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Edited Volumes by Jana Pflaeging

Research paper thumbnail of Linguistics of Politics, Special Issue, 10plus1: Living Linguistics (to appear in 2017)

Research paper thumbnail of Contact Linguistics, Special Issue, 10plus1: Living Linguistics (2016)

Research paper thumbnail of Media Linguistics, Special Issue, 10plus1: Living Linguistics (2015)

Research paper thumbnail of Facets of Linguistics: Proceedings of the 14th Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium in Halle an der Saale (2013)

Papers by Jana Pflaeging

Research paper thumbnail of Zur Ästhetisierung von Linguistikvermittlung (submitted)

Research paper thumbnail of The Virtues of Near-Analogy in Language and Communication (submitted, together with Alexander Brock)

in: Christoph Haase and Anne Schröder (Hrsg.), Analogy, Copy, and Representation. Interdisciplina... more in: Christoph Haase and Anne Schröder (Hrsg.), Analogy, Copy, and Representation. Interdisciplinary Perspectives.

Research paper thumbnail of A Sentence is a Hostel Room: New Approaches to Textbooks for Beginner Students of English Linguistics (2017, together with Alexander Brock)

This contribution outlines a possible direction for the future development of university textbook... more This contribution outlines a possible direction for the future development of university textbooks for first-year students. First, the current state of research into the teaching of linguistics at a university level is reviewed, including some notable projects in this area. Then, a section on current linguistic school textbook research is presented. Here, our main suggestion is to employ Luginbühl's (2014) conceptualisation of text genre profiles and repertoires for the linguistic research of textbooks on linguistics. The concept of genre repertoires is used in the subsequent analysis of four popular introductory textbooks of English linguistics. From this analysis, we develop our own suggestions of an alternative introductory book that constitutes a peripheral member of the set of textbooks. This textbook uses verbal and visual metaphors as a guiding principle, easy and colloquial language as well as rich visualisations that go beyond a mere illustration of facts already established in the verbal text. Thus, the book pursues a clearly multi-modal presentation of linguistic knowledge that systematically exploits the specific advantages of both modes.

Research paper thumbnail of How to Visualize Linguistic Theories: Multimodale Linguistikvermittlung in universitären Lehrwerken (2015)

Mitteilungen des Deutschen Germanistenverbandes

Research paper thumbnail of Metaphern in Sprache und Bild. Zum Vermittlungspotenzial von Arbeitsmaterialien in Deutschlehrwerken (2015)

Research paper thumbnail of 'Things that Matter, Pass them on': ListSite as Viral Online Genre (2015)

Is it just me or has the Internet been consumed by lists? Offering information on 25 Reasons Why ... more Is it just me or has the Internet been consumed by lists? Offering information on 25 Reasons Why Getting In Shape Actually Sucks or The 30 Teeniest Tiniest Puppies Being Adorably Teeny Tiny, such list-sites seem to have recently gained prominence on the Web. List-sites are typically provided by commercial media start-ups. In their endeavour to create valuable advertising space, they intend to produce content that goes viral on the web, i.e. reaching vast amounts of user within short periods of time.
This contribution is based on the assumption that professional web au-thors design content in such a way that it is likely to succeed in achieving virali-ty. The recurrence of communicative practices (and, thereby, the likely emer-gence of a genre I call ListSite here) seems of vital importance in this re-spect. It allows for quick reception in accordance with users’ expectations and may facilitate their decision to curate the content by sharing it on social networking sites like Facebook.
By means of an empirical analysis of 50 ListSite-exemplars, I hope to shed light on how this genre works with regard to its communicative situation, multimodal structure, topical organisa-tion, and textual function – and how these aspects relate to virality.

Research paper thumbnail of Generating and Exchanging Knowledge: Rethinking Current Practices in Linguistics (2015)

In December 2014, we announced the launch of “a journal for those who con-sider linguistic curios... more In December 2014, we announced the launch of “a journal for those who con-sider linguistic curiosity both part of a profession and a unique way of life.” What a catchy phrase. And some of you might ask – why do we need yet another eJournal? Others might have had a look at the table of contents of this first issue or at our website that introduces several rather unfamiliar contribution formats on offer such as …is thinking about..., dialogue, brainstorming and info-graphic next to familiar ones like journal article or review. They might have won-dered what these genres are about and why we felt the need to make them part of the 10plus1 concept. In this first editorial of 10plus1, we would like to take the opportunity of answering some of your questions and introducing you to some thoughts of ours which have fuelled our work on this project.

Research paper thumbnail of Promoting the Visualisation of Linguistic Theories (2013)

Facets of Linguistics | editors: Anne Ammermann, Alexander Brock, Jana Pflaeging, Peter Schildhauer

This paper seeks to promote the idea of visualising linguistic theories in the context of teachin... more This paper seeks to promote the idea of visualising linguistic theories in the context of teaching (English) linguistics to beginner students. Drawing on a typology of pic-tures of knowledge transfer commonly applied in (educational) psychology, I use a semiotic approach to refine the categorisation. Having gained a workable terminolo-gy, I investigate a small corpus of chapters on semantics extracted from contempo-rary introductory books to English linguistics. My analysis focusses on the quantity and quality of picture use. A suggestion concerning the question of how linguistic theories could be visualised concludes my paper.

Issue #01 | Media Linguistics | 2015 by Jana Pflaeging

Research paper thumbnail of Issue #01 | Media Linguistics | Journal Article | 'Things that Matter, Pass them on': ListSite as Viral Online Genre (Jana Pflaeging)

Research paper thumbnail of Issue #01 | Media Linguistics | Table of Contents

Research paper thumbnail of Zur Ästhetisierung von Linguistikvermittlung (submitted)

Research paper thumbnail of The Virtues of Near-Analogy in Language and Communication (submitted, together with Alexander Brock)

in: Christoph Haase and Anne Schröder (Hrsg.), Analogy, Copy, and Representation. Interdisciplina... more in: Christoph Haase and Anne Schröder (Hrsg.), Analogy, Copy, and Representation. Interdisciplinary Perspectives.

Research paper thumbnail of A Sentence is a Hostel Room: New Approaches to Textbooks for Beginner Students of English Linguistics (2017, together with Alexander Brock)

This contribution outlines a possible direction for the future development of university textbook... more This contribution outlines a possible direction for the future development of university textbooks for first-year students. First, the current state of research into the teaching of linguistics at a university level is reviewed, including some notable projects in this area. Then, a section on current linguistic school textbook research is presented. Here, our main suggestion is to employ Luginbühl's (2014) conceptualisation of text genre profiles and repertoires for the linguistic research of textbooks on linguistics. The concept of genre repertoires is used in the subsequent analysis of four popular introductory textbooks of English linguistics. From this analysis, we develop our own suggestions of an alternative introductory book that constitutes a peripheral member of the set of textbooks. This textbook uses verbal and visual metaphors as a guiding principle, easy and colloquial language as well as rich visualisations that go beyond a mere illustration of facts already established in the verbal text. Thus, the book pursues a clearly multi-modal presentation of linguistic knowledge that systematically exploits the specific advantages of both modes.

Research paper thumbnail of How to Visualize Linguistic Theories: Multimodale Linguistikvermittlung in universitären Lehrwerken (2015)

Mitteilungen des Deutschen Germanistenverbandes

Research paper thumbnail of Metaphern in Sprache und Bild. Zum Vermittlungspotenzial von Arbeitsmaterialien in Deutschlehrwerken (2015)

Research paper thumbnail of 'Things that Matter, Pass them on': ListSite as Viral Online Genre (2015)

Is it just me or has the Internet been consumed by lists? Offering information on 25 Reasons Why ... more Is it just me or has the Internet been consumed by lists? Offering information on 25 Reasons Why Getting In Shape Actually Sucks or The 30 Teeniest Tiniest Puppies Being Adorably Teeny Tiny, such list-sites seem to have recently gained prominence on the Web. List-sites are typically provided by commercial media start-ups. In their endeavour to create valuable advertising space, they intend to produce content that goes viral on the web, i.e. reaching vast amounts of user within short periods of time.
This contribution is based on the assumption that professional web au-thors design content in such a way that it is likely to succeed in achieving virali-ty. The recurrence of communicative practices (and, thereby, the likely emer-gence of a genre I call ListSite here) seems of vital importance in this re-spect. It allows for quick reception in accordance with users’ expectations and may facilitate their decision to curate the content by sharing it on social networking sites like Facebook.
By means of an empirical analysis of 50 ListSite-exemplars, I hope to shed light on how this genre works with regard to its communicative situation, multimodal structure, topical organisa-tion, and textual function – and how these aspects relate to virality.

Research paper thumbnail of Generating and Exchanging Knowledge: Rethinking Current Practices in Linguistics (2015)

In December 2014, we announced the launch of “a journal for those who con-sider linguistic curios... more In December 2014, we announced the launch of “a journal for those who con-sider linguistic curiosity both part of a profession and a unique way of life.” What a catchy phrase. And some of you might ask – why do we need yet another eJournal? Others might have had a look at the table of contents of this first issue or at our website that introduces several rather unfamiliar contribution formats on offer such as …is thinking about..., dialogue, brainstorming and info-graphic next to familiar ones like journal article or review. They might have won-dered what these genres are about and why we felt the need to make them part of the 10plus1 concept. In this first editorial of 10plus1, we would like to take the opportunity of answering some of your questions and introducing you to some thoughts of ours which have fuelled our work on this project.

Research paper thumbnail of Promoting the Visualisation of Linguistic Theories (2013)

Facets of Linguistics | editors: Anne Ammermann, Alexander Brock, Jana Pflaeging, Peter Schildhauer

This paper seeks to promote the idea of visualising linguistic theories in the context of teachin... more This paper seeks to promote the idea of visualising linguistic theories in the context of teaching (English) linguistics to beginner students. Drawing on a typology of pic-tures of knowledge transfer commonly applied in (educational) psychology, I use a semiotic approach to refine the categorisation. Having gained a workable terminolo-gy, I investigate a small corpus of chapters on semantics extracted from contempo-rary introductory books to English linguistics. My analysis focusses on the quantity and quality of picture use. A suggestion concerning the question of how linguistic theories could be visualised concludes my paper.