On the status and functions of the hyphen in the German language

DOI

10.2991/ismge-19.2019.108How to use a DOI?

Keywords

hyphen, punctuation, punctuation marks, functions, punctuation principles, dash sign

Abstract

The article analyzes the status and functions of the hyphen as an element of the written form of communication in the German language. Rhetorical principal, semantic principal and principle of grammar of the functional description are considered in the given article. Also, the justification of the rules of punctuation is considered in the study. It is established that the communicative principle of all the above is decisive for all other principles. It was noted that the status of the hyphen as a punctuation mark is ambiguous among different scientists: some researchers include a hyphen in the list of punctuation marks, others refer to it as the auxiliary character in spelling. It is justified that the hyphen is widely used in modern German while performing various functions. The hyphen is closely related to the dash sign; its similarity is manifested in their functional proximity: dashes and hyphens appear at different language levels as a sign of structural-semantic compression. The hyphen can be attributed to the system of punctuation marks on the level of morphemes and basic graphemes, and the associated with it dash mark is a punctuation mark on the text and syntactic level.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Alevtina Plisenko
AU  - Svetlana Pozdniakova
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TI  - On the status and functions of the hyphen in the German language
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Scientific Practical Conference "The Individual and Society in the Modern Geopolitical Environment" (ISMGE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 572
EP  - 576
SN  - 2352-5398
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