Friederike Kern

List of John Benjamins publications in which Friederike Kern is involved.

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Ethnic Styles of Speaking in European Metropolitan Areas

Edited by Friederike Kern and Margret Selting

In recent years, ethnic ways of speaking by young people with migrant background have become an important research object in sociolinguistics; work on these ways of speaking has been prospering in many European countries. This work is continued in the present volume, with the aim of bringing… read more

[Studies in Language Variation, 8] 2011. vi, 321 pp.

Boden, Ulrich J., Friederike Kern, Sofia Koutalidis, Olga Abramov, Anne Nemeth, Stefan Kopp and Katharina Rohlfing 2024 Four-year-olds’ visuospatial cognitive abilities and their relation to observer‑viewpoint gestures across three communicative tasks Pragmatics & Cognition 31:1, pp. 49–96 | Article

The gesture-as-simulated-action framework explains the occurrence of iconic gestures. Accordingly, simulated visual imagery gives rise to observer-viewpoint, whereas simulated motor imagery gives rise to character-viewpoint gestures. Because little is known about whether this relationship is… read more

Kern, Friederike 2011 Rhythm in Turkish German talk-in-interaction Ethnic Styles of Speaking in European Metropolitan Areas, Kern, Friederike and Margret Selting (eds.), pp. 161–190 | Article

In the following contribution, I describe some characteristics of the ethnic style of speaking ‘Türkendeutsch’. My focus will be on the constitution of rhythm, and its forms and functions in talk-in-interaction. Two types of rhythmic principles will be identified, namely a pattern based on accent… read more

Kern, Friederike 2011 Introduction Ethnic Styles of Speaking in European Metropolitan Areas, Kern, Friederike and Margret Selting (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article

Kern, Friederike 2010 Speaking dramatically: The prosody of live radio commentary of football matches Prosody in Interaction, Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar, Elisabeth Reber and Margret Selting (eds.), pp. 217–238 | Article

Live commentaries of football matches provide a rich source for the analysis of verbal constructions of drama and suspense. In this paper, I will show how radio reporters construct and employ the different speech styles “building up suspense” and “presenting a climax” for the contextualization of… read more

Kern, Friederike and Uta M. Quasthoff 2005 2. Fantasy stories and conversational narratives of personal experience: Genre-specific, interactional and developmental perspectives Narrative Interaction, Quasthoff, Uta M. and Tabea Becker (eds.), pp. 15–56 | Chapter

Kern, Friederike 2002 Culture, genres and the problem of sequentiality: An attempt to describe local organization and global structures in talk-in-situation Rethinking Sequentiality: Linguistics meets conversational interaction, Fetzer, Anita and Christiane Meierkord (eds.), pp. 207–229 | Article

Auer, Peter and Friederike Kern 2001 Three Ways of Analysing Communication between East and West Germans as Intercultural Communication Culture in Communication: Analyses of intercultural situations, Di Luzio, Aldo, Susanne Günthner and Franca Orletti (eds.), pp. 89–116 | Article