Backgrounded but not peripheral: On the use of Danish directional adverbs as contextualization cues
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Backgrounded but not peripheral : On the use of Danish directional adverbs as contextualization cues. / Hovmark, Henrik.
Variation in Language and Language Use: Linguistic, Socio-Cultural and Cognitive Perspectives. red. / Martin Pütz; Monica Reif; Justyna Robinson. Frankfurt-am-Main : Peter Lang, 2013. s. 327-344 (Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft).Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Backgrounded but not peripheral
T2 - On the use of Danish directional adverbs as contextualization cues
AU - Hovmark, Henrik
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - In this paper I pay a closer look at the use of the CENTRE-PERIPHERY schema in context. I address two specific issues: first, I show how the CENTRE-PERIPHERY schema, encoded in the DDAs, enters into discourses that conceptualize and characterize a local community as both CENTRE and PERIPHERY, i.e. the schema enters into apparently contradictory constructions of the informants’ local home-base and, possibly, of their identity (cf. Hovmark, 2010). Second, I discuss the status and role of the specific linguistic category in question, i.e. the directional adverbs. On the one hand we claim that the DDAs in question contribute to the socio-cultural construction of identity, i.e. that they play a rather specific role in discursive communication and socio-cultural meaning construction. On the other hand it is clear that the semantics of the DDAs in question, seen in isolation, is very abstract or general; furthermore, the DDAs are backgrounded in discourse. Is it reasonable to claim, rather boldly, that “the informants express their identity in the use of the directional adverb ud ‘out’ etc.”? In the course of this article, however, I suggest that the DDAs in question do contribute to the socio-cultural construction of identity, and, as a matter of fact, that their role might be quite important. I argue that the DDAs are backgrounded but not peripheral, i.e. marginal or insignificant. And I introduce the notion of “contextualization cue” in this argument (Levinson, 2003a, Gumperz, 1992).
AB - In this paper I pay a closer look at the use of the CENTRE-PERIPHERY schema in context. I address two specific issues: first, I show how the CENTRE-PERIPHERY schema, encoded in the DDAs, enters into discourses that conceptualize and characterize a local community as both CENTRE and PERIPHERY, i.e. the schema enters into apparently contradictory constructions of the informants’ local home-base and, possibly, of their identity (cf. Hovmark, 2010). Second, I discuss the status and role of the specific linguistic category in question, i.e. the directional adverbs. On the one hand we claim that the DDAs in question contribute to the socio-cultural construction of identity, i.e. that they play a rather specific role in discursive communication and socio-cultural meaning construction. On the other hand it is clear that the semantics of the DDAs in question, seen in isolation, is very abstract or general; furthermore, the DDAs are backgrounded in discourse. Is it reasonable to claim, rather boldly, that “the informants express their identity in the use of the directional adverb ud ‘out’ etc.”? In the course of this article, however, I suggest that the DDAs in question do contribute to the socio-cultural construction of identity, and, as a matter of fact, that their role might be quite important. I argue that the DDAs are backgrounded but not peripheral, i.e. marginal or insignificant. And I introduce the notion of “contextualization cue” in this argument (Levinson, 2003a, Gumperz, 1992).
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - sociolingvistik
KW - kognitiv lingvistik
KW - dialektologi
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-3-631-64020-3
T3 - Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft
SP - 327
EP - 344
BT - Variation in Language and Language Use
A2 - Pütz, Martin
A2 - Reif, Monica
A2 - Robinson, Justyna
PB - Peter Lang
CY - Frankfurt-am-Main
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