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How Do Speakers Define the Meaning of Expressions? The Case of German x heißt y (“x means y”)

  • To secure mutual understanding in interaction, speakers sometimes explain or negotiate expressions. Adopting a conversation analytic and interaction linguistic approach, I examine how participants explain which kinds of expressions in different sequential environments, using the format x heißt y (“x means y”). When speakers use it to clarify technical terms or foreign words that are unfamiliar to co-participants, they often provide a situationally anchored definition that however is rather context-free and therefore transferable to future situations. When they explain common (but indexical, ambiguous, polysemous, or problematic) expressions instead, speakers always design their explanation strongly connected to the local context, building on situational circumstances. I argue that x heißt y definitions in interaction do not meet the requirements of scientific or philosophical definitions but that this is irrelevant for the situational exigencies speakers face.

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Author:Henrike HelmerORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-91612
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2019.1646567
ISSN:1532-6950
Parent Title (English):Discourse Processes
Publisher:Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group)
Place of publication:London
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2020
Date of Publication (online):2019/08/28
Publicationstate:Postprint
Publicationstate:Zweitveröffentlichung
Reviewstate:Peer-Review
GND Keyword:Bedeutung; Deutsch; Interaktionsanalyse; Kommunikativer Sinn; Konversationsanalyse
Volume:57
Issue:3
Page Number:22
First Page:278
Last Page:299
Note:
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Discourse Processes on 16/08/2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0163853X.2019.1646567
DDC classes:400 Sprache / 430 Deutsch
Open Access?:ja
Leibniz-Classification:Sprache, Linguistik
Linguistics-Classification:Pragmalinguistik / Kommunikationsforschung
Program areas:P2: Mündliche Korpora
Licence (German):License LogoUrheberrechtlich geschützt