4. German or Swiss? Address and Other Routinised Formulas in German-speaking Switzerland

Schüpbach, Doris

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“…For example, Wierzbicka (1985) concluded that greetings are both language-and culture-specific in a comparison of Polish and Australian English. Pinto (2008) compared and found several differences in politeness strategies in Spanish and US English greeting routines, as did Schüpbach (2014) in Swiss German and German German. Félix-Brasdefer (2015) compared service interactions at supermarket delicatessens in Mexico and the USA and found reciprocal conventional greetings to be quite rare in both settings.…”

Section: A Brief Background On Greetingsmentioning

confidence: 98%

19. Pragmatic variation across geographical and social space

Nilsson¹,

Lindström²,

Bohman³

et al. 2022

Pragmatics of Space

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This chapter examines how pragmatic variation interfaces with several dimensions of space, not only geographical space but also social space. We approach space from a variational pragmatics perspective and conceive it as a layered phenomenon with local, regional, and national levels that are intertwined with one another as well as with social dimensions of space. We present an empirical study of greeting behavior in Swedish service encounters to illustrate how these layers of space interact and are relevant for pragmatic variation. Qualitative observations of greeting sequences combined with statistical analyses of several co-variables are used to unravel connections between the choice of a greeting form and spatial and social factors. We show that the levels of nation and region (i.e., data from a certain country and town) can account for a certain degree of variation in the choice of greeting forms, but the local levels of space (i.e., interactions in specific venues) and social variables like the speaker's age and gender also have an explanatory force. Spaces can also bear recognizable cultural meanings to the people who interact in them, triggering certain kinds of social behavior that is symbolically represented in language use.

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Section: A Brief Background On Greetingsmentioning

confidence: 98%

19. Pragmatic variation across geographical and social space

Nilsson¹,

Lindström²,

Bohman³

et al. 2022

Pragmatics of Space

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“…Families report language problems because Swiss-German, the dialect that is spoken by about 90% of Swiss in German-speaking Switzerland, is hardly understandable to most native Germans. It has differences in pronunciation, vocabulary (e.g., different designation of weekdays), and grammar from standard German spoken in Germany (Helbling, 2011;Schüpbach, 2014). Furthermore, German immigrants perceive hassles of social integration and perceived discrimination.…”

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“…Moreover, youth can contribute to their families' adaptation by connecting their family to the host community (Fawcett, 2018;Katz, 2011). As one example, adolescents can write emails for parents in the local dialect to ease the communication with members of the host society (Schüpbach, 2014). These arguments endorse the particular meaning of ICT in immigrant families, and underscore how adolescents can support their families in the adaptation process by providing technical brokering.…”

Section: Technical Brokering In Immigrant Families: a Generational Or Migration-related Phenomenon?mentioning

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Technical Brokering of Immigrant Adolescents in Switzerland: A Developmental-Acculturative Perspective

Aumann¹,

Titzmann²

2021

J Child Fam Stud

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In the present digital age, intrafamilial dynamics and adolescents’ support of their parents in media use (technical brokering, Katz, 2010) are increasing in attention. However, the significance of migration-specific processes in adolescents’ technical brokering is less understood. In immigrant families, adolescents’ technical brokering may help families in adapting to the host culture and in keeping contact with friends and family abroad. This study investigated differences in the level of technical brokering between German immigrant and native Swiss adolescents and tested whether migration-unrelated (family life) or migration-related (i.e., culture brokering, Tse, 1995) factors are better predictors of interindividual differences in technical brokering in high SES immigrant families. The sample comprised 301 adolescents in Switzerland: 136 German immigrant adolescents (average age = 15.3, 65% female) and 165 native Swiss adolescents (average age = 15.9, 61% female). Adolescents stated the frequency of technical brokering tasks as well as culture brokering and migration-related processes. The results revealed that German immigrant adolescents provided technical brokering more frequently than native Swiss adolescents. Hierarchical regressions confirmed that technical brokering in German immigrant families is best explained by adolescents’ supporting their family in mastering the transition to a new country, as predictors pertaining to culture brokering, and host culture orientation explained most of the variance. This interpretation received further support by an interaction effect showing that technical brokering is particularly frequent when adolescents act as a culture broker in families with substantial socio-cultural adaptation difficulties. This study complements an often deficit-oriented view on immigrant youth with a view of their active and constructive role in immigrant family processes.

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“…More recently, however, Swiss German also appears in some studies (cf. Schüpbach, 2014). There are also a few early studies contrasting the communicative style of Germans from the former German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany.…”

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(Im)politeness and Regional Variation

Schneider

Placencia

2017

The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)politeness

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Traditional dialectology has predominantly concentrated on regional variation within one country. Yet, since dialect areas do not necessarily coincide with political units and since dialects are not discrete subdivisions but, as a rule, form continua of mutually comprehensible varieties which may transgress nation-state boundaries, regions in neighbouring countries are occasionally also considered (Chambers & Trudgill, 1998: 3-12). For some pluricentric languages, there is an additional, but more recent tradition of investigating regional variation on a national level. Pluricentric languages are languages spoken natively in more than one nation-state (cf. Clyne, 1992). Examples include French (spoken in France,

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4. German or Swiss? Address and Other Routinised Formulas in German-speaking Switzerland

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19. Pragmatic variation across geographical and social space

19. Pragmatic variation across geographical and social space

Technical Brokering of Immigrant Adolescents in Switzerland: A Developmental-Acculturative Perspective

(Im)politeness and Regional Variation

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