Aggression in diplomatic notes – a pragmatic analysis of a Chinese-American conflict in times of colonisation

IF 0.8 3区 文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION
Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-05-26 DOI:10.1515/text-2021-0036
J. House, D. Kádár, Fengguang Liu, Yulong Song
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Abstract This study examines veiled aggression in diplomatic language use from the point of view of speech acts. More specifically, we examine how the speech act of ‘Tell’ is used to realise aggression in a small corpus of diplomatic notes written between February and May 1844, exchanged between a US American and a Chinese diplomat. Tell, by default, presents a ‘neutral’ informative illocution. However, in contexts of diplomatic conflicts, particularly when a threat is made, realising Tell often helps the aggressor to deliver menacing messages under a veneer of civility. Tell is also often intertwined with other speech acts through which aggression is realised, such as Request and Complain. By modelling the aggressive function of Tell in the ritual genre of diplomatic notes, this paper fills a knowledge gap by studying aggression in a setting in which aggression operates within the boundaries of the ritual frame of a diplomatic genre.
外交照会中的侵略——对殖民时期中美冲突的务实分析
摘要本研究从言语行为的角度考察了外交语言使用中的隐性侵略。更具体地说,我们在1844年2月至5月间写的一小部分外交笔记中研究了“Tell”的言语行为是如何被用来实现侵略的,这些笔记是由一名美国外交官和一名中国外交官交换的。默认情况下,Tell会呈现一种“中性”的信息性口误。然而,在外交冲突的背景下,特别是当发出威胁时,意识到Tell往往有助于侵略者在礼貌的外表下传递威胁性信息。Tell还经常与其他言语行为交织在一起,通过这些行为可以实现攻击,如请求和抱怨。通过模拟Tell在外交笔记仪式风格中的攻击功能,本文通过研究侵略在外交风格仪式框架范围内运作的背景下的侵略来填补知识空白。
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期刊介绍: Text & Talk (founded as TEXT in 1981) is an internationally recognized forum for interdisciplinary research in language, discourse, and communication studies, focusing, among other things, on the situational and historical nature of text/talk production; the cognitive and sociocultural processes of language practice/action; and participant-based structures of meaning negotiation and multimodal alignment. Text & Talk encourages critical debates on these and other relevant issues, spanning not only the theoretical and methodological dimensions of discourse but also their practical and socially relevant outcomes.
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