Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1177/14614456231185411
Le Wang
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Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1177/14614456231185410
Kaihang Zhao
{"title":"Book Review: Sandrine Sorlin, The Stylistics of “You”: Second-Person Pronoun and its Pragmatic Effects","authors":"Kaihang Zhao","doi":"10.1177/14614456231185410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231185410","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47598,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45615793","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 : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1177/14614456231184087
L. Caronia, Federica Ranzani, Vittoria Colla, Silvia Demozzi, Giulia Benericetti
Alliances between families and children’s institutional caregivers are considered crucial in granting children a healthy upbringing. This article reports the preliminary findings of a study on the interactional construction of epistemic and deontic alliances among present and evoked children’s caregivers. Adopting a discourse analysis approach to a corpus of 54 video-recorded pediatric visits, we analyze examples of complaint sequences where parents ‘ventriloquize’ the teachers’ voices and pursue an alliance with the pediatrician against the school’s practices or stance. We illustrate the local ratification of the pediatrician’s deontic authority over the teacher’s and the interactional accomplishment of (dis)alliances among the institutionally sanctioned caregivers. In the conclusion, we argue that this local system of deontic and epistemic (dis)alliances indexes the contemporary shift toward an individualized (or individualistic?) model of care and education, deaf to the collective demands and the need for relatively routinized practices that are at stake in any community.
{"title":"Polyphony in the pediatric clinic: Parents reporting teachers’ talk as a resource for building deontic and epistemic (dis)alliances among caregivers","authors":"L. Caronia, Federica Ranzani, Vittoria Colla, Silvia Demozzi, Giulia Benericetti","doi":"10.1177/14614456231184087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231184087","url":null,"abstract":"Alliances between families and children’s institutional caregivers are considered crucial in granting children a healthy upbringing. This article reports the preliminary findings of a study on the interactional construction of epistemic and deontic alliances among present and evoked children’s caregivers. Adopting a discourse analysis approach to a corpus of 54 video-recorded pediatric visits, we analyze examples of complaint sequences where parents ‘ventriloquize’ the teachers’ voices and pursue an alliance with the pediatrician against the school’s practices or stance. We illustrate the local ratification of the pediatrician’s deontic authority over the teacher’s and the interactional accomplishment of (dis)alliances among the institutionally sanctioned caregivers. In the conclusion, we argue that this local system of deontic and epistemic (dis)alliances indexes the contemporary shift toward an individualized (or individualistic?) model of care and education, deaf to the collective demands and the need for relatively routinized practices that are at stake in any community.","PeriodicalId":47598,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44154246","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 : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1177/14614456221136258
A. Izadi
This paper reports on two anomalous cases of intervention in two English-medium dissertation defence sessions in Iran. The first is an intervention by a co-supervisor to take side against his co-supervisor as well as to adversely retort to an examiner, pulling rank over him. The second case echoes frequent interventions by an examiner to defend the candidate against his co-examiner. The paper argues that behind this manifestation of such stark disagreements lies a moral judgement that overrides other considerations. While such interventions pose great challenges to the participants’ interpersonal relationships and lead to a great deal of face-loss and humiliation for the object of intervention, their practice is warranted by interveners to tackle a moral issue. The paper argues that invoking moral order in claims to specialised knowledge is an integral part of professional practice and are influential in the many ways that professional identities are co-constructed in situ.
{"title":"On the moral grounds of professional argumentative talk: English-mediated talk in Iranian PhD dissertation defences","authors":"A. Izadi","doi":"10.1177/14614456221136258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456221136258","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports on two anomalous cases of intervention in two English-medium dissertation defence sessions in Iran. The first is an intervention by a co-supervisor to take side against his co-supervisor as well as to adversely retort to an examiner, pulling rank over him. The second case echoes frequent interventions by an examiner to defend the candidate against his co-examiner. The paper argues that behind this manifestation of such stark disagreements lies a moral judgement that overrides other considerations. While such interventions pose great challenges to the participants’ interpersonal relationships and lead to a great deal of face-loss and humiliation for the object of intervention, their practice is warranted by interveners to tackle a moral issue. The paper argues that invoking moral order in claims to specialised knowledge is an integral part of professional practice and are influential in the many ways that professional identities are co-constructed in situ.","PeriodicalId":47598,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46356015","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 : 2023-05-24DOI: 10.1177/14614456231171093
Annerose Willemsen, J. Cromdal, Mathias Broth
This paper presents an analysis of how the particular categories of children and youth are used within the instructional work of learning to drive. Using Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) and multimodal Conversation Analysis (CA) of a collection of cases drawn from 85 video-recorded driving lessons, we demonstrate how the participants treat children and youth as a category of traffic users whose main category predicate appears to be their expected unpredictability and carelessness, placing particularly high demands on drivers’ awareness and caution. This is evident in in-event and post-event interactions about traffic encounters with children and youth, as well as in traffic contexts where they have not (yet) been spotted but their sudden appearance is anticipated. The results suggest that the institutional constructions of children and youth as a potential source of trouble prepare trainee drivers for unforeseen events and contingencies and shape their social stock of knowledge as future motorists.
{"title":"Expecting the unpredictable: Categorisation of children and youth during driver training","authors":"Annerose Willemsen, J. Cromdal, Mathias Broth","doi":"10.1177/14614456231171093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231171093","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an analysis of how the particular categories of children and youth are used within the instructional work of learning to drive. Using Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) and multimodal Conversation Analysis (CA) of a collection of cases drawn from 85 video-recorded driving lessons, we demonstrate how the participants treat children and youth as a category of traffic users whose main category predicate appears to be their expected unpredictability and carelessness, placing particularly high demands on drivers’ awareness and caution. This is evident in in-event and post-event interactions about traffic encounters with children and youth, as well as in traffic contexts where they have not (yet) been spotted but their sudden appearance is anticipated. The results suggest that the institutional constructions of children and youth as a potential source of trouble prepare trainee drivers for unforeseen events and contingencies and shape their social stock of knowledge as future motorists.","PeriodicalId":47598,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45852950","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 : 2023-04-25DOI: 10.1177/14614456231167734
Eila Salomaa, Esa Lehtinen
Unlike traditional note-taking with pen and paper, in which the note-taking process is only partially accessible to the co-participants, note-taking in the digitalized workplace may be done publicly, so that both the content of notes and the process of writing them are observable to the co-participants. Using multimodally oriented conversation analysis, this study focused on public note-taking in interaction sequences where the facilitator of a workplace project records the results of a workshop discussion on a digital platform. The analysis revealed that while the facilitator was entitled to decide which portions of talk are recorded, the affordances of digital technology, its publicness in particular, enabled the co-participants to monitor the writing process, possibly leading to the editing of notes. The results show that even when note-taking is publicly performed, it is oriented to as an informal form of writing.
{"title":"Public note-taking on a digital platform as a workplace practice","authors":"Eila Salomaa, Esa Lehtinen","doi":"10.1177/14614456231167734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231167734","url":null,"abstract":"Unlike traditional note-taking with pen and paper, in which the note-taking process is only partially accessible to the co-participants, note-taking in the digitalized workplace may be done publicly, so that both the content of notes and the process of writing them are observable to the co-participants. Using multimodally oriented conversation analysis, this study focused on public note-taking in interaction sequences where the facilitator of a workplace project records the results of a workshop discussion on a digital platform. The analysis revealed that while the facilitator was entitled to decide which portions of talk are recorded, the affordances of digital technology, its publicness in particular, enabled the co-participants to monitor the writing process, possibly leading to the editing of notes. The results show that even when note-taking is publicly performed, it is oriented to as an informal form of writing.","PeriodicalId":47598,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43976981","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 : 2023-04-13DOI: 10.1177/14614456231159026
Marissa Caldwell, Joshua Raclaw
Using conversation analysis, this article examines how questioners manage resistant responses in the context of U.S. Senate hearings. In particular, we examine how questioning Senators use explicit metacommentary – a turn constructional practice in which speakers offer ‘on-record’ comments on the manner in which a prior turn was formulated – to manage a recipient’s resistant responses to polar questions. Within these contexts, metacommentary becomes a resource for highlighting the preference organization of the original question and challenging the adequacy of the recipient’s response. The analysis shows how metacommentary not only serves to guide a question recipient toward producing an adequate response, but additionally works to register the questioning Senator’s stance toward the inadequacy of the response while highlighting this inadequacy for both the co-present audience and viewers of these publicly televised hearings.
{"title":"‘I just need a yes or no’: Managing resistant responses in U.S. Senate hearings","authors":"Marissa Caldwell, Joshua Raclaw","doi":"10.1177/14614456231159026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231159026","url":null,"abstract":"Using conversation analysis, this article examines how questioners manage resistant responses in the context of U.S. Senate hearings. In particular, we examine how questioning Senators use explicit metacommentary – a turn constructional practice in which speakers offer ‘on-record’ comments on the manner in which a prior turn was formulated – to manage a recipient’s resistant responses to polar questions. Within these contexts, metacommentary becomes a resource for highlighting the preference organization of the original question and challenging the adequacy of the recipient’s response. The analysis shows how metacommentary not only serves to guide a question recipient toward producing an adequate response, but additionally works to register the questioning Senator’s stance toward the inadequacy of the response while highlighting this inadequacy for both the co-present audience and viewers of these publicly televised hearings.","PeriodicalId":47598,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44847753","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 : 2023-04-05DOI: 10.1177/14614456231163420
Peng Wu, Tian-bao Zhou
Within the theoretical framework of Pragma-Dialectics, this research investigates prototypical argumentative patterns based on pragmatic argumentation that manifest themselves in the spokespersons’ argumentative replies at the regular press conferences of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As is shown by the research results, constrained by the institutional point of the communicative activity type (justifying China’s attitude and actions regarding controversial issues) and its institutional preconditions, argumentative patterns based on pragmatic argumentation prototypically occur in three variants, viz. the ‘solvency type’, the ‘maintenance type’, and the ‘counter-plan type’; it can be observed that in complex pragmatic argumentation each of these three variants may also occur in combination with other variants.
{"title":"Argumentative patterns based on pragmatic argumentation at China’s diplomatic press conferences","authors":"Peng Wu, Tian-bao Zhou","doi":"10.1177/14614456231163420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231163420","url":null,"abstract":"Within the theoretical framework of Pragma-Dialectics, this research investigates prototypical argumentative patterns based on pragmatic argumentation that manifest themselves in the spokespersons’ argumentative replies at the regular press conferences of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As is shown by the research results, constrained by the institutional point of the communicative activity type (justifying China’s attitude and actions regarding controversial issues) and its institutional preconditions, argumentative patterns based on pragmatic argumentation prototypically occur in three variants, viz. the ‘solvency type’, the ‘maintenance type’, and the ‘counter-plan type’; it can be observed that in complex pragmatic argumentation each of these three variants may also occur in combination with other variants.","PeriodicalId":47598,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44884140","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 : 2023-04-05DOI: 10.1177/14614456231166221
Salla Kangas
socio-semioticians in creating, witnessing, describing, labelling, supporting or opposing, and legitimating and negotiating semiotic practices (p. 264). In summary, this volume conducts a systemic analysis of the pandemic’s effects on communicative patterns, functions, strategies, technologies, meanings and purposes across political, economic and social dimensions, which are likely to be continued because of the possibility of the continuation of the pandemic. It provides readers with an opportunity to consider and prepare for issues involving multimodal communication that will likely arise in similar situations to come (p. 11). Despite these strengths, the volume has room for minor improvement. As far as research methods are concerned, this volume has confined itself to the case study of a country. It cannot be denied that this can be an important path for introducing how discourses, modes and media pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic affected daily lives of people in a certain country in terms of the various meanings they carry. However, adding a contrastive perspective by analysing discourses in different countries would have helped to reveal the similarities and differences of multimodal meaning building mechanisms in different regions, and the characteristics of the narrative mode and discourse strategy of the mainstream media of a country in reporting news about the coronavirus and the pandemic in other countries. Overall, this volume provides an enlightening and innovative perspective for multimodal discourse research. The research is based on a linguistic-theory-motivated and interdisciplinary model, which can not only guide the innovation of multimodal discourse research, but also promote the coordinated development of humanities and social sciences and other sciences. It is highly recommended for any reader interested in the field of multimodal discourse analysis or other fields whose work focuses on the use of multimodal discourse for communication and meaning making.
{"title":"Book Review: Ruth Page, David Barton, Carmen Lee, Johann Wolfgang Unger, and Michele Zappavigna, Researching Language and Social Media: A Student Guide","authors":"Salla Kangas","doi":"10.1177/14614456231166221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231166221","url":null,"abstract":"socio-semioticians in creating, witnessing, describing, labelling, supporting or opposing, and legitimating and negotiating semiotic practices (p. 264). In summary, this volume conducts a systemic analysis of the pandemic’s effects on communicative patterns, functions, strategies, technologies, meanings and purposes across political, economic and social dimensions, which are likely to be continued because of the possibility of the continuation of the pandemic. It provides readers with an opportunity to consider and prepare for issues involving multimodal communication that will likely arise in similar situations to come (p. 11). Despite these strengths, the volume has room for minor improvement. As far as research methods are concerned, this volume has confined itself to the case study of a country. It cannot be denied that this can be an important path for introducing how discourses, modes and media pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic affected daily lives of people in a certain country in terms of the various meanings they carry. However, adding a contrastive perspective by analysing discourses in different countries would have helped to reveal the similarities and differences of multimodal meaning building mechanisms in different regions, and the characteristics of the narrative mode and discourse strategy of the mainstream media of a country in reporting news about the coronavirus and the pandemic in other countries. Overall, this volume provides an enlightening and innovative perspective for multimodal discourse research. The research is based on a linguistic-theory-motivated and interdisciplinary model, which can not only guide the innovation of multimodal discourse research, but also promote the coordinated development of humanities and social sciences and other sciences. It is highly recommended for any reader interested in the field of multimodal discourse analysis or other fields whose work focuses on the use of multimodal discourse for communication and meaning making.","PeriodicalId":47598,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48335839","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 : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1177/14614456231166233
Jie Guo
{"title":"Book Review: Sabine Tan and Marissa K. L. E (eds), Discourse, Modes, Media and Meaning in an Era of Pandemic: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis Approach","authors":"Jie Guo","doi":"10.1177/14614456231166233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231166233","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47598,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47721882","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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