Katharina König
Biographic Data
| ID | 1137973 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katharina König |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katharina |
| FAMILY NAME | König |
| SIGNATURE | KÖNIG K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Münster |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1883-2812 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A coding scheme for request for confirmation sequences across languages
This article is part of a special issue on cross-linguistic analyses of request for confirmation (RfC) sequences in ten languages. It presents the coding scheme that forms the basis of the comparative study of RfCs in mundane conversation. First, we outline the criteria applied to ensure comparability of data and describe the procedures for building a collection of 200 RfC sequences for each language. We then introduce the coding categories for t…
Coding request for confirmation sequences
Exploring the fuzzy boundaries between newsmarks and change-of-state tokens in High German and Low German talk-in-interaction – A variational-pragmatic and interactional perspective
The medium is accountable
Voice messages (VMs), which allow users to send recorded messages to other contacts, are a popular feature of instant messaging applications. Despite their popularity, linguistic research on VMs is still in its infancy. This study analyses metacommunication around VMs in mobile messaging conversations among WhatsApp users in Germany and Spain. It focuses on participants’ metacommunicative accounts (such as references, explanations, or motivations…
Requesting Confirmation or Reconfirmation across Languages
This special issue presents a collection of conversation-analytic and interactional-linguistic studies concerned with the cross-linguistic analysis of requests for confirmation (RfC) and requests for reconfirmation (RfRCs) as two distinct types of polar questions. In this paper, we outline a characterisation of the two actions with reference to their epistemic gradient and their sequential design, which does not take specific linguistic resources…
Request for confirmation sequences in German
In request for confirmation (RfC) sequences, interlocutors negotiate their social positions regarding access and rights to knowledge. The article presents an overview of a quantitative analysis of 200 RfCs and their responses in German conversations to highlight the relevant linguistic resources speakers of the language deployed to position themselves vis-à-vis a confirmable proposition. In German RfCs, modal particles and tags play an important …
Transmodal messenger interaction–Analysing the sequentiality of text and audio postings in WhatsApp chats
Introduces the notion of transmodal interaction to digital CA. • Discusses methodological challenges in studying WhatsApp voice messages. • Conducts a sequential analysis of mode requests and switches in messaging chats. • Shows that voice messages are rarely made conditionally relevant. • Argues that voice messages are framed as signs of commitment. The emerging field of digital conversation analysis is concerned with the study of practices with…
Structurally Similar Formats Are Not Functionally Equivalent across Languages
This study is concerned with a cross-linguistic comparison of requests for reconfirmation (RfRCs) in Yurakaré, German, and Low German mundane spoken conversations. We focus on two different RfRC formats, namely token RfRCs (such as German echt? ‘really’) and RfRCs that repeat (part of) another speaker’s prior turn. We show that these RfRC formats are used to accomplish different social actions in the three languages under study, ranging from regi…
Susanne Günthner
Mehrsprachigkeit in transmodaler Kommunikation
The paper is concerned with codeswitching in transmodal WhatsApp messenger chats. Based on a corpus of text and audio postings from a group of German-Lebanese cousins that is complemented by ethnographic interviews, the study shows that language alternations can be associated with particular metapragmatic or indexical functions in the different modalities. In audio postings, switching between German and Arabic contextualises varying discourse rel…
Adapted and emergent practices in text-based digital discourse
Verfestigungen in der Interaktion
The theoretically and empirically based contributions in this edited volume in honour of Susanne Günther examine different consolidations on the level of interaction. They span from relatively detailed formats such as consolidated practices and actions up to the major forms of communicative genres. It also examines non-verbal routine patterns such as gestures.
HM and EHM as discourse markers in German WhatsApp chats
Stance taking with 'laugh' particles and emojis - Sequential and functional patterns of 'laughter' in a corpus of German WhatsApp chats
Communicative constructions of space in epistemic asymmetry
Placement interviews have become an important discourse genre at universities as they decide about access to social, monetary, or cultural resources. Despite their importance, hardly any linguistic studies deal with this particular discourse genre in academic communication. Using a conversation-analytic approach, we analyze a corpus of placement interviews in which representatives of a German university interview Chinese students applying for a s…
Kommunikative Gattungen in der Interaktion
Das Konzept der kommunikativen Gattungen beschreibt alltägliche kommunikative Muster, an denen sich Sprecher/innen und Rezipient/innen bei der Produktion und Rezeption kommunikativen Handelns orientieren. In diesem Beitrag werden zwei Aspekte der Gattungsanalyse näher beleuchtet: 1. Unterschiedliche Kulturen zeichnen sich durch teilweise unterschiedliche Muster bzw. Gattungen zur Lösung ihrer kommunikativen Aufgaben aus. Kommunikative Muster und …
A comparison of heritage language ideologies in interaction
In Canada, the notion of a heritage language ideology is often conceived of as a natural by-product of official multiculturalism. By contrast, Germany has long struggled with its status as a multilingual and multicultural country. By comparing two corpora of interviews with immigrants to each of these two countries (Canadians of German heritage and Germans of Vietnamese heritage), this paper aims to explore to what extent these different language…
Bericht über das 48. Arbeitstreffen des Arbeitskreises Angewandte Gesprächsforschung am 13. und 14. Mai 2011 in Hamburg
Stance taking with 'laugh' particles and emojis - Sequential and functional patterns of 'laughter' in a corpus of German WhatsApp chats
A comparison of heritage language ideologies in interaction
In Canada, the notion of a heritage language ideology is often conceived of as a natural by-product of official multiculturalism. By contrast, Germany has long struggled with its status as a multilingual and multicultural country. By comparing two corpora of interviews with immigrants to each of these two countries (Canadians of German heritage and Germans of Vietnamese heritage), this paper aims to explore to what extent these different language…
Coding request for confirmation sequences
Exploring the fuzzy boundaries between newsmarks and change-of-state tokens in High German and Low German talk-in-interaction – A variational-pragmatic and interactional perspective
Transmodal messenger interaction–Analysing the sequentiality of text and audio postings in WhatsApp chats
Introduces the notion of transmodal interaction to digital CA. • Discusses methodological challenges in studying WhatsApp voice messages. • Conducts a sequential analysis of mode requests and switches in messaging chats. • Shows that voice messages are rarely made conditionally relevant. • Argues that voice messages are framed as signs of commitment. The emerging field of digital conversation analysis is concerned with the study of practices with…
Adapted and emergent practices in text-based digital discourse
HM and EHM as discourse markers in German WhatsApp chats
Bericht über das 48. Arbeitstreffen des Arbeitskreises Angewandte Gesprächsforschung am 13. und 14. Mai 2011 in Hamburg
A comparison of heritage language ideologies in interaction
In Canada, the notion of a heritage language ideology is often conceived of as a natural by-product of official multiculturalism. By contrast, Germany has long struggled with its status as a multilingual and multicultural country. By comparing two corpora of interviews with immigrants to each of these two countries (Canadians of German heritage and Germans of Vietnamese heritage), this paper aims to explore to what extent these different language…
Kommunikative Gattungen in der Interaktion
Das Konzept der kommunikativen Gattungen beschreibt alltägliche kommunikative Muster, an denen sich Sprecher/innen und Rezipient/innen bei der Produktion und Rezeption kommunikativen Handelns orientieren. In diesem Beitrag werden zwei Aspekte der Gattungsanalyse näher beleuchtet: 1. Unterschiedliche Kulturen zeichnen sich durch teilweise unterschiedliche Muster bzw. Gattungen zur Lösung ihrer kommunikativen Aufgaben aus. Kommunikative Muster und …
Communicative constructions of space in epistemic asymmetry
Placement interviews have become an important discourse genre at universities as they decide about access to social, monetary, or cultural resources. Despite their importance, hardly any linguistic studies deal with this particular discourse genre in academic communication. Using a conversation-analytic approach, we analyze a corpus of placement interviews in which representatives of a German university interview Chinese students applying for a s…
Stance taking with 'laugh' particles and emojis - Sequential and functional patterns of 'laughter' in a corpus of German WhatsApp chats
Verfestigungen in der Interaktion
The theoretically and empirically based contributions in this edited volume in honour of Susanne Günther examine different consolidations on the level of interaction. They span from relatively detailed formats such as consolidated practices and actions up to the major forms of communicative genres. It also examines non-verbal routine patterns such as gestures.
HM and EHM as discourse markers in German WhatsApp chats
Mehrsprachigkeit in transmodaler Kommunikation
The paper is concerned with codeswitching in transmodal WhatsApp messenger chats. Based on a corpus of text and audio postings from a group of German-Lebanese cousins that is complemented by ethnographic interviews, the study shows that language alternations can be associated with particular metapragmatic or indexical functions in the different modalities. In audio postings, switching between German and Arabic contextualises varying discourse rel…
Adapted and emergent practices in text-based digital discourse
Structurally Similar Formats Are Not Functionally Equivalent across Languages
This study is concerned with a cross-linguistic comparison of requests for reconfirmation (RfRCs) in Yurakaré, German, and Low German mundane spoken conversations. We focus on two different RfRC formats, namely token RfRCs (such as German echt? ‘really’) and RfRCs that repeat (part of) another speaker’s prior turn. We show that these RfRC formats are used to accomplish different social actions in the three languages under study, ranging from regi…
Susanne Günthner
The medium is accountable
Voice messages (VMs), which allow users to send recorded messages to other contacts, are a popular feature of instant messaging applications. Despite their popularity, linguistic research on VMs is still in its infancy. This study analyses metacommunication around VMs in mobile messaging conversations among WhatsApp users in Germany and Spain. It focuses on participants’ metacommunicative accounts (such as references, explanations, or motivations…
Requesting Confirmation or Reconfirmation across Languages
This special issue presents a collection of conversation-analytic and interactional-linguistic studies concerned with the cross-linguistic analysis of requests for confirmation (RfC) and requests for reconfirmation (RfRCs) as two distinct types of polar questions. In this paper, we outline a characterisation of the two actions with reference to their epistemic gradient and their sequential design, which does not take specific linguistic resources…
Request for confirmation sequences in German
In request for confirmation (RfC) sequences, interlocutors negotiate their social positions regarding access and rights to knowledge. The article presents an overview of a quantitative analysis of 200 RfCs and their responses in German conversations to highlight the relevant linguistic resources speakers of the language deployed to position themselves vis-à-vis a confirmable proposition. In German RfCs, modal particles and tags play an important …
Transmodal messenger interaction–Analysing the sequentiality of text and audio postings in WhatsApp chats
Introduces the notion of transmodal interaction to digital CA. • Discusses methodological challenges in studying WhatsApp voice messages. • Conducts a sequential analysis of mode requests and switches in messaging chats. • Shows that voice messages are rarely made conditionally relevant. • Argues that voice messages are framed as signs of commitment. The emerging field of digital conversation analysis is concerned with the study of practices with…
A coding scheme for request for confirmation sequences across languages
This article is part of a special issue on cross-linguistic analyses of request for confirmation (RfC) sequences in ten languages. It presents the coding scheme that forms the basis of the comparative study of RfCs in mundane conversation. First, we outline the criteria applied to ensure comparability of data and describe the procedures for building a collection of 200 RfC sequences for each language. We then introduce the coding categories for t…
Coding request for confirmation sequences
Exploring the fuzzy boundaries between newsmarks and change-of-state tokens in High German and Low German talk-in-interaction – A variational-pragmatic and interactional perspective
Philosophy (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (10 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · German (8 works) · Digital Communication and Language (7 works) · Linguistic research and analysis (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works)