Medien, Kommunikationsformen, kommunikative Gattungen

The aim of this paper is to draw the necessary terminological distinction between media, communication forms and communication genres, and to use this distinction to compare specific communication genres belonging to chat communication. After some preliminary remarks, the following two sections deal with the definition of media and communication forms and the most important characteristics of communication forms, which are illustrated with examples of chat communication. Section 4 introduces the concept of communication genre, and section 5 shows the way communication genres, especially the expert chat and the information chat, can be analyzed within this framework and why it is not possible to do it in the same way with emails and short text messages. In this context the distinction between communication genres and text genres will also be discussed

Grammatische Helvetismen im Wörterbuch

The German standard language shows diatopic variation on all linguistic levels. This article analyses to what extent lexicography does justice to this situation. The focus lies on the Swiss variety of standard German, in particular the grammatical helvetisms which occur in this variety. As an introduction, we illustrate characteristics of the Swiss standard variety with some examples and address the distinction between absolute/regional varieties and dialectisms/helvetisms. This is followed by an analysis of three selected dictionaries ("Schweizerhochdeutsch-Duden”, "Variantenwörterbuch des Standarddeutschen” and "Zweifelsfälle-Duden”). In this context, the article shows which criteria are used to classify a variety as belonging to the standard in each case, in connection to which database these classifications take place and which information is provided concerning the diatopic-grammatical variation. The last chapter illustrates with two examples how dictionaries on grammatical-diatopic variation in standard German may be designed and which procedure is best suited for the collection of data in this case. The paper is therefore located at the interface between research in grammar, variational linguistics and lexicograph

Neue Dialoge - alte Konzepte?: Die schriftliche Kommunikation via Smartphone

The first two paragraphs deal with the question of how the term dialogue is to be understood and how the terms dialogue and monologue are related. Then arguments for and against the assumption that written communication is a kind of interaction are discussed. Paragraph 4 points out the typical features of written interaction, using the example of WhatsApp - an internet-based instant messaging service which can be installed on a smartphone. In this context the following questions are discussed: how are the characteristics of such dialogues to be described? What distinguishes them from spoken dialogues? And why - compared to text messaging via mobile phones - do they constitute a new kind of dialogue? Paragraph 5 deals with Linell's (1998) concept of dialogism and investigates in what ways this concept is applicable to written interaction. Finally it is shown that not only spoken but also written dialogues may be described in the context of interactional linguistics and other well established research contexts. However, new descriptive methods are needed to do justice to the specific features of written interaction

Schreiben in Sozialen Medien. Bestandsaufnahme und Perspektiven

Einleitend stellt der Beitrag unter Bezugnahme auf die Jahrestagungen des Leibniz-Instituts für Deutsche Sprache von 2019 und 1999 die Bezeichnungen Soziale Medien und neue Medien gegenüber. Dann steht die schriftbasierte Whats-App-Kommunikation im Fokus, es werden aber auch Beispiele aus anderen Kommunikationsformen angeführt (z.B. Zeitungsartikel auf Facebook, Texte aus der Unternehmenskommunikation). Gezeigt werden soll, wie sich die Verwendung von Emojis in diesen Texten gestaltet. Im Anschluss daran geht es um die Frage, welchen Stellenwert das Schreiben in Sozialen Medien in der Schule hat und welchen Stellenwert es künftig haben wird. Diese Frage leitet über zu dem im Titel unter Perspektiven angedeuteten Blick in die Zukunft: Hier wird zum einen diskutiert, ob die Popularität von Emojis noch zunehmen wird, zum anderen wird gefragt, ob das digitale Schreiben in Zukunft möglicherweise von anderen Praktiken abgelöst wird

The Linguistics of Keyboard-to-screen Communication: A New Terminological Framework

New forms of communication that have recently developed in the context of Web 2.0 make it necessary to reconsider some of the analytical tools of linguistic analysis. In the context of keyboard-to-screen communication (KSC), as we shall call it, a range of old dichotomies have become blurred or cease to be useful altogether, e. g. "asynchronous" versus "synchronous", "written" versus "spoken", "monologic" versus "dialogic", and in particular "text" versus "utterance". We propose alternative terminologies ("communicative act" and "communicative act sequence") that are more adequate to describe the new realities of online communication and can usefully be applied to such diverse entities as weblog entries, tweets, status updates on social network sites, comments on other postings and to sequences of such entities. Furthermore, in the context of social network sites, different forms of communication traditionally separated (i. e. blog, chat, email and so on) seem to converge. We illustrate and discuss these phenomena with data from Twitter and Facebook

Digitales Gedenken und digitaler Nachlass. Linguistische und juristische Perspektiven

Im Kontext des Todes von Angehörigen führt die Digitalisierung zu neuen kommunikativen Praktiken: Daten aus dem Leben Verstorbener werden auf digitalen Gedenkseiten publiziert, virtuelle Kerzen werden angezündet, Beileidsbekundungen ins Netz gestellt und Aphorismen, kleine Nekrologe oder private Fotos gepostet. Im Beitrag wird zunächst aus linguistischer Sicht dargelegt, welche sprachlichen und bildlichen Mittel verwendet werden, um auf diese Weise im Internet Verstorbenen zu gedenken. Dann werden diese Praktiken aus juristischer Perspektive betrachtet. Die Fragen, die sich hier stellen, betreffen sowohl das postmortale Persönlichkeitsrecht als auch die Verwaltung des digitalen Nachlasses. Es wird gezeigt, was Hinterbliebene tun können, wenn es keine solchen Regelungen gibt, aber auch, welche Maßnahmen man bereits zu Lebzeiten ergreifen kann, um den digitalen Nachlass zu regeln