Contradiction Studies

Agentiver und Nonagentiver Widerspruch. Eine Kartographie der linguistischen Widerspruchsforschung

Article / Paper

Jonas Trochemowitz

2024

Publication of the University of Bremen and University of Vienna international student conference »Debattieren, Opponieren, Protestieren – Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf sprachliche Praktiken des Widersprechens« 2023.

In ThemaTalkers (Lara Berlage, Julian Engelken, Peter Ernst, Jan Hensellek, Lara Herford, Louis Hypius, Sargis Poghosyan, An- gelina Schellin, Susanne Sophie Schmalwieser & Ingo H. Warnke) (eds.), Debattieren, Opponieren, Protestieren. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf sprachliche Praktiken des Widersprechens, 66–81. Universität Bremen.

DOI:
doi.org/10.26092/elib/3137.

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