Meinungsäußerung und –steuerung aus pragmalinguistischer Sicht

Description

How can you tell whether a statement is merely informative or expresses an opinion? Are there prototypical realizations of expressions of opinion? The current study examines these questions from a pragmalinguistic perspective. On the basis of linguistic criteria, the manifold realizations of the opinion-forming function in commentary texts are described. The focus is not only on linguistic markers of explicit expressions of opinion, but also on expressions of opinion 'between the lines'. For example, presuppositions make a view appear as consensus, whereas conventional implicatures refer to a normative idea, an expectation or a normal case implicitly. The effect potential of these and other acting types is examined both exemplarily and randomly. The study offers a fine-grained, complex typology of expressions of opinion and provides a differentiated set of description tools that can be used for many speech acts in natural language use.