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Analepses with topic-drop are frequent structures in German interaction. While hitherto the focus on analepses was a rather syntactic one, this paper deals with analeptic structures from a semantic perspective. It particularly concentrates on the semantic relations between the referents of the analepses and the prior interactional context. This analysis shows that even for rather simple analepses which just omit a constituent from the prior utterance, conceptual processes are more decisive for its interpretation than syntactic features of the antecedent constituents. This is even more the case for complex analepses that are only indirectly linked to the prior context, and for the interpretation of which hearers need to draw inferences. The paper argues that theoretical approaches like Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics can profit from adopting a semantic and conceptual perspective for the interpretation of interactional structures.
Das hier zu besprechende Buch, das Ergebnisse einer gleichnamigen Tagung zusammenfasst, die im Juni 2013 in Zürich stattfand, macht eines offenkundig: Wer in jenem Sommer nicht dabei war, hat etwas verpasst. Umso glücklicher darf man sein, dass Angelika Linke und Juliane Schröter die Arbeit, die mit der Herausgabe eines Sammelbandes verbunden ist, auf sich genommen haben. Mehr noch: In einem programmatischen ersten Kapitel geben sie einen systematischen Einblick in das tragfähige Forschungsfeld „Sprachliche Relationalität“ (vgl. S. 1–6), das ganz im Sinne der emotiven Wende in der Sprachwissenschaft konkrete theoretische Anschlussfähigkeit signalisiert, wo bislang eine „fast unübersehbare Menge an Veröffentlichungen“ (Schwarz-Friesel 2013: 16) zwar zeigte, wie attraktiv die Thematik ist, aber auch wie unstrukturiert sich die Zuwendung dazu gestaltet. Dass der Band nun weitere „exemplarische Besetzungen“ (S. 21) des Forschungsfeldes zur Diskussion stellt, wird hier keinesfalls als Nachteil angesehen, sondern als methodisch folgerichtiger empirischer Zugang zur Erschließung eines Forschungsfeldes unter den zielsetzenden Leitfragen „Wie werden im Medium von Sprachgebrauch und Sprache Konzeptualisierungen, Kategorisierungen und Differenzierungen menschlicher Beziehungen ausgebildet, verfestigt und auch wieder verändert?“ und „Welche sprachgeformten Beziehungskonzepte, -kategorien und -unterschiede sind typisch für bestimmte historische Epochen bzw. für bestimmte soziale Gruppierungen?“
This paper discusses changes of lexicographic traditions with respect to approaches to meaning descriptions towards more cognitive perspectives. I will uncover how cognitive aspects can be incorporated into meaning descriptions based on corpus-driven analysis. The new German Online dictionary “Paronyme − Dynamisch im Kontrast” (Storjohann 2014; 2016) is concerned with easily confused words such as effektiv/effizient, sensibel/sensitiv. It is currently in the process of being developed and it aims at adopting a more conceptual and encyclopaedic approach to meaning by incorporating cognitive features. As a corpus-guided reference work it strives to adequately reflect ideas such as conceptual structure, categorisation and knowledge. Contrastive entries emphasise aspects of usage, comparing conceptual categories and indicate the (metonymic) mapping of knowledge. Adaptable access to lexicographic details and variable search options offer different foci and perspectives on linguistic information, and authentic examples reflect prototypical structures. Some of the cognitive features are demonstrated with the help of examples. Firstly, I will outline how patterns of usage imply conceptual categories as central ideas instead of sufficiently logical criteria of semantic distinction. In this way, linguistic findings correlate better with how users conceptualise language. Secondly, it is pointed out how collocates are treated as family members and fillers in contexts. Thirdly, I will demonstrate how contextual structure and functions are included summarising referential information. Details are drawn from corpus data, they are usage-based linguistic patterns illustrating conversational interaction and semantic negotiations in contemporary public discourse. Finally, I will outline consultation routines which activate different facets of structural knowledge, e.g. through changes of the ordering of information or through the visualisation of semantic networks.
Das Archiv für Gesprochenes Deutsch (AGD, Stift/Schmidt 2014) am Institut für Deutsche Sprache ist die zentrale Sammelstelle für Korpora des Gesprochenen Deutsch. Gegründet als Deutsches Spracharchiv (DSAv) im Jahre 1932 hat es über Eigenprojekte, Kooperationen und Übernahmen von Daten aus abgeschlossenen Forschungsprojekten einen Bestand von etwa 50 Variations- und Gesprächskorpora aufgebaut. Heute ist dieser Bestand fast vollständig digitalisiert und wird zu einem großen Teil der wissenschaftlichen Gemeinschaft über die Datenbank für Gesprochenes Deutsch (DGD) im Internet zur Nutzung in Forschung und Lehre angeboten.
Am Institut für Deutsche Sprache in Mannheim fand vom 17. bis 19.11.2016 die sechste Tagung des Netzwerks „Diskurs – interdisziplinär“ statt, diesmal zum Thema „Diskurs – kontrastiv“. An der Tagung nahmen Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer aus Bosnien-Herzegowina, Deutschland, England, Polen, Serbien, Schweiz, Schweden, der Slowakei und Slowenien teil. Die 18 Vorträge waren fünf Sektionen zugeordnet: Prinzipien des Kontrastiven, Internationale Vergleiche, Metaphorik im internationalen Vergleich, kontrastive Semantik, Kulturen und Stereotype – transnational. Die Beiträge fokussierten dabei immer wieder folgende Fragestellungen: Wie werden gleiche Themen in unterschiedlichen Gesellschaften konstituiert und erörtert? Welche sprachlichen Auswirkungen haben die jeweiligen gesellschaftlichen und politischen Bedingungen, unter denen formal gleichwertige Diskursbeteiligte (z. B. außerparlamentarische Opposition, Bürgerinitiativen, Interessengruppen) in Bezug auf identische Diskursgegenstände sprachlich agieren? Inwiefern lassen sich ähnliche Diskurse als je spezifische Zeitphänomene darstellen? Inwiefern besteht strukturelle Identität/Similarität bzw. Differenz z. B. hinsichtlich der Verwendung vergleichbarer bzw. abweichender Leit- und Schlüsselwörter, Metaphern, Argumentationsmuster etc.? Neben Vorträgen, die sich derlei Fragestellungen widmeten, gab es zudem Beiträge, die sich auf empirischer Basis mit Methoden kontrastiver Diskursforschung auseinandersetzten.
In this paper, we analyze a dramatically aggravated conflict interaction taking place in the course of an association’s meeting in an urban community center. The interaction can be seen as the culmination point of a social conflict developing and increasing over a period of years. In this conflict, one of the crucial points of the sociocultural development in the city under study is to be seen in an exemplary way. Our analysis started with the question, why this conflict is unsolvable although the interest divergences of the opposing parties are not irreconcilable. Our analysis shows that the protagonists practice different communicative social styles. These stylistic differences however, are not the cause for misunderstandings, but the protagonists use stylistic differences and different cultural orientations as a resource for political action. Thereby a process of increasing hardening of perspective divergence emerges together with an interaction modality of drama and of the fundamental grounding of divergent views. Theoretically we are concerned with the explication of a sociolinguistic theory which includes as constitutive components the concepts of communicative social style, of perspectivation and of interaction modality. We want to show, that the analyzed type of sociocultural conflict can be explained by virtue of considering the interplay of features on these three levels.
Grammars even trying to be as comprehensible as possible hardly avoid using technical terms unknown to novices. To overcome these inconveniencies, the grammatical information system grammis of the Institut für Deutsche Sprache incorporated a glossary specialized on terms used within the system. This glossary - actually named Grammatische Grundbegriffe (elementary terms of grammar) and tied by hyperlinks to technical terms in the core grammar' of grammis - offers short and simple explanations mainly by means of exemplification. The idea is to provide the users with provisional understanding to get along while following the main themes they are interested in. Explicitly, the glossary is not a stand-alone dictionary of grammatical terms, and it should not be regarded as one.
Historical sociolinguistics in colonial New Guinea: The Rhenish mission society in the Astrolabe Bay
(2017)
The Rhenish Mission Society, a German Protestant mission, was active in a small part of northern New Guinea, the Astrolabe Bay, between 1887 and 1932. Up until 1914, this region was under German colonial rule. The German dominance was also reflected in rules on language use in official contexts such as schools and administration.
Missionaries were strongly affected by such rules as their most important tool in mission work was language. In addition, they were also responsible for school education as most schools in the German colonial areas in the Pacific were mission-run. Thus, mission societies had to make decisions about what languages to use, considering their own needs, their ideological convictions, and the colonial government’s requirements. These considerations were framed by the complex setting of New Guinea’s language wealth where several hundred languages were, and still are, spoken.
This paper investigates a small set of original documents from the Rhenish Mission Society to trace what steps were taken and what considerations played a major role in the process of agreeing on a suitable means of communication with the people the missionaries wanted to reach, thereby touching upon topics such as language attitudes, language policies and politics, practical considerations of language learning and language spread, and colonial actions impacting local language ecologies.
The question of whether a letter is a grapheme or not is a perennial issue in writing research. The answer depends on which criteria are used to differentiate between letters and graphemes and, ultimately,how the unit ‘grapheme’ is defined. This problem is particularly relevant to complex graphemes, i.e. sequences of letters that behave like a single grapheme in certain respects. Typical for German is the ‹ch›. This paper argues for a scalar concept of graphemes, which compares the grapheme status of each of the units under investigation. For this purpose, new criteria for the identification of complex graphemes are used, which originate from handwriting analysis. There, it is shown that complex graphemes are connected with each other disproportionately often and also have deviating letter forms disproportionately often.
This paper argues that conversation analysis has largely neglected the fact that meaning in interaction relies on inferences to a high degree. Participants treat each other as cognitive agents, who imply and infer meanings, which are often consequential for interactional progression. Based on the study of audio- and video-recordings from German talk-in-interaction, the paper argues that inferences matter to social interaction in at least three ways. They can be explicitly formulated; they can be (conventionally) indexed, but not formulated; or they may be neither indexed nor formulated yet would be needed for the correct understanding of a turn. The last variety of inferences usually remain tacit, but are needed for smooth interactional progression. Inferences in this case become an observable discursive phenomenon if misunderstandings are treated by the explication of correct (accepted) and wrong (unaccepted) inferences. The understanding of referential terms, analepsis, and ellipsis regularly rely on inferences. Formulations, third-position repairs, and fourth-position explications of erroneous inferences are practices of explicating inferences. There are conventional linguistic means like discourse markers, connectives, and response particles that index specific kinds of inferences. These practices belong to a larger class of inferential practices, which play an important role for indexing and accomplishing intersubjectivity in talk in interaction.
This paper offers an exploratory Interactional Linguistic account of the role that inferences play in episodes of ordinary conversational interaction. To this end, it systematically reconsiders the conversational practice of using the lexico-syntactic format oh that’s right to implicitly claim “just-now” recollection of something previously known, but momentarily confused or forgotten. The analyses reveal that this practice typically occurs as part of a larger sequential pattern that the participants orient to and which serves as a procedure for dealing with, and generating an account for, one participant’s production of an inapposite action. As will be shown, the instantiation and progressive realization of this sequential procedure requires local inferential work from the participants. While some facets of this inferential work appear to be shaped by the particular context of the ongoing interaction, others are integral to the workings of the sequence as such. Moreover, the analyses suggest that participants’ understanding of oh that’s right as embodying an implicit memory claim rests on an inference which is based on a kind of semanticpragmatic compositionality. The paper thus illustrates how inferences in conversational interaction can be systematically studied and points to the merits of combining an interactional and a linguistic perspective.
Language of Responsibility. The Influence of Linguistic Abstraction on Collective Moral Emotions
(2017)
Two experiments investigated the effects of linguistic abstractness on the experience of collective moral emotions. In Experiment 1 participants were presented with two scenarios about ingroup misbehavior, phrased using descriptive action verbs, interpretative action verbs, adjectives or nouns. The results show that participants experienced slightly more negative moral emotions with higher levels of linguistic abstractness. In Experiment 2 we also tested for the influence of national identification on the relationship between linguistic abstractness and emotional reactions. Additionally, we expanded the number of scenarios. Experiment 2 replicated the earlier pattern, but found larger differences between conditions. The strength of national identification did not moderate the observed effects. The results of this research are discussed within the context of the linguistic category model and psychology of collective moral emotions.
Research on syntactic ambiguity resolution in language comprehension has shown that subjects' processing decisions are influenced by a variety of heterogeneous factors such as e.g., syntactic complexity, semantic fit and the discourse frequency of the competing structures. The present paper investigates a further potentially relevant factor in such processes: effects of syntagmatic lexical chunking (or matching to a complex memorized prefab) whose occurrence would be predicted from usage-based assumptions about linguistic categorisation. Focusing on the widely studied so-called DO/SC-ambiguity in which a post-verbal NP is syntactically ambiguous between a direct object and the subject of an embedded clause, potentially biasing collocational chunks of the relevant type are identified in a number of corpus-linguistic pretests and then investigated in a self-paced reading experiment. The results show a significant increase in processing difficulty from a collocationally neutral over a lexically biasing to a strongly biasing condition. This suggests that syntagmatically complex and partially schematic templates of the kind envisioned in usage-based Construction Grammar may impinge on speakers' online processing decisions during sentence comprehension.
Körperliche wie seelische Gesundheit ist ein hohes individuelles und gesellschaftliches Gut und Grundrecht. Häufig wird die Gesundheit durch ihr Gegenteil, d. h. in der Verständigung über Krankheit, thematisiert. Der gesellschaftliche Austausch über Krankheiten, Gesundheitsrisiken und Behandlungsmethoden ist untrennbar mit Sprache verknüpft (Busch/Spranz-Fogasy 2015); die Sprache ist „[…] das zentrale Medium, um medizinisches Wissen herzustellen, zu systematisieren, zu tradieren und auszutauschen.“ (Busch/Spranz-Fogasy 2015: 336). Ausgehend von dieser Prämisse wurde das Netzwerk „Linguistik und Medizin“ gegründet, um die Forschungstätigkeiten der verschiedenen linguistischen Disziplinen, die an den Verbindungslinien von „Sprache – Wissen – Medizin“ arbeiten, zu bündeln: Forschungsdesiderate sollen kooperierend bearbeitet und die interdisziplinäre Anschlussfähigkeit zwischen linguistischen und medizinischen, psychiatrischen sowie salutogenetischen Forschungsbereichen auf- und ausgebaut werden.
Mit dem hier besprochenen Band liegt eine Monographie zu Pennsylvania Dutch(Pennsylvania German, Pennsylvania-Deutsch; im Weiteren auch PD) vor, die sowohl die Entstehungsbedingungen und -verläufe und den soziohistorischen, soziopolitischen und religionsbezogenen Kontext seiner Entwicklung als auch seine sprachlichen und literarischen Formen, seine historische und heutige gesellschaftliche Stellung und Verwendung umfassend und gründlich darstellt. Louden wendet sich dabei nicht nur an ein linguistisches Fachpublikum, sondern auch an LeserInnen ohne eine speziell linguistische Vorbildung. Dementsprechend werden für die Darstellung relevante linguistische Konzepte eingeführt und erklärt. Ein umfassendes Stichwortverzeichnis macht die Monographie gut erschließbar, und die umfangreiche Bibliographie ermöglicht es, sich weitergehend zu allen angesprochenen Themen zu informieren. Die Endnoten werden strategisch gut eingesetzt, da sie nicht nur fachwissenschaftliche ‚Unterfütterung‘ bieten, sondern auch dazu genutzt werden, alle zitierten Quellentexte sowohl auf Englisch als auch in der (pennsylvania-)deutschen Originalfassung zur Verfügung zu stellen.
The authors are pleased to present to the readers of the Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft a Special Issue in honor of Rosemarie Tracy.
Contents:
0. Frontmatter
1. Petra Schulz, Ira Gawlitzek, Angelika Wöllstein: Introduction, S. 1
2. Natascha Müller: Different sources of delay and acceleration in early child bilingualism, S. 7
3. Hubert Haider, Christina Schörghofer-Essl, Karin Seethaler: Quantifying kids prefer intersecting sets - a pilot study, S. 31
4. Petra Schulz, Rabea Schwarze: How strong is the ban on non-finite verbs in V2? Evidence from early second language learners of German with and without SLI, S. 51
5. Monika Rothweiler, Manuela Schönenberger, Franziska Sterner: Subject-verb agreement in German in bilingual children with and without SLI, S. 79
6. Holger Hopp: The processing of English which-questions in adult L2 learners: Effects of L1 transfer and proficiency, S. 107
7. Oksana Laleko, Maria Polinsky: Silence is difficult: On missing elements in bilingual grammars, S. 135
8. Artemis Alexiadou: Building verbs in language mixing varieties, S. 165
Comprehending conditional statements is fundamental for hypothetical reasoning about situations. However, the online comprehension of conditional statements containing different conditional connectives is still debated. We report two self-paced reading experiments on German conditionals presenting the conditional connectives wenn (‘if’) and nur wenn (‘only if’) in identical discourse contexts. In Experiment 1, participants read a conditional sentence followed by the confirmed antecedent p and the confirmed or negated consequent q. The final, critical sentence was presented word by word and contained a positive or negative quantifier (ein/kein ‘one/no’). Reading times of the two quantifiers did not differ between the two conditional connectives. In Experiment 2, presenting a negated antecedent, reading times for the critical positive quantifier (ein) did not differ between conditional connectives, while reading times for the negative quantifier (kein) were shorter for nur wenn than for wenn. The results show that comprehenders form distinct predictions about discourse continuations due to differences in the lexical semantics of the tested conditional connectives, shedding light on the role of conditional connectives in the online interpretation of conditionals in general.
The term “pivot” usually refers to two overlapping syntactic units such that the completion of the first unit simultaneously launches the second. In addition, pivots are generally said to be characterized by the smooth prosodic integration of their syntactic parts. This prosodic integration is typically achieved by prosodic-phonetic matching of the pivot components. As research on such turns in a range of languages has illustrated, speakers routinely deploy pivots so as to be able to continue past a point of possible turn completion, in the service of implementing some additional or revised action. This article seeks to build on, and complement, earlier research by exploring two issues in more detail as follows: (1) what exactly do pivotal turn extensions accomplish on the action dimension, and (2) what role does prosodic-phonetic packaging play in this? We will show that pivot constructions not only exhibit various degrees of prosodic-phonetic (non-)integration, i.e., differently strong cesuras, but that they can be ordered on a continuum, and that this cline maps onto the relationship of the actions accomplished by the components of the pivot construction. While tighter prosodic-phonetic integration, i.e., weak(er) cesuring, co-occurs with post-pivot actions whose relationship to that of the pre-pivot tends to be rather retrospective in character, looser prosodic-phonetic integration, i.e., strong(er) cesuring, is associated with a more prospective orientation of the post-pivot’s action. These observations also raise more general questions with regard to the analysis of action.
This contribution presents a quantitative approach to speech, thought and writing representation (ST&WR) and steps towards its automatic detection. Automatic detection is necessary for studying ST&WR in a large number of texts and thus identifying developments in form and usage over time and in different types of texts. The contribution summarizes results of a pilot study: First, it describes the manual annotation of a corpus of short narrative texts in relation to linguistic descriptions of ST&WR. Then, two different techniques of automatic detection – a rule-based and a machine learning approach – are described and compared. Evaluation of the results shows success with automatic detection, especially for direct and indirect ST&WR.
The article investigates the hypothesis that prominence phenomena on different levels of linguistic structure are systematically related to each other. More specifically, it is hypothesized that prominence relations in morphosyntax reflect, and contribute to, prominence management in discourse. This hypothesis is empirically based on the phenomenon of agentivity clines, i.e. the observation that the relevance of agentivity features such as volition or sentience is variable across different constructions. While some constructions, including German DO-clefts, show a strong preference for highly agentive verbs, other constructions, including German basic active constructions, have no particular requirements regarding the agentivity of the verb, except that at least one agentivity feature should be present. Our hypothesis predicts that this variable relevance of agentivity features is related to the discourse constraints on the felicitous use of a given construction, which in turn, of course, requires an explicit statement of such constraints. We propose an original account of the discourse constraints on DO-clefts in German using the ‘Question Under Discussion’ framework. Here, we hypothesize that DO-clefts render prominent one implicit question from a set of alternative questions available at a particular point in the developing discourse. This then yields a prominent question-answer pair that changes the thematic structure of the discourse. We conclude with some observations on the possibility of relating morphosyntactic prominence (high agentivity) to discourse prominence (making a Question Under Discussion prominent by way of clefting).
We investigate the optional omission of the infinitival marker in a Swedish future tense construction. During the last two decades the frequency of omission has been rapidly increasing, and this process has received considerable attention in the literature. We test whether the knowledge which has been accumulated can yield accurate predictions of language variation and change. We extracted all occurrences of the construction from a very large collection of corpora. The dataset was automatically annotated with language-internal predictors which have previously been shown or hypothesized to affect the variation. We trained several models in order to make two kinds of predictions: whether the marker will be omitted in a specific utterance and how large the proportion of omissions will be for a given time period. For most of the approaches we tried, we were not able to achieve a better-than-baseline performance. The only exception was predicting the proportion of omissions using autoregressive integrated moving average models for one-step-ahead forecast, and in this case time was the only predictor that mattered. Our data suggest that most of the language-internal predictors do have some effect on the variation, but the effect is not strong enough to yield reliable predictions.
In Beispielen wie
(1) Du hast scheints / Weiß Gott nichts begriffen.
(2) It cost £200, give or take.
(3) Qu’est ce qu’il a dit?
werden verbale Konstruktionen (kurz: VK, hier jeweils die fett gesetzten Teile) in einer Weise gebraucht, die der Grammatik verbaler Konstruktionen zuwiderläuft. In (1) und (2) wird die verbale Konstruktion wie ein Adverb/eine Partikel gebraucht bzw. wie ein Ausdruck in der Funktion eines (adverbialen) Adjunkts/ Supplements. In (3) ist die verbale Konstruktion zum Bestandteil einer periphrastischen interrogativen Konstruktion geworden. Wie sind solche ‘Umfunktionalisierungen’ – wie ich das Phänomen zunächst vortheoretisch bezeichnen möchte – einzuordnen? Handelt es sich um Lexikalisierung oder um Grammatikalisierung? Oder um ein Phänomen der dritten Art? Die Umfunktionalisierung verbaler Syntagmen bzw. Konstruktionen – ich gebrauche die Abkürzung UVK für ‘umfunktionalisierte verbale Konstruktion(en)’ – ist ein bisher weniger gut untersuchtes Phänomen, etwa gegenüber der Umfunktionalisierung von Präpositionalphrasen, die sprachübergreifend zu komplexen, „sekundären“ Präpositionen werden können (man vergleiche DEU auf Grund + Genitiv / von, ENG on top of, FRA à cause de).
This article summarizes results of an empirical study on the use of so called verbs of transportation in German and Brazilian Portuguese. Such verbs constantly cause dijficulties and mistakes in the language production of non-native Speakers. The paper presentsfour observations on the grammar (verb prefixes, prepositions), semantics (places and paths) and pragmatics (deixis) of verbs of transportation in the two languages. It leads to the conclusion that Brazilian learners tend to have more dijficulties with the morphology and syntax of German transportation verbs, whereas German learners tend to have more dijficulties with the pragmatics of the corresponding verbs in Brazilian Portuguese. Dijficulties with the specification of places and paths can be observed in both directions, but they lead to unidiomatic usage rather than to outright mistakes.
This article explores how close one can come to a cultural-scientific perspective on the basis of a constitution-analytical methodology. We do this on the basis of a comparison of the celebration of Totensonntag in Zotzenbach (Southern Hesse) and Sarepta (Wolgograd). In both places, there are protestant churches that perform this ritual to commemorate the dead on this “Sunday of the Dead” as a part of their church service. Our scientific interest lies in the reconstruction of the rituality produced during the in situ execution. In both services, the names of the deceased are read out and a candle is lit for each deceased person. In Zotzenbach the priest reads out the names and an assistant ignites the candles for the deceased, whereas in Sarepta the bereaved are responsible for this. Since the ritual is organised in very different ways in terms of architecture-for-interaction (statically in Zotzenbach, spatially dynamic in Sarepta), we can reconstruct two completely different models of rituality: a demonstrative one (Zotzenbach) and a participative one (Sarepta). The demonstrative model works on the basis of a finely tuned coordination between the two church representatives and is aimed at a dignified execution. The model in Sarepta is not suitable for the production of formality due to its participatory structure. Here, however, the focus is also on the aspect of socialization, which goes beyond the church service and offers the Russian-German worshipers the opportunity to situationally constitute as a culturally homogeneous group.