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A dialogical perspective of interaction: the case of people with deaf/blindness Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 I, v, a, n, a, , M, a, r, k, o, v, á
This article considers dialogicality as a dynamic ontology and epistemology, and as interaction in concrete daily situations. These two features of dialogicality are presented in selected examples involving communication of people with congenital deaf/blindness and their carers. Since people with deaf/blindness cannot use verbal language in their dialogues, they make themselves understood to their
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A little less conversation – On the completeness of discourse-initial action-guiding subsententials Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 S, i, m, o, n, , B, o, r, c, h, m, a, n, n
This study analyzes the relation between utterances and human activities with a view to determining how and under what conditions discourse-initial verbless utterances can be considered pragmatically, semantically, and grammatically complete. The study is empirically based on a set of observations of discourse-intital action-guiding verbless speech acts, which for a large part have been observed in
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Other orientation: uncovering the roots of praxis Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 S, t, e, p, h, e, n, , J, ., , C, o, w, l, e, y
In honouring Per Linell's achievements, I pursue how dialogue was traced back to praxis. Hence, I begin with how, countering generative theory as overblown, Linell found a hard middle way and, thus, adopted a modest realism. In early work, he traced phonology to what can be heard and, later, diagnosed exclusive emphasis on things or rules as written language bias. Since much depends on how we speak
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Situated action, double dialogicality and the sociogenesis of categorizing in institutional practices: Diversity in schooling from vicious children to neuropsychiatric diagnoses Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Roger Säljö, Eva Hjörne
The background of this article is an interest in institutional communication. The context in which this has been studied concerns how diversity (in social background, ethnicity, school success etc.) is, and has been, interpreted in schooling, historically as well as in contemporary society. Through history, a range of categories allegedly accounting for school failure has been suggested, and the categories
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From ‘psycholinguistics’ to the study of distributed sense-making: Psychological reality revisited Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Hannele Dufva
The paper discusses the ‘psychological reality’ of human languaging. Basing on the dialogical and distributed arguments, the point of departure is in observations of the actualities of languaging in different modalities and environments. Arguing against the psychological reality of ‘mental grammars’ as storages of internal rules and representations, the concept of decontextual and amodal language knowledge
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Spatial frames of reference in Dholuo Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Awino Ogelo, Emanuel Bylund
The aim of the present article is to investigate spatial frames of reference in Dholuo, a language from the Nilotic family. Spatial descriptions were elicited by implementing a novel task, the New Man and Tree Task, which is a photo-object referential task (as opposed to the more traditional photo–photo referential tasks). The New Man and Tree Task fully crosses the categories of featured vs. unfeatured
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A structural analysis of personal names in Kusaal Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Hasiyatu Abubakari, Lawrence Sandow, Samuel Akugri Asitanga
New names are created on daily bases but old names never change in form. Thus, names offer a window where the archaic linguistics structure of a language can be traced. This study explores the grammatical structure of personal names in Kusaal by focusing on their phonology, morphonology and syntax. Phonologically, the paper explores the phonotactics of personal names; morphologically, it discusses
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Unraveling cognitive constraints in constrained languages: a comparative study of syntactic complexity in translated, EFL, and native varieties Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Jiaxin Chen, Dechao Li, Kanglong Liu
This study examines syntactic complexity in Translated English (TE) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL), drawing comparisons with Native English (NE). The objective is to explore the unique syntactic features of these constrained languages, which we hypothesize are influenced by inherent cognitive and social constraints. We operationalize syntactic complexity using five constructs, namely length
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Event structure, force dynamics and verb semantics Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Peter Gärdenfors
This article presents a cognitive model of event structure that can be used to explain several features of the semantics of verbs. The model consists of four basic components: agent, patient, force vector and result vector. Each component is described in terms of the theory of conceptual spaces. The force vector is the cause of the result vector. Unlike other event models both the cause and the effect
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Tok Pisin metalanguage: why is Sinasina Sign Language not tok (‘language’)? Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Samantha Rarrick
Linguists recognize that sign languages are highly complex linguistic systems which meet all the criteria used to define a ‘language’. My ongoing language documentation with the Kere community in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and their local languages, Kere, and Sinasina Sign Language (SSSL), suggests that the English word ‘language’ is not a direct correlate of the Tok Pisin words tok or tok ples, as the
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“Introjecting” imagery: A process model of how minds and bodies are co-enacted Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Michael Kimmel, Stefan M. Schneider, Vicky J. Fisher
Somatic practices frequently use imagery, typically via verbal instructions, to scaffold sensorimotor organization and experience, a phenomenon we term “introjection”. We argue that introjection is an imagery practice in which sensorimotor and conceptual aspects are co-orchestrated, suggesting the necessity of crosstalk between somatics, phenomenology, psychology, embodied-enactive cognition, and linguistic
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A corpus-based study of maximizer–adjective patterns in Croatian Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Ivan Lacić
Maximizers represent a subclass of degree modifiers that convey the highest degree to which a property can be carried out. This paper studies five Croatian near-synonymous maximizers (all meaning “completely, totally”), viz. posve, potpuno, sasvim, skroz, and totalno, as a part of construction. It is assumed here that analysed pairings act as (semi)-prefabricated units with maximizers that impose particular
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English motion and progressive constructions, and the typological drift from bounded to unbounded discourse construal Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Teresa Fanego
Recent psycholinguistic studies have revealed an important distinction in narrative discourse between bounded and unbounded language use. Bounded language use is typical of Germanic languages other than English and involves the holistic presentation of situations, with clauses construed as self-contained units attaining a point of completion. Unbounded language use, in turn, groups events into larger
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Exploring the role of first language in ecological awareness and communication across Pakistan: A mixed method study Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Muhammad Shaban Rafi, Rebecca Kanak Fox
The present study proposes a linguistic habitat that may evoke people's first language (L1) to support a better understanding of current environmental catastrophes and address one pathway to support solution finding. A purposive participant sample consisted of 25 undergraduate students majoring in linguistics was selected to provide input regarding how their first language (Balochi, Balti, Pashto,
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Multimodal dairy cow–human interaction in an intensive farming context Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Leonie Cornips, Marjo van Koppen
In our consideration of how to decentre an anthropocentric view in linguistics, we will address the following research question: how do dairy cows and humans imbue their interspecies interaction as a semiotic resource with meaning that makes sense for both species under specific social conditions (Jørgensen, 2008:167). We address the question by using a social-interactional approach informed by conversation
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The practice of metaphor in conversation: an ecological integrational approach Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Catherine Read
In this study an integrational linguistic approach to metaphor is used in the context of an ecological psychology study of novel metaphor creation by adults in a structured conversation setting. This paper forms an example of the proposed complementarity of integrational linguistics (Harris, 1981) and ecological psychology (Gibson, 1979; Jones and Read, 2023) by providing a study of novel metaphor
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On the place and role of ‘discourse’ in the Functional Discourse Grammar model. The interface between language system and language use Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Francis Cornish
Mackenzie (2020) is a defense of the position adopted by the architects of the standard model of Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG): namely that the model cannot (and even could never) be considered a ‘grammar of discourse’. The article examines the arguments given for rejecting the ‘discourse’ dimension from the FDG model, proposes an independent account of discourse, and suggests a means of dovetailing
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The cognitive psychological distinctions between levels of meaning Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Abduwali Rahman, Zhenqian Liu
This study is an attempt to investigate the psychological reality and cognitive priority of three layers of linguistic meaning—what is said, impliciture, and implicature. According to the literal-first serial processing model, what is said is psychologically real and is required to draw an impliciture and/or implicature. By contrast, the impliciture-by-default processing model argues that there is
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Toward an ecological model of language: from cognitive linguistics to ecological semantics Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Takuya Inoue
The ecological perspective of language has gained prominence in linguistics over the past two decades. Since its anti-representationalist and anti-cognitivist stance, the ecological approach faces a challenge in reconciling with modern linguistic theories: While the ecological approach focuses on the dynamic aspects of language, it has been criticized for needing help to account for stable linguistic
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Generative linguistics: ‘Galilean style’ Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 John Collins
Generative linguistics is often claimed by Chomsky to have a 'Galilean style', which is intended to position linguistics as a science continuous with standard practise in the natural sciences. These claims, however, are more suggestive than explanatory. The paper will, first, explain just what a Galilean style is. It will then be argued that its application to two key notions in generative linguistics
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The empirical discovery of domains of assembly and communion Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Fred Cummins, Luciana Longo
We consider chanting, or joint speech, which is ubiquitous, but not evenly distributed, in human activity. Taking an observational stance motivated by embodied cognitive science, we approach this topic without assumptions of the structure of persons, social formations, culture, or nature. This restrictive starting point motivates the use of a simple empirical definition of joint speech (the utterance
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Corrigendum to “The influence of linguistic and social attitudes on grammaticality judgments of singular ‘they’” [Lang Sci 78 (2020) 101272] Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Evan D. Bradley
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A multidimensional alignment sustainability model for language development: Evidence from L1 and L2 semio-semantic and semio-pragmatic markers Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Hao-Zhang Xiao, Weiwei Zhang, Ruifeng Mo
Language development is subject to its interaction and alignment with environments. However, how it interacts and aligns with environments necessitates further research, given current incompatible views and findings on language–context relations, particularly marker–context relations in multimodal or second language's (L2) sustainable development. Thus, this article proposes from the Ecolinguistic
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Reconceptualising the notion of cross-linguistic transfer in multilingual spaces: A Global South perspective from South Africa Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-08-19 Dumisile N. Mkhize
There is a growing consensus among applied linguists from the Global South that orthodox linguistic and applied linguistic paradigms, theoretical frameworks and methodologies do not adequately serve these contexts. As a result, there has been an increase in interest in challenging Global North paradigms, theoretical perspectives and methodologies. In line with these concerns, in this critical reflective
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Group boundary salience and nonaccommodation between healthcare workers and community members in Ghana Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-08-05 Mathias Aboba, Gretchen Montgomery-Vestecka
Over the past decades, public health policy and initiatives have shifted away from individual interventions to focus more broadly on community-based and social determinants of health. Community-based health initiatives are health programs developed to be implemented at the community level, especially amongst poor rural populations and urban slums that may be excluded from traditional healthcare models
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Communication accommodation theory: Past accomplishments, current trends, and future prospects Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Howard Giles, America L. Edwards, Joseph B. Walther
This Special Issue commemorates the 50th anniversary of communication accommodation theory (CAT) in 2023, formerly known as speech accommodation theory. This article reflects on the diversity of CAT research as seen in recent studies (2021–2023) as well as the empirical papers to follow in this Special Issue. It provides an overview of CAT's history by reference to previously suggested stages in the
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Examining textism convergence in mediated interactions Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Aubrie Adams, Jai Miles
Textisms refer to unconventional digital cues used to convey nonverbal information in text communication. However, little is known about how these cues operate and what theoretical underpinnings help us understand when users choose to integrate textisms into their personal and professional online interactions. One theory that explains this phenomenon is communication accommodation theory (CAT), which
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Responses to CAT at 50: Reflections on accommodation from a sociolinguist Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-07-15
Communication accommodation theory (CAT) has shown remarkable staying power. To what can we attribute this? I suggest several reasons: first, the general phenomenon of accommodation has been long recognised by researchers and skilled practitioners of language, hence a systematic approach predicated on clear principles and experimental methods was attractive to the fields of linguistics, social psychology
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Comedic convergence: Humor responses to verbal irony in text messages Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-07-15
Mode adoption is a term used primarily in pragmatics and linguistics which refers to responses to verbal irony that: a.) converge with (or ‘adopt’) the humor frame and, b.) add a similar element of ironic humor. This paper argues that mode adoption is a form of high-level accommodation. In order to mode adopt, respondents must converge with the speaker's verbal content, their humorous intent, as well
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Students’ perception of an instructor: The effects of instructor accommodation to student swearing Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-07-15
This study analyzes how an instructor's accommodation tactic, in response to a student using a swear word, affects students' perceptions of the instructor's similarity and credibility, and how perceptions of similarity and credibility affect students' intrinsic motivation to learn. Sex of the instructor was also manipulated in this study based on literature indicating that an instructor's sex may affect
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When in doubt, lay it out: Over vs. under-accommodation in human-robot interaction Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-07-13
What happens when a social robot attempts to accommodate its communicative behavior towards the human interlocutor? The present experiment seeks to expand understanding of how people evaluate social robots when they (the social robots) engage in cases of over- and under-accommodation during interactions. Additionally, the current study partially replicates and extends earlier work examining nonaccommodation
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Communication frequency, identity accommodation, and attitudes toward people with disabilities in the United States: Disability salience and intergroup anxiety Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-07-12
This study investigates the relationship between interability communication (i.e., communication frequency and identity accommodation) and interability attitudes and disability stereotyping through intergroup anxiety and whether the relationship varies with disability salience. Results indicated that participants’ report of communication frequency with their disability-contact had a significant direct
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Vocal accommodation to technology: the role of physical form Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-07-12
This study examines participants’ vocal accommodation toward text-to-speech (TTS) voices produced by three devices, varying in the extent to which they embody a human form. Thirty eight speakers shadowed words produced by a male and female TTS voice presented across three physical forms: an Amazon Echo smart speaker (least human-like), Nao robot (slightly more human-like), and a Furhat robot (more
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Middle-aged children's perceptions of receiving accommodation from their parent and instrumental caregiving intentions Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-07-11
Grounded in communication accommodation theory, this study examined the association between middle-aged children's perceptions of receiving accommodation from their parent and children's intentions to provide instrumental care for the parent. Children's communication satisfaction was also tested as a mediator of this association. Perceptions of receiving accommodation were directly and positively associated
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Sound-meaning mapping: Verbal imitation of Super Mario music by Yorùbá gamers Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-05-20 Samuel Kayode Akinbo
An aspect of gaming culture among Yorùbá millennials is verbally interpreting certain musical motifs of the popular videogame called Super Mario Bros. The themes of the verbal interpretations are comparable to those of music texts at traditional Yorùbá competitions. Drawing on the Yorùbá music tradition, the account in this work is that, to the gamers, the background music of the videogame performs
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How does language evolve as a multi-level system? A quantitative exploration of written Chinese Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Heng Chen, Yaqin Wang
Hierarchy has been described as the backbone of a language system. However, how language evolves as a multi-level system has not been explored quantitatively based on authentic language materials. The Menzerath–Altmann law (MAL) is a statistical linguistic universal that can capture the complex relationships between language units at neighboring levels. Using the MAL, the present study explored the
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Revisiting complement and parenthetical constructions: theory and description Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-04-08 An Van linden, Lieven Vandelanotte, Lieselotte Brems
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Inference and indexicality, or how to solve Bakhtin's problem with heteroglossia Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Ken Hirschkop
Bakhtin's concept of heteroglossia was ambiguous on a central point: whether the styles or socio-ideological languages that constituted it were creations of novelistic discourse itself or were already established in everyday speech and incorporated into the novel. The sociolinguistic and anthropological literature on indexicality has greatly enriched our understanding of heteroglossia, but, it, too
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Mythbusters united? A dialogue over Harris's integrationist linguistics and Gibson's Ecological Psychology Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Peter E. Jones, Catherine Read
In this paper an integrationist linguist (Peter E Jones) and an Ecological Psychologist (Catherine Read) open a dialogue on the possibility of a productive relationship between the integrationist approach to language and communication of Roy Harris and James Gibson's Ecological Psychology of perceiving/acting/knowing. Within their own disciplinary contexts, each position is one of profound critique
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Multimodal coordination and pragmatic modes in conversation Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-02-03
Language is intrinsically multimodal. Speakers use gestures, prosody, gaze, and facial expressions as cues that complement and expand the meaning expressed in their words. These varied signals operate in remarkably flexible coordination, constantly adapting to the conversational partners and topics as they change over time. We argue that an ecological approach to multimodal behavior offers a promising
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Tracing and classifying German intensifiers via information theory Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Tatjana Scheffler, Michael Richter, Roeland van Hout
We apply information theoretic notions to model intensifiers in German. We show that information theory can explain that despite their common referential meaning, some intensifiers are extremely frequent (so), while others are uncommon (arsch ‘butt’), and seem to induce a stronger intensifying effect. We introduce two notions to model the expressivity of an intensifier in a given message: the local
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A quantitative study on zero copula in Japanese Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Satoshi Nambu
This article investigates the nature of zero copula in Japanese from variationist sociolinguistic and historical perspectives. The corpus-based surveys revealed that zero copula has existed for a long period of time and used to be the default form in the relevant linguistic environments in the past, which currently undergoes a change toward an increase in the use of the overt copula. The questionnaire
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Linguistic descriptions and cultural models of olfaction in Umpila and English Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Thomas Poulton, Clair Hill
People describe olfactory phenomena in various ways. Some, like Umpila speakers (Pama-Nyungan, Cape York Peninsula, Australia), most commonly describe smells in terms of their pleasantness and other subjective evaluations (e.g., kanti ‘intense of sense’, miintha ‘good’, kuntha ‘strong’). Others, like English speakers, most commonly refer to real-world entities (e.g., floral, woody, like pizza). However
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Voice, rhythm, and genre in children's early writing Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Bettina Perregaard
Studies within evolutionary musicology and ontogenetic development propose an intimate relation between the quality of the human voice, the rhythm of interactional patterns (e.g. the alternation between repetition and improvisation), the origins of aesthetics, and the characteristics of performances within the temporal arts. Focusing on the role of auditory perception in children's development of narrative
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Language sciences in the future: Enhancing our epistemological horizons Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Sune Vork Steffensen, Laura Gurney, Anne Storch, Matthew Harvey
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From size measurement to simultaneity: the case of Russian po mere ‘by measure’ Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Alena Kolyaseva
This paper contributes to the growing body of literature on nouns of measurement and the multifaceted processes that they are susceptible to undergo. It spotlights the Russian prepositional phrase po mere, lit. ‘by measure’, which originally held a compositional meaning referring to size measurement but has shifted towards a relator function as a temporal preposition marking simultaneity. The paper
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Discursive practices of the performative theory of solidarity discourse Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2022-10-22 Ahlam Alharbi, Mary Rucker
To contribute to the performative theory of solidarity discourse, this exploratory study examined the discursive practices of solidarity discourse acts. Five discursive practices were identified. It has been noted that the plurality and assimilation practice, complete assimilation, and partial assimilation is the most frequently employed practice. Assimilation is accomplished using three strategies:
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Nominal classification in Mabia languages of West Africa Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Hasiyatu Abubakari, Samuel Alhassan Issah
The literature on the nominal classification system of Mabia languages reveals a consistent pattern where nominals are often classified based on their morphology, phonology and semantics. What has not received mention is the role of ethnolinguistics and linguistic anthropology in the classification of nominals in these languages. This study offers a comparative analysis of the nominal class systems
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Sequential Time construal is primary in temporal uses of Mandarin Chinese qian ‘front’ and hou ‘back’ Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Yongfei Yang, Chris Sinha, Luna Filipovic
This article addresses two previously unresolved puzzles regarding the relationship between temporal and spatial conceptualizations in Mandarin Chinese. First, apparently conflicting data have led to disagreement over whether temporal usages of the terms qian and hou, whose spatial meanings of ‘front’ and ‘back’ are often considered to be primary, are based on a canonical facing of Ego towards past
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‘Face’-related expressions in the Minnan Dialect of Chinese Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Jiejun Chen, Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House
In this study, we investigate the use of ‘face’-related expressions in the Minnan Dialect of Chinese. Minnan is often referred to as a ‘conservative’ dialect because of its large inventory of archaic and local expressions, including a rich variety of ‘face’-related expressions. To date, little research has been dedicated to this ‘face’-related inventory in Minnan, supposedly because it is often assumed
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A defense of a weak linguistic relativist thesis Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2022-09-25 Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana
By confronting two linguistic myths, a strong linguistic relativist thesis and the idea that communication is the only means of language, this article demonstrates that some aspects of language mold some habits of thought and that language provides different speech communities with distinct behavioral patterns to accomplish specific social actions adequately. The article, thus, argues that there is
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The negotiation of epistemic and deontic rights in child-adult interactions in colloquial Jakartan Indonesian Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Rika Mutiara
Discourse markers can function to mark epistemic and deontic modality. This study aims to explore how children and adults apply the discourse marker deh to signal their epistemic and deontic rights. Previous studies only dealt with how the deontic aspect of deh is used in determining future actions. There is no discussion on how the speakers use epistemic and deontic rights in interactions even though
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Depression, neuroticism, extraversion and pronoun use in first and foreign languages following mood induction Language Sciences (IF 0.816) Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Soheil Behdarvandirad, Hossein Karami
Previous studies have noticed that depression, neuroticism, extraversion, and mood can leave linguistic fingerprints, particularly on pronoun use. The first aim of the present study was to examine the linguistic associations and impacts of these psychological constructs among Iranian native speakers of Farsi. Secondly, the linguistic correlates of depression, neuroticism, and extraversion were investigated
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