Peter Auer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 230484 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Peter Auer |
| PRENOMES | Peter |
| SOBRENOME | Auer |
| ASSINATURA | AUER P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Freiburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8385-9635 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 100 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 329 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 92 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 12 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1978 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Speaker-gaze for turn-yielding and turn-keeping
Does gaze aversion index dispreference or complexity of upcoming answers to questions
What counts as a preferred or dispreferred answer to a question and how can it be recognized? These questions have been widely discussed in conversation analysis in recent years, and some well-established diagnostic features of dispreferred answers have been identified. In this paper, we turn to a less well-established feature: gaze aversion. Kendrick and Holler (2017) have previously suggested that answers to polar questions that invert the ques…
Translanguaging and the sociolinguistics of ‘naming a language’
Dialect (non-)acquisition and use by young people of migrant background in Germany
This article reports on a study investigating the use of regional language features by young people of (mostly Turkish or Balkan) background who were born, or raised from an early age on, in Stuttgart/Germany. The results of the Stuttgart study show that most young speakers from migrant families do not accommodate the local or regional dialect, but rather speak their own (multiethnolectal) variety of German. Existing evidence on dialect (non-)acq…
Modelling acquisition and use of dialectal, standard and multiethnolectal features in migratory contexts across Europe
Large scale in-migration waves of people speaking a diversity of languages into those parts of Europe which used to be called ‘western Europe’ before 1989 have fundamentally changed the linguistic landscapes of these countries. These social and demographical transformations represent a considerable challenge for linguistics, and in many parts of Europe, linguists have accepted this challenge. However, the question of how this new linguistic heter…
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…
Why are increments such elusive objects? An afterthought
It is argued that the type of unit expansions called ‘increments’ by Schegloff 1996 is too narrowly focused on English. While the structure of English makes it particularly suited for this kind of expansion, a typologically more satisfactory approach to unit expansion runs into problems if it remains on the syntactic plane alone. A full typology will have to take into account, not only prosody and semantics, but also action structure and pragmati…
The pre-front field in spoken german and its relevance as a grammaticalization position
The grammar of the pre-front freld in Germanr ' A more detailed syntactic account of the pre-front field spoken Germanand many moe exemplary extracts taken ftom conversational materialsmay be found in Auer (in press); also cf. Thim-Mabrey 1988
Silben- und akzentzahlende Sprachen
Grammatical Gender in the German Multiethnolect
While major restructurings and simplifications have been reported for gender systems of other Germanic languages in multiethnolectal speech, this article demonstrates that the three-way gender distinction of German is relatively stable among young speakers from an immigrant background. We investigate gender in a German multiethnolect based on a corpus of approximately 17 hours of spontaneous speech produced by 28 young speakers in Stuttgart (main…
From language mixing to fused lects
Objectives: In this introductory article, we advance a unified framework for analysis and interpretation of transfer of overt linguistic structure in language contact situations. Our goal is to demonstrate that fusion, a process whereby results of bilingual practices become grammaticized and conventionalized (see Auer 1999, 2014), is a gradient phenomenon, which applies to a large spectrum of language contact phenomena. Our additional objective i…
Reflections on linguistic pluricentricity
This article argues that the notion of pluricentricity fails to capture the multitude of sociolinguistic contexts in which a language may have two or more standards, which is due to the fact that it was invented with a particular context in mind (that of emerging nation-states). The notion also suffers from a reliance on an undefined and unclear (perhaps metaphorical) notion of a centre (and a periphery). A more neutral term such as multi-standar…
Gaze selects the next speaker in answers to questions pronominally addressed to more than one co-participant
Like many other languages, but unlike modern (standard) English, German has a distinct second person plural pronoun ( ihr , ‘you guys’), contrasting with the second person singular pronoun ( du ). The second person plural pronoun addresses a turn to more than one, and possibly all co-present participants. This paper investigates turn-taking after such multiply addressed turns, taking as an example information-seeking questions, i.e., a sequential…
Turn-allocation and gaze
It is argued in this paper that a multimodal analysis of turn-taking, one of the core areas of conversation analytic research, is needed and has to integrate gaze as one of the most central resources for allocating turns, and that new technologies are available that can provide a solid and reliable empirical foundation for this analysis. On the basis of eye-tracking data of spontaneous conversations, it is shown that gaze is the most ubiquitous n…
Einführung in die Konversationsanalyse
Genau! Der auto-reflexive Dialog als Motor der Entwicklung von Diskursmarkern
Varietäten des Deutschen
Deutsch
This handbook aims at a state-of-the-art overview of both earlier and recent research on older, newer and emerging non-standard varieties (dialects, regiolects, sociolects, substandard varieties) of German. The discussion concerns the theoretical embedding, potential interdisciplinary connections and the methodology of the studies at issue. It presents general concepts and approaches in the broad domain of German variation linguistics.
When ‘You’ Means ‘I’
In this paper, we first present a close analysis of conversational data, capturing the variety of non-addressee deictic usages of du in contemporary German. From its beginnings, it has been possible to use non-addressee deictic du not only for generic statements, but also for subjective utterances by a speaker who mainly refers to his or her own experiences. We will present some thoughts on the specific inferences leading to this interpretation, …
Is there a multimodal construction based on non-deictic so in German
The existence of multimodal constructions is highly disputed. One of the most straightforward examples of such constructions includes deictics, among them the German manner adverbial so (‘like this’) (cf. Stukenbrock 2014a, Take the words out of my mouth: Verbal instructions as embodied practices. Journal of Pragmatics 65. 80–102, 2015, Deixis in der Face-to-Face-Interaktion . Berlin, München & Boston: De Gruyter), whose deictic use requires a co…
Employment revival in Europe
In search of optimal labour market institutions
Examines the relationship between three of the important labour market institutions: employment protection, social protection, in particular unemployment benefits and active labour market policies and the social dialogue.
Zur Verbspitzenstellung im gesprochenen Deutsch
Reden und Schreiben in der Wissenschaft
Schreiben in der Hypotaxe - Sprechen in der Parataxe? Kritische Bemerkungen zu einem Gemeinplatz
Dans les etudes sur la langue parlee, subsiste le lieu commun que nous sommes moins contraints, a l'oral, de produire des phrases complexes par rapport a l'ecrit. L'A. met a l'epreuve cette idee en analysant plus particulierement l'opposition ecrit hypotaxique / oral parataxique. Il montre, par des exemples tires d'un corpus oral, que la langue parlee est certes lineaire, incrementielle au temps, cependant qu'elle contient souvent des constructio…
From codeswitching via language mixing to fused lects
A continuum of language alternation phenomena is discussed which spans out between the prototypes labelled codeswitching (CS),language mixing(LM),and fused lects (FLs), with CS and FLs representing the polar extremes of the continuum and LM a point in between. In addition, an interpretation of this continuum is suggested according to which the transition CS-LM-FL can be understood as a case of structural sedimentation
Projection in Interaction and Projection in Grammar
In this paper, I argue that there are fundamental common features shared by interaction and grammar that suggest some kind of interdependence between the two and a nonautonomy of the language faculty; one of these fundamental common features is that of 'projectability'. Human interaction rests on the possibility of projection; the grammars of human languages provide interlocutors with sedimentated and shared ways of organizing them. Empirical evi…
A postscript
On-line syntax
Subjective and Objective Parameters Determining 'Salience' in Long-term Dialect Accommodation
In this article, we will present empirical results of a longitudinal study on long-term dialect accommodation in a German dialect setting. An important model of explaining which linguistic structures undergo such convergence and which do not makes use of the notion of 'salience'. Dialect features which are perceived by the speakers as 'salient' are taken up and given up more easily and faster than those which are perceived as 'less salient'. The …
Turn-allocation and gaze
It is argued in this paper that a multimodal analysis of turn-taking, one of the core areas of conversation analytic research, is needed and has to integrate gaze as one of the most central resources for allocating turns, and that new technologies are available that can provide a solid and reliable empirical foundation for this analysis. On the basis of eye-tracking data of spontaneous conversations, it is shown that gaze is the most ubiquitous n…
Projection and Minimalistic Syntax in Interaction
Projections of future linguistic events in time are a pervasive task in human interaction. Projection is always based on sequential knowledge (i.e., on how the elements of a superordinated category are serialized in online speech production). This knowledge can relate to the sequencing of actions, as extensively shown in conversation analysis. However, it can also be based on grammatical knowledge. Grammar is a conventionalized set of formal ways…
Rhythm in telephone closings
Discourse or grammar? VS patterns in spoken Hebrew and spoken German narratives
Gaze selects the next speaker in answers to questions pronominally addressed to more than one co-participant
Like many other languages, but unlike modern (standard) English, German has a distinct second person plural pronoun ( ihr , ‘you guys’), contrasting with the second person singular pronoun ( du ). The second person plural pronoun addresses a turn to more than one, and possibly all co-present participants. This paper investigates turn-taking after such multiply addressed turns, taking as an example information-seeking questions, i.e., a sequential…
Why should we and how can we determine the "base language" of a bilingual conversation
Many researchers on bilingualism feel the need to state that a given bilingual stretch of talk is ”basically” in language A, although elements of language B may also be present in some way or other within it. The goal of this paper is to discuss both the limits of analysts abilities to attribute a given stretch of bilingual talk to language A or language B -i.e. to determine a ”base language” at all-, and the proper way of proceeding within these…
Left/right asymmetries and the grammar of pre- vs. post-positioning in German and Swedish talk-in-interaction
Identification of Regional Varieties by Intonational Cues
Two experiments examined the commonly held belief that regional varieties of German can be identified by intonational features alone. In both experiments, listeners were presented with regional intonational contours of German. In the first experiment, listeners judged contours of Hamburg urban vernacular compared with contours of Northern Standard German. In the second experiment, listeners judged contours of Berlin urban vernacular compared with…
Letters from readers
Balancing entropy and expansion
Bilingual Conversation
Code-switching and related phenomena have met with linguists’ increasing interest over the last decade. However, much of the research has been restricted to the structural (grammatical) properties of the use of two languages in conversation; scholars who have tried to capture the interactive meaning of switching have often failed to go beyond more or less anecdotal descriptions of individual, particularly striking, cases. The book bridges this ga…
Silben- und akzentzählende Sprachen
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Some ways to count morae
This paper ficuses on a number of mora-related phenomena, mainly in various German dialects ( OliG, Bavarian, Alemannic). It is argued that the rhythmic makeup gf these varieties can he described in a satisfactory way only i f a mora tier is added to multilayered phonological representations. It is shown that the CV tier of CV phonology is not suited for this purpose. Differences in the way in which the languages and varieties in question compens…
Rhythm in telephone closings
Variation and Convergence
Zur More in der Phonologie
Italien in Toronto
The Contextualization of Language
This volume suggests a novel treatment of context in the analysis of everyday interaction. On a theoretical level, it advocates a switch of focus from 'context' as a preestablished, monolithic category which constringes co-participants' verbal and nonverbal behaviour, to an active notion of 'contextualization': in order to make oneself understood, participants have to establish and maintain those shared contextual frames which in turn are relevan…
A ?clash of ideas? or an exercise in scholastic ?misunderstanding
Einige Argumente gegen die Silbe als universale prosodische Hauptkategorie
Es ist sicher nicht übertrieben zu sagen, daß die Silbe heute in allen wichtigen phonologischen Theorien eine bedeutende Rolle spielt.Das war nicht immer so: die Wiedereinsetzung dieser Kategorie in ihre alten Rechte ist vielmehr das Verdienst jener Gruppe von Phonologen und Phonologinnen, die in den,"7 " 6e?"Jahren in Schulen wie der Natürlichen Generativen Phonologie, der Natürlicherilshonologie und der Silbenphonologie orthq1ox generative MIT-…
The Contextualization of Language
The pragmatics of code-switching
Introduction This paper will deal with code-switching in a specific sense. The perspective I want to take is an important one, but it does not exclude others. Bilingualism (including multilingualism) is often thought of as multiple linguistic competences, i.e., as a mental disposition which is accessible only indirectly by the usual techniques of psycholinguistic research. In the mentalistic framework of generative grammar, bilingual competence i…
Adaptation aux changements structurels et formation continue des travailleurs en Europe
Peter Auer Adapting to structural changes : Ongoing job-training in Europe Ongoing job-training should help firms survive or even develop in the context of worldwide economic competition. And it should help wage-earners avoid unemployment by, in particular, facilitating external mobility. However budgets, the number of wage-earners involved, and the organization of job-training systems vary widely from one country to another in Europe. These vari…
Labor and an Integrated Europe
Times Are Changing
Authors from 14 countries come together to compare developments in the organization of working time. The countries include Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the USSR and the USA. In the editors' overview, attention is paid to the causes and influences of similarities and differences
On the prosody and syntax of turn-continuations
Introduction According to Sacks, Schegloff and Jefferson (1974), smooth turntaking in conversation is based on participants' recognition of certain stretches of talk as ‘turn-constructional units’, the completeness of which occasions the possibility of turn-transition. The turnallocation component of the turn-taking system, assigning turns according to certain ordered options to another or the same speaker, thus depends crucially on the ‘visible’…
The convergence and divergence of dialects in Europe. New and not so new developments in an old area
Formen und Funktionen der Vor-Vorfeldbesetzung im gesprochenen Deutsch
Gegenstand dieses Beitrags sind Phänomene, wie sie in den folgenden Beispielen gegeben werden: Die Beispiele haben eine syntaktische Struktureigenschaft gemein. In jedem Fall geht der Vorfeldposition (kursiv) unmittelbar oder mittelbar eine weitere Konstituente voraus (unterstrichen). Diese Konstituente bildet zusammen mit dem folgenden Syntagma (das auch alleine schon einen möglichen Satz bildet, weil es den üblichen topologischen Regeln des Deu…
Learning how to play the game
The political and economic changes which have taken place as part of the transformation of the German Democratic Republic into the 'New States' (Neue Bundeslander) of the Federal Republic of Germany have also had important repercussions on the communicative genres used in official and semiofficial situations in the East of Germany. The present paper investigates one of the genres, i.e., the job interview. On the basis of role-played data which we…
Zwischen Parataxe und Hypotaxe
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Subjective and Objective Parameters Determining 'Salience' in Long-term Dialect Accommodation
In this article, we will present empirical results of a longitudinal study on long-term dialect accommodation in a German dialect setting. An important model of explaining which linguistic structures undergo such convergence and which do not makes use of the notion of 'salience'. Dialect features which are perceived by the speakers as 'salient' are taken up and given up more easily and faster than those which are perceived as 'less salient'. The …
Sprachliche Interaktion
Proceeding from 22 authors assigned 22 different concepts, the book provides an overview of the essential present-day knowledge on linguistic interaction analysis. The authors selected include not only linguists (Bühler, Benveniste, etc.) but also major sociologists (Weber, Sacks, etc.), cultural theoreticians (e.g. Volosinov), and language philosophers (Wittgenstein, Austin, etc.). These are supplemented by more recent authors of rank (e.g. Bour…
Language in Time
The authors here promote the reintroduction of temporality into the description and analysis of spoken interaction. They argue that spoken words are, in fact, temporal objects and that unless linguists consider how they are delivered within the context of time, they will not capture the full meaning of situated language use. Their approach is rigorously empirical, with analyses of English, German, and Italian rhythm, all grounded in sequences of …
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