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Wer trägt die Schuld am Ersten Weltkrieg? Wer trägt die Schuld am für Deutschland und andere Staaten folgenschweren Ausgang des Kriegs? … Fragen wie diese sind und bleiben aktuell. Die vorliegende Arbeit gibt keine Antworten auf diese Fragen. Sie versucht hingegen aufzudecken, welche sprachlichen, d. h. lexikalischen Strategien Akteure in den frühen wissenschaftlichen und öffentlichen Debatten dieser Zeit wählen, um ihren Mentalitäten, ihrem Denken, Fühlen, Wollen/Sollen im Akt des Schuldzuschreibens oder Schuld-von-sich-Weisens Ausdruck zu verleihen. Die Analyse und Darstellung der heterogenen Mentalitäten der verschiedenen Akteure zeigt, wie komplex das Konzept »Schuld« (nicht nur) im zeitlich-thematischen Rahmen des Ersten Weltkriegs ist und warum die zuvor exemplarisch aufgeführten Fragen nicht an Aktualität verlieren.
Action ascription is an emergent process of mutual displays of understanding. Usually, the kind of action that is ascribed to a prior turn by a next action remains implicit. Sometimes, however, actions are overtly ascribed, for example, when speakers expose the use of strategies. This happens particularly in conflictual interaction, such as public debates or mediation talks. In these interactional settings, one of the speakers’ goals is to discredit their opponents in front of other participants or an overhearing audience. This chapter investigates different types of overt strategy ascriptions in a public mediation: exposing the opponent’s use of rhetorical devices, exposing the opponent’s use of false premises, and exposing that an opponent is telling only a half-truth. This chapter shows how speakers use ascriptions of acting strategically as accusations to disclose their opponents’ intentions and ‘truths’ that the opponents allegedly conceal and that are detrimental to their position.
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(2022)
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 deals with interpretation practices that speakers employ in order to (re)formulate what another person has said or implied. Analyzing interpretations in a public televised mediation that resembles a public debate, I show which kinds of interpretation practices that speakers adopt and how they differ depending the participants' roles. Systematically comparing all interpretations of the mediator vs. the opposing participants’, I argue that interpretations can be described as general practices with specific interactional effects, but that they are designed and exploited in different ways (i.e., for clarification and discourse-organization vs. self- and other-positioning and constructing arguments). I point out that speakers use meta-pragmatic accounts that support the interactional effects of their interpretations.
In the present article we argue that all communication is medial in the sense that every human sign-based interaction is shaped by medial aspects from the outset. We propose a dynamic, semiotic concept of media that focuses on the process-related aspect of mediality, and we test the applicability of this concept using as an example the second presidential debate between Clinton and Trump in 2016. The analysis shows in detail how the sign processing during the debate is continuously shaped by structural aspects of television and specific traits of political communication in television. This includes how the camerawork creates meaning and how the protagonists both use the affordances of this special mediality. Therefore, it is not adequate in our view to separate the technical aspects of the medium, the ‘hardware’, from the processual aspects and the structural conditions of communication. While some aspects of the interaction are directly constituted by the medium, others are more indirectly shaped and influenced by it, especially by its institutional dimension – we understand them as second-order media effects. The whole medial procedure with its specific mediality is a necessary, but not a sufficient condition of meaning-making. We distinguish the medial procedure from the semiotic modes employed, the language games played and the competence of the players involved.