Arnulf Deppermann

Axel Schmidt

Daniel Klug

Ulla Autenrieth

Der Band widmet sich in vielfältiger Weise der Analyse und Reflexion populärkultureller Medien als Alltagsphänomen. In theoretischen Annährungen an zentrale Konzepte der Medien- und Kommunikationsforschung, sowie in Medien- und Kulturanalysen zu unterschiedlichen Gegenstandsbereichen, werden alltägliche Medieninhalte als wissenschaftlicher Gegenstand verortet und ihre Gebrauchsweisen diskutiert. Der Band umfasst Themen wie Film- und Fernsehunterhaltung, Fotografie, populäre Musik, Jugendszenen, Kommunikation im Internet oder ästhetische Bildpraktiken im Social Web, die aus theoretisch-konzeptioneller Perspektive wie auch in empirischen Analysen diskutiert werden.

Medien als Alltag

Michael Haugh

The first volume to focus on the practices, processes, and uses of action ascription in social interaction in different languages.

Action Ascription in Interaction

Angelika Linke

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.

Stimme und Schrift, Bild und Ton

Sprache intermedial

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.

Das Deutsch der Migranten

Marja-Leena Sorjonen

Emma Betz

Lorenza Mondada

OKAY has been termed ‘a spectacular expression’ and ‘America’s greatest invention.’ This volume offers an in-depth empirical study of the uses that have resulted from its global spread. Focusing on actions and interactional practices, it investigates OKAY in a variety of settings in 13 languages. The collected work showcases the importance of a holistic analysis: prosodic realization and the placement of OKAY in its larger sequential and multimodal context emerge as constitutive for distinct uses in individual languages. An inductive approach makes it possible to identify practices not previously documented, for example OKAY used for ‘qualified acceptance’ or as a ‘continuer’, and to document a core of recurrent, similar uses across languages. This work also outlines new research directions for comparative analysis by offering first insights into the diachronic development of OKAY’s uses and the relationship of OKAY to other particles in specific languages.

Toward a comparative approach to its use in talk-in-interaction

OKAY across Languages

Susanne Günthner

Time is a constitutive element of everyday interaction: all verbal interaction is produced and interpreted in time. However, it is only recently that research in linguistics has started to take the temporality of linguistic production and reception in interaction into account by studying the real-time and on-line dimension of spoken language. This volume is the first systematic collection of studies exploring temporality in interaction and its theoretical foundations. It brings together researchers focusing on how temporality impinges on the production and interpretation of linguistic structures in interaction and how linguistic resources are designed to deal with the exigencies and potentials of temporality in interaction. The volume provides new insights into the temporal design of a range of heretofore unexplored linguistic phenomena from various languages as well as into the temporal aspects of linguistic structures in embodied interaction.

Temporality in Interaction

Silke Reineke

Der Band orientiert über den Stand der Forschung zur kommunikativen Verwendung von Sprache, ihrer Rolle in der Interaktion und ihrem Verhältnis zur Kultur. Die Beiträge stellen theoretische Grundlagen und wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Entwicklungen ihrer jeweiligen Forschungsgegenstände dar, illustrieren sie anhand von empirischen Ergebnissen und formulieren Desiderata für die Zukunft der Sprachwissenschaft.

Arnulf Deppermann

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