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Development of the Korean proximal demonstrative into an affective stance marker Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Minju Kim
Across languages, demonstratives grammaticalize into various grammatical and discourse-pragmatic markers. Using corpora of natural conversation and scripted drama conversation, and employing the theoretical frameworks of grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification, this study demonstrates that the Korean demonstrative construct ‘(it) is this’ has developed into an affective stance marker, a development
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A feasibility study for the application of AI-generated conversations in pragmatic analysis Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Xi Chen, Jun Li, Yuting Ye
This study explores the potential of including AI-generated language in pragmatic analysis– a field that has primarily been conducted on human language use. With the rapid growth of large language models, AI-generated texts and AI-human interactions constitute a growing field where pragmatics research is expanding to. Language data that humans used to hold a full authorship may also involve modifications
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I think and I know: Authority and solidarity in UK government Covid briefings Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Jilan Wei
This research examines the politicians' and experts’ use of the two evidential markers and for authority and solidarity in UK government Covid briefings based on a corpus-assisted analysis. It not only analyses their evidential constructions, but also explicates their discursive functions in the British cultural context when public health was under challenge. It aims to demonstrate the different epistemic
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I get off at ten past I'm never going out with you: A study on dissociative syntactic amalgams Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Tohru Seraku
This paper explores what I call Dissociative Syntactic Amalgam (DSA) constructions, observed in conversation parts of fictional varieties of English, such as film/TV scripts and novels. I provide 27 cases of DSAs, most of which come from and . A paradigm example is (as an answer to () ), where is clausal but fills a nominal slot. In DSAs, the speaker initially lures the hearer to create a positive
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Phrasal alternation and Kerinci demonstrative (i)neh: Implications for spatial and socio-interactional deixis Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Foong Ha YAP
Demonstratives are ubiquitous in the world's languages, but their range of extended functions often vary in interesting ways from one language to another. In this paper, we focus on the proximal demonstrative ‘this’ in Kerinci Malay to trace its uses beyond the referential domain. More specifically, we examine the extension of from its basic spatial deictic uses as a demonstrative pronominal and adnominal
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Scopes of recipiency: An organization of responses to informings Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Tom Koole, Myrte N. Gosen
This paper is concerned with the organization of responses to informings. Using Conversation Analysis, it will show that different receipting practices, including both embodied and vocal ones, display differences in scope in response to informings. With these differences in scope, recipients of informings can signal to the informing party that they receipted either the just preceding part of the informing
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The pragmatics of headlines. Central issues and future research avenues Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Rita Finkbeiner
Despite their central role in mediated linguistic communication, headlines have not been a prime topic of linguistic pragmatics. However, not only may pragmatic notions and categories prove useful for a comprehensive account of strategies of headline communication, headlines may also provide interesting test cases for current pragmatic debates. In this editorial, I provide a short overview of previous
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Ethnomethodology of written discourse: An analytical model for treating written discourse as ongoing social action Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Joao Pedro Padua
Ethnomethodology has been influential in many social science fields, including and especially applied linguistics, where conversation analysis is a major subfield for analyzing oral data. Nevertheless, ethnomethodology can also be—and has been—fruitfully applied to written discursive data, using its tools and methods to describe in detail how written texts are assembled and reflexively used, as members’
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Metaphors in Interaction: Reusing, developing and resisting metaphors of illness, the body and medical treatment in chronic pain consultations Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Jana Declercq, Lotte van Poppel
This paper analyses the interactional dynamics of reusing and resisting metaphors of the body, illness and medical treatment in consultations between doctors and chronic pain patients in a pain clinic. Research has evidenced the general importance of metaphors in talk, and in health care settings specifically. Metaphors serve as a way of structuring our reasoning and understanding, including of illness
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Rejecting the validity of inferred attributions of incompetence in German talk-in-interaction Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Alexandra Gubina, Arnulf Deppermann
This paper deals with pragmatic inference from the perspective of Conversation Analysis. In particular, we examine a specific variety of inferences – the attribution of incompetence which Self constructs on the basis of Other's prior action, hearable as positioning Self as incompetent (e.g., instructions, offers of assistance, advice); this attribution of incompetence concerns Self's execution of some
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The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis 2nd Edition, Michael Handford, James Paul Gee, Taylor & Francis Group (2023), p. 673, pp. ISBN 978-0-367-47383-9(HB)/978-1-003-03524-4(E-book), $197.30 Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Gong Cheng
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Communication: Inferring speaker intentions or perceiving the world? Insights from developmental research Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Diana Mazzarella, Edoardo Vaccargiu
Communication is an effective and rich tool to transmit information to others. Different models of communication, though, disagree on how beliefs are acquired via testimony. While the Intentional-Inferential Model conceives communication as a matter of expressing, recognizing and evaluating intentions, the Direct Perception Model views communication as a means for direct belief transfer. What kind
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Offensiveness and sexual blackmailing in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Alexandros Karavelos, Maria Sidiropoulou
The study examines offensiveness in intra-/inter-cultural transfer of the ancient Greek comedy Lysistrata by Aristophanes in 411 BC into Modern Greek and English. The play is known for its bad language and is a very useful resource for analyzing profanity transfer, in different time periods. The study uses impoliteness theory (García-Pastor, 2008) and humor theory (Attardo, 2001), to explore variation
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From lived experience to lived expertise: How donor-conceived witnesses claim and sustain epistemic authority Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Giselle Newton, Michele Zappavigna, Kerryn Drysdale, Christy E. Newman
Scholars in pragmatics have long been interested in how knowledge is construed, contested and legitimised. Much recent work in pragmatics has focused on developing more detailed theoretical understandings of epistemic positioning and epistemic authority, including in institutional contexts which are typically characterised by knowledge asymmetries and power inequalities. Yet the relational consequences
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Dude, obvio, ho!: A cross-linguistic pragmatic account of Asturian Spanish Ho and American English Dude Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Alba Arias Álvarez, Isaac McAlister
Ho in Asturian Spanish and dude in American English are both particles that originated as vocatives and have since developed grammaticalized forms that perform specific functions in discourse. A parallel analysis of these particles is possible on account of an overarching discourse function whereby the use of the particle constitutes an update by the speaker of the common ground. The purpose of the
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Lexical meaning contextualization and semantic changes: The case of the Mandarin Chinese discourse marker dangran Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Xiaochen Li
One of the major tasks of historical pragmatics is to account for the pragmatic mechanisms underlying semantic changes. However, previous research generally ignored the heterogeneity in the pragmatic mechanisms of semantic changes. Drawing insights from Truth Conditional Pragmatics, this paper proposes the Lexical Meaning Contextualization model and uses it to analyze the semantic changes of the Mandarin
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Sharing travel experiences on TripAdvisor: A genre analysis of negative hotel reviews written in French, Spanish and Italian Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Irene Cenni
The advent of the Web 2.0 brought about a significant transformation in the tourist experience and in its modes of communication. One of the prevailing genres in today's digital tourism discourse is represented by online reviews, produced and consumed daily by millions of users on global platforms such as TripAdvisor, Booking.com or Airbnb. Online tourist reviews are mainly used to share a personal
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Re-borrowing of swearwords in the English translations of Jo Nesbø’s Harry Hole novels Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Annjo K. Greenall
This article sets out to investigate what happens to borrowed English swearwords in some of Norwegian crime author Jo Nesbø’s books when these books are translated into English. The present study finds that a majority of them become re-borrowed, that is, they become transferred more or less straightforwardly back into English. A small reception study carried out among potential readers of the source
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Pragmatics in the service of marketing: The case of COVID-19 semi-commercial public signs Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Spyridoula Bella, Eva Ogiermann
This study adopts a cross-cultural perspective and investigates the ways in and the extent to which the pragmatic choices made by the authors of COVID-19 signs announcing business closures in the UK and in Greece could reflect the Relationship Marketing approach. The data for the study comes from a large corpus of COVID-19 related public signs that appeared in London and Athens between 2020 and 2022
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Final tteyuu as a mockery stance marker: Multifunctionality and ongoing semantic change in Japanese social media Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Michiko Kaneyasu
This paper explores the ongoing semantic change of a discourse marker in Japanese social media. An analysis of 140 instances of the sentence-final tteyuu on Twitter, renamed X in July 2023, suggests that this discourse marker is shifting from a textual function of elaboration to a stance marker of lighthearted mockery. I argue this transition is attributed to its recurrent use in specific contexts
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How Language Shapes Relationships in Professional Sports Teams: Power and Solidarity Dynamics in a New Zealand Rugby Team, Kieran File, Bloomsbury, London (2023), 239pp, ISBN 9781350044241, 31.45$ USD (paperback) Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Edward Reynolds
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What verbal de-escalation techniques are used in complaint handling? Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-12-23 Margot van Mulken
The amount of outrage language, hate speech and strong language in digital communication is steadily growing, but academic studies on how to deal linguistically with anger and outrage are still largely lacking. Social science studies focus mainly on behavioral actions, while only a few investigate situations in which aggression is successfully handled verbally. On the other hand, complaint handling
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The pragmatics of sharing memes on Twitter Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-12-23 Marta Dynel
This paper explores the interactional pragmatic characteristics of multimodal memetic content facilitated by Twitter affordances, notably the functions of retweeting and quote tweeting. These Twitter affordances enable reposting a previous multimodal tweet (with or without a preceding commentary), which is conducive to nested memetic posts involving entextualised multimodal quotations and/or to memes
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Headlines as illocutionary subacts: The genre-specificity of headlines Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-12-23 Simon Borchmann
This study investigates if headlines in journalism are genre-specific. Taking a starting point in Austin's concept of illocutionary act, Searle's development of the concept, and the adaptation of the concept to texts within rhetorical genre studies (Bazerman, 1994; Miller, 1984) and pragmatic text linguistics (Borchmann, 2005, 2010, 2014), the study assumes that the texts of a specific genre comprise
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An analysis of Arabic tautology in English compounds used in customer-service settings in Jordan: A pragmatic perspective Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Abdel Rahman Mitib Altakhaineh, Assel Zibin, Farah Al-Kalbani
This paper examines the utilization of Arabic tautological expressions, provided by customers as a reiteration of an element of an English compound such as ‘apple pie’ [fatˁi:rit ʔabil bai ‘an apple pie pie’], from the perspective of Relevance Theory (RT). Data was collected from 90 participants, divided into two groups: 40 native speaker informants recruited from various shopping malls, and 50 shop
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Exploring request strategies in Austrian Italian learners: Pragmatic transfer insights Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Nicola Brocca, Elena Nuzzo
Instant-message requests produced by intermediate learners (N = 60) of Italian as a second language (L2) with Austrian German as their first language (L1) were quantitatively analyzed and compared with the same speech acts performed by L1 speakers of Italian (N = 60). A cross-cultural comparison of requests in L1 Austrian German and L1 Italian was conducted firstly to verify whether any divergent trends
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The suspect's statement in interaction: Responding to ‘formulations’ in the investigative interview Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Aafke Diepeveen
This study explores suspects' responses to ‘formulations’ – retellings by police officers of what the suspect has said – in investigative interviews. It involves a data set of 73 audio recordings of interviews with suspects in Norway. Police investigators regularly ‘formulate’ the gist of the suspect's statement, preserving what is relevant and transforming a lay narrative into one that is legally
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A closer look at refusers’ counters: Benefactive changes, design constraints, and interpersonal implications Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Ibi Reichl
This paper examines an understudied way of refusing: counters, i.e. utterances which do not only block one course of action but put forward an alternative. An interactional approach to pragmatic meaning was taken to examine the content, design, and interpersonal implications of counters in (semi-)informal future-action negotiations. Regarding their content, it was found that counters can retain the
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Towards interspecies pragmatics: Language use and embodied interaction in human-animal activities, encounters, and narratives Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Rea Peltola, Mika Simonen
This special issue explores interaction and language use in situations involving human and non-human participants. Bringing together methodologies and theoretical approaches in linguistics and interactional studies, namely Conversation Analysis, the volume focuses on the social actions accomplished in interspecies interaction and the linguistic construction of non-human perception and meaning-making
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Japanese subtitling and dubbing of English expressions of ‘love’: Meaning/sense-making in audiovisual translation Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Christopher Long
The current study investigates discourse-pattern borrowings in Japanese audiovisual translation (AVT). To date, English expressions of affection (e.g., ‘I love you’) have been examined as a pragmatic marker (e.g., to signal the end of a conversation) in studies of spoken and written communication (Fiedler, 2017) and AVT (Gottlieb, 2012). When used to fill ‘discourse gaps’ (Mišić Ilić, 2017), however
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Contingent (dis)agreement and emotional expressiveness in online responsive discourse Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Mei-Ya Liang
This article focuses on culturally diverse university students’ online (dis)agreement with affective expressions in English as a lingua franca (ELF). A private intercultural group on the social media site Facebook was used for the online discussions. This study analyzed online participants’ comments on controversial sociopolitical issues about the TikTok ban and the Mulan boycott. Through content analyses
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Beyond idioms, the use of metaphor in ELF academic settings: A comprehensive review Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Fiona MacArthur, Rafael Alejo-González
The ubiquity of metaphor in academic communication in English is well attested, as are the important ideational, interpersonal and textual functions it fulfils. It is thus surprising that this type of language use has received very little research attention in contexts where English is being used as Lingua Franca (ELF), as English as the Medium of Instruction (EMI) is becoming ever more prevalent in
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Audience design and pragmatic conceptions of moves and upvotes during advice-giving on Reddit Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Rickey Lu
Turning to the internet to seek and give advice has become increasingly widespread. One of the most popular online sites where advice interactions routinely occur is Reddit. As a public-oriented site, it is important to understand advice interactions on Reddit not only from a descriptive perspective, but also how other audiences might perceive or interact with the advice, which may be evidenced by
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Can an emoji be a lie? The links between emoji meaning, commitment, and lying Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Benjamin Weissman
Can an emoji be a lie? Recent research has emphasized the importance of commitment in theories of lying, proposing that a speaker will only have lied if they are committed to the false content in their utterance. Similar research has proposed expanding the possibilities of the modalities of lying, suggesting a message-sender can lie if they send false pictorial content, so long as they are committed
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The vulgarization hypothesis and the translation of swearwords by male and female translators in AVT in Spain Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Roberto A. Valdeón
This article aims to test the vulgarization hypothesis in audiovisual translation (AVT) with regards to possible differences between male and female translators’ practices. It starts with an overview of the most recent publications on swearing and AVT, and of studies that have analyzed the use of swearwords by male and female speakers. Two seasons of these police dramas were used for the study. Both
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“I don't mean to humblebrag”—on the reception of humblebrags from a cognitive-pragmatic perspective Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Zuo Baiyao
Some empirical studies have argued that humblebragging is ineffective as a self-praising strategy and generates more negative emotion than bragging. Conversely, other case studies have shown that the perception of humblebrags varies in different circumstances. The addressees may also disagree as to whether an expression qualifies as humblebragging or not. Therefore, it is important to investigate the
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What makes inferences reliable? The unpredictable relationship between pragmatic inference and truth Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Jacques Moeschler
One of the main tenets of Gricean pragmatics is the distinction between what is said and what is implicated; that is, between truth-conditional and non-truth-conditional meaning. The main contribution of post-Gricean pragmatics was a new definition of what is said as a pragmatic and truth-conditional meaning (Carston, 2002; Recanati, 2010; Moeschler, 2018a). However, implicated meaning (mainly conversational
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Argumentation in Complex Communication: Managing Disagreement in a Polylogue, Marcin Lewiński, Mark Aakhus, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2023), 263 pp. ISBN 9781009274371, USD 99.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781009274357, USD 99.00 (ebook) Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Sally Jackson
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Editorial: Swearing and interpersonal pragmatics Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Karyn Stapleton, Kristy Beers Fägersten
This article introduces broad strands of research on swearing as a foundation for an interpersonal pragmatics (IP) approach to the nature and effects of swearing in interaction and relationships. The main tenets of interpersonal pragmatics are presented, and swearing as a distinct research focus within IP is outlined. The article invokes pragmatic perspectives in addressing both negative and positive
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Narratives of geopolitical representation in the discourse of the Russia–Ukraine war Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Piotr Cap
This paper explores the discourse of the Russia–Ukraine war to outline the dominant narrative schemas anchored in the spatial geopolitical representations of globalness and localness. It uses tools from the domains of critical cognitive discourse studies and narrative research (alternative futures, discourse scenarios, deictic space, proximization) to distinguish between two most salient schemas: the
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Fictive Questions in the Zhuangzi: A Cognitive Rhetorical Study, Xiang Mingjian, John Benjamins, Amsterdam (2023), 206 pp. ISBN 9789027250032, EUR 110, 00 (e-book) Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-10-28 Yanhua Cheng
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Exposing and avoiding unwanted inferences in conversational interaction Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-10-28 Chi-Hé Elder, Michael Haugh
Utterances give rise to many potential inferences. They can be communicated explicitly or implicitly, they may or may not be intended, and they may or may not even be inferred. In this paper, we focus on how speakers orient to ‘unwanted inferences’: potential inferences (or inferables) that can—but need not—be inferred from what has been said. Such inferences can be ‘unwanted’ in different ways: as
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Motion verbs and future constructions: the case of Hebrew omed le-V ‘standing (up) to-V’/‘(be) about to-V’ Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Ruti Bardenstein, Avi Gvura
This paper focuses on the constructionalization and grammaticalization path of the Hebrew construction omed le-V ‘standing (up) to-V’/‘about to-V’ as denoting ‘near future’. The investigation will be a diachronic and historical one, from biblical to contemporary Hebrew, stage by stage, and will discuss the evolution of the omed le-V ‘standing (up) to-V’ construction from a posture verb within a motion
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Praise and self-praise: Young children's drawings as triadic performance in health care Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Karin Aronsson, Camilla Rindstedt
Praise appears in both direct and indirect formats. Much work on praise in social interaction concerns adults. This video ethnography fills a gap in exploring how young children orient to praise, analyzing the nature of praise during nurse-child interaction in routine health care encounters. It documents multimodal aspects of praise and self-praise episodes during Draw-a-Man tasks, as parts of routine
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“Deceptive” clickbait headlines: Relevance, intentions, and lies Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Kate Scott
Classic clickbait headlines often use hyperbolic and formulaic language to create information gaps that arouse the curiosity of readers. Such headlines are stylistically distinct from the headlines we find in traditional news media, and, as such, are easily recognisable as clickbait. However, a new type of clickbait headline has emerged which appears to have more in common stylistically with traditional
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There as a discourse-pragmatic marker in Irish English Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Brian Clancy, Carolina Amador-Moreno, Elaine Vaughan
The upper ranks of corpus word frequency lists are primarily populated by functional items, as well as by other small words characterised by their polysemy that reward focussed attention and research. Exploring these items has resulted in rich and fruitful insights from a corpus pragmatic perspective. This paper focuses on the nature and value of there as a discourse-pragmatic marker in Irish English
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Jocular self-deprecation in Japanese initial interactions Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Chilmeg Elden
Research into conversational humour has found its significant role across a wide range of interactional settings, but to date, only a limited body of studies have investigated the use of conversational humour in initial interactions between interactants who are not previously acquainted. Moreover, no previous studies have investigated the use of conversational humour in Japanese initial interactions
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Newspaper headlines, relevance and emotive effects Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Elly Ifantidou
Readers' habit to glance over the news has spawned brief, creative and imaginative headlines. Of these, which element is capable of arresting eye movement on a newspaper (web)page, of sparking interest in the story? Lexical patterns, semantic content, pragmatic, or psychological effects elicited during interpretation? By raising this question, it may be possible to pull out the element which is an
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Challenging askability through particles: uei-prefaced responses in Catalan Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Natàlia Server Benetó
Several studies have shown that turn-initial particles, when placed in the first position of the second turn of a question-answer adjacency pair, signal an issue with the question (Schegloff and Lerner, 2009; Stivers, 2011;). Challenging what is asked relates to a mismatch between the presumed common ground knowledge between interlocutors (Krifka, 2008; Heritage 2012), as the person answering considers
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Expressing evidence Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Corien Bary, Natasha Korotkova
This paper forms the introductory article to the special issue ‘Expressing Evidence’. It lays out the background into the pragmatic and semantic research on evidence in language, and positions the collection of papers within this theoretical landscape. The collection stands out in its focus on conceptual issues involved, including the relation between ‘grammatical’ evidentiality and other constructions
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Metaphor, Metonymy, the Body and the Environment: An Exploration of the Factors That Shape Emotion-Colour Associations and Their Variation across Cultures, Jeannette Littlemore, Marianna Bolognesi, Nina Julich-Warpakowski, Chung-hong Danny Leung, Paula Pérez Sobrino, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom (2023), 100pp. ISBN: 9781009045582, USD 22.00 (paperback) Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Yue Guan
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Book review of Victoria Guillén-Nieto, Hate Speech. Linguistic Perspectives. Foundations in Language and Law (Janet Giltrow and Dieter Stein, eds.), volume 2. Berlin/Boston, MA: Walter de Gruyter, 2023, pp. xvi + 190. ISBN 978-3-11-067246-6, e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-067261-9, e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-067276-3, ISSN 2627-3950 Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-09-02 Jasper Doomen
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Corpus-pragmatic perspectives on the contemporary weakening of fuck: The case of teenage British English conversation Journal of Pragmatics (IF 1.86) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Robbie Love, Anna-Brita Stenstrom
This study examines the pragmatic functions of fuck among British English teenagers in casual conversation in two youth language corpora from the 1990s and 2010s. It applies a corpus-pragmatics approach to explore how the ongoing weakening of the taboo strength of fuck in the perception of young speakers is realised in usage data. The major functions observed involve a predominance of idiomatic, emphatic