Published in Open Linguistics
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 themsel...
El aprendizaje del alemán resulta de vital importancia para los estudiantes de escuelas técnicas (ingenierías, ciencias aplicadas), quienes recurren a esta lengua motivados fundamentalmente por mejorar en su carrera profesional. Como consecuencia del confinamiento con motivo de la pandemia COVID-19, la educación superior en España se vio forzada a ...
Published in Frontiers in Education
Background Vocabulary knowledge plays a pivotal role in academic development, particularly among Grade 1 students. To support students in their academic development, effective assessment instruments in educational settings are crucial. The GraWo (Graz Vocabulary Test) is introduced as a tool designed to evaluate receptive vocabulary in German-speak...
Anchigamasus crassicornutus (Willmann, 1954) has sometimes been considered as synonym of Anchigamasus geileri (Karg, 1968). In view of a large body of material, it is proposed that both species are valid and these names are not synonyms. This study contains supplementary descriptions for Anchigamasus crassicornutus (Willmann, 1954) and Anchigamasus...
Published in Glottotheory
Der vorliegende Beitrag widmet sich der Analyse der sprachlichen Darstellung der positiven Basisemotionen wie Interesse, Freude und Überraschung in der deutschen digitalen Kommunikation. Die Studie zielt nun ab, ein soziolinguistisches Experiment durchzuführen, um die Merkmale der sprachlichen Repräsentation der positiven Basisemotionen in der deut...
Published in Frontiers in Communication
German has two demonstrative pronoun series: the short form der, die, das, and the long form dieser, diese, dieses. Both forms can be used anaphorically, and they contrast with the personal pronouns er, sie, es in that they refer to an antecedent that is less prominent at that point in the discourse when the discourse provides different potential a...
The LITMUS-QU-NWR varies the nonwords by syllabic complexity (i.e., consonant clusters and word-internal codas (dos Santos & Ferré, 2018; Grimm, 2022). This study aims to shed light on the production patterns of word-initial consonant clusters in order to verify that BiDLD children struggle with phonological complexity (de Almeida et al., 2019). Ba...
Published in European Journal of Applied Linguistics
This paper presents ongoing research on German as a foreign language in secondary education in the Netherlands. Specifically, it discusses the question what the language-ideological construct of proximity can tell us about people’s willingness to invest in German language education in this country. The paper is based on quantitative data about the ...
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
Although research into multimodal stance-taking has gained momentum over the past years, the multimodal construction of so-called stacked stances has not yet received systematic attention in the literature. Mocking enactments are a prime example of such complex social actions as they are layered both interactionally and stance-related, and they rel...
