Publications

Publication details [#53613]

Terraschke, Agnes. 2010. Or so, oder so, and stuff like that—general extenders in New Zealand English, German and in learner language. Intercultural Pragmatics 7 (3) : 449–469.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | function | language use | pragmatics | semantics1

Language as a subject

English, New Zealand | German

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IPRG/html

Annotation

This study reveals that the English extender 'or so' is frequently deployed by German non-native speakers of English (GNNSE) for functions other than numerical approximation, and suggests that this usage is linked to a preference for the German equivalent 'oder so', which possessess a broader semantic scope.