TY - JOUR A1 - Gerstenberg, Annette A1 - Lindholm, Camilla T1 - Language and aging research BT - new insights and perspectives JF - Linguistics vanguard N2 - Our introduction to the special collection gives an overview of the research projects which were originally presented at the third CLARe network conference. We group the research under four cross-sectional topics that unite the different contributions: the data used in the research, the theoretical frameworks, the languages and varieties which are represented and the situational contexts which are examined. These projects represent the current state of research in this field and allows the reader to orient themselves within this diverse field but also leaves many questions open and provides impetus for future lines of research. The interaction and collaboration between diverse disciplines is the central aspect which unites all contributions to the special collection. KW - language and aging KW - lifespan KW - health communication KW - language change KW - interactional linguistics KW - conversation analysis KW - corpus linguistics KW - psycholinguistics KW - sociolinguistics KW - computational linguistics Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2019-0025 SN - 2199-174X VL - 5 IS - s2 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gerstenberg, Annette T1 - Generational styles in oral storytelling BT - What can be learned from narrative priming? JF - Narrative inquiry N2 - When it comes to autobiographical narratives, the most spontaneous and natural manner is preferable. But neither individually told narratives nor those grounded in the communicative repertoire of a social group are easily comparable. A clearly identifiable tertium comparationis is mandatory. We present the results of an experimental ‘Narrative Priming’ setting with French students. A potentially underlying model of narrating from personal experience was activated via a narrative prime, and in a second step, the participants were asked to tell a narrative of their own. The analysis focuses on similarities and differences between the primes and the students’ narratives. The results give evidence for the possibility to elicit a set of comparable narratives via a prime, and to activate an underlying narrative template. Meaningful differences are discussed as generational and age related styles. The transcriptions from the participants that authorized the publication are available online. KW - generational styles KW - priming KW - sociolinguistics KW - experimental KW - positioning KW - narrative templates KW - French KW - doing storytelling KW - narratives from personal experience KW - spoken language Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.18042.ger SN - 1387-6740 VL - 29 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 28 PB - John Benjamins Publishing Co. CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Peters, Arne A1 - Coetzee-Van Rooy, Susan T1 - Exploring the interplay of language and body in South African youth BT - a portrait-corpus study JF - Cognitive linguistics : an interdisciplinary journal of cognitive science N2 - Elicitation materials like language portraits are useful to investigate people's perceptions about the languages that they know. This study uses portraits to analyse the underlying conceptualisations people exhibit when reflecting on their language repertoires. Conceptualisations as manifestations of cultural cognition are the purview of cognitive sociolinguistics. The present study advances portrait methodology as it analyses data from structured language portraits of 105 South African youth as a linguistic corpus from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives. The approach enables the uncovering of (a) prominent underlying conceptualisations of African language(s) and the body, and (b) the differences and similarities of these conceptualisations vis-a-vis previous cognitive (socio) linguistic studies of embodied language experiences. In our analysis, African home languages emerged both as 'languages of the heart' linked to cultural identity and as 'languages of the head' linked to cognitive strength and control. Moreover, the notion of 'degrees of proficiency' or 'magnitude' of language knowledge emerged more prominently than in previous studies of embodied language experience. KW - language portraits KW - embodiment KW - corpus linguistics KW - cognitive KW - sociolinguistics KW - cultural conceptualisations Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2019-0101 SN - 0936-5907 SN - 1613-3641 SN - 1861-048X VL - 31 IS - 4 SP - 579 EP - 608 PB - Mouton de Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - THES A1 - Hekkel, Valerie T1 - Eine soziolinguistische Betrachtung von parce que-Strukturen in Synchronie und Diachronie T1 - A sociolinguistic analysis of parce que structures in synchrony and diachrony N2 - Die Dissertation legt ihren Schwerpunkt auf die synchronische und diachronische Variation im Gebrauch der französischen Kausalkonjunktion parce que sowie auf die Interaktion mit den außersprachlichen Variablen Alter und sozioprofessionelle Kategorie. Basierend auf vorausgehenden makrodiachronischen Studien, die Anhaltspunkte dafür liefern, dass die Konjunktion einen Prozess der Pragmatikalisierung durchlaufen hat und weiterhin durchläuft, wurde ein Untersuchungskorpus von 56 Interviews aus den diachronisch distinkten Korpora ESLO1, ESLO2 und LangAge extrahiert. Dieses Untersuchungskorpus diente als Grundlage für Panelstudien und Trendstudien, die darauf ausgerichtet waren, die Pragmatikalisierung von parce que aus einem mikrodiachronischen Gesichtspunkt zu verifizieren. Zusätzlich zu der diachronischen Perspektive wurde eine synchronische Perspektive eingenommen, um die Variation im Gebrauch der Konjunktion so einem diachronischen Phänomen wie dem age grading oder der apparent time zuordnen zu können. Ausgehend von der Theorie der Konstruktionsgrammatik wurden parce que enthaltende Konstruktionen bottom-up annotiert und in fünf Pragmatikalitätsgrade kategorisiert (pra0–pra4). Diese wurden anschließend quantifiziert und in Abhängigkeit des Geburtsjahres und der sozioprofessionellen Kategorie der (männlichen) Sprecher mithilfe mehrerer R-Modelle wie ctrees, trees, lm, hclust und kmeans analysiert. Die Frequenzentwicklung der Pragmatikalitätsgrade bestätigte die Pragmatikalisierungshypothese in einem mikrodiachronischen Rahmen. Zudem konnte ein quantitativer Rückgang im Gebrauch der Konstruktionen am nicht- oder weniger pragmatikalisierten (pra0, pra1) Pol festgestellt werden, während Verwendungsweisen höherer Pragmatikalisierungsgrade (pra2–pra4) über 40 Jahre vergleichsweise stabil blieben. Obwohl für pra2 kein signifikanter Wandel hervortrat, wies dessen Entwicklung bei den Sprechern im mittleren Lebensalter sowie das synchronische Muster in Abhängigkeit von Alter (oder Geburtsjahr) und von sozioprofessioneller Kategorie dennoch in Richtung einer zugrundeliegenden diachronischen Variation. Diese könnte als ein durch die sozialen Transformationen der 1960er und 1970er Jahre katalysiertes Phänomen des age grading interpretiert werden. Für die näher am pragmatischen Pol situierten Gebrauchsweisen (pra3 und pra4) konnte keine klare Tendenz ermittelt werden. Die Ergebnisse fordern diachronische Konzepte wie age grading und apparent time heraus, indem sie die Simplizität der zugrundeliegenden Mechanismen sowie die gängigen Methoden, diese zu identifizieren, infrage stellen. N2 - The dissertation focuses on the synchronic and diachronic variation in the use of the French causal conjunction parce que as well as on its interaction with the extralinguistic variables age and socioprofessional category. Based on previous macro-diachronic studies, which suggest that this conjunction has undergone, and is still undergoing the process of pragmaticalisation, a research corpus composed of 56 interviews was extracted from the diachronically distinct corpora ESLO1 and ESLO2 & LangAge. This research corpus was used as the basis for panel and trend studies to verify the extent of the pragmaticalisation of parce que from a micro-diachronic point of view. In addition to the diachronic point of view, a synchronic perspective was adopted to detect patterns and, thereby, to attribute the variation in the use of the conjunction to a diachronic phenomenon, such as age grading or the apparent time. Based on the theory of Construction Grammar, constructions containing parce que were annotated in a bottom-up approach and categorised into five pragmatic degrees (pra0-pra4), which were then quantified and analysed in relation to the (male) speakers’ year of birth and their soci-oprofessional categories by means of several R-models, such as ctrees, trees, lm, hclust and kmeans. The development of the frequencies of the pragmatic degrees validated the pragmaticalisation hypothesis for a micro-diachronic time frame. In addition to this, a change in the quantitative decrease of the constructions at the non- or less pragmatised (pra0, pra1) pole was detected, while more pragmatised uses (pra2–pra4) remained relatively stable over the 40 years. Alt-hough no significant change was observed for pra2, its development in middle-aged speaker categories, as well as its synchronical pattern in relation to the age (or birth date) and the socioprofessional variable still point at an underlying diachronic variation, which could be interpreted as an age-grading phenomenon catalysed by the social transformation processes in the 1960s and 1970s. For further pragmatized uses (pra3 and pra4) clear tendencies could not be observed. The results challenge diachronic concepts, such as age grading and apparent time, by questioning the simplicity of the underlying mechanisms as well as the prevalent methods recurred to in order to identify them. KW - age grading KW - apparent time KW - parce que KW - höheres Lebensalter KW - Soziolinguistik KW - Diachronie KW - Mikro-Diachronie KW - Sprachwandel KW - Pragmatikalisierung KW - sociolinguistics KW - micro-diachrony KW - diachrony KW - age variable KW - Altersvariable KW - pragmaticalisation KW - pragmaticalization KW - sociolinguistique KW - diachronie courte KW - diachronie KW - âge Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-513963 ER -