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Millennial identity work in BlablaCar online reviews Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 María de la O Hernández-López
In the age of Internet communication, car sharing as well as other types of sharing (accommodation, offices, etc.) has led to the emergence of the so-called sharing economy platforms, such as BlaBlaCar. Previous studies have demonstrated that millennials (i.e., those born between 1981 and 1999) are the most representative generational cohort regarding their interests in activities organized around
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Transcending the senpai ‘senior’/kōhai ‘junior’ boundary through cross-speaker repetition in Japanese Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Saeko Machi
This study explores the role of cross-speaker repetition in creating interpersonal connections between interactants in Japanese. The analysis focuses on Japanese non-reciprocal conversations between senpai ‘senior’ and kōhai ‘junior’ interactants, where the kōhai are normatively expected to speak using the honorific desu/masu markers. The analysis demonstrates that in such conversations, the kōhai
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Didn’t she say to you, “Oh my God! In Pafos?” Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Constantina Fotiou
This study examines the linguistic and discursive format as well as the functions of hypothetical quotations in everyday, informal conversations amongst Greek Cypriot friends. Drawing from a dataset of 270 minutes of naturally-occurring conversations, this study documents the linguistic format of sixty-one hypothetical quotations and examines why speakers resort to formulating such quotations to begin
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Language practices and policies of Singaporean-Japanese families in Singapore Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Francesco Cavallaro, Yan Kang Tan, Wenhan Xie, Bee Chin Ng
The few studies on Family Language Policy in Singapore (FLP) have generally focused on FLP in local and immigrant Chinese families. This article explores language policies that seem to undergird Singaporean-Japanese families’ language practices. In-depth interviews and observations with five such families showed that Japanese only functions as the language of communication between the Japanese parents
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The cyclic nature of negation: From implicit to explicit Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Ruti Bardenstein
Abstract The Hebrew negation adverbial bilti ‘not’ seems to function very differently in Biblical Hebrew than it does in Contemporary Hebrew. This paper addresses this difference and discusses its evolution. The main question addressed in this paper is: How has Hebrew bilti, originally an exceptive marker (with sentential scoping), ended up functioning solely as a privative in contemporary Hebrew?
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Responses to English compliments on language ability Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Randa Saleh Maine Alharbi, Pat Strauss, Lynn Grant
Employing a cross-generational perspective, this study attempts to deepen our understanding of the politeness strategies Saudi females use when responding to compliments in English from an English speaker. The study investigated how Saudi females from two generations respond to compliments in an educational setting in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Participants included sixty-two female undergraduate
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Korean imperatives at two different speech levels Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Mary Shin Kim
Korean imperatives are differentiated by speech levels or levels of honorification. Accordingly, most research on Korean imperatives examines them from the perspective of politeness and interpersonal relations. This study takes a different approach, focusing on two types of non-honorific imperative turn design: one with the intimate speech level imperative e/a and the other with the plain speech level
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Intergenerational interviews in Negev Arabic Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Roni Henkin
Communication strategies used for conversational repair in Negev Arabic are examined here in a 170,000-word corpus of intergenerational interviews, with university students interviewing their relatives, over age 55, in the Bedouin community in the Negev, southern Israel. Since the traditional language and narrative style of the elderly are largely unfamiliar to the young generation in terms of lexicon
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The pragmatics of alternative futures in political discourses Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Ali Basarati, Hadaegh Rezaei, Mohammad Amouzadeh
We shall concentrate on how the construction and modality system of alternative futures in political discourses are influenced by the construal of past-to-present threats and preemptive politics. Using Dunmire’s (2005) proposed framework and further explorations by Cap (2020) on the subject, we approach twenty of Trump’s speeches on Iran, from 2017–2020. Our analyses indicated that the construction
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Has madam read Wilson (2016)? Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Agnieszka Piskorska
This paper offers an account of Polish addressative forms encoding deference and familiarity in terms of the relevance-theoretic notion of procedural meaning, which underlies a heterogeneous range of phenomena linked to different cognitive domains. The procedure encoded by pronouns used referentially can be seen as targeting the domain of inferential comprehension and contributing to the truth-conditional
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On the manifestness of assumptions Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Didier Maillat
Right from the outset, relevance theory (Sperber and Wilson 1986/1995) tried to define interpretation as a process of context elaboration. Interpretation is seen as a path of least effort leading to the selection of a set of most accessible assumptions. One of the central aspects of this context elaboration process lies in the fact that contextual assumptions are not randomly scattered in the hearer’s
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Metarepresentational phenomena in Japanese and English Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Seiji Uchida
Contrastive studies of languages usually focus on differences in lexical items, syntactic structures, semantic expressions, collocations, and so on. In the present paper we take a cognitive pragmatic approach, assuming that metarepresentation in the sense of Sperber (2000) and Wilson (2000) offers a crucial perspective in such studies. We discuss how the speech act component of higher-level explicatures
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Deceptive clickbaits in the relevance-theoretic lens Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Maria Jodłowiec
This paper explores the nature of clickbaiting as a form of viral journalism from a relevance-theoretic perspective (Sperber and Wilson 1995; Wilson and Sperber 2012). The focus is on deceptive clickbaits, i.e., manipulative internet headlines whose interpretation, based on the way they are worded, leads to opening an information gap, thus luring the reader into clicking on the link provided with a
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Perceptual resemblance and the communication of emotion in digital contexts Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Ryoko Sasamoto
Online communication has created new ways to express emotions, including emoji and reaction GIFs. Emoji are often discussed as signs for meaning-making, adding emotional tone to communication. Reaction GIFs express emotions and attitudes in a playful manner. This study shows that through the lens of cognitive pragmatics, these phenomena are not distinct. Both are cases of non-verbal communication pointing
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Non-literal uses of proper names in XYZ constructions Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Ewa Wałaszewska
The paper focuses on non-literal uses of proper names in XYZ constructions, such as the use of the personal name Donald Trump in Boris Johnson is the Donald Trump of UK politics or ‘5G’ is the Donald Trump of telecom, and argues that such uses can be best accounted for by relevance theory. While in their primary use, proper names uniquely denote specific individuals and have no meaning on their own
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Paralanguage and ad hoc concepts Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Manuel Padilla Cruz
Ad hoc concept construction is regarded as a case of free pragmatic enrichment, so it is presented as a non-linguistically mandated process that is automatically accomplished during mutual parallel adjustment. Recent research suggests that this lexical pragmatic process may be marked and steered by various linguistic elements. These include evaluative morphemes, lexical and phrasal items adjacent to
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Ad hoc concepts and the relevance heuristics Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Benoît Leclercq
The idea that interpreting a lexeme typically involves a context-dependent process of meaning construction has in recent years become common ground in linguistic theory. This view is very explicit in relevance theory (Sperber and Wilson 1995), which posits that speakers systematically infer ad hoc concepts (Carston 2002). Such an approach raises theoretical issues, though. First, it directly poses
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Concepts and context in relevance-theoretic pragmatics Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Agnieszka Piskorska, Manuel Padilla Cruz
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Overlaps in collaboration adjustments Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Lala U. Takeda
This study examines collaborative utterance overlaps in American English and Japanese interactions between the same participants in two genres, conversation and problem-solving tasks, from the perspective of metacommunication. Quantitative and qualitative analyses indicated that participants’ use of overlap varies in frequency and function by genre. In conversation tasks, speakers of both languages
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Japanese no datta and no de atta in written discourse Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Hironori Nishi
The present study examines no datta and no de atta, which are the past-tense forms of no da and no de aru in written Japanese. The analysis demonstrates that the choice between the present-tense no da/no de aru and the past-tense no datta/no de atta does not affect the temporal interpretation when they follow past-tense morphemes. However, a close examination has also revealed that the past-tense no
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Nigerian stand-up comediennes performing femininity Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Ibukun Filani
Nigerian stand-up comedy has attracted several investigations from different disciplinary perspectives; however, there has been little research interest into the performance of femininity in the genre. Coming from pragmatics, this paper analyses how Nigerian comediennes use the language of humour to (de)construct sociocultural perspectives on the female identity. Data comprise purposively selected
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How to be authentic on Instagram Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Agurtzane Elordui, Jokin Aiestaran
This paper analyses the way young people negotiate their ‘real’ identity on Instagram, and how self-presentation can be developed by means of language choice. We draw our data from the corpus of the Gaztesare project. It contains the Instagram production of Basque university students who draw on an inventory of multilingual resources in their interactions. We consider Instagram to be a multi-scalar
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Japanese turn-final tteyuu as a formulation device Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Yuki Arita
This paper offers a conversation analytic study of the Japanese turn-final construction tteyuu as a conversational practice of formulation. Tteyuu is normally used in clausal noun modification, being placed between its preceding clausal component and a following head noun. However, tteyuu also appears to be employed utterance-finally without a following head noun. Through microanalysis of mundane conversation
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‘That is very important, isn’t it?’ Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Branka Živković
This study explores the use of content-oriented questions in British and Montenegrin university lectures. It examines their formal realisation, their frequency and their contextual functions, as well as the differences and similarities related to these questions between British linguistics lectures taken from the standard British corpora, and a specially compiled corpus of Montenegrin linguistics lectures
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Power dynamics and pragma-cultural sources of unsourced evidentiality in Persian Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Amin Zaini, Hossein Shokouhi
This paper investigates participants’ reflections on power relations embedded in the cultural-pragmatics of unsourced evidentials in Persian texts. Using Fairclough’s (2013) critical discourse analysis, we adopted Hanks’ (2018) ethnography of referential practices and Foucault’s (1980) power dynamics to analyse 16 Persian texts through follow up interviews and focus group discussions on two opposing
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The son (érzi) is not really a son Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Kun Yang, Jing Chen
This paper aims to explore the generalization of address terms in online discourse, a largely unheeded pragmatic phenomenon. Taking the generalized Chinese kinship term “son” (érzi) as an example, it analyzes its referents and functions. The analysis was based on a sizable data set collected from WeChat, and interviews with some WeChat users. It demonstrates that the address term “son” (érzi) conveys
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Development of the use of discourse markers across different fluency levels of CEFR Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Lan-fen Huang, Yen-liang Lin, Tomáš Gráf
Fluent L2 English speakers frequently use discourse markers (DMs) as a speech management strategy, but research has largely ignored how this develops across different proficiency levels and how it is related to immersive experiences. This study examines the developmental patterns of three DMs – well, you know and like – in the speech of learners at A2-C1 in CEFR with and without immersive experiences
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The use of boosters and evidentials in British campaign debates on the Brexit referendum Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 María Luisa Carrió-Pastor, Ana Albalat-Mascarell
Little attention has been given to the role of metadiscoursal devices in non-academic discourses with an overtly persuasive component such as political discourse. We address this gap by analysing the presence and function of evidentials and boosters in the 2016 campaign debates on the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum (also known as the Brexit referendum). In this vein, our objectives
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Picking fights with politicians Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Jack B. Joyce, Linda Walz
In 2016 the UK held a divisive referendum on its membership of the European Union. In the aftermath, difference and division were rife in politics and in everyday life. This article explores how such difference and division play out in and through interaction through examining a citizen ‘picking a fight’ with a politician over how Brexit has been handled. Drawing on membership categorisation analysis
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Shifting perspective on indexicals Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Mark Bowker
The debate over the meanings of indexical expressions has relied heavily on the method of counterexamples. This paper challenges that method by showing that purported counterexamples can often be explained away by appeal to perspective shifts. For these counterexamples to establish anything about indexical reference, we must identify the conditions under which theorists can legitimately appeal to perspective
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‘So many “virologists” in this thread!’ Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Marta Andersson
This paper embarks on a functional analysis of impolite language use in discussions about the response to the pandemic of Covid-19 on the official Facebook page of the Swedish national public television broadcaster in the spring of 2020. Having combined the existing models of impoliteness (Culpeper 2016) with the Appraisal theory (Martin and White 2005) in a both quantitative and qualitative investigation
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The metapragmatics of legal advice communication in the field of immigration law Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Marie Jacobs
Metapragmatic comments are crucial in lawyers’ attempts at managing legal advice communication with asylum seekers. Drawing on linguistic-ethnographic fieldwork in the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium, this paper aims to demonstrate how/when/why textual features which tell interactants how to interpret the ongoing speech are used in the context of lawyer-client communication in the field of immigration
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Accounts as acts of identity Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Spyridoula Bella, Eva Ogiermann
This paper investigates accounts justifying the closures of businesses found on public signs in Athens and London during the COVID-19 pandemic. The data for the study was drawn from a corpus of COVID-19-related public signage collected in the two cities during the first lockdown. The accounts used on these signs are analysed as acts of identity and, specifically, as discursive means deployed by the
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Aspects of væ (‘and’) as a discourse marker in Persian Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Reza Kazemian, Mohammad Amouzadeh
This study investigates the functions of væ (‘and’) as a discourse marker in Persian. More specifically, this study accounts for certain aspects of væ co-occurrences and their linearization order. Fraser’s model (forthcoming) was mainly employed to classify the multiple functions conveyed by væ. A corpus-based approach was taken to provide an overview of væ co-occurrences with other discourse markers
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Metapragmatics in indirect reports Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Mostafa Morady Moghaddam, Seyyed Ali Ostovar-Namaghi
This study attempts to describe how metapragmatic devices can exert change in indirect reporting. This was achieved through the analysis of naturally occurring indirect reports during interaction. Specifically, indirect reports were extracted from a series of expert talks (≈800 minutes) broadcast by Iranian national TV. The analysis of these expert talks showed cases of communicative ‘know-hows’, where
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Epistemic calibration Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Emmi Koskinen, Melisa Stevanovic
Sometimes a division has been made between expressions of knowledge and expressions of emotion, but in the actual instances of interaction, they are deeply intertwined. In this paper we investigate the relationship between these expressions through the notions of affiliation and epistemics. More specifically, we analyze the phenomenon of ‘epistemic calibration’ in response to tellings of personal experience
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On the dialogic frames of mirative enunciations Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 María Marta García Negroni, Manuel Libenson
In this paper we will describe the meanings of surprise associated to different uses of the discourse marker mirá in Argentinian Spanish. Our aim is to contrast the subjective stances of surprise emerging in response to the different dialogic frames prompting mirative enunciations with mirá. From the Dialogic Approach to Argumentation and Polyphony, we intend to show how these stances of surprise can
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Discoursal representation of masculine parenting in Arabic and English websites Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Mohammed Nahar Al-Ali, Hanan A. Shatat
The purpose of this study is to investigate the differences and similarities between Arabic and English parents’ role in Arabic and English parenting website texts and the linguistic exponents used to address parents and signal their roles, and to find out the socio-cultural ideologies that have given rise to variations in gender roles. To this end, a corpus of 40 articles targeting gender-neutral
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Referring to arbitrary entities with placeholders Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Tohru Seraku
A speaker/writer uses a placeholder (PH) to fill in the syntactic slot of a target word when she has no immediate access to the word or prefers to avoid explicitly mentioning it for contextual reasons. In the present article, I point out a hitherto understudied usage of PHs: a speaker/writer who does not have in mind a specific target form may use a PH to refer to an arbitrary entity (e.g. person,
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Enacting ‘Being with You’ Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2020-09-02 Pepe Droste, Susanne Günthner
Abstract The German second person personal pronoun du is commonly described as a deictic “shifter” or a T-address term, which is incorporated as an argument of a predicate. Exploring the ways in which participants use pronouns in everyday interaction, however, shows that these are not the only uses of du. In this paper, we examine vocative uses of du in German everyday interaction. Drawing on methods
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A Tale of four measures of pragmatic knowledge in an EFL institutional context Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2020-08-25 Rasoul Mohammad Hosseinpur, Reza Bagheri Nevisi, Abdolreza Lowni
Abstract The upsurge of interest in L2 pragmatics studies has coincided with a growing interest in pragmatic assessment. Employing the most efficient measure of pragmatics has led many researchers to examine the existing measures to pinpoint the most useful ones. This study was an attempt to compare and contrast Written Discourse Completion Task (WDCT), Oral Discourse Completion Task (ODCT), and Role-play
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The functional components of telephone conversation opening phase in Jordanian Arabic Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2020-08-25 Mohammed Nahar Al-Ali, Rana N. Abu-Abah
Abstract Our study purports to examine the rhetorical structure of informal telephone conversation opening phase in Jordanian Arabic and the lexico-grammatical and stylistic encodings of these pragmatic options. To this end, a corpus of 100 telephone conversation recordings was collected from Jordanian Arabic. The recordings were based on the participants’ personal cell phones with their families and
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Dear, my dear, my lady, your ladyship Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2020-08-25 Anouk Buyle
Abstract This paper investigates the use of my as part of address formulae by means of a corpus consisting of eight British English plays published between 1899 and 1912. For each conversational turn, address terms, speaker, addressee, power and solidarity dynamics, and speech acts have been identified. The address terms most frequently modified by my have been selected for further investigation, which
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The Korean hortative construction revisited Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2020-07-03 Ahrim Kim, Iksoo Kwon
Abstract This paper revisits the hortative -ca construction in Korean from a usage-based perspective, examining its functions in natural interactional spoken data The examination of the actual occurrence of -ca reveals its various functions: -ca indicates that the performer of the focal-event encoded in the utterance may be 1st person plural subject, i.e., the speaker and other interlocutors; 2nd person
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The “Long List” in Oral Interactions Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2020-06-05 Gonen Dori-Hacohen
Abstract This paper discusses lists, a neglected structure, to challenge taken-for-granted assumptions about them in oral interactions. Two such assumptions are: unlike narratives, lists are perceived as centered on the delivery of objective information; and three-part lists are normative. Using Israeli and U.S.A. radio call-in shows data, this paper discusses the “Long List” – a list with more than
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Any #JesuisIraq planned? Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2020-03-06 Barbara De Cock, Andrea Pizarro Pedraza
Abstract The stem #jesuis followed by a toponym (e.g. #jesuisParis) has proved to be very productive in the gathering of affective publics (Papacharissi 2015) around causes of mourning, after terrorist attacks and other disasters. However, not all attacks have given rise to such massive affective use of #jesuis hashtags. Our goal is to examine how Twitter users claim similar displays of affect for
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Emotions through texts and images Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2020-03-06 Catherine Bouko
Abstract We analyzed in multimodal Flickr posts how citizens express emotion in response to the outcome of the EU Referendum that led to the Brexit vote. We conceived a model that articulates three levels of analysis, in a bid to understand how meaning operates, namely how inscribed, signalled and/or supported emotion is expressed in narrative and/or conceptual representations, in image and in text
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Affectivity in the #jesuisCharlie Twitter discussion Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2020-03-06 Marjut Johansson, Veronika Laippala
Abstract The Twitter discussion with the hashtag #jesuisCharlie was a large-scale social media event commenting on the tragic terrorist attack that took place in Paris in 2015. In this paper, we analyze French tweets compiled with language technology methods from a large dataset. Our qualitative approach determines what types of affectivity are expressed. According to our results, first, core emotions
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Networked practices of emotion and stancetaking in reactions to mediatized events and crises Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2020-03-06 Korina Giaxoglou, Marjut Johansson
This introduction to the Special Issue on Networked Emotion and Stancetaking summarizes the individual and collective contribution of the included five research articles. We argue for the relevance of discourse-pragmatic theories, methods, and concepts for furnishing cross-disciplinary perspectives into the study of emotion online. Such perspectives are arguably needed in order to clarify the intricate
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The shared story of #JeSuisAylan on Twitter Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2020-03-06 Korina Giaxoglou, Tereza Spilioti
Despite an increased interest in the discourse representations of refugees in the media, little attention has been paid so far to the circulation and uptake of such portrayals in social media. This article addresses this gap by examining networked users’ reactions to the iconic image of Alan Kurdi, which quickly turned into a shared story. By analyzing story frames, i.e. orientations to the Storyrealm
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“I can’t believe #Ziggy #Stardust died” Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2019-12-06 David Matley
Abstract Social networking sites (SNSs) have changed the way we mourn. Reactions on SNSs to celebrity death in particular have begun to attract the attention of both academic researchers and the broader media, yet so far linguistic studies thereof remain relatively rare. This study addresses this research gap by examining the pragmatics of Instagram posts labelled #bowie following the death of the
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Korean general extenders tunci ha and kena ha ‘or something’ Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2019-12-03 Minju Kim
Abstract Using natural conversation corpora, I demonstrate that the Korean x-tunci ha ‘x-or do’ and x-kena ha ‘x-or do’, which originally list options (e.g., ‘x or y do’) have emerged as independent constructions that can indicate approximation, epistemic uncertainty, tentativeness, and even polite hedging. I argue that these Korean “general extenders” ( Overstreet 1999 ) followed a similar (inter)subjectification
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Parliamentary impoliteness and the interpreter’s gender Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2019-11-26 Magdalena Bartłomiejczyk
Abstract Impoliteness is a common phenomenon across various democratically elected parliaments. However, in multilingual legislative bodies such as the European Parliament speakers have to rely on interpreters to transfer pragmatic meaning, including face-threatening acts and impoliteness. The existing research in the field of Interpreting Studies offers much evidence of the filtering effect that interpreting
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Confronting blackface Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2019-11-22 Sigurd D’hondt
Abstract Recently, the Netherlands witnessed an agitated discussion over Black Pete, a blackface character associated with the Saint Nicholas festival. This paper analyzes a televised panel interview discussing a possible court ban of public Nicholas festivities, and demonstrates that participants not only disagree over the racist nature of the blackface character but also over the terms of the debate
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Dimensions of recipe register and native speaker knowledge Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2019-11-18 Michiko Kaneyasu, Minako Kuhara
Abstract This study investigates native Japanese speakers’ context-dependent linguistic knowledge of cooking recipes. Recipes are a typical example of a register, defined as the use of language in a particular social situation for a specific purpose. Thirty participants in the present study were asked to write a recipe for curry rice (a popular dish in Japan) or an unnamed soup (shown in a photo) on
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Modulating troubles affiliating in initial interactions Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Natalie Flint, Michael Haugh, Andrew John Merrison
Much of the research on affiliation to date has focused on how people do (dis)affiliation. This paper explores the remedial work that follows instances of disaffiliation between interactants who are getting acquainted. Building on an interactional pragmatics analytical approach informed by methods and research in conversation analysis, findings indicate that extended remedial accounts recurrently follow
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Impolite viewer responses in Arabic political TV talk shows on YouTube Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Bahaa-eddin A. Hassan
Abstract The article deals with the features of impolite responses of YouTube Arab viewers of political TV talk shows. YouTube comments are written discourse of live commentary, a new genre of computer-mediated communication. Based on data from comments of Arabic viewers of political TV talk shows on YouTube, the article argues that impolite responses appear to be a common feature in Arabic comments
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Appraising and reappraising of compliments and the provision of responses Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Mostafa Morady Moghaddam
Abstract The role of cognitive processes in compliment-response (CR) exchanges is an underdeveloped area of investigation. This article aims to probe whether Persian speakers’ responses to compliments change in line with their appraisals of the situation. To achieve this aim, Persian speakers’ responses to compliments are analysed based on their first and second appraisals of the event. In this study
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The permeability of tag questions in a language contact situation Pragmatics (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Ana Maria Carvalho, Joseph Kern
Abstract In this paper, we utilize negative polarity tag questions in order to assess to what extent discourse-pragmatic variables are susceptible to language contact induced changes. Based on a comparison of forms and functions of negative tags in the varieties spoken by Portuguese-Spanish bilinguals in a community on the Uruguayan-Brazilian border with the one spoken by monolinguals in the Uruguayan