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All dictionaries translate "discplacement" as "Verschiebung" into German. But it is a linguistic term and I did not come across this word in German linguistic sources. I would like to know what is the corresponding term in German lingustics?
In linguistics, displacement is the capability of language to communicate about things that are not immediately present (spatially or temporally); i.e., things that are either not here or are not here now.
For the word "displacement" in the sense of Hackett's characterisation of human language, there can be two translations: Dislokation or Dislozierung. It isn't really a fixed term in itself, as Dislokation is also used in the context of syntax (in word order: the movement of a word or phrase to another position in the sentence). And Dislozierung is also used in the context of morphology.
However, Dislozierung appears to be the preferred word in this context.
Dislozierung über das Hier-und-Jetzt hinaus is probably the most non-ambiguous translation: https://www.linguistik.tu-berlin.de/fileadmin/fg72/PDF/04_Folie_Hockett_-_Merkmale_menschlicher_Sprache.pdf
Dislokation from https://books.google.com/books?isbn=3110358638 and https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_F._Hockett#Wissenschaftliche_Beitr.C3.A4ge seems fine!
