Jahrbuch des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache

Language is political, and political actions never take place without language. Language usage and/or linguistic action are therefore inextricably interlinked with socio-political reality. The goal of the contributions brought together in this volume is to analyze this interrelation from various perspectives while reflecting on the role of linguistics.

German has developed as part of a European language community. This volume asks interesting questions about how these languages influence each other and change, and which methodological approaches and linguistic resources can be used to analyse this. The constant interaction between these languages and the political framework of the EU also raise specific questions regarding language and educational policy.

Social media have become a virtually indispensable element of everyday life, whether for private communication (such as on WhatsApp), sharing content and photos (such as on Facebook and Instagram), or commenting on world events (via Twitter). The volume examines how social media are changing our communication and language, and the novel forms of communication that have emerged from the use of social media.

This volume documents the 54^th annual conference of the Institute for the German Language (IDS). The papers provide a multifaceted view of current developments in the language system and usage. They also discuss new methodological approaches to linguistic issues that exploit newly accessible data sources. The thematic areas include lexicographic research, grammar, and the sociology of language.

Corpus-linguistic access to the lexicon has given lexicography a new empirical foundation, leading many linguists to question the traditional distinction between lexicon and grammar. This volume seeks to take stock of these developments. Among other issues, the essays discuss cognitive and semantic aspects of the lexicon and its role in the language system.

Grammatical variation in standard language is surprisingly complex and multifaceted, involving an interplay of internal grammatical regularities, parameters beyond grammar such as medium and text type, and extra-linguistic dimensions such as time or space. This book uses exemplary studies to show how variation in grammar can be understood by means of corpus, computer, psychological, and neurolinguistics, and modeled by modern grammatical methods.

For the first time, this volume shows the benefits of a praxeological approach to linguistics. It conceives of language, text, behavior, and communication as “practices.” A focus is placed on processuality, materiality, embodiment, and social routines. Instead of regarding language as an autonomous system, the contributions look at how actors use language in the context of embodied practices as shaped by social and cultural history.

The contributions of this volume, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Institut für deutsche Sprache, discuss current trends in grammar research and grammaticography, lexicology and lexicography, spoken language research, as well as corpus and computer linguistics. In addition, they provide an overview of the current status of linguistic research and possible new fields of investigation.

The 2013 Annual of the Institute for the German Language provides a classification of discourse on language decline based on language history and variation linguistics. In addition, it offers an analysis of the processes underlying the public debate from the perspectives of language sociology.

The subject of this annual volume for 2012 is the usage and forms of German as spoken by immigrants. The work addresses the acquisition of German as a second language, particularities in the German spoken by individuals with an immigrant background, the role of language for the transformation of self-identity, as well as communication between immigrants and German natives.

Cross-language comparison can show where German structures diverge from and converge with those of other languages. The essays in the 2011 Yearbook of the Institute for German Language compare German with other languages on all grammatical levels, from photetics, phonology, graphematics, and morphology to syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and text grammar. In addition, the book presents new methods of language comparison from corpus linguistics. The volume is intended for linguists of German or related languages as well as for teachers of German as a second language.

This volume presents the current linguistic debate on the relationship between lexicon and grammar and on the status of constructions. It makes reference to investigations of phenomena relating to valence, argument structure, diatheses, collocations and phrasemes. Starting from different positions within linguistic theory, the contributions also reflect the empirical methodologies currently applied to substantiate basic positions in linguistic theory.

In our modern society with its increasing differentiation in culture and media, language and speech are also confronted with new demands and contexts for their use. In the new media, text and image become increasingly closely interwoven, and what were traditionally thought to be firm boundaries between the material forms of language - between speech and writing - appear as increasingly fluid. The volume deals with the diversity of manifestations of our language and its intermedial relations with other forms of communication, including images, body language, sounds, and music.

Concern for the German language will always attract large audiences. Whoever claims that language is going to the dogs can be sure of the approbation of those who see themselves as linguistically superior. However, the status of grammatical rules is seldom questioned. It is in fact by no means clear what can be seen as correct German. How is ‘German’ to be understood? Who determines what should be regarded as correct? The 44th Annual Conference of the Institut für Deutsche Sprache [German Language Research Institute] endeavoured to help clarify questions such as these, and took as its topic German grammar in the tension between rules, standards and language usage.

This Yearbook of the German Language Institute aims to call to mind the traditions of linguistics in cultural studies and at the same time to document the connections between linguistics and modern research paths in cultural studies such as the theory of cognition and discourse analysis. In addition, the papers illuminate the linguistic turn in literary and historical studies. Thus the volume presents the foundations and theoretical and methodological approaches to linguistics as a cultural study, together with examples related to practice.

Large linguistic corpora are becoming increasingly important for linguistic work. For several years now, research endeavors have been dedicated to the construction of large corpora, the theory of data and corpora, as well as the development of methods in corpus analysis. The current volume focuses on theoretical and methodological questions about the compilation and use of large corpora and deals with these questions from the perspective of various linguistic subdisciplines, such as grammar, lexicon/lexicography, pragmatics/sociolinguistics and computer linguistics/informatics.

This volume examines the question: What happens when texts are comprehended? Written by academics from a variety of countries renowned in the field, the nineteen principal essays investigate the grammatical, psychological, cultural, and didactic aspects of reading comprehension. Overall, the result is an extensive, intelligible synopsis of reading comprehension research.

The papers in this volume focus on the following questions: what does the term 'standard language' comprise, how has Standard German developed since the 19th century, how can linguistics adequately describe its present state, and what longerterm developmental tendencies can be identified in it? The answers to these questions also reflect the necessity for normativity and its boundaries.

Im Band werden aktuelle Probleme und Tendenzen der Mehrwortforschung aus unterschiedlichen theoretischen und methodischen Blickwinkeln betrachtet, so wie sie sich z.B. aus der Phraseologie und Parömiologie, aus der Kollokationsforschung, aus Lexikologie und Lexikografie, Lexikontheorie, Grammatik und Pragmatik sowie aus der Computer- und Korpuslinguistik ergeben.

What is the status and image of German in comparison to other languages? What role does German play as an academic teaching and research subject in non-German-speaking countries? The papers in this volume examine contemporary and historical external views of the German language. The authors are specialists in German studies from outside the German-speaking world, together with a few from within Germany.

This volume presents a collection of contributions by linguists and lawyers on topical questions of the interconnections between language and law, and opens up a wide range of theoretical, methodological and practical approaches to aspects such as politics and the public domain, court proceedings, criminology, the editing of legislation, legal training, and the Europeanisation of law.

Present-day language change manifests itself primarily in lexical change. The papers in the present volume describe and discuss recent developments in German lexis, with its changes, continuities and discontinuities. Topics treated range from xenologisms via various processes of word formation to the role played by the media and advertising in lexical innovation.

Die Auswirkungen von Computer und Internet auf Kommunikationsformen und Sprachverwendung sind gegenwärtig bei weitem noch nicht so überschaubar wie die sprachlich-kommunikative Aneignung und Nutzung älterer technischer Medien wie Telefon, Rundfunk und Fernsehen, Tonband- und Videotechnik.

Die Beiträge des Bandes beschreiben und reflektieren die Auswirkungen der neuen elektronischen Medien unter drei Perspektiven:

1. Mediengeschichte und Medientheorie, wobei das Verhältnis zwischen Sprache und Medien sowie zwischen den verschiedenen medialen Formen im Zentrum steht.
2. Wandel von Sprache und Kommunikationsformen im Gebrauch neuer Medien, vom Reden über und mit dem Computer über Sprach- und Kommunikationsformen im Internet, in computervermittelten Arbeitsgruppen und Videokonferenzen bis zur Struktur von Hypertext.
3. Neue Medien als Arbeitsinstrument der Linguistik von der Datenaufnahme bis zur Ergebnispräsentation und dem wissenschaftlichen Service gegenüber einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit.

This volume reports on the latest empirical studies on phonetic, lexical, and grammatical phenomena and their variation in spoken German. Because language is generally spoken in face-to-face encounters, the focus on the relationship between social interaction and the function and structure of linguistic forms. The volume’s methodological approach is grounded in interaction linguistics, psycholinguistics, dialectology, and corpus linguistics.

This volume focuses on orthography from the perspective of science and society, emphasizing the following three aspects: theory and empiricism, orthographical knowledge transfer in the field of education, and orthography in the public sphere.