Helga Kotthoff

List of John Benjamins publications in which Helga Kotthoff is involved.

Titles

Gender in Interaction: Perspectives on femininity and masculinity in ethnography and discourse

Edited by Bettina Baron and Helga Kotthoff

In this volume, gender is seen as a communicative achievement and as a social category interacting with other social parametres such as age, status, prestige, institutional and ethnic frameworks, cultural and situative contexts. The authors come from a variety of backgrounds such as sociology of… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 93] 2002. xxiv, 357 pp.

Communicating Gender in Context

Edited by Helga Kotthoff and Ruth Wodak

The contributions to the book “Communicating Gender in Context” deal not only with grammatical gender, but also with discursive procedures for constructing gender as a relevant social category in text and context. Attention is directed to European cultures which till now have come up short in… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 42] 1997. xxvi, 424 pp.

Kotthoff, Helga 2013 Comparing drinking toasts – Comparing contexts Culinary Linguistics: The chef's special, Gerhardt, Cornelia, Maximiliane Frobenius and Susanne Ley (eds.), pp. 211–240 | Article

In this article I discuss drinking toasts given in cultures that attach great importance to this genre in everyday life (Georgia, Russia, Sweden) and toasts given by guests from countries where the genre is less important (Germany, the Netherlands). I show that Georgian toasts entail the most… read more

Kotthoff, Helga 2010 Further perspectives on cooperative semiosis: Comments on Charles Goodwin “Constructing meaning through prosody in aphasia” Prosody in Interaction, Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar, Elisabeth Reber and Margret Selting (eds.), pp. 395–400 | Article

Kotthoff, Helga 2009 An interactional approach to irony development Humor in Interaction, Norrick, Neal R. and Delia Chiaro (eds.), pp. 49–78 | Article

This article discusses conversational data from a project on how pupils use irony and related forms of communication. It employs a Bakhtinian and frame analytic approach combined with a pragmatics of presumptive meaning to understand what sorts of irony nine-year-olds use. Some types of irony… read more

Kotthoff, Helga 2007 Oral genres of humor: On the dialectic of genre knowledge and creative authoring Pragmatics 17:2, pp. 263–296 | Article

The article discusses humorous conversational activities ((e.g. jokes, teasing, joint fantasizing) in the context of genre theory. The high degree of creativity, emergent construction and artistry typical of humor call for a flexible concept of genre which makes sense of modifications and… read more

Kotthoff, Helga 2006 Communicating affect in intercultural lamentations in Caucasian Georgia Beyond Misunderstanding: Linguistic analyses of intercultural communication, Bührig, Kristin and Jan D. ten Thije (eds.), pp. 289–311 | Article

Kotthoff, Helga 2002 Gender, emotion, and poeticity in Georgian mourning rituals Gender in Interaction: Perspectives on femininity and masculinity in ethnography and discourse, Baron, Bettina and Helga Kotthoff (eds.), pp. 283–327 | Article

Kotthoff, Helga 2002 Irony, quotation, and other forms of staged intertextuality: Double or contrastive perspectivation in conversation Perspective and Perspectivation in Discourse, Graumann, Carl Friedrich and Werner Kallmeyer (eds.), pp. 201–229 | Article

Kotthoff, Helga and Bettina Baron 2002 Preface Gender in Interaction: Perspectives on femininity and masculinity in ethnography and discourse, Baron, Bettina and Helga Kotthoff (eds.), pp. ix–xxiv | Preface

Kotthoff, Helga 1999 Coherent Keying in Conversational Humour: Contextualising Joint Fictionalisation Coherence in Spoken and Written Discourse: How to create it and how to describe it, Bublitz, Wolfram, Uta Lenk and Eija Ventola (eds.), pp. 125–152 | Article

Kotthoff, Helga 1998 Review of Attardo (1994): Linguistic Theories of Humor Studies in Language 22:1, pp. 205–212 | Review

Kotthoff, Helga 1997 The interactional achievement of expert status. Creating asymmetries by “Teaching Conversational Lectures”in TV discussions Communicating Gender in Context, Kotthoff, Helga and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. 139–178 | Article

Kotthoff, Helga 1997 Barbe, Katharina. Irony in Context Studies in Language 21:3, pp. 703–706 | Squib

Kotthoff, Helga and Ruth Wodak 1997 Preface Communicating Gender in Context, Kotthoff, Helga and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. vii–xxvi | Preface

Kotthoff, Helga 1995 Oral Performance in Interactional Sociolinguistics: Humorous Stories Among Friends Thema's en trends in de sociolinguistiek 2, pp. 23–53 | Article

The article combines a performance centered approach with sociolinguistic interests. Humorous narratives among friends are shown to contain many features of verbal art, such as, i.e., fictionality, dialogue dramatization, a focus on wording, and a complex management of points of view. Narratives… read more