{"title":"Preface","authors":"","doi":"10.1075/ld.00098.pre","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ld.00098.pre","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42318,"journal":{"name":"Language and Dialogue","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45071891","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":"A mural that helped to bring down Jeremy Corbyn","authors":"W. Teubert","doi":"10.1075/ld.00097.teu","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ld.00097.teu","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In the 2017 elections, the Labour party under Jeremy Corbyn did much better than expected, in spite of being\u0000 denounced by the established British media for its radical anti-capitalist agenda. To turn the tables, the media then shifted\u0000 their attack from this political programme to Corbyn’s alleged blindness towards antisemitic manifestations. The resulting loss of\u0000 sympathy with voters cost Labour dearly in the 2019 elections and brought his leadership to an end. As key evidence for his moral\u0000 failure to tackle the antisemitism issue, the media cited, in a barrage of pieces, his 2012 comments on a short lived London\u0000 mural. Was it anti-capitalist or antisemitic? In the absence of any serious dialogue between contrary views, the judgment passed\u0000 reasserted the underlying media agenda.","PeriodicalId":42318,"journal":{"name":"Language and Dialogue","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47509954","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":"Text operators as dialogical mechanisms in judgments of the French Court of Cassation","authors":"Anna Dolata-Zaród","doi":"10.1075/LD.00096.DOL","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LD.00096.DOL","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The aim of this article is to present text markers as a dialogical mechanism in the French language used in a\u0000 legal setting. The dialogue between the court and the public administration takes place primarily through a judgment’s\u0000 justification. On the other hand, the dialogue between the authorities and the court takes place in two possible variants: as a\u0000 response to the parties allegations raised in the complaint or cassation complaint or as arguments formulated in the cassation\u0000 complaint. Analyzing the decisions issued by the French Cour de cassation, one may notice that this material is\u0000 characterized by three aspects: intentional, conventional and institutional, as it refers to a set of established beliefs about\u0000 the nature of the world of a given community.","PeriodicalId":42318,"journal":{"name":"Language and Dialogue","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48406282","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 types and functions of humor in the work of a United States Senator","authors":"A. Garcia","doi":"10.1075/LD.00095.GAR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LD.00095.GAR","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study investigates the role interactional competence plays in the performance of political roles by examining\u0000 the use of humor in events such as speeches, election campaign rallies, press briefings and televised news interviews. In this\u0000 case study of a prominent United States Senator (the late Senator Edward Kennedy), twenty publically available video recordings\u0000 from the C-SPAN online archives are analyzed using a conversation analytic approach. Two main types of humor were found in these\u0000 data, self-deprecatory humor and humor that criticizes others. Three main functions of humor were identified (subtle\u0000 self-promotion, managing challenging political and interactional situations, and creating solidarity with an audience). The\u0000 results of this study contribute to our understanding of how humor can play a role in doing the work of a Senator.","PeriodicalId":42318,"journal":{"name":"Language and Dialogue","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44877573","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":"Perpetuating ableist constructions of the “real world” through complaints about new communication\u0000 technologies","authors":"E. Parks, Jessica S. Robles","doi":"10.1075/LD.00083.PAR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LD.00083.PAR","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Complaints about the use of new communication technologies are frequent in public discourse and work within a\u0000 broader assemblage of discourses that promote selective ideologies. What is it that people are doing when they produce these\u0000 complaints, and how might acts of complaining promote equity in our daily lives? We analyse complaints taken from 16 hours of\u0000 video recorded dialogues and argue that the complaint discourse about the relationship of new communication technologies to\u0000 people’s expected embodied functioning and idealized social participation reconstitutes and perpetuates broader ableist discourses\u0000 about preferred engagement in the “real world.” By identifying intertextuality between two different topical discourses, we expand\u0000 understanding about the reification of cross-cutting ableist discourses and promote more inclusive language use.","PeriodicalId":42318,"journal":{"name":"Language and Dialogue","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46559267","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}