TY - JOUR AU - Dürscheid, Christa PY - 2018/10/04 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Parlando style, orality and new media. Some remarks from a linguistic point of view JF - Swiss Journal of Educational Research JA - SJER VL - 33 IS - 2 SE - Thematic contribution DO - 10.24452/sjer.33.2.4855 UR - https://sjer.ch/article/view/4855 SP - 175-190 AB - <p><span style="caret-color: #444444; color: #444444; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">The paper starts with a reflection on the terms </span><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: #444444; color: #444444; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">konzeptionell mündlich</em><span style="caret-color: #444444; color: #444444; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;"> («conceptually oral»), </span><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: #444444; color: #444444; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">medial mündlich</em><span style="caret-color: #444444; color: #444444; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">(«medially oral»), and </span><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: #444444; color: #444444; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">gesprochensprachlich</em><span style="caret-color: #444444; color: #444444; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;"> («spoken language») by laying out the criteria that characterize texts in the so called parlando style (cf. Sieber, 1998), which is often seen as a defining marker for a new writing style relying on features normally found in spoken language. Then, focusing on text messaging and chat communication, I will question the often found description of text-based communication in the new media (e.g. email, SMS, chat) as «oral» texts represented in the written code and of aligning it with spoken language. I will show that features of a conceptually oral style are frequent in these texts, but that they still cannot be set equal to what Peter Sieber calls </span><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: #444444; color: #444444; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">parlando style</em><span style="caret-color: #444444; color: #444444; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;"> when investigating final papers from highschools. The two levels have to be differentiated diligently and the term </span><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: #444444; color: #444444; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">orality in the new media</em><span style="caret-color: #444444; color: #444444; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;"> should only be used to describe communication forms that are actually oral, such as Internet calls via Skype. In all other cases, and this will be my final argumentation, only the term conceptually oral style is applicable while the expressions orality and parlando should be avoided.</span></p> ER -