The Speech Act(ion) of Commenting in Social Media and Beyond
Edited by Robert Külpmann and Rita Finkbeiner
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 31:2 (2024) v, 134 pp.
Rita Finkbeiner
List of John Benjamins publications in which Rita Finkbeiner is involved.
On the Role of Pragmatics in Construction Grammar
Edited by Rita Finkbeiner
Special issue of Constructions and Frames 11:2 (2019) v, 163 pp.
Pejoration
Edited by Rita Finkbeiner, Jörg Meibauer and Heike Wiese
Though “pejoration” is an important notion for linguistic analysis and theory, there is still a lack of theoretical understanding and sound descriptive analysis. In this timely collection, the phenomenon of pejoration is studied from a number of angles. It contains studies from phonology,… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 228] 2016. vii, 357 pp.
What is a Context?: Linguistic approaches and challenges
Edited by Rita Finkbeiner, Jörg Meibauer and Petra B. Schumacher
Context is a core notion of linguistic theory. However, while there are numerous attempts at explaining single aspects of the notion of context, these attempts are rather diverse and do not easily converge to a unified theory of context. The present multi-faceted collection of papers reconsiders… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 196] 2012. vii, 253 pp.
2024 Introduction: A speech-act(ion) perspective on commenting The Speech Act(ion) of Commenting in Social Media and Beyond, Külpmann, Robert and Rita Finkbeiner (eds.), pp. 287–293 | Introduction
2022 On the discourse pragmatics of German wh-headlines: Diachronic perspectives Discourse-pragmatic perspectives on interrogatives, Rosemeyer, Malte (ed.), pp. 58–85 | Article
This paper deals with autonomous uses of German subordinate wh-interrogatives as headlines, so-called wh-headlines (e.g. Was Kinder brauchen, ‘What children need’), which we approach from a discourse-pragmatic and diachronic perspective. We take our starting point in the QUD-based,… read more
2019 Reflections on the role of pragmatics in Construction Grammar On the Role of Pragmatics in Construction Grammar, Finkbeiner, Rita (ed.), pp. 171–192 | Review article
2016 Bla, bla, bla in German. A pejorative construction? Pejoration, Finkbeiner, Rita, Jörg Meibauer and Heike Wiese (eds.), pp. 269–300 | Article
The paper provides a pragmatic analysis of utterances containing the syllable triple bla, bla, bla in German. In uttering bla, bla, bla, speakers may convey a derogatory stance towards someone else’s utterance. The question is addressed how this pejorative meaning aspect should be modeled in terms… read more
2016 What is pejoration, and how can it be expressed in language? Pejoration, Finkbeiner, Rita, Jörg Meibauer and Heike Wiese (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article
2015 The grammar and pragmatics of N hin, N her (‘N thither, N hither’) in German Pragmatics and Society 6:1, pp. 89–116 | Article
In this paper, I investigate the German N hin, N her (‘N thither, N hither’) construction. I first provide a close description of its syntactic and semantic properties, arguing that N hin, N her is a grammatical construction. I then show that this construction is not entirely idiosyncratic, as… read more
2012 Emergent contexts: Observations on the context-creative power
of idioms What is a Context?: Linguistic approaches and challenges, Finkbeiner, Rita, Jörg Meibauer and Petra B. Schumacher (eds.), pp. 153–174 | Article
In this contribution, I look at context from the view of idiomatic utterances. Thereby, I adopt the view that context is a dynamic construct actively created by discourse participants, where the utterance itself is an important contextual resource. Against this background, I develop the claim that… read more
2012 Evaluative meaning: German idiomatic patterns, context, and the category of cause Pragmatics & Cognition 20:1, pp. 107–134 | Article
Linguistic evaluation has become an important area of inquiry in recent years. In the traditions of, e.g., lexical semantics, phraseology, corpus linguistics, and interactional linguistics, a large inventory of linguistic means have been identified by which speakers can express evaluative meanings.… read more
2012 Introduction What is a Context?: Linguistic approaches and challenges, Finkbeiner, Rita, Jörg Meibauer and Petra B. Schumacher (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Article