Published by De Gruyter

Sprache im Kontext / Language in Context

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Edited by: Monika Dannerer, Jürgen Spitzmüller and Eva Vetter

ISSN: 0948-1354

e-ISSN 2701-0317

Overview
Volumes

Sprache im Kontext / Language in Context assembles contributions from the field of Applied Linguistics, construed as a problem oriented, socially rooted, critical form of linguistics. At the focus of analysis is language (use) in the context of social and political processes and discourses. The contributions of the series provide critical analyses and potential solutions, and they engage in discursive negotiations. Particularly (though not exclusively) the following topics are covered by the series:

Language use in politics
Language policy and linguistic rights
Language (use) in organizations and institutions
Migration, globalization and multilingualism
Language teaching and learning in formal and informal contexts
Language use in the classroom
Language teaching methodology
Language perception, language ideologies and metapragmatic discourse
Language, social inequality and discrimination
Language and/as empowerment
Language and gender
Mediality, multimodality and materiality of communication

Drawing on a dynamic and interactional notion of context, Sprache im Kontext / Language in Context also means that language and language use are themselves a constitutive part of context (i.e., they are contextualizing factors). The series thus collects particularly monographs and collected volumes that demonstrate how language and language use (as practice or object of discourse) are part and motor of social and political processes, and how it frames (and delimits) the agency and action of social actors.

Advisory Board

Marietta Calderón Tichy (Salzburg, Austria)
Rudolf de Cillia (Vienna, Austria)
Ursula Doleschal (Klagenfurt, Austria)
Helmut Gruber (Vienna, Austria)
Barbara Hinger (Graz, Austria)
Ulrike Jessner (Innsbruck, Austria)
Sabine Lehner (Vienna, Austria)
Benedikt Lutz (Krems, Austria)
Heike Ortner (Innsbruck, Austria)
Hermine Penz (Graz, Austria)
Marie-Luise Pitzl (Vienna, Austria)
Claudia Posch (Innsbruck, Austria)
Martin Stegu (Vienna, Austria)
Ruth Wodak (Lancaster, UK and Vienna, Austria)

Author information

Monika Dannerer, University of Innsbruck, Austria; Jürgen Spitzmüller and Eva Vetter, University of Vienna, Austria.

Book Ahead of Publication 2023

Good practice in der institutionellen Kommunikation

Von der Deskription zur Bewertung in der Angewandten Gesprächsforschung

Sylvia Bendel Larcher, Ina Pick

Volume 49 in this series

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How can we identify successful linguistic action in recordings of institutional conversations? The theoretical-methodological contributions discuss what the basis for evaluation is, how it can be collected empirically, and how good practice can be identified in the discussion. The empirically oriented contributions analytically elaborate concrete forms of good practice for different institutional settings.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111010083
ISBN:: 9783111010083
ISBN:: 9783111009315
ISBN:: 9783111011615
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics, other
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Discourse
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Narrative Analysis
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book Open Access 2022

Sprache(n) in pädagogischen Settings

Judith Kainhofer, Michaela Rückl

Volume 47 in this series

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This volume spans various languages and education levels, focusing on heterogeneity as an immanent characteristic of pedagogical settings. Its examines the potential of language development, the factors and facets of the developmentally appropriate promotion of German as a language of education, the conditions for successful language acquisition in the context of multilingualism, and integrative approaches toward controlled language acquisition.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110784756
ISBN:: 9783110784756
ISBN:: 9783110784633
ISBN:: 9783110784800
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Subject:: Applied Linguistics, other
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Bilingualism and Multilingualism
Subject:: Second Language Acquisition
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2022

TV-Talkshows als Propagandainstrument Russlands im Ukrainekonflikt (2014)

Magdalena Kaltseis

Volume 46 in this series

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This volume focuses on how the Russian media reported on the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2014. It is the first to both quantitatively and qualitatively examine talk shows, which are extremely popular and omnipresent in Russian television. The study shows to what extent these shows were broadcast and which linguistic, acoustic, and visual means they used in order to influence their audiences.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110778373
ISBN:: 9783110778373
ISBN:: 9783110778458
ISBN:: 9783110778069
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Tense and Aspect in Italian Interlanguage

Zuzana Toth

Volume 45 in this series

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The expression of time is fundamental in communication and languages have developed a variety of means to encode temporal relations. When learning a new language, learners are often faced with the challenging task of discovering a new system of temporal relations.
The present study investigates the development of tense and aspect marking in the interlanguage of L3 Italian learners enrolled in university language courses. It examines how the tense-aspect system develops in the interlanguage and how the acquisition process is shaped by factors such as the lexical aspectual value of the predicates and discourse grounding. The data indicate that both lexical aspect and discourse grounding influence the distribution of verbal morphology in the interlanguage. Semantically congruent pairings of lexical aspect, verbal morphology and discourse grounding are used more frequently and appropriately than less prototypical combinations. The acquisition process is also influenced by the learner’s L1, which was mostly German in the context of the present study.
The study can be used as a guide for curricular decisions in language teaching, and for projecting further research on the development of tense-aspect marking in multilingual learners.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110626490
ISBN:: 9783110626490
ISBN:: 9783110625189
ISBN:: 9783110624960
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Bilingualism and Multilingualism
Subject:: Second Language Acquisition
Subject:: Romance Languages
Subject:: Italian
Publisher:: De Gruyter