Gender in Interaction: Perspectives on femininity and masculinity in ethnography and discourse
Edited by Bettina Baron and Helga Kotthoff
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 93] 2002. xxiv, 357 pp.
Helga Kotthoff
List of John Benjamins publications for which Helga Kotthoff plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Communicating Gender in Context
Edited by Helga Kotthoff and Ruth Wodak
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 42] 1997. xxvi, 424 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
2013 Comparing drinking toasts – Comparing contexts Culinary Linguistics: The chef's special, Gerhardt, Cornelia, Maximiliane Frobenius and Susanne Ley (eds.), pp. 211–240 | Article
In this article I discuss drinking toasts given in cultures that attach great importance to this genre in everyday life (Georgia, Russia, Sweden) and toasts given by guests from countries where the genre is less important (Germany, the Netherlands). I show that Georgian toasts entail the most… read more
2010 Further perspectives on cooperative semiosis: Comments on Charles Goodwin “Constructing meaning through prosody in aphasia” Prosody in Interaction, Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar, Elisabeth Reber and Margret Selting (eds.), pp. 395–400 | Article
2009 An interactional approach to irony development Humor in Interaction, Norrick, Neal R. and Delia Chiaro (eds.), pp. 49–78 | Article
This article discusses conversational data from a project on how pupils use irony and related forms of communication. It employs a Bakhtinian and frame analytic approach combined with a pragmatics of presumptive meaning to understand what sorts of irony nine-year-olds use. Some types of irony… read more
2007 Oral genres of humor: On the dialectic of genre knowledge and creative authoring Pragmatics 17:2, pp. 263–296 | Article
The article discusses humorous conversational activities ((e.g. jokes, teasing, joint fantasizing) in the context of genre theory. The high degree of creativity, emergent construction and artistry typical of humor call for a flexible concept of genre which makes sense of modifications and… read more
2006 Communicating affect in intercultural lamentations in Caucasian Georgia Beyond Misunderstanding: Linguistic analyses of intercultural communication, Bührig, Kristin and Jan D. ten Thije (eds.), pp. 289–311 | Article
2002 Gender, emotion, and poeticity in Georgian mourning rituals Gender in Interaction: Perspectives on femininity and masculinity in ethnography and discourse, Baron, Bettina and Helga Kotthoff (eds.), pp. 283–327 | Article
2002 Irony, quotation, and other forms of staged intertextuality: Double or contrastive perspectivation in conversation Perspective and Perspectivation in Discourse, Graumann, Carl Friedrich and Werner Kallmeyer (eds.), pp. 201–229 | Article
2002 Preface Gender in Interaction: Perspectives on femininity and masculinity in ethnography and discourse, Baron, Bettina and Helga Kotthoff (eds.), pp. ix–xxiv | Preface
1999 Coherent Keying in Conversational Humour: Contextualising Joint Fictionalisation Coherence in Spoken and Written Discourse: How to create it and how to describe it, Bublitz, Wolfram, Uta Lenk and Eija Ventola (eds.), pp. 125–152 | Article
1998 Review of Attardo (1994): Linguistic Theories of Humor Studies in Language 22:1, pp. 205–212 | Review
1997 The interactional achievement of expert status. Creating asymmetries by “Teaching Conversational
Lectures”in TV discussions Communicating Gender in Context, Kotthoff, Helga and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. 139–178 | Article
1997 Barbe, Katharina. Irony in Context Studies in Language 21:3, pp. 703–706 | Squib
1997 Preface Communicating Gender in Context, Kotthoff, Helga and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. vii–xxvi | Preface
1995 Oral Performance in Interactional Sociolinguistics: Humorous Stories Among Friends Thema's en trends in de sociolinguistiek 2, pp. 23–53 | Article
The article combines a performance centered approach with sociolinguistic interests. Humorous narratives among friends are shown to contain many features of verbal art, such as, i.e., fictionality, dialogue dramatization, a focus on wording, and a complex management of points of view. Narratives… read more