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Speech islands are historically and developmentally unique and will inevitably disappear within the next decades. We urgently need to preserve their remains and exploit what is left in order to make research on language-in-contact and historical as well as current comparative language research possible.
The Archive for Spoken German (AGD) at the Institute for German Language collects, fosters and archives data from completed research projects and makes them available to the wider research community.
Besides large variation corpora and corpora of conversational speech, the archive already contains a range of collections of data on German speech minorities. The latter will be outlined in this chapter. Some speech island data is already made available through the personal service of the AGD, or the database of spoken German (DGD), e.g. data on Australian German, Unserdeutsch, or German in North America. Some corpora are still being prepared for publication, but still important to document for potentially interested research projects. We therefore also explain the current problems and efforts related to the curation of speech island data, from the digitization of recordings and the collection of metadata, to the integration of transcriptions, annotations and other ways of accessing and sharing data.
Auch Linguist*innen, die gesprochene Sprache untersuchen, kommen schon seit längerem nicht mehr ohne digitale Infrastrukturen aus. Seit Beginn der Gesprochene-Sprache-Forschung werden Gespräche aufgezeichnet und anschließend transkribiert, da die flüchtigen, innerhalb von Bruchteilen von Sekunden stattfindenden Feinheiten des Gesprochenen paradoxerweise nur durch Verschriftung im Detail untersucht werden können. Diese Detailuntersuchungen beschränkten sich im vergangenen Jahrhundert meist auf wenige Einzelbelege für ein untersuchtes Phänomen. Das heißt, die Forschenden hatten den unmittelbaren Überblick über ihre Datenkollektionen und benötigten keine elaborierten digitalen Methoden zu deren Aufbereitung, Annotation und Analyse. Dies hat sich in den letzten beiden Jahrzehnten stark geändert: Es wurden vermehrt gezielt große Datenmengen gesammelt, in Datenbanken organisiert und der Forschungsgemeinschaft zur Nutzung zur Verfügung gestellt. An erster Stelle muss hier das Forschungs- und Lehrkorpus gesprochenes Deutsch (FOLK) genannt werden (vgl. Schmidt 2014). Dieses wird seit 2008 am Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) aufgebaut und ist heute das größte Referenzkorpus für das gesprochene Deutsch.
Transkriptionswerkzeuge sind spezialisierte Softwaretools für die Transkription und Annotation von Audio- oder Videoaufzeichnungen gesprochener Sprache. Dieses Kapitel erklärt einleitend, worin der zusätzliche Nutzen solcher Werkzeuge gegenüber einfacher Textverarbeitungssoftware liegt, und gibt dann einen Überblick über grundlegende Prinzipien und einige weitverbreitete Tools dieser Art. Am Beispiel der Editoren FOLKER und OrthoNormal wird schließlich der praktische Einsatz zweier Werkzeuge in den Arbeitsabläufen eines Korpusprojekts illustriert.
Korpora gesprochener Sprache
(2022)
Korpora gesprochener Sprache bestehen aus Audio- oder Videoaufnahmen sprachlicher Produktionen, die über eine Transkription einer linguistischen Analyse zugänglich gemacht werden. Sie kommen zur Untersuchung unterschiedlichster sprachwissenschaftlicher Fragestellungen unter anderem in der Gesprächsforschung, der Dialektologie und der Phonetik zum Einsatz. Dieser Beitrag diskutiert die wichtigsten Eigenschaften von Korpora gesprochener Sprache und stellt einige Vertreter der verschiedenen Kategorien vor.
Daten und Metadaten
(2022)
In diesem Kapitel werden Metadaten als Daten definiert, die der Dokumentation und/oder Beschreibung empirischer Sprachdaten dienen. Einleitend werden die verschiedenen Funktionen von Metadaten im Forschungsprozess und ihre Bedeutung für die Konzepte der Ausgewogenheit und Repräsentativität diskutiert. Anhand des Forschungs- und Lehrkorpus Gesprochenes Deutsch (FOLK) werden dann Metadaten eines konkreten Korpus vorgestellt, und es wird gezeigt, wie diese bei Korpusanalysen zum Einsatz kommen.
Since Lerner coined the notion of delayed completion in 1989, this recurrent social practice of continuing one’s speaking turn while disregarding an intermediate co-participant’s utterance has not been investigated with regard to embodied displays and actions. A sequential approach to videotaped mundane conversations in German will explain the occurrence and use of delayed completions. First, especially in multi-party and multi-activity settings, delayed completions can result from reduced monitoring and coordinating activities. Second, recipients can use intra-turn response slots for more extended responsive actions than the current speaker initially projected, leading to delayed completion sequences. Finally, delayed completions are used for blocking possibly misaligned co-participant actions. The investigation of visible action illustrates that delayed completions are a basic practice for retrospectively managing co-participant response slots.
The use of digital resources and tools across humanities disciplines is steadily increasing, giving rise to new research paradigms and associated methods that are commonly subsumed under the term digital humanities. Digital humanities does not constitute a new discipline in itself, but rather a new approach to humanities research that cuts across different existing humanities disciplines. While digital humanities extends well beyond language-based research, textual resources and spoken language materials play a central role in most humanities disciplines.
In this paper, we present an overview of freely available web applications providing online access to spoken language corpora. We explore and discuss various solutions with which the corpus providers and corpus platform developers address the needs of researchers who are working with spoken language. The paper aims to contribute to the long-overdue exchange and discussion of methods and best practices in the design of online access to spoken language corpora.
This paper studies practices of indexing discrepant assumptions accomplished by turn-constructional units with ich dachte ('I thought') in German talk-in-interaction. Building on the analysis of 141 instances from the corpus FOLK, we identify three sequential environments in which ich dachte is used to index that an assumption which a speaker (has) held contrasts with some other, contextually salient assumption. We show that practices which have been studied for English I thought are also routinely used in German: ich dachte is a means to manage epistemic incongruencies and to contrast an incorrect with a correct assumption in narratives. In addition, ich dachte is also used to account for the speaker's own prior actions which may have looked problematic because they built on misunderstandings which the speaker only discovered later. Moreover, ich dachte-practices may also be used to create comic effects by reporting an earlier, absurd assumption. The practices are discussed with regard to their role in regaining common ground, in managing relationships, in maintaining the identity of a rational actor, and in terms of their exploitation for other conversational interests. Special attention is paid to how co-occurring linguistic features, and sequential and pragmatic factors, account for local interpretations of ich dachte.
Das Bild von der 'Sprache der DDR' in der alten Bundesrepublik oder: Haben sie so gesprochen?
(2004)
This article discusses questions concerning the creation, annotation and sharing of spoken language corpora. We use the Hamburg Map Task Corpus (HAMATAC), a small corpus in which advanced learners of German were recorded solving a map task, as an example to illustrate our main points. We first give an overview of the corpus creation and annotation process including recording, metadata documentation, transcription and semi-automatic annotation of the data. We then discuss the manual annotation of disfluencies as an example case in which many of the typical and challenging problems for data reuse – in particular the reliability of interpretative annotations – are revealed.
Die 21. Arbeitstagung zur Gesprächsforschung mit dem Rahmenthema „Vergleichende Gesprächsforschung“ fand vom 21.–23. März 2018 am Institut für Deutsche Sprache in Mannheim statt. Das Ziel der Tagung war es, Forscherinnen und Forscher zusammenzubringen, die authentische Interaktionsdaten aus vergleichender Perspektive untersuchen. Das Rahmenthema der Tagung ergab sich aus dem steigenden Interesse an vergleichenden Fragestellungen innerhalb konversations- und gesprächsanalytischer Untersuchungen. Die Tagung nahm gezielt Vorgehensweisen und Methoden bei der Durchführung vergleichender Untersuchungen in den Blick. Die Vorträge, Projektpräsentationen und Datensitzungen erörterten 1. das Vergleichen als analytische Grundoperation der Konversations- und Gesprächsanalyse, 2. Vergleiche alternativer Ressourcen und Praktiken für spezifische Handlungen und Aktivitäten in der Interaktion sowie 3. methodologische Herausforderungen einer vergleichenden Gesprächsforschung.
Response particles manage intersubjectivity. This conversation analytic study describes German eben (“exactly”). With eben, speaker A locally agrees with the immediately prior turn of B (the “confirmable”) and establishes a second indexical link: A relates B’s confirmable to a position A herself had already displayed (the “anchor”). Through claiming temporal priority, eben speakers treat a just-formulated position as self-evident and mark independence. Further evidence for the three-part structure “anchor-confirmable-eben” that eben sets in motion retrospectively comes from instances where eben speakers supply a missing/opaque anchor via a postpositioned display of independent access. Data are in German with English translation.
The lexicography of German
(2020)
This chapter discusses the main dictionaries of the German language as it is spoken and written in Germany, and also German as it is spoken and written in Austria, Switzerland, the eastern fringes of Belgium, and South Tyrol. It also briefly describes Pennsylvania German. Corpora and other language resources used in German dictionary-making are also presented. Finally, there is a discussion of some current issues in German lexicography, as well as future prospects.
This paper analyses paramedic emergency interaction as multimodal multiactivity. Based on a corpus of video-recordings of emergency drills performed by professional paramedics during advanced training, the focus is on paramedics’ participation in multiple joint projects which become simultaneously relevant. Simultaneity and fast succession of multiactivity does not only characterise work on the team level, but also the work profile of the individual paramedic. Participants have to coordinate their own participation in more than one joint project intrapersonally. In the data studied, three patterns of allocating multimodal resources stood out as routine ways of coordinating participation in two simultaneous projects intrapersonally:
1. Talk and hearing vs. manual action monitored by gaze,
2. Talk and hearing vs. gazing (and pointing),
3. Manual action vs. gaze (and talk and hearing).