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TW: su1(1d3 – Multimodal Self-Censorship on YouTube
Get PDFThis paper aims at introducing and cataloguing different self-censorship techniques on the video-sharing platform YouTube. Special focus is placed on 1) the multimodal nature of self-censorship and the creative use of different semiotic resources on the platform and 2) how these techniques are used differently on the different communicative levels (Boyd 2014, Dynel 2014, Schmidt & Marx 2019).To that end, a corpus of ten commentary videos is investigated with the goal of illustrating the different techniques and their potential functions. It is shown that censoring processes are focussed on the lexical level, but that other linguistic and semiotic dimensions are involved as well.This paper aims at introducing and cataloguing different self-censorship techniques on the video-sharing platform YouTube. Special focus is placed on 1) the multimodal nature of self-censorship and the creative use of different semiotic resources on the platform and 2) how these techniques are used differently on the different communicative levels (Boyd 2014, Dynel 2014, Schmidt & Marx 2019).To that end, a corpus of ten commentary videos is investigated with the goal of illustrating the different techniques and their potential functions. It is shown that censoring processes are focussed on the lexical level, but that othe
Der analoge Habitus von Schule in einer von Digitalität geprägten Gesellschaft: Zur Notwendigkeit einer zukunftsorientierten Lehrkräfteprofessionalisierung im Bereich der sprachlichen Bildung
Get PDFDigitale Medien beeinflussen in besonderer Weise unsere Art zu kommunizieren sowie den Sprachgebrauch. Daraus ergeben sich zentrale Implikationen für eine sprachliche Bildung der Zukunft, die im vorliegenden Beitrag kompakt zusammengetragen werden. Aus diesen veränderten Ansprüchen an die sprachliche Bildung wiederum entstehen neue Professionalisierungsbedarfe von Lehrkräften, denen aktuell noch nicht genug Rechnung getragen wird. Der Beitrag präsentiert daher konkrete Ideen der Optimierung, um eine zukunftsorientierte sprachliche Bildung gelingen zu lassen und einen analogen Habitus an Schulen zu überwinden
„La sangre no es azul" – Der Menstruationsdiskurs auf Instagram als Empowerment
Get PDFHealth communication is currently diversifying strongly through digital media. The phenomenon of Dr. Google describes how medical content is explained to a broad audience online and, therefore, is reduced in its complexity and presented in an appealing way. Social media additionally offers the potential of community building and empowerment. This article examines the subject of menstruation in the Spanish-speaking world from a discourse-linguistic perspective and, thus, focuses on the promising area of tension between education and taboo in its multimodal nature. A qualitative corpus analysis of posts from Instagram shows how diverse content creators mark their discourse position based on the staging as an expert and the representation of blood they choose. Thus, the platform-specific interaction of these players reveals a variety of discourse motives: from science communication to demanded breakings of taboos and their own sales interests. In this field, to explain means to empower and even more
Fünf Punkte über Sprache in der digitalen Welt
Get PDFEinführender Beitrag in den 9. Band des JournaLIPP und zum Thema Sprache in der digitalen Welt
Forest: 0 or 1? Interdisciplinary challenges and methods for the classification of landscape data
Get PDFSuccessful environmental policy often depends on the interpretation of large amounts of landscape data and its classification. However, classification remains challenging. Improper categorisations cause problems in local communities and endanger sustainable landscape initiatives.From a linguist’s perspective, I revisit interdisciplinary research methods that are apt to assist landscape planning and policy to overcome classificatory challenges. By juxtaposing scientific perspectives that are relevant for landscape research, I argue that linguists are equipped to interpret landscape data in a way that is sensitive to cultural and linguistic diversity. Interdisciplinary research collaborations between geographers, linguists, cognitive and computer scientists most effectively address environmental challenges that prevail globally, but are affecting each community in a different way.Successful environmental policy often depends on the interpretation of large amounts of landscape data and its classification. However, classification remains challenging. Improper categorisations cause problems in local communities and endanger sustainable landscape initiatives.From a linguist’s perspective, I revisit interdisciplinary research methods that are apt to assist landscape planning and policy to overcome classificatory challenges. By juxtaposing scientific perspectives that are relevant for landscape research, I argue that linguists are equipped to interpret landscape data in a way that is sensitive to cultural and linguistic diversity. Interdisciplinary research collaborations between geographers, linguists, cognitive and computer scientists most effectively address environmental challenges that prevail globally, but are affecting each community in a different way
YouTube als digitaler Diskursraum und Reflexionsgegenstand für sprach- und mediendidaktische Szenarien am Beispiel des Klimawandels
Get PDFDieser Beitrag charakterisiert die Plattform YouTube als digitalen Diskursraum und Reflexionsgegenstand für sprach- und mediendidaktische Szenarien. Auf YouTube sind Erklärvideos zu finden, die als digitale Wissensangebote zu sehen sind und dabei z.T. auch Kinder und Jugendliche adressieren. Anhand des Diskursthemas Klimawandel fragt dieser Beitrag nach diskursiven Mustern und Einheiten wie etwa Metaphern, die im Kontext von YouTube-Erklärvideos zum Einsatz kommen. Um digitale Diskurse diskursanalytisch wie auch sprach- und mediendidaktisch umfassend zu betrachten, sind neben den Videos auch die Kommentarbereiche in die Untersuchung einzubeziehen, die sich durch Phänomene des interaktionsorientierten Schreibens auszeichnen. Zudem zeigt der Beitrag auf, wie die Analyse von YouTube-Videos Ausganspunkt für Lernprozesse im sprachreflexiven Unterricht sein kann
Mittelalterliche Migrationsvarietäten und ihre Resilienz: das Galloitalische in Sizilien
Get PDFDer Begriff ‘Migrationslinguistik’ ist keine 20 Jahre alt; das darf aber nicht darüber hinwegtäuschen, dass migrationslinguistisch relevante Daten bereits seit viel früherer Zeit zur Verfügung stehen. Sie wurden teils zufällig (im Hinblick auf einzelne Informanten), teils durchaus absichtlich (im Hinblick auf bestimmte Lokaldialekte) durch die ‘klassische’ Geolinguistik erhoben: So enthält das Ortsnetz des AIS eine ganze Reihe von Punkten mit Dialekten, die auf spätmittelalterliche, frühneuzeitliche oder zum Zeitpunkt der Erhebung gar rezente Immigrationsvarietäten zurückgehen. Bemerkenswert ist vor allem eine Gruppe sizilianischer Orte, in denen sich nach der Rechristianisierung (seit 1061 n. Chr.) zahlreiche Kolonisten aus Nordwestitalien mit sog. galloitalischen Dialekten ansiedelten. Diese Ortsdialekte lassen sich auf ein Kontinuum zwischen den Polen weitestgehender Erhaltung und sehr fortgeschrittener Auflösung in ihrer ebenfalls romanischsprachigen Umgebung abbilden. Obwohl diese Ausgangslage einen systematischen Vergleich im Hinblick auf die besonders dauerhaften (‘resilienten’) Merkmale nahelegt, ist dergleichen niemals unternommen worden. Es erhebt sich z. B. die Frage, wie sich besonders saliente phonetische Erscheinungen in dieser Hinsicht verhalten. Die mittlerweile gut vorangeschrittene lexikalische Dokumentation zeigt weiterhin, dass sprachliche Resilienz grundsätzlich im Zusammenhang mit kultureller Resilienz zu sehen ist.
Keywords: Galloitalisch, Sizilianisch, Sprachkontakt, Migrationsvatietät, Spracherosio
Das Sprachmischungsverhalten albanisch-deutsch bilingualer Personen
Get PDFDieser Beitrag beschreibt das Sprachmischungsverhalten albanisch-deutsch bilingualer Sprecherinnen und Sprecher. Darunter wird die abwechselnde Verwendung zweier oder mehrerer Sprachen innerhalb eines Gespräches oder Satzes verstanden. Es wird gezeigt, an welchen Stellen im Satz oder im Diskurs die Sprache gewechselt wird und aus welchen Gründen dies geschieht. Dadurch, dass sich die Entstehung der albanischen Sprachgemeinschaft auf mehrere Migrationswellen zurückführen lässt und mittlerweile auch durch die in Deutschland geborene zweite und dritte Generation weitergetragen wird, wird das Mischverhalten dieser drei Generationen im Vergleich dargestellt. Die Analyse basiert auf spontansprachlichen Daten, die innerhalb eines kosovarischstämmigen Familiennetzwerks in Deutschland aufgezeichnet wurden und leitfadenbasierten sprachbiographischen Interviews mit den einzelnen Familienmitgliedern. Die historischen Hintergründe, wie der Zeitpunkt und die Motive der Auswanderung aus dem Kosovo beziehungsweise das Ausbleiben einer derartigen Migrationserfahrung in den nachkommenden Generationen, fließen in die Interpretation der Ergebnisse ebenfalls mit ein.
Keywords: Migration, Mehrsprachigkeit, Sprachmischungen, Generationsspezifische Sprachpraktike
Periphrastic tun in Barossa German: Between Aspectuality and Temporality
Get PDFBarossa German in Australia is on the verge of language shift and exhibits many phenomena of language erosion, including the construction tun + infinitive. In addition to its use in conditional sentences, in the subjunctive, and for emphasis, a habitual or generally imperfective character is often discussed in light of the tun-periphrasis. A diachronic study of Barossa German based on spontaneous language use in narrative interviews shows that periphrastic tun was used in both present and past tense from 1966 to 1973, whereas it occurred almost exclusively in the past tense between 2009 and 2014. The first set of data is from the Monash Corpus of Australian German by Michael G. Clyne. The second set of data was provided by Claudia C. Riehl from her project on Barossa German as a relic variety. An analysis of the contexts in which the tun-periphrasis, the synthetic past tense, and the perfect were used, helps to clarify whether the tun-periphrasis had developed into a habitual past or a general past tense marker over the course of about 45-50 years, and how the tun-periphrasis fits into the developmental trajectory of diminishing varieties.
Keywords: tun-periphrasis, Barossa German, aspectuality, habitual past, tense-aspectAbstract
Barossa German in Australia is on the verge of language shift and exhibits many phenomena of language erosion, including the construction tun + infinitive. In addition to its use in conditional sentences, in the subjunctive, and for emphasis, a habitual or generally imperfective character is often discussed in light of the tun-periphrasis. A diachronic study of Barossa German based on spontaneous language use in narrative interviews shows that periphrastic tun was used in both present and past tense from 1966 to 1973, whereas it occurred almost exclusively in the past tense between 2009 and 2014. The first set of data is from the Monash Corpus of Australian German by Michael G. Clyne. The second set of data was provided by Claudia C. Riehl from her project on Barossa German as a relic variety. An analysis of the contexts in which the tun-periphrasis, the synthetic past tense, and the perfect were used, helps to clarify whether the tun-periphrasis had developed into a habitual past or a general past tense marker over the course of about 45-50 years, and how the tun-periphrasis fits into the developmental trajectory of diminishing varieties.
Keywords: tun-periphrasis, Barossa German, aspectuality, habitual past, tense-aspec
Broken English According to Nonnative Speakers
Get PDFThe stigmatizing descriptor broken English is widely recognized and socially acceptable in the English-speaking world. It serves to emphasize the “otherness” of nonnative speakers and does not measure communicative ability (Lindemann/Moran 2017: 663). Existing linguistic research on the term tends to focus on its use by native speakers in reference to nonnative English. This paper contributes to research on broken English from a nonnative speaker perspective through a Critical Discourse Analysis of its use in language-biographical interviews with seven Korean immigrants in the United States. The aim is to ascertain its meaning and function as used by nonnative speakers mainly to describe their own English. Each participant has been living in the US and communicating in English for at least 25 years, yet almost all claim to speak broken English. The linguistic judgements and self-perceptions of these Korean immigrants are noticeably shaped by the pervasive standard ideology present in the US. They are also strongly influenced by how Asians in the US are seen (and thus treated) as perpetual foreigners and not authentic Americans, whether they are foreign-born or not (Lippi-Green 2012: 285). This analysis shows that the use of broken English in this data largely aligns with its use by native speakers. Broken English conclusively emerges as an ideologically encoded term, no matter the labeler. Nonnative speakers internalize standard language ideology in their applications of this descriptor to their own language, thus maintaining the imbalanced power structures which marginalize them.
Keywords: nonnative English, Korean American, immigrant, language ideology and linguistic judgmentsAbstract
The stigmatizing descriptor broken English is widely recognized and socially acceptable in the English-speaking world. It serves to emphasize the “otherness” of nonnative speakers and does not measure communicative ability (Lindemann/Moran 2017: 663). Existing linguistic research on the term tends to focus on its use by native speakers in reference to nonnative English. This paper contributes to research on broken English from a nonnative speaker perspective through a Critical Discourse Analysis of its use in language-biographical interviews with seven Korean immigrants in the United States. The aim is to ascertain its meaning and function as used by nonnative speakers mainly to describe their own English. Each participant has been living in the US and communicating in English for at least 25 years, yet almost all claim to speak broken English. The linguistic judgements and self-perceptions of these Korean immigrants are noticeably shaped by the pervasive standard ideology present in the US. They are also strongly influenced by how Asians in the US are seen (and thus treated) as perpetual foreigners and not authentic Americans, whether they are foreign-born or not (Lippi-Green 2012: 285). This analysis shows that the use of broken English in this data largely aligns with its use by native speakers. Broken English conclusively emerges as an ideologically encoded term, no matter the labeler. Nonnative speakers internalize standard language ideology in their applications of this descriptor to their own language, thus maintaining the imbalanced power structures which marginalize them.
Keywords: nonnative English, Korean American, immigrant, language ideology and linguistic judgment