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Verbal and visual communication in constructive news across cultures: A case study of a bilingual English-Spanish corpus with a focus on metaphor Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Ashley Riggs
A global but under-recognized phenomenon, constructive news is an alternative to predominantly negative news. While it is known to have positive effects on readers, the nuts and bolts of the language and images that achieve these effects are under-researched. Drawing on theories and approaches from metaphor studies, news translation studies and (multimodal) discourse analysis, this article compares
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Artificial intelligence and the ethnographic encounter: Transhuman language ontologies, or what it means “to write like a human, think like a machine” Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Eugenia Demuro, Laura Gurney
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Claims and contests: On the epistemic negotiation of place identity Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Felipe Leandro de Jesus, Sarah Rose Bellavance, Jennifer Nycz
This paper investigates knowledge management in interaction and the role of epistemic stance in place identity construction. We examine how a US expat in Toronto negotiates her New Yorker identity in conversation with two Canadians by demonstrating how authoritative epistemic stances are employed to produce relations of distinction, adequation, and authentication in service of place identity construction
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Documenting the emerging social-semiotic landscape in children ages 5 to 12 Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Charlotte Vaughn, Kara Becker
Despite widespread application of semiotic theory in sociolinguistics, the development of children's social-semiotic landscapes remains underexplored. This paper analyzes the spontaneous responses of 94 children to short American English speech samples, with emic coding of responses. Results support a view of children's social-semiotic landscapes as rich and expanding; children as young as 5 volunteer
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Facework in translating and re-narrating vulgar language: The case of Macron's harsh statement against the unvaccinated in English language and Greek mainstream and alternative media Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Maria Constantinou
The present paper investigates, from a comparative and cross-cultural perspective, how ‘journalators’ in English-language and Greek media rendered a controversial statement by French President E. Macron against the non-vaccinated, with the use of the slang verb emmerder. The paper examines how journalators sought to render the verb and re-narrate that particular discursive instance, largely judged
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Place branding and translocal chronotopes in Finnish municipality slogans Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Eero Voutilainen, Tomi Visakko, Paula Sjöblom, Ulla Hakala, Terhi Ainiala
This article examines the pragmatics of Finnish municipality slogans by focussing on slogans that include a toponym, that is, a place name other than that of the municipality. We approach our data of 51 slogans from the standpoint of translocal chronotopes – imagery of time, place and social life that connects the municipality with another place. We demonstrate that toponyms position the municipalities
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Commodifying Green living: Discourses of class and sustainability in housing estates Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Cherise Shi Ling Teo
With the call to care for the environment becoming more urgent, the notion of what it means to be Green, in light of consumption culture, is explored. In conceptualizing Greenness as a continuous variable rather than an absolute quality, this linguistic landscape study examines the role that language plays in communicating Greenness across place-making discourses of luxury and mass/everyday housing
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Reading (in) law: A critical appraisal of the impact of language on disciplinary novices’ cognitive reading strategies Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Bongi Bangeni
This article adopts a critical approach to literacy and genre analysis to explore the place for multilingualism at a South African historically white university's law faculty. Drawing on data from think-aloud protocols and semi-structured interviews, it seeks to gain insight into the following: the (meta)cognitive reading strategies used by first-year English additional language (EAL) students in reading
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Speaking up and being heard: The changing metadiscourse about ‘voice’ in British parliamentary debates since 1800 Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Melani Schröter, Theo Jung
As a metaphor for political power, participation, and legitimacy, the concept of ‘voice’ is central to considerations of representative politics during the modern era. Little is known about how political actors themselves understood and referred to their own voices, those of others, and their respective significance for representative politics. This article focuses on the British Parliament, which
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Framing shared knowledge: The chronotopic organisation of meaning Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Jessica Kruk
Previous studies of interactional particles have shown that a particle's social meaning may be contextually contingent and a momentary instantiation of the form's core meaning. This paper shows how analysing particles using Blommaert and De Fina's (2017) chronotopic frame approach provides greater insight into the dialectic relationship between forms' meanings that are relatively transitory or perduring
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‘Are you man enough?’. Gender as an increasingly decisive factor in the choice of Basque personal pronouns Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Garbiñe Bereziartua, Beñat Muguruza
This study seeks to explore the relationship between the Basque informal form of address hika and gender. Hika consists of a complex system that is in decline among Basque speakers and is currently employed mostly by men. Focus group discussions and dyadic interviews were used to elicit data from 38 participants from different generations (in the age range 14–74) and profiles. In line with previous
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Deliberate ambiguity as motivated strategy Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Rong Chen, Fengguang Liu
In this paper, we investigate ambiguity in language use that is intended by the speaker. Our overall argument is that, as a general feature of language resulting from the indeterminacy of meaning at all levels of language, ambiguity can be taken advantage of in specific contexts for a host of purposes. Given that an ambiguous utterance has (at least) two possible meanings – A and B – there are two
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Introduction: The sociolinguistics of exclusion – Indexing (non)belonging in mobile communities Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Cornelia F. Bock, Florian Busch, Naomi Truan
The special issue on ‘The sociolinguistics of exclusion: Indexing (non)belonging in mobile communities’ delves into the phenomenon of exclusion as a means and outcome of social positioning within diverse communities undergoing continual transformation due to social, demographic, political, and technological changes. Through empirical studies that critically engage with exclusionary discourse practices
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Commentary: The sociolinguistics of exclusion Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Scott Kiesling
This commentary reviews, synthesizes, and expands upon the articles in this special issue. The review notes that the papers update the idea that language style – the combination of habitual forms used in languaging – can be used in exclusionary practices. That said, the papers in this issue all approach exclusion in language style from a different standpoint, and this diversity of approaches and topics
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Impoliteness and morality as instruments of destructive informal social control in online harassment targeting Swedish journalists Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Oscar Björkenfeldt, Linnea Gustafsson
This study investigates the interplay between morality, impoliteness, and moral order in the online harassment of Swedish journalists on Twitter. It reveals how impoliteness serves as a tool to harm the media's epistemic credibility, rooted in anti-press and populist rhetoric, and exert destructive informal social control. The highlighted paradox is that provisions for freedom of speech, designed to
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Comprehending stories in pantomime. A pilot study with typically developing children and its implications for the narrative origin of language Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Ines Adornetti, Alessandra Chiera, Valentina Deriu, Daniela Altavilla, Francesco Ferretti
This paper presents a pilot study aimed at investigating the comprehension of pantomimic stories and its possible cognitive underpinnings in typically developing children. A group of twenty-two Italian-speaking children aged between 8.02 and 10.11 years were included in the study. Participants watched short videos in which professional actors performed pantomime narratives; then answered a comprehension
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Lessons in linguistics with ChatGPT: Metapragmatics, metacommunication, metadiscourse and metalanguage in human-AI interactions Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Marta Dynel
This paper discusses metalanguage, metadiscourse, metacommunication and metapragmatics testifying to users' conscious awareness enacted in human-AI interactions, based on a corpus of posts sent to Reddit's r/ChatGPT. The emphasis falls on users' foci of attention as they perform linguistic tests on ChatGPT and on how the “meta” practices manifest themselves interactionally on the selected subreddit
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The “Balfour Gang” versus “the Saladin Gang”: Geographic metaphors and metonyms in Israel as securitized, polarizing constructs Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Elie Friedman
Research has illustrated that metaphors and metonyms are concepts that govern thought and action, playing a central role in constructing realities. While previous studies have demonstrated that metaphors and metonyms are utilized as tools for conceptualizing nations, this study examines how metaphoric and metonymic representations of specific locations within the nation-state can serve as polarizing
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Media frames as adaptive networks of meaning: A conceptual proposition Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Christian Pentzold, Claudia Fraas
The article extends the study of frames in verbal media discourse. We mobilize insights from linguistic semantics and research in the related fields of cognitive science in order to formulate a frame-semantic understanding of frames as adaptive networks of meaning. It allows us to see frames as flexible scaffoldings whose elements are controlled by contextual configurations. This extension is helpful
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No puedes hablar ahora: Voice in an interpreter-mediated court meeting Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Martha Sif Karrebæk
In interpreter-mediated encounters, one participant's contributions are multivoiced, other participants' contributions are collectively produced, as the interpreter mediates their words. It is interesting what mediation does to their voice, and even more relevant if participants speak in ways deviating from local norms. This paper offers a case study of an interpreter-mediated court meeting. I discuss
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Linguistic reflexivity and language-shaping: Countering representationalism in ecological research on language Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Talbot J. Taylor, Jasper C. van den Herik
Everyday metalinguistic ascriptions (“My name is Oliver”, “Swahili ng'ombe means cow”, “She lied about you”) seemingly attribute properties to phenomena of a distinctively linguistic ontology. However, non-representational approaches to cognition, such as ecological psychology, cannot accommodate this linguistic ontology without contravening their non-representational principles. An alternative might
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Linguistic negotiation of place identity in a changing Tel Aviv neighborhood Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-09 Roey J. Gafter
The Tel Aviv neighborhood of HaTikva, originally home mostly to Mizrahi Jews, has undergone a considerable demographic shift in recent years. This paper discusses the narratives of Mizrahi longtime residents of the neighborhood, who are uncomfortable with the recent changes. Focusing on a micro-analysis of the stylistic variation in two interviews, the results show that the voiced pharyngeal approximant
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Theorizing rhetoric: A transatlantic perspective Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Agnieszka Kampka, Marta Kobylska
This article presents the results of a comparative study on the leading theories used in European and North American rhetorical research. The aim of the study was to examine European rhetorical theories on their own terms and their relations with North American rhetorical practice. Using a mixed-method approach, the study addressed normative, declarative, and pragmatic dimensions of unity and theoretical
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Arabic–French code-switching in medical consultations in Algeria: A conversation analytic study Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Khadidja Belaskri, Paul Drew
This paper reports a study of Arabic-French language alternation in medical consultations in Algeria to reveal the ways in which code-switching is used to build and organise activities in medical interactions. Conversation analysis is applied to examine the participants' linguistic choices. Audio-recorded data was collected in two public hospitals in the Northwest of Algeria. This study suggests that
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An Emmet's tale: The duality of social and lexical change Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Rhys J. Sandow
Stockwell and Minkova (2001: 34) state that ‘the lexicon is the language layer most responsive to socio-political and cultural changes’. Despite this, lexis has been labelled as the ‘Cinderella of sociolinguistics’ (Beal 2010; Durkin 2012) due to the lack of focus on this level of linguistic structure by variationist sociolinguists. This article redresses the dearth of lexis-oriented sociolinguistic
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Generic options: Variable use of vos and uno in Patagonia Spanish (Argentina) Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Lucía Zanfardini, Bob de Jonge
The distribution of vos ‘you’ and uno ‘one’ in generic messages is studied in a corpus of female speakers of Spanish (Argentina).The question was how it is possible that the form vos, so clearly defined as the pronoun to refer to the interlocutor, could have an impersonal reading, alongside the indefinite pronoun uno, which seems much more fit to do the job. The alternation between the generic use
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What animals can tell us about attentional prerequisites of language acquisition Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-13
Theories of human language acquisition frequently posit human-unique attentional specializations to jumpstart language acquisition. There is a broad consensus that the developmental processes supporting language acquisition in our species rely on human-unique cognitive adaptions pertaining to the deployment and understanding of attention. However, close attention to the empirical evidence held to support
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Temporality and the cooperative infrastructure of human communication: Noticings to delay and to accelerate onward movement in mobile interaction Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Anja Stukenbrock
This article examines how mobile participants, at interactionally delicate moments, deploy noticings to invite joint attention on objects in the speaker's vicinity. Complementing recent accounts of environmentally occasioned noticings, the focus of this study is on noticings as a practice to delay and, by contrast, to accelerate joint onward movement through museum spaces. It is argued that the interactional
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Putting local dialect in the mix: Indexicality and stylization in a TikTok challenge Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Kristel Doreleijers, Jos Swanenberg
This paper investigates the role of local dialect forms and other semiotic signs in languagecultural practices on social media in the southern Dutch province North Brabant. Although dialect use is severely decreasing in this area, we find abundant dialect features in present-day media productions, but these are not simply some last remains. By conducting a qualitative discourse analysis of a carnivalesque
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Attitudes towards age variation and language change in the British deaf community Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Katherine Rowley, Kearsy Cormier
There are age-related differences in signers of British Sign Language (BSL) and evidence that BSL is changing. Here we explore attitudes of BSL signers towards age-related differences and language change. We studied interview data from the BSL Corpus (Schembri et al., 2014) from 80 signers from four regions in the U.K. We carried out a thematic analysis following Braun and Clarke (2006) on responses
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Perceptions of communicative competence: Stancetaking and explicit metapragmatic discourse in interactions of L1 and L2 users of Japanese Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Florian Grosser
This article analyzes how perceptions of communicative competence are discursively constructed in interactions of L1 and L2 users of Japanese. Talking about appropriate language use is an inherently metapragmatic activity and therefore a product of metapragmatic stancetaking practices—here conceptualized as social actors’ positioning vis-à-vis potential and limitations of language use. The analysis
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Japanese female English learners’ two-stage learning from Filipino and Western English teachers to acquire “accent-free” English Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Yoko Kobayashi
This study conducted a questionnaire survey with 100 Japanese women who have taken English lessons in two formats, online and in-person, taught by both Filipino and Western English teachers whose different advantages are featured in Japan's English teaching industry. Analyzing their decisions on what types and modes of lessons to take at which learning stage and why, the study discusses how both expected
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Adapt, acquire, diffuse, learn: Filipino online English tutors as intercultural bricoleurs Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-03 Joy Hannah Panaligan, Nathaniel Ming Curran
Since 2010, the Philippines has been one of the largest contributors of workers to the increasingly global industry of remote English language tutoring. In this nascent and growing industry, Filipino online English tutors are employed by online platforms as independent contractors where they instruct students on a piece-meal basis. This article draws on interviews with 11 Filipino online tutors to
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Joining actions through effort sounds: Mothers and infants in routine activities Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-03 Iris Nomikou
This paper analyses the effort sounds made by caregivers in routine interactions with very young infants. Video recordings were made of 15 mother-infant dyads in Germany during nappy changing. The multimodal analysis of the interactions revealed that effort sounds were used when handling the infant’s body, such as dressing them or lifting them up, but also made to link to the sensations of the infant
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Linguistic features and pragmatic functions of direct reported speech in Italian troubles telling sequences Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Ilaria Riccioni, Gill Philip, Alessandra Fermani, Ramona Bongelli
This article aims to investigate possible linguistic features and pragmatic functions of Direct Reported Speech (DRS) in a specific conversational context, which seems to favour the emerging of this phenomenon: the trouble telling sequence. The study, conducted on a corpus of naturally occurring interactions in Italian, describes some characteristics of this linguistic device from both a qualitative
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“Molière amoché”: Discourse on the quality of English-speaking Canadian politicians’ French in Canadian news media coverage of the 2020 conservative leadership debate Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Yulia Bosworth
“In the course of a federal electoral campaign in Canada, the French language ability of the candidates is widely discussed in both French-language and English-language media. This article proposes a discourse analysis of a representative sample of articles recovered in both French-language (20) and English-language (15) online news publications targeting the French language proficiency of candidates
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Lexical repetitions during time critical moments in boxing Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Misao Okada
This paper analyzes how a boxing coach co-constructs, or in some cases, co-experiences ‘not-postponable’ or ‘time critical’ (Mondada, 2014b: 270) moments with the boxer. It examines a coach's uses of some phonological features of self-repetition of lexical forms, e.g. nouns, or imperatives, in her instruction toward the boxer. The analysis shows how these phonological features relate to the specificities
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Sounding for others: Vocal resources for embodied togetherness Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-11 Leelo Keevallik, Emily Hofstetter
Standard models of language and communication depart from the assumption that speakers encode and receive messages individually, while interaction research has shown that utterances are composed jointly (C. Goodwin, 2018), dialogically designed with and for others (Linell, 2009). Furthermore, utterances only achieve their full semantic potential in concrete interactional contexts. This SI investigates
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Voice matters: Social categorization and stereotyping of speakers based on sexual orientation and nationality categories Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Fabio Fasoli, Marko Dragojevic, Tamara Rakić, Susie Johnson
This research examined how listeners categorize and stereotype speakers belonging to intersecting social categories (nationality; sexual orientation) based on voice alone. In Study 1, British heterosexuals categorized the nationality and sexual orientation of British and Italian speakers who self-identified as gay or heterosexual. Participants correctly categorized British speakers as co-nationals
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Hebrew stance-taking gasps: From bodily response to social communicative resource Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Yotam M. Ben-Moshe
This paper describes 'gasps' – ingressive vocoids, ingressive nasal stops, and certain sharp inbreaths – expressing stance in Hebrew conversation. A sharp inbreath can be part of a startle reflex, but sequential analysis shows gasps used as carefully coordinated interactional resources. Gasps in themselves express high arousal only; valence and specific affective categories must be gathered from context
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“Oh my god that would hurt”: Pain cries in feminist self-defence classes Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-04 Ann Weatherall
This study examines response cries produced by student spectators reacting to imagined pain in the setting of feminist self-defence classes. It investigates the vocal, verbal and embodied resources that constitute reactive displays to demonstrations and descriptions of physical techniques that can thwart attacks. It asks what the pain cries accomplish, considering their form and sequential organisation
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Heritage learners are more sensitive to effects of script: Evidence from Korean Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-02-02
This study reports on the processing differences of script between native (or L1) and heritage speakers of Korean to provide further theoretical insight into heritage languages. We address questions concerning the effects of script and how this varies depending on differential proficiencies in the written language. We find that heritage speakers of Korean are sensitive to different aspects of written
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Something wicked this way comes! Applying linguistic structures within Ricoer's interpretation theory Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-01-27 LaReina Hingson, Brooke Anderson, Brandon Torruella, Lanna McRae, Scott Howell
Punctuation may seem to be minor, but even ‘minor’ editing influences the interpretation of a text. This paper draws in several novel connections in language and communication in order to look at how the punctuation of the exclamation mark, and the editors that select it, create a symbol that suggests to the reader how to appropriate the text. Using Ricoeur's interpretation theory as the foundation
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Peer socialization in an oral preschool classroom Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Kristella Montiegel
Informed by the perspectives of Language Socialization and the Social Model of Childhood Disability, and using the method of Conversation Analysis, I investigate the communicative practices that facilitate peer socialization processes in an oral classroom for deaf or hard-of-hearing preschoolers. Analyses show how children's interactions serve as mechanisms for socialization into norms and behaviors
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Introducing the Volume of Extremity (VoX) method to integrate prosodic data into discourse analysis Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Vered Silber-Varod, Anat Lerner
This study aims to integrate acoustic analysis into discourse analysis. We developed a method that targets the fifth and the ninety-fifth percentiles of acoustic parameters of the four prosodic dimensions: pitch (F0), power (amplitude), duration, and voice quality per each speaker. We then defined a new measure to express the Volume of Extremity (VoX) of a speaker's voice. To demonstrate the strength
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The language predicament of South African universities in a global perspective Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Abram de Swaan
In many formerly colonized countries the colonial language still prevails as the medium of education and nationwide communication: at Independence, the various language groups would not accept another group's language as the new national medium. Much like India or the European Union, post-Apartheid South Africa officially adopted 11 languages on an equal footing. English remained in the lead and even
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Metalinguistic negation of proper names: Evidence from Russian Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Elena Vilinbakhova, Igor Boguslavsky
This paper examines metalinguistic negation of proper names on the data from the Russian National Corpus, including its pragmatic functions, its performance with regards to other cases of metalinguistic negation, and the opposition between explicit and implicit use of the metalinguistic predicate. The data showed that the speaker's most common aim is to reject a particular representation of the name
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Punctuating the other: Graphic cues, voice, and positioning in digital discourse Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Jannis Androutsopoulos
This article investigates the nested relationship between graphic cues, voice, and positioning in digital discourse. The focus is on the ‘indignation mark’, or , an allographic sign used in German-language discussion boards on Reddit. The study's theoretical backdrop brings research on graphic practices in digitally-mediated communication into dialogue with sociolinguistic approaches to the enactment
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Remaking futsuu ‘ordinary’ in the discourse of younger Japanese adults Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-10 Judit Kroo
This paper examines the use of expressions related to futsuu ‘ordinary’ by contemporary Japanese younger adults. Under conditions of socioeconomic precarity, the achievement of an ‘ordinary life’ is falling out of reach for many younger adults in Japan creating a situation in which ‘ordinariness’ is framed as an aspirational goal. Analysis considers how younger Japanese adults use futsuu to discursively
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Contextualization cues for media references in everyday conversation Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Sylvia Sierra
While scholars have explored the importance of quoting media in accomplishing relationship and identity work in conversation, there is little work on how speakers phonetically and paralinguistically signal spoken media references specifically so that they may be recognized in the speech stream. This article demonstrates how speakers make 148 media references recognizable across 5 audio-recorded everyday
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“I don't mean extradimensional in a woo-woo sense”: Doing non-explanation in discussions of unidentified aerial phenomena Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Chris McVittie, Andy McKinlay
In everyday talk, speakers commonly provide explanations that “make plain” or “make intelligible” prior talk. Little work, however, has examined talk in which speakers offer no explanation for what is being described. We consider talk about “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAPs) from news media interviews. Interviewees distanced themselves from accountability for explaining UAPs or proposed multiple
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Cheering together: The interactional organization of choral vocalizations Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 B.S. Tekin
This study demonstrates how cheering together in and as a choir is an interactional accomplishment in co-present video gaming activities. The relevance of producing choral vocalizations is established by participants collectively and simultaneously orienting to particular events in video games as cheerables. Vocalizations are often individually initiated and elongated, and the joining of other persons
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Prosody is used for real-time exercising of other bodies Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Emily Hofstetter, Leelo Keevallik
While the lexico-grammatical and embodied practices in various instructional activities have been explored in-depth (Keevallik, 2013; Simone & Galatolo, 2020), the vocal capacities deployed by instructors have not been in focus. This study looks at how a Pilates instructor coaches student bodies by modulating the prosodic production of verbal instructions and adjusting vocal quality in reflexive coordination
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Indicating ideology: Variation in Montenegrin orthography Language & Communication (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-12 Katharina Tyran
This contribution discusses variation in orthography on a standard language level as a semiotic practice of extra-lingual exclusion and intra-lingual stylistic differentiation in a South Slavic language, Montenegrin. I will address recent orthography reforms and their use following the emancipation of Serbo-Croatian. Orthographic variants, I argue, function as semiotic means of exclusion from the former