{"title":"Variation, Language Ideologies and Stereotypes: Orientations towards like and youse in Western and Northern Sydney","authors":"Elena Sheard","doi":"10.1080/07268602.2019.1641066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2019.1641066","url":null,"abstract":"This study analyzes the language ideologies of young people from two geographically and socially distinct regions of Sydney: Western Sydney and the Northern Beaches. It takes a qualitative approach to examine these speakers’ indexical orientations towards two variable linguistic features that occur in Australian English (like and youse). Although they have different histories in Australian English, like and youse are ideal for the study of language ideologies as both have been subjected to substantial negative social commentary in Australia and other parts of the world. As language ideologies are difficult to measure quantitatively, this study uses the model of indexical fields. Speakers’ indexical orientations are found to differ according to where they are situated within Sydney's socio-regional space, leading to inversed self-evaluations of usage across the two regions. A majority of Western Sydney speakers claim to use youse while a majority of those from Northern Beaches claim to not, and vice versa for like. Interestingly, this does not fully correspond with their actual usage of these features. The construction of indexical fields based on participants’ meta-pragmatic commentary on these features ultimately demonstrates that language features can be re-evaluated and assigned local meaning(s), and contribute to stereotypes.","PeriodicalId":44988,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07268602.2019.1641066","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46951282","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":"The Universality of the Overt Pronoun Constraint: The Re-analysis of the Turkish Case","authors":"Oktay Çınar, Sinan Çakır","doi":"10.1080/07268602.2019.1623760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2019.1623760","url":null,"abstract":"The study examines the Overt Pronoun Constraint (OPC) in Turkish by collecting data from native speakers of this language through a test which targets the binding relationship between embedded and matrix subjects. The findings show that context plays a crucial role in determining the co-indexation relationship in such structures. Depending on the context, there exists an asymmetry which is in line with the OPC. When the target sentence is interpreted within a context which does not provide a third party to form contrastive focus, the embedded o ‘s/he’ can be co-referential with the referential DP matrix subject. On the other hand, whatever the context is, the embedded o ‘s/he’ cannot be co-referential with a quantified/wh antecedent. These assertions are compatible with the claims of the OPC. In this respect, it would be wrong to claim that the OPC does not hold in Turkish at all. Hence, the present study makes a valuable contribution to the assertion that the OPC is a universal feature which is valid for all null subject languages.","PeriodicalId":44988,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07268602.2019.1623760","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42324083","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":"Motifs in Language and Text","authors":"Haoda Feng","doi":"10.1080/07268602.2018.1449083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2018.1449083","url":null,"abstract":"This book, as its title indicates, concentrates on linguistic motifs and contains some of the most recent research papers in this area. As stated in the ‘Editors’ foreword’, ‘a motif is defined as ...","PeriodicalId":44988,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07268602.2018.1449083","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42895517","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":"Motivational Currents in Language Learning","authors":"Renzhong Peng, Weiping Wu","doi":"10.1080/07268602.2018.1458590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2018.1458590","url":null,"abstract":"It is widely recognized that motivation is one of the important components of successful language learning (Ushioda 2016). The book under review presents a pioneering initiative in motivation by in...","PeriodicalId":44988,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07268602.2018.1458590","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41948046","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":"Discourse and Pragmatic Functions of the Dalabon ‘Ergative’ Case-marker*","authors":"Ellison Luk, Maïa Ponsonnet","doi":"10.1080/07268602.2019.1623758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2019.1623758","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the distribution and function of a suffix that has been labelled ‘ergative’ in the literature on Dalabon, a Gunwinyguan (non-Pama-Nyungan) language of south-western Arnhem Land. Our first-hand data reveal that although this marker (-yih) more frequently occurs on A arguments of multivalent clauses, it also appears with significant frequency on S arguments of monovalent clauses, particularly with the verb root yin ‘to say, to think, to do’. We explain this non-canonical distribution with a co-dependent analysis of its discourse and pragmatic functions, summarized by the principle ‘mark out the unexpected referent’, following McGregor’s Expected Actor Principle. These functions differ slightly according to clause type. For both types, the marker has a discourse function of ‘mark out the non-topical referent’: either an A argument that sufficiently threatens the construal of local topics, or an S referent after a long period of deferred topichood (particularly speaker referents). The marker also has a correlating pragmatic function of ‘mark out the contrary referent’: either an A participant acting against the motivations and expectations of other (topical) referents (or of the speaker), or an S participant with an unusual stance or speech content.","PeriodicalId":44988,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07268602.2019.1623758","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46299086","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":"The Cambridge Guide to Blended Learning for Language Teaching","authors":"Zhong Jun","doi":"10.1080/07268602.2018.1453226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2018.1453226","url":null,"abstract":"to live by’ (p. 183). Following this, we are drawn to ‘conveying new stories’ (p. 185) for ecological concern, rather than being lost in the difficult problem of modifying languages. There is a glossary of linguistic terms, which is very helpful. The only criticism which we would make of this book concerns the small amount of information that it has on traditional Chinese ecosophy, which is well known for its abundance of ecological wisdom and its long influence on East Asian ecoculture. We do appreciate Stibbe’s wish for more ‘voices... from traditional and indigenous cultures from around the world’ (p. 193), which shows his open attitude in doing ecolinguistic analysis. Due to its theoretical and practical depth, its well-organized contents and its vivid and thought-provoking language and pictures, this book would be an ideal textbook for a course in ecolinguistics. Moreover, non-linguist readers may find it appealing, since it contains interesting stories as well as inspiring arguments. Every creature has its stories, and this book, by means of its appropriate use of linguistic tools, encourages us to listen to them.","PeriodicalId":44988,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07268602.2018.1453226","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48440033","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}
Omid Khatin-Zadeh, Hooshang Khoshsima, Nahid Yarahmadzehi, F. Marmolejo‐Ramos
{"title":"The Impact of Metaphorical Prime on Metaphor Comprehension Processes*","authors":"Omid Khatin-Zadeh, Hooshang Khoshsima, Nahid Yarahmadzehi, F. Marmolejo‐Ramos","doi":"10.1080/07268602.2019.1623759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2019.1623759","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study was to investigate the extent to which the understanding of a metaphor is influenced by a metaphorical prime. Participants of the study were 30 undergraduate students of Chabahar Maritime University. An experiment was conducted in which the participants were expected to make judgements on the sensicality of 10 metaphors in two phases. In the no-prime condition, metaphors were not preceded by any prime. In the metaphor-prime condition, the same metaphors were preceded by metaphorical primes. Metaphors and metaphor primes were designed in a way that the nature of the relationship between topic and vehicle in each metaphor and its prime was similar, although there was no similarity between concrete features of the two metaphors. The results indicated that when a metaphor is preceded by a metaphorical prime, judgement on the sensicality of metaphor is faster and the metaphor is judged to be more sensical. Based on these results, it can be suggested that two superficially different metaphors might share a domain at a level beyond concrete features of topic and vehicle. In other words, the superficial or concrete features of topic and vehicle in metaphor prime, and its following metaphorical sentence, play no significant role in this respect. It is the activation of a shared domain in the metaphor prime that has a noticeable influence on the understanding of the following metaphorical sentence.","PeriodicalId":44988,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07268602.2019.1623759","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43624716","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":"‘You Don’t Have to Say Anything’: Modality and Consequences in Conversations About the Right to Silence in the Northern Territory*","authors":"A. Bowen","doi":"10.1080/07268602.2019.1620682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2019.1620682","url":null,"abstract":"Police are (generally) required to inform a suspect of their right to remain silent before questioning that suspect about a potential crime. This is a key protection for suspects which is implemented through a policy about language. Unfortunately, there is evidence that many Aboriginal suspects in the Northern Territory often fail to understand their right to silence. A key reason for this is the way the right is expressed in the law and by police, centred on the expression ‘you don’t have to say anything’. Analysis of the meaning of this language shows that it is a vague way of providing legal information which relies on a subtle semantic distinction in Standard Australian English. This expression is especially vulnerable to misinterpretation by suspects who speak (or learn) other varieties of English, especially in conversations where police purposes are not clear. The way police explain the right to silence can be contrasted with other existing texts including translations which present the information in terms of agency, decisions and consequences. This suggests that the language policy could be significantly improved, with consequences for equality of access to justice.","PeriodicalId":44988,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07268602.2019.1620682","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47579347","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}