Germanistische Linguistik

The Mismatch Negativity (MMN), an automatic and pre-attentive deviation detection response of the human brain, has widely been used as electrophysiological correlate of neural representations in the sensory cortices. Besides its importance for...

Pre-boundary lengthening (PBL), the increase in duration of segments preceding prosodic boundaries, has increasingly been studied regarding its form, but its function in the language system remains unclear. Previous research suggests that PBL is...

This article examines to which extent so-called image schemas contribute to explanations of linguistic variation at the level of concrete linguistic expressions. Following a discussion of the current state of research on image schemas that draws...

The article first explores how the term function (‘Funktion’) is used in publications from cultural linguistics (‘Kulturlinguistik’). Although ‘function’ is a central category in cultural linguistics, there is surprisingly little...

This article deals with ‘comparison’ as a concept and as a method in contributions to cultural linguistics. It briefly summarizes the history of comparative and contrastive approaches in linguistics and cultural linguistics in order to propose a...

Starting with a semiotic-praxeological and dialogistic understanding of ‘culture’, the paper explains three uses of ‘significance’ in culturally analytical oriented linguistic studies. Only briefly, a more general usage is outlined, before...

This paper examines the notion of ‘power’, a term preferably used in social sciences and cultural studies, seeking to establish it as a relevant research object in cultural linguistics. Although the relationship between language and power is...