Quotational nicknames in German at the interface between syntax, punctuation, and pragmatics

Quotational nicknames in German at the interface between syntax, punctuation, and pragmatics

The paper is concerned with a particular nickname construction in German in which a linguistic expression is inserted between the given name and surname and enclosed by quotation marks (Johanna „Hansi“ Angermeier) or parentheses (Ursula (Uschi) Vollmuth). The apparent interchangeability of quotation...

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Main Author: Finkbeiner Rita
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2023-03-01
Series:Linguistics
Subjects:
conversational implicature
death notice
parentheses
pragmatic indicator
proper name
quotation marks
syntactic insertion
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2021-0084

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https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2021-0084

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