Intelligent design
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Wolfgang Imo
Abstract
In everyday encounters, interactants have to keep track of a wide range of parameters which are relevant for a successful conversation: They have to 'address' the communicative genre that is (or is about to be) activated as well as the immediate and general situation the interactants are in. Furthermore, interactants have to tailor their utterances in such a way that they meet the supposed local needs of their partners-in-talk and make sure that their talk rests on the assumed shared knowledge of all interactants. On the basis of everyday spoken German conversations it will be shown that speakers have to design their utterances in such a way as to be adapted to their recipients' knowledge as well as to address situational and genre-related parameters. By analyzing utterance design it becomes possible to reveal the cognitive processes of the interactants.
© 2015 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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Articles in the same Issue
- Masthead
- Preface
- A blueprint of the Entrenchment-and- Conventionalization Model
- Metonymies don’t bomb people, people bomb people
- “Oft in my face he doth his banner rest”
- The historical development of saburafu
- Loanword adaptation: Phonological and cognitive issues
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- Usage-based linguistics and conversational interaction
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- The constructional patterns of L2 German meteorological events by native French-, Dutch- and Italian-speaking L1 learners
- Linguistic congruency of nominal concept types in German texts
- How bizarre!
- Let’s go look at usage
