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Peter Auer

Bio: Peter Auer is an academic researcher from University of Freiburg. The author has contributed to research in topics: German & Conversation. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 234 publications receiving 7527 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter Auer include University of Konstanz & University of Luxembourg.


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TL;DR: In this article, a continuum of language alternation phenomena is discussed which spans out between the prototypes labelled codeswitching (CS), language mixing (LM), and fused lects (FLs), with CS and FLs representing the polar extremes of the continuum and LM a point in between.
Abstract: A continuum of language alternation phenomena is discussed which spans out between the prototypes labelled codeswitching (CS),language mixing(LM),and fused lects (FLs), with CS and FLs representing the polar extremes of the continuum and LM a point in between. In addition, an interpretation of this continuum is suggested according to which the transition CS-LM-FL can be understood as a case of structural sedimentation.

568 citations

Book
01 Jan 1998
TL;DR: The Code-Switching in Conversation brings together contributions from a wide variety of sociolinguistics settings in which the phenomenon is observed as discussed by the authors, addressing not only the structure and the function, but also the ideological values of such bilingual behaviour.
Abstract: Code Switching, the alternating use of two or more languages ation, has become an increasingly topical and important field of research. Now available in paperback, Code-Switching in Conversation brings together contributions from a wide variety of sociolinguistics settings in which the phenomenon is observed. It addresses not only the structure and the function, but also the ideological values of such bilingual behaviour. The contributors question many views of code switching on the empirical basis of many European and non European contexts. By bringing together linguistics, anthropological and socio-psychological research, they move towards a more realistic conception of bilingual conversation action.

520 citations

Book ChapterDOI
01 Aug 1995
TL;DR: The authors dealt with code-switching from the perspective of the conversationalist. But their focus was not on grammatical constraints, but on the analysis of well-formed sentences involving two languages which may be treated as a window on the bilingual mind.
Abstract: Introduction This paper will deal with code-switching in a specific sense. The perspective I want to take is an important one, but it does not exclude others. Bilingualism (including multilingualism) is often thought of as multiple linguistic competences, i.e., as a mental disposition which is accessible only indirectly by the usual techniques of psycholinguistic research. In the mentalistic framework of generative grammar, bilingual competence is also accessible via the analysis of well-formed sentences involving two languages which may be treated as a window on the bilingual mind. Yet both the psycholinguist and the generative grammarian treat bilingualism as something which – like competence in general – is basically hidden underneath the skull and therefore invisible; it can be, and must be, made visible by psycholinguistic methods, or the methods of generative grammatical research. Beginning with the discussion of compound vs coordinate bilingualism in its psycholinguistic reformulation (see chapter 12, this volume), and up to the present generative work on grammatical constraints on code-switching (see chapter 9, this volume), there is an impressive amount of research which has been gathered from such a perspective. Contrary to this tradition of research, I will be dealing here with bilingualism from the perspective of the conversationalist. For him or her, it has its foremost reality in the interactive exchanges between the members of a bilingual speech community (as well as between them and monolingual outsiders), by which they display to each other, and ascribe to each other, their bilingualism.

487 citations

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11 Jun 1992-Language
TL;DR: Gumperz' approach to contextualization was later revisited by Gumperz, John J. as mentioned in this paper, who argued that when is enough enough enough? (Silverstein, Michael) 6. Gesture's Discreet Tasks: Multiple Relevancies in Visual Conduct and in the Contextualisation of Language (by Heath, Christian) 9. Comments (by Hinnenkamp, Volker) 16.
Abstract: 1. Preface 2. I. Theory of Contextualization 3. Introduction: John Gumperz' Approach to Contextualization (by Auer, Peter) 4. Contextualization Revisited (by Gumperz, John J.) 5. The Indeterminancy of Contextualization: When Is Enough Enough? (by Silverstein, Michael) 6. II. Gesture and Other Visible Behaviour 7. Context, Activity and Participation (by Goodwin, Charles) 8. Gesture's Discreet Tasks: Multiple Relevancies in Visual Conduct and in the Contextualisation of Language (by Heath, Christian) 9. Comments (by Hinnenkamp, Volker) 10. Previews: Gestures at the Transition Place (by Streeck, Jurgen) 11. The return Gesture: Some Remarks on Context, Inference, and Iconic Gesture (by Fornel, Michel de) 12. III. Prosody 13. Gendered Contexts (by Cook-Gumperz, Jenny) 14. Theatrical Moments: On Contextualizing Funny and Dramatic moods in the Course of Telling a Story in Conversation 15. Comments (by Gunthner, Susanne) 16. Intonation as a Contextualization Device: Case Studies on the Role of Prosody, Especially Intonation, in Contextualizing Story Telling in Conversation (by Selting, Margret) 17. Comments (by Schwitalla, Johannes) 18. Continuing and Restarting (by Local, John) 19. Contextualizing Relevance: On Some Forms and Functions of Speech Rate Changes in Everyday Conversation (by Uhmann, Susanne) 20. Contextualizing Discourse: The Prosody of Interactive Repair (by Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth) 21. They Know All the Lines: Rhythmic Organization and Contextualization in a Conversational Listing Routine 22. Index

426 citations

01 Jan 2009
TL;DR: This article presents a revised version of GAT, a transcription system first developed by a group of German conversation analysts and interactional linguists in 1998, which proposes some conventions which are more compatible with linguistic and phonetic analyses of spoken language.
Abstract: This article presents a revised version of GAT, a transcription system first developed by a group of German conversation analysts and interactional linguists in 1998. GAT tries to follow as many principles and conventions of CA's Jeffersonstyle transcription as possible, yet proposes some conventions which are more compatible with linguistic and phonetic analyses of spoken language, especially for the representation of prosody in talk-in-interaction. After ten years of use by many reseachers in conversation and discourse analysis, it was time to revise the first version, against the background of past experience and in light of new necessities for the transcription of corpora arising from technological advances and methodological developments over recent years. This text presents the new GAT 2 transcription system with all its conventions. It gives detailed instructions on how to transcribe spoken talk on three levels of delicacy: minimal, basic and refined transcript versions. In addition, it briefly introduces a few tools that may be helpful for the user: the online tutorial GAT-TO and the transcription editing software FOLKER.

383 citations


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01 Nov 2008

2,686 citations

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TL;DR: The authors proposed a framework for the analysis of identity as produced in linguistic interaction, based on the following principles: identity is the product rather than the source of linguis... and identity is generated from linguistic interaction.
Abstract: The article proposes a framework for the analysis of identity as produced in linguistic interaction, based on the following principles: (1) identity is the product rather than the source of linguis...

2,419 citations

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TL;DR: Video technology has been vital in establishing Interaction Analysis, which depends on the technology of audiovisual recording for its primary records and on playback capability for their analysis.
Abstract: (1995). Interaction Analysis: Foundations and Practice. Journal of the Learning Sciences: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 39-103.

2,343 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that human action is built through the simultaneous deployment of a range of quite different kinds of semiotic resources, such as graphic fields of various types, without which the constitution of particular kinds of action being invoked through talk would be impossible.

2,196 citations