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On the discourse pragmatics of German wh-headlines 德语wh标题语篇语用学研究

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Functions of Language Pub Date : 2022-02-01 DOI: 10.1075/fol.00038.fin

Rita Finkbeiner, Robert Külpmann

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The pragmatism of drawing context networks 绘制上下文网络的实用主义

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Functions of Language Pub Date : 2021-07-13 DOI: 10.1075/FOL.20040.BUT

David G. Butt, A. Moore, Canzhong Wu, J. Cartmill

{"title":"The pragmatism of drawing context networks","authors":"David G. Butt, A. Moore, Canzhong Wu, J. Cartmill","doi":"10.1075/FOL.20040.BUT","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/FOL.20040.BUT","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Linguistics has embraced the functional and contextual turn but, when building tools for systematic contextual description, we have not made as much use as we could of our own functional traditions. Rather, we have largely relied on the metaphors of law and rule, which do not adequately capture tensions between consistency and variability in how language and context relate to each other. Our aim in this paper is to show the economy and practicality of representing context as a pathway through a network, drawing on the network technique for mapping systems of grammatical choice introduced by Michael Halliday, and on its application to other linguistic strata first offered by Ruqaiya Hasan. The paper begins by outlining why alternative frameworks are needed for describing context-language relations. We then present a contextual network for one specific domain of the Systemic Functional Linguistic notion of Tenor, namely social distance, and use this to explore how different configurations of features of social distance influence the way that traditions of practice are passed on as a specialised legacy in two different professional collaborations. While the kind of context modelling discussed here is in a very early phase of development compared to phonetic, morphological and grammatical description, it has many advantages: contextual networks are paradigmatic in orientation; they help display and theorise metastability in language; they are “ad hoc” in Firth’s positive sense; and they constitute a proposal to be tested against observed behaviour within specific cultural and situational settings.","PeriodicalId":44232,"journal":{"name":"Functions of Language","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42514514","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}

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Understanding context in computer-mediated communication 理解计算机媒介通信中的语境

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Functions of Language Pub Date : 2021-05-09 DOI: 10.1075/FOL.20041.LIA

J. Liang

{"title":"Understanding context in computer-mediated communication","authors":"J. Liang","doi":"10.1075/FOL.20041.LIA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/FOL.20041.LIA","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 With unprecedented transformations taking place in the landscape of what to say and how we mean, interactions in\u0000 the digital age take on various new forms of doing and being. To make sense of “what it is that\u0000 is going on” requires an understanding of the context wherein the computer-mediated communications take place. Focusing on a\u0000 burgeoning online video commenting discourse in mainland China called Danmaku (a media feature that projects\u0000 viewer comments onto the video, like a ‘bullet curtain’), the present study applies the schematic construct of\u0000 context of situation and its paradigmatic representation developed in Systemic Functional Linguistics to a functionally-driven\u0000 discussion of Danmaku context. Drawing on a corpus of comments from 18 well-received videos on Bilibili.com (a major Danmaku site in mainland China), the study provides a\u0000 fine-grained analysis that highlights emergent technological and semiotic variables in the Danmaku Mode, such as anonymity,\u0000 invisibility, dynamicity, and pseudo-synchronicity. It then discusses how these variables mediate the properties of Field and\u0000 Tenor and further impinge upon the experiential and interpersonal meanings made in Danmaku communication. The analysis also\u0000 highlights the carnivalesque nature of Danmaku which makes it an increasingly popular social media platform in mainland\u0000 China.","PeriodicalId":44232,"journal":{"name":"Functions of Language","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48014323","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}

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Review of Zhang & Qian (2019): Prosodic studies: Challenges and prospects 张倩(2019):韵律研究:挑战与展望

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Functions of Language Pub Date : 2021-04-08 DOI: 10.1075/FOL.00034.OU

Chen Ou, Kaijing Zhao

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Another turn of the screw on the history of the reaction object construction 反作用物体构造史上的又一次转折

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Functions of Language Pub Date : 2021-04-07 DOI: 10.1075/FOL.20026.BOU

Tamara Bouso, Pablo Ruano San Segundo

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Modelling interfaces with context in SFL 在SFL中建模与上下文的接口

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Functions of Language Pub Date : 2021-04-07 DOI: 10.1075/FOL.20015.TAV

M. Taverniers

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From dynamic modal to conditional protasis connective 从动态情态到条件前置连词

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Functions of Language Pub Date : 2021-04-07 DOI: 10.1075/FOL.20030.KUO

Y. Kuo

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Context of situation and the role of language 语境与语言的作用

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Functions of Language Pub Date : 2021-04-07 DOI: 10.1075/FOL.20014.BOW

Wendy L. Bowcher

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Context in Systemic Functional Linguistics 系统功能语言学中的语境

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Functions of Language Pub Date : 2021-04-07 DOI: 10.1075/fol.20017.bar

Tom Bartlett,Wendy L. Bowcher

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Discourse markers as a lens to variation across speech and writing 语篇标记作为言语和写作差异的透镜

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Functions of Language Pub Date : 2021-01-20 DOI: 10.1075/fol.18025.mar

M. Marmorstein

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