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Hier, da und dort– regionale Variation und standardsprachlicher Gebrauch bei den primären Lokaldeiktika im Deutschen

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Published/Copyright: March 29, 2011
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Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik
From the journal Volume 39 Issue 1

Abstract

There is much disagreement with respect to the adequate description of the primary local demonstratives in German. This is partly due to the fact that functions of da have been considered which are not properly locative deictic. However, the problem appears to derive first and foremost from regional differences on the one hand and the influence of written language on the other. In day-to-day language there is considerable variation in the use of local demonstratives. Two-level systems predominate: the most widespread is hierda, but regionally hierdort or dadort are also usual, although a complete parallelism between these oppositions is not always present. For the (intended) standard language use, this is the point of departure (real deixis is normally connected to the proximity situation); but through the orientation of spoken language towards written language, in which the local demonstrative dort is preferred to da for reasons of clarity, dort generally comes into play additionally as a variant which is given a higher value.


Adresse des Verfassers: Prof. Dr. Robert Möller, Département de langues et littératures modernes, Université de Liège, Place Cockerill 3–5, B-4000 Liège.

Online erschienen: 2011-03-29
Erschienen im Druck: 2011-March
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