Elements of Colloquial Syntax in "Winterkartoffelknödel" by Rita Falk
Abstract
This paper examines how the characteristic features of colloquial German syntax are recreated in the fictional novel Winterkartoffelknödel, by Rita Falk. It aims to explain how the use of a selection of linguistic resources not only allows to reproduce the distinctive properties of oral grammar in a written medium, but also to evoke the unique communicative conditions of unplanned spoken interactions. The research carried out has made it possible to identify a remarkable variety of mechanisms belonging to four areas: the organisation of propositional content, the grammar of the utterance, the sentence periphery and the informative functions. Throughout the paper, it is shown how each of them contributes to generating the impression of immediacy, dynamism and spontaneity that defines colloquial conversation and distinguishes it from other discourse genres.
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