Browsing Germanic and Slavic Studies by Supervisor "Deppermann, Arnulf"
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Culture-in-interaction: Using idiomatic-sounding membership categorizations in German interactions
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-29)Understanding (Verstehen) and establishing common understanding (Verständigung) are foundational to human communication. Interactants not only work to understand their conversational partners, but they also act to ensure ... -
German as a foreign language: Fostering intercultural and symbolic competence in integration courses in Germany
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-09)In the globalized 21st century, frequently rising international and intercultural encounters, mass migrations, and growing displacements happen to increase the necessity of intercultural language teaching, especially in ... -
“tu_s oben DRAUFlegen”: tun-constructions as context-sensitive practices in German
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-21)There are a variety of syntactic formats available to get others to do something in German interaction. To make a request or give an instruction, speakers of German may use an imperative, a declarative, a single word, or ... -
=und wenn_s nun mal heißt dass die männer mehr leistung BRINgen?: An interactional to the functions of the modal particle „nun mal“ approach
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-30)Human interaction is mainly based on conversation. Without conversations, we would not be able to communicate with each other. To communicate, we use words and each word has different and specific meaning. In the German ...