Explaining the Meaning of Words: A Descriptive Study on Strategies

ISBN-13: 9783638774246 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 32 str.

Andreas Glombitza

Opis

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Tubingen (English Seminar/Applied English Linguistics), course: HS Lexical Semantics, 11 entries in the bibliography, language: English, comment: The study (32 short video interviews, transcripts included) was carried out at Uni Tubingen, with the aim to find out about oral discoursive strategies for explaining words. The approach is based on a combination of constructivist and cognitively oriented linguistic concepts with a number of more traditional ones., abstract: This paper seeks to describe and analyze typical strategies employed for explaining unknown words. The empirical component is based on a small video-corpus comprising 4x6 interviews with native as well as non-native speakers of English, transcripts are included in the Appendix. The material is analyzed by means of a theoretical apparatus taken from lexical semantics and pragmatics.

O autorze

Andreas Glombitza-Cevey (né Glombitza) is a higher education developer, academic manager and occasional lecturer with living roots in Applied Linguistics and Rhetoric. He is currently a member of academic staff at the University of Hohenheim.