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Tilo Weber betont in seinem Beitrag die semantische Relevanz von Ereignissen bzw. Ereigniswissen, die er als eine besondere Form von sog. Frames betrachtet. Letztere lassen sich als heterogene und komplexe Wissensrahmen begreifen, die für lexikalische Einheiten und insbesondere für Verben eine besondere Bedeutung haben. Das kognitiv-funktionalistische Frame-Konzept erlaubt zudem, durchaus im Sinne der Tagung, einen interdisziplinären Zugang, insofern es, wie Weber meint, „ein Bindeglied zwischen Sprach-, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften sein kann.“
In conversation, speakers need to plan and comprehend language in parallel in order to meet the tight timing constraints of turn taking. Given that language comprehension and speech production planning both require cognitive resources and engage overlapping neural circuits, these two tasks may interfere with one another in dialogue situations. Interference effects have been reported on a number of linguistic processing levels, including lexicosemantics. This paper reports a study on semantic processing efficiency during language comprehension in overlap with speech planning, where participants responded verbally to questions containing semantic illusions. Participants rejected a smaller proportion of the illusions when planning their response in overlap with the illusory word than when planning their response after the end of the question. The obtained results indicate that speech planning interferes with language comprehension in dialogue situations, leading to reduced semantic processing of the incoming turn. Potential explanatory processing accounts are discussed.
In this paper, the meaning and processing of the German conditional connectives (CCs) such as wenn ‘if’ and nur wenn ‘only if’ are investigated. In Experiment 1, participants read short scenarios containing a conditional sentence (i.e., If P, Q.) with wenn/nur wenn ‘if/only if’ and a confirmed or negated antecedent (i.e., P/not-P), and subsequently completed the final sentence about Q (with or without negation). In Experiment 2, participants rated the truth or falsity of the consequent Q after reading a conditional sentence with wenn or nur wenn and a confirmed or negated antecedent (i.e., If P, Q. P/not-P. // Therefore, Q?). Both experiments showed that neither wenn nor nur wenn were interpreted as biconditional CCs. Modus Ponens (If P, Q. P. // Therefore, Q) was validated for wenn, whereas it was not validated in the case of nur wenn. While Denial of the Antecedent (If P, Q. not-P. // Therefore, not-Q.) was validated in the case of nur wenn, it was not validated for wenn. The same method was used to test wenn vs. unter der Bedingung, dass ‘on condition that’ in Experiment 3, and wenn vs. vorausgesetzt, dass ‘provided that’ in Experiment 4. Experiment 5, using Affirmation of the Consequent (If P, Q. Q. // Therefore, P.) to test wenn vs. nur wenn replicated the results of Experiment 2. Taken together, the results show that in German, unter der Bedingung, dass is the most likely candidate of biconditional CCs whereas all others are not biconditional. The findings, in particular of nur wenn not being semantically biconditional, are discussed based on available formal analyses of conditionals.
Argumentative Stützungen von diskursiven Geltungsansprüchen spielen im Rahmen von Diskursanalysen zu gesellschaftlich verhandelten Themen, wie ökologische Nachhaltigkeit, eine wichtige Rolle. Im vorliegenden Beitrag, der einen zentralen Aspekt der großangelegten diachronen Studie von Schwegler (2018) fokussiert vorstellt, wird ein diskurslinguistischer Ansatz zur Erfassung von Argumentationen und Werteverständnissen dargelegt, der Argumentgruppen inhaltlich bzw. thematisch unterscheidet – d. h. nicht mikro- oder makroformal analysiert – und gleichzeitig mittels eines framesemantischen Ansatzes über eine Argumentationsanalyse auf mittlerer Abstraktionsebene hinausgeht. So kann auch für vermeintlich konsensuelle Bereiche aufgedeckt werden, wie Konflikte latent innerhalb zentraler argumentativer Begriffe liegen. Identifizierte Argumentgruppen, wie hier beispielhaft Gerechtigkeit, sind dabei nicht genuin diskursspezifisch, spezifisch sind vielmehr die Kombinationen der Werteverständnisse, d. h. die Arten von Gerechtigkeit, an die argumentativ appelliert wird. Im deutschsprachigen Nachhaltigkeitskontext sind dies u. a. Fairness, Gleichheit (bzgl. Umweltgerechtigkeit oder Verfahrensgerechtigkeit), globale Gleichberechtigung, kosmische Gerechtigkeit (Schicksal), Reziprozität/Tauschgerechtigkeit sowie Gewohnheitsrecht oder Utilitarismus, die in kontrastiver Verwendung Konfliktpotenzial bergen.
„systemrelevant“ – eine sprachwissenschaftliche Betrachtung des Begriffs aus aktuellem Anlass
(2021)
This paper investigates the use of linking adverbs in adversative constructions in German and Italian. In Italian those constructions are very frequently formulated with adverbs such as invece, while wordings without a lexical connective are more typical of German. Corpus data show that the syntactic und semantic conditions favouring the use of adversative adverbs are by and large the same in both languages. Lexical connectives can increase explicitness when the intended adversative interpretation is not obvious on other grounds. The higher frequency of adversative adverbs in Italian is shown to be a consequence of the more restrictive rules of the placement of prosodic accent.
While there is a large amount of research in the field of Lexical Semantic Change Detection, only few approaches go beyond a standard benchmark evaluation of existing models. In this paper, we propose a shift of focus from change detection to change discovery, i.e., discovering novel word senses over time from the full corpus vocabulary. By heavily fine-tuning a type-based and a token-based approach on recently published German data, we demonstrate that both models can successfully be applied to discover new words undergoing meaning change. Furthermore, we provide an almost fully automated framework for both evaluation and discovery.
Taking the use of the esthetic term wabi sabi (Japanese compound noun) in a series of German- and English-language theater rehearsals as an example, this article studies the emergence of shared meanings and uses of an expression over an interactional history. We track how shared understandings and uses of wabi sabi develop over the course of a series of theater rehearsals. We focus on the practices by which understandings of wabi sabi are displayed, adopted, and negotiated. We discuss complexities and intransparencies of the manifestation of common ground in multiparty interactions and its relationship to the emergence of routine uses of the expression. Data are in English and German with English translation.