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Communicative deviations of respondents in political video interviews in Ukrainian and German
(2021)
The research has the objective to establish the peculiarities of communicative deviations as a cognitive and at the same time discursive phenomenon in Ukrainian- and German-language video interviews from the viewpoint of respondents. The procedure of the research involves the integrated application of methods and techniques of pragmatics, deviatology and communicative linguistics. A new methodological basis has been developed for the reconstruction of communicative deviations using discourse analysis, namely for the reconstruction of a single event in two discursive environments, determining the communicative context and communication of interview in compared languages. The results of the research allow us to identify the features of communicative deviations in political interviews at the external, internal structural levels and at the situational level. The conclusions of the research indicate that the types of communicative deviations in political video interviews are universal in Ukrainian and German, but reflect national and cultural specifics given the peculiarities of both languages and each linguoculture, as well as existing realias, norms, conventions, maxims and rules of communication.
Das Ziel des Beitrags ist es, die Merkmale von Kommunikationsstörungen in Star-Interviews aus Sicht der Befragten, also der Interviewten festzustellen und zu analysieren. Die empirische Forschungsbasis besteht aus ukrainisch- und deutschsprachigen Videointerviews aus den Jahren 2010 bis 2019, die entweder im Fernsehen gesendet oder für YouTube produziert wurden. Das Forschungsverfahren beinhaltet die integrierte Anwendung von Methoden und Techniken der kommunikativen Linguistik, insbesondere der Diskurs-Analyse. Für die Untersuchung dieser Kommunikationsstörungen wurde eine neue methodische Grundlage entwickelt, und zwar für die Rekonstruktion eines einzelnen Ereignisses in zwei diskursiven Umgebungen, das Feststellen des kommunikativen Kontextes und der Kommunikationssituation in Interviews in vergleichbaren Sprachen. Die Ergebnisse der Studie ermöglichten es, die charakteristischen Merkmale von Kommunikationsstörungen in Star-Interviews auf drei Ebenen der kommunikativen Gattung zu identifizieren: auf der außenstrukturellen, binnenstrukturellen und situativen Ebene. Sowohl gemeinsame Merkmale von Kommunikationsstörungen als auch Unterschiede in den ukrainischen und deutschsprachigen Interviews wurden bestimmt. Die Ergebnisse der Studie zeigen, dass die Arten von Kommunikationsstörungen in Interviews mit Prominenten im Ukrainischen und Deutschen universell sind, sie spiegeln jedoch die nationalen und kulturellen Besonderheiten angesichts der Merkmale beider Sprachen und jeder Sprachkultur und ihrer Realitäten, Normen, Konventionen und Maximen der Kommunikation wider. In beiden Sprachen sind kommunikative Störungen ein typischer und oft unvermeidbarer Bestandteil von Interviews.
Verbs may be attributed to higher agency than other grammatical categories. In Study 1, we confirmed this hypothesis with archival datasets comprising verbs (N = 950) and adjectives (N = 2115). We then investigated whether verbs (vs. adjectives) increase message effectiveness. In three experiments presenting potential NGOs (Studies 2 and 3) or corporate campaigns (Study 4) in verb or adjective form, we demonstrate the hypothesized relationship. Across studies, (overall N = 721) grammatical agency consistently increased message effectiveness. Semantic agency varied across contexts by either increasing (Study 2), not affecting (Study 3), or decreasing (Study 4) the effectiveness of the message. Overall, experiments provide insights in to the meta-semantic effects of verbs – demonstrating how grammar may influence communication outcomes.
Die Vernetzung von Computern bewirkt die Entstehung eines Netzes aus Texten und, als Folge davon, sozialen Netzen von Nutzern dieser Texte als Schreibern und Lesern. Netzwerke sprachlicher Objekte gab und gibt es zwar auch ohne Digitalisierung und Vernetzung, jedoch weniger umfangreich und wesentlich schwerer, möglicherweise gar nicht in großer Menge analysierbar. Der vorliegende Beitrag befasst sich mit den verschiedenen Typen sprachlicher Netzwerke: Textgeweben, Interaktionsnetzwerken und sozialen Netzwerken. Es werden zentrale Begrifflichkeiten der Netzwerkanalyse erläutert und anhand von Beispielen gezeigt, wie sprachliche Kommunikation auf der Grundlage der Methoden der Netzwerkanalyse aus einer anderen, neuen Perspektive betrachtet werden kann.
As part of our project "German at Work: The Linguistic and Communicative Integration of Refugees" at the Leibniz-Institute for the German Language (Mannheim, Germany), we are conducting several ethnographic field studies to investigate the integration process of refugees into various professional fields. The guiding questions are which linguistic and communicative problems arise in workplace interactions between refugees and their colleagues and with which communicative practices the participants ensure mutual understanding. In the present article, we further focus on the question whether and how the professional trainers use the work interactions as opportunities for language mediation and which practices they use.
Nachhaltigkeit und nachhaltige Entwicklung gehören zu den drängenden globalen Zielen unserer Zeit. Als interdisziplinäres und vielschichtiges Thema ist Nachhaltigkeit auch für die angewandte Linguistik hochrelevant – sei es mit Blick auf die diskursive Debattenkultur, neue mediale Formen der Partizipation oder Formen der Wissenskommunikation, wie die international entstandene Nachhaltigkeitskommunikation in Wirtschaft und Politik.
This study offers a contribution to the reception analysis of TV documentaries by focusing on viewer opinions expressed on social media. It analyses German and English comments from YouTube and Facebook in order to find out what aspects of documentaries the audience comments on. More specifically, it describes how the viewers evaluate strategies that the producers use for simplifying complex content while still creating an appealing and entertaining media product. The results imply that most viewers appreciate informative shows that are entertaining at the same time. They also show that viewers tend to focus on the music and image, rather than on the spoken text, and that documentaries where nature plays an important role are judged more positively than science and history documentaries.
Playing videogames is a popular social activity; people play videogames in different places, on different media, in different situations, alone or with partners, online or offline. Unsurprisingly, they thereby share space (physically or virtually) with other playing or non-playing people. The special issue investigates through different contexts and settings how non-players become participants of the gaming interaction and how players and non-players co-construct presence. The introduction provides a problem-related context for the individual contributions and then briefly presents them.
There has been a long-standing interest in projection and the resources on which participants rely to produce and recognize the import and organization of turns at talk. Less attention has been paid to the character of the activity in which utterances form part and the ways in which embodied action enables the intelligibility, coordination, and in some cases, coproduction, of particular actions. In this article, we focus on specialized forms of embodied, institutional activity and focus in particular on simultaneity and the ways in which bodily action enables the progressive formation and reformation of an activity in the light of the (co)participants’ emerging contributions. We address how the routine structure of particular tasks enables participants to anticipate, prepare for, and even initiate actions in advance of the relevant activity and in turn, how participants may seek to ameliorate the interactional import of potentially premature action. The articles explores the interplay of technical practice and interactional organization and points to the distinctive character of embodied action in understanding anticipation and coordination in complex forms of institutional interaction.
The human ability to anticipate upcoming behavior not only enables smooth turn transitions but also makes early responses possible, as respondents use a variety of cues that provide for early projection of the type of action that is being performed. This article examines resources for projection in interaction in three unrelated languages—Finnish, Japanese, and Mandarin—in sequences where speakers make evaluative assertions on a topic. The focus is on independently agreeing responses initiated in early overlap. Our cross-linguistic analysis reveals that while projection based on the ongoing turn-constructional unit relies on language-specific grammatical constructions, projection based on the larger context seems to be less language-dependent. A crucial finding is that in the target sequences, stances taken toward the topic already during earlier talk, as well as other structural patterns, are among the resources that recipients use for projecting how and when the ongoing turn will end.