Text-commenting devices in German and English academic articles

German) investigation into specific textual elements of academic articles – those phrases or passages that we call ‘text commentaries’ or, more accurately and using speech act terminology, ‘text commenting speech actions’. Our empirical investigation is based on two corpora – a German corpus, comprising at present 19 research articles, and an English corpus with 17 research articles. The articles have been taken from academic journals of many disciplines

Ein Beitrag zur Partikelanalyse - Beispiel: doch

Der deutsche Ausdruck doch dient als Beispiel, an dem Probleme der Wortart-Klassifikation verdeutlicht werden, die besonders die Ausdr*cke ohne lexikalische Bedeutung und ohne morphologische Merkmale betreffen. Die Partikel doch wird meist zumindest als Konjunktion, Adverb und Modalpartikel eingestuft, einige weitere Wortklassen werden diskutiert. Die aktuellen Tendenzen, solche Partikeln aufzuspalten und dadurch ihre Einheit zu zerstören, werden kritisiert. Ich gebe eine kurze Erklärung der grundlegenden Funktion von doch und zeige an authentischen Daten, wie konkrete Verwendungsfälle auch ohne Wortartzuweisung verstanden werden können. Darüber hinaus empfehle ich, auch Sprachlernern den Umgang mit abstrakten Grundbedeutungen der Partikeln zu vermitteln. The German expression doch serves as an example of the problems in word classification, specifically for words without lexical meaning(s) and without morphological features. The particle is commonly treated at least as a conjunction, an adverb, and a modal particle. Some other word classes are discussed. Recent tendencies to split up particles like doch and to thereby destroy their unity are criticised. I will present a short explanation of the basic function of doch and show how to interpret different applications of the word, using authentic examples. In addition, I recommend that one not confuse language learners by telling them to distinguish different word classes, but to show them how to work with abstract semantic functions

Text-commenting devices in German and English academic articles

German) investigation into specific textual elements of academic articles – those phrases or passages that we call ‘text commentaries’ or, more accurately and using speech act terminology, ‘text commenting speech actions’. Our empirical investigation is based on two corpora – a German corpus, comprising at present 19 research articles, and an English corpus with 17 research articles. The articles have been taken from academic journals of many disciplines

Text-commenting devices in German and English academic articles

German) investigation into specific textual elements of academic articles – those phrases or passages that we call ‘text commentaries’ or, more accurately and using speech act terminology, ‘text commenting speech actions’. Our empirical investigation is based on two corpora – a German corpus, comprising at present 19 research articles, and an English corpus with 17 research articles. The articles have been taken from academic journals of many disciplines