Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.10.010
Miguel Sánchez Ibáñez , Paula Pérez Sobrino
The goal of this study is to investigate the relationship between formal and semantic neological procedures in the coinage of COVID-19-related emerging realities. Our study is based on a survey conducted to elicit the spontaneous creation of neologisms in Spanish related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants were asked to name a set of pandemic-related objects presented to them in a set of pictures. Naming strategies resulted mostly from the intersection of metonyms with compounding and metaphors with syntagmation. Participants preferred metonymy-based strategies to name objects they have fewer clues to identify. On the other hand, objects resulting from the adaptation of pre-existing items were mostly named using metaphors.
{"title":"Name it till you mean it: Intersections between formal and semantic neological procedures in naming emerging pandemic objects in Spanish","authors":"Miguel Sánchez Ibáñez , Paula Pérez Sobrino","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.10.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.10.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The goal of this study is to investigate the relationship between formal and semantic neological procedures in the coinage of COVID-19-related emerging realities. Our study is based on a survey conducted to elicit the spontaneous creation of neologisms in Spanish related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants were asked to name a set of pandemic-related objects presented to them in a set of pictures. Naming strategies resulted mostly from the intersection of metonyms with compounding and metaphors with syntagmation. Participants preferred metonymy-based strategies to name objects they have fewer clues to identify. On the other hand, objects resulting from the adaptation of pre-existing items were mostly named using metaphors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"99 ","pages":"Pages 274-288"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142656567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.10.005
Marcin Kosman
The present paper aims at reconstructing, analyzing, and explaining the framing of the situation at the Polish-Belarusian border in 2021 and early 2022 by Poland’s two most influential television stations: the state-controlled right-wing TVP and the commercial left-liberal TVN. The main analytical approach used in this study was Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA). It is a branch of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) that pays special attention to the sociopolitical contexts, allowing the researcher to go beyond purely linguistic analyses and focus on (both micro and meso) sociological implications. Therefore, the study analyzed the discourses through the lenses of securitization and embedding the findings into a broader discussion about migration in Poland. The paper demonstrates that the coverage of the events by both stations was radically different: the state television largely reproduced the discourse of the then ruling party, whereas the liberal TVN focused on the delegitimization of the then government and the border guard, accusing them of violating international law.
{"title":"A flood of illegal immigrants or a humanitarian crisis provoked by the government – A comparative mixed-methods analysis of framing strategies of Poland's two leading media outlets","authors":"Marcin Kosman","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.10.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.10.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The present paper aims at reconstructing, analyzing, and explaining the framing of the situation at the Polish-Belarusian border in 2021 and early 2022 by Poland’s two most influential television stations: the state-controlled right-wing TVP and the commercial left-liberal TVN. The main analytical approach used in this study was Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA). It is a branch of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) that pays special attention to the sociopolitical contexts, allowing the researcher to go beyond purely linguistic analyses and focus on (both micro and meso) sociological implications. Therefore, the study analyzed the discourses through the lenses of securitization and embedding the findings into a broader discussion about migration in Poland. The paper demonstrates that the coverage of the events by both stations was radically different: the state television largely reproduced the discourse of the then ruling party, whereas the liberal TVN focused on the delegitimization of the then government and the border guard, accusing them of violating international law.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"99 ","pages":"Pages 259-273"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142656566","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}
Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.11.002
Wei Ren, Han Zhang
While refusals as a speech act have been extensively studied, little research has explored how individuals respond to refusals, particularly in online communication contexts. This study investigates how Chinese job applicants and human resource (HR) staff respond to recruitment refusals both before and after interviews in online settings. Drawing on a dataset of 200 chat logs sourced from two prominent Chinese social media platforms, this research identifies three major categories of refusal response strategies, encompassing 13 distinct types. The findings reveal that both job applicants and HR staff tend to accept refusals, albeit in differing manners. Applicants employ more diverse and verbose responses compared to HR. The study highlights applicants' heightened rapport management awareness, while HR's responses suggest a focus on impression management on behalf of their companies. Furthermore, our analysis reveals that both parties utilize more strategies in post-interview refusal responses, reflecting stage-specific pragmatic awareness. This study highlights the complexities of interpersonal dynamics in recruitment communication and provides insights into how participants navigate refusal responses to manage rapport and impressions.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.10.011
Arja Piirainen-Marsh, Margarethe Olbertz-Siitonen
This paper investigates how manual know-how is manifested in instructed action in a technologized setting characterised by distributed spaces and bodies. Drawing on data from a temporary game lab where co-present participants try out virtual reality games, it analyses how an experienced VR user instructs novice participants in accomplishing the steps required to set up the game, in interacting with virtual objects and resolving troubles with tasks in the virtual environment. We show how instructions are fitted to and serve to advance the practical activity, and how they are recipient designed to teach novice users the manual and bodily techniques for interacting with the virtual game and its features.
{"title":"Instructed perception and action: The mutual accomplishment of manual know-how in using VR games","authors":"Arja Piirainen-Marsh, Margarethe Olbertz-Siitonen","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.10.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.10.011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates how manual know-how is manifested in instructed action in a technologized setting characterised by distributed spaces and bodies. Drawing on data from a temporary game lab where co-present participants try out virtual reality games, it analyses how an experienced VR user instructs novice participants in accomplishing the steps required to set up the game, in interacting with virtual objects and resolving troubles with tasks in the virtual environment. We show how instructions are fitted to and serve to advance the practical activity, and how they are recipient designed to teach novice users the manual and bodily techniques for interacting with the virtual game and its features.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"99 ","pages":"Pages 313-332"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142656568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.10.006
Hanwool Choe
In 218 food-related segments from 18 everyday vlogs, Korean expatriate vloggers in Hong Kong and New York frame their food activities as Korean, habitual, demonstrable, communal, and familiar. The vloggers reference Korean dishes, link food activities to nationality and family, employ hyperbolic language and repetition, adapt recipe and mukbang formats, and make comparisons. These (meta)discursively and multimodally constructed framing strategies contribute to normalizing the vloggers’ daily food engagement abroad. The study shows how “doing being ordinary” is inextricably intertwined with “doing being expatriate,” highlighting how daily food experiences are recontextualized for the subtle presentation of the expatriate self and life through everyday vlogging.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.10.003
Wout Van Praet, Lutgard Lams, Karel Naulaers
This contribution proposes a hybrid methodological framework to study stance-taking in political interviews, combining a granular grammatical analysis of question design with a discursive analysis of ‘active questioning’. Focusing on political interviews in the Flemish current-affairs programme Terzake, the study applies this analytical framework to examine journalistic stance-taking in different contexts, based on the topic of the interview and the role of the interviewee. The findings indicate that while journalistic stance-taking is standard practice across contexts, specific differences emerge at finer linguistic levels (cf. grammatical question types). The topic of the interview is found to be a more important factor in the likelihood of interviewers expressing stance than the role of the interviewee. We link this to the different intents (i.e., exploration, systematisation, or explanation) that interviews can have, which influence the dynamics of the question-answer exchange and, hence, how active a role the interviewer might take within that exchange. Finally, the study emphasises the usefulness of combining a grammatical and a discursive analysis of interviewer questions, as the specific ‘design’ of questions (i.e., their grammatical form and function) can point to subtly different ways in which interviewers position themselves vis-à-vis interviewees that may be glossed over at the discursive level of linguistic analysis.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.10.009
E. Dimitris Kitis
In this article I examine the concept of ‘gentrification’ from its inception to its current varied uses and interpretations. Using the Oxford English Dictionary's third edition illustrative quotations database as a diachronic corpus of English, I employ a corpus-assisted and cognitive linguistics-inspired critical discourse analysis to trace the genealogy of the term within the broader field of related terms. By disentangling the emergence of this ideologically-laden term, the study enhances our understanding of how class-struggle discourse has evolved from the late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment and late-modernity. It is argued that a robust definition of ‘gentrification’ – which foregrounds the displacement of low-income residents – depends on historicizing the phenomenon, i.e. tracing its roots in concepts, practices and values.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.10.007
Qian Wang , Guangwei Hu
Linguistic expressions of surprise (i.e., surprise markers) are epistemically motivated and inherently connected to knowledge construction. Taking a frame semantic approach, this study examined how surprise markers were used by academic writers to disseminate knowledge in research articles. Based on a self-built corpus of 640 journal articles totaling four million words, the study explored how the use of surprise markers was mediated by various factors, including disciplinary background (i.e., applied linguistics, history, biology, mechanical engineering), gender (male vs. female), geo-academic locations (Core vs. Periphery), and time of publication (1985–1989 vs. 2015–2019). Semi-structured interviews were also conducted with 16 disciplinary informants. Corpus-based quantitative analyses of surprise markers and a thematic analysis of the interviews uncovered distinct patterns in the use of surprise markers across the variables examined. These findings deepen our understanding of how surprise markers in academic writing function within specific linguistic and situational contexts, highlighting the intricate nature of knowledge construction in scholarly discourse.
惊讶的语言表达（即惊讶标记）具有认识论动机，与知识建构有着内在联系。本研究采用框架语义方法，考察了学术作者如何在研究文章中使用惊喜标记来传播知识。该研究基于自建的总计四百万字的640篇期刊论文语料库，探讨了惊奇标记的使用如何受到各种因素的影响，包括学科背景（即应用语言学、历史学、生物学、机械工程）、性别（男性 vs. 女性）、地理学术位置（核心区 vs. 外围区）和发表时间（1985-1989年 vs. 2015-2019年）。此外，还对 16 名学科信息提供者进行了半结构化访谈。基于语料库的惊喜标记定量分析和对访谈的主题分析发现了在所研究的变量中使用惊喜标记的独特模式。这些发现加深了我们对学术写作中的惊奇标记如何在特定语言和情景语境中发挥作用的理解，突出了学术话语中知识建构的复杂性。
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Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.10.004
Anna Verbytska
This study critically analyses the representation of the Russia-Ukraine war in Western (the Euronews) and Eastern (the Kyiv Post) media discourses. It examines how media organisations shape narratives through strategic framing. Employing the Natural Language Processing technique – Topic Modelling – with a generative probabilistic model LDA and a transformer-based language model BERT, the study reveals generic frames elaborated by more specific extensions, shedding light on media portrayal of economy, public opinion, security & defence, external regulations, policy evaluation, and health & safety sectors. Through Named Entity Recognition with roBERTa, Sentiment Analysis with distilBERT, and Corpus Linguistics methods with LancsBox X, interpretation of these overarching frames provides a comprehensive analysis of the nuances in narratives, societal perceptions and policy decisions amidst the ongoing war.
本研究批判性地分析了西方（《欧洲新闻报》）和东方（《基辅邮报》）媒体对俄乌战争的表述。研究探讨了媒体组织如何通过战略框架塑造叙事。该研究采用自然语言处理技术--主题建模（Topic Modelling）--以及生成概率模型 LDA 和基于转换器的语言模型 BERT，揭示了由更具体的扩展部分所阐述的通用框架，揭示了媒体对经济、舆论、安全与国防、外部法规、政策评估以及健康与安全领域的描述。通过使用 roBERTa 进行命名实体识别，使用 distilBERT 进行情感分析，以及使用 LancsBox X 进行语料库语言学分析，对这些总体框架的解释提供了对正在进行的战争中的叙述、社会观念和政策决定的细微差别的全面分析。
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Pub Date : 2024-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.10.008
Yiran Xu, Jiajun Liang
During the COVID-19 pandemic, increased measures of information control were implemented in China to manage the flow of sensitive information that may contradict the official narrative of national sacrifice, perseverance, and triumph. Building on previous scholarship on the subversive potential of translanguaging practices, the present study analyzes key moments during the initial outbreak of the pandemic, when Chinese netizens creatively combined linguistic and semiotic symbols to circumvent censorship measures. It demonstrates how these practices highlight the innovative and multimodal nature of netizens’ linguistic tactics and illustrate how translanguaging and trans-semiotizing both enabled and profoundly disrupted the process of meaning-making. This article shows that the use of creative code-meshing strategies is a powerful means of challenging the centralized governance of social media spaces in pursuit of freedom of expression.
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