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This manual introduces a conversation analytically informed coding scheme for episodes involving the direct social sanctioning of problem behavior in informal social interaction which was developed in the project Norms, Rules, and Morality across Languages (NoRM-aL) at the Leibniz-Institute for the German Language. It outlines the background for its development, delimits the phenomena to which the coding scheme can be applied and provides instructions for its use.
The scheme asks for basic information about the recording and the participants involved in the episode, before taking stock of different features of the sanctioning episode as a whole. This is followed by sets of specific coding questions about the sanctioning move itself (such as its timing and composition) and the reaction it engenders. The coding enables researchers to get a bird’s eye view on recurrent features of such episodes in larger quantities of data and allows for comparisons across different languages and informal settings.
Dieser Beitrag stellt ein neues, im Aufbau befindliches Parallelkorpus vor: Das ‚Parallel European Corpus of Informal Interaction‘ (PECII). Zunächst wird der Bedarf nach besser vergleichbaren Daten fur die sprachübergreifende Erforschung natürlichen sprachlichen Handelns in der sozialen Interaktion begründet. Wir diskutieren Fragen der Vergleichbarkeit von Episoden natürlicher sozialer Interaktion, und die methodologischen Herausforderungen, die Ansprüche an ein Korpus natürlicher Sprachdaten mit dem Wunsch nach vergleichbaren Daten in Einklang zu bringen. Schließlich skizzieren wir mögliche Untersuchungsansätze auf der Grundlage von PECII anhand einer laufenden Studie zur Sanktionierung von Fehlverhalten in verschiedenen Aktivitätskontexten. Zukünftig soll PECII der wissenschaftlichen Öffentlichkeit als Ressource fur die sprach- und kulturvergleichende Untersuchung sprachlichen Handelns in der sozialen Interaktion zur Verfügung stehen.
In informal interaction, speakers rarely thank a person who has complied with a request. Examining data from British English, German, Italian, Polish, and Telugu, we ask when speakers do thank after compliance. The results show that thanking treats the other’s assistance as going beyond what could be taken for granted in the circumstances. Coupled with the rareness of thanking after requests, this suggests that cooperation is to a great extent governed by expectations of helpfulness, which can be long-standing, or built over the course of a particular interaction. The higher frequency of thanking in some languages (such as English or Italian) suggests that cultures differ in the importance they place on recognizing the other’s agency in doing as requested.
This chapter describes the resources that speakers of Polish use when recruiting assistance and collaboration from others in everyday social interaction. The chapter draws on data from video recordings of informal conversation in Polish, and reports language-specific findings generated within a large-scale comparative project involving eight languages from five continents (see other chapters of this volume). The resources for recruitment described in this chapter include linguistic structures from across the levels of grammatical organization, as well as gestural and other visible and contextual resources of relevance to the interpretation of action in interaction. The presentation of categories of recruitment, and elements of recruitment sequences, follows the coding scheme used in the comparative project (see Chapter 2 of the volume). This chapter extends our knowledge of the structure and usage of Polish with detailed attention to the properties of sequential structure in conversational interaction. The chapter is a contribution to an emerging field of pragmatic typology.
Positioning analysis, a variant of discourse analysis, was used to explore the narratives of 40 psychiatric patients (11 females and 29 males; mean age = 40 years) who had manifest difficulties with engagement with statutory mental health services. Positioning analysis is a qualitative method that captures how people linguistically position the roles and identities of themselves and others in their day-to-day lives and narratives. The language of disengagement incorporated the passive positioning of self in relation to their lives and treatment through the use of metaphor, the passive voice and them and us attribution, while the discourse of engagement incorporated more active positioning of self, achieved through the use of the personal pronoun we and metaphoric references to balanced relationships. The findings corroborate previous thematic analysis that highlighted the importance of identity and agency in the ‘making or breaking’ of therapeutic relationships (Priebe et al. 2005). Implications are discussed in relation to how positioning analysis may help signal and emphasize important life and therapeutic experiences in spoken narratives as well as clinical consultations.
ln dem vorliegenden Artikel zeigen die Autoren, welche Rolle Metaphern in Vorstellungswelt und Argumentation im Rahmen des politischen Diskurses spielen. Der Beitrag stellt eine empirische Analyse von polnischen und deutschen Pressetexten zum Thema der EU-Osterweiterung im Zeitraum Januar bis März 2000 dar. Der Analyse wurden auf polnischer Seite fünf der auflagestärksten überregionalen Tageszeitungen unterzogen. Auf deutscher Seite wurden die im ,Pressespiegel Polen‘ erfassten Zeitungen genutzt.
It is widely assumed that there is a natural, prelinguistic conceptual domain of time whose linguistic organization is universally structured via metaphoric mapping from the lexicon and grammar of space and motion. We challenge this assumption on the basis of our research on the Amondawa (Tupi Kawahib) language and culture of Amazonia. Using both observational data and structured field linguistic tasks, we show that linguistic space-time mapping at the constructional level is not a feature of the Amondawa language, and is not employed by Amondawa speakers (when speaking Amondawa). Amondawa does not recruit its extensive inventory of terms and constructions for spatial motion and location to express temporal relations. Amondawa also lacks a numerically based calendric system. To account for these data, and in opposition to a Universal Space-Time Mapping Hypothesis, we propose a Mediated Mapping Hypothesis, which accords causal importance to the numerical and artefact-based construction of time-based (as opposed to event-based) time interval systems.
This study analyses the use of the Polish wez- V2 (take-V2) double imperative to request here-and-now actions. The analysis is based on a collection of approximately 40 take-V2 double imperatives, which was built from a corpus of 10 hours of video recordings of everyday interactions (preparing and having meals, playing with children, etc.) taking place in the homes of Polish families. A sequential analysis of these data shows that the take-V2 construction is commonly selected in situations where the request recipient could be expected to already be attending to the relevant business (e.g., because they committed to this earlier in the interaction), but isn’t. By selecting the take-V2 format, the request speaker reanimates the recipient´s responsibility for the matter at hand.
Discourse metaphors
(2008)
The article introduces the notion of discourse metaphor, relatively stable metaphorical mappings that function as a key framing device within a particular discourse over a certain period of time. Discourse metaphors are illustrated by case studies from three lines of research: on the cultural imprint of metaphors, on the negotiation of metaphors and on cross-linguistic occurrence. The source concepts of discourse metaphors refer to phenomenologically salient real or fictitious objects that are part of interactional space (i.e., can be pointed at, like MACHINES or HOUSES) and/or occupy an important place in cultural imagination. Discourse metaphors change both over time and across the discourses where they are used. The implications of focussing on different types of source domains for our thinking about the embodiment and sociocultural situatedness of metaphor is discussed, with particular reference to recent developments in Conceptual Metaphor Theory. Research on discourse suggests that situatedness is a crucial factor in the functioning and dynamics of metaphor.
Denken in Metaphern ist ein Charakteristikum menschlicher Kognition. Diese Überzeugung, die in der deutschen Linguistik insbesondere von Weinrich (1967) vertreten wurde, ist eines der Axiome der Kognitiven Semantik (Lakoff/Johnson 1980). Umfassende empirische Studien zur Metaphorik bestimmter Diskurse sind aber bislang selten. Im vorliegenden Artikel möchten wir einige Ergebnisse einer solchen Studie präsentieren, in der die Bildung eines Europa-Begriffs1 über Metaphern aus dem konzeptuellen Bereich des Bauwesens in der russischen und der deutschen Presse untersucht wurde. Zunächst stellen wir kurz die empirische Arbeit in dem Projekt, in dem die vorliegende Studie entstanden ist, vor (1). Danach präsentieren wir die Metaphorik des Bauwesens im russischen und deutschen Diskurs zu Europa (2). Abschließend erfolgt eine Diskussion der Ergebnisse (3).