Journal of Pragmatics最新文献_第10页

Temporality and causality in asymmetric conjunction 非对称连接中的时间性和因果性

IF 1.8 1区文学

Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-09-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.006

Zeming Xu, Markus Steinbach

{"title":"Temporality and causality in asymmetric conjunction","authors":"Zeming Xu, Markus Steinbach","doi":"10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In contrast to the symmetric logical conjunction, sentences conjoined by the conjunctive coordinator <em>and</em> can be asymmetric. In asymmetric conjunction, the temporal or causal relation in the coordinated sentence is related to the order of conjuncts. Various accounts are proposed to address this asymmetry at the semantics–pragmatics interface. The pragmatic approaches maintain a minimal conjunctive semantics of the coordinator and attribute additional meanings to pragmatics, while the semantic approaches assign a richer semantics to <em>and</em> that blocks backward temporal or causal relations. The present study addresses whether these backward relations are incompatible with <em>and</em>. Using an acceptability judgement task, we compared coordinated sentences with different semantic relations. The results indicate that sentences with backward relations received higher ratings than sentences with semantic inconsistencies, against the prediction of the semantic approaches, and reversing a temporal relation is considered as worse than reversing a causal relation. The new empirical evidence provides support for pragmatic approaches and shows that while temporality between the conjuncts is more sensitive to the order of the clauses, causality relies more on the assumed relation between a cause and its effect.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pragmatics","volume":"233 ","pages":"Pages 35-50"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142327536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

“By then you'd say ‘why hadn't I hung on a little bit longer?’”: Ventriloquizing as indirectness in Chinese medical interaction "到那时，你会说'为什么我不多坚持一会儿呢？中医互动中的间接口技

IF 1.8 1区文学

Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-09-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.002

Linlin Fan (范琳琳) , Yongping Ran (冉永平)

{"title":"“By then you'd say ‘why hadn't I hung on a little bit longer?’”: Ventriloquizing as indirectness in Chinese medical interaction","authors":"Linlin Fan (范琳琳) , Yongping Ran (冉永平)","doi":"10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ventriloquizing, where a speaker adopts another's voice or identity to communicate one's own thoughts, is a form of indirectness that remains understudied, particularly in Chinese medical interactions. This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of indirectness by examining instances of ventriloquizing employed by medical professionals (MPs) in China. Our analysis reveals that MPs utilize ventriloquizing by attributing speech to themselves, their interlocutors or third parties (such as patients or their family members), or sometimes unspecified individuals. Through this strategic linguistic technique, MPs mitigate complaints, advocate medical suggestions, and informs patients and families of potential risks, all while delicately navigating various interactional concerns such as doctor-patient rapport and issues of medical liability. This paper argues that MPs' employment of ventriloquizing serves to decenter themselves, enhance message authority, and maintain relational harmony, thereby achieving both relational and transactional goals in medical interactions. This practice reflects Confucianism-based medical ethics in the Chinese medical context.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pragmatics","volume":"233 ","pages":"Pages 21-34"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142315410","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}

引用次数: 0

“I think Gray is just against you there”: Intertextuality and personification in legal discourse "我觉得格雷就是在和你作对"：法律话语中的互文性和人格化

IF 1.8 1区文学

Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-09-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.001

John Terry Dundon

{"title":"“I think Gray is just against you there”: Intertextuality and personification in legal discourse","authors":"John Terry Dundon","doi":"10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examines a unique form of intertextual reference – the personification of case names in legal discourse. In the U.S. legal system, the holdings of courts in prior cases can function as binding law, and the resolution of most legal issues relies on an overt, conventionalized system of intertextual citations to these cases. I analyze references to case names in an oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court that involve personification, which I operationalize as subject-verb pairings of case names with verbs that are normally associated with animacy or agency. I find that cases which appear more frequently in the oral argument are more likely to be personified, with the most frequent cases being bestowed with traits that are increasingly explicit in their humanization, such as the ability to communicate, make utterances which can then be presented as direct reported speech, and express emotions and intentions. I argue that the existence of this cline suggests that the participants in the oral argument use personification as a means of managing information in sequences that are particularly dense with intertextual references to case law. Implications for research on intertextuality, personification, and legal discourse are then explored.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":16899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pragmatics","volume":"232 ","pages":"Pages 199-209"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142274197","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}

引用次数: 0

Perceptual and acoustic analysis of prosody in Mandarin Chinese refusals 对普通话拒绝语中的拟声词进行感知和声学分析

IF 1.8 1区文学

Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-09-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.004

Yen-Chen Hao , Yunwen Su , Yufen Chang

{"title":"Perceptual and acoustic analysis of prosody in Mandarin Chinese refusals","authors":"Yen-Chen Hao , Yunwen Su , Yufen Chang","doi":"10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In Mandarin Chinese, ritual refusals are often employed to enhance politeness or to test the sincerity of the invitation or offer. This study examines whether native listeners can accurately judge the sincerity of refusals when hearing complete sentences or keywords, and whether their judgement is associated with specific prosodic cues. Twelve native Mandarin speakers each produced 10 sincere and 10 ritual refusal sentences containing the keyword <em>buyong</em> (‘you don't need to’). These 240 complete sentences and 240 keywords extracted from the complete sentences were used in an Aural Sincerity Rating Task. Seventy-two native listeners listened to these stimuli and judged their sincerity (forced choice). Results showed that listeners could judge the sincerity of refusals when listening to complete sentences as well as keywords, the latter of which did not contain any contextual information. This suggests that they relied on prosodic cues to make their judgement. Acoustic Analyses conducted on the accurately-perceived stimuli revealed that ritual refusals tended to have a higher mean pitch, a larger pitch range, and a slower speech rate than sincere refusals. This study demonstrates the critical role of prosody in conveying nuanced speaker intention in Mandarin.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":16899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pragmatics","volume":"233 ","pages":"Pages 3-20"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142271343","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}

引用次数: 0

IF 1.8 1区文学

Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-09-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.09.005

Dorota Rancew-Sikora

引用次数: 0

The syntax of talking heads 滔滔不绝的语法

IF 1.8 1区文学

Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.08.011

Martina Wiltschko

{"title":"The syntax of talking heads","authors":"Martina Wiltschko","doi":"10.1016/j.pragma.2024.08.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pragma.2024.08.011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper I explore in detail the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of two understudied discourse markers of Upper Austrian German: <em>ma</em> indicates surprise, while <em>geh</em> indicates a discrepancy between speaker and addressee. In terms of their context of use, these discourse markers, which are restricted to turn-initial position are <strong>—</strong> at first sight <strong>—</strong> similar to the sentence-internal discourse particles <em>leicht</em> and <em>doch</em>. It is shown that these four markers display systematic similarities and differences, which invites the conclusion that their distribution is regulated by grammatical knowledge. An analysis in terms of Wiltschko's (2021) Interactional Spine Hypothesis is developed according to which <em>ma</em> and <em>geh</em> are interactional pro-forms (ProGroundP) which mark a reaction to the speaker's or the addressee's current epistemic state, respectively. In contrast, <em>leicht</em> and <em>doch</em> are analysed as (covertly) associating with the head of the grounding phrases thereby indicating whether or not the propositional content is in the interlocutor's ground.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":16899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pragmatics","volume":"232 ","pages":"Pages 182-198"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378216624001620/pdfft?md5=e5df30363fc86a81426c8d3c41850f6f&pid=1-s2.0-S0378216624001620-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142238844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

When grammaticality is intentionally violated: Inanimate honorification as a politeness strategy 当语法被有意违反时：作为一种礼貌策略的无生命荣誉化

IF 1.8 1区文学

Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-09-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.08.012

Nayoung Kwon , Yeonseob Lee

{"title":"When grammaticality is intentionally violated: Inanimate honorification as a politeness strategy","authors":"Nayoung Kwon , Yeonseob Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.pragma.2024.08.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pragma.2024.08.012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper examines the use of honorification for inanimate subjects in Korean, a linguistic phenomenon that, although traditionally ungrammatical, has been increasingly used in recent years. Despite negative perceptions and deliberate national campaigns to discourage it, its continued use requires a systematic investigation. Thus, to explore its social and linguistic functions, we conducted a questionnaire and a self-paced reading experiment. The questionnaire results suggest that native Korean speakers are well aware of the grammatical irregularity of such expressions. Nonetheless, these expressions are rated more positively only in the presence of an honorifiable addressee, indicating speakers’ sensitivity to the social nuances of inanimate honorification within interpersonal relations. The self-paced reading experiment further suggests that this sensitivity is particularly pronounced during real-time language processing, as no processing difficulty was observed for sentences with inanimate honorification when the addressee was honorifiable. The findings indicate that the contemporary use of inanimate honorification in Korean likely serves as a politeness strategy, where speakers intentionally deviate from grammatical norms to convey respect and garner positive evaluation from their interlocutors.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":16899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pragmatics","volume":"232 ","pages":"Pages 167-181"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142238523","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}

引用次数: 0

Simultaneity of certainty in Turkish Sign Language (TİD) 土耳其手语（TİD）中确定性的同时性

IF 1.8 1区文学

Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-09-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.08.010

Serpil Karabüklü

引用次数: 0

Topicalizing peers’ language: Situated linguistic identities at workplaces 将同伴的语言主题化：工作场所的情景语言身份

IF 1.8 1区文学

Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-09-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.08.006

Azar Raoufi

{"title":"Topicalizing peers’ language: Situated linguistic identities at workplaces","authors":"Azar Raoufi","doi":"10.1016/j.pragma.2024.08.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pragma.2024.08.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates workplace interactions where peer's linguistic backgrounds are topicalized. Analyzing video recordings of backstage interactions (Goffman, 1959), the research highlights different interactional consequences of topicalizing peers’ native languages and how it results in transformations in participation frameworks and thereby in the situated identities of participants. To address the main aim, the study uses an ethnomethodological conversation analytic approach to examine how participants respond to language-related inquiries, such as “How do you say X in your language?”, and how these inquiries serve as membership inference-rich devices. The findings reveal that topicalizing a peer's language (other than the main medium in the group) can trigger various activity types, including jocular interactions and informal learning. Moreover, the interaction may lead to the display of possible vulnerability, as unfolding talk can position individuals as marginal within the group and thus occasion stance-taking toward that positioning with resistance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":16899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pragmatics","volume":"232 ","pages":"Pages 117-140"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378216624001577/pdfft?md5=00c4a321f5db4d409413e1a22a5fe78a&pid=1-s2.0-S0378216624001577-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142228568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Pragmatic variation within languages 语言内部的语用差异

IF 1.8 1区文学

Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-09-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.07.014

Klaus P. Schneider

{"title":"Pragmatic variation within languages","authors":"Klaus P. Schneider","doi":"10.1016/j.pragma.2024.07.014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pragma.2024.07.014","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Speakers sharing the same language have been found to use this language in systematically different ways. Language-internal pragmatic variation can be observed across nations, regions, and social groups, correlating with such demographic factors as ethnicity, gender, and age. Yet, while there is a huge body of work examining pragmatic differences between languages, the study of pragmatic differences within languages is, by contrast, relatively recent and still developing. Much early work in this area has been carried out on a handful of speech acts in some national varieties of, notably, Spanish and English, by employing experimental methods such as discourse completion tasks and role plays. Since then, varieties of lesser studied Indo-European languages as well as of non-Indo-European languages have been considered, including post-colonial varieties, and there is a wide range of further novelties concerning in particular procedures of data gathering and the pragmatic features investigated, thus broadening the scope of the analysis. The aim of this article collection is to showcase the diversity in this growing subfield of pragmatics, while this introductory article provides an overview of the topics, methods, and findings in the papers included in this collection, with a view to encouraging more research into pragmatic variation within languages.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":16899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pragmatics","volume":"232 ","pages":"Pages 91-101"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142172181","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}

引用次数: 0