Use of general extenders by German non-native speakers of English

Terraschke, Agnes

doi:10.1515/iral.2007.006

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“…They did not translate 'and all those kind of things' word for word, und so and und so weiter being preferred. This again echoes Terraschke's (2007) suggestion that NSGs did not use 'and things' because of a lack of word-for-word equivalent.…”

Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 69%

“…In Terraschke's (2007) study, oder so ('or something') and und so ('and things') were the most frequent in dyadic conversations. Schwitalla (1997) explored oder so and und solche Sachen ('and such things'), finding that they functioned mostly as hedges and list completers.…”

Section: Vague Language In Other Languagesmentioning

confidence: 74%

“…It varies according to the variety of English, and also according to the first language background of the speaker. As far as world Englishes are concerned, differences have been discovered in American English (Fernandez and Yuldashev, 2011;Overstreet, 1999), Canadian English (Tagliamonte and Denis, 2010), New Zealand English (Terraschke, 2007), Australian English (Dines, 1980), British English (Channell, 1994;Cheshire, 2007;Palacios Martínez, 2011;Pichler and Levey, 2011) and six varieties in the International Corpus of English (Aijmer, 2013:131--137). These studies will be discussed in relation to social variation: see section 2.4.…”

Section: Geographical Variation Of English Vague Languagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Terraschke and Holmes' (2007:212--213) study of German NNSE interactions with New Zealand NSEs showed the German speakers using 'or so' not as a numeric vague quantifier as in '20 or so' (as NSEs would), but as general extender as in 'I don't know how how much the New Zealand wine is maybe it's like the Australian's just the cheapest or so. ' Terraschke (2007) attributed the fact that German NNSEs used 'or so' much more than New Zealand NSEs did to a transfer of oder so, a high frequency disjunctive in German. She discovered, too, an absence of 'and things' in the German NNSE speech, explaining it by a lack of word-for-word equivalent to 'and things' in German.…”

Section: Geographical Variation Of English Vague Languagementioning

confidence: 99%

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Dingsbums und so: Beliefs about German vague language

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Journal of Pragmatics

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Research has shown that vague language, which includes vague items (general nouns, general verbs, general extenders, vague clauses, clause final ellipsis and conversational implicature) and vague modifiers (vague quantifiers and other epistemic stance markers), is a feature of many languages, signalling a friendly attitude and modifying face threats. In order for language teachers to teach about vague language, they need to understand the preconceptions of their learners. This paper describes the beliefs of 178 German English language teachers and students. This study has shown that all the participants were aware of German equivalents to the English general nouns, verbs and extenders. Describing German vague language, they mentioned vague non-verbal indicators, vague responses to health enquiries, and vague epistemic stance indicators that indexed explicitly a lack of knowledge. They emphasised that these forms are reserved for family and close friends, and expressing closeness. They believed that they were not appropriate in formal settings, being associated them with a low level of education and youth talk. They also pointed to negative connotations of indifference, and impressions of laziness and incompetence that vague language can create. The paper suggests applications of findings for language educators.

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confidence: 69%

Section: Vague Language In Other Languagesmentioning

confidence: 74%

Section: Geographical Variation Of English Vague Languagementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Geographical Variation Of English Vague Languagementioning

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Dingsbums und so: Beliefs about German vague language

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“…Once again, we are reminded of the need to be very cautious when using quantified data from a specific corpus to make general claims about the use of vague expressions. Overstreet 2005;Terraschke 2007aTerraschke , 2007b. Koester (2007) looks at the types of vague expressions used as hedging devices in professional office environments while Adolphs, Atkins and Harvey (2007) explore two different types of discourse in a healthcare context, revealing different patterns of vague language use despite "institutional requirements of providing precise and clear information " (2007: 63).…”

Section: Vague Expressions In Different Discourse Domainsmentioning

confidence: 99%