Einheitenkonstruktion im Türkendeutschen: Grammatische und prosodische Aspekte

Abstract

Our article investigates grammatical and prosodic aspects of turn construction in ‘Türkendeutsch’ (Turkish German), a new ethnic variety of German that is spoken mainly by Turkish adolescents. In our approach, Turkish German is regarded as a style of speaking that is systematically used as a resource for the organization of natural conversational interaction.On the basis of interactional linguistic theory and conversation-analytic methodology, we investigate pre-positionings and post-positionings of turn constructional units, short prosodic units, and principles of accent placement on word and utterance level. In Turkish German, pre-positionings of temporal adverbs – with following V2-clauses – are often packaged in separate prosodic units with primary accents. Such prosodically exposed pre-positionings are used as focusing devices in narratives. Some kinds of post-positionings are formated according to particular rules of Turkish German which are influenced by Turkish principles of accentuation. They are deployed to shift the focus to the very end of the turn-constructional unit and thus create suspense and/or focus each bit of information separately.Accentuation principles on both word and utterance level have been found to differ from Standard German accentuation rules in specific contexts. A speaker may playfully shift a word accent (word stress) to create ironic distance; in other instances, primary accents of utterances are shifted to constitute rhythmic coherence with prior utterances rather than to signal the focus of the utterance.To sum up, grammatical and prosodic resources are shown to be systematically used for the organization of talk-in-interaction.

Turkish German

“…In doing this, information units are split up into short prosodic units (cf. Kern and Selting ,; Selting ). As a consequence, prosodic units in Turkish German relate to syntactic and semantic units in ways that are different from variants of closer‐to‐standard German (cf.…”

“…Another frequently mentioned feature is the pre‐positioning of adverbials, followed by V2 clauses, such as in the following example (cf. Kern and Selting ; Wiese ):…”

“…The specific research perspective is reflected by the choice of the term ‘style’ instead of ‘variety’. Interactional linguistic studies so far focused on the ways speakers make use of ethnic styles in order to organise turn‐taking (Şimşek ), narratives (Kern & Selting 2006a,b; Kern , ; Selting ) and information structure (Kern & Selting 2006a,b; Selting ; Şimşek ). The constitution of rhythmic patterns and of semantic contrast has been another area of research (Kern ).…”

“…It focuses on the speakers' use of Turkish German as a resource in interaction that is deployed to negotiate in situ social practices and meanings (cf. Kern and Şimşek, 2006;Kern and Selting 2006a, 2006band Selting 2007. At the same time, it investigates Turkish German as a language contact phenomenon: Şimşek (2012:7) defines Turkish German as a 'specific speech style created from the language resources of different varieties of the originating languages, i.e.…”

Deutsch, Doyc or Doitsch? Chatters as Languagers – The Case of a German–Turkish Chat Room

“…Kern & Selting, 2006). As they are made salient prosodically, this would have to be done differently in writing.…”