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Drawing upon the transformative power of questions, the paper investigates questioning sequences from authentic coaching data to examine the systematic use of a particular succession of formulation and question and its impact on inviting self-reflection processes in the client and eliciting change. The object of investigation in this paper are therefore questioning sequences in which a coach asks a question immediately after a rephrasing or relocating action, prompting the client to respond in an explicit or implicit way. The coach hereby shifts the focus to a hypothetical scenario, prompting the client to change her perspective on the matter and reflect on her own statements, ideas and attitudes from an outside perspective. The paper aims to contribute to closing the research gap of the change potential of reflection-stimulating action techniques used by coaches, by investigating one of many ways of how questions can be powerful tools to invite a change of perspective for the client. The study focuses on one coaching process consisting of three sessions between a female coach and a female client, utilizing a single case study approach. The data collection was part of the interdisciplinary project “Questioning Sequences in Coaching”, comprising 14 authentic coaching processes. The analysis follows Peräkylä’s Transformative Sequences model, examining the first position including the formulation and the subsequent question, the client’s response, and the coach’s reaction to the response. On a practical level, the main purpose of this paper is not to contribute to the many ways practical literature recommends coaches how to do their work and how to ask questions, but rather to show in what ways the elicitation of self-reflection processes in clients has been achieved by other coaches in authentic coaching sessions.
With recourse to a broader understanding of the concept of translation, the transfer of source texts in one variety into another variety of the same language can also be called translation. This paper focuses on the target language – or rather – the target variety “easy-to-read language”, which is meant to make texts comprehensible for people with communication limitations. Considering its origins in the disability rights movement, the aim is to inform affected persons about their rights and democratic processes, i.e. to translate especially legal texts into the so-called easy-to-read language. Although there is a whole range of rules and guidelines for formulating in easy-to-read language, ”none offers a sufficient approach for translation into easy-to-read language“ (Bredel & Maaß, 2016a, p. 109). Standardization of the variety is also still a long way off. On the one hand, the contribution takes stock of legal regulations in easy-to-read language. On the other hand, four versions of the Federal Participation Law in easy-to-read language are analysed with regard to their external features and the constructions used to explain technical terminology. The analysis shows that legal texts in easy-to-read language are (still) quite limited in number and are also difficult to find. Concerning the second part, the constructions used exhibit a great structural variance, both intra- and intertextually. It is therefore questionable whether the addressees can access the texts independently. Also, it is still necessary to make the rules, the formulations of the rules and the implementations clearer so that the translations fulfil their function.
This paper presents a compositional annotation scheme to capture the clusivity properties of personal pronouns in context, that is their ability to construct and manage in-groups and out-groups by including/excluding the audience and/or non-speech act participants in reference to groups that also include the speaker. We apply and test our schema on pronoun instances in speeches taken from the German parliament. The speeches cover a time period from 2017-2021 and comprise manual annotations for 3,126 sentences. We achieve high inter-annotator agreement for our new schema, with a Cohen’s κ in the range of 89.7-93.2 and a percentage agreement of > 96%. Our exploratory analysis of in/exclusive pronoun use in the parliamentary setting provides some face validity for our new schema. Finally, we present baseline experiments for automatically predicting clusivity in political debates, with promising results for many referential constellations, yielding an overall 84.9% micro F1 for all pronouns.
Who is we? Disambiguating the referents of first person plural pronouns in parliamentary debates
(2021)
This paper investigates the use of first person plural pronouns as a rhetorical device in political speeches. We present an annotation schema for disambiguating pronoun references and use our schema to create an annotated corpus of debates from the German Bundestag. We then use our corpus to learn to automatically resolve pronoun referents in parliamentary debates. We explore the use of data augmentation with weak supervision to further expand our corpus and report preliminary results.
Vorwort
(1999)
Die öffentliche Akzeptanz und Wirkung natur- und technikwissenschaftlicher Forschung hängt grundlegend davon ab, ob sich die Ziele und Forschungsergebnisse an die Öffentlichkeit vermitteln lassen. Doch die Inhalte aktueller Forschungsvorhaben sind für ein Laienpublikum oft nur schwer zugänglich und verständlich. Vor dem Hintergrund, die gesellschaftliche Diskussion natur- und technikwissenschaftlicher Forschung zu verbessern, untersuchen und bewerten wir im Projekt PopSci – Understanding Science einen wichtigen Sektor des populärwissenschaftlichen Diskurses in Deutschland empirisch. Hierfür identifizieren wir die linguistischen Merkmale deutscher populärwissenschaftlicher Texte durch korpusbasierte Methoden und untersuchen deren Effekt auf die kognitive Verarbeitung der Texte durch Laien. Dazu setzen wir Vor- und Nachwissenstests ein. Außerdem messen wir die Blickbewegungen der Leserinnen und Leser, während sie populärwissenschaftliche Texte lesen. Aus dieser Kombination von unterschiedlichen Methoden versuchen wir, erste Empfehlungen zur Verbesserung des linguistischen Stils und der Wissensrepräsentation populärwissenschaftlicher Texte abzuleiten.
Verstanden werden. Vom doppelten Interesse an theoriebasierter, praxisgerichteter Textberatung
(2006)
Was ist Textberatung? Wer berät wen? Wie und zu welchem Nutzen soll das geschehen, und was hat Sprachwissenschaft damit zu tun? - Dieser Beitrag führt von der Umwelt über Funktionen bis zu Strukturen einer sprachlich und methodisch reflektierten Beratung von Akteuren der Textproduktion. Einleitend umreißt er die Textberatung als einen kunterbunten Markt mit beliebigem Angebot (Teil 1). Dabei existieren für andere Beratungsfelder professionelle Konzepte der Beratungstätigkeit (2), und zum Beratungsgegenstand hätte die (Angewandte) Linguistik als primär zuständige Wissenschaftsdisziplin spannende Fragen und ein paar bedenkenswerte Antworten beizutragen (3). Am Beispiel eines didaktisch und medienlinguistisch verankerten Redaktionscoachings (4) wird das doppelte Interesse an theoriebasierter, praxisgerichteter Textberatung deutlich: Mit solcher Textberatung gut beraten sind Sprachpraxis und Sprachwissenschaft zugleich - wenn die Wissenschaft als beratende Instanz auch auf der fachdisziplinären Metaebene gewandt genug ist (5). Wissenschaftspolitisch wache und am Wissenstransfer interessierte Sprachwissenschaft ist gefragt.
Verdienstvoll
(1989)
Researchers in Natural Language Processing rely on availability of data and software, ideally under open licenses, but little is done to actively encourage it. In fact, the current Copyright framework grants exclusive rights to authors to copy their works, make them available to the public and make derivative works (such as annotated language corpora). Moreover, in the EU databases are protected against unauthorized extraction and re-utilization of their contents. Therefore, proper public licensing plays a crucial role in providing access to research data. A public license is a license that grants certain rights not to one particular user, but to the general public (everybody). Our article presents a tool that we developed and whose purpose is to assist the user in the licensing process. As software and data should be licensed under different licenses, the tool is composed of two separate parts: Data and Software. The underlying logic as well as elements of the graphic interface are presented below.
Sich beschweren – Kommunikation von Unzufriedenheit in Eingaben an Staats- und Parteiinstanzen
(2022)
Sich in eigener Sache zu beschweren oder einen ausgemachten Missstand anzusprechen, war neben dem Bitten und dem Huldigen die in Eingaben an Behörden und Politiker während des Nationalsozialismus am häufigsten anzutreffende Kommunikationspraktik. Die folgende, ihrem vorläufigen Charakter nach explorative, Analyse nimmt diese in den Blick und konzentriert sich dabei auf häufig anzutreffende Sprachhandlungsmuster, die für die Kommunikationspraktik des Sich-Beschwerens in Beschwerdeschreiben an offizielle Stellen konstitutiv waren. Untersuchungsgrundlage ist ein Korpus von ca. 500 Beschwerdeschreiben, die im Stadtarchiv Mannheim, dem Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe, dem Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz sowie den »Akten der Partei-Kanzlei« (Microfiche-Edition) erhoben wurden.
In the last years a common notion of a Problem-Solving Method (PSM) emerged from different knowledge engineering frameworks. As a generic description of the dynamic behaviour of knowledge based systems PSMs are favored subjects of reuse. Up to now, most investigations on the reuse of PSMs focus on static features and methods as objects of reuse. By this, they ignore a lot of information of how the PSM was developed that is, in principle, entailed in the different parts of a conceptual model of a PSM.
In this paper the information of the different parts of PSMs is reconsidered from a reuse process point of view. A framework for generalized problem-solving methods is presented that describes the structure of a category of methods based on family resemblances. These generalized methods can be used to structure libraries of PSMs and - in the process of reuse - as a means to derive an incarnation, i.e. a member of its family of PSMs.
For illustrating the ideas, the approach is applied to the task rsp. problem type of parametric design.