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  1. R-1 · Cross-field connection · directed

    Abduction → Semiosis

    Meaning of the relation type
    Die Verbindung überschreitet einen fachlichen Kontinent. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Abduction starts from what a sign indicates and infers a possible explanation. Semiosis is the process of interpretation through which the sign acquires meaning. Interpreting a sign need not involve an abductive inference.
    Evidence basis
    Importierter Querverweis über Fachgrenzen (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  2. R-2 · Distinction · directed

    Ablaut → Umlaut

    Meaning of the relation type
    Ein Atlasprofil grenzt den Zielbegriff ausdrücklich ab. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Ablaut refers to historically patterned vowel alternation. In the development of Old English, i-umlaut arose when an i or j in a following syllable affected a stem vowel. Similar-looking alternations can therefore have different histories.
    Evidence basis
    Profilfeld: Nicht verwechseln mit (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  3. R-3 · Subject neighbour · directed

    Ablaut → Inflection

    Meaning of the relation type
    Beide Begriffe gehören demselben fachlichen Kontinent an. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Ablaut can distinguish forms in an inflectional paradigm, as it does in strong verbs. It is one way of marking inflection.
    Evidence basis
    Gemeinsamer fachlicher Kontinent (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  4. R-4 · Subject neighbour · directed

    Adjacency pair → Speech act

    Meaning of the relation type
    Beide Begriffe gehören demselben fachlichen Kontinent an. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    An adjacency pair links conversational actions such as asking and answering a question. A speech act is the action performed by an utterance. The pair shows how one action makes a particular kind of response relevant.
    Evidence basis
    Gemeinsamer fachlicher Kontinent (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  5. R-5 · Subject neighbour · directed

    Adjacency pair → Speaker change

    Meaning of the relation type
    Beide Begriffe gehören demselben fachlichen Kontinent an. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Adjacency pairs create expectations about the next contribution to a conversation. Turn-taking governs who speaks when and makes such sequences possible. Other factors also shape the allocation of turns.
    Evidence basis
    Gemeinsamer fachlicher Kontinent (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  6. R-6 · Subject neighbour · directed

    Adjacency pair → Preference organization

    Meaning of the relation type
    Beide Begriffe gehören demselben fachlichen Kontinent an. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Responses within an adjacency pair can follow different patterns. Preference organization helps explain why, for instance, refusals are often delayed or accompanied by an explanation. “Preference” here concerns the structure of the exchange, regardless of anyone’s personal wishes.
    Evidence basis
    Gemeinsamer fachlicher Kontinent (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  7. R-7 · Subject neighbour · directed

    Audience design → Common ground

    Meaning of the relation type
    Beide Begriffe gehören demselben fachlichen Kontinent an. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Audience design takes account of what speakers expect their listeners to know. Common ground consists of assumptions participants treat as shared. Speakers can draw on those assumptions or use an utterance to establish them.
    Evidence basis
    Gemeinsamer fachlicher Kontinent (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  8. R-8 · Subject neighbour · directed

    Audience design → Deixis

    Meaning of the relation type
    Beide Begriffe gehören demselben fachlichen Kontinent an. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Deictic expressions require a reference point the listener can identify. In designing an utterance for an audience, a speaker considers whether the listener can tell what words like “here” or “this” refer to.
    Evidence basis
    Gemeinsamer fachlicher Kontinent (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  9. R-9 · Subject neighbour · directed

    Affix → Morpheme

    Meaning of the relation type
    Beide Begriffe gehören demselben fachlichen Kontinent an. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    An affix is a bound element used in word formation or to mark grammatical distinctions. The morpheme is the broader unit of analysis for forms that carry meaning or serve a grammatical function.
    Evidence basis
    Gemeinsamer fachlicher Kontinent (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  10. R-10 · Subject neighbour · directed

    Affricate → Phoneme

    Meaning of the relation type
    Beide Begriffe gehören demselben fachlichen Kontinent an. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    An affricate combines a closure with a release into friction. Whether it functions as a single phoneme depends on the sound system of the language. Its phonetic shape alone cannot settle the question.
    Evidence basis
    Gemeinsamer fachlicher Kontinent (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  11. R-11 · Subject neighbour · directed

    Accommodation → Presupposition

    Meaning of the relation type
    Beide Begriffe gehören demselben fachlichen Kontinent an. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Presupposition accommodation can bring previously unshared information into the conversational background when an utterance takes it for granted. It helps explain how listeners can make sense of an utterance that assumes more than they already know.
    Evidence basis
    Gemeinsamer fachlicher Kontinent (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  12. R-12 · Subject neighbour · directed

    Accommodation → Common ground

    Meaning of the relation type
    Beide Begriffe gehören demselben fachlichen Kontinent an. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Accommodation can change what participants treat as common ground. The common ground is the set of assumptions treated as shared, and participants can challenge a proposed addition to it.
    Evidence basis
    Gemeinsamer fachlicher Kontinent (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  13. R-13 · Subject neighbour · directed

    Accommodation → Implicature

    Meaning of the relation type
    Beide Begriffe gehören demselben fachlichen Kontinent an. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Both accommodation and implicature involve inference. Accommodation adjusts the background assumptions needed to interpret an utterance. Implicature is what the hearer can infer the speaker is conveying beyond what was explicitly said.
    Evidence basis
    Gemeinsamer fachlicher Kontinent (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  14. R-14 · Subject neighbour · directed

    Accommodation → Audience design

    Meaning of the relation type
    Beide Begriffe gehören demselben fachlichen Kontinent an. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Audience design anticipates what a listener knows. Presupposition accommodation describes how the listener may subsequently take up an assumption. The comparison shows where a speaker may have assumed too much.
    Evidence basis
    Gemeinsamer fachlicher Kontinent (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  15. R-15 · Distinction · directed

    Acrostic → Anagram

    Meaning of the relation type
    Ein Atlasprofil grenzt den Zielbegriff ausdrücklich ab. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    An acrostic uses letters from selected positions to create an additional reading. An anagram rearranges letters already present. The two forms use different rules for selecting or ordering letters.
    Evidence basis
    Profilfeld: Nicht verwechseln mit (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  16. R-16 · Cross-field connection · directed

    Acrostic → Trace

    Meaning of the relation type
    Die Verbindung überschreitet einen fachlichen Kontinent. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    An acrostic deliberately leaves a second reading for readers to discover. The notion of a trace draws attention to how they might find it. The comparison leaves open whether an intentional encoding counts as a trace in the narrower, causal sense.
    Evidence basis
    Importierter Querverweis über Fachgrenzen (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  17. R-17 · Distinction · directed

    Aktionsart → Grammatical aspect

    Meaning of the relation type
    Ein Atlasprofil grenzt den Zielbegriff ausdrücklich ab. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Aktionsart concerns the internal temporal structure of a situation. Grammatical aspect presents the situation from a particular temporal viewpoint. Situation type and viewpoint can interact.
    Evidence basis
    Profilfeld: Nicht verwechseln mit (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  18. R-18 · Distinction · directed

    Accent → Prosody

    Meaning of the relation type
    Ein Atlasprofil grenzt den Zielbegriff ausdrücklich ab. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Accent makes a unit stand out in relation to its surroundings. Prosody also includes intonation, rhythm and duration, among other features. Accent is one part of prosody.
    Evidence basis
    Profilfeld: Nicht verwechseln mit (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  19. R-19 · Cross-field connection · directed

    Accent → Focus

    Meaning of the relation type
    Die Verbindung überschreitet einen fachlichen Kontinent. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Prosodic accent can mark focus, for instance by highlighting a correction. Focus is a function of information structure. Languages and contexts differ in how they signal it.
    Evidence basis
    Importierter Querverweis über Fachgrenzen (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  20. R-20 · Subject neighbour · directed

    Accent → Intonation

    Meaning of the relation type
    Beide Begriffe gehören demselben fachlichen Kontinent an. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Accent and intonation work together to make material prominent. Pitch movement can give an accented unit a distinctive contour, while intonation also helps organize larger units of speech.
    Evidence basis
    Gemeinsamer fachlicher Kontinent (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  21. R-21 · Distinction · directed

    Allegory → Metaphor

    Meaning of the relation type
    Ein Atlasprofil grenzt den Zielbegriff ausdrücklich ab. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    A metaphor brings domains of meaning into contact. An allegory sustains a further level of interpretation across characters, scenes or a larger representation. A single metaphor may contribute to that pattern, which extends beyond the individual expression.
    Evidence basis
    Profilfeld: Nicht verwechseln mit (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  22. R-22 · Distinction · directed

    Allegory → Symbol

    Meaning of the relation type
    Ein Atlasprofil grenzt den Zielbegriff ausdrücklich ab. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    An allegory builds a representation that invites interpretation in terms of more abstract relations. A single symbol can convey meaning through convention. Symbols can help build an allegory when they form part of a sustained pattern.
    Evidence basis
    Profilfeld: Nicht verwechseln mit (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  23. R-23 · Cross-field connection · directed

    Allegory → Hermeneutics

    Meaning of the relation type
    Die Verbindung überschreitet einen fachlichen Kontinent. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    An allegory invites an interpretation that goes beyond its literal wording. Hermeneutics examines the conditions and limits of such interpretation, including the limits of reading a work as if it had a single hidden key.
    Evidence basis
    Importierter Querverweis über Fachgrenzen (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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  24. R-24 · Distinction · directed

    Alliteration → Assonance

    Meaning of the relation type
    Ein Atlasprofil grenzt den Zielbegriff ausdrücklich ab. (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Why connected?
    English editorial text
    Alliteration repeats initial sounds. Assonance repeats vowel sounds. Both link words by sound, using different positions or sound features.
    Evidence basis
    Profilfeld: Nicht verwechseln mit (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)
    Recorded review status
    ATLAS_109 klassifiziert (Original source wording; no separate translation recorded)

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