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Grundlage der Analyse ist ein fünfzehn Jahre umspannendes deutschsprachiges Zeitungskorpus – zum Syrienkonflikt und der Person Baschar al-Assad. Am Beispiel zweier Zeitungen wird dabei untersucht, inwieweit sich die Sprachgebrauchsmuster unterscheiden und im Zeitverlauf ändern.

Several studies have examined effects of explicit task demands on eye movements in reading. However, there is relatively little prior research investigating the influence of implicit processing demands. In this study, processing demands were manipulated by means of a between-subject manipulation of comprehension question difficulty. Consistent with previous results from Wotschack and Kliegl, the question difficulty manipulation influenced the probability of regressing from late in sentences and re-reading earlier regions; readers who expected difficult comprehension questions were more likely to re-read. However, this manipulation had no reliable influence on eye movements during first-pass reading of earlier sentence regions. Moreover, for the subset of sentences that contained a plausibility manipulation, the disruption induced by implausibility was not modulated by the question manipulation. We interpret these results as suggesting that comprehension demands influence reading behavior primarily by modulating a criterion for comprehension that readers apply after completing first-pass processing.

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.

Der CorpusExplorer v2.0 ist eine frei verfügbare Software zur korpushermeneutischen Analyse und bietet über 45 unterschiedliche Analysen/Visualisierungen für eigenes Korpusmaterial an. Dieser Praxisbericht gibt Einblicke, zeigt Fallstricke auf und bietet Lösungen an, um die tägliche Visualisierungsarbeit zu erleichtern. Zunächst wird ein kurzer Einblick in die Ideen gegeben, die zur Entwicklung des CorpusExplorers führten, einer korpuslinguistischen Software, die nicht nur vielfältige Forschungsansätze unterstützt, sondern auch mit einem Fokus auf die universitäre Lehre entwickelt wird. Der Mittelteil behandelt einen der vielen Fallstricke, die im Entwicklungsprozess auftraten: Effizienz-/Anpassungsprobleme – bzw.: Was passiert, wenn Visualisierungen an neue Begebenheiten angepasst werden müssen? Da diese Lösung Teil des CorpusExplorers v2.0 ist, wird abschließend darauf eingegangen, wie unterschiedliche Visualisierungen zu denselben Datensätzen sich auf die Rezeption/Interpretation von Daten auswirken.