Laughing at English

IF 0.8 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Language and Dialogue Pub Date : 2022-09-27 DOI:10.1075/ld.00134.pic

Vanessa Piccoli, Rosa Pugliese

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Abstract

This contribution explores the stances of speakers of Romance languages towards the use of English as a lingua franca in a business context. Grounding on an audio-visual corpus collected in a wine fair in France, the analysis focuses on three extracts where participants comment in a playful way (i.e. through laughing, joking and humorous enactments) upon the fact that they are not speaking English. Through a sequential and multimodal analysis, the study will highlight the participants’ ambivalent stance: on the one hand, through these playful practices they display a local resistance towards the mainstream language choice; on the other hand, these same practices reveal their vulnerability to the social pressure concerning the speaking of English.

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嘲笑英语

这篇文章探讨了罗曼语使用者在商业环境中使用英语作为通用语的立场。基于在法国葡萄酒博览会上收集的视听语料库，分析集中在三个摘录上，参与者以一种有趣的方式(即通过大笑，开玩笑和幽默的表演)评论他们没有说英语的事实。通过序贯和多模态分析，研究将突出参与者的矛盾立场:一方面，通过这些有趣的实践，他们表现出对主流语言选择的局部抵制;另一方面，这些做法也暴露了他们在说英语的社会压力面前的脆弱性。

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期刊介绍： In our post-Cartesian times human abilities are regarded as integrated and interacting abilities. Speaking, thinking, perceiving, having emotions need to be studied in interaction. Integration and interaction take place in dialogue. Scholars are called upon to go beyond reductive methods of abstraction and division and to take up the challenge of coming to terms with the complex whole. The conclusions drawn from reasoning about human behaviour in the humanities and social sciences have finally been proven by experiments in the natural sciences, especially neurology and sociobiology. What happens in the black box, can now, at least in part, be made visible. The journal intends to be an explicitly interdisciplinary journal reaching out to any discipline dealing with human abilities on the basis of consilience or the unity of knowledge. It is the challenge of post-Cartesian science to tackle the issue of how body, mind and language are interconnected and dialogically put to action. The journal invites papers which deal with ‘language and dialogue’ as an integrated whole in different languages and cultures and in different areas: everyday, institutional and literary, in theory and in practice, in business, in court, in the media, in politics and academia. In particular the humanities and social sciences are addressed: linguistics, literary studies, pragmatics, dialogue analysis, communication and cultural studies, applied linguistics, business studies, media studies, studies of language and the law, philosophy, psychology, cognitive sciences, sociology, anthropology and others. The journal Language and Dialogue is a peer reviewed journal and associated with the book series Dialogue Studies, edited by Edda Weigand.