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  • Edited by: Ingo H. Warnke and Beatrix Busse
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Language in Text and Discourse is an innovative state-of-the-art interdisciplinary series of monographs and edited collections that focus on cutting-edge linguistic studies at the interface between discourse and society including corpus approaches. This series is a forum for studies of language in interaction with other semiotic modes which address the question of how meanings are activated, remade or re-shaped within a variety of contexts and interactions, such as social or textual structures, places, styles, or discursive moments. These are considered to be resources for placemaking or positioning, which correlate and are indexically linked with repetitive semiotic patterns. Verbal and non-verbal positioning as well as conventionalised forms of patterning determine, construe and reflect historically variable concepts of social reality. These are part of a complex network of discursive realities, power relations and voices. The series incorporates studies of social styling and language usage as well as processes of position-ing in a number of different linguistic as well as social, cultural, aesthetic and historical contexts.

By transcending disciplinary boundaries the series is integrative in a number of ways. We will publish linguistic studies written in English or German about grammatical, knowledge-oriented, stylistic and sociolinguistic approaches within the fields of discourse analy-sis or corpus linguistics. These studies com-bine quantitative and qualitative investigations or represent mono- or multi-modal analyses. All submissions will be peer-reviewed.

Editors:
Beatrix Busse, professor of English linguistics, is Vice-rector for teaching and learning at the University of Köln (Germany).
Ingo H. Warnke holds the chair of German linguistics and interdisciplinary linguistics at the University of Bremen (Germany).

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Beatrix Busse, professor of English linguistics, is Vice-rector for teaching and learning at the University of Köln (Germany).

Ingo H. Warnke holds the chair of German linguistics and interdisciplinary linguistics at the University of Bremen (Germany).

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Recent French history has repeatedly revealed examples of exclusive, racist, and violent politics. Spaces for authoritarian tendencies have also opened up in public discourse. This volume empirically and discourse-analytically explores the question of what discursive practices are used by whom in Macron’s France to blur the lines between democracy and illiberalism, and to normalize certain ideologies.

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Volume 38 in this series

Die Arbeit untersucht die Debatte um genderbewusste Sprache aus diskursanalytischer Perspektive, mit Fokus auf antifeministische Muster. Analysiert wurden Beiträge aus Vereinszeitschriften dreier Sprachpflegevereine aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz von 1990 bis 2020. Die qualitative diskurslinguistische Mehrebenenanalyse umfasst die strukturorientierte Untersuchung des Diskursverlaufs, bei der zentrale diskursive Ereignisse und Schlagwörter identifiziert werden. Diese Begriffe dienen nicht nur der Benennung, sondern bewerten genderbewusste Sprache und verknüpfen den Gegenstand mit anderen antifeministischen Debatten. Auf der Ebene von konzeptuellen Metaphern wird genderbewusste Sprache häufig als Abweichung vom "Normalen" dargestellt. Kontextspezifische Topoi thematisieren Verständlichkeit, Lesbarkeit oder inszenieren genderbewusste Sprache als Einschränkung der Freiheit. Insgesamt zeigt sich eine dualistische Diskursstruktur, mit der genderbewusste Sprache als Gefahr für die Sprache und Geschlechterverhältnisse dargestellt wird. Zentral ist die Konstruktion der "totalitären Feministin" als Feindbild, das alle Kritik bündelt und symbolisiert.

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Volume 37 in this series

Das Buch widmet sich der finnischen Fachsprache der Kunstmusik. Ausgehend von einer historischen und strukturellen Darstellung des einschlägigen Wortschatzes liegt der Schwerpunkt auf einer diskurslinguistischen Mehrebenenanalyse von Texten zu zentralen Persönlichkeiten der finnischen Musik. Anhand des Schreibens über Musik auf Finnisch wird so beispielhaft ein methodisches Modell zur Erfassung von Kunstdiskursen entwickelt und angewandt.

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Volume 36 in this series

Diskurslinguistik und Morphologie hatten in der bisherigen Forschung wenige Berührungspunkte. Die traditionelle Diskurslinguistik betrachtet morphologische Fragestellungen häufig nur am Rande und auch die Wortbildung nimmt trotz Hinwendung zu gebrauchsbasierten Aspekten in den letzten Jahren den Text nach wie vor als oberste kommunikative Bezugsgröße an. Dieser Band setzt sich zum Ziel, die Schnittstellen beider Disziplinen zu beleuchten, indem er systematisch die Relevanz der Morphologie für diskurslinguistische Themen einerseits sowie des Diskurses für morphologische Untersuchungen andererseits ins Zentrum rückt. Er behandelt dabei grundlegende theoretische Fundierungen ebenso wie empirisch-methodische Herausforderungen sowie einzelne Fallanalysen. Dabei knüpft ein Großteil der Beiträge an den Foucault’schen Diskursbegriff an, einige jedoch auch an den konversationsanalytisch orientierten Diskursbegriff. Der Band macht deutlich, dass sowohl die Diskurslinguistik als auch die Morphologie von dieser Annäherung profitieren, und möchte zu weiteren Untersuchungen zu dieser Schnittstelle anregen.

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Interviews are omnipresent in scholarship and public discourses. They play a crucial role in various spheres, from collecting research data to providing persons in the public eye a platform in print and online media. Interviews do not only capture a dialogue; they provide a framework in which dialogue gets staged. As such a framework, the interview protocols experiential knowledge and personal experience in certain ways, according interlocutors different degrees of authority to speak.

The volume contributes state-of-the-art research on what conclusions can be drawn from these and further reflections for a general assessment of the interview as method and form; it offers fundamental conceptualizations of the interview as a structured and mediated site of knowledge production.

Theoreticians and practitioners assembled here conceptualize the interview from perspectives in different fields of the humanities and social sciences such as linguistics, literary and cultural studies, musicology, psychology, and philosophy.

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Volume 34 in this series

Invective phenomena with the purpose or effect of marginalization and exclusion, of insult and debasement, of discrimination and verbal aggression have long been in the focus of discourse-analytical research. Among the various linguistic disciplines that deal with invective communication, discourse approaches have a particular analytical potential. They shift the focus to discursive conditions and the effects of power relations which make invective practices possible in the first place, and shed light on their contextual and epistemic embeddings.

The interdisciplinary volume is devoted to the forms, formats, and effects of invective communication in both contemporary and historical discourse constellation, from different cultural contexts and in diverse media constellations. The contributions from the fields of linguistics, literature, and sociology thus demonstrate the potentials of discourse-analytical approaches in the study of invectives and invectivity.

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Volume 33 in this series

The editors of this volume have combined their expertise in discourse, contradiction, minority and diversity studies to suggest a change of perspective from categorisations into societal minorities and majorities towards an analysis of marginalising and centralising discourses. For this purpose, we have gathered interdisciplinary-minded authors from linguistics, literary and religious studies, political and historical sciences. Their contributions focus on contradictions of religious and national belonging as well as intersections of religion and nation in many different regions of the world from the 18th century until today. While illustrating the diversity and contradictions of religious and national belonging across time and space, the chapters of the book contribute to an understanding of the dynamics of questions of belonging and the associated constant renegotiations of power within these discursive processes.

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Volume 32 in this series

This book is a collection of the ICAME41 conference proceedings covering a range of topics in corpus linguistics. Busse et al. Explore contemporary trends and new directions in the field. Papers focusing on historical linguistics include Bohmann et al’s study on the passive alternation in 19th and 20th century American English whilst Iyeiri and Fukunaga investigate negation in 19th century American missionary documents. Bohmann’s emphasis is on the Contrastive usage profiling method to represent online discourse data. Empirical studies on discourse analysis include Brooks‘ analysis of how the UK press portrays obesity, Coats generating ASR transcripts to look at dialect data from YouTube, and Gonzalez-Cruz’s pragmatic considerations of Anglicisms entering Canarian-Spanish digital headlines. Schneider use statistical models to look at language comprehension in an eye-tracking corpus.

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What is the "clash of civilizations"? What are us-group constructions? What is the West? This critical discourse analysis informed by cognitive linguistics answers these questions in detail using a data set comprising more than 100,000 German-language print media articles. It presents highly relevant findings on the use of "we" and "us," as well as on the media production of large social groups and political and cultural global conflicts.
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The aim of this publication is to expand the program and methodological inventory of discourse linguistics in two ways: firstly, by systematizing the specific descriptive categories and analytical tools available for discourses in digital media (e.g., hashtags). Secondly, it seeks to evaluate and develop digital methods and the methods and tools of corpus linguistics to meet the requirements of discourse linguistics.

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Das Buch widmet sich populären Musikdiskursen aus einer interdisziplinären diskurslinguistischen und korpuspragmatischen Perspektive. Es wird die Frage gestellt, wie Phänomene, die als schwer benennbar oder auch als unsagbar gelten, mit Worten beschrieben und bewertet werden: Musik und Klang nämlich, sowie ihr ästhetisches Erleben und ihre kulturelle Bedeutung. Ca. 13.500 Musikrezensionen unterschiedlicher Genres zwischen Pop und Klassik werden vor diesem Hintergrund untersucht. Zentrum des Interesses ist die Art und Weise der sprachlich-diskursiven Konstituierung musikalisch-ästhetischer Diskursobjekte und Kategorien im Verhältnis zum Metadiskurs der Unsagbarkeit von Musik. Das Augenmerk richtet sich dabei auf die Spezifik des diskursiven Sprach- und Zeichengebrauchs, vor allem in Kollokationen, nominalen Wortverbindungen und attributiven Clustern. Die Korpusanalysen zeigen erstmals empirisch, wie Musik im Diskurs mit sprachlichen Mustern, sprachlicher Kreativität und Dichte verwoben ist, wenn über musikalische Eigenschaften und klangliche Eigenheiten gesprochen bzw. geschrieben wird. Die Ergebnisse geben nicht zuletzt Aufschluss über das Verhältnis von Musterhaftigkeit und Diversität im Sprachgebrauch.

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Volume 28 in this series

Multilingual classrooms and online communication are becoming increasingly linguistically diverse due to globalization and new discourse patterns are emerging. Many of these patterns include the use of linguistic resources from multiple languages in the same utterance. Translanguaging, a recent theoretical framework, is gaining prominence among scholars interested in studying these multilingual discursive practices and the concept of a unitary language system for lexical processing.

The aim of this book is to gain a better understanding of the bilingual brain and how words and sentences that use features from socially distinct languages are processed. Using examples provided by multilingual study participants, a categorization of the various forms of translanguaging is developed to build a translanguaging model. Psycholinguistic methods such as eye tracking are combined with conventional sociolinguistic survey methodology to provide rich qualitative and quantitative data that address the cognitive effects of translanguaging and the underlying structure of translingual word-formations.

This monograph shows how language biography, exposure, and attitude towards multilingual discursive practices all affect cognitive processing. It also demonstrates how multilingual speakers are setting the patterns for novel word-formations to be produced, thus having a social, cultural, and cognitive impact on how we communicate.

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This study investigates the public communicative practices that constitute Vienna’s Heldenplatz (Heroes’ Square). The semiotic landscape on site and newspaper reports from 2015 to 2017 constitute bodies of knowledge about identity, history, and society. Conceptualizing them interdisciplinarily allows a number of temporal layers, spaces, and social positionings to become visible that are ultimately central components of societal constructions.

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Das Buch analysiert Repräsentationen von 'Kolonialismus' am Beispiel österreichischer Geschichtslehrbüchern für die 7. Schulstufe sowie ihre Rezeption und Aneignung durch die Lernenden. Multimodale Textanalysen werden durch ethnographisch-teilnehmende Beobachtungen des Unterrichts sowie Analysen von Gruppendiskussionen ergänzt. Dabei wird auch die Frage fokussiert, inwieweit die Lernenden das Thema in ihre aktuelle Lebenswelt integrieren.
Damit möchte das Buch exemplifizieren, wie sich verschiedene Wissensformen überlagern und befruchten können und aufzeigen, dass es keinesfalls ausreicht, das im Text 'sedimentierte' Wissen zu rekonstruieren, sondern dass auch Wissen und Lebenswelt der Rezipierenden in der Analyse berücksichtigt werden müssen. Indem auch metapragmatische Ansätze zur Analyse sozialer Positionierung aufgenommen werden, wird das notorisch unterentwickelte Instrumentarium der diskurslinguistischen Akteursanalyse erweitert.
Durch die Bezüge zur Schulbuchforschung und zur Geschichtswissenschaft eröffnet das Buch darüber hinaus der Diskurslinguistik neue interdisziplinäre Bezüge und macht es außerdem relevant für die Didaktik, die Soziologie und die Medienwissenschaften.
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Encounters between people of diverse religious faiths and worldviews are becoming more common in an increasingly globalized and mobile world. Research has not, however, kept pace by investigating how people talk about their faith with others who believe differently.

This monograph addresses that deficit by taking an emergent path, combining qualitative and quantitative analysis to investigate and understand multilingual speakers' discursive behaviors in multiparty interreligious dialogues. Using 33 hours of recordings from conversations across seven research sites, Sauer Bredvik investigates how speakers’ multilanguaging practices interact with other indexical and referential signs (unfilled pauses, disfluency, pragmatic markers) to affect how constitute messages are understood. By combining corpus-assisted discourse analysis with emic data taken from observation and 11 hours of participant interviews, one is able to identify distinct patterns of use between these metalinguistic indicators and a dialogue outcome.

Readers will gain an understanding of how people of various linguistic and faith backgrounds use all their semiotic resources to display hospitality and respect for the Other in multilingual, multifaith settings.

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Volume 24 in this series

This volume integrates the social-psychological attitude model and discourse-linguistic multilevel analysis into an analytical toolset that allows for the discursive examination and detailed description of language attitudes. This study thus examines the collective construct of the national language in Belarus in all of its contradictions and provides insights for the development of language planning activities in the country.

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Volume 23 in this series
This collected volume brings together a wide array of international linguists working on diachronic language change with a specific focus on the history of English, who work within usage-based frameworks and investigate processes of grammatical change in context. Although usage-based linguistics emphasizes the centrality of the discourse context for language usage and cognition, this insight has not been fully integrated into the investigation of processes of grammatical variation and change. The structuralist heritage as well as corpus linguistic methodologies have favoured de-contextualized analytical perspectives on contemporary and historical language data and on the mechanisms and processes guiding grammatical variation and change. From a range of different perspectives, the contributions to this volume take up the challenge of contextualization in the investigation of grammatical variation and change in different stages of English language history and discuss central theoretical notions such as gradable grammaticality, motivation in hypervariation, and hypercharacterization. The book will be relevant to students and linguists working in the field of diachronic and variational linguistics and English language history.
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This volume looks at the concept of the declarative city from an interdisciplinary perspective, comprising literary and linguistic studies, arts and art history, discourse analysis, as well as urban planning. The various contributions demonstrate the semiotic complexity and inconsistency of declarative and discursive practices in different social, cultural, aesthetic, and historical contexts.

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Volume 21 in this series

Stylistic knowledge is often unequally distributed in language communities. The same style of speaking may be differently interpreted by different individuals. Using the repertory-grid method, this study develops a novel approach for researching such knowledge in specific target groups. To accomplish this, it compiles metalinguistic descriptions into a repertoire of speech styles – based on the example of radio announcing.

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Variation in Time and Space: Observing the World through Corpora is a collection of articles that address the theme of linguistic variation in English in its broadest sense. Current research in English language presented in the book explores a fascinating number of topics, whose unifying element is the corpus linguistic methodology. Part I of this volume, Meaning in Time and Space, introduces the two dimensions of variation – time and space – relating them to the negotiation of meaning in discourse and questions of intertextuality. Part II, Variation in Time, approaches the English language from a diachronic point of view; the time periods covered vary considerably, ranging from 16th century up to present-day; so do the genres explored. Part III, Variation in Space, focuses on global varieties of English and includes a contrastive point of view. The range of topics is again broad – from specific lexico-grammatical structures to the variation in academic English, combining the regional and genre dimensions of variation. This is a timely volume that shows the breadth and depth in current corpus-based research of English.

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Volume 19 in this series

For the first time, this study examines the highly topical and controversial subject of autonomous driving from the perspective of discourse linguistic research. It examines whether there are specific patterns of presentation evident in press-oriented discourses on automated driving technologies and explores the potential impact of such patterns on their reception by audiences.

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Volume 18 in this series

The theme of this comparative study is how culture shapes scientific texts. Culturality is a major feature of textuality above and beyond other features. By examining scientific journal articles in interlingual, interdisciplinary, and diachronic comparison, the author shows that scientific texts are culture-specific with respect to language, history and discipline, and that such differences are socio-cultural in nature.

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Volume 17 in this series

Cyberbullying is digital violence manifested primarily among children and adolescents, and it has become a serious public concern. However, the precise forms of interaction that cyberbullying takes have not been investigated before. This book provides a differentiated analysis based on an extensive data corpus, examining the phenomenon multidimensionally in its communicative and interactive complexity.

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Volume 16 in this series

This compendium presents essays from various language-related disciplines to provide a comprehensive theoretical framework with case studies concerning verbal aggression in all its diverse forms. In this way, it gives psychologists, sociologists, educators, media scientists, and journalists scientifically based principles and perspectives for dealing with verbal aggression.

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Volume 15 in this series

Corpus Linguistics, Context and Culture demonstrates the potential of corpus linguistic methods for investigating language patterns across a range of contexts. Organised in three sections, the chapters range from detailed case studies on lexico-grammatical patterns to fundamental discussions of meaning as part of the ‘discourse, contexts and cultures’ theme. The final part on ‘learner contexts’ specifically emphasises the need for mixed-method approaches and the consideration of pedagogical implications for real world contexts.

Beyond its contribution to current debates in the field, this edited volume indicates new directions in cross-disciplinary work.

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Volume 14 in this series

This volume focusses on discourse as a semiotic coherence phenomenon. Mutually referential and constitutive complexes of sign systems are described in terms of their discursive elements. The authors develop a semiotics of discourse, one that regards encodings as instances that generate meaning. They examine a broad range of discursive formalizations, including their multimodal interconnections.

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In the digital age, discourse spans various media and is also multimodal and participative – it is no longer defined by a few gatekeepers. Accordingly, discourse analysis demands new methodological approaches. This book develops the technique of corpus-assisted discourse analysis. Specifically, it undertakes a case study of a critical field of discourse in the 21st century: manmade climate change.

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Volume 12 in this series

Containing essays about the historicity of discourse from the fields of linguistics, literary studies, and the social sciences, this volume documents the multidisciplinary nature of discourse analysis. The essays examine the historical relativity of language usage, communicative intentions, and their impact on humanistic theory formation along with the historical dimensions of political communication and the discursivity of literary forms.

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This study undertakes a thematic and linguistic analysis of non-scientific discourse in the mass media on the topics of age and aging over multiple decades (from the 1950s through to the 2000s). It applies the methods of linguistic discourse analysis to determine the extent to which public speaking about age and aging has changed in the face of a new socioeconomic and demographic situation.

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This study focuses on the use of language in Protestant missionary publications. The author examines the communicative strategies for legitimizing Swedish missions in Africa and Asia around 1900 and reveals the ways in which intersections between Christian religious ideas and colonialist, racist notions of superiority were used to justify missionary activities.

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Volume 9 in this series

What theories and methods serve to model the relationship between language and shared knowledge? How can genericity be functionally described as a central means of knowledge creation? How is linguistic generalization accomplished in the context of colonial communication? These questions are the subject of a study at the interface between discursive linguistics, (post)-colonial linguistics, the history of linguistic usage, and pragmatism.

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There has been virtually no previous linguistic research on resistance in East Germany. This study uses functional discourse analysis to categorize and assess the special, non-explicit pronouncements of resistance that took place on the streets of East Germany. Such resistance kept within the rules of the communist regime through deconstructive word games. The book is intended for readers interested in linguistics and history.

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Urban spaces are configurations of discursively generated places. This volume of essays in discursively oriented urban research features a broad range of interdisciplinary perspectives. A focus is placed on practices and resources for analyzing urban spaces, as well as on communicative markers of urban identity. The book reveals urban linguistics as an emerging interdisciplinary discipline for the study of place-making processes in urban spaces.

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What happens when philosophers and sociologists, historians, literary scholars, and linguists try to engage in discourse? The essays in this volume examine this question and describe the structure of discourses as instances of meaning-production based on a common basic understanding of “discourse” from a theoretical, methodological, and empirical perspective.

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By combining historiography and linguistic discourse analysis, this volume documents the productive use of transdisciplinary collaboration in the humanities and the interdisciplinary affinity between linguistic, discursive and conceptual historiography, and language history. The essays all address subject matter in the context of the political upheaval of the early Weimar Republic.

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Auf der Grundlage empirisch erhobenen Sprachmaterials untersucht die Studie das diskursive Aushandeln von Sprache und Identität innerhalb der intimsten "Community of Practice (CofP)", der Ehe zwischen interkulturellen Sprachpartnern. Die Studie ist in die sozialpsychologischen Konzepte von Identität und "Positioning" eingebettet. So wird am Beispiel von Interviews mit interkulturellen Paaren - genauer: englische Muttersprachler/innen, die mit deutschsprachigen Schweizer/innen verheiratet sind, in einer diglossen Sprachregion in der Zentralschweiz leben und über drei Jahre interviewt wurden - die Verhandlung und Performanz hybrider Identitäten analysiert und gezeigt, wie "doing Swiss" diskursiv ko-konstruiert und ausgehandelt wird. This book presents an empirical study that examines intercultural couples' reasons for specific language practices and investigates the negotiation and performances of hybrid identities within the marital unit, the most intimate community of practice (CofP). The theoretical framework adopted draws on the sociocultural linguistic approach to identity and the social psychological theory of positioning. The data stem from ethnographic observation and recordings carried out over a three-year period with intercultural couples, namely Anglophones married to native German-speaking Swiss, who reside in central Switzerland, where a diglossic situation prevails. The positionings individuals take up or refute indicate that the performance of "doing Swiss" is not only discursively co-constructed, but a site where the negotiation of meaning emerges within the context of social interaction.
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Die Verbreitung von Kommunikationsformen über das Internet hat zu einer Erweiterung des Variationsspektrums in der Schriftlichkeit geführt. Die Studie zeigt Entwicklungstendenzen, die sowohl medial als auch sozialstilistisch bedingt sind. Typische Nonstandard-Muster in einem Korpus aus Chatprotokollen und Online-Forumsdiskussionen werden als Innovationen in der Schriftlichkeit beschrieben und nicht – wie in bisherigen Untersuchungen ähnlicher Texte üblich – als sogenannte konzeptionelle Mündlichkeit. Der Hauptteil der Arbeit widmet sich in einer quantitativen Korpusanalyse der syntaktischen Variation zwischen Chat und Forum am Beispiel der modalen Verben. Anschließend werden anhand metasprachlicher Kommentare der schreibenden Akteure die unterschiedlichen lebensstilistischen Präferenzen mit dem Sprachgebrauch in Beziehung gesetzt. Die Verwendung von nichtstandardsprachlichen Mustern erlaubt in der Schriftlichkeit andere sozialstilistische Interpretationen als eine entsprechende mündliche Verwendungsweise. Um auch strukturelle Unterschiede zwischen den untersuchten Chat- und Forumstexten zu erfassen, wird für ein Konzept von Dialogizität argumentiert, das schriftliche Texte einbezieht. Die Formen digitaler Schriftlichkeit ermöglichen bisher so nicht erwartbare dialogische Strukturen in der Schriftlichkeit. Als strukturelle Eigenschaft digitaler Schriftlichkeit motiviert Dialogizität innovativen Schriftsprachgebrauch, dessen tatsächliches Vorkommen allerdings je nach lebensstilistischer Wertung von Innovativität variiert. Für den Bereich der nicht mehr ganz so „neuen Medien“ zeigt die Arbeit den Einfluss medialer Spezifika und sozio-kultureller Kontexte auf Sprachgebrauch einerseits sowie die Nutzung sprachlicher Differenzierung zur sozialstilistischen Positionierung durch die Akteure andererseits.

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Die Diskurslinguistik, deren Thema die sprachliche Konstitution gesellschaftlichen Wissens ist, hat sich in den letzten beiden Jahrzehnten als innovative und produktive Disziplin der Linguistik etabliert. Nach der Sicherung ihrer theoretischen Grundlagen steht sie nun vor neuen Herausforderungen, zu denen die Klärung der Frage nach ihrem möglichen Beitrag zur Angewandten Linguistik zählt. Auf sie gibt dieser Band Antworten: Einige der Beiträge befassen sich mit zentralen methodischen und methodologischen Problemen wie der Berücksichtigung der Multimodalität von Diskursrealisationen oder dem Spannungsverhältnis zwischen den Grenzen des Diskurses und dem Handlungsspielraum der Akteure. Andere Beiträge bieten Beispielanalyen aus der Angewandten Diskurslinguistik, etwa zu markanten Schlüsselwörtern aktueller Diskurse wie dem zur Stammzellforschung oder zum diachronen Wandel relevanter Topoi.

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Diskursanalytische Arbeiten gehören in jüngerer Zeit zu den wichtigsten Impulsen in der gesellschafts- und wissensorientierten Linguistik. Der Diskurs als transtextuelle Einheit des Sprachsystems und/oder des Sprachgebrauchs ist ein integratives Konzept in zahlreichen neueren sprachwissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen. Dabei gibt es unterschiedliche Ansätze, die etwa als semantisch-kognitive, pragmatische oder gesellschaftsbezogene Diskurslinguistik begründet sind. Zwei Ausprägungen der Diskurslinguistik werden häufig gegenübergestellt: kritische und deskriptive Diskursanalyse. Geht es den deskriptiven Ansätzen zumeist um eine Rekonstruktion mentalitätsgeschichtlicher Bedeutungen und die Freilegung gesellschaftsrelevanter Themen in öffentlichen Debatten, so analysieren kritische Arbeiten den historisch veränderlichen Zusammenhang von Sprache und Macht mit Blick auf hegemoniale und antihegemoniale Positionierungen im Diskurs. Der Band hinterfragt die Betonung des Gegensatzes zwischen deskriptiven und kritischen Ansätzen in der Diskurslinguistik - zumal in Anbetracht der wirklichkeitskonstituierenden Funktion von Sprache, die für beide Zugänge zentral ist -, und reflektiert Gemeinsamkeiten sowie Unterschiede zwischen so genannter deskriptiver und kritischer Diskursanalyse. Die Pole von Deskription und Kritik werden dabei im Spannungsfeld aktueller diskurslinguistischer Diskussionen dargestellt. Eine Entgegensetzung von deskriptiver und kritischer Diskurslinguistik erweist sich als wenig sachbezogen, vielmehr als strategisch motiviert. Es handelt sich um theoretisch oder politisch-programmatisch postulierte Differenzen, die mit dem Pluralismus diskurslinguistischer Theorien, Methoden und Anwendungen kontrastieren, der de facto eher Mischformen von Deskription und Kritik hervorbringt. Zu den Zielen des Bandes gehört es, diese Polarisierung kritisch zu beschreiben und - wo möglich - aufzulösen.
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