Anita Fetzer
Biographic Data
| ID | 93072 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anita Fetzer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anita |
| FAMILY NAME | Fetzer |
| SIGNATURE | FETZER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Augsburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2616-1561 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 114 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Quotation headlines in the printed British quality press: (Re-)contextualisation meets entextualisation
News discourse comes along with the presumption of newsworthiness, and this also holds for one of its constitutive parts: headlines. This paper adopts a discourse-pragmatic perspective to the formatting and discursive function of quotation headlines in the printed British quality press. It addresses (1) the constitutive parts and felicity conditions of quotation; (2) its linguistic formatting as direct, indirect, scare, mixed and mixed type, and …
Grammar in Political Debate
Grammar is a complex phenomenon: it may refer to language users' competence of the rules of a language and of its constitutive systems, and it may refer to the description of such a system in a codified text, a reference grammar. In the analysis of political debate—as in other discourse‐based studies—the strategic use of grammar, that is, linguistic forms and their discursive functions in context, has become the focus of investigation. This holds…
‘What we found is’: Pseudo-clefts, cataphora, projection and cohesive chains
This paper examines two variants of the pseudo-cleft construction which display a WHAT-NP-VP-be pattern with the VP realised with cognitive verbs and the proform do in the context of spoken British English dyadic and multi-party BBC podcasts. It is based on the premise that the construction’s referencing potentials are both cataphoric and projective, and that depending on its contexts, one of the two referencing functions is foregrounded while th…
Marina Sbisà: Essays on Speech Acts and Other Topics in Pragmatics
Marina Sbis's Essays on Speech Acts and Other Topics in Pragmatics is a very fine piece of work, which does not only preach what it practices, but also practices what it preaches.It is firmly anchored in philosophy of language as a methodological framework for the analysis of actual speech and demonstrates that in the study of speech acts in discourse a complementarity between theoretical reflection and empirical exploration will lead to more ref…
Continuative and contrastive discourse relations across discourse domains: Cognitive and cross-linguistic approaches
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The linguistic realization of continuative discourse relations in English discourse: A context-based analysis across narrative and argumentative genres
This paper examines the linguistic realization of continuative discourse relations in British English written discourse comparing narrative and argumentative dyadically edited texts. The data comprise 18 co-edited texts and metadata documenting the editing process (keystroke logs and transcripts of the dyads negotiating discursive well-formedness). The focus of analysis lies on the linguistic realization of coordinating continuation and narration…
Small stories and accountability of discursive action in mediated political discourse: Contextualisation and recontextualisation of ordinary and not-so-ordinary participants
This paper examines how participants in mediated political discourse use short narratives strategically to account for discursive action by contextualising and re-contextualising their discursive selves, particular discursive acts and their intended and unintended perlocutionary effects. The data analysed are pre-election data (2017) and non-election data (2018), comprising online news reports from British broadsheets, parliamentary debates, poli…
Doing things with discourse in the mediated political arena: Participation and pluralism of discursive action
This paper examines the contextual constraints and requirements of discursive action in question-answer-sequences based discourse genres (interviews, Prime Minister’s Questions, People’s Prime Minister’s Questions) in mediated political discourse. It considers the multilayeredness of participation and pluralism of discursive action on the one hand, and the delimiting frame of the dialogic discourse genres on the other. It shows that both have a d…
‘For (…) a leader like this Prime Minister to talk about morals and morality is a disgrace’: Offensive action, uptake and moral implications in the context of parliamentary debates
The discursive construction of accountability for communicative action to citizens: A contrastive analysis across Israeli and British media discourse
This paper sets up to show how accountability for communicative action is constructed in online journalism as an object of talk, comparing British English and Israeli Hebrew discourse communities. The analysis utilizes a discourse-pragmatic frame of reference supplemented by cognitive semantics and corpus-assisted tools. The discussion draws on data collected from the websites of The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph , Ha’aretz and Ynet . Focusing…
Calling Mr Speaker ‘Mr Speaker’: The strategic use of ritual references to the Speaker of the UK House of Commons
Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) in the UK House of Commons is a ritual event, governed by a cluster of conventions. Members of Parliament (MPs) must address their remarks to the Prime Minister (PM) through the medium of the Speaker of the House, who is responsible for maintaining order during debates, and determining which MP may speak next. Due to the sacred role of the Speaker and the prevalence of conventionalised conflict avoidance between …
Doing things with quotes: Introduction
And I quote: Forms and functions of quotations in Prime Minister's questions
“Well would you believe it, I have failed the exam again”: Discourse relations in English and German personal narratives
This paper compares the linguistic realization of coordinating and subordinating discourse relations in English and German short personal narratives, paying particular attention to the context-dependence of (1) their overt marking with discourse connectives, and (2) their adjacent and non-adjacent positioning. The analysis is based on 20 written texts collected from university students. The use of discourse connectives with adjacently and non-adj…
‘What I would say to John and everyone like John is …’: The construction of ordinariness through quotations in mediated political discourse
This article examines the discursive construction of ordinariness in the context of mediated political discourse, considering in particular contexts, in which ‘non-ordinary speakers’ quote ordinary people, bring them into the mediated public arena and assign them and their quoted contributions the status of an object of talk, and in which ‘ordinary speakers’ follow up on the ‘brought-in-ordinariness’. The contexts under investigation are Prime Mi…
The negotiation of discourse relations in context: Co-constructing degrees of overtness
This paper examines the linguistic realization of discourse relations in the discourse genre of commentary. Based on a “bare” source text from which all extraclausal constituents had been removed, the linguistic realization of discourse relations is compared across three dyadically co-constructed experimental texts. The methodological framework integrates Segmented Discourse Representation Theory with functional grammar and psycholinguistic model…
Expositives in discourse
Conceptualising discourse
I think , I mean and I believe in political discourse: Collocates, functions and distribution
This article examines the distribution, collocates and function of the first-person-singular cognitive-verb-based syntagmatic configurations I think , I mean and I believe in argumentative political discourse, considering their status as parenthetical construction and pragmatic marker in two sets of spoken data: monologic speech and dialogic interview. Its goal is to identify discourse-domain-specific discourse patterns, which manifest themselves…
Discourse linguistics: Theory and practice
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Foregrounding evidentiality in (English) academic discourse: Patterned co-occurrences of the sensory perception verbs seem and appear
This paper examines the distribution, patterned co-occurrences and function of the sensory perception verbs appear and seem and the three English modal auxiliaries can, may and must in the context of written academic discourse, concentrating on their contribution to the expression of evidentiality and epistemic modality. It is based on the premise that epistemic modality and evidentiality are different: the former refers to a category in which so…
Evidentiality in discourse
Grammar in Political Debate
Applied linguistics examines the use of language in various contexts. One of them is political debate, referring to communicative exchanges between professional politicians in parliament and other institutional settings, between representatives of the media and politicians, and between politicians and the public.
Discourse relations in English and German discourse: Local and not-so-local constraints
This paper examines the overt and non-overt coding of discourse relations in the argumentative discourse genre of editorial based on a contrastive study of British English and German editorials. Particular attention is given to the linguistic coding of discourse relations positioned adjacently and non-adjacently, and to the question of granularity. The analysis of the German editorials is based on the syntactic unit of sentence, while their Briti…
Doing leadership in political speech: Semantic processes and pragmatic inferences
The interactional organization of leadership was examined in the context of 15 political speeches, delivered by leading politicians from the three major political parties in Britain. The study utilized a sociopragmatic methodology, supplemented by corpus linguistics and social psychology. Leadership was conceptualized in interactional –sociolinguistic terms, as brought in and brought out in the interaction through self-references collocating with…
Political discourse as mediated and public discourse
Minister, we will see how the public judges you
Doing leadership in political speech: Semantic processes and pragmatic inferences
The interactional organization of leadership was examined in the context of 15 political speeches, delivered by leading politicians from the three major political parties in Britain. The study utilized a sociopragmatic methodology, supplemented by corpus linguistics and social psychology. Leadership was conceptualized in interactional –sociolinguistic terms, as brought in and brought out in the interaction through self-references collocating with…
And I quote: Forms and functions of quotations in Prime Minister's questions
And I Think That Is a Very Straightforward Way of Dealing With It: The Communicative Function of Cognitive Verbs in Political Discourse
This contribution examines the distribution and communicative function of cognitive verbs in political discourse, giving particular attention to their impact on the expression of commitment. From a semantic viewpoint, cognitive verbs are seen as a means of subjectification expressing the speaker's attitude towards proposition and force whereas, from a discursive perspective, they are assigned the status of multifunctional devices expressing diffe…
Well if that had been true, that would have been perfectly reasonable
Expositives in discourse
Theme zones in English media discourse: Forms and functions
Doing things with quotes: Introduction
Prologue: Analyzing the Fine Details of Political Commitment
The goal of this introduction is to contextualize the multifaceted notion of commitment. It examines its conditions of use in ordinary language and in the research paradigms of pragmatics, social psychology, and discourse analysis. Particular attention is given to the microanalysis of commitment in ordinary language and in political discourse as well as to its subjective and intersubjective dimensions
I’ll tell you what the truth is: The interactional organization of confiding in political interviews
The goal of this article is to examine the context-dependent nature of acts of confiding in political interviews and to identify its genre-specific constraints and requirements. It looks at their distribution in British and French political interviews with regard to form, function and possible perlocutionary effects. The communicative act of confiding is compared and contrasted with disclosure, self-disclosure and revelation, and the necessary an…
Evidentiality in discourse
Discourse relations in English and German discourse: Local and not-so-local constraints
This paper examines the overt and non-overt coding of discourse relations in the argumentative discourse genre of editorial based on a contrastive study of British English and German editorials. Particular attention is given to the linguistic coding of discourse relations positioned adjacently and non-adjacently, and to the question of granularity. The analysis of the German editorials is based on the syntactic unit of sentence, while their Briti…
Non-acceptances in context
The communicative act of non-acceptance expresses the speaker's intention to deny, reject or disagree with a communicative act. Regarding its sequential status, a non-acceptance is a responsive act par excellence, and from an interpersonal perspective it can be assigned the status of a face-threatening act. While its responsive format does not seem to cause any severe communicative problems in intercultural communication, its face-threatening pot…
Contexts of social action: Guest Editors' Introduction
Cognitive verbs in context: A contrastive analysis of English and French argumentative discourse
This paper examines the frequency, distribution and function of 1st person self-references with the cognitive verbs think and believe , and penser and croire in British English and French argumentative discourse comprising 29 British political interviews (178,712 words) and 26 French political interviews (118,825 words). It employs quantity-based methodology supplemented by insights from a context-dependent qualitative analysis, considering expli…
Pragmatic and discourse-analytic approaches to present-day English
Rethinking Sequentiality: Linguistics meets conversational interaction
This book addresses current approaches to sequentiality in pragmatics and discourse analysis. It reflects the current moves in ethnomethodological conversation analysis and speech act theory to cross methodological borders to arrive at a conception of a sequence, which extends the local notion of sequentiality by integrating further constitutive components, such as cognition, intentionality, activity type, culture and genre. The individual contri…
Negotiating rejections: A sociocultural analysis
This paper argues for an investigation of intercultural communication from a sociocultural perspective where communicative action is firmly anchored in social practice and sociocultual context. The section on 'Rejections, denials and other non-acceptances', examines the linguistic representation of saying 'no' in a discursive framework. The results obtained are categorized in the interactive tripartite system of a minus-validity claim based on tr…
Contexts of social action: Guest Editors' Introduction
Recontextualizing Context
Who are we and who are you? The strategic use of forms of address in political interviews
In the discourse of political interviews, references to coparticipants can be expressed explicitly by proper nouns and forms of address, and they can be expressed implicitly by personal pronouns and other indexical expressions. The meaning of personal pronouns is context dependent and retrievable only by inference, and therefore is less determinate. Furthermore, it can shift as the status of the participants shifts in interaction. This may occur …
Minister, we will see how the public judges you
Political discourse as mediated and public discourse
Political Discourse in the Media: Cross-cultural perspectives
This book departs from the premise that political discourse is intrinsically connected with media discourse, as shaped by its cultural and transcultural characteristics. It presents a collection of papers which examine political discourse in the media from a cross-culturally comparative perspective in Arab, Dutch, British, Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Israeli, Swedish, US-American and international contexts. By using different theoretical fr…
Non-acceptances in context
The communicative act of non-acceptance expresses the speaker's intention to deny, reject or disagree with a communicative act. Regarding its sequential status, a non-acceptance is a responsive act par excellence, and from an interpersonal perspective it can be assigned the status of a face-threatening act. While its responsive format does not seem to cause any severe communicative problems in intercultural communication, its face-threatening pot…
I’ll tell you what the truth is: The interactional organization of confiding in political interviews
The goal of this article is to examine the context-dependent nature of acts of confiding in political interviews and to identify its genre-specific constraints and requirements. It looks at their distribution in British and French political interviews with regard to form, function and possible perlocutionary effects. The communicative act of confiding is compared and contrasted with disclosure, self-disclosure and revelation, and the necessary an…
Well if that had been true, that would have been perfectly reasonable
Languages and cultures in contrast and comparison
Theme zones in contrast: An analysis of their linguistic realization in the communicative act of a non-acceptance
This contribution examines the form and function of theme zones in a sociopragmatic framework supplemented by functional grammar comparing British English and German political discourse. In the British data, multiple themes are the unmarked variant. They signify the pragmatic force of incongruity but at the same time indicate that a negotiation of meaning is possible. In the German data, the variant [topical theme] is preferred but there are also…
‘Well, I answer it by simply inviting you to look at the evidence’: The strategic use of pronouns in political interviews
In the discourse of political interviews, references to participants can be expressed explicitly by proper nouns and forms of address, and they can be expressed implicitly by personal pronouns and other indexical expressions. The meaning of personal pronouns is context-dependent and retrievable only by inference, and therefore is less determinate. Furthermore, it can shift according to the status of the participants in interaction. This may occur…
The expression of non-alignment in British and German political interviews: Preferred and dispreferred variants
Political interviews are defined as question- and answer sequences in which interviewers and interviewees negotiate validity claims. Looked upon from an interpersonal angle, the interviewer sets up a position and requests the interviewee to ratify their claim by expressing alignment or non-alignment. This contribution examines the expression of non-alignment in a corpus of 12 interviews between journalists and the losers of the general elections …
Theme zones in English media discourse: Forms and functions
Pragmatic and discourse-analytic approaches to present-day English
And I Think That Is a Very Straightforward Way of Dealing With It: The Communicative Function of Cognitive Verbs in Political Discourse
This contribution examines the distribution and communicative function of cognitive verbs in political discourse, giving particular attention to their impact on the expression of commitment. From a semantic viewpoint, cognitive verbs are seen as a means of subjectification expressing the speaker's attitude towards proposition and force whereas, from a discursive perspective, they are assigned the status of multifunctional devices expressing diffe…
Prologue: Analyzing the Fine Details of Political Commitment
The goal of this introduction is to contextualize the multifaceted notion of commitment. It examines its conditions of use in ordinary language and in the research paradigms of pragmatics, social psychology, and discourse analysis. Particular attention is given to the microanalysis of commitment in ordinary language and in political discourse as well as to its subjective and intersubjective dimensions
Discourses in interaction
Cognitive verbs in context: A contrastive analysis of English and French argumentative discourse
This paper examines the frequency, distribution and function of 1st person self-references with the cognitive verbs think and believe , and penser and croire in British English and French argumentative discourse comprising 29 British political interviews (178,712 words) and 26 French political interviews (118,825 words). It employs quantity-based methodology supplemented by insights from a context-dependent qualitative analysis, considering expli…
Pragmatics as a linguistic concept
Context and Contexts: Parts meet whole?
This book departs from the premise that context represents a complex relational configuration which can no longer be conceived as an analytic prime but rather requires a parts-whole perspective to capture its inherent dynamism. The edited volume presents a collection of papers which examine the connectedness between context, contextualization and entextualization. They address the questions how meaning and speech acts are situated in context, how…
“I think this is I mean perhaps this is too erm too tough a view of the world but I often think …”. Redundancy as a contextualization device
Grammar in Political Debate
Applied linguistics examines the use of language in various contexts. One of them is political debate, referring to communicative exchanges between professional politicians in parliament and other institutional settings, between representatives of the media and politicians, and between politicians and the public.
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