Christiane von Stutterheim
List of John Benjamins publications in which Christiane von Stutterheim is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1879-7865 | E‑ISSN 1879‑7873
2022 Under the surface: A survey of principles of language use in advanced L2 speakers Language, Interaction and Acquisition 13:1, pp. 1–28 | Article
Through a survey of crosslinguistic empirical studies on narratives and in the domain of motion events, we argue that the principles of language use pose a hurdle for second language acquisition, an issue that has not been given adequate attention in earlier research. These principles are part… read more
2018 Texts as answers to questions: Information structure and its grammatical underpinnings in narratives and descriptions in German and English (topic and anaphoric linkage) Linguistic Foundations of Narration in Spoken and Sign Languages, Hübl, Annika and Markus Steinbach (eds.), pp. 67–92 | Chapter
Text production requires the speaker to plan and formulate a coherent text in which information at the micro structural level is embedded and licensed by structures established at the macro structural level. The present paper addresses questions concerning the principles the speaker can rely on… read more
2012 Tracing trajectories: Motion event construal by advanced L2 French-English and L2 French-German speakers Typological perspectives on second language acquisition: ‘Thinking for Speaking’ in L2: Perspectives typologiques sur l’acquisition d’une langue seconde: ‘Penser pour Parler’ en L2, Benazzo, Sandra, Monique Flecken and Efstathia Soroli (eds.), pp. 202–230 | Article
Although the typological contrast between Romance and Germanic languages as verb-framed versus satellite-framed (Talmy 1985) forms the background for many empirical studies on L2 acquisition, the inconclusive picture to date calls for more differentiated, fine-grained analyses. The present study… read more
2008 Subordination in narratives and macro-structural planning: A comparative point of view 'Subordination' versus 'Coordination' in Sentence and Text: A cross-linguistic perspective, Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine and Wiebke Ramm (eds.), pp. 161–184 | Article
2003 Linguistic structure and information organisation: The case of very advanced learners EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 3 (2003), Foster-Cohen, Susan H. and Simona Pekarek Doehler (eds.), pp. 183–206 | Article
This paper addresses the factors that distinguish very advanced learners from native speakers, investigating the difficulties which arise in overcoming the final thresholds in the learning process. Firstly, it compares different linguistic systems with respect to specific grammaticised categories,… read more
2003 5. Two ways of construing complex temporal structures Deictic Conceptualisation of Space, Time and Person, Lenz, Friedrich (ed.), pp. 97–133 | Article
2002 Quaestio and L-perspectivation Perspective and Perspectivation in Discourse, Graumann, Carl Friedrich and Werner Kallmeyer (eds.), pp. 59–88 | Article
1993 Reference to Objects in Text Production Perspectives on Language and Conceptualization, Nuyts, Jan and Eric Pederson (eds.), pp. 99–125 | Article
1991 Narrative and description: temporal reference in second language acquisition Cross Currents in Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory, Huebner, Thom and Charles A. Ferguson (eds.), pp. 385–404 | Article