Maria Averintseva-Klisch
List of John Benjamins publications for which Maria Averintseva-Klisch plays a role.
2022 The linguistics of reading literature: A pragmatic account of ‘aesthetic reading’ of literary texts and its didactic implications Pedagogical Linguistics 3:1, pp. 29–56 | Article
In this paper, I attempt a bridge between linguistics, in particular text pragmatics, and school reading of literary texts. I propose a linguistic model of these peculiarities of the reading of literary texts, especially poetry, that have been called ‘aesthetic reading’, arguing that a… read more
2016 Demonstrative pejoratives Pejoration, Finkbeiner, Rita, Jörg Meibauer and Heike Wiese (eds.), pp. 119–142 | Article
Cross-linguistically an affinity to pejoration has been repeatedly observed for demonstrative reference to human beings. Concentrating on German demonstratives I propose to conceive the pejoration effect here as an interplay of semantic and pragmatic factors. These factors are (i) core… read more
2008 To the right of the clause: Right dislocation vs. afterthought 'Subordination' versus 'Coordination' in Sentence and Text: A cross-linguistic perspective, Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine and Wiebke Ramm (eds.), pp. 217–239 | Article
2008 11. German right dislocation and afterthought in discourse Constraints in Discourse, Benz, Anton and Peter Kühnlein (eds.), pp. 225–247 | Article
I show that German right dislocation subsumes two distinct constructions, which I label right dislocation proper and afterthought. These differ in a number of prosodic, syntactic and semantic characteristics and also have different discoursefunctional properties. Right dislocation marks a discourse… read more
2007 Anaphoric properties of German right dislocation Anaphors in Text: Cognitive, formal and applied approaches to anaphoric reference, Schwarz-Friesel, Monika, Manfred Consten and Mareile Knees (eds.), pp. 165–182 | Article
I argue that the so-called ‚German right dislocation’ in fact comprises two formally and functionally distinct constructions, which I label right dislocation proper and afterthought. The main focus of the paper lies on right dislocation proper (RD) and its discourse function. I show, that RD is… read more
2007 The role of discourse topic and proximity for demonstratives in German and Russian Information Structuring Resources in Contrast, Behrens, Bergljot, Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen, Hilde Hasselgård and Stig Johansson (eds.), pp. 221–240 | Article
This article discusses the textual functions of demonstratives in German and Russian in terms of ‘discourse topicality’ and ‘proximity’, thus covering a broad range of referential phenomena within a unified approach. It shows that — in spite of important grammatical differences between German and… read more