Typologie und Diffusion von Höflichkeitspronomina in Europa

Helmbrecht, Johannes

doi:10.1515/flin.2006.39.3-4.417

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“…Examples from other European languages, such as Italian, Danish, Norwegian, or Swedish, suggest in fact that third person pronouns developing into second person pronouns more commonly originate as third person anaphoric markers for honorific noun phrases used as address forms (Head 1978: 168 ;Helmbrecht 2004Helmbrecht , 2005a. 20 Whether the noun phrase is a singular or a plural form is likely to determine whether the resulting second person pronoun will have singular or plural reference.…”

Section: Third Person Pronounsmentioning

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“…A number of languages in Europe have developed new forms of second person singular address ; in English the process has proceeded further, with the effect that the new pronoun you, formerly a honorific pronoun, has replaced the old pronoun thou (Brown & Gilman 1968 ;Helmbrecht 2004Helmbrecht , 2005a. With this term we refer to a process whereby second or third person plural pronouns are also used for (honorific or polite) second person singular address.…”

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On the grammaticalization of personal pronouns

Heine

Song

2011

J. Ling.

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Unlike most other grammatical domains, that of personal pronouns is clearly underresearched in works on grammaticalization. One reason can be seen in the fact that personal pronouns differ in their diachronic behavior from most other grammatical categories to the extent that they present a challenge to grammaticalization theory. In the present paper it is argued that in order to account for this behavior, an extended understanding of grammaticalization is needed.

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Section: Third Person Pronounsmentioning

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On the grammaticalization of personal pronouns

Heine

Song

2011

J. Ling.

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“…The situation is different when grammatical replication, rather than borrowing, is involved. According to Helmbrecht (2005), one areal characteristic of European languages is the presence of T/V pronouns, a distinction made in personal pronouns to express contrasts in social status, politeness, and/or social distance. The acronyms "T" and "V" were introduced in a seminal study by Brown & Gilman (1968), who proposed to refer to the two forms respectively as the T-form (cf.…”

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“…The 2.PL>2.SG strategy in the rise of "politeness" pronouns in European languages (based onHelmbrecht 2005).…”

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Constraints on Contact-Induced Linguistic Change

Heine¹,

Kuteva²

2008

J Lang Contact

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In a recent paper on "Social and Linguistic Factors as Predictors of Contact-Induced Change" Thomason (2007) reiterates the claim made earlier by Thomason & Kaufman (1988) and others (e.g., Harris & Campbell 1995; Curnow 2001) that there are no linguistic constraints on interference in language contact, in that any linguistic feature can be transferred to any language, and any change can occur as a direct or indirect result of language contact, and she is satisfied to observe that all the specific constraints on contact-induced change that have been proposed have been counterexemplified.The present paper takes issue with this stance, arguing that it might be in need of reconsideration, in that there are in fact some constraints on contact-induced linguistic change. These constraints relate to grammatical replication, as it has been described in Heine & Kuteva (2003; 2005; 2006), thus lending further support to the generalizations on language contact proposed there.

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“…For example, du is used almost exclusively among students according to Hickey (). Sie is often described by native speakers of German as the politeness pronoun (Helmbrecht, ). However, Clyne () and Winchatz () discovered that Sie is not always respectful as it can also seem too distant by German native speakers.…”

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Understanding the People and the Language Around You: Using Awareness‐Raising Action Research in Undergraduate Education Abroad

Goertler

2019

Die Unterrichtspraxis

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This collaborative research project developed out of an undergraduate German class in an abroad context, which had the goal of assisting students in maximizing their experience through awareness‐raising activities including action research. Here we focus on the collaborative action research projects conducted by the students. Each of the five projects was guided by the same four research questions: (1) What observations were made in the abroad context? (2) How are these aspects taught in the pre‐departure classes? (3) How were these phenomena observed? (4) What are the implications for participant‐researchers and pre‐departure instruction? Through the action research projects, participant‐researchers gained a better understanding of differences between what they assumed to be true based on what they had learned and what they hypothesized to be true based on their experiences. Through systematic investigation, participant‐researchers were able to evaluate their hypotheses. This article provides suggestions for activities and materials pre‐departure as well as when abroad to better prepare students for important nuances in the target language, many of which were pragmatic in nature.

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Typologie und Diffusion von Höflichkeitspronomina in Europa

Cited by 13 publications

References 12 publications

On the grammaticalization of personal pronouns

On the grammaticalization of personal pronouns

Constraints on Contact-Induced Linguistic Change

Understanding the People and the Language Around You: Using Awareness‐Raising Action Research in Undergraduate Education Abroad

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