Konstitution von Wortbedeutung im Gespräch. eine Studie am Beispiel des jugendsprachlichen Bewertungsadjektivs assi [2. Aufl.]

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Using instances of conversations of among German adolescents, this paper aims at an empirical, conversation analytic reconstruction of interactional procedures by which participants accomplish locally relevant meanings of words. Object of the study is the evaluative adjective assi, which is a common item of German adolescents' slang. Evaluative adjectives are said to be either polysemous or underspecified in meaning. The paper shows how interactionalists accomplish local meanings of the item by using it in certain sequential environments (story prefaces, comments and conclusions) which are related to genres of moral entertainment (e.g. gossip, fictitious stories). Locally relevant features of word-meaning (such as affective meaning, lexical opposition, exclusion of semantic features) are specified in more detail by interactionalists as they use specialized practices (such as expressive enactments, contrasting, blocking implications) which are realized by specific linguistic means (such as paraverbal strategies, negation, disjunctive connectives).

Object Details

• Language: Deutsch

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Deutsch ; Jugendlicher ; Konversationsanalyse ; Interaktion ; Jugendsprache ; Semasiologie ; Germanische Sprachen; Deutsch

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Deppermann, Arnulf
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Tübingen : Stauffenburg
• (when): 2015-04-08

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-36145
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