{"title":"Heike Pichler (ed.) Discourse-pragmatic variation and change in English","authors":"A. Nurmi","doi":"10.1075/FOL.00010.NUR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/FOL.00010.NUR","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44232,"journal":{"name":"Functions of Language","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2018-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45578093","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}
Despite a growing awareness of methodological issues, the literature on appraisal has not so far provided adequate answers to some of the key challenges involved in reliably identifying and classifying evaluative language expressions. This article presents a stepwise method for the manual annotation of appraisal in text that is designed to optimize reliability, replicability and transparency. The procedure consists of seven steps, from the creation of a context-specific annotation manual to the statistical analysis of the quantitative data derived from the manually-performed annotations. By presenting this method, the article pursues the twofold purpose of (i) providing a practical tool that can facilitate more reliable, replicable and transparent analyses, and (ii) fostering a discussion of the best practices that should be observed when manually annotating appraisal.
{"title":"A stepwise method for annotating appraisal","authors":"Matteo Fuoli","doi":"10.1075/FOL.15016.FUO","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/FOL.15016.FUO","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Despite a growing awareness of methodological issues, the literature on appraisal has not so far provided adequate answers\u0000 to some of the key challenges involved in reliably identifying and classifying evaluative language expressions. This article\u0000 presents a stepwise method for the manual annotation of appraisal in text that is designed to optimize reliability,\u0000 replicability and transparency. The procedure consists of seven steps, from the creation of a context-specific annotation manual\u0000 to the statistical analysis of the quantitative data derived from the manually-performed annotations. By presenting this method,\u0000 the article pursues the twofold purpose of (i) providing a practical tool that can facilitate more reliable, replicable and\u0000 transparent analyses, and (ii) fostering a discussion of the best practices that should be observed when manually annotating\u0000 appraisal.","PeriodicalId":44232,"journal":{"name":"Functions of Language","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2018-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/FOL.15016.FUO","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45330982","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":"A tribute to M. A. K. Halliday (1925–2018)","authors":"K. Davidse","doi":"10.1075/FOL.00008.DAV","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/FOL.00008.DAV","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44232,"journal":{"name":"Functions of Language","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2018-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/FOL.00008.DAV","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44281806","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 paper examines the phenomenon of paratactic negation (PN) by analyzing the usage of the Finnish verb epäillä (‘doubt’, ‘suspect’, ‘suppose’), which is associated with both inherent negation and negative evaluation. Paratactic negation refers to an overt negation in a complement clause of an inherently negative verb that results in a single negative reading. This analysis draws on previous research going back to Jespersen (1917), in observing that the PN complement clause verbalizes the content of the activity that is expressed by the matrix verb. In this case, the verb of inherent negation does not have scope over the complement despite its negative semantics. This paper addresses the question of where and why content complements actually occur. The answer to this question is given by accounting for the differences of the content complements from more clearly subordinate target complements. It is shown that this distinction is related to verb semantics and conventionalized syntagmatic patterns. This is demonstrated by accounting for the differences of the content complements from more clearly subordinate target complements. On the basis of these results, the paper offers a refined definition of paratactic negation. This definition has two major implications: First, it suggests that a semantically non-vacuous PN may be a conventionalized pattern. Second, it leads us to reconsider the limits of PN and the definition of inherent negation.
{"title":"Paratactic negation revisited","authors":"Jutta Salminen","doi":"10.1075/FOL.15030.SAL","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/FOL.15030.SAL","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper examines the phenomenon of paratactic negation (PN) by analyzing the usage of the Finnish verb epäillä (‘doubt’, ‘suspect’, ‘suppose’), which is associated with both inherent negation and negative evaluation. Paratactic negation refers to\u0000 an overt negation in a complement clause of an inherently negative verb that results in a single negative reading. This analysis\u0000 draws on previous research going back to Jespersen (1917), in observing that the PN\u0000 complement clause verbalizes the content of the activity that is expressed by the matrix verb. In this case, the verb of inherent\u0000 negation does not have scope over the complement despite its negative semantics. This paper addresses the question of where and\u0000 why content complements actually occur. The answer to this question is given by accounting for the differences of the content\u0000 complements from more clearly subordinate target complements. It is shown that this distinction is related to verb semantics and\u0000 conventionalized syntagmatic patterns. This is demonstrated by accounting for the differences of the content complements from more\u0000 clearly subordinate target complements. On the basis of these results, the paper offers a refined definition of paratactic\u0000 negation. This definition has two major implications: First, it suggests that a semantically non-vacuous PN may be a\u0000 conventionalized pattern. Second, it leads us to reconsider the limits of PN and the definition of inherent negation.","PeriodicalId":44232,"journal":{"name":"Functions of Language","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2018-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/FOL.15030.SAL","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49450543","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 article reviews Society in language, language in society: Essays in honour of Ruqaiya Hasan 978-1-137-40286-8
这篇文章回顾了语言中的社会、社会中的语言:鲁卡雅·哈桑纪念随笔98-1-13 7:40286 -8
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Beatrijs Wille, Kimberley Mouvet, Myriam Vermeerbergen, M. Herreweghe
This case study provides a first exploratory study on the early Flemish Sign Language acquisition of a deaf infant from the perspective of Halliday’s Systemic Functional Theory. It highlights some remarkable aspects of sign language acquisition with respect to interpersonal interaction between the child and its mother. The free play interactions of the Deaf mother and her moderately deaf daughter were recorded when the child was 6, 9, 12, 18 and 24 months old. These interactions were annotated in ELAN and transcribed in view of the analysis adapting Systemic Functional Linguistics. The analysis indicates that the early sign language development of the child chronologically correlates with Halliday’s descriptions of the universal functions of language. The infant’s first lexical signs appeared at 12 months. The child produced one-sign utterances (12 months and older), one-sign utterances along with a pointing sign (18 months and older) and two-sign utterances (24 months). The mother integrated attentional strategies to redirect the child’s attention. She also adopted techniques that are appropriate for child-directed signing, i.e. questions, recasts and expansions.
{"title":"Flemish Sign Language development","authors":"Beatrijs Wille, Kimberley Mouvet, Myriam Vermeerbergen, M. Herreweghe","doi":"10.1075/FOL.15010.WIL","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/FOL.15010.WIL","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This case study provides a first exploratory study on the early Flemish Sign Language acquisition of a deaf infant from the\u0000 perspective of Halliday’s Systemic Functional Theory. It highlights some remarkable aspects of sign language acquisition with\u0000 respect to interpersonal interaction between the child and its mother. The free play interactions of the Deaf mother and her\u0000 moderately deaf daughter were recorded when the child was 6, 9, 12, 18 and 24 months old. These interactions were annotated in\u0000 ELAN and transcribed in view of the analysis adapting Systemic Functional Linguistics. The analysis indicates that the early sign\u0000 language development of the child chronologically correlates with Halliday’s descriptions of the universal functions of language.\u0000 The infant’s first lexical signs appeared at 12 months. The child produced one-sign utterances (12 months and older), one-sign\u0000 utterances along with a pointing sign (18 months and older) and two-sign utterances (24 months). The mother integrated attentional\u0000 strategies to redirect the child’s attention. She also adopted techniques that are appropriate for child-directed signing, i.e.\u0000 questions, recasts and expansions.","PeriodicalId":44232,"journal":{"name":"Functions of Language","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2018-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44073806","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 article reviews Variational text linguistics: Revisiting register in English 978 3 11 044310 3
本文综述了变分语篇语言学:重读英语语域978 3 11 044310 3
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This article describes how procedural knowledge is produced in a meeting of the South African parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Transport, using concepts from Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Legitimation Code Theory (LCT). Members of this committee argue over whether or not to amend a draft committee report and in the process co-construct procedural norms for future committee meetings. Participants on both sides of the argument use axiological condensation , in which actions and ideas are associated with each other and charged with a particular moral or affective value ( Maton 2014 : 130) to portray their version of the procedure to be followed as morally superior to that of their opponents. They also use axiological rarefaction ( Maton 2014 : 130) to reinforce their positions by making apparent concessions to those on the other side of the argument. This is revealed through an analysis of the coupling of ideation and Appraisal ( Martin 2000 : 161) in the logogenetic unfolding of members’ talk, combined with elements of Interactional Sociolinguistics ( Gumperz 1982 ). The analysis suggests that axiological condensation and rarefaction in this meeting reflect competing visions of what it means to be ‘pro-democracy’ in post-apartheid South Africa.
{"title":"We’re talking about semantics here: Axiological condensation in the South African parliament","authors":"Ian Siebörger, Ralph Adendorff","doi":"10.1075/FOL.24.2.03SIE","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/FOL.24.2.03SIE","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes how procedural knowledge is produced in a meeting of the South African parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Transport, using concepts from Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Legitimation Code Theory (LCT). Members of this committee argue over whether or not to amend a draft committee report and in the process co-construct procedural norms for future committee meetings. Participants on both sides of the argument use axiological condensation , in which actions and ideas are associated with each other and charged with a particular moral or affective value ( Maton 2014 : 130) to portray their version of the procedure to be followed as morally superior to that of their opponents. They also use axiological rarefaction ( Maton 2014 : 130) to reinforce their positions by making apparent concessions to those on the other side of the argument. This is revealed through an analysis of the coupling of ideation and Appraisal ( Martin 2000 : 161) in the logogenetic unfolding of members’ talk, combined with elements of Interactional Sociolinguistics ( Gumperz 1982 ). The analysis suggests that axiological condensation and rarefaction in this meeting reflect competing visions of what it means to be ‘pro-democracy’ in post-apartheid South Africa.","PeriodicalId":44232,"journal":{"name":"Functions of Language","volume":"24 1","pages":"196-233"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2017-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/FOL.24.2.03SIE","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45260770","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}
The prevalent hypothesis in research on pragmatic markers suggests that the left periphery of an utterance attracts predominantly subjective meanings, whereas the right periphery is the locus of intersubjective meanings. The goal of this paper is to test this hypothesis for but as used in a dataset of spoken Glaswegian English, a variety in which but may occur in both left- and right-peripheral positions. Considering that but derives its discursive meaning not per se , but from its embeddedness in particularized contexts, the methodological framework integrates the notion of (inter)subjectivity with the interactional-sociolinguistic concept of contextualization cue to identify (inter)subjective patterned co-occurrences for but . A fine-grained analysis of the patterns but forms with subjective and intersubjective cues in its local linguistic context shows that discourse patterns of left-peripheral but tend to foreground subjective meanings, while discourse patterns of right-peripheral but tend to foreground more intersubjective meanings, supporting the hypothesis of peripheral asymmetry.
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