Martin Pfeiffer
Biographic Data
| ID | 736719 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Pfeiffer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Pfeiffer |
| SIGNATURE | PFEIFFER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Potsdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5175-3657 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
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
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 …
Gemeinsame Identität und Alterität an der deutsch-französischen Grenze im badischen Oberrheingebiet
This contribution presents a qualitative and quantitative analysis of 127 interviews with speakers of Alemannic from the German side of the Upper Rhine area close to the French border. Focussing on the informants’ statements regarding three thematic fields - regional ties with Alsace, language choice in cross-border communication, and comprehension of the Alsatian dialect - it is shown that the orientation towards the Alsace is diminishing, while…
Dialektabbau im grenznahen Alemannischen in Deutschland
The aim of this paper is to investigate trans-border effects on dialect levelling, using quantitative and sociolinguistic methods. Combining production data (sociolinguistic interviews and dialect questionnaires) with attitudinal data in a socially stratified sample of Alemannic speakers from Southwest German locations close to the state border with France, we investigate the impact of the neighboring Alsatian dialects of Alemannic on the related…
Reenactments during tellings
In this paper, we draw on German dyadic face-to-face conversations among friends in order to examine the interactional functions of gaze in reenactments, i.e. "re-presentations or depictions" (Sidnell, 2006: 377) of previously experienced or imagined events. Firstly, we show that reenactors use several different gaze patterns depending on whether the depicted original event is dialogic or non-dialogic. Secondly, we compare the use of different re…
Recruiting Assistance in Early Childhood
Based on longitudinal audiovisual data from family interactions, we focus on how young children between 1;08 and 2;10 report trouble they are encountering in their current activity using the response cry oh in combination with other lexical items (e.g., “oh fell off”) and bodily displays. While at a very young age the children remain focused on their activity and try to solve the problem independently, at an older age they start to systematically…
Development and application of GIS-based assessment of land-use impacts on water quality
The syntax of self-repair in German
Prosody and Embodiment in Interactional Grammar
Studies in Interactional Linguistics have provided impressive evidence of the systematic use of vocal, verbal, and visual resources in social interaction. While members of the field have discussed what role these resources play in a grammar of social interaction, they have focused primarily on lexico-syntactic structures. The contributions to the present volume, however, focus on prosody and embodiment, exploring the role prosody plays in interac…
What prosody reveals about the speaker’s cognition
Grammar and self-repair
Inglehart's Silent Revolution Thesis
Ronald Inglehart, a political scientist, argues that a “silent revolution” is taking place whereby Western publics are becoming increasingly “postmaterialistic” (endorsing values such as self-expression, aesthetics, and belonging) and less “materialistic” (endorsing values related to economic and security concerns). In this paper we examine Inglehart's reasons for rejecting the possibility that human development factors might play a role in this …
Elements of Kuṛux Historical Phonology
Recruiting Assistance in Early Childhood
Based on longitudinal audiovisual data from family interactions, we focus on how young children between 1;08 and 2;10 report trouble they are encountering in their current activity using the response cry oh in combination with other lexical items (e.g., “oh fell off”) and bodily displays. While at a very young age the children remain focused on their activity and try to solve the problem independently, at an older age they start to systematically…
Grammar and self-repair
The syntax of self-repair in German
Coding request for confirmation sequences
Reenactments during tellings
In this paper, we draw on German dyadic face-to-face conversations among friends in order to examine the interactional functions of gaze in reenactments, i.e. "re-presentations or depictions" (Sidnell, 2006: 377) of previously experienced or imagined events. Firstly, we show that reenactors use several different gaze patterns depending on whether the depicted original event is dialogic or non-dialogic. Secondly, we compare the use of different re…
Elements of Kuṛux Historical Phonology
Inglehart's Silent Revolution Thesis
Ronald Inglehart, a political scientist, argues that a “silent revolution” is taking place whereby Western publics are becoming increasingly “postmaterialistic” (endorsing values such as self-expression, aesthetics, and belonging) and less “materialistic” (endorsing values related to economic and security concerns). In this paper we examine Inglehart's reasons for rejecting the possibility that human development factors might play a role in this …
Prosody and Embodiment in Interactional Grammar
Studies in Interactional Linguistics have provided impressive evidence of the systematic use of vocal, verbal, and visual resources in social interaction. While members of the field have discussed what role these resources play in a grammar of social interaction, they have focused primarily on lexico-syntactic structures. The contributions to the present volume, however, focus on prosody and embodiment, exploring the role prosody plays in interac…
What prosody reveals about the speaker’s cognition
Grammar and self-repair
The syntax of self-repair in German
Development and application of GIS-based assessment of land-use impacts on water quality
Recruiting Assistance in Early Childhood
Based on longitudinal audiovisual data from family interactions, we focus on how young children between 1;08 and 2;10 report trouble they are encountering in their current activity using the response cry oh in combination with other lexical items (e.g., “oh fell off”) and bodily displays. While at a very young age the children remain focused on their activity and try to solve the problem independently, at an older age they start to systematically…
Reenactments during tellings
In this paper, we draw on German dyadic face-to-face conversations among friends in order to examine the interactional functions of gaze in reenactments, i.e. "re-presentations or depictions" (Sidnell, 2006: 377) of previously experienced or imagined events. Firstly, we show that reenactors use several different gaze patterns depending on whether the depicted original event is dialogic or non-dialogic. Secondly, we compare the use of different re…
Gemeinsame Identität und Alterität an der deutsch-französischen Grenze im badischen Oberrheingebiet
This contribution presents a qualitative and quantitative analysis of 127 interviews with speakers of Alemannic from the German side of the Upper Rhine area close to the French border. Focussing on the informants’ statements regarding three thematic fields - regional ties with Alsace, language choice in cross-border communication, and comprehension of the Alsatian dialect - it is shown that the orientation towards the Alsace is diminishing, while…
Dialektabbau im grenznahen Alemannischen in Deutschland
The aim of this paper is to investigate trans-border effects on dialect levelling, using quantitative and sociolinguistic methods. Combining production data (sociolinguistic interviews and dialect questionnaires) with attitudinal data in a socially stratified sample of Alemannic speakers from Southwest German locations close to the state border with France, we investigate the impact of the neighboring Alsatian dialects of Alemannic on the related…
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 …
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
Linguistics (10 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · German (6 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (5 works) · Linguistic research and analysis (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 works)