{"title":"On the Intersection between Variational and Contrastive Pragmatics: An Analysis of Requests for Repair in Complaints by German-Speaking Belgians","authors":"Katja Lochtman","doi":"10.1163/26660393-00001056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26660393-00001056","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Most research on German as a pluricentric language to date has focused on differences between the standard varieties in Germany, Austria or Switzerland. Moreover, the focus in these studies is mainly on linguistic-structural features, with pragmatic differences (if any) only briefly touched upon. In Belgium, German is a minority language within a region, where French is the dominant language, resulting in both individual and societal language contact. By looking at the realisation of requests for repair in complaints across varieties of the same language on the one hand and different languages on the other, the present study wants to identify whether there are variety specific pragmatic features of Belgian German as opposed to German in Germany and Belgian French. Researching both intra- and interlingual pragmatic differences, the present study can be situated at the interface between variational and contrastive pragmatics.","PeriodicalId":367211,"journal":{"name":"Contrastive Pragmatics","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127874986","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":"Pragmatic Particles: Findings from Asian Languages, written by Kiaer, Jieun","authors":"Faizah Sari","doi":"10.1163/26660393-bja10044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26660393-bja10044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":367211,"journal":{"name":"Contrastive Pragmatics","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130241353","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":"Addressing, Greeting and Related Gestures in the Opening Sequences of Finnish, French and Hungarian YouTube Videos","authors":"Johanna Isosävi, Ildikó Vecsernyés","doi":"10.1163/26660393-bja10042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26660393-bja10042","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper compares the opening sequences of Finnish, French and Hungarian YouTube videos. We concentrate on addressing, greeting and related gestures, important elements when YouTubers interact with their imagined viewers, using data consisting of 138 videos in the three languages. This study falls within the field of the pragmatics of social media and interpersonal pragmatics, and data were analysed using multimodal discourse analysis. Shared practices included the frequent use of greetings, a preference for general nominal address forms as well as for iconic and deictic gestures. Cross-cultural differences revealed that Finnish and Hungarian were closer to each other than to French. Shared practices may be connected to the genre of YouTube videos, whereas differences appear related to cross-cultural practices generally.","PeriodicalId":367211,"journal":{"name":"Contrastive Pragmatics","volume":"293 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133841934","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":"Fixed Expressions: Building language structure and social action, edited by Ritva Laury and Tsuyoshi Ono","authors":"Jan Lindström","doi":"10.1163/26660393-bja10041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26660393-bja10041","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":367211,"journal":{"name":"Contrastive Pragmatics","volume":"286 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114092571","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}
Mitsuko Narita Izutsu, Yong-Taek Kim, Katsunobu Izutsu
{"title":"Response Cries or Response Statements? A Cross-Linguistic Analysis of Interjectional Expressions in Japanese and English","authors":"Mitsuko Narita Izutsu, Yong-Taek Kim, Katsunobu Izutsu","doi":"10.1163/26660393-bja10038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26660393-bja10038","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Goffman (1978: 800) claims that “[a] response cry doesn’t seem to be a statement in the linguistic sense (even a heavily elided one),” which suggests that such cries do not have the linguistic structures of statements (or descriptions) of either a speaker’s emotion/sensation or evaluation of a situation. This study conducted a questionnaire survey targeting Japanese and American English speakers to investigate expressions they will produce under eight circumstances of Goffman’s response cries. The results were contrary to Goffman’s claim. About half of the Japanese response cries were “descriptive interjections” like Ita(i) ‘Painful’ and Yaba(i) ‘Awful,’ and so were about 17 percent of the American response cries. On the other hand, non-descriptive interjections (swear words, vocatives) were more favoured by American English speakers, but extremely rare in Japanese. This study also addresses the questions of sociality and/or dialogicity of response cries in the two languages.","PeriodicalId":367211,"journal":{"name":"Contrastive Pragmatics","volume":"385 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124783470","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":"Language Socialization in Classrooms: Culture, Interaction, and Language Development, edited by Matthew J. Burdelski and Kathryn M. Howard","authors":"Akira Takada","doi":"10.1163/26660393-bja10039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26660393-bja10039","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":367211,"journal":{"name":"Contrastive Pragmatics","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132643001","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":"Interview with Anne Wichmann","authors":"Themis P. Kaniklidou","doi":"10.1163/26660393-bja10037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26660393-bja10037","url":null,"abstract":"Pragmatic meaning is a very important aspect of human communication, but what makes it interesting is its mysterious and slippery nature. Most nonlinguists tend to think of meaning only in terms of what words mean, but in pragmatics one must account for what people mean. It’s interesting because it is invisible: we know it’s there, but we can’t often identify why it’s there. I also think that pragmatics is interesting from a methodological point of view. There are different approaches to pragmatics. There is Austin and Searle’s Speech Act Theory, derived from philosophy, which has become more of a sociological-ethnographical approach to pragmatics. This approach highlights what speakers intend rather than what listeners interpret, but it also requires a profound understanding of the context in which things are spoken. There is also the cognitive approach of Relevance Theory, although it worries me that this approach is often based on introspection and invented data. Then there is the strict conversation analysis approach which focuses on close detail and only accepts evidence from participants’ responses. In my experience, the analysis can be so close that it is very difficult to stand back from individual examples to make generalizations. In my own work, I have mostly used speech corpora, in other words transcribed recordings of spoken language, allowing me to look at the frequencies and distribution of data, along with the immediate context and co-text. There are many areas that are interesting for pragmatics, ranging from basic speech acts to turn-taking and the whole area of politeness and especially impoliteness. Also, it’s worth looking at pragmatics from a developmental perspective, i.e., how children learn. For example, children often take things literally, so if you say on the telephone “Is your mummy there?”, they think it’s a question, rather than a request to speak to the mother. How and when do they learn this? So pragmatic meaning is interesting from the perspective of child language acquisition. There is also a lot of interest in historical investigations","PeriodicalId":367211,"journal":{"name":"Contrastive Pragmatics","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125567303","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":"Contrast, Contact, Convergence? Afrikaans and English Modal Auxiliaries in South African Parliamentary Discourse (1925–1985)","authors":"Bertus van Rooy, H. Kotze","doi":"10.1163/26660393-bja10033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26660393-bja10033","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article investigates modal auxiliaries in original and translated Afrikaans and South African English parliamentary discourse in the period 1925–1985. Against the background of the sociolinguistic history of language contact in the bilingual South African parliament (1910–1994), it analyses (a) the contrastive differences in the use of modal auxiliaries in South African English and Afrikaans, (b) potential cross-linguistic influence in the use of modals between the two languages, and (c) the way in which contrastive differences and cross-linguistic influence are reflected in translations. In both languages, modal auxiliaries are more common in parliamentary discourse than in general usage. There is little evidence of overall convergence; there are, however, cross-linguistic similarities in specific pragmatic uses of modals in parliament. Translations show a large degree of shining-through from the source text, alongside adjustment to target norms; the tension between these two forces is variable, and influenced by social factors.","PeriodicalId":367211,"journal":{"name":"Contrastive Pragmatics","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115933203","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":"Native-like Performance of Pragmatic Features: Speech Acts in Spanish","authors":"Marta Vacas Matos, A. Cohen","doi":"10.1163/26660393-bja10034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26660393-bja10034","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This study had as its goal to investigate how nonnative speakers (NNSs) of Spanish were able to perform pragmatics which in various ways resembled that of native speakers (NSs). The study focused on three advanced NNSs of Spanish who had contributed data six years earlier to a corpus of NS and NNS speech acts of complimenting, apologizing and refusing. The purpose was to do a contrastive analysis comparing the pragmatic performance of NNSs and NSs in order to capture both similarities and areas where highly competent NNSs displayed knowledge gaps, however subtle.\u0000The subjects responded to a language background questionnaire regarding their learning of Spanish and also completed a learning style preference survey. They were then asked to revisit their earlier performance in pragmatics from the corpus data and to describe the strategies that they used to produce their highly-rated performance in Spanish pragmatics at that time. The findings revealed ways in which the three subjects differentially imitated NS behavior, and provided insights as to how they arrived at native-like behavior in their facial expressions, use of clicks, physical contact practices, colloquial language, and cursing. The subjects’ reported learning style preferences appeared to be generally consistent with the strategies that they reported using for dealing with the pragmatic features of interest, such as the way that they dealt with cursing.","PeriodicalId":367211,"journal":{"name":"Contrastive Pragmatics","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125356088","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}