Das Schweigen - eine verschwiegene Sprachhandlung? Überlegungen aus der Sicht der Kontrastiven Pragmatik

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  • Peter Colliander
In my paper I shall argue that semiotically silence (i.e. nonverbal acting) like speaking (i.e. verbal acting) offers a way of expressing a speech act. Yet it must be emphasized that silence cannot always be interpreted as a speech act signifier. Thus pauses, intentional or unintentional ones, during the flow of speech and at the end of a turn normally carry no semiotic function. However, whenever silence occurs where speaking is expected, i.e. when verbal and nonverbal acting are forming a paradigm, silence does carry semiotic function. In this case, a clear distinction has to be made between intracultural and intercultural communication situations. In a certain communication situation silence might be intraculturally insignificant, whereas interculturally it might very well be significant and vice-versa. Therefore silence is also of high importance for the didactics of foreign languages.
Bidragets oversatte titelDet at tie - en fortiet sproghandling?: Set ud fra Kontrastiv Pragmatik
OriginalsprogTysk
TitelSprachvariation und Sprachreflexion in interkulturellen Kontexten
RedaktørerCorinna Peschel, Kerstin Runschke
Antal sider13
UdgivelsesstedFrankfurt a. M.
ForlagPeter Lang
Publikationsdato2015
Sider307-319
KapitelIII
ISBN (Trykt)978-3-631-65273-2
StatusUdgivet - 2015
NavnSprache - Kommunikation - Kultur. Soziolinguistische Beiträge
Vol/bind16
ISSN1618-159X

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