{"title":"COVID-19 and vaccine health promotion resources in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages","authors":"Maria Karidakis, Giuseppe D’Orazzi, John Hajek","doi":"10.1080/07268602.2023.2300809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2023.2300809","url":null,"abstract":"Risk communication during a public health crisis necessitates the provision of accessible, timely and accurate health information to the public. The aim of this research project was to explore the ...","PeriodicalId":44988,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Linguistics","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139928651","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":"Apologizing in Kodhi","authors":"Yustinus Ghanggo Ate, Charbel El-Khaissi","doi":"10.1080/07268602.2023.2290685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2023.2290685","url":null,"abstract":"This preliminary study investigates apology strategies in Kodhi, an Austronesian language spoken in Sumba, Eastern Indonesia. To understand how Kodhi speakers formulate conceptions of apology, seve...","PeriodicalId":44988,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Linguistics","volume":"138 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139772508","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":"Conceptualization of “happy-like” feelings in Japanese and its relevance to a semantic typology of emotion concepts","authors":"Hiromichi Sakaba","doi":"10.1080/07268602.2023.2296487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2023.2296487","url":null,"abstract":"Emotions play a crucial role in human lives, often influencing behaviour. Among others, the feeling expressed by the word happy in English has received particular attention. If, on the one hand, th...","PeriodicalId":44988,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Linguistics","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139773540","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":"A typological study on the syntactic variations of counterfactual clauses","authors":"Qian Yong, Haoran Ma","doi":"10.1080/07268602.2023.2290156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2023.2290156","url":null,"abstract":"This paper differs from previous studies that focused on counterfactual markings by establishing a typological classification of counterfactuals (CFs) based on syntactic variations. By taking this ...","PeriodicalId":44988,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Linguistics","volume":"256 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139518572","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":"A quantitative study of the polysemy of Mandarin Chinese perception verb kàn ‘look/see’","authors":"Shuqiong Wu, Yue Ou","doi":"10.1080/07268602.2023.2289194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2023.2289194","url":null,"abstract":"This study presents a quantitative study of the polysemy of the Chinese perception verb kàn ‘look/see’ by using a corpus-based behavioural profile approach. The analysis yields the following findin...","PeriodicalId":44988,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Linguistics","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139373357","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":"Underlining the Need for Sleep Medicine and Surgery as a Separate Postgraduate Branch.","authors":"Anupam Kanodia, Srinivas Kishore Sistla","doi":"10.1007/s12070-023-04064-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12070-023-04064-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44988,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Linguistics","volume":"10 1","pages":"4113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10645875/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81426161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ilana Mushin, Joe Blythe, Josua Dahmen, Caroline de Dear, Rod Gardner, Francesco Possemato, Lesley Stirling
{"title":"Towards an interactional grammar of interjections: Expressing compassion in four Australian languages","authors":"Ilana Mushin, Joe Blythe, Josua Dahmen, Caroline de Dear, Rod Gardner, Francesco Possemato, Lesley Stirling","doi":"10.1080/07268602.2023.2244442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2023.2244442","url":null,"abstract":"Words classified as ‘interjections’ tend to be treated in descriptive grammars as outside of morphosyntax, too contextually bound to warrant a systematic description of their syntagmatic relations. In this paper we argue that if one takes grammar to include recurrent patterns in conversational turns that are routinely connected with particular interactional functions, such as assessments and acknowledgements, then the grammar of interjections can indeed be incorporated into language description in ways that show the systematic relationships between form and function. We use a comparative corpus of conversations in four typologically distinct Australian Aboriginal languages (Garrwa, Gija, Jaru and Murrinhpatha) to illustrate how such an analysis may be developed. We focus on forms which have been described as ‘compassionate interjections’, which express that the speaker takes a compassionate affective stance towards something described in prior talk or evident in the situation. Despite differences in the morphological properties of these words in the languages we compare here, they display remarkable similarities in where they occur within conversational turns, and the functions they serve in different turn-related positions.","PeriodicalId":44988,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Linguistics","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136013399","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":"Conceptualizations of gratitude: A comparative analysis of English and Persian dissertation acknowledgements written by Persian authors","authors":"A. Dabbagh, M. Hashemi","doi":"10.1080/07268602.2023.2229259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2023.2229259","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The present study applies a cultural conceptualizations framework within the multidisciplinary field of Cultural Linguistics to the analysis of gratitude in dissertation acknowledgements (DAs), as a culturally-embedded genre written in Persian and English by native speakers of Persian. Benefitting from a corpus analysis approach to Cultural Linguistics, 185 English and 196 Persian DAs from language-related fields were selected randomly from DAs written in national universities in Iran as the corpus for the study. Grounded theory-driven analysis revealed a number of similar and different representations of Persian cultural schema and cultural metaphors between the sampled Persian and English DAs. Additionally, the unclosed cultural conceptualizations revealed a selective transfer of Persian cultural conceptualizations to the DAs written in English. The paper concludes with reference to the emergence of Persian English in the DAs. By complementing genre analysis with a Cultural Linguistics perspective, the study contributes to the literature on comparative genre analysis of DAs, moving it beyond move-step analysis to a more systematic in-depth cultural analysis. In addition, the findings advance the literature on Cultural Linguistics by revealing a relationship between cultural schema and cultural metaphor.","PeriodicalId":44988,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48426931","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":"Personality in your hands: How extraversion traits influence preference for pointing in Chinese people","authors":"Heng Li","doi":"10.1080/07268602.2023.2226094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2023.2226094","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The cognitive science literature reports significant cultural variation in pointing gesture repertoires. It is unknown, however, if individual differences in personality traits can influence pointing preferences within a single culture. Here, we sought to examine how extraversion is associated with people’s manual and non-manual pointing preferences. In a referential communication task, speakers were required to describe locations and objects on a complex display for addressees. The results showed that participants with high extraversion used more manual pointing than those with low extraversion. However, the two groups showed no difference in the mean number of non-manual pointing. It may be that compared with less extraverted speakers, highly extraverted speakers have more energy that can be devoted into interpersonal communication. These findings provide the first step to understanding that personality traits can act as an important moderator in pointing preferences and, more broadly, about the nature and emergence of human communication.","PeriodicalId":44988,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44387744","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":"Uncovering ergative use in Murrinhpatha: Evidence from experimental data","authors":"R. Nordlinger, E. Kidd","doi":"10.1080/07268602.2023.2222086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2023.2222086","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Murrinhpatha, a non-Pama-Nyungan language from the Daly region of the Northern Territory of Australia, has an extant ergative case marker that has been reported to be very rare in use. In this paper we report on the use of ergative marking in an experimental study of sentence production. Forty-six adult L1 speakers of Murrinhpatha were asked to describe a series of unrelated bivalent scenes that were manipulated for humanness (±human) in the agent and patient roles. Our results show higher than expected ergative use given previous descriptions (more than 14% of utterances with an overt agent NP). Furthermore, we found an alternating pattern between multiple ergative markers that is correlated with variations in word order and humanness of agent and patient characters. This pattern seems consistent with the available naturalistic corpus, but the rate of ergative marking is so low that it may never have been identified. Our study both contributes to the typology of ergative case marking and demonstrates the value of experimental research for language description in unearthing properties of the grammatical system that may not be easily discernible in other types of corpora.","PeriodicalId":44988,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Linguistics","volume":"43 1","pages":"69 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46347655","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}