journal: Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik

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Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik

Deutsche Sprache in Gegenwart und Geschichte

ISSN: 1613-0626

Edited by: Vilmos Ágel, Noah Bubenhofer, Helmuth Feilke, Wolfgang Imo, Anke Lüdeling, Doris Tophinke

About this journal

Der Gegenstandsbereich der Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik (ZGL) ist die deutsche Sprache in Gegenwart und Geschichte in all ihren Differenzierungen. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Standardsprache der Gegenwart. Die ZGL veröffentlicht Aufsätze, Diskussionen, Berichte über wichtige Ereignisse im Fach und Kommentare zu ausgewählten Büchern.

Themen

Morphologie, Phonologie, Wortbildung und Syntax des Deutschen
Semantik und Pragmatik
Dialektologie, Soziolinguistik und Textlinguistik
Gegenwartsbezogene sowie sprachhistorisch orientierte Perspektiven
Beiträge zur Fachgeschichte
Interdisziplinär ausgerichtete Untersuchungen

Manuskriptformen

Aufsätze, Diskussionen, Forschungsnotizen, Berichte, Kommentare

History

Die „Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik" wurde 1973 von Els Oksaar, Hans Peter Althaus, Helmut Henne, Peter von Polenz, Siegfried J. Schmidt und Herbert Ernst Wiegand gegründet, um der beginnenden Etablierung der germanistischen Linguistik, als „Wissenschaft mit eigenen spezifischen Aufgaben" (Heft 1, Geleitwort der Herausgeber) Rechnung zu tragen und ist seither eines der zentralen Publikationsorgane des Fachs.

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• Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft (ZRS)
• Reihe Germanistische Linguistik (RGL)
• Linguistik – Impulse & Tendenzen (LIT)
• Studia Linguistica Germanica (SLG)
• Handbücher Sprachwissen (HSW)
• Konvergenz und Divergenz (KuD)
• Germanistische Arbeitshefte (GA)

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Volume 52 (2024)

Issue 1 Themenheft: Digitale Öffentlichkeit(en)

Volume 51 (2023)

Volume 50 (2022)

Volume 49 (2021)

Volume 48 (2020)

Volume 47 (2019)

Volume 46 (2018)

Volume 45 (2017)

Volume 44 (2016)

Volume 43 (2015)

Volume 42 (2014)

Volume 41 (2013)

Volume 40 (2012)

Volume 39 (2011)

Volume 38 (2010)

Volume 37 (2009)

Volume 36 (2008)

Volume 35 (2007)

Volume 34 (2007)

Volume 33 (2006)

Volume 32 (2004)

Volume 31 (2004)

Volume 30 (2003)

Volume 29 (2001)

Volume 28 (2000)

Volume 27 (1999)

Volume 26 (1998)

Volume 25 (1997)

Volume 24 (1996)

Volume 23 (1995)

Volume 22 (1994)

Volume 21 (1993)

Volume 20 (1992)

Volume 19 (1991)

Volume 18 (1990)

Volume 17 (1989)

Volume 16 (1988)

Volume 15 (1987)

Volume 14 (1986)

Volume 13 (1985)

Volume 12 (1984)

Volume 11 (1983)

Volume 10 (1982)

Volume 9 (1981)

Volume 8 (1980)

Volume 7 (1979)

Volume 6 (1978)

Volume 5 (1977)

Volume 4 (1976)

Volume 3 (1975)

Volume 2 (1974)

Volume 1 (1973)

Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik publishes special and thematic issues focussed on important and emerging topics in the field of study. The journal has established a rigorous process to ensure that any special issue manuscripts follow the same high-quality standards and peer review processes as regular manuscripts. For further information on the journal’s peer review policy please see the "Instructions for Authors".

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Themenheft: Digitale Öffentlichkeit(en) [Issue 1, Volume 52 (2024)]

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Editorial

In 2021, we welcome Noah Bubenhofer and Wolfgang Imo as new editors of the ZGL. At the same time, Prof. Dr. Angelika Linke leaves the group of editors after 25 years. We thank her for her important input and her great commitment!

Editors

Prof. Dr. Vilmos Ágel
Fachbereich 02 – Institut für Germanistik
Universität Kassel
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Prof. Dr. Noah Bubenhofer
Deutsches Seminar
Universität Zürich
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Prof. Dr. Helmuth Feilke
Fachbereich 05: Sprache – Literatur – Kultur
Institut für Germanistik
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
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Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Imo
Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften
Sprache Literatur Medien I – Institut für Germanistik
Universität Hamburg
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Prof. Dr. Anke Lüdeling
Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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Prof. Dr. Doris Tophinke
Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften
Institut für Germanistik und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Universität Paderborn
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Kristian Berg
Andreas Bittner
Bettina Bock
Rita Brdar-Szabó
Kurt Braunmüller
Doreen Bryant
Florian Busch
Christine Czinglar
Helen Christen
Antje Dammel
Arnulf Deppermann
Hans-Werner Eroms
Christian Fandrych
Gisbert Fanselow
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Elvira Glaser
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Klaus-Michael Köpcke
Michael Kotin
Alfred Lameli
Jens Lanwer
Alexander Lasch
Katrin Lehnen
Anja Lobenstein-Reichmann
Konstanze Marx
Simon Meier-Vieracker
Marie-Luis Merten
Sascha Michel
Christine Mooshammer
Irina Mostovaia
Sandra Pappert
Jörg Peters
Christoph Schamberger
Joachim Scharloth
Stefan Schierholz
Barbara Schlücker
Jürgen E. Schmidt
Karsten Schmidt
Mirjam Schmuck
Juliane Schröter
Guido Seiler
Anna Shadrova
Elena Smirnova
Sven Staffeldt
Renate Szczepaniak
Rosemarie Tracy
Jürgen Trouvain
Klaus v. Heusinger
Petra Vogel
Gert Webelhuth
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Alexander Werth
Jörg Wesche
Thomas Weskott
Claudia Wich-Reif
Angelika Wöllstein
Sascha Wolfer
Lars Zeige
Evelyn Ziegler
Alexander Ziem
Gisela Zifonun
Elisabeth Zima

Volume 52 Issue 1

April 2024

Publicly Available April 12, 2024

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Einleitung

Open Access April 12, 2024

Digitale Öffentlichkeit(en). Linguistische Perspektiven

Marie-Luis Merten, Daniel Knuchel

Page range: 1-13

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Abstract

In this thematic volume we ask how digitalization and mediatization are transforming public communication and its conceptual understanding. This introductory text delves into the historical shift from oral and body media to written media in societal communication, highlighting the evolution through telecommunication mass media to the replacement of analog communication by digital forms. It addresses the lack of consensus on the definition of ‘publics’ and public communication, underscoring the multidimensional, heterogeneous, and fluid nature of these concepts. We ask how digitalization and mediatization processes raise questions about fundamental changes in publics due to new technological-communicative possibilities. Furthermore, we discuss the concept of publics as communicatively constructed and maintained, shaped by media and community ideologies. We propose a continuum model for digital/digitized publics, ranging from dyadic communication to multi-party communication. It emphasizes four key aspects for linguistic engagement with digital publics: communicative construction, technical and social affordances, multiplicity of addressing, and practices of digital community formation. With this model and the contributions following the introduction we contribute to a nuanced understanding of digital publics, considering their scale, complexity, and the dynamics of content creation and audience interaction.

Beiträge

Open Access April 12, 2024

Der ‚digital-öffentliche Raum‘ als kommunikative Figuration und vergemeinschaftungsideologische Imagination

Jürgen Spitzmüller, Michaela Pfadenhauer

Page range: 14-33

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This paper assesses the notion of ‘digital public spaces’ and grasps it as a discursive conglomerate which combines multiple ideology-laden concepts: the ‘public sphere’ as an ‘open’ and ‘democratic’ space (as opposed to closed private ‘bubbles’), and ‘digital communication’, which is often strictly divided from the non-digital and perceived as either a threat or the great promise of social assemblage. From the perspective of metapragmatic sociolinguistics and the sociology of knowledge, we follow discursive traces of the ‘the public sphere’ and its suturing with ‘digital communication’ within and outside of our own fields in order to show how the conceptual conglomerate ‘digital public spaces’ is bound to evaluations, expectations and projections which need more critical reflection in media studies in order to escape ideological short circuits and simplifications that haunt the field. On the other hand, we argue that the notion of ‘digital publics spaces’ serves important discursive functions in the lifeworlds of media users, as it fuels into contingency-reducing ideological complexes: ideologies of communication ( Kommunikationsideologien ) which guide social actors’ interaction, and related ideologies of communification ( Vergemeinschaftungsideologien ) which guide them in the ways they socially align with each others.

April 12, 2024

Institutionelle Kommunikation in der digitalen Öffentlichkeit: Das kommunikative Repertoire der Polizei Hamburg auf Twitter

Jannis Androutsopoulos, Nikolaus Maas

Page range: 34-64

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This paper uses the notion of communicative repertoire to investigate the language conduct of an institutional organization in a social media environment, with the Twitter (now ‘X’) account of Hamburg Police as a case in point. Theoretically drawing on interactional sociolinguistics, media linguistics and Twitter research, we view communicative repertoire as the sum of linguistic and semiotic resources that are mobilized by organizational agents to participate in a multi-faceted digital public space that comprises both the dissemination of messages to a digital audience (the account’s followers) and dialogic exchanges with self-selected members of the digital publics. The analysis is based on all tweets produced by the Hamburg Police over a period of three months, complemented by an interview with the organization’s social media team. We operationalize the communicative repertoire by means of a multi-level analytical scheme that comprises: (a) different types of linguistic and graphic resources, (b) two participation formats (initiative and responsive messages) and (c) several action types. The findings show that the language conduct of Police Hamburg is multi-faceted and shows striking stylistic differences between initiative and responsive tweets. While initiative tweets draw on pre-digital genres of Police communication (e.g. call for witnesses), responsive tweets repeatedly show accommodation towards users. Overall, the case of Hamburg Police illustrates how mediatization transforms practices of institutional communication.

Open Access April 12, 2024

Digitale Öffentlichkeit(en) metapragmatisch. Zur Aushandlung und Überschreitung kommunikativer Grenzen am Beispiel des Bodyshamings auf YouTube

Marie-Luis Merten

Page range: 65-94

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This paper explores the multidimensional phenomenon of digital publics from a metapragmatic perspective. The focus is on a (potentially) digital-public YouTube discourse fragment on the topic of bodyshaming (on the Internet). In particular, negotiation and violation practices of communicative boundaries (in social media) are thematized. The underlying corpus is composed of (1) a YouTube video of a female (high reach) social media actor who, among other things, recontextualizes (hurtful) comments about her weight gain as well as about a possible pregnancy, and (2) follow-up communication to this video. In the qualitative-quantitative study, special attention is paid to the following questions: (1) Which concept of digital public spheres do the users emphasize in the discussion and (2) which understanding of communicative boundaries (in a digitalized lifeworld) do these participants communicate? A media-critical community is illuminated that construes solidarity with the initial contributor and negotiates the boundaries of appropriate Internet communication.

Open Access April 12, 2024

Digitale Live-Öffentlichkeiten: Eine medienlinguistische Analyse von parlamentarischen Live-Tickern auf DerStandard.at

Daniel Pfurtscheller

Page range: 95-123

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This paper adopts a media-linguistic perspective to explore how liveblogs, specifically ‘live tickers’, contribute to the formation of episodic publics during parliamentary debates and investigations. Using a dataset of 45,332 journalistic entries from the Austrian online medium DerStandard.at, the mixed-method study unpacks the complex, multimodal dynamics that emerge from the interplay between individual entries and their presentation on the news website. Liveblogs are found to enable users to regularly track parliamentary activities, thereby reflecting the episodic structure of the event and emphasizing an impression of immediacy and collective experience. Importantly, liveblogs demonstrate a strong connection to current events, constantly updating themes and anticipating future developments. Furthermore, this study sheds light on the active engagement of users who are interested not only in the outcomes of parliamentary debates or inquiries but their entire progression. The observed differences in coverage between public and non-public sessions suggest a need for further research into different forms of quotation and recontextualization practices. Ultimately, this research highlights the unique role of liveblogs as venues for political participation and engagement, and offers novel insights into the structure, function and linguistic configuration of live digital publics.

April 12, 2024

„Ich freu mich ja SO übelst“ – Praktiken explizit performativer Beziehungsgestaltung in Fancalls

Stefan Hauser

Page range: 124-149

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Fancalls are telephone conversations filmed and posted on YouTube that influencers hold with selected fans. It is a type of conversation that utilises the affordances of the digital public sphere and enables a specific form of relationship building between influencers and fans. The following considerations are based on the assumption that the public sphere is always part of social practices. This suggests an interactionist understanding of the public sphere for the following observations and their categorisation. A number of communicative patterns can be observed in fan calls, which will be discussed in this contribution with regard to their specificity for digital-public communication. The extent to which the specific interaction constellation and the genre-related characteristics of this type of conversation are an expression of a (changing) digital public sphere will be discussed in this article.

April 12, 2024

Face-to-Face & digital: Die interaktive und multimodale Herstellung digitalisierter Handlungsräume in Kopräsenz

Florence Oloff, Katharina König

Page range: 150-182

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In this contribution we analyse how mobile device users in face-to-face communication jointly negotiate the boundaries and action spaces between digital and non-digital, shared and individual, public and private. Instead of conceptualising digital and face-to-face, i. e., non-digital, communication as separate, more recent research emphasises that social practices relying on mobile devices increasingly connect physical and virtual communicative spaces. Using multimodal conversation analysis, we investigate the situated use of mobile devices and media in social interaction. Excerpts from videotaped everyday conversations illustrate how participants frame their smartphone use in the presence of others, such as when looking at digital pictures, or when recording voice messages. A detailed analysis of verbal and embodied conduct shows how participants negotiate and interpret the connection or separation of digital and non-digital activities and possible forms of participation within these. (Digital) publicness or privacy are therefore to be understood as an interactive accomplishment.

Open Access April 12, 2024

Die öffentliche Aushandlung von Expertise: Wissenschaftsblogs als Ort eristischer Verständigung? Exploratorischer Einstieg in ein Forschungsprojekt

Michael Bender, Noah Bubenhofer, Nina Janich

Page range: 183-211

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In this paper, we present a joint research project on communication practices in science blogs that focuses on the negotiation of expertise against the background of potentially divergent expectations of the participants. The object of analysis are the blogposts and comments of the blog portal “SciLogs – Tagebücher der Wissenschaft” (maintained by Spektrum-Verlag since 2000), which will be examined for patterns of language and argumentation using both corpus linguistic and hermeneutic methods of analysis. First explorative approaches, as we present them here in form of a first glimpse on tri-grams, their frequencies and their context, indicate, that – despite the sometimes heated debates – a largely politely conducted communication (distance communication), constructing a kind of stylistic common ground, take place about what is usual, good and right “in der Wissenschaft” [in science] from the different perspectives meeting here and who is (or is not) “in der Lage” [able] to follow the scientific argumentations or to contribute to them constructively.