Selected Publications
- Pfeiffer, Martin and Marina Anna (2021): Recruiting Assistance in Early Childhood: Longitudinal Changes in the Use of “Oh+X” as a Way of Reporting Trouble in German. Research on Language and Social Interaction 54(2), 142-162.
- Anna, Marina und Martin Pfeiffer (2021): Die frühkindliche Verwendung des Exklamativformats Oh+X: Noticings und Problemmitteilungen. Gesprächsforschung – Online-Zeitschrift zur verbalen Interaktion 22, 1-35.
- Pfeiffer, Martin (2019): Grenzüberschreitende Identitäten im badischen Oberrheingebiet. Unterschiede in der Konstruktion sprachlicher und regionaler Verbundenheit mit dem Elsass. Linguistik Online 98, 329-361.
- Pfeiffer, Martin und Peter Auer (2019): Erfahrung und Stereotyp an der elsässisch-badischen Grenze: Repräsentationen der Anderen und ihre narrative Verarbeitung. In: Nicole Palliwoda, Verena Sauer und Stephanie Sauermilch (Hg.): Politische Grenzen – Sprachliche Grenzen? Dialektgeographische und wahrnehmungsdialektologische Perspektiven im deutschsprachigen Raum. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 143-178.
- Pfeiffer, Martin (2017): The syntax of self-repair in German: An explanatory model. Journal of Pragmatics 119, 63-80.
- Pfeiffer, Martin (2016): The deictic dimension of exclamations: On the use of wh-exclamatives in German face-to-face interaction. Revue de Sémantique et Pragmatique 40, 35-57.
- Pfeiffer, Martin (2014): Formal vs. functional motivations for the structure of self-repair in German. In: Brian MacWhinney, Andrej Malchukov and Edith Moravcsik (eds.): Competing motivations in grammar and usage. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 229-245.
FRIAS Project
Exclamatives in face-to-face interaction
Based on video recordings from German conversations, this project investigates how exclamatives (e.g. Wie groß die ist! ‘How tall she is!’ or Das ist aber ein schönes Bild! ‘What a beautiful picture!’) are used in face-to-face interaction. Existing studies on exclamatives in German have largely been based on introspective analyses of invented sentences. The empirical exceptions either draw on exclamatives in written language or apply experimental methods. Analyses of spontaneous, natural data on this topic are absent in the literature. Therefore, the aim of this project is to develop an empirically based perspective on exclamatives. It focuses on four aspects that have not yet been investigated in an interactive context: I) the exclamative accent which has been studied experimentally in previous work, II) the social actions that exclamatives are used to accomplish, III) the interplay of verbal and non-verbal aspects of exclamatives (especially gaze direction, facial expression and pointing gestures), and IV) the acquisition of exclamatives during early childhood.