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Review of McCready (2019): The Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification: Register and Social Meaning Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Chengtuan Li, Xiaorui Li
This article reviews The Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification: Register and Social Meaning 9780198821366
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Review of House & Kádár (2021): Cross-cultural pragmatics Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Roberto Graci
This article reviews Cross-cultural pragmatics 9781108949545
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Exploring lexical associations in English as a Lingua Franca interactions Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Yang Pang
The current research draws on the pragmatic approach to ELF initiated by Kecskes (2019), who proposes that temporary norms and routines are created during intercultural encounters and interactions. Based on the qualitative and quantitative analysis of collocate tokens that are strongly associated with the verb phrases of see, look, hear, listen, watch, and feel, retrieved from Asian and European ELF
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Politely warning? Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Amy Ives Takebe
Taking a usage-based approach, this study examines the social meaning of Japanese honorifics when they are used in call-to-action statements in official disaster warnings on Twitter. This study finds two honorific request constructions, Verb-te kudasai and o-Verb kudasai, to be dominant directives used in the data collected for this study. Discourse analysis of the texts found the two honorific request
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Affect in the pragmeme of delivering a health directive Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Ming-Yu Tseng
This study investigates how affect is manifested in the pragmeme of delivering a health directive in the Covid-19 context and how affect co-participates in the pragmeme. This research draws on theoretical insights from pragmeme theory, relevance theory, and the recent distributed language view, with the aim of contributing to the development of a language-body-environment perspective on pragmatic acts
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“Not everything is on the hostess” Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Inas I. Almusallam
Drawing data from the recordings of natural conversations and meta-pragmatic comments, and combining the neo-Brown and Levinson approach and the relational work framework, this paper explored how Saudi female friends manage friendly informal settings and hospitality despite culture-specific politeness expectations. The analysis focused on just one of the discursive strategies in which the direction
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On the constitutional relevance of non‑discursive enlanguaged doings to sociomaterial practices Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Rasmus Gahrn-Andersen
In expanding on the ‘dynamics first, symbols afterwards’ principle (Cowley 2009) of Distributed Language research, I propose that embodied linguistic competencies comprise the prerequisite for human agents to engage in sociomaterial practices. I make the case that human practical activity is fundamentally ‘enlanguaged’ and that linguistic skills are not only trans-practical in the sense of enabling
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Review of Cap (2022): The Discourse of Conflict and Crisis: Poland’s Political Rhetoric in the European Perspective Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Roberto M. Lobato
This article reviews The Discourse of Conflict and Crisis: Poland’s Political Rhetoric in the European Perspective 978-1-3501-3563-5
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Defining openness in teachers’ ‘open’ questions Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Chrysi Rapanta
Extensive research has focused on analysing teacher-student discourse within whole-class dialogic interactions, and several descriptive tools have been proposed so far to cover possible variations. However, what still remains unanswered is what types of teacher questions are ‘better’ than others. To answer this question, I propose a pragmatic analysis of teacher-student interaction based on the criteria
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Degrees of negative judgement Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Xin Dai
Studies on sentencing are dominated by normative studies prescribing how judges should sentence. Few studies examine how judges actually sentence. This study provides an insight into the empirical reality of judges’ sentencing practices by examining their negative judgements (of propriety) of offenders and their behaviour in six sentencing remarks. It finds that judges are doing more appraisal work
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Criticizing for the public interest and aligning with others Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Muhammad A. Badarneh, Malak Damiri
This study examines the speech act of criticizing in online comments on the COVID-19 lockdown breaches in Jordan in 2020. Drawing on speech act theory and the face-saving perspective of politeness, the study investigates the strategies used to criticize these breaches. The analysis of 356 online comments revealed that Jordanians used ten strategies to criticize these lockdown breaches: Insulting, Appealing
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Correcting the scientific record Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Yuting Lin
The retraction of a previously published research article, often due to the discovery of fraud or scientific error, can pose considerable threat to an author’s career and reputation. This paper examines legitimation strategies in the retraction notice (RN), a document in which authors formally announce their decision to retract an article. By analyzing 300 RNs published between 2010–2021 in Q1 biomedical
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Review of Walton, Macagno & Sartor (2019): Statutory Interpretation. Pragmatics and Argumentation Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Jan Engberg
This article reviews Statutory Interpretation. Pragmatics and Argumentation 9781108429344
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Blame-avoiding strategies for a digital scandal Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Ming Liu, Yanxi Lu
The burgeoning digital economy has also aroused wide public concerns over its improper use of personal data for economic and political profits. This study focuses on the milestone Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal and examines how Mark Zuckerberg succeeded in avoiding public blame during two US Congressional hearings. An integrated analytic framework has been established by combining blame theory
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Culture and identity in critical remarks Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Claudia Zbenovich, Tatiana Larina, Vladimir Ozyumenko
Awareness of cultural specificity in current classroom discourse is particularly important in an educational setting that has become largely multicultural due to globalization, migration and academic mobility. Drawing on the intercultural and cross-cultural pragmatics, and cultural studies, this paper explores the speech act of critical remark in Russian and Israeli classroom settings, focusing on
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Review of Placencia & Eslami (2020): Complimenting Behavior and (Self)Praise across Social Media. New Contexts and New Insights Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana
This article reviews Complimenting Behavior and (Self)Praise across Social Media. New Contexts and New Insights 978-90-272-07579
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Comparing compliments in Face-to-Face vs. online interactions among Iranian speakers of Persian Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Ali Derakhshan, Zohreh R. Eslami, Farzaneh Shakki
There has been ongoing research contrasting online vs. Face-To-Face (FTF) interactions for more than a decade. This study fills the gap in the literature considering FTF vs. online contexts by comparing the norms and patterns of complimenting in Persian and explores the complimenting strategies, syntactic patterns, and internal and external modifiers used in each setting. The corpus included 366 FTF
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Deontic authority-based resolution of deontic right-based resistance in online medical consultation Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Minwen Wei, Yongping Ran
Previous research has investigated aspects of deontics, epistemics, and resistance in medical settings. However, few have focused on deontics and how resistance shapes the responses of deontic authority (Stivers and Timmermans 2020), especially in online medical counseling. Utilizing the data collected from online medical consultation and adopting a discursive approach, this study investigates how
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Common ground management via evidential markers in Turkish Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Kadri Kuram
This paper is a reanalysis of the Turkish evidential markers as Common Ground management tools. Based on conversational data from Turkish National Corpus and a real-life example from the media, I demonstrate how the traditional description of these markers fails to account for their dialogic uses. The data presented in this paper show that Turkish speakers alternate between these markers in order to
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“I hope this is your last sorrow” Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Amir Sheikhan
The objective of the present study is to examine condolence strategies and the sociocultural norms underlying the realisation of the speech act of condolence in Persian. To achieve this, a three-layered data collection methodology including two focus group interviews (FGIs), field notes, and a discourse completion task (DCT) were used. FGIs and field notes were utilised to shed light on the cultural
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Conversation practices that foster or hinder inclusivity during interactions involving persons with dementia Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Trini Stickle
This article highlights co-participant strategies during conversations involving participants diagnosed with dementia that encourage continued, productive interaction fostering inclusivity. The conversation excerpts illustrate positive results when non-impaired co-participants respond to impaired syntax as though it makes sense or as if it completes a coherent syntactic–semantic action. Helpful co-participants
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‘Proto-conversation’ as a practice in late-stage dementia care Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Lars-Christer Hydén, Anna Ekström, Ali Reza Majlesi
This study suggests that the concept of proto-conversation may be used to describe and understand communication with people with late-stage dementia who have lost their abilities to produce verbal language. In the study, a multimodal conversation analytic method is used to analyze sequences of interactions between professional caregivers in an elderly care home and people with late-stage dementia.
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Singling out Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Gitte Rasmussen
This EMCA (Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis) study concerns carers’ multimodal methods for including residents living with dementia in social activities in remote locations. It illustrates how groups of residents are pre-arranged and how the residents are subsequently singled out one by one through requests to come along. Though the request may be the second one, it may be designed as a first
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“Let’s Just Forget It!” Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Toshiko Hamaguchi
Using recorded interactions between nursing home residents and care staff, this study demonstrates interactional strategies of younger recreation workers during a weekly recreational activity named Tea Time Talk that serves to reduce generational as well as epistemic gaps with the residents. This study focuses on how older residents’ reference to memory loss or forgetfulness is deindividuated and trivialized
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On an even playing field of haiku making Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Yoshiko Matsumoto, Harumi Maeda, Emily Yu Wan, Hsiao-Wen Liao
To help older adults living with cognitive impairments to engage in positive social interactions and maintain verbal creativity, intergenerational small-group sessions of haiku creation and appreciation activity were conducted online during the pandemic. Haiku, a short 17-syllable form of poetry originating in Japan, conveys simple yet emotive seasonal images free from the complexity or logical continuity
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Attitudes to language and bilingualism in residential care for older persons in Ireland Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Nicole Müller, Angela M. Medina
Language as a primary vehicle for communication and cognition is intimately linked to the construction of identities and social relationships, and to social participation and inclusion. By means of appraisal analysis (a tool grounded in Systemic Functional Linguistics) of interview data, we explored attitudes to language(s), speakers and language use in a nursing home for older people in Ireland, where
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Code accommodation as a measure of inclusion for bilingual people living with dementia of the Alzheimer’s type Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Carolin Schneider, Birte Bös
This case study explores the dynamics of code choices in interactions involving bilingual people living with dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type (DAT) and their primary care partners, focusing on two narrative interviews held in private settings. Drawing on a combination of Communication Accommodation Theory and Conversation Analysis, it takes account of the patterns, communicative functions and effects
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“That was a long time ago” Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Elena Bandt, Annette Gerstenberg
The paper contributes to ongoing research on memory work with a focus on “memory work markers” (mwm), affirmative and negative constructions with first person singular verbs such as ‘I remember’ and ‘I know’. We observe them in a longitudinal approach, based on a hexagonal French corpus of biographical interviews, and compare speakers with Alzheimer’s dementia (AD) and cognitive impairment (CI) with
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Determiners of social inclusion and exclusion in the dementia context Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Alison Wray, Axel Bergström
People living with a dementia and their family carers are at high risk of being excluded from the contact, activities, information and services that help them remain resilient. Using interview data from family dementia carers, this article explores the sources of enablement and inhibition in accessing these aspects of social inclusion. Carers and those living with a dementia are found to inhibit and
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Taking actions to enhance inclusivity of persons living with dementia Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Yoshiko Matsumoto, Heidi E. Hamilton
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Review of Chen (2021): Exploring identity work in Chinese communication Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Muhammad Afzaal
This article reviews Exploring identity work in Chinese communication 9781350169326
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A socio-pragmatic analysis of the Turkish discourse markers of ‘şey’, ‘yani’, and ‘işte’ based on educational level of speakers Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Ayşe Altıparmak
This paper analyzes the influence of the educational level of speakers on speakers’ preferences of the Turkish discourse markers (DMs) şey ‘uh’, yani ‘I mean’, and işte ‘you know’. 56 participants from age groups 33–50 and over 50 participated in the study. Speech data from each participant in two speech corpora (planned vs. spontaneous) were gathered via face-to-face interviews. Although various trends
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The role of assessments in providing evasive answers in news interviews Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Abdulrahman Alroumi, El Mustapha Lahlali
This paper examines the role of assessments in the design of interviewees’ answers in news interviews settings on two Arabic networks. It employs a Conversation Analysis approach, in addition to quantitative analysis, to observe the most recurrent positions for emerging assessments in interviewees’ answers. In addition, it examines the role of these assessments in providing evasive answers to interviewers’
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A study on the intertextuality of Russian media Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Na-young Kim
Intertextuality refers to the quality that connects the author and the reader within a single text or, more broadly, the relationship between texts. This study considered the author’s implicit textual intention and the expected effect on the text reader to analyze intertextuality. This study’s subject was the news text from the Russian news program Vesti Nedeli. The motivation behind this study was
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Self-help and masculinity Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Alexandra Krendel
This study investigates the interactional norms of a manosphere discussion forum known as The Red Pill (TRP), and asks whether it can be conceptualised as a self-help group. 2104 posts and comments from regular users and high-status users in the community were analysed qualitatively to determine how the community is characterised by certain speech acts, and how these speech acts correspond to face-enhancement
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Examining the use of reflexive metadiscourse in the construction of affiliative communication in group email requests Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Jamie McKeown
This qualitative study examines how male-identified and female-identified individuals use reflexive metadiscourse in the construction of affiliative communication, i.e., a mode of communication traditionally coded as feminine. Specifically, it examines requests made in the public context of group email. Both reflexive metadiscourse and affiliative communication are analysed with the concept of indexicality
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Review of Economidou-Kogetsidis, Savić & Halenko (2021): Email Pragmatics and Second Language Learners Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Yushun Yang, Wulin Ma
This article reviews Email Pragmatics and Second Language Learners 9789027210012
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Rhetorical strategies for the construction of a corporate identity Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Nan Wu, Meichun Liu, Jingyuan Zhang
Using Huawei annual reports as data sources, this study examines rhetorical strategies in business discourse for the construction of corporate identity. A socio-pragmatic framework is proposed for analysing such strategies, incorporating a textual analysis of rhetorical strategies, a discourse analysis of pragmatic functions and discursive tendencies, and a social analysis of the construction of corporate
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Parents’ indirect utterances in an Indonesian family Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Budi Setiawan
This present study examines Indonesian parents’ utterance to instruct each other. The results show that Indonesian parents’ speeches in the family were situated in context and situation. Parents did not mention themselves nor their spouse as the addressee, instead using indirect utterance to instruct the addressee. They produced indirect utterances with implied meanings, instructing their spouse via
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From evaluative authorities to involved narrators Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Pekka Posio, Riie Heikkilä
Is the use of the first-person singular becoming more prevalent in journalistic writing, like often claimed, and what is it used for? In order to tackle these questions, we analysed 11,775 articles published between 1960 and 2010 in the cultural sections of ABC and El País (Spain), Dagens Nyheter (Sweden), Helsingin Sanomat (Finland), Le Monde (France), and The Guardian (UK). Our analysis focuses on
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Review of Verschueren (2021): Complicity in Discourse and Practice Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Daniel N. Silva
This article reviews Complicity in Discourse and Practice 9781003206354
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Review of Masia (2021): The Manipulative Disguise of Truth: Tricks and threats of implicit communication Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Chao Jiang, Zhou-min Yuan
This article reviews The Manipulative Disguise of Truth: Tricks and threats of implicit communication 978-90-272-0870-5
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Metaphorical framing in news Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Maryam Saneie Moghadam, Reza Ghafar Samar
This study investigates metaphorical framing in political language. In particular, we describe dominant metaphoric frames which are used by the conservative and liberal media in the US when debating over the different aspects of the socio-political issues. The data for this study have been collected from the online archives of CNN and Fox news that were published on the two topics of medical healthcare
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Novel veiling and concealing euphemisms in political discourse Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Tatiana Golubeva
This qualitative research explores the differences in the interpretation of novel veiling and concealing euphemisms from a relevance-theoretic perspective. I argue that the relevance of an utterance containing a novel veiling euphemism is established (1) via the adjustment of its linguistically encoded meaning so that it communicates the meaning encoded by a dispreferred expression, which is derived
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Variation and society Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 María José Serrano
Abstract In Spanish, tener que and haber que + infinitive are modal periphrases that convey deontic meanings. The present investigation analyzes these periphrases as variants used in diverse communicative settings by different kinds of participants, acting as either speakers/writers or addressees. Tener que + infinitive tends to appear in those contexts where a more striking implication or unavoidable
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A marathon to nowhere Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Zdravko Babić, Milica Vuković-Stamatović, Vesna Bratić
The paper examines the accession is a race metaphor in the online news articles published in three Western Balkans’ countries (Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Hercegovina), in the context of their accession to the EU. Through the methodological lens of the conceptual metaphor theory and critical metaphor analysis, our study shows that the conceptualisation of the accession as a race might purport
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Identity gatekeeping in New Work Order organizations Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Dorien Van De Mieroop
Abstract While much has been written on the transition of organizational life into the New Work Order (NWO) and the effects this has had on employees in language-centered economic spaces, few studies have attempted to tease out how these NWO-expectations have affected less language-centered workplaces. In this article, I focus on such a workplace, namely a medical lab, and I tease out processes of
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Covid-19 WhatsApp sticker memes as public signs in Oman Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Najma Al Zidjaly, Zumurrod Al Barhi
In this article, we identify a new form of public discourse that takes the shape of WhatsApp sticker memes personally created and nationally shared on WhatsApp by citizens in Oman during the Covid-19 pandemic to concomitantly act as carriers of information and as promoters of relational work. The data consist of 67 public sign stickers culled from a larger set amassed as part of an ethnographic project
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Disseminating risk communication Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Eva Ogiermann, Spyridoula Bella
This paper investigates advice offered on closure signs displayed on businesses in Greece and the UK during the first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic. By scrutinising signs photographed in London and in Athens, as well as speeches delivered by the British and Greek prime ministers at the time of the closures, our analysis shows how business owners pass on government instructions to their customers
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Finnish and French public signs from commercial premises during the Covid-19 pandemic Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Johanna Isosävi
This paper studies 200 signs displayed in commercial premises during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in Finland and in France. The data were collected through crowdsourcing via social media platforms and analysed from the perspective of cross-cultural pragmatics. The vast majority of Finnish and French directives were direct, but cross-cultural differences emerged in relation to perspective
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Pragmatic functions of humor in Berlin’s directive Covid-19 Signs Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Rita Tamara Vallentin
This paper deals with the pragmatic functions of verbal and visual humor in Covid-19 related directive signs. Within the framework of material and social semiotics, I analyze humorous directive signs from the Berlin district Friedrichshain communicating hygiene rules and proper social behavior during the re- opening phase of local businesses after the first lockdown in 2020. The interplay of multilingual
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Solidarity and support in Belgian residential linguistic landscapes during the Covid-19 outbreak Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Mieke Vandenbroucke, Fien De Malsche
This article examines the role played by signs in the public space of two socio-economically stratified residential neighbourhoods of Ghent (Belgium) during the first Covid-19 outbreak in 2020. On the basis of fieldwork, we explore the potential of public signs as a resourceful strategy for communicating solidarity and support and the discursive construction of a community affected by this crisis.
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Review of Robles & Weatherall (2021): How Emotions Are Made in Talk Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Songsong Zhang, Jinyang Hu
This article reviews How Emotions Are Made in Talk 978-90-272-6006-2
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Review of Scott (2022): Pragmatics Online Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Ying Dai
This article reviews Pragmatics Online 978-1-003-25420-1
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Evidential meanings in native and learner Japanese and English Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Luna Filipović, Mika Brown, Paul E. Engelhardt
Evidentiality is a linguistic category that comprises forms and meanings related to the source of information in utterances, the use of which may impact judgments about the degree of certainty expressed by a speaker. The main dichotomy is first-hand (direct) vs. second-hand (indirect) evidence. This distinction is grammaticalised in Japanese only, though certain related meanings can be expressed in
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Deconstructing imagined identities and imagined communities through humor Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Spyridoula Gasteratou, Villy Tsakona
The aim of this study is to explore humor as a means for deconstructing identities in humorous narratives written by adult L2 learners. Norton Pierce’s (1995) notions of investment in L2 learning, imagined identities, and imagined communities as well as the concepts of script opposition and target employed for the sociopragmatic analysis of humor (Attardo 2001) are exploited for demonstrating how humor
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Parentheses used as pragmatic strategies in Chinese online socialization Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Jie Li, Yanling Lin
This paper details the use of parentheses as pragmatic strategies in Chinese network socialization. The data were collected from Weibo, Wechat, QQ and other online social platforms, and analyzed from the perspective of Cyberpragmatics. We consider the pragmatic features and functions of parentheses as an indivisible part of the whole unit in relation to emojis or graphicons. As pragmatic strategies
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Meschonnic, Wittgenstein and translation as form of life Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Maíra Mendes Galvão
Henri Meschonnic famously gives specific usage to a repertoire of terms such as subjectivity, continuous, rhythm, historicity, recitative and enunciation. Behind them, there is a project to overcome what he calls the “chain of dualisms” (1988), or the tendency toward dichotomy in theoretical thinking, represented in the language fields by the separations between signifier and signified, oral and written
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Initiating reason-for-the-call action in mundane mobile phone conversation Pragmatics and Society (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Ali Kazemi
This study takes as its analytic topic the identification of different sequentially organized phenomena endemic to initiation of reason-for-the call action in Farsi mobile calls. Using Conversation Analysis, through fine-grained analysis of participants’ observable orientation to the formulation of the reason for the call, it documents the trajectory of talk and the sequential phenomena associated