This article examines to what dramaturgical effect Sam Shepard’s political play States of Shock (1991) remediates strategies associated with the culture industry. In plays, spectators forge an interpretation from a medium that is considered ‘hypermedial’ or capable of combining discrete signifying systems such as dialogue, costumes, acting style and scenography at the same time. In States of Shock, genre remediation implicates its audience in the spectacle of war by juxtaposing American war heroism and military ideology with entertaining vaudeville. By examining Shepard’s appropriation of the vaudeville genre in relation to other dramatic signifying systems, the article offers a new and more layered reading of the play’s supposedly ‘blatant’ political message.
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This article reviews Contrastive Analysis of Discourse-pragmatic Aspects of Linguistic Genre 978-3-319-54556-1
本文综述了978-3-319-5456-1《语言学流派语篇语用方面的对比分析》
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The Hillsborough football stadium disaster (1989) in Sheffield, UK, led to the deaths of 97 football fans and resulted in the longest jury case in British legal history (2016). This article examines the witness statements of two Sheffield residents who claim to have attended the match. Using a mixed-methods approach that incorporates a cognitive linguistic framework (Text World Theory) with visualisation software (VUE) we consider both form and function of a number of linguistic features, such as meta-narrative, evaluative lexis, syntax, and modality to investigate how institutional voices permeate and potentially distort layperson narratives. Our analysis casts doubt on the veracity of the statements and raises questions about what can be considered evidential in a forensic investigation.
{"title":"Worlds of evidence","authors":"Patricia Canning, Yufang Ho, Sara Bartl","doi":"10.1075/etc.00042.can","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.00042.can","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The Hillsborough football stadium disaster (1989) in Sheffield, UK, led to the deaths of 97 football fans and\u0000 resulted in the longest jury case in British legal history (2016). This article examines the witness statements of two Sheffield\u0000 residents who claim to have attended the match. Using a mixed-methods approach that incorporates a cognitive linguistic framework\u0000 (Text World Theory) with visualisation software (VUE) we consider both form and function of a number of linguistic features, such\u0000 as meta-narrative, evaluative lexis, syntax, and modality to investigate how institutional voices permeate and potentially distort\u0000 layperson narratives. Our analysis casts doubt on the veracity of the statements and raises questions about what can be\u0000 considered evidential in a forensic investigation.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41441873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study investigates conflict-motivated pragmatic acts employed in the open letters exchanged by two former Nigerian presidents (Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan). The data are analysed using Mey’s pragmatic act theory. The findings reveal that while Obasanjo employs pragmatic acts of warning, appealing, and praising in order to counsel Jonathan, Jonathan employs pragmatic acts of acknowledging, boasting, correcting, and reminding in order to defend himself. However, they both employ the pragmatic acts of insulting, complaining, accusing, and requesting. These acts are influenced by nationalist and anti-ethnic ideologies as well as the context of the open letters, i.e., conflict among political leaders in Nigeria.
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This paper is concerned with constructed dialog in conversational storytelling. Based on Clark & Gerrig’s (1990) demonstration theory, its focus is on what is absent from constructed dialog. To determine what is absent, a comparison is made between constructed dialog tokens and utterances in conversation. The inquiry uses both quantitative and qualitative methods. It is based on the Narrative Corpus (NC; Rühlemann & O’Donnell 2012), a corpus of conversational narratives extracted from the conversational component of the British National Corpus (BNC), and its systematic annotation of constructed dialog (that is, direct speech introduced by a quotative and free direct speech without any introducer). The quantitative comparison of verbalizations used in constructed dialog as opposed to verbalizations used in conversational utterances demonstrates that a particular utterance type is significantly missing from constructed dialog: the continuer utterance, whose basic function is to exhibit an understanding that a form of ‘telling’ by another speaker is going on. The qualitative analysis, based on a subset of storytellings from the NC that were re-analyzed acoustically and re-transcribed using Jeffersonian conventions based on the Audio BNC (Coleman et al. 2012), reveals a stark mismatch between the commonness of tellings in talk-in-interaction and their uncommonness in constructed dialog. The absence of continuers from constructed dialog is discussed against the backdrop of indexicality. I argue that continuers share the key properties of indexicals – semantic vacuity and an existential relationship with the ‘thing’ indicated – and can therefore be seen as indexicals themselves. As indexicals, intrinsically connected to the speech situation of their utterance, continuers cannot be included in constructed dialog, which typically occurs in a different speech situation with different interactional parameters. Finally, I offer initial thoughts on the underrepresentation of telling sequences in constructed dialog.
{"title":"What dialog is absent from constructed dialog?","authors":"Christoph Rühlemann","doi":"10.1075/etc.00038.ruh","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.00038.ruh","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper is concerned with constructed dialog in conversational storytelling. Based on Clark & Gerrig’s (1990) demonstration theory, its focus is on what is absent from constructed dialog.\u0000 To determine what is absent, a comparison is made between constructed dialog tokens and utterances in conversation. The inquiry\u0000 uses both quantitative and qualitative methods. It is based on the Narrative Corpus (NC; Rühlemann & O’Donnell 2012), a corpus of conversational narratives extracted from the conversational component of\u0000 the British National Corpus (BNC), and its systematic annotation of constructed dialog (that is, direct speech introduced by a\u0000 quotative and free direct speech without any introducer). The quantitative comparison of verbalizations used in constructed dialog\u0000 as opposed to verbalizations used in conversational utterances demonstrates that a particular utterance type is significantly\u0000 missing from constructed dialog: the continuer utterance, whose basic function is to exhibit an understanding that a form of\u0000 ‘telling’ by another speaker is going on. The qualitative analysis, based on a subset of storytellings from the NC that were\u0000 re-analyzed acoustically and re-transcribed using Jeffersonian conventions based on the Audio BNC (Coleman et al. 2012), reveals a stark mismatch between the commonness of tellings in talk-in-interaction\u0000 and their uncommonness in constructed dialog. The absence of continuers from constructed dialog is discussed against the backdrop of\u0000 indexicality. I argue that continuers share the key properties of indexicals – semantic vacuity and an existential relationship with\u0000 the ‘thing’ indicated – and can therefore be seen as indexicals themselves. As indexicals, intrinsically connected to the speech\u0000 situation of their utterance, continuers cannot be included in constructed dialog, which typically occurs in a different speech\u0000 situation with different interactional parameters. Finally, I offer initial thoughts on the underrepresentation of telling\u0000 sequences in constructed dialog.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"13 1","pages":"132-157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43624888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Since pronunciation serves as a vehicle for both intelligibility and identity, exploring learners’ attitudes towards different accent varieties can allow both pedagogical and sociolinguistic insights into second language acquisition. This study investigates the attitudes of Flemish secondary school students towards RP and General American and the relation between these attitudes and the students’ actual pronunciation in English. Participants rated British and American accents in a verbal guise experiment, and speech recordings provided a sample of respondents’ own pronunciation. Results diverged from previous findings: while participants had more positive attitudes towards RP, they spoke with a higher proportion of GA phonological features. Almost half of the participants did not aim to speak with either a British or an American accent.
{"title":"Language attitudes and L2 pronunciation","authors":"G. Roberts","doi":"10.1075/etc.00040.rob","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.00040.rob","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Since pronunciation serves as a vehicle for both intelligibility and identity, exploring learners’ attitudes\u0000 towards different accent varieties can allow both pedagogical and sociolinguistic insights into second language acquisition. This\u0000 study investigates the attitudes of Flemish secondary school students towards RP and General American and the relation between\u0000 these attitudes and the students’ actual pronunciation in English. Participants rated British and American accents in a verbal\u0000 guise experiment, and speech recordings provided a sample of respondents’ own pronunciation. Results diverged from previous\u0000 findings: while participants had more positive attitudes towards RP, they spoke with a higher proportion of GA phonological\u0000 features. Almost half of the participants did not aim to speak with either a British or an American accent.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41958300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
British writer Tom McCarthy has repeatedly taken aim at what he calls a “sentimental humanism” and the contemporary cult of the “authentic self”. This article investigates his work through the lens of that critique. Extrapolating from McCarthy’s public statements, I endeavour to delineate sentimental humanism as a mode of cultural production and flesh out his linking of it to a neoliberal political economy. I show how his antagonism manifests itself in his work, particularly his debut novel, Remainder. By contrast, his latest novel, Satin Island, marks a turning point in that trajectory. Although implicitly framed by its author as a way of thematising the challenges with which Big Data has confronted literature, Satin Island more specifically reveals that his anti-humanist agenda has also reached an impasse. Much of the logic behind the critique of sentimental humanism mounted by Remainder, I argue, is in a sense pre-empted or assimilated by the kinds of corporate digital environments described in Satin Island.
{"title":"Neoliberalism’s “official crap art”?","authors":"Ioannis Tsitsovits","doi":"10.1075/etc.00037.tsi","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.00037.tsi","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 British writer Tom McCarthy has repeatedly taken aim at what he calls a “sentimental humanism” and the\u0000 contemporary cult of the “authentic self”. This article investigates his work through the lens of that critique. Extrapolating\u0000 from McCarthy’s public statements, I endeavour to delineate sentimental humanism as a mode of cultural production and flesh out\u0000 his linking of it to a neoliberal political economy. I show how his antagonism manifests itself in his work, particularly his\u0000 debut novel, Remainder. By contrast, his latest novel, Satin Island, marks a turning point in\u0000 that trajectory. Although implicitly framed by its author as a way of thematising the challenges with which Big Data has\u0000 confronted literature, Satin Island more specifically reveals that his anti-humanist agenda has also reached an\u0000 impasse. Much of the logic behind the critique of sentimental humanism mounted by Remainder, I argue, is in a\u0000 sense pre-empted or assimilated by the kinds of corporate digital environments described in Satin Island.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"13 1","pages":"109-131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43086668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract We report the findings of a diachronic study of 100 research paper abstracts published in four different periods (from 1943 to 2018) in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, one of the most prestigious astrophysics journals written in English. Our main results show that research paper abstracts have evolved over time in the sense that they have become longer, more informative and more precise. They also reveal an overall increase in the number of authors, active and modal verbs, self-mentions and compound groups per total number of words. Likewise, compound structures are becoming more and more complex. These outcomes may be explained in terms of a rising collaboration scenario and an attempt to increase authors’ visibility.
{"title":"Research paper abstracts in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (1943–2018)","authors":"David Israel Méndez Alcaraz, M. A. Ariza","doi":"10.1075/etc.00035.alc","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.00035.alc","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We report the findings of a diachronic study of 100 research paper abstracts published in four different periods (from 1943 to 2018) in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, one of the most prestigious astrophysics journals written in English. Our main results show that research paper abstracts have evolved over time in the sense that they have become longer, more informative and more precise. They also reveal an overall increase in the number of authors, active and modal verbs, self-mentions and compound groups per total number of words. Likewise, compound structures are becoming more and more complex. These outcomes may be explained in terms of a rising collaboration scenario and an attempt to increase authors’ visibility.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"13 1","pages":"62-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42965343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sara Saei Dibavar, Pyeaam Abbasi, Hossein Pirnajmuddin
Abstract This article traces the textual elaboration and expansion of dreams as embedded narratives in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians (1980). Drawing on Marie-Laure Ryan’s modal system, the objective is to lay bare Coetzee’s staging of the possibility of encountering the other in the world of dreams as the only domain that is not controlled by territorializing forces of the imperial state. Ryan’s modal system is used to differentiate the fantasy universe (F-universe) of the protagonist’s dreams as the only possible venue for such an encounter with the other. We suggest that such unauthorized (I-Thou) encounters – which closely accompany (and interact with) the events in the textual actual world (TAW) – widen the doubtful magistrate’s horizon of vision and facilitate his liberation by disconnecting him from the imperial state.
{"title":"Dr(e)amatic encounters","authors":"Sara Saei Dibavar, Pyeaam Abbasi, Hossein Pirnajmuddin","doi":"10.1075/etc.00033.sae","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.00033.sae","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article traces the textual elaboration and expansion of dreams as embedded narratives in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians (1980). Drawing on Marie-Laure Ryan’s modal system, the objective is to lay bare Coetzee’s staging of the possibility of encountering the other in the world of dreams as the only domain that is not controlled by territorializing forces of the imperial state. Ryan’s modal system is used to differentiate the fantasy universe (F-universe) of the protagonist’s dreams as the only possible venue for such an encounter with the other. We suggest that such unauthorized (I-Thou) encounters – which closely accompany (and interact with) the events in the textual actual world (TAW) – widen the doubtful magistrate’s horizon of vision and facilitate his liberation by disconnecting him from the imperial state.","PeriodicalId":42970,"journal":{"name":"English Text Construction","volume":"13 1","pages":"22-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42136115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study aims to determine the linguistic and discoursal differences in essays produced by Iranian test-takers of TOEFL-iBT in response to integrated and independent writing tasks. A sample of 40 essays, written by 20 Iranian test-takers of scored integrated and independent writing tasks, was compared and analyzed in terms of the four latent constructs of text easability (fourteen variables), cohesion (nine variables), lexical sophistication (nineteen variables), and syntactic complexity (six variables), using the Coh-Metrix 3.0 program. Results indicate differences in the linguistic and discoursal features of integrated and independent writing tasks. The findings reveal that the scores on writing tasks of EFL test-takers can be anchored empirically through the analysis of some discourse qualities like cohesion. Independent tasks contain more connectives and particles so they can result in better discourse structure organization and the generation of more cohesive devices. Stakeholders of the test should verify test constructs in terms of particular contexts like EFL and communicative views of language proficiency. Consequently, the findings contribute to the ongoing validity argument on TOEFL-iBT writing tasks for designing and interpreting scoring schemes for the writing component of the test.
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