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Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik, 2024
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Mark Dang-Anh (ed.): Politisches Positionieren. Sprachliche und soziale Praktiken, 2023
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Sociolinguistica, 2022
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Diskursmonitor. Glossar zur strategischen Kommunikation in öffentlichen Diskursen, 2022
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Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature, 2021
This article introduces a linguistic approach to typography which is based on (interactional) soc... more This article introduces a linguistic approach to typography which is based on (interactional) sociolinguistic and metapragmatic theories of communicative variation that is located in the rather new sociolinguistic strand called the sociolinguistics of writing. Within the framework clarified here, typography, and graphic design in general, is understood as a variable perceptible resource which provides, by means of its reference-indeterminate variability, options for the ascription and interactive contextual construal of social (or indexical) meaning. As will be elaborated upon, the approach draws on the assumption that such social meaning is not inherent to communicative forms, but the result of discursively shared (enregistered) and thus unevenly distributed and hence contextually differing expectations, beliefs and assumptions (graphic ideologies). The work introduces a range of basic notions that are needed for the linguistic investigation in typography (typography, typographic scales, text design, multimodality), sketches the scope of linguistic investigations into typographic design on the background of different functions of typographic variation, locates the sociolinguistic approach visa -vis other linguistic approaches to typography, introduces the basic notions on which a sociolinguistics of typography is built (graphic variation, graphic knowledge, enregisterment, and graphic ideologies) and finally exemplifies the approach by means of examples from Germanspeaking discourse.
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Heidrun Kämper/Albrecht Plewnia (Hgg.): Sprache in Politik und Gesellschaft. Perspektiven und Zugänge. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter (Jahrbuch des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache 2021), S. 17–33, 2022
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International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2021
In recent years, the intersections between, or entanglements of, local action and translocal patt... more In recent years, the intersections between, or entanglements of, local action and translocal patterns gained renewed interest in sociolinguistics. Received distinctions such as micro/macro or practice/structure have been challenged and confronted with more granular concepts such as sociolinguistic scales. Consequently, established disciplinary orientations such as micro/macro or qualitative/quantitative sociolinguistics have also been questioned: rather than one of two options, sociolinguistics is now supposed to embrace “complexity”. This fundamental discussion also centrally concerns research into language ideologies. While it has always been acknowledged that language ideologies frame and shape, or manifest in, local action, they have long been construed as a translocal social order, a “macro phenomenon”. In the wake of the general discussion outlined above, however, this has been challenged. Language ideologies are now increasingly located at the intersection of structure and practice, construed as structurating practices and as dynamic, scalar phenomena that emerge from, and are subjected to, ongoing local processes of social positioning and indexical enregisterment (which they reversely frame). This special issue takes up the discussion and asks where we can get to with such a complex notion of language ideologies and/as social positioning, how far we have come already, and which obstacles lie ahead. The authors address these questions from different perspectives. This introduction sets the scene, recapitulates the discussion and state of the art, and provides an outline of the issue.
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International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2021
This paper engages with the notion of the shibboleth, an indexically loaded, usually referentiall... more This paper engages with the notion of the shibboleth, an indexically loaded, usually referentially indifferent set of (ideologically constructed) minimal pairs that is used in order to mark and perform social differentiation. We argue that the shibboleth is to be considered an interpretive (metapragmatic) phenomenon that operates on different sociolinguistic scales, notably the discursive scale (ideologies of communication), the performative scale (performance and metapragmatic stance-taking), and the subjective scale (lived experience). We propose a scalar metapragmatic theory of the shibboleth as an “indexical border” that takes into account how shibboleths emerge (are enregistered) and how they depend on contextualisation (or the indexical field). As a case in point, we present analyses of biographical construals of sociolinguistic displacement in the context of remigration from German-speaking countries to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Specifically, we focus on construals of displacement that are connected with (mis-)performances of phonologically rather subtle but indexically highly salient Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian affricate shibboleths (<č/dž> and <ć/đ>).
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General Information by Jürgen Spitzmüller
Monographs by Jürgen Spitzmüller
Edited Volumes by Jürgen Spitzmüller
Papers (Selection) by Jürgen Spitzmüller
und sozialen Netzwerken, gemeint. Dort, so der Anschein, können sich Menschen hinter dem Schleier von Pseudonymen ›hemmungslos austoben‹ (wie die Kritiker monieren) bzw. ›frei, ohne Einschränkung durch die Hegemonie der politischen Korrektheit ihre Meinung sagen‹ (wie es nicht zuletzt die sich äußernden Personen selbst häufig postulieren).
Was geht in den sozialen Netzwerken tatsächlich vor sich? Findet sich dort tatsächlich eine zunehmende politische Radikalisierung bis hin zu einem neuen Rassismus? Und wenn ja, wie äußert sich dies? Welche spezifischen Ausdrucksformen – von Sprache bis hin zu Bildern und Filmen – werden genutzt? Und sind die sozialen Netzwerke wirklich (herrschafts-)freie Zonen, die vox populi oder aber ein Hort der ›Unkultur‹? Am Beispiel rezenter Debatten und auf der Grundlage aktueller Forschungsbefunde zu computervermittelter (politischer) Kommunikation gehen wir in unserem Beitrag diesen Fragen nach.
Wenn in den letzten Jahren von Verschärfungen des Tons – oder kulturkritischer: von ›Verrohung‹ – im gesellschaftlichen Diskurs die Rede war, dann war damit zumeist, jedenfalls primär, gesellschaftspolitische Kommunikation im Internet, vor allem in Foren und sozialen Netzwerken, gemeint. Dort, so der Anschein, können sich Menschen hinter dem Schleier von Pseudonymen ›hemmungslos austoben‹ (wie die Kritiker monieren) bzw. ›frei, ohne Einschränkung durch die Hegemonie der politischen Korrektheit ihre Meinung sagen‹ (wie es nicht zuletzt die sich äußernden Personen selbst häufig postulieren).
Was geht in den sozialen Netzwerken tatsächlich vor sich? Findet sich dort tatsächlich eine zunehmende politische Radikalisierung bis hin zu einem neuen Rassismus? Und wenn ja, wie äußert sich dies? Welche spezifischen Ausdrucksformen – von Sprache bis hin zu Bildern und Filmen – werden genutzt? Und sind die
sozialen Netzwerke wirklich (herrschafts-)freie Zonen, die vox populi oder aber ein Hort der ›Unkultur‹? Am Beispiel rezenter
Debatten und auf der Grundlage aktueller Forschungsbefunde zu computervermittelter (politischer) Kommunikation gehen wir in unserem Beitrag diesen Fragen nach.
This collective monograph, which includes contributions from eleven specialists in different philological areas, for the first time develops a coherent typological model on the basis of sociolinguistic and graphematic criteria to describe and classify these and many other linguistic situations in which two or more writing systems are used simultaneously for one and the same language.
Positionierung‹, das in verschiedenen Feldern der Angewandten Sprachwissenschaft in den letzten Jahren (wieder) an Prominenz gewonnen hat.
Das Konzept selbst hat bereits eine lange und wechselvolle Geschichte
hinter sich und wird in unterschiedlichen Teildisziplinen auch sehr
unterschiedlich verstanden.
that have been identified in the papers of this special issue and locates them in the wide field of language ideology research. By doing that, the epilogue sets out to sketch major trends in the past, present and (anticipated) future of the research field, thereby showing (sometimes hidden) traditions, achievements and challenges of language ideology research (and related fields). Particularly, the (re-)emerging interest in affectual dimensions, social positioning, institutional ideology brokerage, social inequality, and power, which are at the center of a number of papers each, are being highlighted and discussed. In a historical contextualization, the epilogue furthermore shows how these topics and interests can be traced back in the field's history and even further to long-standing engagements with language ideologies avant la lettre.