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Metaphors we are robbed by: a critical discourse analysis of ‘the national cake’ and Nigeria’s prebendal elite 我们被掠夺的隐喻：对“国家蛋糕”和尼日利亚战前精英的批判性话语分析
IF 0.6 3区 文学
Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-03-21 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0130
U. Bello
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Interactional functions of truncated predicative complement construction “AP + (dek)le” as topic initiator in Shanghai Wu Chinese conversation 截断表语补语结构“AP+（dek）le”在上海吴汉语会话中的交互作用
IF 0.6 3区 文学
Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-03-11 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0154
Xiaoting Li, Yaqiong Liu
{"title":"Interactional functions of truncated predicative complement construction “AP + (dek)le” as topic initiator in Shanghai Wu Chinese conversation","authors":"Xiaoting Li, Yaqiong Liu","doi":"10.1515/text-2020-0154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2020-0154","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract “VP/AP + (dek)le + AP/VP” is a predicative complement construction in Shanghai Wu Chinese (SWC) with (dek)le being the complement marker. In everyday SWC conversation, the terminal complement is often dropped, forming the Truncated Predicative Complement Construction (TPCC): “AP + (dek)le”. The data for the present study are approximately 4.5 h of naturalistic SWC face-to-face conversations. Adopting the methodology of conversation analysis and interactional linguistics, we explore the interactional functions of the TPCC in the SWC conversational data. We find that TPCCs after the possible closure of a topic are deployed to initiate a new topic in two ways: initiating a disjunctive topic shift, and changing to a topic that is connected to a prior one. The findings demonstrate that TPCCs are routinized grammatical patterns accomplishing the conversational action of initiating new topics in SWC conversation.","PeriodicalId":46455,"journal":{"name":"Text & Talk","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41546071","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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Identity construction and its collocation networks: a cross-register analysis of the finance domain 身份建构及其搭配网络:金融领域的交叉注册分析
IF 0.6 3区 文学
Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-03-11 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0094
Jihua Dong, L. Buckingham
{"title":"Identity construction and its collocation networks: a cross-register analysis of the finance domain","authors":"Jihua Dong, L. Buckingham","doi":"10.1515/text-2020-0094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2020-0094","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study investigates the use of explicit manifestations of authorial identity (namely self-mention pronouns) and their collocation networks in academic and workplace written texts. Based on a purpose-built corpus of research articles and the Hong Kong Financial Services Corpus (HKFSC), this study used Antconc and Graphcoll to extract and analyze the pronouns and their collocation networks. The statistical analysis shows that the academic register contains significantly more self-mention pronouns than the workplace corpus, which can be attributed to a stronger tendency towards self-positioning. We also identified significant register-specific semantic features of the collocation networks of self-mention pronouns. These findings contribute to our understanding of how self-mention pronouns operate in tandem with their surrounding context in register-specific discourse. Pedagogically, the findings can be useful for workshop-based training for finance students and early-career professionals in this domain to support the development of the discipline-specific writing skills needed for careers in academia and industry.","PeriodicalId":46455,"journal":{"name":"Text & Talk","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67362943","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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Nextness and story organization: ‘my day’ sequences in parent-child interaction Nextness和故事组织：亲子互动中的“我的一天”序列
IF 0.6 3区 文学
Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-03-07 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0137
Younhee Kim, Andrew P. Carlin
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The Love Letters: ethnopoetics and echoes of the past in a Danish spoken narrative of personal experience 《情书》：民族诗学与丹麦口语个人经历叙事中的过去回声
IF 0.6 3区 文学
Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-03-07 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0132
Bettina Perregaard
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引用次数: 1
Moral legitimation in capital trials: the case of the prosecution’s closing summation 死刑审判的道德正当性:控方结案总结案例
IF 0.6 3区 文学
Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-02-28 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0129
Krisda Chaemsaithong
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Ear cupping in EFL classroom interaction: an embodied means of pursuing students’ response 英语课堂互动中的拔耳:一种追求学生反应的具体手段
IF 0.6 3区 文学
Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-02-23 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0127
Cheikhna Amar
{"title":"Ear cupping in EFL classroom interaction: an embodied means of pursuing students’ response","authors":"Cheikhna Amar","doi":"10.1515/text-2020-0127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2020-0127","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper describes one of the embodied resources language teachers use to pursue a response from students: placing one hand behind the ear in an Ear Cupping (EC) gesture. The data analyzed are taken from over 20 h of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom interaction video-recorded at a Japanese university. The paper explores how teachers use EC to pursue a response in cases when a Second-Pair Part (SPP) contribution from the student(s) is sequentially and temporally delayed, missing or inapposite. The findings suggest that the use of the EC gesture to pursue a response demonstrates the teachers’ orientation toward a normative understanding that a question posed within the classroom should be answered, even when a specific respondent has not been nominated. The analysis therefore reveals that the gesture constitutes an embodied means of monitoring intersubjectivity and increasing engagement in large groups of language learners.","PeriodicalId":46455,"journal":{"name":"Text & Talk","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48091172","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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ACTIVATE! Change Drivers: blame-attribution and active citizenship on a South Africa youth blog 激活！变革驱动因素：南非青年博客的责任归属和积极公民身份
IF 0.6 3区 文学
Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-02-21 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0115
M. Conradie
{"title":"ACTIVATE! Change Drivers: blame-attribution and active citizenship on a South Africa youth blog","authors":"M. Conradie","doi":"10.1515/text-2020-0115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2020-0115","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Processes of blame-attribution can be conceptualised as socially-situated and discursively-mediated events that feature attempts to assign meaning to harmful (or at least potentially harmful) occurrences. Part of the process involves the search for culprits and subsequent argumentation as to the blameworthiness of those singled out for blame. This study conducts a discourse analysis of blame-attribution in 33 online opinion pieces, posted on the website of the civil society organisation: ACTIVATE! Change Drivers. It concentrates on arguments that address the nexus between youth activism, active citizenship, the legacy of Apartheid and blame for the numerous problems afflicting the South African youth. The most recurring arguments hinged on constructions of the South African government as responsible to supporting the capacity of the contemporary youth to participate effectively in democracy, particularly since the youth continue to endure the repercussions of Apartheid. My analysis details the discursive repertoires through which this proposition is made, and considers its implications for research into contemporary online youth cultures and democratic argumentation.","PeriodicalId":46455,"journal":{"name":"Text & Talk","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43950398","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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Display of understanding in a second story: second teller’s reenactments and reuses of the prior teller’s resources 在第二个故事中展示理解：第二个讲述者对前一个讲述者资源的再现和重复使用
IF 0.6 3区 文学
Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-02-21 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0218
Eiko Yasui
{"title":"Display of understanding in a second story: second teller’s reenactments and reuses of the prior teller’s resources","authors":"Eiko Yasui","doi":"10.1515/text-2020-0218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2020-0218","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In everyday conversations, after a story of an event or one’s experience is told, the recipient often tells a second story, similar to the previous one in terms of content and structure. A second story exhibits, rather than simply claims, its teller’s understanding of a prior story. While stories are often told with reenactments of an event, this study specifically examines the cases in which second tellers produce reenactments similar to that presented by the prior teller through reusing similar verbal and bodily conduct produced by the prior teller. Drawing on conversation analysis using a total of approximately 16 h of Japanese videotaped everyday conversation, this study explores how reenactments of similar moments contribute to the display of understanding and what they further accomplish. The findings reveal that the second teller’s reenactments similar to the one presented by the prior teller exhibit the understanding of not only the contents, but also the main focal point of the prior story while demonstrating different stances towards it. This study contributes to the body of research on the embodied display of understanding by showing how performing an operation on already shared verbal and bodily resources embedded within the ongoing sequence can exhibit multiple levels of understanding.","PeriodicalId":46455,"journal":{"name":"Text & Talk","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43269385","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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Referential accessibility as an index of the discourse functions of predicative and specificational clauses 指称可及性作为表语从句和特定从句话语功能的指标
IF 0.6 3区 文学
Text & Talk Pub Date : 2022-02-18 DOI: 10.1515/text-2020-0150
Wout Van Praet
{"title":"Referential accessibility as an index of the discourse functions of predicative and specificational clauses","authors":"Wout Van Praet","doi":"10.1515/text-2020-0150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2020-0150","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper studies referential accessibility marking in predicative and specificational clauses, in particular the ones in which the roles of ‘description’ and ‘variable’ are realised by an indefinite NP (e.g. He is a baker vs. One of his talents is pastry). While the indefinite NP in the two clause types has been studied in detail, little is known about how the other two roles – of ‘describee’ and ‘value’ – are typically realised. This study, therefore, examines the choice of referring expressions for the items filling these roles, as an index of their retrievability and degree of accessibility. The analysis is based on 750 corpus examples from spoken and written British English. Moreover, since specificational clauses allow for the value to be either complement or subject, this study also provides insight into what may motivate the choice for one pattern or the other. Significant differences were found between describees and values, as well as between value-subjects and value-complements. These findings are interpreted as indicative of different discourse functions of the three constructions. While predicative clauses typically elaborate familiar information, specificational clauses serve a broader discourse-organising function: starting a new discourse-topic, pivoting from one topic to another, or summarising prior propositions as concluding a topic.","PeriodicalId":46455,"journal":{"name":"Text & Talk","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49359408","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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