Pub Date : 2023-12-19DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2023.11.001
Jessica Kruk
Previous studies of interactional particles have shown that a particle's social meaning may be contextually contingent and a momentary instantiation of the form's core meaning. This paper shows how analysing particles using Blommaert and De Fina's (2017) chronotopic frame approach provides greater insight into the dialectic relationship between forms' meanings that are relatively transitory or perduring. This paper illustrates the contributions of chronotopic frame approaches by using this framework to analyse how three distinct interactionally emergent social meanings of the Pontianak Malay particle bah are connected to the particle's core meaning of ‘shared knowledge’.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-11DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2023.11.003
Rong Chen , Fengguang Liu
In this paper, we investigate ambiguity in language use that is intended by the speaker. Our overall argument is that, as a general feature of language resulting from the indeterminacy of meaning at all levels of language, ambiguity can be taken advantage of in specific contexts for a host of purposes. Given that an ambiguous utterance has (at least) two possible meanings – A and B – there are two logical possibilities for a speaker in a deliberate ambiguity: to mean both A and B or to mean only A (or B). However, a closer examination of the literature and available data reveal a far more complicated picture: there are more strategies under either of these possibilities, each of which closely interacts with the context and is motivated by the speaker's purpose of communication in that context. The treatment of deliberate ambiguity in the present study is thus more coherent theoretically and more comprehensive in coverage than what is found in the sizable literature on the subject.
在本文中,我们研究了语言使用中说话人意图的模糊性。我们的总体论点是,作为由语言各个层面意义的不确定性所产生的语言的一般特征,歧义可以在特定语境中被利用来达到一系列目的。鉴于一个模棱两可的语句(至少)有两种可能的含义--A 和 B--说话人在故意模棱两可的情况下有两种合乎逻辑的可能性:既指 A 也指 B,或只指 A(或 B)。然而,通过对文献和现有数据的仔细研究,我们会发现一个复杂得多的情况:在这两种可能性下都有更多的策略,每一种策略都与语境密切相关,并受说话人在语境中的交际目的所驱使。因此,本研究对蓄意歧义的处理在理论上更加连贯,在覆盖面上也比有关该主题的大量文献更加全面。
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Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2023.10.002
Scott Kiesling
This commentary reviews, synthesizes, and expands upon the articles in this special issue. The review notes that the papers update the idea that language style – the combination of habitual forms used in languaging – can be used in exclusionary practices. That said, the papers in this issue all approach exclusion in language style from a different standpoint, and this diversity of approaches and topics at once demonstrates how central the exclusionary function of language is for humans, and at the same time suggests some generalizations about how to theorize about exclusion. I note some of the different sociolinguistic processes used in the exclusion cases in the issue, and suggest that we should also study the opposing process on creating inclusion through sociolinguistics.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2023.10.003
Cornelia F. Bock , Florian Busch , Naomi Truan
The special issue on ‘The sociolinguistics of exclusion: Indexing (non)belonging in mobile communities’ delves into the phenomenon of exclusion as a means and outcome of social positioning within diverse communities undergoing continual transformation due to social, demographic, political, and technological changes. Through empirical studies that critically engage with exclusionary discourse practices, this issue analyzes the semiotic means that social actors employ to presuppose and/or entail exclusion. Additionally, it explores the underlying ideological assumptions on which these choices are perceived, rationalized, justified, and/or contested as exclusionary.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2023.10.001
Ines Adornetti, Alessandra Chiera, Valentina Deriu, Daniela Altavilla, Francesco Ferretti
This paper presents a pilot study aimed at investigating the comprehension of pantomimic stories and its possible cognitive underpinnings in typically developing children. A group of twenty-two Italian-speaking children aged between 8.02 and 10.11 years were included in the study. Participants watched short videos in which professional actors performed pantomime narratives; then answered a comprehension question and retold the stories. Analyses revealed positive correlations between the comprehension of pantomimes and age, theory of mind, and working memory. The implications of these results for a narrative model of language origin are discussed against the background of an eco-evo-devo perspective.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2023.11.002
Oscar Björkenfeldt , Linnea Gustafsson
This study investigates the interplay between morality, impoliteness, and moral order in the online harassment of Swedish journalists on Twitter. It reveals how impoliteness serves as a tool to harm the media's epistemic credibility, rooted in anti-press and populist rhetoric, and exert destructive informal social control. The highlighted paradox is that provisions for freedom of speech, designed to protect, are paradoxically used to suppress journalists' voices through targeted insults and derogatory language. The study uncovers that such harassment is systematic, politically motivated, and morally grounded. We emphasize the urgent need to recognize and confront these subtle tactics that threaten journalistic freedom and, consequently, access to information in Sweden and internationally under growing criticism that seeks to delegitimize the media.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-10DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2023.09.004
Yi Shan
This article makes the first empirical corpus-based study of the actual performance of the discourse marker (DM) nǐ zhīdào (NZ) in Chinese media interview conversations from the perspective of synchronic Construction Grammar (CxG).1 The main objective is to pair the prosody of NZ at varying utterance positions (‘form’ properties at prosodic and discourse structural levels) with its pragmatic functions (‘meaning’ properties at the discourse communicative level), to enhance our understanding within the existing literature, specifically in relation to pragmatics in spontaneous speech, and provide implications for the broader study of discourse markers. The analysis of the ‘form’ properties of NZ reveals distinct, context-specific attributes of such prosodic metrics as duration, tempo, pause, F0, and intensity at varying utterance positions; the analysis of its ‘meaning’ properties discovers pragmatic functions with characteristic utterance distributions; and the form-meaning pairing between prosody and pragmatics highlights the roles of prosody in deciphering and materializing pragmatics and of pragmatics in underlying and motivating prosody. This study has shown that insights gained from CxG can enhance our understanding of the fields of pragmatics, discourse, and interaction, and specific linguistic phenomena whose importance has been entrenched in these domains can be sufficiently explained using CxG. It follows that the notion of construction can be extended to the discourse (e.g., dialogue and conversation) level to approach the complexities of spoken language and address diverse elusive pragmatic issues like DMs effectively.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-04DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2023.09.003
Elie Friedman
Research has illustrated that metaphors and metonyms are concepts that govern thought and action, playing a central role in constructing realities. While previous studies have demonstrated that metaphors and metonyms are utilized as tools for conceptualizing nations, this study examines how metaphoric and metonymic representations of specific locations within the nation-state can serve as polarizing constructs within the nation-state. The State of Israel presents an interesting case study regarding how metaphors and metonyms construct polarizing identities, following increasingly polarized cross-cutting cleavages. Utilizing the Sketch Engine ELEXIS Hebrew Web corpora, this study utilizes discourse analysis tools to characterize the reproduction of metaphorical and metonymic meanings of geographical locations, tapping into specific cultural codes of the Israeli speech community.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-04DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2023.09.002
Marta Dynel
This paper discusses metalanguage, metadiscourse, metacommunication and metapragmatics testifying to users' conscious awareness enacted in human-AI interactions, based on a corpus of posts sent to Reddit's r/ChatGPT. The emphasis falls on users' foci of attention as they perform linguistic tests on ChatGPT and on how the “meta” practices manifest themselves interactionally on the selected subreddit, where human-AI interactions are showcased for entertainment purposes. The findings suggest that engaging with AI reflects and, potentially, enhances language users' metalinguistic, metadiscursive, metacommunicative and metapragmatic awareness. This awareness is mirrored in ChatGPT's output, indicative of its previous human-assisted training. Additionally, this investigation demonstrates that, when acknowledged as one subject of study, the four “meta” concepts are intricately intertwined as they may co-occur and overlap.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-03DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2023.09.001
Christian Pentzold , Claudia Fraas
The article extends the study of frames in verbal media discourse. We mobilize insights from linguistic semantics and research in the related fields of cognitive science in order to formulate a frame-semantic understanding of frames as adaptive networks of meaning. It allows us to see frames as flexible scaffoldings whose elements are controlled by contextual configurations. This extension is helpful, we argue, because analyses of public discourse have, to date, mainly operated with a model of frames as fixed ensembles. Understanding frames not as invariant clusters but as adaptive networks has implications for empirical studies, too. Consequently, we outline the applicability of our proposition in an analytical scenario.
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