{"title":"“You can’t say that”","authors":"Magi Otsri","doi":"10.1075/ld.00072.ots","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ld.00072.ots","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Why does our moral intuition tend to differ when a person uses deprecating speech towards her own affiliation group as\u0000 opposed to an outer affiliation group? This paper offers a descriptive mapping of moral intuitions behind group self-deprecation (GSD) as\u0000 stemming from two theoretical fields: pragmatics and standing. The first possible explanation to our moral intuition focuses on the moral\u0000 flaw in the utterance of condemned (i.e., the person using GSD). Here, I argue our moral intuition suggests the group\u0000 affiliation of the condemned affects the utterance’s pragmatic interpretation, thus affecting its offensiveness. An alternative explanation\u0000 focuses on the critic. Here, I argue practices of standing lay behind the offhand rejection of critiques from outer-group\u0000 members, regardless of their validity.","PeriodicalId":42318,"journal":{"name":"Language and Dialogue","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42998721","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":"Preface","authors":"","doi":"10.1075/ld.00080.pre","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ld.00080.pre","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42318,"journal":{"name":"Language and Dialogue","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46213441","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":"Animation and myth of the hero as discursive device in Mexican political campaigns","authors":"Citlaly Aguilar Campos","doi":"10.1075/ld.00073.agu","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ld.00073.agu","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A political campaign is a dialogical game that will always make a deployment of discursive resources that manage to generate empathy and in that way, obtain the vote of the people. Animation and myth are resources that politicians use in their favor to construct their messages. The reason? These elements are exceptional dialogical units thanks to their power of meaning and cohesion on a personal and social level. This research focus in two Mexican politicians Alfredo del Mazo and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who during their elections – 2017 and 2018, respectively – used digital animation to create a striking propaganda. The critical frame is based on Joseph Campbell, Rollo May, Carlos A. Scolari, Clifford Geertz and Edna Becerril.","PeriodicalId":42318,"journal":{"name":"Language and Dialogue","volume":"10 1","pages":"320-339"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43368837","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":"“That’s not my understanding”","authors":"E. Amuzu, A. Campbell, S. Ofori","doi":"10.1075/ld.00076.amu","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ld.00076.amu","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study investigates the extent to which mostly untrained interpreters render accurately the voices of participants in Ghanaian district courts, and how the participants orient to shortcomings in the interpretations. Based on 7.5 hours of audio-recordings, we found that 91% of interpretations were accurate. The 9% of interpretations that were inaccurate were of five types: non-equivalence in propositional content, omissions, elaborations, incorrect grammatical forms and literal translations. We also found that on some occasions, inaccurate interpretations are corrected by other court participants, making the interpreting activity a collaborative effort. Judges were the most likely to intervene when an interpretation went wrong, perhaps a reflection of the sense of responsibility felt by them for anything that happens in their courtroom.","PeriodicalId":42318,"journal":{"name":"Language and Dialogue","volume":"10 1","pages":"389-421"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45397985","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":"Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis. 2020. Making Sense. Reference, agency, and structure in a grammar of multimodal\u0000 meaning","authors":"Sole Alba Zollo","doi":"10.1075/ld.00078.zol","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ld.00078.zol","url":null,"abstract":"This article reviews Making Sense. Reference, agency, and structure in a grammar of multimodal meaning 9781107133303","PeriodicalId":42318,"journal":{"name":"Language and Dialogue","volume":"10 1","pages":"443-446"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48627639","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}