Facets of Linguistics

This volume represents the breadth and depth of current linguistic research of predominantly young linguists. It contains papers from systemic linguistics, text linguistics, sociolinguistics and the didactics of language.

Contents: Marco Benincasa: On the Evaluation of Morphological Form of the German Universal Quantifier – Tobias Gärtner: Amplifiers in Native and Non-Native Speaker Language Performance – Bjarne Ørsnes: The Faces of the German Adverb – Meike Pentrel: Usage, Status, and Function of Stand-Alone – Alexander Brock: On the Corruption of Text Types. The Cases of Comedy and Readers’ Commentaries in Online Newspapers – Fabian Gohl/Caroline Schilling: «What’s on Your Mind?» and Who Do You Want to Tell? Negotiating Collapsed Contexts and Multiple Audiences in Facebook Status Updates – Claudia Lehmann: On Irony-in-Interaction – Helge Missal: Die Textsorte aus systemtheoretischer Perspektive – Peter Schildhauer: The Textual Functions of Personal Weblogs. Stability, Diversity, and Change – Monika David/Justyna Maslach: Umgang mit lernungewohnten Teilnehmern mit z.T. fossilisierten Sprachbeständen auf niedrigem Niveau. Portfolioarbeit in Förderkursen – Cordula Neis: Fictional Orality as a Challenge for the Translator – Hagen Peukert: The Toolset. Handling the Diversity of English Historical Texts – Jana Pflaeging: Promoting the Visualisation of Linguistic Theories – Anne Ammermann: Revisiting Spanglish – Ulrich Busse: Was uns Begriffe wie etc. über Lehnbeziehungen und die Einstellungen der Sprachteilhaber verraten – Michael M. Kretzer: The Importance of Language Attitudes Regarding First-Language-Based Education in South Africa. Case Study in Gauteng and Northwest Province – Matthias Wolny: Communicative Space and Language Use in the Age of Globalized Migration.