenschaftlichen Linguistik

Dietrich Busse, Thomas Niehr, Martin Wengeler

Volume 259 in this series

In the research being done in culturally oriented linguistics and in linguistic historiography geared to the evolution of mentality and discourse, Fritz Hermanns can certainly claim to be one of the most productive and creative minds in present-day German studies. Not only has he enriched the terminological repertory employed in such research by coining terms like Fahnenwort (>flag-word<, a term referring to an emotionally charged >rallying< word with positive political connotations) and deontic meaning. In his work he has also provided graphic justification for the consideration of emotional components in the meaning of words and for regarding words as >vehicles of thought<. This volume is a tribute to his achievements on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Taking its bearings from the approaches and analyses he has proposed, it divides into three sections: culturally oriented linguistics (theory and research programs), language history (17th-20th century), and present-day German.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110918328
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31259-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091832-8
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Rechtschreiben, Recht sprechen, recht haben - der Diskurs über die Rechtschreibreform

Book 2005

Rechtschreiben, Recht sprechen, recht haben - der Diskurs über die Rechtschreibreform

Eine linguistische Analyse des Streits in der Presse

Oliver Stenschke

Volume 258 in this series

»No one's going to make me spell Schifffahrt with 3 f's!« Categorical statements of this kind are typical of the discourse on the new German spelling and punctuation reform. But why is such a fuss made about Schifffahrt, Stängel, and other examples that hardly ever occur in ordinary writing anyway? And why do people get so emotional about the whole issue? This book looks at the selective and emotional nature of the dispute on the reform from the perspective of discourse linguistics, drawing upon an extensive corpus of press texts (from Der Spiegel, Focus, and the Süddeutsche Zeitung) for the purpose.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110913729
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31258-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091372-9
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Writing Systems and Orthography
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: »Volkhafte Sprachforschung«

Book 2005

»Volkhafte Sprachforschung«

Studien zum Umbau der Sprachwissenschaft in Deutschland zwischen 1918 und 1945

Clemens Knobloch

Volume 257 in this series

Against the background of the 'crisis of the humanities' in the Weimar Republic, the present volume examines representative linguistic topics and concepts prevalent in the period in question. In so doing, it demonstrates how the radical change in the public perception of language problems after 1918 was involved in the moral decline of German academic research on modern languages and on comparative historical linguistics. This decline led to a serious loss of reputation and the establishment of a species of linguistic research informed by political motivations and geared almost exclusively to the rallying concept of Volk (people/nation/race). After 1933, however, the expectations placed in the new regime by this 'ethnicized' form of linguistic research were quickly and thoroughly disappointed.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110913736
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31257-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091373-6
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Sozialpsychologie des Sprachverhaltens

Book 2005

Sozialpsychologie des Sprachverhaltens

Der deutsch-ungarische Sprachkonflikt in der Habsburgermonarchie

Péter Maitz

Volume 256 in this series

The primary concern of this interdisciplinary and empirical study is to explain language switching and language preservation in terms of linguistic behaviours. With reference to the language behaviour of the German-speaking community in Hungary in the last third of the 19th century, the attempt is made to establish whether and to what extent the theory of planned behaviour - one of the most influential attitude and behaviour models in modern social psychology - is in a position to resolve this central and much-discussed problem of sociolinguistics. In so doing, the book sets out to indicate the sociolinguistic benefits of socio-psychological ideas that in the relevant research have hitherto only been drawn upon in the form of isolated concepts regarded in isolation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110913743
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31256-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091374-3
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Other Languages of Europe
Subject:: Slavic Languages
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Language Contact
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Sprachnormen und Mentalitäten

Book 2005

Sprachnormen und Mentalitäten

Sprachbewusstseinsgeschichte in Deutschland im Zeitraum von 1766 bis 1785

Joachim Scharloth

Volume 255 in this series

The language-norm debate in the last third of the 18th century did not revolve solely around the linguistic question "What is High German?" Rather, it was preformed and organized by mentalities, general schemata of thought and evaluation. By collapsing a number of different social-constructivist theories (sociology of knowledge, cultural memory, discourse analysis), the study develops a model of the genesis of language awareness that draws on deep-semantic analyses to enable us to read the language-norm debate as a discourse on national identity inspired by cultural criticism.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110910247
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31255-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091024-7
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Discourse Analysis
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Sprachliches im Blickfeld des Wissens

Book 2005

Sprachliches im Blickfeld des Wissens

Grammatische Kenntnisse von Schülerinnen und Schülern

Reinold Funke

Volume 254 in this series

On the basis of existing empirical studies, the study demonstrates that it is questionable to equate grammar knowledge with explicit knowledge of school grammar. For the retrieval of genuine linguistic knowledge, this knowledge has to be subtended by specific syntactic information. The author develops and utilizes an empirical method designed to capture the presence of such information. The results indicate that though syntactic information is very widely accessible this does not make it reliably available. The handling of it has to be learned. This might well be the central task of grammar classes relating to the mother tongue.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110924701
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31254-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092470-1
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Der Schulerwerb von Deutsch als Fremdsprache

Book 2004

Der Schulerwerb von Deutsch als Fremdsprache

Eine empirische Untersuchung am Beispiel der italienischsprachigen Schweiz

Elisabetta Terrasi-Haufe

Volume 253 in this series

The present study offers a stock-taking of the knowledge of German as a foreign language identifiable at different levels of the education system in Ticino. Alongside the learner languages of the different groups of students, it also describes development sequences observable in connection with morphosyntax, lexematics, and pragmatics. Another aspect is the discussion of interrelationships between progress in written and spoken skills. Based on these findings, didactic recommendations are made for the conduct and planning of instruction in German as a foreign language.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110924718
ISBN:: 9783110924718
ISBN:: 9783484312531
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: First Language Acquisition
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Diskurslexikologie und Sprachgeschichte der Computertechnologie

Book 2004

Diskurslexikologie und Sprachgeschichte der Computertechnologie

Albert Busch

Volume 252 in this series

The linguistic and discursive processing of computer technology is studied here from its beginnings to the year 2000. The approach is based on discourse lexicology and corpus linguistics and centres around the popularization of information and communication technology and of the corresponding special languages. Alongside the periodicity of the discourse in parliament and the popular press, its main findings are bound up with the detailed description of the lexical development (semasiological and onomasiological inventories) and the de-specialization of technological vocabulary.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110910681
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31252-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091068-1
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Lexicology
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Deutsche und russische Gespräche

Book 2004

Deutsche und russische Gespräche

Ein Beitrag zur interkulturellen Pragmatik

Elena Yakovleva

Volume 251 in this series

This pilot study in contrastive pragmatics provides a detailed introduction to the problems of intercultural communication between Germans and Russians. Culture-specific conversation behaviour (structuring signals, organization of turn-taking, feedback behaviour, etc.) is pinpointed and described on an empirical basis. The contrastive analysis of opening gambits, core structure of verbal exchanges, and the termination phase in German and Russian conversations points up both typical structural features and also different forms of politeness, address, and other semantic and pragmatic particularities. The book is angled at all those interested in German/Russian communication and provides useful aids for the successful handling of conversations in German or Russian.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110910698
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31251-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091069-8
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Other Languages of Europe
Subject:: Slavic Languages
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Zwischen Monolog und Dialog

Book 2004

Zwischen Monolog und Dialog

Zur Theorie, Typologie und Geschichte des Zwischenrufs im deutschen Parlamentarismus

Armin Burkhardt

Volume 250 in this series

The book provides insights into the realm of unscheduled parliamentary communication. Authentic records of debates are drawn upon to filter out and typify interjections with reference to characteristic techniques, syntactic structures, provocation cues, and speech-act forms. The typologies thus obtained help to classify and quantify the various instances of actual interjection and to establish a historical and comparative foundation for a discussion of ongoing change in interjectory communication in German parliaments. Special chapters are devoted to >mini-dialogues< between speakers and interjectors, interjectory questions, and specific responses to women speakers.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110910704
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31250-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091070-4
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics, other
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Politische Sprachberatung als Symbiose von Linguistik und Sprachkritik

Book 2004

Politische Sprachberatung als Symbiose von Linguistik und Sprachkritik

Zu Theorie und Praxis einer kooperativ-kritischen Sprachwissenschaft

Kersten Sven Roth

Volume 249 in this series

The complex challenge of political language in democracy centers on the way in which it is caught up between the individual interest in effectiveness, on the one hand, and ethical claims on the other. It is this nexus that makes political language counseling necessary. Political linguistics has so far regarded itself exclusively as a descriptive science. To enable it to square up to the task of counseling, the study proceeds on the basis of theoretical considerations and proposes a methodological symbiosis of linguistics and language criticism (rhetoric, etc.). It develops a corresponding model, which it then applies to concrete examples with a view to testing its validity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110911947
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31249-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091194-7
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics, other
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Deutsch im Kontakt mit germanischen Sprachen

Book 2004

Deutsch im Kontakt mit germanischen Sprachen

Horst Haider Munske

Volume 248 in this series

These ten articles discuss language contacts between German and other Germanic languages and dialects: English, Frisian/Low German, Yiddish, the Scandinavian languages, and German dialects. As such it provides the first overview of its kind on this area of German and Germanic language history. In some of the articles, recent proposals for a theory of language contact are introduced, and there is also discussion of present-day issues in language policy.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110911954
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31248-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091195-4
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: English
Subject:: German
Subject:: Germanic Languages, other
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Natürliches Sprechen im belehrenden Schreiben

Book 2004

Natürliches Sprechen im belehrenden Schreiben

J. H. Campes »Robinson der Jüngere« (1779/80)

Silke Köstler-Holste

Volume 247 in this series

The aims of the book are twofold: (a) to unite language, literature, and history in the framework of a biographically supported and educationally well-founded historiography of language, and (b) to analyze the conversational structure and the lexical particularities of Joachim Heinrich Campe's (1749-1818) writings against the background of the philanthropist reform movement. Campe was a pedagogue and lexicographer from Brunswick, and the study focuses on his »Robinson der Jüngere« (1779/80), the most successful single instance of literature for young people in German. The edifying exchanges to be found in the book are discussed in terms of the principles of historical linguistic pragmatics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110911961
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31247-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091196-1
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Internationalismen II

Book 2003

Internationalismen II

Studien zur interlingualen Lexikologie und Lexikographie

Peter Braun, Burkhard Schaeder, Johannes Volmert

Volume 246 in this series

This collection is a sequel to the volume published by the same editors and with the same title in 1990 (RGL 102, out of print). It assembles articles describing, with reference to the present status of research, the incidence of 'internationalisms' in languages hitherto entirely or largely neglected in this respect (Dutch, Hungarian, Turkish, Japanese, Thai, Singhalese). These studies indicate the practical purposes that the results of research on internationalism can serve, notably in connection with lexicography and foreign-language teaching.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110911978
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31246-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091197-8
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Lexicography
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Lexicology
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Sprache und mehr

Book 2003

Sprache und mehr

Ansichten einer Linguistik der sprachlichen Praxis

Angelika Linke, Hanspeter Ortner, Paul R. Portmann

Volume 245 in this series

The book sets out to extend the constricted view of linguistics that the discipline itself has favoured so far. Language performance, the >eternally recurring work of the mind< (Humboldt), is seen here as the focal concern of linguistic theory formation. The articles essay a revision of what linguistics is centrally about from four different perspectives: the discussion of scientific theory, the practice of linguistic analysis, research on language teaching and learning, and the discussion on norms.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110911985
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31245-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091198-5
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Topos und Diskurs

Book 2003

Topos und Diskurs

Begründung einer argumentationsanalytischen Methode und ihre Anwendung auf den Migrationsdiskurs (1960-1985)

Martin Wengeler

Volume 244 in this series

How can we analyze an instance of public discourse using linguistic methods? What patterns of argumentation and thinking in connection with the subject of the immigration of workers to the Federal Republic remained much the same over a lengthy period of time, what others changed in the course of time, what new ones joined them? To answer these questions, the author substantiates a concept of topic based on argumentation theory, and uses that concept as a category in the 'deep-semantic' analysis of a major text corpus. The empirical analysis indicates how the linguistic construction of the subject of 'migrant workers' developed between 1960 and 1985.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110913187
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31244-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091318-7
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: REICHMANN: NEUE HISTORISCHE GRAMMATIKEN

Book 2003

REICHMANN: NEUE HISTORISCHE GRAMMATIKEN

Zum Stand der Grammatikschreibung historischer Sprachstufen des Deutschen und anderer Sprachen

Anja Lobenstein-Reichmann, Oskar Reichmann

Volume 243 in this series

The grammatography of historical stages of German and related languages was for a long time a central preserve of the series "Collection of Short Grammars of German Dialects". Progress in historical language description and the grammatical description of modern languages has led to a wave of revisions to existing historical grammars and also to a variety of new conceptions for them. The Heidelberg Conference from 28 January to 3 February 2001 discussed the effects of new linguistic insights on the practice of grammatical description. Major attention was given to such topics as the corpus problem, coverage of varieties, normalization, and the specific requirements of literary studies in connection with historical grammars.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110913194
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31243-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091319-4
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Organisation und Entwicklung historischer Wortschätze

Book 2003

Organisation und Entwicklung historischer Wortschätze

Lexikologische Konzeption und exemplarische Untersuchungen zum deutschen Wortschatz um 1600

Thomas Gloning

Volume 242 in this series

Vocabularies are complex structures. This complexity derives on the one hand from the large number of elements (words and their usages) and on the other from the fact that there are a multiplicity of structuring principles at work. We can regard the development of vocabulary as the interplay between factors favouring both stasis and change in complex systems. The aim is to describe, document, and, if possible, explain this interplay. The book has two major objectives, (a) lexicological: developing a coherent 'pragmatic' conception of the organization and dynamics of vocabulary, and (b) empirical: using this conception to describe German vocabulary around 1600 and - in a longitudinal study - to chart the astonishing history of cross-referential vocabulary in German.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110914085
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31242-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091408-5
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Lexicology
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Das Parlament und seine Sprache

Book 2003

Das Parlament und seine Sprache

Studien zu Theorie und Geschichte parlamentarischer Kommunikation

Armin Burkhardt

Volume 241 in this series

Starting with an analysis of constitutive and pioneering sessions in central German parliaments since 1848, the study demonstrates how plenary debates have become more and more strongly ritualized and are progressively deteriorating into media events. Major chapters of the book are devoted to the linguistic description of political language and communication, the structural changes undergone by parliamentary publicity, the semiotics of plenary halls, and specific aspects of parliamentary communication. Additionally, the Wende debate (1982) serves as a demonstration of the most important phenomena of parliamentary language: catchwords, key terms, evaluative expressions, metaphor, allusions, the play on proper names, rhetorical figures, presuppositions, forms of address, the 'inclusive we', quotations. Following a comparative analysis of the 'identity' debate in the Church of St. Paul (1848) and the 'capital' debate in the German Bundestag, an extensive final chapter discusses the history, the practicalities, and the reliability of stenographic reports.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110914092
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31241-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091409-2
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics, other
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Germanistische Linguistik

Book 2003

Germanistische Linguistik

Konturen eines Faches

Helmut Henne, Horst Sitta, Herbert Ernst Wiegand

Volume 240 in this series

The volume assembles papers from an eponymous colloquium held in Brunswick on the 18th/19th September 2001. It sets out to provide a documentation and overview of key concerns, currents and developments in German linguistics over the last few years.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110914108
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31240-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091410-8
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Neue Medien und Deutschdidaktik

Book 2003

Neue Medien und Deutschdidaktik

Eine empirische Studie zu Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit

Tanja Kurzrock

Volume 239 in this series

Central to this volume is an empirical study on the following questions: What media experience do eighth grade students have? What subjective theories of written and spoken language have they developed? Are there differences according to sex, type of school and media socialization? The study takes account of standard methodological procedures in the social sciences and combines quantitative and qualitative approaches. The findings are drawn upon for conclusions of a practical nature in connection with a meaningful interplay between media didactics and the teaching of German in school curricula.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110918373
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31239-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091837-3
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Im Haus der Sprache wohnen

Book 2003

Im Haus der Sprache wohnen

Wahrnehmung und Theater im Fremdsprachenunterricht

Ruth Huber

Volume 238 in this series

The study proceeds from the identification of a paradox in communicative foreign-language learning: only a minority of school learners develop into competent, conversationally versatile speakers. This negative showing is discussed in the theoretical section of the book. Sensitization of perception and drama-group work encourage a verbal use of language that approximates the natural development of oral communication skills and stimulates acquisition mechanisms. The result is a communication culture sui generis that creates the very conditions required for communication: closeness, cooperation, solidarity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110918380
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31238-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091838-0
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: First Language Acquisition
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Zum Zusammenhang von Wortneubildung und Textkonstitution

Book 2002

Zum Zusammenhang von Wortneubildung und Textkonstitution

Corinna Peschel

Volume 237 in this series

This study undertakes a systematic analysis of neologisms in authentic German texts, both for the structural principles and regularities involved in their formation and the constitution of their respective meanings. Previous linguistic research has contributed little of any genuine relevance on these aspects. New words evolve in a force-field generated by the tensions between pattern-conformity and context-dependency, tensions conditioned both by the species of word formation and the type of (con)text involved. The latter, in its turn, frequently owes much to neologisms for its coherence.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110918397
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31237-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091839-7
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Lexicology
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Sprachbezogenes Wissen in der Lebenswelt des Alltags

Book 2002

Sprachbezogenes Wissen in der Lebenswelt des Alltags

Andrea Lehr

Volume 236 in this series

Though ordinary language has long since attracted linguistic interest, there has been little attention paid to declarative knowledge about language phenomena in everyday life (i.e., outside the academic context). This is surprising, given the fact that such knowledge is of major relevance for the optimization of communication, etc. The present study indicates avenues for research into this kind of knowledge. Theoretical and empirical approaches combine to explore its nature, its content, and its function in ordinary life-world situations.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110960808
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31236-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096080-8
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Höflichkeitsformen in der Interaktion von Deutschen und Arabern

Book 2002

Höflichkeitsformen in der Interaktion von Deutschen und Arabern

Ein Beitrag zur interkulturellen Kommunikation

Abdelaziz Bouchara

Volume 235 in this series

This study investigates misunderstandings between Germans and Arabs caused by politeness. The data are mostly conversations in the course of private social gatherings. Gumperz' approach to intercultural communication and Brown/Levinson's theory of politeness supply the theoretical framework for the study. The two-sided concept of 'face' - distancing (negative face) and rapprochement (positive face) - points up cultural differences. Germans attach great importance to privacy and individuality, while Arabs prefer in-group relations.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110960815
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31235-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096081-5
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Zur eigenen Sprache finden

Book 2002

Zur eigenen Sprache finden

Modell einer plurilingualen Schreibdidaktik

Antonie Hornung

Volume 234 in this series

'Reflective didactics' is a method based on a theory of interpersonal (teaching) communication that proceeds from experience gleaned in classroom reality, makes that experience the object of theoretical reflection, and derives from that reflection concepts and material for use in teaching situations. The thematic emphasis of the present study is overt and covert multi-lingualism in schools. After discussing the empirical evidence for this assertion, it addresses its central purpose, which is to provide encouragement for as many learners as possible by means of suitable didactic measures designed to make the most of individual potentialities in the field of writing.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110960822
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31234-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096082-2
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Lehrgespräch und Sprachgeschichte

Book 2002

Lehrgespräch und Sprachgeschichte

Untersuchungen zur historischen Dialogforschung

Jörg Kilian

Volume 233 in this series

The study provides a theoretical and methodological grounding for historical dialogue research by engaging in a critical discussion and systematic dovetailing of approaches deriving from conversation analysis, dialogue grammar, and the history of mentality. It subsequently applies the results to didactic dialogues from the 17th and 18th centuries. The focus is on the didactic dialogue as both a subject of and a language-change factor in the linguistic practice of school instruction. For one suspended moment in the history of the language, it is thus possible to engage in closer observation of the evolution of standard New High German. A major turning-point in the history of educational communication is brought into a clearer perspective by tracing the development from religious catechetics to philanthropic Socratic maieutics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110960839
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31233-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096083-9
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Communication Science
Subject:: Interpersonal Communication
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Historische Wortbildung des Deutschen

Book 2002

Historische Wortbildung des Deutschen

Mechthild Habermann, Peter O. Müller, Horst Haider Munske

Volume 232 in this series

The volume assembles 25 papers delivered at (and additional contributions to) the conference on »Historical Word Formation in German« held 10-14 October 2000 in Erlangen. The main headings are: I. General aspects of historical word formation, II. Word formation in various epochs of the history of German, III. Word formation and language contact.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110940756
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31232-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094075-6
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Prosodie und Emotionen

Book 2002

Prosodie und Emotionen

Roland Kehrein

Volume 231 in this series

This study is the first of its kind to offer a comprehensive analysis of authentic everyday emotions as opposed to the simulated or stylized variety. Extensive material distinctive for its combination of unforced language behaviour, extremely good recording quality, and a high frequency of recurrent interaction sequences makes it possible to propose an empirically well-founded and at the same time surprisingly simple model of German prosody. On this basis, the study identifies four fundamental emotional dimensions directly connected with prosodic units and acoustic parameters.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110940763
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31231-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094076-3
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Phonology
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Grundlagen der Textlinguistik

Book 2002

Grundlagen der Textlinguistik

Interaktion - Text - Diskurs

Margot Heinemann, Wolfgang Heinemann

Volume 230 in this series

This workbook gives an initial overview of fundamental problems addressed by interaction research and text linguistics (notably research on text varieties). At the same time, it represents a compendium of approaches to the practical side of work on texts, both the analysis of texts from different communication settings and - for the first time - the design and authorship of specific varieties of texts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110940770
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31230-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094077-0
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Lesen und Schreiben 1700 bis 1900

Book 2002

Lesen und Schreiben 1700 bis 1900

Untersuchung zur Durchsetzung der Literalität in der Schweiz

Alfred Messerli

Volume 229 in this series

The study sets out to identify the processes and dynamics responsible for the transformation of Switzerland from a country in which in 1700 only a minority could read and write into a nation of fully literate citizens by 1900. The literacy standard that, as of 1760, insisted that every adult should be able to read and write fell on fruitful soil, arriving at a time when Swiss society had already been sensitized to the importance of written correspondence and book-keeping.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110940787
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31229-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094078-7
Subject:: History
Subject:: Regional and National History
Subject:: Europe
Subject:: General European History
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Im Deutschunterricht diskutieren

Book 2002

Im Deutschunterricht diskutieren

Zur Linguistik und Didaktik einer kommunikativen Praktik

Rüdiger Vogt

Volume 228 in this series

The subject of this volume is 'discussion culture' in German lessons at school. Studies of teaching scenarios undertaken from the perspectives of conversation analysis and didactics show how students conduct discussions with their peers or with the teacher, more specifically, how they introduce, develop, and conclude exchange sequences of an adversative, convergent, or divergent nature. The result is an empirically based stocktaking of discussion processes in the institutional context. As such it is eminently well suited as a basis for didactic reflection on the potentialities and limitations of this form of teaching.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110940794
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31228-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094079-4
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Knappes Sprechen

Book 2002

Knappes Sprechen

Heike Baldauf

Volume 227 in this series

The form of language used to accompany actions performs different functions from a conversation; it differs in its structure, and analysis reveals hitherto largely neglected phenomena such as the tendency to employ terse, compressed utterances. The study investigates 'terse linguistic expression' and describes selected forms of it using the methods of conversation analysis. Discussion of a corpus of exchanges recorded while the participants were watching television indicates explanation strategies for dealing with terse utterances. Special reference is made here to the connection between terseness and sociability.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110941517
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31227-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094151-7
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Perspektiven auf Stil

Book 2001

Perspektiven auf Stil

Eva-Maria Jakobs, Annely Rothkegel

Volume 226 in this series

The expansion of the concept of style has its roots in the diversity of theories on the subject and the different language elements to which style is ascribed. Alongside the print media, a whole plethora of other sectors clamor for attention, including the electronic media and oral as much as written utterances. This calls for perspectives no longer limited to traditional stylistics and text linguistics but extending to sociolinguistics, conversation analysis, pragmatics, LSP research and translation studies. This situation shows the necessity for discussion on the present state of research and future research issues in connection with style as a semiotic, cultural, and social phenomenon.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110941524
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31226-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094152-4
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Populärmedizinische Vermittlungstexte

Book 2001

Populärmedizinische Vermittlungstexte

Studien zur Geschichte und Gegenwart fachexterner Vermittlungsvarietäten

Andrea Becker

Volume 225 in this series

Popular medical texts from the early modern age to the present are drawn upon to show how an intermediary communicative world has developed between science and everyday life and how the transfer between specialist language and the scientific world on the one hand and everyday language and the everyday world on the other is managed in such texts. It transpires that non-specialist communication is oriented both to science and the world of the everyday, albeit in different ways. With a view to clarifying their theoretical status, the varieties thus identified are related to the system of varieties in German. Non-specialist communication is defined and distinguished from other forms of knowledge transfer.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110941531
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31225-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094153-1
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Fritz Mauthner - Sprache, Literatur, Kritik

Book 2000

Fritz Mauthner - Sprache, Literatur, Kritik

Festakt und Symposion zu seinem 150. Geburtstag

Helmut Henne, Christine Kaiser

Volume 224 in this series

Fritz Mauthner (1849-1923), famed for his parodies in the Berlin of the Gründerzeit, is best known today for his huge »Contributions to a Critique of Language« (1901/02). In addition, he wrote various novels, worked for many years as a journalist and drama reviewer and finally retired to Meersburg on Lake Constance to devote his final years to the philosophy of language. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his birth in 1999, a commemorative ceremony, a staged reading and a symposium were organized in Brunswick. The volume contains the texts by Mauthner performed at the reading, the papers presented at the event and a cross-section of the discussion following the papers.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110941548
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31224-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094154-8
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies and Linguistics
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Untersuchungen zur Theorie der Grammatikalisierung am Beispiel des Westmitteldeutschen

Book 2000

Untersuchungen zur Theorie der Grammatikalisierung am Beispiel des Westmitteldeutschen

Heiko Girnth

Volume 223 in this series

Hitherto, research on grammaticalization has been largely language-typological and universalist in its leanings and as such has been consistently gaining ground within the framework of German studies. The present monograph proposes a theory of grammaticalization collating various approaches and discussing them on a broad empirical basis. The material drawn upon is largely taken from spoken West Central German. The area covered by the grammaticalization phenomena discussed is documented on 16 language maps. The inclusion of diachronic analyses places the present-day grammaticalization processes in a broader context.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110941555
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31223-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094155-5
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Dialectology
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Johannes Widmanns »Behende und hubsche Rechenung«

Book Open Access 2000

Johannes Widmanns »Behende und hubsche Rechenung«

Die Textsorte >Rechenbuch< in der Frühen Neuzeit

Barbara Gärtner

Volume 222 in this series

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In the early modern age Rechenbücher (arithmetic books) were texts in German for an illiterate audience. A pragmatically oriented text analysis model is used to study these counting books, compare them with texts of different content and in other languages and locate them in the history of text varieties in German as an integral part of European cultural history. As a prototypic example of this text variety, the study contains a complete edition of the work by J. Widmann (approx. 1460/5 - after 1504) together with information on the author's life and works, on the place his book on arithmetic has in the history of mathematics, a brief commentary, an index of measurement units and a glossary.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110919967
ISBN:: 9783110919967
ISBN:: 9783484312227
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Vorwurfsaktivitäten in der Alltagsinteraktion

Book 2000

Vorwurfsaktivitäten in der Alltagsinteraktion

Grammatische, prosodische, rhetorisch-stilistische und interaktive Verfahren bei der Konstitution kommunikativer Muster und Gattungen

Susanne Günthner

Volume 221 in this series

On the basis of a study of reproach activities ('in situ reproaches', 'mock reproaches' and reconstructions of previous reproach interactions in 'complaint stories') the monograph examines prosodic, grammatical, rhetorical/stylistic processes and their functions in everyday usage. Following an analysis of the constitution of these reproach genres the study charts the consequences for a theory of communicative practice and discusses aspects such as the genre-specific function of grammatical structures, the interaction between prosodic and syntactic procedures in the production of communicative meaning, and the role of indexical signs in the negotiation of meaning.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110919974
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31221-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091997-4
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Kommunikation in gesellschaftlichen Umbruchsituationen

Book 2000

Kommunikation in gesellschaftlichen Umbruchsituationen

Mikroanalytische Aspekte des sprachlichen und gesellschaftlichen Wandels in den Neuen Bundesländern

Peter Auer, Heiko Hausendorf

Volume 219 in this series

In the linguistic research on the Wende undertaken so far, phenomena like vocabulary change and political language usage have been in the forefront of interest. This has involved a high degree of neglect for broad areas of everyday and spoken language and their socio-cultural moorings. The present volume sees itself as an empirical contribution to rectifying that situation. There are three main subjects: >East< and >West< as categories of social affiliation established and concretized in communication; patterns and strategies of oral communication employed by East and West Germans (e.g. in job and guidance interviews); changes within the East German communication society.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110919981
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31219-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091998-1
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Reflexionen über Sprache aus literatur- und sprachwissenschaftlicher Sicht

Book 2000

Reflexionen über Sprache aus literatur- und sprachwissenschaftlicher Sicht

Axel Gellhaus, Horst Sitta

Volume 218 in this series

The articles gathered here go back to papers held at the colloquium on »Language Criticism« held at the German Studies Department of the Technical University of Aachen (RWTH) on 19 February 1999. Their common theme is the joint interest of German Studies scholars, whether in literary studies or linguistics, in a perspective that can be referred with terms like "language criticism", "language reflection", possibly also "language culture" or "cultivation". The contributions can be read as a plea to re-establish a language-critical component (as opposed to a merely descriptive one) in the engagement with (German) language and literature.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110919998
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31218-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091999-8
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies and Linguistics
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Die Kodifizierung der Orthographie im Rechtschreibwörterbuch

Book 2000

Die Kodifizierung der Orthographie im Rechtschreibwörterbuch

Eine Untersuchung zur Rechtschreibung im »Duden« und im »Österreichischen Wörterbuch«

Anna Maria Lasselsberger

Volume 217 in this series

The focus here is on the codification of spelling in the »Duden« and the »Österreichisches Wörterbuch« prior to the present spelling reform. First a closer look is taken at features of spelling norms and the role of orthographic dictionaries in their codification. After a discussion of the traditions of the two dictionaries, an attempt is made to establish to what extent the »Duden« and the »Österreichisches Wörterbuch« have 'insidiously' reformed German spelling, i.e. how from edition to edition their codification of spelling has gradually moved away from the basis common to them both: the rules resolved at the Second Orthographic Conference of 1901.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110920000
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31217-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092000-0
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Writing Systems and Orthography
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Die Sprache der Mainzer Republik (1792/93)

Book Open Access 2000

Die Sprache der Mainzer Republik (1792/93)

Historisch-semantische Untersuchungen zur politischen Kommunikation

Joachim Herrgen

Volume 216 in this series

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Mainzer Republik is the name given to the period from October 1792 to July 1793 when Mainz was French and the French and the 'Mainz Jacobins' attempted to revolutionize the population of the city. In terms of language history the Mainzer Republik represents a sharp caesura. It was the first time in German history that a political part-public took shape displaying a close-knit and highly innovative form of persuasive communication. This monograph looks especially at the historical semantics and pragmatics of the Mainzer Republik, centering its argumentative focus on the interdependence between language and society.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110920017
ISBN:: 9783110920017
ISBN:: 9783484312166
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Early Modern History
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics, other
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Zugehörigkeit durch Sprache

Book 2000

Zugehörigkeit durch Sprache

Eine linguistische Studie am Beispiel der deutschen Wiedervereinigung

Heiko Hausendorf

Volume 215 in this series

The study proceeds from an inquiry into the way in which affiliation to social groups is signalized communicatively. The question is examined on the basis of a large corpus of authentic verbal exchanges (conversations) recorded in the years following German reunification. 'East German' and 'West German' are the social categories forming the basis for the empirical elaboration of how individuals are allocated to group(ing)s and how - both on the basis of that allocation and beyond it - group-specific characteristics and behaviours are ascribed and evaluated. The main result of the study is the establishment of a descriptive linguistic framework for social categorizations in conversations and texts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110920024
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31215-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092002-4
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Schreiben und Denken

Book 2000

Schreiben und Denken

Hanspeter Ortner

Volume 214 in this series

Difficult assignments and long texts force writers to adopt strategic behaviours. This study looks at strategies employed by adult writers composing long texts, i.e. thinking as they write, processing, working over and elaborating knowledge in the act of writing, as opposed to merely reproducing it. In more academic terms we might say: engaging in epistemic and heuristic activity. The book presents ten different types of writer. The typology it proposes is based on the evaluation of statements by approx. 6,000 persons, both professionals and students.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110943313
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31214-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094331-3
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Wirtschaftskommunikation

Book 2000

Wirtschaftskommunikation

Linguistische Analyse ihrer mündlichen Formen

Gisela Brünner

Volume 213 in this series

The volume describes the highly varied forms of linguistic action involved in business contexts and encounters. It provides an overview of central exchange types: sales and complaint exchanges, exchanges between laypersons and experts in the technical service sector, negotiations and discussions. Specific features and problems are described in discourse-analytic terms with reference to authentic examples. Written forms of communication are also covered. Studies such as these can find application in communication guidance and training and in language instruction contexts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110943320
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31213-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094332-0
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Communication Science
Subject:: Interpersonal Communication
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Sprache in der Klasse

Book 2000

Sprache in der Klasse

Eine dialektologisch-soziolinguistische Untersuchung von Primarschulkindern in multilingualem Umfeld

Raphael Berthele

Volume 212 in this series

This study looks at the language community constituted by a Swiss primary school class of children with a highly assorted mixture of mother tongues. The language used in class is described in terms of variety linguistics and the social processes within the class are examined sociographically. Dialectologic and socio-psychological variables are related to one another; in addition, observations on social solidarity and demarcation are subjected to a qualitative analysis. The language of the class is interpreted as a cumulative product of individual communicative interests. The findings contribute to a better understanding of language and its development in multifactorial contexts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110945911
ISBN:: 9783110945911
ISBN:: 9783484312128
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Dialectology
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Textvernetzung in den Wissenschaften

Book 1999

Textvernetzung in den Wissenschaften

Zitat und Verweis als Ergebnis rezeptiven, reproduktiven und produktiven Handelns

Eva-Maria Jakobs

Volume 210 in this series

The study inquires into the way in which specialist (scholarly and scientific) texts are reproduced for research purposes and integrated into new texts. Of especial interest are factors influencing these processes. Situative factors have a bearing on the incorporation of receptive and productive processes into concrete social, cultural, and historical contexts, on the subject under discussion and various other things. Specific individual factors depend on the aims, motivation, or status of the scholar/scientist in question. The discussion is based on empirical data and is interdisciplinary in its orientation. Text-linguistic approaches are supplemented by concepts drawn from cognitive psychology and research on writing.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110945928
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31210-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094592-8
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Parodie und Sprachkritik

Book 1999

Parodie und Sprachkritik

Untersuchungen zu Fritz Mauthners »Nach berühmten Mustern«

Almut Vierhufe

Volume 209 in this series

Central to this study are Fritz Mauthner's (1849-1923) literary parodies published between 1878 and 1884 under the title »Nach berühmten Mustern« (On Famous Models). Today, Mauthner is known (if at all) for his major language-critical works (though there has been a revival of interest in him over the last few years), but linguistic, stylistic, and content-oriented analysis reveal him even in his early works as a notable critic of the age he lived in, the prevailing cultural climate, and above all linguistic style. It is thus possible to read his early literary work as a precursor of his later epistemologically oriented critique of language and language usage.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110945935
ISBN:: 9783110945935
ISBN:: 9783484312098
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies and Linguistics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Die Modalverben im Deutschen

Book 1999

Die Modalverben im Deutschen

Grammatikalisierung und Polyfunktionalität

Gabriele Diewald

Volume 208 in this series

The study examines German modal auxiliaries from the perspective of grammaticalization. The thrust is a dual one. First the attempt is undertaken to provide a systematic description of the coexistence of usages with differing degrees of grammaticalization in present-day German; second, a model is developed for the diachronic evolution of the more strongly grammaticalized usage of modal verbs as deictic facticity markers. Corpus analyses are drawn on both for the synchronic and the diachronic approaches.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110945942
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31208-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094594-2
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Auf dem Weg zu einer pragmatischen Syntax

Book 1999

Auf dem Weg zu einer pragmatischen Syntax

Eine vergleichende Fallstudie zu Präferenzen in gesprochen und geschrieben realisierten Textsorten

Frank Jürgens

Volume 207 in this series

The syntax of natural spoken language is not susceptible of description with the traditional system of categories, which is tailored to the analysis and description of written language. The volume sets out to open up a new syntactic research avenue through the comparison of extensive written and spoken text corpora. On the basis of a grammar description instrumentarium allowing for the analysis of syntactic structures independently of the media in which they occur, a theoretical basis for a realistic and everyday-language-oriented approach to syntax study is proposed and empirically substantiated.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110915983
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31207-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091598-3
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Der junge Botho Strauß

Book 1999

Der junge Botho Strauß

Literarische Sprache im Zeitalter der Medien

Jan Eckhoff

Volume 206 in this series

The study proceeds on the following premise: in his apprentice years (1963-1975) the young Botho Strauß (b. 1944) elaborated a poetics centering around historical theatre reality and focussing on a reflective linguistic critique of the ideologies and epistemologies operative between public and mass media in the context of the student revolution. The discussion traces the development of the student Botho Strauß with reference to examples of his narrative prose (1963), theatre criticism (1967-1970), and dramaturgic writing (1970-1975). In so doing it charts his progress from student prose-writer to theatre critic, theatre critic to dramatic adviser, and finally from dramatic adviser to freelance writer.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110952193
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31206-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095219-3
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Subject:: Literary Studies
Subject:: German Literature
Subject:: 20th Century
Subject:: Topics in Literary Studies
Subject:: Literary Studies and Linguistics
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Rhetorik in der Phraseologie

Book 1999

Rhetorik in der Phraseologie

Zur Bedeutung rhetorischer Stilelemente im idiomatischen Wortschatz des Deutschen

Hans-Ulrich Dietz

Volume 205 in this series

The study approaches the question of the origin of idiomatic phrases from the point of view of classical rhetoric. After a detailed theoretical discussion of phenomena such as metaphor, metonymy, irony, antithesis, etc., some 400 German idiomatic phrases and sayings are subjected to close rhetorical/semantic examination. This empirical section of the study conveys a differentiated picture of the meaning structure of 'figurative' expressions, points up links between the literal and idiomatic meaning of such expressions, and shows the high and varied degree to which 'ornamental' rhetorical elements participate in the formation of idiomatic vocabulary units.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110952209
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31205-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095220-9
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics, other
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Lexicology
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Kommunikative Basisstrategien des Aufforderns

Book 1999

Kommunikative Basisstrategien des Aufforderns

Eine kontrastive Analyse gesprochener Sprache im Deutschen und im Japanischen

Ulrike Schilling

Volume 204 in this series

Are the Japanese really courteous, conciliatory, and group-oriented, whereas Germans are direct, adversative, and individual? With reference to the linguistic phenomenon of the directive, the study closely examines these much-rehearsed stereotypes. With a consistently contrastive approach based on an empirical survey, systematic differences and overlaps in the pragmalinguistics of directives are established for German and Japanese. The study describes the extent to which factors like social field of interaction, age, gender, social norms and values, etc. have a significantly different bearing on directive usage behavior in the two language communities.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110952216
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31204-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095221-6
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Contrastive Linguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Grammatik und Sprachwirklichkeit von 1640-1700

Book 1998

Grammatik und Sprachwirklichkeit von 1640-1700

Zur Rolle deutscher Grammatiker im schriftsprachlichen Ausgleichsprozeß

Hiroyuki Takada

Volume 203 in this series

Evaluations of the significance of 17th century German grammarians for the standardization process in written language usage tend to take the form of sweeping statements lacking any concrete empirical substantiation. With reference to usage changes identifiable in publications that went through a number of editions (including Luther's Bible translation), the author demonstrates that the language norms advocated by scholarly theorists were largely congruent with practical usage and in addition that the grammarians exerted a noticeable influence both on local and supraregional usage.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110952223
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31203-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-095222-3
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Der Prüfer ist nicht der König

Book 1998

Der Prüfer ist nicht der König

Mündliche Abschlußprüfungen in der Hochschule

Dorothee Meer

Volume 202 in this series

The present study has a dual purpose in examining oral examinations as a specific conversation/dialogue type. First it takes its bearings from Michel Foucault to develop a model suitable for a conversation-analytic investigation of the viva voce at university level. This model is also designed to establish the scope and limits determining what can and cannot be said in such exam situations in terms of the specific positions occupied by the participants. From there it proceeds to draw on the findings yielded by these observations to formulate conclusions of a didactic nature geared to the institutional possibilities open to the persons involved.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110918953
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31202-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091895-3
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Dialekt im Alltag

Book 1998

Dialekt im Alltag

Eine empirische Untersuchung zur lokalen Komponente heutiger schweizerdeutscher Varianten

Helen Christen

Volume 201 in this series

On the basis of empirical material from interviews with 42 young speakers of Swiss German, the authors inquire whether it is possible to localize modern idiolects within Switzerland. The localization of varieties is undertaken with the aid of a horizontal dialect measurement procedure which, unlike vertical techniques, does not gauge the distance from standard but the similarity with local varieties. This makes it possible to identify both local features of the varieties in question and changes within Swiss German dialects in general.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110918960
ISBN:: 9783110918960
ISBN:: 9783484312012
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Dialectology
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Zwischen Dialekt und Standard

Book 1998

Zwischen Dialekt und Standard

Empirische Untersuchung zur Soziolinguistik des Varietätenspektrums im Deutschen

Anette Huesmann

Volume 199 in this series

This study is a sociolinguistic analysis of High German on the basis of an empirical survey. 2,218 speakers of High German from various parts of Germany were asked to complete a questionnaire. The evaluation showed how many of these speakers also spoke dialect, what social features they displayed, and what attitudes they had to dialect and standard German. The results indicate that in the history of High German the same factors have been operative as those that are still significant for the social structures of the language community in which it is spoken.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110918984
ISBN:: 9783110918984
ISBN:: 9783484311992
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Dialectology
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Sprachliche Varianz als Ergebnis von Handlungswahl

Book 1998

Sprachliche Varianz als Ergebnis von Handlungswahl

Beate Henn-Memmesheimer

Volume 198 in this series

The volume provides elements of a theory of variation. In contrast to the traditional structuralist, dialectological or sociolinguistic acceptances of the term, variation here no longer refers to the selection of functionally equivalent linguistic alternatives dependent on established co-occurrence rules, stable social milieus or the norms of well-defined situations. Instead it is taken to mean the flexible handling of linguistic elements of differing provenance with specific functions relative to concrete interaction. But though usages are not codified, this does not mean that they are arbitrary or purely individual. They prove to be identifiable as differentiations conditional upon existing differentiations. The articles indicate the generalized structures of semiological processes in self-differentiating societies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110918991
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31198-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091899-1
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Werbung im Jahr 1947

Book 1998

Werbung im Jahr 1947

Zur Sprache der Anzeigen in Zeitschriften der Nachkriegszeit

Christiane Adam-Wintjen

Volume 197 in this series

This study is historical and pragmatic in its approach and examines the first advertisements in German postwar magazines prior to the currency reform in 1948. One central interest of the study is advertising as part of the cultural history of everyday life reflecting the specific living (and survival) conditions and the intellectual climate of the period. Others are the conditions determining what advertising looked like and the intentions of the advertising experts. What kind of advertising was appropriate to a period of upheaval and general (language) crisis? The author indicates the traditions drawn upon and the emergence of new patterns adumbrating 'modern' contemporary advertising strategies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110919004
ISBN:: 9783110919004
ISBN:: 9783484311978
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Spaß Verstehen

Book 1998

Spaß Verstehen

Zur Pragmatik von konversationellem Humor

Helga Kotthoff

Volume 196 in this series

The volume investigates various genres and types of activity associated with joking in everyday interaction situations. It is an attempt to distinguish characteristic differences between teasing, joshing, leg-pulling, parody, irony, dry humour and many other activities, and to identify the inference processes involved in 'getting the joke'. Dimensions of playful communication given special emphasis are its function as a relation indicator and as an expression of creativity and originality.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110919011
ISBN:: 9783110919011
ISBN:: 9783484311961
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Pragmatics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Negation und Interrogation

Book 1998

Negation und Interrogation

Studien zur Universalität ihrer Funktionen

Elke Hentschel

Volume 195 in this series

The volume looks into selected aspects of negation and interrogation and the way they interrelate. After a comparative investigation of negation in German, Serbian and Turkish offering a number of new insights on mechanisms operative in all three languages, the position of the negator is discussed with reference to German and to languages generally. With reference to the analysis of universal interactive structures between negation and interrogation, the author discusses and elaborates on various descriptive approaches to the status of sentence modes, also providing empirical material culled from a total of 52 different languages.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110919028
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31195-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091902-8
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Other Languages of Europe
Subject:: Slavic Languages
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Sprache, Kommunikationskultur und Mentalität

Book 1998

Sprache, Kommunikationskultur und Mentalität

Zur sozio- und kontaktlinguistischen Theoriebildung und Methodologie

Erika Werlen

Volume 194 in this series

This is a paradigmatic study of intranational and international language contact in the South-West of the German-speaking area: speakers of Badisch in Württemberg and of Eastern Swiss in the canton of Berne, Germans in German-speaking Switzerland and Swiss in the South-West of the Federal Republic. As there are no immediate barriers involved in terms of the language system, the study points up differences between intra- and inter-cultural communication; it transpires that the conflict potential operative in the language contacts studied stem from differences in communication culture and mentality.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110919035
ISBN:: 9783110919035
ISBN:: 9783484311947
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Language Contact
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Werbeanzeigen von 1622–1798

Book 1998

Werbeanzeigen von 1622–1798

Entstehung und Entwicklung einer Textsorte

Sylvia Bendel

Volume 193 in this series

This volume first of all assembles 1470 advertisements from German and Swiss newspapers serving as potential source material for further linguistic, journalistic or historical studies. The study of them presented here draws on an action-oriented text variety model as an instrument for their analysis. Typical linguistic functions and wordings are presented, combined with a discussion of the advertising strategies employed in the period and the way these a) correlate with the social value systems prevalent at the time, and b) contrast with the advertising strategies employed today.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110960792
ISBN:: 9783110960792
ISBN:: 9783484311930
Subject:: History
Subject:: Topics in History
Subject:: Cultural History
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Funktionen von Jugendsprache

Book 1998

Funktionen von Jugendsprache

Studien zu verschiedenen Gesprächstypen des Dialogs Jugendlicher mit Erwachsenen

Susanne Augenstein

Volume 192 in this series

The study combines linguistic and socio-psychological research results to show that the widespread conviction that juvenile sociolects serve to assure group integrity against outsiders is only true to a certain degree. Youth 'jargon' fulfills a number of different functions. The study commences by examining dialogues between young people and adults to illustrate the theoretical issues addressed by a concern with the functional aspect of language. Subsequently, the use of juvenile sociolects by young people in verbal exchanges with adults is subjected to a number of systematic empirical analyses. Finally, an analysis of youth jargon/sociolectal features adopted and emulated by adults provides insight into a field hitherto unexplored: attempted imitation by outsiders.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110911329
ISBN:: 9783110911329
ISBN:: 9783484311923
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Parlando in Texten

Book 1998

Parlando in Texten

Zur Veränderung kommunikativer Grundmuster in der Schriftlichkeit

Peter Sieber

Volume 191 in this series

This is a study of changes in writing patterns displayed by young German adults (secondary school leavers). The study draws on two corpora, one of texts written at school in the 1990s, the other a historical corpus of essays written during the Abitur examination over a period ranging from 1881-1991. In Part One of the book ("Parlando as a Textual Phenomenon"), specific text-linguistic features of present-day texts are grouped under the heading "Parlando", described and their gradual emergence traced in the historical corpus. Part Two ("Looking for Explanations") draws on language theory, language history, sociology and theories of education to develop explanatory dimensions for the Parlando phenomenon. It transpires that it is possible to interpret the "Parlando" text pattern as an indication of a socio-communicative language change in written texts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110940800
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31191-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094080-0
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Verbstellungswandel bei Jugendlichen, Frauen und Männern im 16. Jahrhundert

Book 1998

Verbstellungswandel bei Jugendlichen, Frauen und Männern im 16. Jahrhundert

Robert Peter Ebert

Volume 190 in this series

This quantitative sociolinguistic study examines the complex linguistic and social factors governing variation and change in the position of an auxiliary and a non-finite verb form in dependent clauses in works from 16th-century Nuremberg. It traces developments through adolescence and early adulthood and examines the usage of parents, siblings and others in the family network as well as written models (instructional works, printed books, and business and administrative language).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110940817
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31190-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094081-7
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Personenbezeichnungen

Book 1997

Personenbezeichnungen

Der Mensch in der deutschen Sprache

Peter Braun

Volume 189 in this series

The study looks into the way in which Man, the language animal, uses words to refer to himself. The material discussed comprises some 15,000 designations for persons in present-day German (e.g. Prüfer, Prüfling). 10,300 such terms are to be found in a normal one-volume German dictionary. The discussion centres on standard vocabulary, but comparative reference is also made to examples from other language varieties. Nouns for persons are described in terms of the morphological and semantic systems governing them. Other topics discussed are: aspects of language history and language comparison; occurrence and functions in journalistic prose and literary texts; multiplicity of designation in German.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110940824
ISBN:: 9783110940824
ISBN:: 9783484311893
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Lexicography
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Lexicology
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Die Zukunft der Textlinguistik

Book 1997

Die Zukunft der Textlinguistik

Traditionen, Transformationen, Trends

Gerd Antos, Heike Tietz

Volume 188 in this series

The aim of the book is to offset certain static conservative tendencies observable in text-linguistics by advancing a concept that is not restrictive and defensive but consciously welcomes new developments, seeks to extend the purview of applied text-linguistics and sets alternative priorities both in theory and practice. The main topics focussed on are: the concept of text and the functions of text-linguistics, intertextuality, writing research, the medial nature of texts, and translation-oriented, didactic and historical aspects of text-linguistics.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110940831
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31188-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094083-1
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Quantitative, Computational, and Corpus Linguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Untersuchungen zur semantischen Entwicklungsgeschichte der Modalverben im Deutschen

Book 1997

Untersuchungen zur semantischen Entwicklungsgeschichte der Modalverben im Deutschen

Gerd Fritz, Thomas Gloning

Volume 187 in this series

The articles collected in this volume deal with theoretical and empirical issues in the historical semantics of German modals. The topics presented in these articles include types of semantic change, the semantics/pragmatics interface, the structure and development of polysemy, epistemic and non-epistemic uses, variation of use in different types of text, aspects of quantitative corpus analysis. As for empirical data there is a particular emphasis of Old High German and Early Modern German materials.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110940848
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31187-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094084-8
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Semantics
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Demokratische Sprache zwischen Tradition und Neuanfang

Book 1997

Demokratische Sprache zwischen Tradition und Neuanfang

Am Beispiel des Grundrechte-Diskurses 1948/49

Jörg Kilian

Volume 186 in this series

The book looks into the connections between language and democracy in the sphere of political communication and political vocabulary in Germany between the end of the National Socialist dictatorship and the foundation of the Federal Republic. From the overarching perspective of the relation between tradition and renewal of the language of democracy in post-war Germany, the study sets out first to investigate traditions of ideological diction since the first democratic assembly in St. Paul's Church in 1848, going on to examine the breaks with these traditions evidencing themselves in the Weimar Republic and the Nazi era and grounded in the history of German politics in the period in question. The other major concern is to identify and locate the inception of the modern-day political idiom in the Federal Republic in language-historical terms. Analyses of varieties of political dialogue and the political vocabulary show that after 1945 political communication took up traditional existing modes, whereas a break with tradition and a new start is discernible in the lexical/semantic field.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110940855
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31186-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094085-5
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Contemporary History until 1945
Subject:: Other Topics
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics, other
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Schriftliches Erzählen in der Zweitsprache

Book 1997

Schriftliches Erzählen in der Zweitsprache

Werner Knapp

Volume 185 in this series

Why do so many children from language minorities who began their primary schooling in the host country still have serious deficits in the second language, especially in writing, even at the secondary level? In order to examine the linguistic abilities of migrant children, their narrative texts were examined from the point of view of narrative structure, the establishment of referential relations and the use of typical linguistic means of narration. One important outcome of the analysis was that those migrant children who only recently arrived in the host country have a degree of textual and narrative competence which derives from the first language. Their deficits are in the area of formulation. On the other hand, children who have spent all of their school time in the host country do not have this problem. The have deficits in textual and narrative competence, especially in comparison with children from the host country.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110918489
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31185-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091848-9
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Einige Prinzipien des Textaufbaus

Book 1997

Einige Prinzipien des Textaufbaus

Empirische Untersuchungen zur Produktion mündlicher Texte

Christiane von Stutterheim

Volume 184 in this series

The form and structuring of an ordinary-language text (say the description of an instruction or a story) are largely pre-determined by the quaestio, the explicit or implicit question that the text as a whole is seeking to answer. This is the pilot concept that the presents study sets out to examine and substantiate with reference to an extensive fund of material collected under controlled conditions. A further concern is to clarify what role is to be attributed to cognitive functions in text production and how the various conditioning factors interact in this process. The results of the empirical study demonstrate that strictly modular or sequential models of speech production are not adequate to the task of mapping the interplay of speech planning processes.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110918496
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31184-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091849-6
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Mittelhochdeutsche Funktionsverbgefüge

Book 1997

Mittelhochdeutsche Funktionsverbgefüge

Materialsammlung, Abgrenzung und Darstellung ausgewählter Aspekte

Jingning Tao

Volume 183 in this series

In contrast to New High German, little research has been done into functional verb structure in Middle High German. The present study is the first to examine Middle High German functional verb structures of the prepositional variety, which are generally acknowledged to be central to this linguistic phenomenon. The author first presents a large corpus of examples, discussing in detail the difficulties involved in establishing distinction criteria in certain cases. Then selected aspects of Middle High German functional verb structures are discussed, pinpointing similarities and differences over and against their New High German counterparts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110918502
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31183-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091850-2
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Syntax - Prosodie - nonverbale Kommunikation

Book 1997

Syntax - Prosodie - nonverbale Kommunikation

Empirische Untersuchungen zur Interaktion sprachlicher und parasprachlicher Ausdrucksmittel im Gespräch

Beatrix Schönherr

Volume 182 in this series

Proceeding from a systematic analysis of excerpts from televised verbal exchanges, the study demonstrates how prosody, gesture and gaze can mark syntactic boundaries and support linguistic 'repair jobs'. This underlines their cardinal significance for the perception of syntax and comprehension processes in conversational intercourse. By contrast, prosodic and nonverbal means of expression are not determined by syntax but function as signalling systems in their own right providing their users with a variety of additional semantic or stylistic/pragmatic differentiation resources.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110926156
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31182-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092615-6
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Phonology
Subject:: Syntax
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Sprache im Kontext sozialer Lebenswelt

Book 1997

Sprache im Kontext sozialer Lebenswelt

Eine Untersuchung zur Arbeiterschriftsprache im 19. Jahrhundert

Marion Klenk

Volume 181 in this series

This study falls within the purview of the still relatively youthful discipline 'historical sociolinguistics'. Its central theme is the frequently postulated but rarely demonstrated interrelation between social environment and the language used by manual workers in the 19th century. On the basis of a pragmatic, text-linguistic analysis of some 100 letters written by Prussian miners against the background of the communicative socialization conditions obtaining at the time, the nature and structure of this interrelation is explored and described. Shared social and communicative values prove in this context to be the central mediators between language use and objective social conditions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110926163
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31181-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092616-3
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Historical Linguistics
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

book: Akquisition komplexer Lexeme aus Textkorpora

Book 1997

Akquisition komplexer Lexeme aus Textkorpora

Lothar Lemnitzer

Volume 180 in this series

The availability of extensive text corpora opens up new vistas for computer language processing and lexicography. This study points up ways of using statistic procedures to arrive at reliable statements on complex lexical units on the basis of their recurrent incidence in text corpora. Various statistic approaches are discussed and their quality compared. Finally, three case studies (taken from German-language corpora) are presented to demonstrate the potentialities and limitations displayed by machine acquisition of complex lexical units.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110927986
ISBN:: 978-3-484-31180-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-092798-6
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Lexicology