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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-07-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.07.002

Xue Yao, Wei Ren

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A pragmatic analysis of discourse marker 넵 neyp ‘yep’ in Korean computer-mediated communication 韩语计算机媒介交际中话语标记词“是的”的语用分析

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-07-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.06.013

Mikyung Ahn , Foong Ha Yap

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How we are versus how we are feeling: The role of emotional intelligence and mood in reactions to impoliteness in L1 and L2 我们是如何与我们是如何感受的：情商和情绪在第一语言和第二语言中对不礼貌的反应中的作用

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-07-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.07.001

Nicola Claire McNab , Irini Mavrou

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Gender attribution trouble in interaction about a gender ambiguous robot 性别模糊机器人交互中的性别归因问题

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-07-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.06.012

Wyke Stommel , Lynn de Rijk , Mieke Breukelman , Evi Dalmaijer , Marie Rickert

{"title":"Gender attribution trouble in interaction about a gender ambiguous robot","authors":"Wyke Stommel , Lynn de Rijk , Mieke Breukelman , Evi Dalmaijer , Marie Rickert","doi":"10.1016/j.pragma.2025.06.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pragma.2025.06.012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Gender attribution is related to the linguistic system of many languages, for instance in person reference. However, gender may also become relevant to what the participants are doing socially (action relevance). This article examines practices related to gender attribution in the context of a gender ambiguous robot. We examine how gender attribution to the robot emerges, unfolds and thus impacts the course of interaction. Our data consist of videorecorded Dutch interactions of two participants in the presence of a Pepper robot. We use Conversation Analysis as a method. Our analysis shows that gender attribution may involve interactional trouble. Sometimes, this is minimal (“or he or it”), marking uncertainty regarding the robot’s gender. But gender may surface more explicitly and even extensively in the case of gender negotiation and accounts that include gender assumptions (“in terms of figure I think it is more of a woman”). Such extended sequences are characterized by tensions: gender is constructed as an opinion versus a knowable; robot gender is deflected as irrelevant while gender relevance persists in the conversation. Overall, gender is treated as problematic and/or delicate, warranting a diversion from the ongoing activity. The recurrence of gender attribution talk in our data is striking in light of reported difficulty of capturing gender categorisation work in naturally-occurring interactions. Overall, deeply ingrained gender norms and their constitution in language and social interaction seem to surpass progressive robot design and may even create a context for the articulation of questionable gender assumptions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pragmatics","volume":"246 ","pages":"Pages 108-120"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144657118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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Finnish [verb repeat + vai]: Its use as a newsmark and a challenge 芬兰语[动词repeat + vai]：用作新闻标记和挑战

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-07-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.06.009

Aino Koivisto

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The pragmatics of online healthcare communication: Politeness strategies in an anxiety and depression support community 网络医疗沟通的语用学：焦虑抑郁支持社区的礼貌策略

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-07-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.06.010

Annalisa Federici

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A cross-cultural study of the dynamic multimodal metadiscourse used by American and Chinese NEV corporates on X 中美新能源汽车企业在X上动态多模态元语篇的跨文化研究

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-07-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.06.011

Xingsong Shi, Yiran Hou

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From elevation to identifiability: Topography as discourse-cognitive signposting 从高度到可识别性：地形作为话语认知路标

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-07-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.06.008

Manuel David González Pérez

{"title":"From elevation to identifiability: Topography as discourse-cognitive signposting","authors":"Manuel David González Pérez","doi":"10.1016/j.pragma.2025.06.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pragma.2025.06.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Spatial communication has been at the forefront of recent research in the linguistic, anthropological and cognitive sciences. Independently, a great deal of attention has been devoted to linguistic resources, including spatial language, deployed to structure and organise discourse and conversation. Demonstrative systems are relevant to both lines of enquiry because they can express spatial meanings to locate referents in the real-world (aka exophoric uses) whilst at the same time exhibiting discourse-structuring functions that help speakers and hearers keep track of what has been said (aka endophoric uses). Situated at the intersection between both paradigms, the present article presents novel empirical data on Phola geophysical deixis with a twofold focus. After providing extensive multimodal evidence that Phola demonstratives encode elevation contrasts in a polysemous and pragmatically flexible manner, the discussion turns to their discourse-structuring functions, which are typologically rare. In particular, <em>ke</em><sup><em>55</em></sup> ‘that down(hill)’ is found to exhibit article-like uses indexing referents that are already identified, that are easy to identify, or whose exophoric identity is irrelevant. Both the spatial underspecification of Phola geophysical demonstratives and their discourse–interactional properties shed new light on the interplay between exophoric and endophoric uses and the fluidity between spatial cognition and more abstract cognitive processes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pragmatics","volume":"246 ","pages":"Pages 14-53"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144604388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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The stigma enigma: When the personal (dative) is political 耻辱之谜：当个人的（与格）是政治的

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-07-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.06.006

Laurence R. Horn

{"title":"The stigma enigma: When the personal (dative) is political","authors":"Laurence R. Horn","doi":"10.1016/j.pragma.2025.06.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pragma.2025.06.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study focuses on two variably stigmatized constructions in non-mainstream English and the implications for social pragmatics of how these constructions and their users are assessed. Unlike non-standard constructions broadly viewed as “bad English”, non-polarity <em>anymore</em> <em>(Gas is really expensive anymore)</em> and personal datives <em>(I need me a new phone)</em> are not stigmatized within the relevant core speech communities. When noticed by out-group speakers, however, such constructions are typically judged as incorrect and their users as illiterate or uneducated. Such expressions and constructions function as both positive and negative markers of group identity. In-group speakers are sensitive to the contempt and inauthenticity of out-group “elitist” politicians and recording artists who impersonate the non-standard speakers they view as uneducated hicks. The divergent social meanings assigned to a given usage in different contexts parallel the distinct social meanings carried by ethnic and gendered slurs based on who “owns” the expressions in question and on power and status asymmetries. Extending Nunberg 2018, it is argued that the derogation associated with both slurs and appropriated constructions arises as a Manner implicature illustrating “ventriloquism”, a practice by which speakers affiliate themselves with a like-minded community of bigots and linguistic profilers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pragmatics","volume":"246 ","pages":"Pages 1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144595661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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Wait, espera, peraí: Signalling discourse model misalignment in English, Spanish, and Portuguese 等等，espera， peraí：英语，西班牙语和葡萄牙语中的信号语篇模型偏差

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-07-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.06.007

Mark Hoff , Scott A. Schwenter

{"title":"Wait, espera, peraí: Signalling discourse model misalignment in English, Spanish, and Portuguese","authors":"Mark Hoff , Scott A. Schwenter","doi":"10.1016/j.pragma.2025.06.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pragma.2025.06.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>English <em>wait</em> and Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese <em>espera</em>/<em>pera/peraí</em> ‘wait (there)’ are derived from imperatives that signal physical waiting. Using examples from tweets, text messages, and spoken interactions, we offer an exploratory investigation of the metadiscursive functions of these <em>wait</em>-forms as discourse markers that signal the need to pause and adjust interlocutors' mental discourse models of the common ground (CG) before proceeding.</div><div>We show that <em>wait-</em>forms appear in dialogues and monologues, to signal misalignment with an interlocutor or with one's own expectations, and can be triggered by both linguistic and non-linguistic material in the CG or a speaker's own mental model. <em>Wait</em>-forms introduce expressions of surprisal, challenge presuppositions, refer back to unresolved discursive material, and convey sarcasm—all of which share the core pragmatic effect of initiating repair of a perceived misalignment in speakers' mental models of the ongoing discourse. Tests of pragmatic function show that these <em>wait-</em>forms are constrained to refer to content assumed to be part of the CG (<em>Wait, didn't you hear the news</em>?) and that their removal results in loss of an important pragmatic cue that relates the upcoming modification to existing CG content.</div><div>Our analysis contributes to the body of pragmatic-typological literature on the cross-linguistic uniformity of discursive repair strategies. It goes beyond this research, however, in highlighting the role that discourse markers can play in CG management in dialogues, and furthermore demonstrating their capacity to indicate self-initiated misalignment of a speaker's mental model in monologues, despite the origins of these forms as addressee-oriented imperatives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pragmatics","volume":"245 ","pages":"Pages 119-139"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144571637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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