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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.12.009

Seongha Rhee

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Humor production through breaches of a pre-allocated turn-taking organization in television talk shows involving interpreters

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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.008

Ryo Okazawa , Tianhao Zhang

When participants in institutional talk do not speak the same language(s), accomplishing interactional goals may become challenging. Although interpreters can help participants achieve mutual understanding, their involvement may also impose constraints, such as hindering smooth conversation between the participants due to the pre-allocated turn-taking organization. This paper investigates how the English-speaking host of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, an American television talk show, breaches the pre-allocated turn-taking organization to entertain her audience when she is interviewing guests who speak Mandarin Chinese or Japanese. We examine cases where the host, following her guest's turn, takes a turn tentatively pre-allocated to the interpreter. Our analysis demonstrates that this specific sequential position allows the host to undertake various actions, including preempting the interpreter's translation and pretending to understand the guest's turn. Such actions produce humor by making the following explicit to the audience: 1) the host claims or pretends to understand what she is not expected to understand and 2) the host's attitude toward her guests does not comply with the congenial norm relevant in television talk shows. The findings suggest that the lack of a shared language and the pre-allocated turn-taking organization can serve as resources for humor in television talk shows.

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The pragmatics of encouragement: An inquiry into defaults vis-à-vis inferences

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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.013

Sadiya Shahid

This paper investigates primary meta-level meanings of encouragement, particularly in Arabic, in order to inform discourse interpretation models, mechanisms, and classifications in post-Gricean pragmatics. It particularly addresses two main questions: How should default versus inferential meanings be conceived and defined, particularly in relation to contextuality and conventionality? And what role do metapragmatic conventions, that is, the intuitive manner in which linguistic devices are employed by interlocutors, play in generating defaults and inferences? This paper presents both theoretical and empirical evidence with a cross-cultural basis, bringing in fresh insights on the theory of meaning from Arabic discourse pragmatics as well as a survey-based pilot study on Arabic discourse use. The findings support that: (i) defaults are preferred on the basis of statistically significant frequency; (ii) defaults are salient meanings that can be dependent on the situation and exist on a scale of degrees; (iii) meta-meanings of encouragement in Arabic can be recovered by default, and such defaults are socioculturally and metapragmatically grounded.

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Representation of threatening speech in Late Modern English trials

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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.004

Theresa Neumaier

When spoken threats are brought to court, one of the challenges judges and juries face is that they must decide on the legal relevance of a speech act which is usually not available as physical evidence. Instead, witnesses must resort to verbal re-enactments of the alleged threat, e.g. through the use of speech act labels and speech descriptors. This provides scholars with a unique opportunity to investigate laypersons' understandings of what constitutes a ‘proper’ threat. Using a set of trial accounts published in the Proceedings of the Old Bailey between 1837 and 1913, I analyse the metapragmatic expressions witnesses employ to represent and describe threatening speech when giving testimony during trials related to threatening behaviour and extortion. I then compare these first-order conceptualisations of threats with definitions by legal professionals and scholarly work on speech act analysis. The study shows that laypersons in the Late Modern English courtroom use metapragmatic expressions not only to report the occurrence of an illegal speech act but also to express their attitude towards disruptions of the social order.

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“This apology doesn't seem sincere at all” (Meta)discourses around Will Smith's apology in English and Japanese YouTube comments

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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.003

Eugenia Diegoli

This study investigates cultural variation in the reception and evaluation of the same apology event. More specifically, it looks at how Will Smith's apology for slapping Chris Rock has been metadiscursively constructed in two sets of YouTube comments (310,998 tokens): the English comments to the original apology video and the Japanese comments to a second video, which is addressed to a Japanese audience and reports and translates the apology. Corpus(-assisted) methods are employed to examine the Meta-Illocutionary Expressions (MIEs) apolog∗ and 謝罪 shazai ‘apology’/謝∗ ayama∗ ‘apologise’ in context and, more specifically: (1) their function; (2) the underlying evaluations they convey; and (3) the moral orders they appeal to.

The reading of concordances showed that the MIEs are used to problematise or endorse the apology and that negative evaluations of Smith and his apology are more prominent in English. A closer look at the collocates revealed that apolog∗ typically co-occurs with sincere to challenge the sincerity of the act. Conversely, shazai/ayama∗ is associated with お互いに (o-)tagai (ni) ‘reciprocal(ly)’ to indicate that a reciprocal apology from Rock would be appropriate. This suggests that culture-specific moral orders play a role in the negotiation of what is (im)polite.

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Orienting to knowledge as remarkable: The newsmark be'emet (‘in-truth’) in Hebrew conversation

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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.005

Michal Marmorstein , Leon Shor

The paper examines a practice of responding to informing actions implemented by the Hebrew form be'emet (lit. ‘in truth’). Based on everyday conversation data, it argues that the newsmark be'emet attributes remarkability, of whatever degree or valence, to the prior speaker's informing. This can be done to endorse a similar stance already offered by the informer, or it can be independently proffered by the recipient. The study shows how the negotiation of remarkability unfolds in be'emet-embedding sequences, focusing on cases where recipients use be'emet to align with their positioning as the less knowledgeable or newly informed party, as previously projected by the informer, or to withhold acceptance or contest this positioning. These different options are grounded in the epistemic and social positioning of the informer and recipient and are contextualized through the multimodal design of the be'emet-turn. The study proposes that the lack of specificity of be'emet is an affordance of such a response token since it opens up the possibility of combinedly dealing with other exigencies established by the larger activity, as well as allowing for an off-record negotiation of problems of epistemic alignment between the parties. On a broader level, the paper highlights how more general analyses of response tokens in the field of pragmatics can be enhanced by micro-analytic investigations of individual newsmarks within their local sequential context.

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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.009

Dániel Z. Kádár

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Quick body torque toward blackboard at third position: Teachers’ material practice in classroom interaction

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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2025-01-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.007

Mika Ishino , Aya Watanabe

Although scholars have illustrated various embodied and material practices in social interactions, they have faced challenges documenting specific collection-based practices across different datasets. Analyzing classroom institutions as an exemplary setting, this paper documents a recurrent embodied and material practice regarding a teacher's use of a blackboard. Specifically, we examined teachers' mobile body torque toward the blackboard at the third position, which signals a positive evaluation of a student's response in the initiation (first)–response (second)–evaluation (third) sequence, known as IRE. Using video recordings of five English-language classrooms in Japan, we conducted multimodal conversation analysis on IRE sequences within a knowledge-check activity involving a blackboard. The activity was organized around teachers' known-answer questions directed to the students. When the teachers obtained a “correct” answer from a student, they quickly moved their bodies toward the blackboard to write the answer while withholding verbal evaluation. At this sequential moment, the teacher's body torque toward the blackboard projects a positive evaluation, along with other embodied conducts, such as a head nod. Terming this practice as the “embodied-material projecting third,” we will demonstrate the recurrence of this embodied and material practice across classrooms. In conclusion, we will discuss how the evaluative action is multimodally constructed through the interplay of the teacher's bodily placement and material engagement in classroom ecology. The data are in Japanese with English translations.

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Delivering reassurance in online medical consultations: The stance marker Hao-bu-hao (HBH) in spoken Chinese

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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2025-01-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.011

Ying Jin , Dennis Tay

This article examines doctors' delivery of reassurance in online medical consultations. It focuses on the Mandarin A-not-A structure hao-bu-hao (HBH), equivalent to “alright” in English, and observes how it contribute to the delivery of reassurance. Data include typed texts and audio recordings. Using conversation analysis, we differentiate two environments where HBH is used: in delivering a no-problem diagnosis and an optimistic prognosis in the context of bad news. We argue that HBH allows the doctor to maintain control over the interaction while appearing less directive by acknowledging the patient's contingency without genuinely seeking their input.

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Journal of Pragmatics

Pub Date : 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.012

Xuewu Qin, Ziyu Wei, Haiquan Huang

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