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What is the subject of German linguistics? This seemingly simple question has no obvious answer. In the ZGL’s first issue, the editors required contributions to cover the whole of the German language and to be theoretically sound but application-orientated, whereas the current ZGL-homepage defines the German language of present and history in all its differentiations as its subject matter.
Looking through the fifty volumes of ZGL, three relationships can be identified as presumably enlightening the role of language, in particular the German language: language and mind; language and language use; language and culture. Though of a different systematic type, language and data should be added as an increasingly important pairing for conceptualizing language. On this basis, I also discuss the position of linguistic studies of the German language, mirrored in the ZGL-volumes, between social, cultural and natural sciences, as well as the corresponding epistemic approaches – like explaining vs. understanding.
In this paper, the basic assumptions are presented against the background of the development of a corpus-based method to determine suitable headword candidates for the LeGeDe-prototype (LeGeDe= Lexik des gesprochenen Deutsch), a lexicographical resource on spoken German. In a first quantitatively oriented step, potential one-word headword candidates are identified with the help of frequency class comparisons from a corpus for spoken (FOLK) and a subset from a corpus for written German (DEREKO). Qualitative analyses based on a project-specifically defined sample of data from the FOLK corpus lead to multi-word headword candidates. The results of the qualitative analyses were also compared with the results of studies from the research literature as well as (quantitative-orientated) bi- and trigram analyses. In their multi-word form, these candidates are particularly characterized by the fact that they assume a very special interactional function in the (authentic) interaction and have to be described as a whole unit. The paper explains this combined procedure, which was extracted in the LeGeDe-project for the appointment of headword candidates.
This paper explores how attitudes affect the seemingly objective process of counting speakers of varieties using the example of Low German, Germany’s sole regional language. The initial focus is on the basic taxonomy of classifying a variety as a language or a dialect. Three representative surveys then provide data for the analysis: the Germany Survey 2008, the Northern Germany Survey 2016, and the Germany Survey 2017. The results of these surveys indicate that there is no consensus concerning the evaluation of Low German’s status and that attitudes towards Low German are related to, for example, proficiency in the language. These attitudes are shown to matter when counting speakers of Low German and investigating the status it has been accorded.
Lexical explorer
(2018)
Das Tool Lexical Explorer ermöglicht, die Korpus-Frequenzangaben vom FOLK (Forschung und Lehrkorpus Gesprochenes Deutsch; Schmidt 2014) und GeWiss (Gesprochene Wissenschaftssprache; Fandrych, Meißner & Wallner 2017) zu durchsuchen und abzufragen. Das Tool besteht aus Tabellen, die für die Zwecke des Projekts LeGeDe entwickelt wurden (Möhrs et al. 2017). Die Zahlen beruhen auf dem DGD-Release 2.10 (23.05.2018). Für den Vergleich zwischen Korpora der gesprochenen Sprache und DeReKo wird die DeReKo Version 2016-II (30.09.2016) ohne Subkorpora Wikipedia-Daten (Artikel, Diskussionen) und ohne Sprachliche Umbrüche (45/68) verwendet (vgl. Kupietz & Keibel 2009). Die Tabellen werden mit Hilfe von DataTables (plug-in for jQuery) präsentiert, wobei die Ajax Protokolle benutzt werden, um die Tabellen asynchron aus der Datenbank zu ziehen. Die Benutzung des Tools setzt die Vertrautheit mit der Annotation der Korpora in der DGD voraus.