Sprache im Kontext / Language in Context
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Edited by:
Monika Dannerer
Sprache im Kontext / Language in Context assembles contributions from the field of Applied Linguistics, construed as a problem oriented, socially rooted, critical form of linguistics. At the focus of analysis is language (use) in the context of social and political processes and discourses. The contributions of the series provide critical analyses and potential solutions, and they engage in discursive negotiations. Particularly (though not exclusively) the following topics are covered by the series:
- Language use in politics
- Language policy and linguistic rights
- Language (use) in organizations and institutions
- Migration, globalization and multilingualism
- Language teaching and learning in formal and informal contexts
- Language use in the classroom
- Language teaching methodology
- Language perception, language ideologies and metapragmatic discourse
- Language, social inequality and discrimination
- Language and/as empowerment
- Language and gender
- Mediality, multimodality and materiality of communication
Drawing on a dynamic and interactional notion of context, Sprache im Kontext / Language in Context also means that language and language use are themselves a constitutive part of context (i.e., they are contextualizing factors). The series thus collects particularly monographs and collected volumes that demonstrate how language and language use (as practice or object of discourse) are part and motor of social and political processes, and how it frames (and delimits) the agency and action of social actors.
Advisory Board
Marietta Calderón Tichy (Salzburg, Austria)
Rudolf de Cillia (Vienna, Austria)
Ursula Doleschal (Klagenfurt, Austria)
Daniel Green (Vienna, Austria)
Helmut Gruber (Vienna, Austria)
Ulrike Jessner (Innsbruck, Austria)
Verena Krausneker (Vienna, Austria)
Benedikt Lutz (Krems, Austria)
Anh Kho Nguyen (Vienna, Austria)
Hermine Penz (Graz, Austria)
Daniel Pfurtscheller (Innsbruck. Austria)
Marie-Luise Pitzl (Linz, Austria)
Claudia Posch (Innsbruck, Austria)
Barbara Seidlhofer (Vienna, Austria)
Martin Stegu (Vienna, Austria)
Ruth Wodak (Lancaster, UK and Vienna, Austria)
Author / Editor information
Monika Dannerer, University of Innsbruck, Austria; Jürgen Spitzmüller and Eva Vetter, University of Vienna, Austria.
Topics
This study focuses on the cross-cultural specificities of the linguistic phenomena used to refer directly and indirectly to male identities. The empirical foundation of this research volume is a corpus of conversations with Austrian and Ukrainian tradesmen and students that were recorded in informal settings in Austria and Ukraine.
This volume is the third publication on language policy in Austria after those of 2001 and 2011, documenting the period 2011 to 2021. In over 20 chapters, experts carry out reviews of various areas of language policy, in which they document and analyze the current situation in the respective field and develop solutions for improvement.
How can we identify successful linguistic action in recordings of institutional conversations? What is the basis for evaluation and how can it be collected empirically? The contributions analytically elaborate concrete forms of good practice for different institutional settings.
We often acquire new movement patterns under expert guidance. This book is devoted to how this task is accomplished through multimodal means at the linguistic, physical, and visual levels. The Pilates method serves as the situational context. Using linguistic analysis methods and with the help of many example analyses, the practices of instructing in training sessions, guidebooks, and training videos are compared.
This volume spans various languages and education levels, focusing on heterogeneity as an immanent characteristic of pedagogical settings. Its examines the potential of language development, the factors and facets of the developmentally appropriate promotion of German as a language of education, the conditions for successful language acquisition in the context of multilingualism, and integrative approaches toward controlled language acquisition.
This volume focuses on how the Russian media reported on the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2014. It is the first to both quantitatively and qualitatively examine talk shows, which are extremely popular and omnipresent in Russian television. The study shows to what extent these shows were broadcast and which linguistic, acoustic, and visual means they used in order to influence their audiences.
The present study investigates the development of tense and aspect marking in the interlanguage of L3 Italian learners enrolled in university language courses. It examines how the tense-aspect system develops in the interlanguage and how the acquisition process is shaped by factors such as the lexical aspectual value of the predicates and discourse grounding. The data indicate that both lexical aspect and discourse grounding influence the distribution of verbal morphology in the interlanguage. Semantically congruent pairings of lexical aspect, verbal morphology and discourse grounding are used more frequently and appropriately than less prototypical combinations. The acquisition process is also influenced by the learner’s L1, which was mostly German in the context of the present study.
The study can be used as a guide for curricular decisions in language teaching, and for projecting further research on the development of tense-aspect marking in multilingual learners.
