{"title":"Review of Verschueren (2021): Complicity in Discourse and Practice","authors":"Daniel N. Silva","doi":"10.1075/ps.00067.sil","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.00067.sil","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44036,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43295198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Although there are abundant studies on the management of patient resistance in traditional face-to-face clinical settings, scant attention has been paid to that in the online context. This study thus delves into the types of patient resistance and the strategies Chinese doctors employ to manage such resistance in Online Medical Consultation (OMC). A dataset of 148 online doctor-patient conversations was collected from Chunyu Doctor. Three types of patient resistance – expertise-oriented, experience-oriented, and emotion-oriented – are identified and analyzed in Chinese OMC. Accordingly, Chinese doctors generally adopt linguistic strategies such as interpretives to justify decisions, supportives to facilitate relational work, and imperatives in the event of persistent resistance. Furthermore, the management of patient resistance is discussed as a joint goal-centered activity in Chinese OMC, aiming to contribute to a comprehensive understanding of the shared decision-making process in Chinese health communication.
{"title":"Patients resist, doctors manage","authors":"Yansheng Mao, Shuang Wei, Xiaojiang Wang","doi":"10.1075/ps.22042.mao","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.22042.mao","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Although there are abundant studies on the management of patient resistance in traditional face-to-face clinical settings, scant attention has been paid to that in the online context. This study thus delves into the types of patient resistance and the strategies Chinese doctors employ to manage such resistance in Online Medical Consultation (OMC). A dataset of 148 online doctor-patient conversations was collected from Chunyu Doctor. Three types of patient resistance – expertise-oriented, experience-oriented, and emotion-oriented – are identified and analyzed in Chinese OMC. Accordingly, Chinese doctors generally adopt linguistic strategies such as interpretives to justify decisions, supportives to facilitate relational work, and imperatives in the event of persistent resistance. Furthermore, the management of patient resistance is discussed as a joint goal-centered activity in Chinese OMC, aiming to contribute to a comprehensive understanding of the shared decision-making process in Chinese health communication.","PeriodicalId":44036,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42532020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Extensive research has focused on analysing teacher-student discourse within whole-class dialogic interactions, and several descriptive tools have been proposed so far to cover possible variations. However, what still remains unanswered is what types of teacher questions are ‘better’ than others. To answer this question, I propose a pragmatic analysis of teacher-student interaction based on the criteria of authenticity and dialogicity. The analysis focuses on two types of dialogue moves, ‘information-seeking’ and ‘inquiry’ moves and their subtypes, as assessed on the basis of their degree of dialogicity, emerging from the dialogue sequence in which the moves are situated. The discussion focuses on how such a normative analysis of interaction can help teachers guide more productive dialogues with their students.
{"title":"Defining openness in teachers’ ‘open’ questions","authors":"Chrysi Rapanta","doi":"10.1075/ps.20015.rap","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.20015.rap","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Extensive research has focused on analysing teacher-student discourse within whole-class dialogic interactions,\u0000 and several descriptive tools have been proposed so far to cover possible variations. However, what still remains unanswered is\u0000 what types of teacher questions are ‘better’ than others. To answer this question, I propose a pragmatic analysis of\u0000 teacher-student interaction based on the criteria of authenticity and dialogicity. The analysis focuses on two types of dialogue\u0000 moves, ‘information-seeking’ and ‘inquiry’ moves and their subtypes, as assessed on the basis of their degree of dialogicity,\u0000 emerging from the dialogue sequence in which the moves are situated. The discussion focuses on how such a normative analysis of\u0000 interaction can help teachers guide more productive dialogues with their students.","PeriodicalId":44036,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44794353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Studies on sentencing are dominated by normative studies prescribing how judges should sentence. Few studies examine how judges actually sentence. This study provides an insight into the empirical reality of judges’ sentencing practices by examining their negative judgements (of propriety) of offenders and their behaviour in six sentencing remarks. It finds that judges are doing more appraisal work when their sentencing decisions are below or much higher than the starting point, but less appraisal work when their sentencing decisions are just a few years above the starting point. Such findings demonstrate that the starting point has a binding power on judges’ sentencing practices despite judges having the discretion to arrive at a sentencing decision of any length (whatever the starting point). Findings of the current study could provide meaningful starting points for future examination of large quantities of sentencing remarks.
{"title":"Degrees of negative judgement","authors":"Xin Dai","doi":"10.1075/ps.21068.dai","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.21068.dai","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Studies on sentencing are dominated by normative studies prescribing how judges should sentence. Few studies\u0000 examine how judges actually sentence. This study provides an insight into the empirical reality of judges’ sentencing practices by\u0000 examining their negative judgements (of propriety) of offenders and their behaviour in six sentencing\u0000 remarks. It finds that judges are doing more appraisal work when their sentencing decisions are below or much higher than the\u0000 starting point, but less appraisal work when their sentencing decisions are just a few years above the starting point. Such\u0000 findings demonstrate that the starting point has a binding power on judges’ sentencing practices despite judges having the\u0000 discretion to arrive at a sentencing decision of any length (whatever the starting point). Findings of the current study could\u0000 provide meaningful starting points for future examination of large quantities of sentencing remarks.","PeriodicalId":44036,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44360890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Awareness of cultural specificity in current classroom discourse is particularly important in an educational setting that has become largely multicultural due to globalization, migration and academic mobility. Drawing on the intercultural and cross-cultural pragmatics, and cultural studies, this paper explores the speech act of critical remark in Russian and Israeli classroom settings, focusing on students’ view of its degree of conventionality and admissibility. Data were obtained from a student survey questionnaire (undertaken between 2017-2019). Highlighting similarities and differences, we argue that both Russian and Israeli classroom settings exhibit critical remark as not uncommon, though varying in acceptability. Findings show that critical acts need not be limited to the merely conflictual, but may even be perceived positively, and may moreover exert varying levels of illocutionary force and be interpreted differently by different cultural groups.
{"title":"Culture and identity in critical remarks","authors":"Claudia Zbenovich, T. Larina, V. Ozyumenko","doi":"10.1075/ps.20064.zbe","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.20064.zbe","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Awareness of cultural specificity in current classroom discourse is particularly important in an educational\u0000 setting that has become largely multicultural due to globalization, migration and academic mobility. Drawing on the intercultural\u0000 and cross-cultural pragmatics, and cultural studies, this paper explores the speech act of critical remark in Russian and Israeli\u0000 classroom settings, focusing on students’ view of its degree of conventionality and admissibility. Data were obtained from a\u0000 student survey questionnaire (undertaken between 2017-2019). Highlighting similarities and differences, we argue that both Russian\u0000 and Israeli classroom settings exhibit critical remark as not uncommon, though varying in acceptability. Findings show that\u0000 critical acts need not be limited to the merely conflictual, but may even be perceived positively, and may moreover exert varying\u0000 levels of illocutionary force and be interpreted differently by different cultural groups.","PeriodicalId":44036,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46682570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Obituary","authors":"","doi":"10.1075/ps.00065.hab","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.00065.hab","url":null,"abstract":"<div></div>","PeriodicalId":44036,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138508323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Henri Meschonnic famously gives specific usage to a repertoire of terms such as subjectivity, continuous, rhythm, historicity, recitative and enunciation. Behind them, there is a project to overcome what he calls the “chain of dualisms” (1988), or the tendency toward dichotomy in theoretical thinking, represented in the language fields by the separations between signifier and signified, oral and written, form and content, and others. Following Philip Wilson’s (2012) initiative of applying Ludwig Wittgenstein’s concepts of language games and forms of life to translation studies, we seek to draw an analogy between the Wittgensteinian leap from analytics to pragmatics and the Meschonnician leap from sign to discourse, with the aim of investigating the viability of a synthesis of the two authors’ ideas as a theoretical and methodological proposition for Translation Studies. Meschonnic proposes that the sign (enunciate) be overcome in favor of discourse (enunciation), which he views as a relationship between language and body. We argue that the linguistic experience, in that light, is akin to a performance and that Wittgenstein, by focusing on the use of language, also favors this idea, which may be a possible key for a theoretical practice of translation.
Henri Meschonnic对主观性、连续性、节奏、历史性、背诵性和阐明性等术语的具体用法非常有名。在他们的背后，有一个克服他所谓的“二元论链”(1988)的计划，或理论思维中的二分倾向，在语言领域中表现为能指与所指、口头与书面、形式与内容以及其他之间的分离。继菲利普·威尔逊(Philip Wilson, 2012)将维特根斯坦的语言游戏和生活形式概念应用于翻译研究之后，我们试图在维特根斯坦从分析学到语用学的飞跃和梅斯奈尔从符号到话语的飞跃之间进行类比，目的是研究将两位作者的思想综合起来作为翻译研究的理论和方法论命题的可行性。Meschonnic建议克服符号(发音)，而支持话语(发音)，他认为这是语言和身体之间的关系。我们认为，从这个角度来看，语言体验类似于表演，而维特根斯坦关注语言的使用，也赞成这一观点，这可能是翻译理论实践的关键。
{"title":"Meschonnic, Wittgenstein and translation as form of life","authors":"Maíra Mendes Galvão","doi":"10.1075/ps.19072.men","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.19072.men","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Henri Meschonnic famously gives specific usage to a repertoire of terms such as subjectivity, continuous,\u0000 rhythm, historicity, recitative and enunciation. Behind them, there is a project to overcome what he\u0000 calls the “chain of dualisms” (1988), or the tendency toward dichotomy in theoretical thinking, represented in the language fields by the\u0000 separations between signifier and signified, oral and written, form and content, and others. Following Philip Wilson’s (2012) initiative of applying Ludwig Wittgenstein’s concepts of language\u0000 games and forms of life to translation studies, we seek to draw an analogy between the\u0000 Wittgensteinian leap from analytics to pragmatics and the Meschonnician leap from sign to discourse, with the aim of investigating\u0000 the viability of a synthesis of the two authors’ ideas as a theoretical and methodological proposition for Translation Studies.\u0000 Meschonnic proposes that the sign (enunciate) be overcome in favor of discourse (enunciation), which he views as a relationship\u0000 between language and body. We argue that the linguistic experience, in that light, is akin to a performance and that Wittgenstein,\u0000 by focusing on the use of language, also favors this idea, which may be a possible key for a theoretical practice\u0000 of translation.","PeriodicalId":44036,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48071854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This present study examines Indonesian parents’ utterance to instruct each other. The results show that Indonesian parents’ speeches in the family were situated in context and situation. Parents did not mention themselves nor their spouse as the addressee, instead using indirect utterance to instruct the addressee. They produced indirect utterances with implied meanings, instructing their spouse via speaking to their children or about other objects. Each parent understood their spouse’s intention from the context and physical condition of family members.
{"title":"Parents’ indirect utterances in an Indonesian family","authors":"B. Setiawan","doi":"10.1075/ps.21007.set","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.21007.set","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This present study examines Indonesian parents’ utterance to instruct each other. The results show that Indonesian parents’ speeches in the family were situated in context and situation. Parents did not mention themselves nor their spouse as the addressee, instead using indirect utterance to instruct the addressee. They produced indirect utterances with implied meanings, instructing their spouse via speaking to their children or about other objects. Each parent understood their spouse’s intention from the context and physical condition of family members.","PeriodicalId":44036,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47186181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study examines the speech act of criticizing in online comments on the COVID-19 lockdown breaches in Jordan in 2020. Drawing on speech act theory and the face-saving perspective of politeness, the study investigates the strategies used to criticize these breaches. The analysis of 356 online comments revealed that Jordanians used ten strategies to criticize these lockdown breaches: Insulting, Appealing to the divine, Intertextuality, Rhetorical questions, Stylized threats, Framing criticism as request, Framing criticism as advice-giving, Framing criticism as warning, Invoking legal authority, and Invoking religious ‘haram’. These criticisms were driven by safeguarding the collective interests of community members rather than merely expressing personal condemnation of the breaches. The breaches were constructed in these criticisms as communally reproachable, legally answerable, and religiously proscribed. Given their public nature, these criticisms appear to be motivated not by politeness but by expressing strong emotions, showing in-group solidarity, and aligning with other community members.
{"title":"Criticizing for the public interest and aligning with others","authors":"Muhammad A. Badarneh, Malak Damiri","doi":"10.1075/ps.22089.bad","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.22089.bad","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study examines the speech act of criticizing in online comments on the COVID-19 lockdown breaches in Jordan\u0000 in 2020. Drawing on speech act theory and the face-saving perspective of politeness, the study investigates the strategies used to\u0000 criticize these breaches. The analysis of 356 online comments revealed that Jordanians used ten strategies to criticize these\u0000 lockdown breaches: Insulting, Appealing to the divine, Intertextuality, Rhetorical questions, Stylized threats, Framing criticism\u0000 as request, Framing criticism as advice-giving, Framing criticism as warning, Invoking legal authority, and Invoking religious\u0000 ‘haram’. These criticisms were driven by safeguarding the collective interests of community members rather than merely expressing\u0000 personal condemnation of the breaches. The breaches were constructed in these criticisms as communally reproachable, legally\u0000 answerable, and religiously proscribed. Given their public nature, these criticisms appear to be motivated not by politeness but\u0000 by expressing strong emotions, showing in-group solidarity, and aligning with other community members.","PeriodicalId":44036,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42707033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
There has been ongoing research contrasting online vs. Face-To-Face (FTF) interactions for more than a decade. This study fills the gap in the literature considering FTF vs. online contexts by comparing the norms and patterns of complimenting in Persian and explores the complimenting strategies, syntactic patterns, and internal and external modifiers used in each setting. The corpus included 366 FTF compliments related to the topic of appearance. Findings demonstrated that in both settings explicit and formulaic compliments are used more frequently than implicit and non-formulaic ones. However, implicit compliments in FTF interactions were less prevalent than those in online settings. FTF compliments did not show the same level of creativity as the online ones did and a more diverse set of adjectives were used in online vs FTF compliments. Finally, the paper provides implications for further research.
{"title":"Comparing compliments in Face-to-Face vs. online interactions among Iranian speakers of Persian","authors":"Ali Derakhshan, Zohreh R. Eslami, Farzaneh Shakki","doi":"10.1075/ps.22102.der","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.22102.der","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 There has been ongoing research contrasting online vs. Face-To-Face (FTF) interactions for more than a decade.\u0000 This study fills the gap in the literature considering FTF vs. online contexts by comparing the norms and patterns of\u0000 complimenting in Persian and explores the complimenting strategies, syntactic patterns, and internal and external modifiers used\u0000 in each setting. The corpus included 366 FTF compliments related to the topic of appearance. Findings demonstrated that in both\u0000 settings explicit and formulaic compliments are used more frequently than implicit and non-formulaic ones. However, implicit\u0000 compliments in FTF interactions were less prevalent than those in online settings. FTF compliments did not show the same level of\u0000 creativity as the online ones did and a more diverse set of adjectives were used in online vs FTF compliments. Finally, the paper\u0000 provides implications for further research.","PeriodicalId":44036,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48352178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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