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Das Nachfeld im Deutschen: Rechte Satzperipherie und Diskurstopik-Auszeichnung

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Vinckel-Roisin H.

Studia Linguistica

2012

issue 31

143-163

This paper deals with the syntactically non-obligatory filling of the postfield (Nachfeld) in German utterances; non-sentential constituents which theoretically ‘ought to’ have been placed earlier do in fact occur on the right periphery, after the so-called right sentence brace, i.e., in the postfield. The main point of this study is to investigate the text-structuring uses of non-sentential constituents in the Nachfeld with respect to discourse topic managing and their role for the organisation of the discourse. Based upon a corpus of German newspapers (“Der Tagesspiegel”, “Die Zeit”, “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, “Süddeutsche Zeitung”), this text-structural analysis shows that the placement in the postfield on the right periphery can serve to mark the referent of the constituent as being the discourse topic of the following discourse segment and focuses on three major types of discourse topic management on the local and global levels: topic introduction, topic shift and topic continuity.

Topic- and mode-sensitive interaction strategies: functions of ellipsis in oral communication

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White J.

Research in Language

2015

vol. 13

issue 3

334-350

In this article, we discuss ellipsis as an interactive strategy by analysing the author’s textchat corpus and the VOICE corpus of English as a Lingua Franca. It is found that there were fewer repetitions in the textchat data, and this is explained as a consequence of the textchat mode. Textchat contributions are preserved as long as the chat is active or has been saved, and therefore users can scroll through and review the discussion, compared to the more fleeting nature of oral conversation. As a result, repetition is less necessary. The frequency of other functions identified could be attributed to the topic of discourse. Discussions involve much ellipsis used to develop discourse, although some were self-presentations with repetition used to confirm details. Back-channel support and comments were often low because speakers instead used forms like yeah as supportive utterances.

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Das Nachfeld im Deutschen: Rechte Satzperipherie und Diskurstopik-Auszeichnung

Topic- and mode-sensitive interaction strategies: functions of ellipsis in oral communication