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Accusations are a very frequent type of speech act both in everyday life and in formal controversies, and answering accusations is a sophisticated type of linguistic practice well worth analysing from a pragmatic point of view. In my paper I shall first describe some basic properties of accusations and characteristic types of reactions to accusations, i. e. denying the alleged fact, making excuses, and giving justifications. I then go on to describe some fundamental functions of accusations in controversies. Using the basic patterns of accusations and reactions to accusations as an object of comparison, I then analyse some relevant exchanges from historical controversies (l6th to 18th century), among them famous polemical interactions like the Hobbes-Bramhall controversy, but also less well-known debates from the fields of medicine and theology. The present paper is both a contribution to the theory of controversy and to the pragmatic history of controversies. Keywords: historical pragmatics, theory of controversy, ad hominem moves, dynamics of controversy
The present article is a follow-up study of the investigation of labiodentals in German and Dutch by Hamann & Sennema (2005), where we looked at the perception of the Dutch labiodental three-way contrast by German listeners without any knowledge of Dutch and German learners of Dutch. The results of this previous study suggested that the German voiced labiodental fricative /v/ is perceptually closer to the Dutch approximant /ʋ/ than to the corresponding Dutch voiced labiodental fricative /v/. These perceptual indications are attested by the acoustic findings in the present study. German /v/ has a similar harmonicity median and a similar centre of gravity to Dutch /ʋ/, but differs from Dutch /v/ in these parameters. With respect to the acoustic parameter of duration, German /v/ lies closer to the Dutch /v/ than to the Dutch /ʋ/.
This study reports on the results of an airflow experiment that measured the duration of airflow and the amount of air from release of a stop to the beginning of a following vowel in stop vowel-sequences of German. The sequences involved coronal, labial and velar voiced and voiceless stops followed by the vocoids /j, i:, ı, ɛ, ʊ, a/. The experiment tested the influence of the three factors voicing of stop, place of stop articulation, and the following vocoid context on the duration and amount of air as possible explanation for assibilation processes. The results show that the voiceless stops are related to a longer duration and more air in the release phase than voiced ones. For the influence of the vocoids, a significant difference could be established between /j/ and all other vocoids for the duration of the release phase. This difference could not be found for the amount of air over this duration. The place of articulation had only restricted influence. Velars resulted in significantly longer duration of the release phase compared to non-velars. A significant difference in amount of air between the places of articulation could not be found.
Rezension zu Reinhard Kacianka u. Peter V. Zima (Hrsg.): Krise und Kritik der Sprache. Literatur zwischen Spätmoderne und Postmoderne, Tübingen, Basel (A. Francke) 2004. 300 Seiten.
Der vorliegende Sammelband nimmt sich eines zentralen Topos von Literatur, Philosophie und Sprachwissenschaft im 20. Jahrhundert an. Obwohl der Untertitel darauf verweist, einen Übergang zwischen Moderne und Postmoderne zu thematisieren, zeigen die Beiträge die Aktualität des behandelten Sujets sowohl für den gegenwärtigen wissenschaftstheoretischen Diskurs als auch für die introspektive Diskussion innerhalb der aufgerufenen Fachgebiete auf.
Rezension zu Geoffrey Galt Harpham: Language Alone. The Critical Fetish of Modernity, New York, London (Routledge) 2002. 261 Seiten.
Der amerikanische Literaturwissenschaftler Geoffiey Galt Harpham, Präsident und Direktor des National Humanities Center in North Carolina, Gastprofessor für Anglistik an verschiedenen amerikanischen Universitäten sowie Gutachter des Wissenschaftskollegs zu Berlin, der bereits zahlreiche Beiträge zum Thema Sprache und Ethik veröffentlicht hat, legt mit diesem Buch eine in vier Kapitel untergliederte, herausfordernde Studie vor, die vor dem Hintergrund einer erkenntnistheoretischen und humanwissenschaftlichen Argumentation eine grundlegende Kritik am 'linguistic turn' des transdisziplinären wissenschaftstheoretischen Diskurses im 20. Jahrhundert unternimmt.
Syllable cut is said to be a phonologically distinctive feature in some languages where the difference in vowel quantity is accompanied by a difference in vowel quality like in German. There have been several attempts to find the corresponding phonetic correlates for syllable cut, from which the energy measurements of vowels by Spiekermann (2000) proved appropriate for explaining the difference between long, i.e. smoothly, and short, i.e. abruptly cut, vowels: in smoothly cut vowels, a larger number of peaks was counted in the energy contour which were located further back than in abruptly cut segments, and the overall energy was more constant throughout the entire nucleus. On this basis, we intended to compare German as a syllable cut language and Hungarian where the feature was not expected to be relevant. However, the phonetic correlates of syllable cut found in this study do not entirely confirm Spiekermann's results. It seems that the energy features of vowels are more strongly connected to their duration than to their quality.
This paper discusses constructions like “We’ll have two beers and a coffee.” that are typically used for beverage orders in restaurant contexts. We compare the behaviour of nouns in these constructions in three Germanic languages, English, Icelandic, and German, and take a closer look at the correlation of the morpho-syntactic and semantic-conceptual changes involved here. We show that even within such a closely related linguistic sample, one finds three different grammatical options for the expression of the same conceptual transition. Our findings suggest an analysis of coercion as a genuinely semantic phenomenon, a phenomenon that is located on a level of semantic representations that serves as an interface between the conceptual and the grammatical system and takes into account inter- and intralinguistic variations.