In the age of Internet communication, car sharing as well as other types of sharing (accommodation, offices, etc.) has led to the emergence of the so-called sharing economy platforms, such as BlaBlaCar. Previous studies have demonstrated that millennials (i.e., those born between 1981 and 1999) are the most representative generational cohort regarding their interests in activities organized around BlaBlaCar and similar sites (Činjarević, Kožo and Berberović 2019). One direct consequence of this fact is that the way in which millennials communicate in this particular affinity space (Gee 2005; Jenkins 2006) may be highly informative of their discursive identities (Bucholtz and Hall 2005). Against this backdrop, this study examines 1,000 online reviews taken from www.BlablaCar.es, in order to, first, understand how millennials conceptualize their experiences in BlaBlaCar; second, examine how identity emerges through labels and implicatures (Bucholtz and Hall 2005); and third, discuss and understand the relationship between the discourse identity shaped in BlaBlaCar reviews and millennials’ social identity. The findings reveal that BlaBlaCar reviews are highly informative of users’ identities and their relational needs. Also, these reviews no longer comply with traditional definitions of ‘consumer reviews’, and a re-conceptualization is needed.
在互联网传播的时代，汽车共享以及其他类型的共享(住宿，办公等)导致了所谓的共享经济平台的出现，例如BlaBlaCar。之前的研究表明，千禧一代(即1981年至1999年出生的人)是最具代表性的世代群体，他们对BlaBlaCar和类似网站组织的活动感兴趣(Činjarević， Kožo和berberovic 2019)。这一事实的一个直接后果是，千禧一代在这个特定的亲密空间中交流的方式(Gee 2005;Jenkins 2006)可能对他们的话语身份提供了很高的信息(Bucholtz and Hall 2005)。在此背景下，本研究调查了来自www.BlablaCar.es的1000条在线评论，首先，了解千禧一代如何概念化他们在BlaBlaCar的体验;其次，研究身份如何通过标签和含义出现(Bucholtz and Hall 2005);第三，讨论和理解BlaBlaCar评论中塑造的话语认同与千禧一代社会认同的关系。研究结果表明，BlaBlaCar评论对用户身份和他们的关系需求具有很高的信息性。此外，这些评论不再符合“消费者评论”的传统定义，需要重新概念化。
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This study explores the role of cross-speaker repetition in creating interpersonal connections between interactants in Japanese. The analysis focuses on Japanese non-reciprocal conversations between senpai ‘senior’ and kōhai ‘junior’ interactants, where the kōhai are normatively expected to speak using the honorific desu/masu markers. The analysis demonstrates that in such conversations, the kōhai sometimes drop the honorific markers while repeating the senpai’s utterances, thereby momentarily transcending the vertical boundary separating them from the senpai. Two types of plain form repetition are presented: (1) the kōhai repeat the senpai’s funny and/or questionable comments to savor the expressions, and (2) the kōhai repeat the senpai’s ideas, wishes or assessments to synchronize with the senpai. The analysis explicates how cross-speaker repetition allows the kōhai to drop the honorific markers in a way that is acceptable to the senpai. This study underscores the significance of the cross-speaker repetition device for creating harmonious relationships in Japanese.
{"title":"Transcending the senpai ‘senior’/kōhai ‘junior’ boundary through cross-speaker repetition in Japanese","authors":"Saeko Machi","doi":"10.1075/prag.21063.mac","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.21063.mac","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This study explores the role of cross-speaker repetition in creating interpersonal connections between interactants in Japanese. The analysis focuses on Japanese non-reciprocal conversations between senpai ‘senior’ and kōhai ‘junior’ interactants, where the kōhai are normatively expected to speak using the honorific desu/masu markers. The analysis demonstrates that in such conversations, the kōhai sometimes drop the honorific markers while repeating the senpai’s utterances, thereby momentarily transcending the vertical boundary separating them from the senpai. Two types of plain form repetition are presented: (1) the kōhai repeat the senpai’s funny and/or questionable comments to savor the expressions, and (2) the kōhai repeat the senpai’s ideas, wishes or assessments to synchronize with the senpai. The analysis explicates how cross-speaker repetition allows the kōhai to drop the honorific markers in a way that is acceptable to the senpai. This study underscores the significance of the cross-speaker repetition device for creating harmonious relationships in Japanese.","PeriodicalId":46975,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89830856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Hebrew negation adverbial bilti ‘not’ seems to function very differently in Biblical Hebrew than it does in Contemporary Hebrew. This paper addresses this difference and discusses its evolution. The main question addressed in this paper is: How has Hebrew bilti, originally an exceptive marker (with sentential scoping), ended up functioning solely as a privative in contemporary Hebrew? First, this paper argues that the biblical usage of bilti was expanded and turned into a polyfunctional (or ‘polysemous’) item. This happened via a constructionalization process which led to grammatical changes (‘grammaticalization’): The initially implicated negation (via a generalized implicature) turned explicit (semantic). In addition, in Hebrew’s later periods, the usage of bilti was narrowed and it became a privative. Thus, firstly, a pragmatically motivated path of constructionalization of bilti in Biblical Hebrew is suggested. That is, the “pragmatic negation” that arose via a generalized implicature shifted to the semantic level (performing semantic negation, explicit negation). Secondly, bilti’s functions in post-biblical Hebrew periods are outlined, tracing its narrowing functions until its fixation in Contemporary Hebrew as a privative.
{"title":"The cyclic nature of negation","authors":"Ruti Bardenstein","doi":"10.1075/prag.21062.bar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.21062.bar","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The Hebrew negation adverbial bilti ‘not’ seems to function very differently in Biblical Hebrew\u0000 than it does in Contemporary Hebrew. This paper addresses this difference and discusses its evolution. The main question addressed\u0000 in this paper is: How has Hebrew bilti, originally an exceptive marker (with sentential scoping), ended up\u0000 functioning solely as a privative in contemporary Hebrew? First, this paper argues that the biblical usage of\u0000 bilti was expanded and turned into a polyfunctional (or ‘polysemous’) item. This happened via a\u0000 constructionalization process which led to grammatical changes (‘grammaticalization’): The initially implicated negation (via a\u0000 generalized implicature) turned explicit (semantic). In addition, in Hebrew’s later periods, the usage of bilti\u0000 was narrowed and it became a privative. Thus, firstly, a pragmatically motivated path of constructionalization of\u0000 bilti in Biblical Hebrew is suggested. That is, the “pragmatic negation” that arose via a generalized\u0000 implicature shifted to the semantic level (performing semantic negation, explicit negation). Secondly, bilti’s\u0000 functions in post-biblical Hebrew periods are outlined, tracing its narrowing functions until its fixation in Contemporary Hebrew\u0000 as a privative.","PeriodicalId":46975,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77134427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Francesco Cavallaro, Yan Kang Tan, Wenhan Xie, B. C. Ng
The few studies on Family Language Policy in Singapore (FLP) have generally focused on FLP in local and immigrant Chinese families. This article explores language policies that seem to undergird Singaporean-Japanese families’ language practices. In-depth interviews and observations with five such families showed that Japanese only functions as the language of communication between the Japanese parents and their children if parents have invoked particular language policies to support its transmission and use at home. For most families, English was the main medium of communication among family members. Language policies and practices in these families were heavily influenced by the value emplaced on each language within the parents’ linguistic repertoire and their beliefs regarding language learning.
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We shall concentrate on how the construction and modality system of alternative futures in political discourses are influenced by the construal of past-to-present threats and preemptive politics. Using Dunmire’s (2005) proposed framework and further explorations by Cap (2020) on the subject, we approach twenty of Trump’s speeches on Iran, from 2017–2020. Our analyses indicated that the construction of alternative futures is modified by the evaluations of Iran’s past-to-present status and the politics of preemption. This relationship modifies the speaker’s epistemic judgment on the certainty of the privileged future, the cause-effect relation, and the sceptic views on the successful implementation of preemptive measures, resulting in the articulation of the privileged future through probabilistic and dynamic modalities. Moreover, the privileged future is conceptualised as necessary through deontic modality. By contrast, the realisation of the oppositional future is articulated through unmediated modality pinpointing the status that will materialise in light of inaction and negligence.
{"title":"The pragmatics of alternative futures in political discourses","authors":"Ali Basarati, H. Rezaei, M. Amouzadeh","doi":"10.1075/prag.22014.bas","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.22014.bas","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 We shall concentrate on how the construction and modality system of alternative futures in political discourses\u0000 are influenced by the construal of past-to-present threats and preemptive politics. Using Dunmire’s (2005) proposed framework and further explorations by Cap (2020)\u0000 on the subject, we approach twenty of Trump’s speeches on Iran, from 2017–2020. Our analyses indicated that the construction of\u0000 alternative futures is modified by the evaluations of Iran’s past-to-present status and the politics of preemption. This\u0000 relationship modifies the speaker’s epistemic judgment on the certainty of the privileged future, the cause-effect relation, and\u0000 the sceptic views on the successful implementation of preemptive measures, resulting in the articulation of the privileged future through\u0000 probabilistic and dynamic modalities. Moreover, the privileged future is conceptualised as necessary through deontic modality. By\u0000 contrast, the realisation of the oppositional future is articulated through unmediated modality pinpointing the status that will\u0000 materialise in light of inaction and negligence.","PeriodicalId":46975,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72709582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Concepts and context in relevance-theoretic pragmatics","authors":"A. Piskorska, Manuel Padilla Cruz","doi":"10.1075/prag.22064.pad","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.22064.pad","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46975,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88926976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The paper focuses on non-literal uses of proper names in XYZ constructions, such as the use of the personal name Donald Trump in Boris Johnson is the Donald Trump of UK politics or ‘5G’ is the Donald Trump of telecom, and argues that such uses can be best accounted for by relevance theory. While in their primary use, proper names uniquely denote specific individuals and have no meaning on their own, in their secondary uses, they act as common nouns, capable of conveying non-literal meanings. In relevance theory, such non-literal uses can be explained in terms of lexical modulation or ad hoc concept formation. The analysis of selected examples shows that while some of the XYZ constructions can be seen as metaphors, others are better described as category extensions, and it substantiates the relevance-theoretic claim that there is no clear cut-off point between the two varieties of loose use.
{"title":"Non-literal uses of proper names in XYZ constructions","authors":"Ewa Wałaszewska","doi":"10.1075/prag.21070.wal","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.21070.wal","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The paper focuses on non-literal uses of proper names in XYZ constructions, such as the use of the personal name\u0000 Donald Trump in Boris Johnson is the Donald Trump of UK politics or ‘5G’ is the\u0000 Donald Trump of telecom, and argues that such uses can be best accounted for by relevance theory. While in their\u0000 primary use, proper names uniquely denote specific individuals and have no meaning on their own, in their secondary uses, they act\u0000 as common nouns, capable of conveying non-literal meanings. In relevance theory, such non-literal uses can be explained in terms\u0000 of lexical modulation or ad hoc concept formation. The analysis of selected examples shows that while some of the XYZ\u0000 constructions can be seen as metaphors, others are better described as category extensions, and it substantiates the\u0000 relevance-theoretic claim that there is no clear cut-off point between the two varieties of loose use.","PeriodicalId":46975,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72505864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
While trustworthiness has been found to exert a vital influence on the success of an online medical crowdfunding (Ba et al. 2021), scarce studies have investigated the concepts and culture of trust in Eastern scenarios like China (Wang 2020). This is the first study aiming to discursively analyze how other-justified discourses, i.e., enhancing objectivity and trustworthiness through other people’s comments, contribute to obtaining potential donors’ trust in Chinese online medical crowdfunding encounters. Through the discourse analysis of 496 other-justified comments on fifty pieces of fully-funded online medical crowdfunding projects, it is found that four different types of people (a family member, a person in the same business or occupation, a classmate, a friend) offer evidence through other-justified discourses oriented towards ethos, experience, and emotion. The Wu-Lun (five ethic orders) in the acquaintance society is the underlying theoretical rationale that supports the credibility of other-justified discourse, which provides a novel research perspective for the dissemination and transitivity of trust in online medical crowdfunding. The findings serve to offer commenters an array of other-justified orientations and identity choices to engage more prospective backers in a medical donative event. The results highlight that crowdfunders not only need to display a compelling narrative strength but also raise awareness to enhance the trustworthiness of their projects, especially focusing on shreds of evidence provided by a third-person comment.
虽然可信度已经被发现对在线医疗众筹的成功发挥着至关重要的影响(Ba et al. 2021)，但很少有研究调查了东方场景(如中国)的信任概念和文化(Wang 2020)。这是第一个旨在通过话语分析他人论证话语，即通过他人评论提高客观性和可信度，如何有助于在中国网络医疗众筹遭遇中获得潜在捐赠者信任的研究。通过对50个全额融资的网络医疗众筹项目的496条他人正当评论的话语分析，发现四种不同类型的人(家庭成员、同一行业或职业的人、同学、朋友)通过他人正当话语以精神、体验、情感为导向提供证据。熟人社会的“五序”是支持他者论证话语可信度的理论基础，为网络医疗众筹中信任的传播性和传递性提供了新的研究视角。这些发现为评论者提供了一系列其他合理的取向和身份选择，以便在医疗捐赠活动中吸引更多潜在的支持者。研究结果表明，众筹者不仅需要展示令人信服的叙事力量，还需要提高公众意识，以提高项目的可信度，尤其是关注第三人称评论提供的证据。
{"title":"If I testify about others, my testimony is valid","authors":"Xin Zhao, Yansheng Mao","doi":"10.1075/prag.21067.zha","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.21067.zha","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 While trustworthiness has been found to exert a vital influence on the success of an online medical crowdfunding\u0000 (Ba et al. 2021), scarce studies have investigated the concepts and culture of\u0000 trust in Eastern scenarios like China (Wang 2020). This is the first study aiming to\u0000 discursively analyze how other-justified discourses, i.e., enhancing objectivity and trustworthiness through other people’s\u0000 comments, contribute to obtaining potential donors’ trust in Chinese online medical crowdfunding encounters. Through the discourse\u0000 analysis of 496 other-justified comments on fifty pieces of fully-funded online medical crowdfunding projects, it is found that\u0000 four different types of people (a family member, a person in the same business or occupation, a classmate, a friend) offer\u0000 evidence through other-justified discourses oriented towards ethos, experience, and emotion. The Wu-Lun (five\u0000 ethic orders) in the acquaintance society is the underlying theoretical rationale that supports the credibility of other-justified\u0000 discourse, which provides a novel research perspective for the dissemination and transitivity of trust in online medical\u0000 crowdfunding. The findings serve to offer commenters an array of other-justified orientations and identity choices to engage more\u0000 prospective backers in a medical donative event. The results highlight that crowdfunders not only need to display a compelling\u0000 narrative strength but also raise awareness to enhance the trustworthiness of their projects, especially focusing on shreds of\u0000 evidence provided by a third-person comment.","PeriodicalId":46975,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81469033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Little attention has been given to the role of metadiscoursal devices in non-academic discourses with an overtly persuasive component such as political discourse. We address this gap by analysing the presence and function of evidentials and boosters in the 2016 campaign debates on the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum (also known as the Brexit referendum). In this vein, our objectives are first, to analyse the evidentials and boosters most frequently used in these debates and relate them to the speakers’ goals, and second, to contrast the use of these devices with the results of the referendum. Data were quantitatively analysed with METOOL, a tool specifically developed to detect metadiscoursal strategies. The results showed how the strategies identified here tended to work in combination towards the representation of a credible self, challenging opposing views on the same issue. Finally, conclusions were drawn.
{"title":"The use of boosters and evidentials in British campaign debates on the Brexit referendum","authors":"María Luisa Carrió-Pastor, Ana Albalat-Mascarell","doi":"10.1075/prag.21008.car","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.21008.car","url":null,"abstract":"Little attention has been given to the role of metadiscoursal devices in non-academic discourses with an overtly persuasive component such as political discourse. We address this gap by analysing the presence and function of evidentials and boosters in the 2016 campaign debates on the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum (also known as the Brexit referendum). In this vein, our objectives are first, to analyse the evidentials and boosters most frequently used in these debates and relate them to the speakers’ goals, and second, to contrast the use of these devices with the results of the referendum. Data were quantitatively analysed with METOOL, a tool specifically developed to detect metadiscoursal strategies. The results showed how the strategies identified here tended to work in combination towards the representation of a credible self, challenging opposing views on the same issue. Finally, conclusions were drawn.","PeriodicalId":46975,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138525259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study, drawing on a modified version of Spencer-Oatey’s Rapport Management Model (2008), attempts to probe into the underexplored phenomenon of apparent rapport management in Chinese directive public signs in terms of face, sociality rights and obligations, interests, and interactional goals. Based on the analysis of data collected from four cities in China, this study demonstrates how some Chinese producers of directive public signs make varying and various discursive efforts to enhance rapport with the general public. It is argued that this “personalization” characteristic of Chinese directive public signs suggests their producers’ attempt at doing rapport with the public. This research, while extending the scope of discussion on rapport management from the interpersonal to the public sphere, might serve to explain why some Chinese directive public signs (directives in particular) are not terse.
{"title":"“Let’s … together”","authors":"Xiaochun Sun, Xinren Chen","doi":"10.1075/prag.21003.sun","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.21003.sun","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This study, drawing on a modified version of Spencer-Oatey’s Rapport Management Model (2008), attempts to probe into the underexplored phenomenon of apparent rapport management in Chinese directive public signs in terms of face, sociality rights and obligations, interests, and interactional goals. Based on the analysis of data collected from four cities in China, this study demonstrates how some Chinese producers of directive public signs make varying and various discursive efforts to enhance rapport with the general public. It is argued that this “personalization” characteristic of Chinese directive public signs suggests their producers’ attempt at doing rapport with the public. This research, while extending the scope of discussion on rapport management from the interpersonal to the public sphere, might serve to explain why some Chinese directive public signs (directives in particular) are not terse.","PeriodicalId":46975,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80747139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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