Emile Reber
Biographic Data
| ID | 235679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emile Reber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emile |
| FAMILY NAME | Reber |
| SIGNATURE | REBER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Würzburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6819-9376 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
On the Evolution of Inferential Practices in Late Modern English and Present-Day English Court Opinions
In argumentative text types, evidential markers serve to construct credibility, authority, and power. Informed by corpus-assisted discourse analysis, this paper investigates the development of adverbial, phrasal, and clausal inferential adverbials in the Corpus of US Supreme Court Opinions spanning the 1790s to the 2010s. The analysis reveals that therefore constitutes the most common adverbial form but shows a continuous decline throughout the e…
Epistemic and Evidential Expressions in English Over Time: Some Insights on the Role of Interactional Processes and Social Change
In this introductory paper we outline the aims of the special issue on epistemic and evidential expressions in English across time, the main areas of research within this field and give a summary of the papers included in the special issue, while also highlighting how they contribute to the overarching research aim and how they intersect
On the ritualization of commemorative practices: Paying tribute in British Prime Minister's Questions
Diachronic pragmatics: New perspectives on recent developments of spoken English
The role of body height as a co‐factor of excess weight in Switzerland
OBJECT: ) is a major health issue worldwide, including in Switzerland. For high-income countries, little attention has been paid to body height in context of excess weight. The aim of this study is to assess the importance of body height as a co-factor for excess weight in multiple large nationwide data sets. DATA AND METHODS: In this comparative study, we included the largest nationwide and population-based studies in the fields of public health…
Dramas of Reconciliation. A performance approach to the analysis of political apologies in international relations, written by Michel-André Horelt
On the variation of fragmental constructions in British English and American English post-match interviews
This article takes a cognitive, interactional perspective on pluricentricity and examines the use of fragmental constructions in a mid-sized dataset, drawing on recordings of British English and American English post-match interviews (PMIs), i.e. media interviews conducted with football players after matches in the British and North American top leagues. It examines what types of fragmental constructions are deployed in the PMIs and whether the u…
Visuo-material performances: Literalized’ quotations in prime minister’s questions
Drawn from a larger project on reported speech in parliamentary interaction ( Reber, forthcoming ), this paper studies visuo-material performances of so-called “literalized” ( Rumsey, 1992 ) quoting, i.e., verbatim reproductions of original utterances. Taking an interactional-linguistic perspective, I analyze how participants accomplish ‘literalized’ reported speech through vocal, verbal, and visual cues, recruiting their material documents. The …
On “Whistle” Sound Objects in English Everyday Conversation
In this article we study the forms and functions of whistling in social interaction. Our analysis identifies two basic forms of conversational whistling, (a) melodic whistling, when participants whistle the tune of, e.g., a familiar song; and (b) nonmelodic whistling. The focus in this article lies on nonmelodic whistles, which come in two contours linked to specific actions: (a) the tonal whistle deployed for summoning (e.g., a domestic animal b…
Obama said it: Quoting as an evidential strategy in online discussion forums
Quoting constitutes a well documented evidential strategy across languages. This article examines an English collection of comments in online political discussion forums, which covers a wide spectrum of patterns with 1) overt stance-taking plus a direct quotation at one end and 2) implicit stance-taking without quotation at the other. The notions of deixis and accountability are used in order to explicate the evidential function of quotations in …
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Constructing evidence at Prime Minister's Question Time: An analysis of the grammar, semantics and pragmatics of the verb see
Constructing evidence constitutes a practice to establish the speaker's authority at Prime Minister's Question Time (PMQT), a weekly half-hour session in the British House of Commons. Here the verb see constitutes a resource for both the questioning Leader of the Opposition (LO) and Members of Parliament (MP) as well as for the responding Prime Minister (PM) to claim first-hand perceptual experience. This paper takes an integrated approach, offer…
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Affectivity in Interaction: Sound objects in English
How do participants display affectivity in social interaction? Based on recordings of authentic everyday conversations and radio phone-ins, this study offers a fine-grained analysis of how recipients of affect-laden informings deploy sound objects, i.e. interjections ( oh , ooh and ah ) and paralinguistic signals ( whistle and clicks ), for responsive displays of affectivity. Examining the use of such sound objects across a number of interactiona…
Interjektionen zwischen Lexikon und Vokalität: Lexem oder Lautobjekt?
Anstelle der herkömmlichen Wortklasse Interjektion plädiert dieser Beitrag für eine erweiterte Auffassung von Lautobjekten (hier auch ‚Vokalisierungen‘ genannt), wie sie von tatsächlichen Sprechern in konkreten Interaktionszusammenhängen produziert werden. Fokussiert wird der Gebrauch von Lautobjekten als affektgeladene Reaktion auf eine Mitteilung im Gespräch. Anhand eines Korpus von natürlich vorkommenden englischen Alltagsgesprächen werden dre…
Affectivity in Interaction: Sound objects in English
How do participants display affectivity in social interaction? Based on recordings of authentic everyday conversations and radio phone-ins, this study offers a fine-grained analysis of how recipients of affect-laden informings deploy sound objects, i.e. interjections ( oh , ooh and ah ) and paralinguistic signals ( whistle and clicks ), for responsive displays of affectivity. Examining the use of such sound objects across a number of interactiona…
On “Whistle” Sound Objects in English Everyday Conversation
In this article we study the forms and functions of whistling in social interaction. Our analysis identifies two basic forms of conversational whistling, (a) melodic whistling, when participants whistle the tune of, e.g., a familiar song; and (b) nonmelodic whistling. The focus in this article lies on nonmelodic whistles, which come in two contours linked to specific actions: (a) the tonal whistle deployed for summoning (e.g., a domestic animal b…
On the ritualization of commemorative practices: Paying tribute in British Prime Minister's Questions
Diachronic pragmatics: New perspectives on recent developments of spoken English
Constructing evidence at Prime Minister's Question Time: An analysis of the grammar, semantics and pragmatics of the verb see
Constructing evidence constitutes a practice to establish the speaker's authority at Prime Minister's Question Time (PMQT), a weekly half-hour session in the British House of Commons. Here the verb see constitutes a resource for both the questioning Leader of the Opposition (LO) and Members of Parliament (MP) as well as for the responding Prime Minister (PM) to claim first-hand perceptual experience. This paper takes an integrated approach, offer…
Interjektionen zwischen Lexikon und Vokalität: Lexem oder Lautobjekt?
Anstelle der herkömmlichen Wortklasse Interjektion plädiert dieser Beitrag für eine erweiterte Auffassung von Lautobjekten (hier auch ‚Vokalisierungen‘ genannt), wie sie von tatsächlichen Sprechern in konkreten Interaktionszusammenhängen produziert werden. Fokussiert wird der Gebrauch von Lautobjekten als affektgeladene Reaktion auf eine Mitteilung im Gespräch. Anhand eines Korpus von natürlich vorkommenden englischen Alltagsgesprächen werden dre…
Affectivity in Interaction: Sound objects in English
How do participants display affectivity in social interaction? Based on recordings of authentic everyday conversations and radio phone-ins, this study offers a fine-grained analysis of how recipients of affect-laden informings deploy sound objects, i.e. interjections ( oh , ooh and ah ) and paralinguistic signals ( whistle and clicks ), for responsive displays of affectivity. Examining the use of such sound objects across a number of interactiona…
Rezensionsexemplare
Obama said it: Quoting as an evidential strategy in online discussion forums
Quoting constitutes a well documented evidential strategy across languages. This article examines an English collection of comments in online political discussion forums, which covers a wide spectrum of patterns with 1) overt stance-taking plus a direct quotation at one end and 2) implicit stance-taking without quotation at the other. The notions of deixis and accountability are used in order to explicate the evidential function of quotations in …
Rezensionsexemplare
Constructing evidence at Prime Minister's Question Time: An analysis of the grammar, semantics and pragmatics of the verb see
Constructing evidence constitutes a practice to establish the speaker's authority at Prime Minister's Question Time (PMQT), a weekly half-hour session in the British House of Commons. Here the verb see constitutes a resource for both the questioning Leader of the Opposition (LO) and Members of Parliament (MP) as well as for the responding Prime Minister (PM) to claim first-hand perceptual experience. This paper takes an integrated approach, offer…
Visuo-material performances: Literalized’ quotations in prime minister’s questions
Drawn from a larger project on reported speech in parliamentary interaction ( Reber, forthcoming ), this paper studies visuo-material performances of so-called “literalized” ( Rumsey, 1992 ) quoting, i.e., verbatim reproductions of original utterances. Taking an interactional-linguistic perspective, I analyze how participants accomplish ‘literalized’ reported speech through vocal, verbal, and visual cues, recruiting their material documents. The …
On “Whistle” Sound Objects in English Everyday Conversation
In this article we study the forms and functions of whistling in social interaction. Our analysis identifies two basic forms of conversational whistling, (a) melodic whistling, when participants whistle the tune of, e.g., a familiar song; and (b) nonmelodic whistling. The focus in this article lies on nonmelodic whistles, which come in two contours linked to specific actions: (a) the tonal whistle deployed for summoning (e.g., a domestic animal b…
Dramas of Reconciliation. A performance approach to the analysis of political apologies in international relations, written by Michel-André Horelt
On the variation of fragmental constructions in British English and American English post-match interviews
This article takes a cognitive, interactional perspective on pluricentricity and examines the use of fragmental constructions in a mid-sized dataset, drawing on recordings of British English and American English post-match interviews (PMIs), i.e. media interviews conducted with football players after matches in the British and North American top leagues. It examines what types of fragmental constructions are deployed in the PMIs and whether the u…
The role of body height as a co‐factor of excess weight in Switzerland
OBJECT: ) is a major health issue worldwide, including in Switzerland. For high-income countries, little attention has been paid to body height in context of excess weight. The aim of this study is to assess the importance of body height as a co-factor for excess weight in multiple large nationwide data sets. DATA AND METHODS: In this comparative study, we included the largest nationwide and population-based studies in the fields of public health…
On the ritualization of commemorative practices: Paying tribute in British Prime Minister's Questions
Diachronic pragmatics: New perspectives on recent developments of spoken English
On the Evolution of Inferential Practices in Late Modern English and Present-Day English Court Opinions
In argumentative text types, evidential markers serve to construct credibility, authority, and power. Informed by corpus-assisted discourse analysis, this paper investigates the development of adverbial, phrasal, and clausal inferential adverbials in the Corpus of US Supreme Court Opinions spanning the 1790s to the 2010s. The analysis reveals that therefore constitutes the most common adverbial form but shows a continuous decline throughout the e…
Epistemic and Evidential Expressions in English Over Time: Some Insights on the Role of Interactional Processes and Social Change
In this introductory paper we outline the aims of the special issue on epistemic and evidential expressions in English across time, the main areas of research within this field and give a summary of the papers included in the special issue, while also highlighting how they contribute to the overarching research aim and how they intersect
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (9 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (8 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · History (4 works)