Manipulation in late life

Q4 Multidisciplinary

International Journal of Language and Culture Pub Date : 2019-02-01 DOI:10.1075/IJOLC.00015.NAS

Nico Nassenstein

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Abstract

While youth language constitutes a well-researched field of study, the linguistic manipulations of old people remain understudied. In an innovative approach, the present paper therefore looks at confusing and allegedly unintelligible narratives and conscious linguistic manipulations, silliness and concealing strategies in language as employed by elderly speakers of Kinyabwisha, Kinande, Kihunde and Kiswahili in Eastern DR Congo. A secret cursing register among Banyabwisha, often accompanied by practices of spitting, is analyzed; I also discuss elderly speakers’ confusing stories narrated to younger people, the use of secret modal particles that are restricted to people of old age, and finally I discuss the strategic inclusion of silliness in old speakers’ utterances. All these are analyzed in a theoretical framework of the secret agency and power in language use that mark the agency and wittiness of the elderly in Eastern Congo. With this first overview of elderly speakers’ language manipulations I aim to show that linguistic manipulation is not necessarily age-related, and that concealment strategies in language can occur as agentive and powerful means of social differentiation in later life as well. This preliminary introduction furthermore suggests a strong focus on silliness in linguistic analysis (as also found in Kuipers 2007; Storch 2015, 2017).

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晚年的操控

虽然年轻人的语言是一个研究得很好的研究领域，但老年人的语言操作仍然没有得到充分的研究。因此，本文采用一种创新的方法，研究了刚果民主共和国东部讲基亚布维沙语、基南德语、基洪德语和斯瓦希里语的老年人所使用的令人困惑和据称难以理解的叙述、有意识的语言操纵、愚蠢和隐藏策略。班雅布威沙的秘密诅咒记录，经常伴随着吐痰的做法，被分析;我还讨论了老年人讲给年轻人听的令人困惑的故事，以及只有老年人才会使用的秘密情态助词，最后我还讨论了老年人话语中策略性地包含了愚蠢。所有这些都在一个秘密机构和语言使用权力的理论框架中进行了分析，这标志着刚果东部老年人的机构和机智。通过对老年人语言操作的第一次概述，我旨在表明语言操作不一定与年龄有关，并且语言中的隐藏策略也可以作为晚年社会分化的代理和强大手段出现。这一初步的介绍进一步表明了语言分析中对愚蠢性的强烈关注(正如Kuipers 2007;Storch 2015, 2017)。

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International Journal of Language and Culture Multidisciplinary-Multidisciplinary

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期刊介绍： The aim of the International Journal of Language and Culture (IJoLC) is to disseminate cutting-edge research that explores the interrelationship between language and culture. The journal is multidisciplinary in scope and seeks to provide a forum for researchers interested in the interaction between language and culture across several disciplines, including linguistics, anthropology, applied linguistics, psychology and cognitive science. The journal publishes high-quality, original and state-of-the-art articles that may be theoretical or empirical in orientation and that advance our understanding of the intricate relationship between language and culture. IJoLC is a peer-reviewed journal published twice a year. Topics of interest to IJoLC include, but are not limited to the following: a. Culture and the structure of language, b. Language, culture, and conceptualisation, c. Language, culture, and politeness, d. Language, culture, and emotion, e. Culture and language development, f. Language, culture, and communication.