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With or without a purpose? Judges’ appraisal of offenders or their behaviour in six sentencing remarks 有目的还是没有目的？法官在六次宣判中对罪犯或其行为的评价

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-08-15 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0228

Xin Dai

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Questioning Chinese government officials on a live broadcast TV program: shifted second-person pronouns and journalists’ stance and identity 在电视直播节目中向中国政府官员提问:第二人称代词的转换和记者的立场和身份

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-08-11 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0224

Yan Zhou

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Representations of “leftover” women and men in the Chinese English-language news media: a keyword analysis of similarities and difference 中国英语新闻媒体中“剩女”和“剩男”形象的异同关键词分析

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-08-10 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0211

Yating Yu

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Stancetaking in motion: stance triangle and double dialogicality 运动中的站位:站位三角形和双重对话性

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-08-04 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0222

S. Iwasaki

引用次数: 2

“Hypophora” and “question cascade” in Cantonese political discourse: the stance triangle and the use of rhetorical moves and utterance final particles 广东政治话语中的“潜台词”与“问题级联”：立场三角与修辞手法及话语助词的运用

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-08-01 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0219

Helen Wan

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Divergence in uncertainty: the Korean non-committal suffix -(u)lkel 不确定性的差异:韩语不确定后缀-(u)lkel

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-07-21 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0225

Don Lee

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Editorial 社论

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-07-20 DOI: 10.1515/text-2022-0116

S. Iwasaki

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Development of a translation device for axiological-semantic density in political news articles: wording and charging 政治新闻价值论语义密度翻译工具的发展：措辞与收费

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-06-15 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0156

Ian Siebörger, Ralph Adendorff

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Japanese hypothetical enactment as a response to third-party complaint 作为对第三方投诉的回应的日本假想立法

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-06-13 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0102

Y. Arita

{"title":"Japanese hypothetical enactment as a response to third-party complaint","authors":"Y. Arita","doi":"10.1515/text-2020-0102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2020-0102","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study examines Japanese enactment, an interactional phenomenon wherein participants in conversation act out themselves or others by utilizing specific designs of lexis, grammar, and prosody, as well as body movements. While these enactments can often be observed when a speaker depicts what someone said, did, or thought in the past, this article explores hypothetical enactments. Unlike enactments that are designed as representing real utterances and/or body movements performed in the past, hypothetical enactments are designed with linguistic and contextual features that indicate that they are fictitious. The data were drawn from a collection of video-recorded ordinary conversations in Japanese. Employing Conversation Analysis as its analytical framework, this study focuses on how Japanese speakers use hypothetical enactments to respond to co-participants’ complaints about a third party who is absent from an ongoing here-and-now interactional site (i.e., third-party complaints). The findings reveal that complaint recipients may produce hypothetical enactments as jokes or advice. When complaint recipients provide hypothetical enactments as jokes, they depict an improbable situation sarcastically. When complaint recipients provide hypothetical enactment as advice, they often demonstrate taking an alternative approach toward an antagonist. These enacted hypothetical scenarios may or may not be collaboratively extended by other participants, depending on how those participants treat the proposed scenarios.","PeriodicalId":46455,"journal":{"name":"Text & Talk","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48348936","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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On the face-threat attenuating functions of Korean com: implications for internal and external dialogic processing in interaction 论韩国通信的面子威胁弱化功能——对互动中内外对话处理的启示

IF 0.6 3区文学

Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-06-13 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0217

Mikyung. Ahn, Foong Ha Yap

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