{"title":"Review of Sosa (2018): Bad Words: Philosophical Perspectives on Slurs","authors":"Björn Technau","doi":"10.1075/jlac.00044.tec","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlac.00044.tec","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":280087,"journal":{"name":"Thematic issue: New perspectives on conflict","volume":"500 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127591206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“The people watching at home”","authors":"Tom W. Underwood, J. Angouri","doi":"10.1075/jlac.00068.und","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlac.00068.und","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper explores disagreement practice in political discourse, specifically in the under explored public inquiry communicative event and more specifically in the select-committee hearing. We revisit earlier work on theorising disagreement to expand our understanding of its contextual nature, particularly in relation to the making of ideology.\u0000Public inquiries combine the characteristics of professional meetings with characteristics of political discourse. They are typified by hybridised and ambiguous role expectations which participants negotiate in and through (potentially competing) practices in doing the ideological work demanded by the policy process. In this context, disagreement emerges as key to the performance of the interactants’ situated and explicit/semi-permanent roles as professional politicians.\u0000By applying Critical Interactional Sociolinguistic analysis within a wider frame of audience design, we demonstrate the importance of the ideological role of disagreement to the policy process. We argue that further attention needs to be given to the policy talk in meso-level political events, such as the public inquiry, which connect the ideological (macro) political domains of human activity with the (micro) here and now of talk. We close the paper with directions for further research.","PeriodicalId":280087,"journal":{"name":"Thematic issue: New perspectives on conflict","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121194516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The metalinguistics of offence in (British) English","authors":"Jonathan Culpeper, Michael Haugh","doi":"10.1075/jlac.00035.cul","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlac.00035.cul","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Offence is a central concept in impoliteness, aggression and conflict research, yet has received only passing\u0000 mention in definitions of impoliteness and related concepts. Janicki (2017) argues that\u0000 impoliteness and language aggression scholars are needlessly worried about definitions. We use Janicki’s (2017) work as a springboard into a discussion of definitions of impolite or taboo language, airing\u0000 potential problems and suggesting that the study of metalanguage offers at least a partial solution. We report a study of the\u0000 metalanguage of offence in British English, and briefly examine whether there are any differences in Australian English,\u0000 using SketchEngine to interrogate data in the two-billion word Oxford English Corpus. In so doing, we tease out different uses of\u0000 the term offensive, and show that concepts such as offence are coloured by the specific linguistic and\u0000 cultural contexts in which they appear. We conclude that while corpus-based metalinguistic analyses cannot completely eliminate\u0000 the problem of definitional infinite regress, they do, however, offer an empirically grounded way of defining words that allows us\u0000 to move beyond the intuitions of individual researchers.","PeriodicalId":280087,"journal":{"name":"Thematic issue: New perspectives on conflict","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116141871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The pen is mightier than the sword","authors":"Keith Foster","doi":"10.1075/jlac.00034.kie","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jlac.00034.kie","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 On October 9, 2012 Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani schoolgirl, was severely wounded by a Taliban assassin’s bullet.\u0000 This was the culmination of a history of conflict in the Swat valley region of north-western Pakistan. The historical, ethnic,\u0000 political and religious reasons for this conflict are manifold. After several surgeries in Pakistan and Great Britain, Malala\u0000 Yousafzai miraculously recovered from her serious injuries and was even able to give a speech at the United Nations Youth Assembly\u0000 on her 16th birthday on July 12, 2013.\u0000 In this paper, Malala Yousafzai’s speech will be analysed in some detail regarding her main arguments and verbal\u0000 presentation strategies. Furthermore, I will focus on the way Malala Yousafzai deals with both the verbal and non-verbal\u0000 aggression of the Taliban. I would also like to show how determined she is to argue against the Taliban’s escalation of the\u0000 conflict without letting herself getting entangled in a spiral of verbal violence.\u0000 The theoretical framework for this analysis and the critical evaluation of the speech will be the concept of\u0000 “strategic maneuvering” as developed by van Eemeren (2010, 2018) within his framework of Pragma-Dialectics. This concept has frequently been applied to the analysis\u0000 of political discourse (see e.g. Kienpointner 2013, 2017).","PeriodicalId":280087,"journal":{"name":"Thematic issue: New perspectives on conflict","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117082984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}