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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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.2024.10.007
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 : 2024-10-24DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.10.002
Niina Lilja, Anna-Kaisa Jokipohja
This conversation analytic paper analyses requests for concrete objects in settings centered around manual and physical tasks. The analytic focus is on requests designed to involve a gestural depiction. We show that the use of gestural depictions in requests is motivated by material-ecological contingencies that create a need for visually specifying what is requested for. Such contingencies are present in situations in which the requested object is not visible to the participants and in which the participants are in asymmetrical positions to perceive the material environment and ongoing changes in it. In such contexts, gestural depictions are used to visually specify task-relevant features of the requested object to overcome possible obstacles in identifying it. The analysis contributes to multimodal research on requesting by illustrating how material-ecological contingencies and participants’ perceptual access to the immediate physical environment are relevant for how requests are formulated.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-18DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.10.001
Yi-An Jason Chen , Susan C. Herring
This study explores metadiscourse about Chinese language varieties used by two non-native Chinese speakers on Bilibili through the lens of citizen sociolinguistics. Drawing on a meaning-based content analysis, we analyze danmu comments by Chinese internet users in response to a video featuring the non-native speakers’ linguistic performances. The findings reveal that Chinese mainlanders express favorable attitudes towards the non-native speaker who demonstrated proficiency in Taiwan Mandarin, while expressing prejudices against the non-native speaker whose accent presented comprehension challenges. The native Chinese speakers also experienced linguistic insecurity when confronted with non-native speech. These findings are interpreted in terms of linguistic ownership, orders of indexicality, and linguistic discrimination, highlighting the relationship between language use and social values in a digitally mediated environment in Mainland China.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-16DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.09.004
Louis Escouflaire, Antonin Descampe, Cédrick Fairon
This study explores Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods for distinguishing between press articles belonging to the journalistic genres of ‘objective’ news and ‘subjective’ opinion. Two classification models are compared: CamemBERT, a French transformer model fine-tuned for the task, and a machine learning model using 32 linguistic features. Trained on 8000 Belgian French articles, both models are evaluated on 1000 Canadian French articles. Results show CamemBERT’s superiority but highlight potential for hybrid approaches and emphasizes the need for robust and transparent methods in NLP. The research contributes to understanding NLP’s role in journalism by addressing challenges of point of view detection in press discourse.
{"title":"Automated text classification of opinion vs. news French press articles. A comparison of transformer and feature-based approaches","authors":"Louis Escouflaire, Antonin Descampe, Cédrick Fairon","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.09.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.09.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods for distinguishing between press articles belonging to the journalistic genres of ‘objective’ <em>news</em> and ‘subjective’ <em>opinion</em>. Two classification models are compared: CamemBERT, a French transformer model fine-tuned for the task, and a machine learning model using 32 linguistic features. Trained on 8000 Belgian French articles, both models are evaluated on 1000 Canadian French articles. Results show CamemBERT’s superiority but highlight potential for hybrid approaches and emphasizes the need for robust and transparent methods in NLP. The research contributes to understanding NLP’s role in journalism by addressing challenges of point of view detection in press discourse.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"99 ","pages":"Pages 129-140"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142440915","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 : 2024-10-04DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.09.003
J. Calder
The study of gender in sociolinguistic variation has long concerned the ways linguistic variables pattern with binary gender identities like male and female, with the implicit assumption that masculine individuals will use variants that index masculinity, and feminine individuals will use variants that index femininity. The emerging field of trans linguistics has built upon insights from queer linguistics and challenged the idea that there must be a one-to-one correspondence between linguistic variants and gender identities. Studies of transgender speakers have illuminated that indexing gender is a process of bricolage, where multiple variables collaborate, and only one needs to index gender in a particular way for the speaker's overall semiotic construction to carry that gendered meaning. Here, I investigate cross-modal bricolage, by exploring how visual gender presentation and three different linguistic variables come together to construct contrasting feminine styles among San Francisco drag queens. Linguistic patterns and aesthetic choices illuminate that bricolage involves a semiotic division of labor, in which only some signs (or modalities) need to index gender to give the overall style that gendered meaning. Concurrently, other signs can contribute qualia to a style's overall qualic cloud, that distinguish the style from others in the semiotic landscape. This exploration illuminates the role of the body in conditioning the indexical potential of linguistic signs, destabilizes monolithic essentializations of trans linguistic practice, and acknowledges the varied ways that gender non-normative identity can manifest across communities.
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This work investigates the use of a popular cultural performance called googi, to advocate against early marriage and its associated cases of adolescent pregnancies in Kusaal speaking communities in Ghana. It highlights how a local cultural artist employs the power of an indigenous language to skillfully address a significant socio-cultural issue. This research analyses the literary techniques employed by the artist in her didactic performance which challenges cultural norms that endorse early marriage. The artist advocates for social transformation through education underscoring the causes of early marriage as including socio-economic and cultural factor. The findings demonstrate that the persuasive use of indigenous language in popular cultural performances serves as great instruments for communication, advocacy and entertainment in rural communities.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-24DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.09.002
Dušan Stamenković , Janina Wildfeuer
VR applications for medical simulations such as emergency situations offer new ways of providing knowledge and practical skills for saving a life and potentially represent a complex communicative environment. The communicative situations constructed by this environment bring with them an increasing level of interactivity and ergodicity and it is particularly challenging to address these analytically. We address this challenge by looking at Lifesaver VR and providing a foundational framework for the multimodal analysis of the communicative situations created in this application. We describe how information and content units of the game can be built and how these units can then be combined into complex discourse structures outlining the complexity and simultaneity of narrative, instructional, and interactive aspects of the game.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-10DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.08.004
Paweł Urbanik
The study examines the use of material objects constituting material-bodily actions in explanation sequences in construction-site interactions. Using multimodal Conversation Analysis as a method, it investigates the explanatory role of such actions and their sequential environments, comparing their application with gestural depiction. The analysis demonstrates that material-bodily actions are employed when the matter of explanation requires a focus on the details of prerequisite manual actions and when additional troubles emerge during the explanation. By using material-bodily actions, speakers direct recipients' attention to the salience of spatial accuracy to ensure understanding of the procedural order. The study discusses the interactional differences between gestural depiction and the employment of material objects as explanatory resources.
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