@article{BoehmHennemann2018, author = {B{\"o}hm, Ver{\´o}nica Julia and Hennemann, Anja}, title = {The Spanish imperfecto as a construal form for the conceptualization of state of affairs in journalistic texts}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-416094}, pages = {18}, year = {2018}, abstract = {This study adopts a cognitive approach to the analysis of the use of the Spanish imperfecto as a construal form for the conceptualization of state of affairs in certain journalistic texts. In doing so, the main focus of the study is to investigate cognitive processes like modalization and subjectivization, which are related to the speaker's standpoint and to his subjective, not grammatically motivated, decision to use the imperfective instead of the perfective form. By the help of the corpus programmes GlossaNet and CREA (corpus of the Real Academia Espa{\~n}ola) we analyze the imperfective use of some Spanish verbs, which are semantically perfective in nature so that the normative use would require a perfective form. In other words, we investigate how the speaker/journalist construes a reality or situation to be expressed by means of the imperfecto and show that this use of the imperfect is typical for journalistic discourse.}, language = {en} } @article{Hennemann2018, author = {Hennemann, Anja}, title = {Evidentiality and (Inter-) Subjectivity as (Non-) Competing Dimensions}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-414996}, year = {2018}, abstract = {The present paper discusses the relationship between evidentiality and (inter-) subjectivity and argues that the two semantic-functional categories need not be mutually exclusive. In the use of certain means of expression and in certain contexts, both evidentiality and (inter-) subjectivity may be conveyed simultaneously. I thereby differentiate between two meanings of intersubjectivity, namely 'intersubjectivity1' and 'intersubjectivity2'. Intersubjectivity1 refers to the notion of common or general knowledge: certain means of expression are seen as being intersubjectively used when the speaker shares or assumes sharing knowledge with the interlocutor. Intersubjectivity2 is related to particular discourse functions of certain means of expression in interactional settings, paying attention to the speaker-hearer constellation. In order to substantiate the theoretical part of the paper, I then present a qualitative analysis of Portuguese, Spanish and English examples, which are taken from the Corpus do Portugu{\^e}s, Corpus del Espa{\~n}ol and the Corpus of Contemporary American English.}, language = {en} }