Word characters
| Punctuation marks | |
|---|---|
| Comma, comma | , |
| Semicolon, semicolon | ; |
| Colon, colon | : |
| Point | . |
| Ellipsis | ... |
| Focus | · |
| bullet point | • |
| Question mark | ? |
| Exclamation, exclamation, call signs | ! |
| Apostrophe, apostrophe | ' |
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- - Hyphen ; Hyphen ; Supplementary line |
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| Indent ; Up line | - |
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quotation marks "" »« / «» ‚'› ‹ / ‹ › |
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| Slashes / \ | |
| Brackets () [] | |
A word mark is a special character that - unlike punctuation marks - is not used to structure sentences, but is used within individual words. Examples are the apostrophe , the hyphen , the hyphen , and the ellipsis (ellipse), a weggefallener word part is replaced so far with them. The generic term for punctuation marks and word marks is punctuation marks . Word characters are also referred to as auxiliary characters by individual authors .
On the use of the terminology
The term “word mark” does not come up very often in the specialist literature, but is used in Glück (2005) as a keyword with reference to the article “punctuation”. The separation of word and punctuation marks is also not consistently maintained. The word characters mentioned here meet z. B. in Kürschner (1997: 284f.) All under "punctuation marks".
Examples
- "The practice of Dr. Müller remains closed until the 15th. ”The last point is a punctuation mark, the other two are word marks.
- “The new album is really shitty!” The ellipse is a word mark.
- "At the end there was another loud crash ... then everything was quiet." The ellipse is a punctuation mark.
- The hyphen is a word mark - the dash is a punctuation mark.
See also
- Ideography (ideogram)
literature
- Helmut Glück (Ed.), With the collaboration of Friederike Schmöe : Metzler Lexikon Sprache. 3rd, revised edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2005, ISBN 3-476-02056-8 .
- Wilfried Kürschner : Grammatical Compendium. Systematic index of basic grammatical terms. 3rd increased and revised edition. Francke, Tübingen u. a. 1997, ISBN 3-8252-1526-1 ( UTB for Science - Uni Pocket Books - Linguistics 1526).
- Franziska Buchmann: The word signs in German. Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8253-6377-2 .
