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- Title
Jein: Formen und Funktionen einer Dialogpartikel in Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit.
- Authors
Bücker, Jörg
- Abstract
This paper discusses the forms and functions of the German response particle jein - a blend of ja and nein - in spoken conversation and in written texts. It is shown that in German spoken conversation, jein is realized as a sequentially expanding second part of an adjacency pair which refers back to the preceding turn as the first part (usually, but not necessarily a question) and indicates that more conversational work needs to be done before the conditional relevance of the first pair part is successfully resolved. In written newspaper articles, by contrast, jein is a rather stylistic and rhetoric means to establish the impression of argumentative balance, to condense complex issues and to reflect them in a linguistically innovative way. Since the written jein also allows for iconic plays with its graphematic gestalt to distinguish between a more or less 'disagreeing' jein, jein can be analyzed as a formally and functionally fully-fledged communicative means, regardless of whether it is used in spoken conversation or in written texts: Even though its spoken and written forms and functions are related to each other, the written jein is not simply a secondary reproduction of the spoken jein.
- Subjects
INTERPERSONAL communication; SOCIAL interaction; GESTALT psychology; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; GRAPHEMICS
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik, 2013, Vol 41, Issue 2, p189
- ISSN
0301-3294
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/zgl-2013-0012