Stylistic knowledge is often unequally distributed in language communities. The same style of speaking may be differently interpreted by different individuals. Using the repertory-grid method, this study develops a novel approach for researching such knowledge in specific target groups. To accomplish this, it compiles metalinguistic descriptions into a repertoire of speech styles based on the example of radio announcing.

Autorentext
Grit Böhme, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle.

Zusammenfassung

Language in Text and Discourse is an innovative state-of-the-art interdisciplinary series of monographs and edited collections that focus on cutting-edge linguistic studies at the interface between discourse and society including corpus approaches. This series is a forum for studies of language in interaction with other semiotic modes which address the question of how meanings are activated, remade or re-shaped within a variety of contexts and interactions, such as social or textual structures, places, styles, or discursive moments. These are considered to be resources for placemaking or positioning, which correlate and are indexically linked with repetitive semiotic patterns. Verbal and non-verbal positioning as well as conventionalised forms of patterning determine, construe and reflect historically variable concepts of social reality. These are part of a complex network of discursive realities, power relations and voices. The series incorporates studies of social styling and language usage as well as processes of position-ing in a number of different linguistic as well as social, cultural, aesthetic and historical contexts.

By transcending disciplinary boundaries the series is integrative in a number of ways. We will publish linguistic studies written in English or German about grammatical, knowledge-oriented, stylistic and sociolinguistic approaches within the fields of discourse analy-sis or corpus linguistics. These studies com-bine quantitative and qualitative investigations or represent mono- or multi-modal analyses. All submissions will be peer-reviewed.

Editors:
Beatrix Busse, professor of English linguistics, is Vice-rector for teaching and learning at the University of Köln (Germany).
Ingo H. Warnke holds the chair of German linguistics and interdisciplinary linguistics at the University of Bremen (Germany).