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IF 1.7 1区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2025-10-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.10.006
Valentina Concu
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IF 1.7 1区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2025-10-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.10.002
Lelia Glass
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“Then journeys are like life itself, rarely straight”: Towards a meta-metaphorical perspective on life–journey interactions “那么旅程就像生活本身,很少是笔直的”:对生命旅程互动的元隐喻视角
IF 1.7 1区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.08.006
Ming-Yu Tseng
The reversal of the deep-rooted life is a journey metaphor is not commonly heard in everyday language, and as a result has received little attention. This study addresses the phenomenon in which a journey is life appears to be embedded within, or co-exists with, life is a journey in text. This study argues that this phenomenon constitutes a meta-metaphor – a metaphor about a metaphor – which can set free and extend familiar metaphorical thought and instigate life–journey interactions in ways that the familiar metaphor alone cannot achieve. This paper proposes a multilevel view of the literal-metonymic-metaphorical continuum, which considers the possibility that literalness, metonymy and metaphor are located at different levels involving language, experience (physical action) and belief systems (faith and knowledge). This multilevel lens, underpinned by cognitive and socio-pragmatic forces, further explains why life–journey interactions can occur.
人生的逆转是一种根深蒂固的旅程隐喻,在日常语言中并不常见,因此很少受到关注。本研究探讨了这样一种现象,即生命之旅似乎嵌入或共存于文本中的生命之旅。本研究认为,这种现象构成了一种元隐喻,即关于隐喻的隐喻,它可以解放和扩展熟悉的隐喻思维,并激发单独熟悉的隐喻无法实现的生命旅程互动。本文提出了字面-转喻-隐喻连续体的多层次观点,认为字面性、转喻和隐喻可能处于语言、经验(身体行为)和信仰系统(信仰和知识)的不同层次。这种以认知和社会实用主义力量为基础的多层次视角进一步解释了为什么生命旅程中会发生互动。
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“Off-the-shelf” features and pragmatic trajectories: The years of cioè in Italian “现成的”特征和实用主义轨迹:cioè在意大利的岁月
IF 1.7 1区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.07.008
Chiara Ghezzi
Linguistic variants have a ‘social’ value if alternants are “easily parsed, extracted, and recombined-taken off the shelf” (Eckert, 2019: 755). In this process indexicality is central as it connects (linguistic) signs to social occasions, anchoring language use into social patterns. Discourse markers, central elements within pragmatics, display formal and functional properties which make them ideal for identity construction and negotiation of social meaning. This contribution considers how social meaning aligns with the prototypically pragmatic meaning of discourse markers through the exemplar development of Italian cioè ‘that is’ from 1976 to today. Basing the analysis on spoken corpora and questionnaires on speakers' attitudes, the study shows that the social meaning of cioè is anchored in linguistic practices of social groups, which entail uses in different structural contexts, positions, and with different scopes. It also links the pragmatic development of cioè to the evolution of its social indexicalities. Lastly, it discusses the role of discourse markers, and of pragmatic variables, in the development of social personae and in the relationship of social meaning with indexicality. If the latter is the use of linguistic correlations to do social work, the former is its outcome in particular instances.
如果语言变体“很容易被解析、提取和重组——从货架上取下来”,那么它就具有“社会”价值(Eckert, 2019: 755)。在这个过程中,索引性是中心,因为它将(语言)符号与社会场合联系起来,将语言使用锚定在社会模式中。话语标记语是语用学的核心要素,它表现出形式和功能特征,使其成为身份建构和社会意义协商的理想选择。这一贡献通过1976年至今意大利语cioè ‘ that is ’的范例发展,考虑了社会意义如何与话语标记的原型语用意义保持一致。通过对口语语料库的分析和对说话人态度的问卷调查,研究表明cioè的社会意义根植于社会群体的语言实践中,需要在不同的结构语境、位置和范围内使用。它还将cioè的实用主义发展与其社会指数性的演变联系起来。最后,讨论了话语标记和语用变量在社会人物发展中的作用,以及社会意义与指标性的关系。如果后者是使用语言相关性来做社会工作,那么前者就是它在特定情况下的结果。
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“Do you have a conscience?”: Ostensible offence in hybrid interactions of live streaming commerce “你有良心吗?”:直播商业混合互动的明显违规行为
IF 1.7 1区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.07.012
Ping Liu , Linlin Yang
This study investigates ostensible offence, a distinctive form of mock impoliteness that couples apparently offensive elements with underlying affiliative intent. Although mock impoliteness has received considerable scholarly attention, ostensible offence within the hybrid institutional context of Chinese state-affiliated live streaming commerce (LSC) remains underexplored. Drawing on 5476 min of transcribed LSC interactions, this study identifies four recurring types of mixed messages: (1) criticizing + reinforcing consumer trust, (2) complaining + highlighting product features, (3) relation-threatening + fostering community solidarity, and (4) staging embarrassment + facilitating cultural socialization. To explain how ostensible offence functions in this context, we propose a three-step pragmatic mechanism. First, mismatch occurs when incongruent interpersonal messages generate evaluative dissonance between surface offence and affiliative intent. Second, collaborative resolution emerges through institutional hybridity in identity, interactional framework, and communicative goals. Third, strategic recontextualization fulfills institutional functions, including enhancing credibility, sustaining engagement, and supporting cultural messaging. The findings demonstrate how strategic language use in LSC serves both commercial and sociocultural goals, contributing to pragmatic research on mock impoliteness in digital institutional discourse.
这项研究调查了表面上的冒犯,一种独特的模仿不礼貌的形式,结合了明显的冒犯元素与潜在的附属意图。尽管模拟不礼貌已经引起了相当大的学术关注,但在中国国有直播商业(LSC)的混合制度背景下,表面上的冒犯行为仍未得到充分探讨。根据5476分钟的LSC互动记录,本研究确定了四种重复出现的混合信息类型:(1)批评+加强消费者信任,(2)抱怨+突出产品功能,(3)关系威胁+促进社区团结,(4)制造尴尬+促进文化社会化。为了解释在这种情况下,表面犯罪是如何起作用的,我们提出了一个三步走的语用机制。首先,当不一致的人际信息产生表面冒犯和附属意图之间的评价失调时,就会发生失配。其次,协作解决方案通过身份、互动框架和沟通目标的制度混合而出现。第三,战略再语境化实现了制度功能,包括提高可信度、维持参与和支持文化信息传递。研究结果表明,LSC中的策略性语言使用如何服务于商业和社会文化目标,有助于数字制度话语中模拟不礼貌的语用研究。
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‘If they say “there's a photo ban and any clothes you can forget about taking them”’: Interactional functions of hypothetical direct reported speech in adoption assessment interviews “如果他们说‘禁止拍照,禁止穿任何衣服’”:收养评估访谈中假设性直接间接引语的互动功能
IF 1.7 1区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.08.003
Madeleine Wirzén
This article examines the interactional functions of hypothetical direct reported speech (HDRS) in Swedish adoption assessment interviews. Drawing on 36 h of recorded conversations between social workers and prospective adoptive parents, the study uses conversation analysis to explore how HDRS is employed to accomplish institutional tasks. The analysis shows that both social workers and applicants use HDRS to navigate the moral, emotional, and relational complexities of the assessment process. Social workers use HDRS to challenge assumptions, introduce alternative perspectives, and mitigate the face-threatening nature of advice-giving. Applicants, in turn, use HDRS to construct parenting identities, demonstrate child-centered reasoning, and express emotional commitment. Rather than functioning merely as a rhetorical device, HDRS emerges as an interactional practice that enacts institutional expectations, facilitates perspective-taking, and renders parenting approaches evaluable. By performing rather than simply describing future actions, participants make their positions more vivid and credible. This study contributes to research on institutional interaction and reported speech by demonstrating how HDRS supports both evaluative and pedagogical goals in adoption interviews, thereby highlighting the hybrid nature of the activity.
本文研究了瑞典收养评估访谈中假设性直接间接引语(HDRS)的互动功能。本研究利用社会工作者与准养父母之间36小时的对话记录,利用对话分析来探讨如何利用HDRS来完成机构任务。分析表明,社会工作者和申请人都使用HDRS来应对评估过程中道德、情感和关系的复杂性。社会工作者使用HDRS来挑战假设,引入不同的观点,并减轻提供建议的威胁性质。申请人依次使用HDRS来构建父母身份,展示以儿童为中心的推理,并表达情感承诺。HDRS不仅仅是一种修辞手段,它作为一种互动实践出现,实现了制度期望,促进了观点的采纳,并使育儿方法可评估。通过表演而不是简单地描述未来的行动,参与者使他们的立场更加生动可信。本研究通过展示HDRS如何支持收养访谈中的评估和教学目标,从而突出了该活动的混合性质,为机构互动和报告演讲的研究做出了贡献。
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“im embarrassed 2 say lol”: The functions of lol in online groomer-decoy interactions “我不好意思说lol”:lol在在线新郎-诱饵互动中的作用
IF 1.7 1区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.07.015
Sofia Navarro Beck
The present study examines a sample of the grooming chat-logs provided by the Perverted Justice Foundation (PJF) using a digital Conversation Analysis (CA) approach. I argue that many previous studies on online grooming discourse based on the PJF dataset have routinely overlooked key contextual and interactional features of these conversations. This is mainly due to the tendency to focus only on the groomers' utterances, while sytematically ignoring the decoys' contributions. In this study I demonstrate how by including both the groomers' and decoys’ utterances it is possible to provide a more comprehensive understanding of groomer-decoy dynamics. By focusing specifically on the use of the discourse marker lol (laughing out loud), this study reveals that the decoys are active in shaping the entire interaction with the groomers, and that their use of lol plays a significant role in managing the conversation.
Recent years have seen an increase in the prevalence of vigilante so-called ‘pedo-hunter’ groups and their use of decoys to catch offenders worldwide. This study serves as a proof of concept, underscoring the relevance of examining the PJF data by applying microanalytic principles offered by CA. The article thus advocates for future sequential analyses of authentic grooming data to further advance our understanding of digital sexual offenses.
本研究使用数字对话分析(CA)方法对变态正义基金会(PJF)提供的梳理聊天日志样本进行了研究。我认为,许多先前基于PJF数据集的在线修饰话语研究通常忽略了这些对话的关键上下文和互动特征。这主要是由于人们倾向于只关注新郎的话语,而系统性地忽略了诱饵的贡献。在这项研究中,我展示了如何通过包括梳理者和诱饵的话语来提供对梳理者-诱饵动力学的更全面的理解。通过特别关注话语标记lol(大声笑)的使用,这项研究揭示了诱饵在塑造与新郎的整个互动中是积极的,他们对lol的使用在管理谈话中起着重要作用。近年来,所谓的“恋童猎人”团体越来越多,他们在世界范围内使用诱饵来抓捕罪犯。本研究作为概念证明,强调了通过应用CA提供的微分析原理来检查PJF数据的相关性。因此,本文提倡对真实的梳理数据进行后续分析,以进一步推进我们对数字化性犯罪的理解。
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A critical pragmatic study of stance in peter Obi's world press conference speeches 彼得·欧比世界新闻发布会演讲立场的批判性实用主义研究
IF 1.7 1区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.08.004
Felicia Oamen
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has dominated Nigeria's political space since 2015. However, Peter Obi's emergence as the Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate in 2022 challenged the hegemony of APC. This study, therefore, critically examined the pragmatic features of Obi's world press conference speeches, which were produced to contest Bola Ahmed Tinubu's (the APC presidential candidate) victory in the 2023 presidential election. Specifically, the paper analysed the pragmatics of stance-taking to examine the ideological framing of resistance in Nigeria's political discourse. Data comprised three media speeches delivered by Obi after Tinubu's victory. The study adopted Mey's (2001) critical pragmatics, notions from van Dijk's approach to critical discourse analysis, and Hyland's (2005) stance theory, with focus on the metaphorical characteristics, speech acts, implicatures, presupposition and politeness norms deployed to represent self as the ideal leader. The representations were achieved through strategies of victimisation, delegitimisation, blame allocation, subtle criminalization of others, and self-glorification. The study concluded that stance taking by Nigerian politicians is moderated by speaker's background knowledge of the country's restive democratic environment.
自2015年以来,全进步大会(APC)一直主导着尼日利亚的政治空间。然而,彼得·奥比在2022年成为工党总统候选人,挑战了APC的霸权。因此,这项研究批判性地审视了奥比世界新闻发布会演讲的实用主义特征,这些演讲是为争夺博拉·艾哈迈德·蒂努布(APC总统候选人)在2023年总统选举中的胜利而制作的。具体而言,本文分析了立场采取的语用学,以研究尼日利亚政治话语中抵抗的意识形态框架。数据包括奥比在蒂努布获胜后发表的三次媒体演讲。本研究采用了Mey(2001)的批判语用学、van Dijk的批评话语分析方法和Hyland(2005)的立场理论,重点研究了隐喻特征、言语行为、含意、预设和礼貌规范对理想领导者自我表现的影响。这些表现是通过受害、非法化、指责分配、对他人的微妙犯罪化和自我美化等策略实现的。该研究得出结论,尼日利亚政治家的立场受到演讲者对该国动荡的民主环境的背景知识的影响。
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Corrigendum to ““#HaveYouNoShame”: Unraveling the pragmatics of impolite political hashtags” [J. Pragmatics 235 (2025) 238–253/12] “#你不羞耻”:解读不礼貌政治标签的语用学”的勘误表[J]。语用学235 (2025)238-253/12]
IF 1.7 1区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.08.007
Seyed Mohammadreza Mortazavi , Hamed Zandi
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Can AI simulate or emulate human stance? Using metadiscourse to compare GPT-generated and human-authored academic book reviews 人工智能可以模拟或模仿人类的姿势吗?使用元话语比较gpt生成的和人类撰写的学术书评
IF 1.7 1区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2025-10-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.07.018
Guangyuan Yao , Zhaoxia Liu
This study investigates whether generative AI (represented by ChatGPT) can simulate or even emulate the stance expressed by human authors in the specific genre of academic book reviews. Through a comparative analysis of ChatGPT-generated reviews and human-authored reviews, this study focuses on the use of interactional metadiscourse markers (e.g., hedges, boosters, attitude markers, and self-mention) to reveal current AI's capabilities and limitations in handling complex evaluative discourse and interpersonal interaction. The findings indicate that ChatGPT overall employs interactional metadiscourse markers more frequently than human authors, due to its significant overuse of attitude markers. However, it underuses hedges and self-mention significantly, suggesting a reliance on explicit evaluative language while lacking nuanced caution and authorial presence. These results highlight that current AI's simulation of human writing is genre-sensitive but incomplete, particularly in achieving the balance of caution, conviction, and authorial presence, which is typical of human reviewers. The distinct metadiscoursal patterns identified may serve as linguistic fingerprints for distinguishing AI-generated reviews from human-authored ones. The study also offers pedagogical implications, emphasizing the need for educators and students to recognize current AI's limitations in modeling nuanced stance and fostering authentic authorial voice in evaluative genres.
本研究探讨了生成式人工智能(以ChatGPT为代表)是否可以模拟甚至模仿人类作者在特定类型的学术书评中所表达的立场。通过对chatgpt生成的评论和人类撰写的评论的比较分析,本研究侧重于使用交互式元话语标记(如模糊限制语、助推器、态度标记和自我提及)来揭示当前人工智能在处理复杂评价话语和人际互动方面的能力和局限性。研究结果表明,由于过度使用态度标记,ChatGPT总体上比人类作者更频繁地使用互动元话语标记。然而,它明显没有充分利用模棱两可和自我提及,这表明它依赖于明确的评价语言,而缺乏细致入微的谨慎和作者的存在。这些结果突出表明,目前人工智能对人类写作的模拟是体裁敏感的,但不完整,特别是在实现谨慎、信念和作者存在的平衡方面,这是人类审稿人的典型特征。识别出的不同元话语模式可以作为区分人工智能生成的评论和人类撰写的评论的语言指纹。该研究还提供了教学意义,强调教育工作者和学生需要认识到当前人工智能在建模微妙立场和培养评估类型的真实作者声音方面的局限性。
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