Pub Date : 2025-04-22DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.005
Anni Jääskeläinen
Examining archived recorded cattle calls, this article describes the traditional Finnish ways of cattle calling and suggests that these calls were a trans-species pidgin, a variety made more accessible to animals. This variety used simplified grammar with specific constructions, special phonetic features, melody, rhythmic alterations, gestures, changes in sound quality, and material objects; the purpose was to establish understanding between humans and animals. Furthermore, the article shows how these calls were modified when different species of domestic animals were called. Grazing practices, appearance and the behaviour of animals, as well as landscapes and the aspiration for beauty all influenced how these calls would evolve.
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Pub Date : 2025-04-21DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.003
Leonie Cornips
This paper explores the potential contributions of sociolinguistics to the expanding field of intraspecies and interspecies studies of nonhuman animals. The study focuses on variation in successive greeting activities displayed by cows during social interactions with either another cow or a human. The research question examines whether embodied variation, including vocalization, in a cow’s social encounters serves as a resource for social meaning-making. Ethnographic fieldwork findings indicate that individual cows consistently monitor their interaction partners — through gaze, ear position, vocalizations and/or head nods — before collaboratively proceeding to the next step in the opening stages of an encounter.
{"title":"Embodied variation in the sequential greetings of the ucholtz (dairy) cow","authors":"Leonie Cornips","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores the potential contributions of sociolinguistics to the expanding field of intraspecies and interspecies studies of nonhuman animals. The study focuses on variation in successive greeting activities displayed by cows during social interactions with either another cow or a human. The research question examines whether embodied variation, including vocalization, in a cow’s social encounters serves as a resource for social meaning-making. Ethnographic fieldwork findings indicate that individual cows consistently monitor their interaction partners — through gaze, ear position, vocalizations and/or head nods — before collaboratively proceeding to the next step in the opening stages of an encounter.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"103 ","pages":"Pages 34-49"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143854501","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 : 2025-04-16DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.001
Martina Temmerman, Jelle Mast, Peter R.R. White
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Pub Date : 2025-04-15DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.004
Robert W. Mitchell, Emily Howard, Mahala Saylor, Landon Minor
We examined sounds used as attention-getting devices (AGDs) from videotapes of interspecies interactions between familiar and unfamiliar humans (n = 24) and dogs (n = 24) in which humans invited the dog to play. Coders coded nonverbal AGDs and one verbal AGD—calling the dog's name—from all videotapes, as well as whether or not dogs were attending to and playing with the human before and after the AGDs. Humans more often used AGDs when dogs were not attending than attending. Dogs tended not to attend or play following AGDs. When dogs changed attention before to after an AGD, they were more likely to change from not attending to attending, rather than the reverse.
{"title":"Look at me, please! Human auditory attention-getting devices in dog-human play","authors":"Robert W. Mitchell, Emily Howard, Mahala Saylor, Landon Minor","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We examined sounds used as attention-getting devices (AGDs) from videotapes of interspecies interactions between familiar and unfamiliar humans (<em>n</em> = 24) and dogs (<em>n</em> = 24) in which humans invited the dog to play. Coders coded nonverbal AGDs and one verbal AGD—calling the dog's name—from all videotapes, as well as whether or not dogs were attending to and playing with the human before and after the AGDs. Humans more often used AGDs when dogs were not attending than attending. Dogs tended not to attend or play following AGDs. When dogs changed attention before to after an AGD, they were more likely to change from not attending to attending, rather than the reverse.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"103 ","pages":"Pages 1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143833635","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 : 2025-04-15DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.03.001
Dániel Z. Kádár , Yilin Chai , Juliane House
In this study, we propose an integrative approach to Small Talk by bringing together routine and ritual, and also by approaching Small Talk through the lens of ritual, speech acts and discourse. Routine manifestations of Small Talk include banal phatic interaction, such as weather talk which follows conventionalised patterns, has limited bonding capacity and no deeper meaning. Ritual Small Talk, on the other hand, refers to phatic interaction which also follows conventionalised patterns but has a deeper purpose and meaning, and has a more lasting bonding capacity. We analyse a corpus featuring shop-talk in a rural Chinese town, hence filling a knowledge since Small Talk in rural settings has been understudied. We conduct a bipartite analysis, i.e. we first consider how interactions in our corpus tend to be opened and closed, and then we analyse our data through Small Talk themes. Our analysis shows that in Chinese rural shops routines do not simply dissolve when the participants become more familiar, but rather they transform into ritual. This finding shows that Small Talk in the setting studied operates differently from what has been observed in urbanised contexts.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-06DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.02.005
Lotte van Burgsteden , Hedwig te Molder , Elliott M. Hoey , Hanneke Hulst
Recently, there have been calls for a new approach to science communication, emphasizing relationship building between researchers and the public. To date, what relationship building looks like in practice remains unclear. In this conversation-analytic study, we analyze conversations between researchers from different disciplines and community members to examine relationship building in real life. We analyzed a recurring pattern in these conversations where community members provide unsolicited self-disclosures. Such self-disclosures serve as one approach through which community members establish a link between “science” and their lifeworld, aiming to build a relationship with researchers. In response, researchers generally disattended the self-disclosure but occasionally asked questions that probed deeper into community members’ self-disclosures. We discuss the implications for science communication theory and practice.
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Pub Date : 2025-03-03DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.02.006
Samara Velte
This study provides insights into the discursive means through which media outlets engage in the symbolic development of political conflicts by showing various degrees of trust and certainty towards major historical milestones that may contribute to the resolution of the conflict. Leaning on media linguistics and discourse studies, it observes the changes in expressions of stance in Spanish and Basque print media in the context of the final years of the Basque armed conflict (1958–2018), and concludes that initial hesitant coverages can influence the posterior discursive landscape that emerges in critical moments of peace processes.
{"title":"The influence of media narratives in the formation of post-conflict discursive landscapes: Stance, engagement and doubt","authors":"Samara Velte","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.02.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.02.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study provides insights into the discursive means through which media outlets engage in the symbolic development of political conflicts by showing various degrees of trust and certainty towards major historical milestones that may contribute to the resolution of the conflict. Leaning on media linguistics and discourse studies, it observes the changes in expressions of stance in Spanish and Basque print media in the context of the final years of the Basque armed conflict (1958–2018), and concludes that initial hesitant coverages can influence the posterior discursive landscape that emerges in critical moments of peace processes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"102 ","pages":"Pages 15-29"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143529783","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 : 2025-02-28DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.02.004
Lorenza Mondada , Burak S. Tekin , Mizuki Koda
The topic of simultaneity has recently been debated within multimodal Conversation Analysis (CA), interrogating the intricate temporal relations between vocal, verbal and embodied resources. This article contributes to this debate by discussing simultaneity in relation to sequentiality, a key principle characterizing human interaction. First, it examines the way simultaneity has been treated in the CA literature, highlighting both the specificity of simultaneous phenomena in social interaction and their diversity. Second, it focuses on an exemplary case of simultaneity, collectively produced choral actions. It demonstrates how participants orient to the production of simultaneous conduct, while achieving this simultaneity through the sequential organization of their actions. These actions are prepared, projected, produced and maintained in sequentially unfolding ways, achieved as such by participants. This paper argues that while simultaneity is a gloss for referring to specific temporal arrangements of conduct, sequentiality is the organizational principle securing their actual accomplishment.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-24DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.02.003
Hubert Hågemark, Peter Gärdenfors
Despite the considerable amount of research devoted to speech act theory, relatively little attention has been paid to the cognitive foundations underlying different speech act classes. This article addresses this gap by introducing a framework of cognitive dimensions associated with the performance of expressives, directives and assertions. Drawing on empirical data, we argue that each class requires distinct cognitive capacities related to acquisition, intention-involvement, intersubjectivity, involvement, detachment, cooperation and natural meaning. In addition, we propose a set of pragmatic criteria that can be used to structure rudimentary instances of speech acts in both primates and human infants.
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