Parlando (Linguistics)
In the field of linguistics and language didactics , the term parlando describes a phenomenon that has occurred in the written language , especially in the last three decades. The term was coined by the Swiss didactician at the University of Education in Zurich, Peter Sieber . The impetus for his investigations were texts from Swiss students who grew up with Swiss German and only learned and practiced Standard German in school. Based on this, he names texts that have typical characteristics of the spoken language , be it in the choice of words, the sentence structure or in the text structure Parlando texts . If these are reasonably successful, they can be compared with monological radio manuscripts. At first they appear to be easy to understand and read fluently, but a slow, reflective and inquiring reception is relatively difficult.
Typical features of Parlando texts are, according to Sieber:
- Outwardly little structured, they seem like a monological speech
- they often have a so-called "text background logic": even if you supplement the arguments of the text with your own and sometimes do not take the text literally, it still remains clear and understandable
- Loquacity
- Sentences that begin with questionable connexions such as “and”, “now” or “also”
- Subjectivity: the author clearly expresses his opinion on the subject matter dealt with
- long sentences with poorly structured punctuation
- typical syntactic patterns and expressions of orality, colloquial and dialectal discoloration of high-level language
literature
- Peter Sieber (ed.): Language skills - better than their reputation and more necessary than ever . (Linguistic landscape. 12). Sauerländer, Aarau / Frankfurt am Main / Salzburg 1994.