Konstanze Marx
List of John Benjamins publications in which Konstanze Marx is involved.
Articles
2015 Silences as a linguistic strategy Remarks on the role of the unsaid in romantic relationships on the internet Emotion in Language: Theory – research – application, Lüdtke, Ulrike M. (ed.), pp. 325–340 | Article
The article analyses data from a corpus of email-correspondence and chat protocols
that describe the initial steps of romantic contacts. It shows that different
types of silences are used strategically in the process of people getting to know
each other. Five silence strategies within conversations… read more
2014 Power eliciting elements at the semantic-pragmatic interface: Data from cyberbullying and virtual character assassination attempts The Expression of Inequality in Interaction: Power, dominance, and status, Pishwa, Hanna and Rainer Schulze (eds.), pp. 143–162 | Article
Power, in this article, is to be understood as an instrument of force that is imposed purposely in order to influence, affect or persuade others. The question here is whether such power is due to aggressive expressions (lexical level) or to context-dependent aspects (discourse level) that become… read more
2007 Resolving complex anaphors: Evidence from online comprehension Anaphors in Text: Cognitive, formal and applied approaches to anaphoric reference, Schwarz-Friesel, Monika, Manfred Consten and Mareile Knees (eds.), pp. 259–278 | Article
This study investigates the question of whether the processing of complex anaphors require more cognitive effort than the processing of NP-anaphors. Complex anaphors refer to abstract objects which are not introduced as a noun phrase and bring about the creation of a new discourse referent. This… read more