{"title":"“Not everything is on the hostess”","authors":"Inas I. Almusallam","doi":"10.1075/ps.22059.alm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.22059.alm","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing data from the recordings of natural conversations and meta-pragmatic comments, and combining the neo-Brown and Levinson approach and the relational work framework, this paper explored how Saudi female friends manage friendly informal settings and hospitality despite culture-specific politeness expectations. The analysis focused on just one of the discursive strategies in which the direction of displaying hospitality is turned around, i.e. displayed by the guests rather than the host(ess). This strategy constituted a noticeable behaviour among the 13 close friends observed in this study. Cooperative conjoint hospitality was particularly useful for maintaining and enhancing rapport, in-group membership, and solidarity among the friends and minimising hospitality obligations of the hostess. The analysis demonstrated how such behaviour was consistent with the politeness norms negotiated in the close friends’ community of practice (CofP) but differed from the politeness norms in the wider culture.","PeriodicalId":44036,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics and Society","volume":"115 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141769784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Code accommodation as a measure of inclusion for bilingual people living with dementia of the Alzheimer’s\u0000 type","authors":"C. Schneider, Birte Bös","doi":"10.1075/ps.23042.sch","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.23042.sch","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This case study explores the dynamics of code choices in interactions involving bilingual people living with\u0000 dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type (DAT) and their primary care partners, focusing on two narrative interviews held in private\u0000 settings. Drawing on a combination of Communication Accommodation Theory and Conversation Analysis, it takes account of the\u0000 patterns, communicative functions and effects of code choices and code switching as practices of interactional adjustment. The\u0000 qualitative analysis sheds light on inclusive and non-inclusive interactional adjustments expressed through code choices by\u0000 individual speakers, especially focusing on code accommodation at turn boundaries. Results indicate a high language awareness in\u0000 the two speakers living with DAT and positive communicational outcomes when code accommodation is performed by the conversational\u0000 partner.","PeriodicalId":44036,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics and Society","volume":"36 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138946722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}