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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

--François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod

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Query:   Re: German Quotatives
Author:  Ellen Fluharty
Submitter Email:  click here to access email
Linguistic LingField(s):   Pragmatics
Sociolinguistics
Syntax

Summary:   Re: Linguist 13.2799

''Und ich so'' often occurs in storytelling, paired with some kind of
gesture or vocal sound effect ''turning the quote into an enactment or
performance'' (Golato, 2000, pg.31). A couple respondents have
suggested that this quotative is becoming acceptable to use in other
environments. While ''und ich so'' is most often attributed to
teenagers, Golato's study found evidence of this quotatives use by
college-age speakers and those from thirty to fifty years of age.

Many thanks to those who responded:

Erich Round
Thorsten Trippel
Kirk Hazen
Isabelle Buchstaller
Jodie Clark
Katalin Mady
Mai Kuha
Tabea Becker
Andrea Golato
Chad D. Nilep
Patricia Cukor-Avila
Jan Bruners
Gabriele Kniffke
Christian Huber
Claus Pusch
Markus Lang
Peter Backhaus

My gratitude to Andrea Golato for sending me a copy of her (widely
recommended) article:

Golato, Andrea. 2000. ''An innovative German quotative for reporting
on embodied actions: Und ich so/und er so 'and I'm like/and he's
like'.'' Journal of Pragmatics 32, 29-54.

Thanks also to Isabelle Buchstaller for attaching a copy of:

Streeck, Jurgen. 2002. ''Grammars, Words and Embodied Meanings.'' Journal of
Communication. September 2002, 581-596.

Peter Backhaus recommended:

Androutsopoulos, Jannis K. 1999: Grammaticalization in young people's
language. The case of German, in Belgian journal of linguistics 13:
155-76.

Sakita, Tomoko 2001: Another semantic extension of Go, in D??shisha
studies in language and culture 4,2: 447-466.

Chad Nilep was kind enough to send me his bibliography on quotatives:

An excerpt:

Kim, Jong Hyun. The Attitudinal Force of Quasi-Quotation Sentences in
Korean. Eoneohag / Journal of the Linguistic Society of Korea; 2000,
26. 75-104.

Klamer, Marian. How Report Verbs become Quote Markers and
Complementisers. Lingua; 2000, 110(2). 69-98.

Macaulay, Ronald. You're Like 'Why Not?' The Quotative Expressions of
Glasgow Adolescents. Journal of Sociolinguistics; 2001, 5(1). Feb,
3-21.

Suenr M. The Syntax Of Direct Quotes With Special Reference To Spanish
And English. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 2000,
18(3). 525-578(54).

Waksler, Rachelle. A New all in Conversation. American Speech; 2001,
76(2). 128-138.

Subject-Language: German, Standard; Code: GER

LL Issue: 13.3043
Date Posted: 21-Nov-2002
Original Query: Read original query


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