Das Schweigen - eine verschwiegene Sprachhandlung? Überlegungen aus der Sicht der Kontrastiven Pragmatik
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In my paper I shall argue that semiotically silence (i.e. nonverbal acting) like speaking (i.e. verbal acting) offers a way of expressing a speech act. Yet it must be emphasized that silence cannot always be interpreted as a speech act signifier. Thus pauses, intentional or unintentional ones, during the flow of speech and at the end of a turn normally carry no semiotic function. However, whenever silence occurs where speaking is expected, i.e. when verbal and nonverbal acting are forming a paradigm, silence does carry semiotic function. In this case, a clear distinction has to be made between intracultural and intercultural communication situations. In a certain communication situation silence might be intraculturally insignificant, whereas interculturally it might very well be significant and vice-versa. Therefore silence is also of high importance for the didactics of foreign languages.
Translated title of the contribution | Det at tie - en fortiet sproghandling?: Set ud fra Kontrastiv Pragmatik |
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Original language | German |
Title of host publication | Sprachvariation und Sprachreflexion in interkulturellen Kontexten |
Editors | Corinna Peschel, Kerstin Runschke |
Number of pages | 13 |
Place of Publication | Frankfurt a. M. |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Publication date | 2015 |
Pages | 307-319 |
Chapter | III |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-631-65273-2 |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Series | Sprache - Kommunikation - Kultur. Soziolinguistische Beiträge |
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Volume | 16 |
ISSN | 1618-159X |
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