Ethnic Styles of Speaking in European Metropolitan Areas
Edited by Friederike Kern and Margret Selting
[Studies in Language Variation, 8] 2011. vi, 321 pp.
Friederike Kern
List of John Benjamins publications for which Friederike Kern plays a role.
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Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
2024 Four-year-olds’ visuospatial cognitive abilities and their relation to observer‑viewpoint gestures across three communicative tasks Pragmatics & Cognition 31:1, pp. 49–96 | Article
The gesture-as-simulated-action framework explains the occurrence of iconic gestures. Accordingly, simulated visual imagery gives rise to observer-viewpoint, whereas simulated motor imagery gives rise to character-viewpoint gestures. Because little is known about whether this relationship is… read more
2011 Rhythm in Turkish German talk-in-interaction Ethnic Styles of Speaking in European Metropolitan Areas, Kern, Friederike and Margret Selting (eds.), pp. 161–190 | Article
In the following contribution, I describe some characteristics of the ethnic style of speaking ‘Türkendeutsch’. My focus will be on the constitution of rhythm, and its forms and functions in talk-in-interaction. Two types of rhythmic principles will be identified, namely a pattern based on accent… read more
2011 Introduction Ethnic Styles of Speaking in European Metropolitan Areas, Kern, Friederike and Margret Selting (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article
2010 Speaking dramatically: The prosody of live radio commentary of football matches Prosody in Interaction, Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar, Elisabeth Reber and Margret Selting (eds.), pp. 217–238 | Article
Live commentaries of football matches provide a rich source for the analysis of verbal constructions of drama and suspense. In this paper, I will show how radio reporters construct and employ the different speech styles “building up suspense” and “presenting a climax” for the contextualization of… read more
2005 2. Fantasy stories and conversational narratives of personal experience: Genre-specific, interactional and developmental perspectives Narrative Interaction, Quasthoff, Uta M. and Tabea Becker (eds.), pp. 15–56 | Chapter
2002 Culture, genres and the problem of sequentiality: An attempt to describe local organization and global structures in talk-in-situation Rethinking Sequentiality: Linguistics meets conversational interaction, Fetzer, Anita and Christiane Meierkord (eds.), pp. 207–229 | Article
2001 Three Ways of Analysing Communication between East and West Germans as Intercultural
Communication Culture in Communication: Analyses of intercultural situations, Di Luzio, Aldo, Susanne Günthner and Franca Orletti (eds.), pp. 89–116 | Article