The pragmatics of a pluricentric language: A comparison between Austrian German and German German

Variational pragmatics: Studying the impact of social factors on language use in interaction

“…section 2 below), the use of large electronic corpora (such as the British National Corpus), elicited conversation, role plays and sociolinguistic interviews. Elsewhere, production questionnaires have been used (cf., e.g., Muhr 2008;Schö lmberger 2008;Warga 2008), but also naturally occurring everyday conversation (cf., e.g., Placencia 2008).…”

Pluricentric languages

“…As discussed in section 2, some scholars have accordingly argued that German should be described as a pluriareal language rather than a pluricentric one. Nonetheless, studies have shown that some typical differing features can be found on a national level also for German, not only concerning levels such as pronunciation, morphology and vocabulary (Clyne 1992b), but also pragmatic levels of language use (Muhr 2008), including, for example, address patterns (Kretzenbacher & Schüpbach 2015).…”

Kognitionsverb i sverigesvenska och finlandssvenska handledningssamtal

“…Ofta kan kvalitativa observationer ingå som en förklaring till kvantitativa analyser av eliciterat material (se t.ex. García, 2008;Muhr, 2008;O'Keeffe & Adolphs, 2008). En annan ingång, som använts i många tidigare variationspragmatiska studier av svenska som pluricentriskt språk (t.ex.…”