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- Title
Zur textpragmatischen Funktion der Groß- und Kleinschreibung des Deutschen.
- Authors
Müller, Hans-Georg
- Abstract
The system of German capitalisation seems to be based on dissimilar levels of linguistic description, i. e. semantics, morphology, and syntax. This leads to several competing scientific models as well as a large range of different rules which appear to be widely autonomous and incompatible with each other. This paper opens an integrative view on the topic by focussing on a pragmatic perspective, which is capable not only on integrating all major application areas of German capitalisation but also of motivating them. Based on the Discourse Representation Theory (DRT) the text pragmatic model can add a functional perspective to established theories by making similar predictions on capitalisation but additionally specifying communicative reasons for them. Therefore it claims explanatory adequacy from the functional perspective.
- Subjects
CAPITALIZATION (Writing); COMPARATIVE grammar; DISCOURSE analysis; SEMANTICS; PRAGMATISM
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik, 2014, Vol 42, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0301-3294
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/zgl-2014-0001