Oliver Ehmer
Biographic Data
| ID | 2789836 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oliver Ehmer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oliver |
| FAMILY NAME | Ehmer |
| SIGNATURE | EHMER O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Freiburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3435-6139 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
There are people who … existential-attributive constructions and positioning in Spoken Spanish and German
The study analyses the use of a bipartite construction that serves as a resource for the ad hoc establishment of personal categories, and thus, for social positioning. In particular, it examines the Spanish construction “hay gente que ...” and the German equivalent “es gibt Leute, die ...,” which translate into English as “there are people who ...”. The first conjunct asserts the existence of a social category, which is then specified attributive…
Request for confirmation sequences in Castilian Spanish
This article analyzes request for confirmation (RfC) sequences in spoken Castilian Spanish. RfCs are conversational turns that present a proposition for which the speaker claims some knowledge but at the same time asks for an informed co-participant’s (dis)confirmation. Adopting an Interactional Linguistics perspective, the article examines the linguistic resources used to design RfCs and their responses. The analysis is based on a collection of …
Marking action accomplishment with non‐lexical vocalizations
This paper analyzes how non-lexical vocalizations, understood as sounds and syllables without a coded lexical meaning, may be used to mark the accomplishment of an ongoing bodily action under scrutiny. In particular, a bipartite instructional format used in dance instruction in Argentine Spanish is considered. The first part of the format presents a verbal description of an embodied action (e.g. the leg goes first ). The second part consists of a…
Affordances and Actions
This article examines how requests for confirmation (RfCs) can be used as devices for challenging or disagreeing with another participant, their talk, or their action(s) in informal interaction. Based on their defining pragmatic characteristics, we identify two generic interactional affordances RfCs offer their speakers: (1) a capacity to do questioning and (2) a capacity to forward propositional content. While these two affordances are generally…
Projecting action spaces. On the interactional relevance of cesural areas in co-enactments
This article investigates the interactional relevance of weak cesuras in multimodal transitions in enactments. Previous research has pointed out that enactments are multimodally accomplished phenomena in that they do not only consist of a quotation but usually involve changes in prosody and bodily conduct, too. Furthermore, it has been noted that an upcoming quotation may be projected in the preceding talk by phonetic cues. There is, however, lit…
Instructing embodied knowledge
In the introduction to the special issue on ‘Instructing embodied knowledge’, we present a general orientation into this growing field of research, providing the relevant background for the individual contributions. The starting point for the endeavor is the basic observation that practical knowledge or ‘knowing-how’ is typically of a procedural, implicit and embodied nature rather than explicit-conceptual. Given this specific nature, we highligh…
Synchronization in demonstrations. Multimodal practices for instructing body knowledge
Demonstrations are a central resource for instructing body knowledge. They allow instructors to provide learners with a structured perceptual access to the performance of an activity. The present paper considers demonstrations as inherently social activities, in which not only the instructor but also the learners may participate. A particular form of co-participation is that learners synchronize their own bodily actions with the demonstration of …
When “Questions“ are not Questions. Inferences and Conventionalization in Spanish But-Prefaced Partial Interrogatives
The present paper analyzes the discourse-pragmatic function of introducing Spanish qué ‘what’- interrogatives with the concessive connective pero ‘but’. In some contexts, a pero-preface contributes to the interpretation of the interrogative as the realization of an interactional challenge rather than a request for information (e.g. an information question). We explore the inferential processes by which the peropreface leads to an interpretation o…
Inferences in Interaction and Language Change
Utterances usually convey more meaning than is expressed. This 'surplus' of meaning can be explained by the process of inferencing. A typical definition is given, for example, by Huang, who defines inference as the "process of accepting a statement or proposition (called the conclusion) on the basis of the (possibly provisional) acceptance of one or more other statements or propositions (called the premises)" (Huang 2011: 397). This definition re…
Complex adverbial constructions. The case of X-mais-comme-Y-Z in spoken French
Adverbial patterns in interaction
Marking action accomplishment with non‐lexical vocalizations
This paper analyzes how non-lexical vocalizations, understood as sounds and syllables without a coded lexical meaning, may be used to mark the accomplishment of an ongoing bodily action under scrutiny. In particular, a bipartite instructional format used in dance instruction in Argentine Spanish is considered. The first part of the format presents a verbal description of an embodied action (e.g. the leg goes first ). The second part consists of a…
Adverbial patterns in interaction
Complex adverbial constructions. The case of X-mais-comme-Y-Z in spoken French
Adverbial patterns in interaction
When “Questions“ are not Questions. Inferences and Conventionalization in Spanish But-Prefaced Partial Interrogatives
The present paper analyzes the discourse-pragmatic function of introducing Spanish qué ‘what’- interrogatives with the concessive connective pero ‘but’. In some contexts, a pero-preface contributes to the interpretation of the interrogative as the realization of an interactional challenge rather than a request for information (e.g. an information question). We explore the inferential processes by which the peropreface leads to an interpretation o…
Inferences in Interaction and Language Change
Utterances usually convey more meaning than is expressed. This 'surplus' of meaning can be explained by the process of inferencing. A typical definition is given, for example, by Huang, who defines inference as the "process of accepting a statement or proposition (called the conclusion) on the basis of the (possibly provisional) acceptance of one or more other statements or propositions (called the premises)" (Huang 2011: 397). This definition re…
Projecting action spaces. On the interactional relevance of cesural areas in co-enactments
This article investigates the interactional relevance of weak cesuras in multimodal transitions in enactments. Previous research has pointed out that enactments are multimodally accomplished phenomena in that they do not only consist of a quotation but usually involve changes in prosody and bodily conduct, too. Furthermore, it has been noted that an upcoming quotation may be projected in the preceding talk by phonetic cues. There is, however, lit…
Instructing embodied knowledge
In the introduction to the special issue on ‘Instructing embodied knowledge’, we present a general orientation into this growing field of research, providing the relevant background for the individual contributions. The starting point for the endeavor is the basic observation that practical knowledge or ‘knowing-how’ is typically of a procedural, implicit and embodied nature rather than explicit-conceptual. Given this specific nature, we highligh…
Synchronization in demonstrations. Multimodal practices for instructing body knowledge
Demonstrations are a central resource for instructing body knowledge. They allow instructors to provide learners with a structured perceptual access to the performance of an activity. The present paper considers demonstrations as inherently social activities, in which not only the instructor but also the learners may participate. A particular form of co-participation is that learners synchronize their own bodily actions with the demonstration of …
Affordances and Actions
This article examines how requests for confirmation (RfCs) can be used as devices for challenging or disagreeing with another participant, their talk, or their action(s) in informal interaction. Based on their defining pragmatic characteristics, we identify two generic interactional affordances RfCs offer their speakers: (1) a capacity to do questioning and (2) a capacity to forward propositional content. While these two affordances are generally…
There are people who … existential-attributive constructions and positioning in Spoken Spanish and German
The study analyses the use of a bipartite construction that serves as a resource for the ad hoc establishment of personal categories, and thus, for social positioning. In particular, it examines the Spanish construction “hay gente que ...” and the German equivalent “es gibt Leute, die ...,” which translate into English as “there are people who ...”. The first conjunct asserts the existence of a social category, which is then specified attributive…
Request for confirmation sequences in Castilian Spanish
This article analyzes request for confirmation (RfC) sequences in spoken Castilian Spanish. RfCs are conversational turns that present a proposition for which the speaker claims some knowledge but at the same time asks for an informed co-participant’s (dis)confirmation. Adopting an Interactional Linguistics perspective, the article examines the linguistic resources used to design RfCs and their responses. The analysis is based on a collection of …
Marking action accomplishment with non‐lexical vocalizations
This paper analyzes how non-lexical vocalizations, understood as sounds and syllables without a coded lexical meaning, may be used to mark the accomplishment of an ongoing bodily action under scrutiny. In particular, a bipartite instructional format used in dance instruction in Argentine Spanish is considered. The first part of the format presents a verbal description of an embodied action (e.g. the leg goes first ). The second part consists of a…
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