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Moral voice and relational authority in Vietnamese intergenerational advice: An interactional-pragmatic study of proverbial communication 越南代际建议中的道德话语权与关系权威：谚语交际的互动语用研究
IF 1.8 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2026-11-01 Epub Date: 2026-10-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2026.10.003
Cu Ngoc Dang, Le Truong Han
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Taking an Agnostic Stance: The Use of “I Don't Know”-Questions in Dutch Home Visits about Child Vaccination 采取不可知论立场：“我不知道”的使用——荷兰儿童疫苗家访中的问题
IF 1.8 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2026-11-01 Epub Date: 2026-10-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2026.10.001
Lieve van Hengel, Bogdana Humă, Hedwig te Molder
{"title":"Taking an Agnostic Stance: The Use of “I Don't Know”-Questions in Dutch Home Visits about Child Vaccination","authors":"Lieve van Hengel,&nbsp;Bogdana Humă,&nbsp;Hedwig te Molder","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2026.10.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2026.10.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In healthcare encounters, questions play a fundamental role. Through their design, questions impose constraints on answers and convey how strictly these constraints should be adhered to. Using Conversation Analysis, we investigate one mechanism through which such constraints are regulated in question-answer sequences in Dutch home visits: “<em>I don't know</em>”-questions (IDK-questions). We demonstrate that, in using this format, speakers adopt an agnostic stance towards what follows in their questions, thus lowering the constraints imposed on recipients' answers. This allows for responses that could otherwise be construed as misaligned, dispreferred, or identity-threatening. Thus, IDK-questions constitute a useful practice for forestalling interactional tension, for promoting progressivity, and for preserving social solidarity, especially in environments where the delicate matter of child vaccination is discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"111 ","pages":"Pages 151-165"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149362097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Situated meaning, grounded information, and evolved capacity: Harris, Deacon, and Walker across levels of explanation 定位意义、基础信息和进化能力：哈里斯、迪肯和沃克跨层次的解释
IF 1.8 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2026-11-01 Epub Date: 2026-11-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2026.09.007
Hangjun Chu, Ming Xu
{"title":"Situated meaning, grounded information, and evolved capacity: Harris, Deacon, and Walker across levels of explanation","authors":"Hangjun Chu,&nbsp;Ming Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2026.09.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2026.09.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recent dialogue between Integrational Linguistics and ecological psychology has reopened questions about perception, communication, and situated meaning. Yet when brought into contact with naturalistic accounts of information and evolution, two questions arise: how informational reference and normativity may be physically grounded, and how capacities for symbolic communicational practice may have evolved. This article argues that Harris's integrationism, Deacon's information theory, and Walker's Homo informatio framework operate at distinct but critically interfaceable levels of explanation. The main contribution is methodological: a non-reductive interface where Harrisian integrationism constrains how Deaconian and Walkerian naturalistic accounts are brought into language and communication theory. Meaning should not be collapsed into physical law, informational reference, cognitive mechanism, or evolutionary history, though situated meaning-making presupposes both.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"111 ","pages":"Pages 178-190"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149362098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Bridging worlds: Language, translation and missionary accommodation in Yuan China (13th–14th centuries) 连接世界：中国元代（13 - 14世纪）的语言、翻译和传教住宿
IF 1.8 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2026-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2026.10.004
José María Santos Rovira, Celso Miguel Serrano Lucas, Sara Beatriz González Rivera
{"title":"Bridging worlds: Language, translation and missionary accommodation in Yuan China (13th–14th centuries)","authors":"José María Santos Rovira,&nbsp;Celso Miguel Serrano Lucas,&nbsp;Sara Beatriz González Rivera","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2026.10.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2026.10.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article examines linguistic mediation and missionary accommodation in Yuan China during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, situating evidence from Yuan territory within the wider multilingual context of the Mongol world. Drawing on missionary letters, travel narratives, papal documents and Chinese administrative sources, it analyses how access to languages, interpreters, translation and teaching shaped missionaries’ capacity to communicate and exercise religious authority. Particular attention is given to the contrasting experiences of William of Rubruck and Giovanni da Montecorvino. While Rubruck’s dependence on interpreters reveals the constraints imposed by limited linguistic access, Montecorvino’s reported competence in Mongolian enabled translation, reading and preaching, although the surviving evidence does not permit reconstruction of his language-learning methods. His simultaneous translation of Christian texts into Mongolian and teaching of Greek and Latin further shows that missionary accommodation combined adaptation with the transmission of European linguistic practices. Yuan administrative sources provide a complementary perspective by showing how Christianity was incorporated into imperial structures of religious governance. The article argues that linguistic mediation was constitutive of missionary activity because access to linguistic resources shaped the distribution of communicative agency and, consequently, the conditions under which religious authority could be exercised.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"111 ","pages":"Pages 166-177"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149361968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A cross-linguistic and pluricentric analysis of address patterns in automobile brand websites: Swiss Italian is not like any other 汽车品牌网站地址模式的跨语言、多中心分析：瑞士意大利语不同于其他任何一种
IF 1.8 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2026.06.001
Valentina De Iacovo, John Hajek
{"title":"A cross-linguistic and pluricentric analysis of address patterns in automobile brand websites: Swiss Italian is not like any other","authors":"Valentina De Iacovo,&nbsp;John Hajek","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2026.06.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2026.06.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Pragmatic variation in pluricentric languages is an area of increasing research interest, although little explored to date in the case of Italian (and even less so in the case of marketing). Examination of a corpus of French, German and Italian car brand websites across language varieties shows patterns of (in)formal address pronoun use in Italian in Italy and Switzerland are very different: informal <em>tu</em> prevails in Italy, while in Swiss Italian a range of forms (<em>tu, Lei, voi</em>, as well as the infinitive) are used, often together. We consider possible reasons for this, including translation and language contact effects (also supported by other evidence in our data and from elsewhere), influenced by the national origin (and language) of the brand in question.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"109 ","pages":"Pages 69-77"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148566321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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They are not us: The rhythm of reggae and two-syllable language prosody in the construction of Jamaican National Identity 他们不是我们：雷鬼的节奏和双音节语言韵律在牙买加国家认同的构建
IF 1.8 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2026-07-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2026.03.006
Hubert Devonish, Otelemate Harry
{"title":"They are not us: The rhythm of reggae and two-syllable language prosody in the construction of Jamaican National Identity","authors":"Hubert Devonish,&nbsp;Otelemate Harry","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2026.03.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2026.03.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores the connection between Jamaican language prosody and reggae rhythm as a fundamental building block of Jamaican national identity. The background is the current movement to award national hero status to creative figures Louise Bennett Coverly and Bob Marley, whose work in the national language and music represents the Jamaican \"nation” as distinct from the official \"state\". Using acoustic analysis of two-syllable Jamaican words and Bob Marley’s \"One Drop,” the research identifies a shared structural feature called prosodic delay. In the Jamaican language, high pitch is frequently delayed to the second syllable, a pattern often described as \"topsy-turvy” by speakers of Standard English. Similarly, the \"one drop” reggae rhythm de-emphasizes the first beat of a measure, shifting prominence to later beats through a complex system of simultaneous quick and slow counting. The authors argue that this musical rhythm represents the transfer of the linguistic pattern of prosodic delay into music, creating a distinct acoustic signature for the reggae genre. Historically, this shared rhythm has served as a powerful tool for symbolic resistance against cultural and linguistic assimilation into Anglo-North American norms. By embracing these \"deviant” prosodic features, both in speech and in music, the Jamaican nation asserts its cultural distinctiveness from the neo-colonial Jamaican state and the former colonial power. Ultimately, this linguistic and musical nexus allows the Jamaican people to define their identity through the defiant declaration: \"They are not us\".</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"109 ","pages":"Pages 57-68"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148566320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Politeness in sales negotiations: Modifiers in German call-centre discourse 销售谈判中的礼貌：德语呼叫中心语篇中的修饰语
IF 1.4 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-04-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2026.03.008
Jutta Stock , Dietrich Klakow , Volha Petukhova
{"title":"Politeness in sales negotiations: Modifiers in German call-centre discourse","authors":"Jutta Stock ,&nbsp;Dietrich Klakow ,&nbsp;Volha Petukhova","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2026.03.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2026.03.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines politeness devices in German call-centre sales talk. We annotated 68 authentic service-to-sales calls with ISO 24617-2 plus a 13-category modifier typology. Sales approaches favour suggestions over direct requests; 802 modifiers occur, mostly internal (58%). A crowd-sourced study (n = 95) rated adapted utterances on politeness, clarity, purchase intent. Results show trade-offs: downtoners raise perceived politeness but reduce clarity/persuasiveness; temporal framing increases purchase intent but lowers politeness; intensifiers and pronoun shifts show no reliable effects. External support moves, often dismissed as verbosity, function as explanations in this domain. We propose a hybrid account: Brown &amp; Levinson's power–distance–imposition remain useful heuristics; ISO-based interactional modelling better explains persuasive success, informing training for agents and conversational AI.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"108 ","pages":"Pages 111-125"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147798632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Perceptions of linguistic strategies in Chinese diplomatic discourse: A quantitative study of their impact on international communication 中国外交话语中的语言策略感知：对国际传播影响的定量研究
IF 1.4 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2026.01.004
Yang Yuan
{"title":"Perceptions of linguistic strategies in Chinese diplomatic discourse: A quantitative study of their impact on international communication","authors":"Yang Yuan","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2026.01.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2026.01.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines how people perceive language tactics in Chinese diplomatic discourse and their impact on China's global image. A quantitative survey collected responses from 368 participants with expertise in international relations; media, political policy, and linguistics were collected and assessed on five tactics: cooperative language, historical references, strategic ambiguity, inclusive pronouns, and multilateralism. The data were analyzed using descriptive, correlation, and multivariate linear regression. The results show that all tactics affect Chinese diplomatic image, with collaborative language and diversity being particularly strong predictors. A small Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) press-conference transcript text analysis is also performed to clarify the opinions. Importantly, public perceptions are the main source.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"107 ","pages":"Pages 188-204"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147398247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Contested encounters: Negotiating in-law status during a migrant's return to southeastern Senegal 有争议的遭遇：在一名移民返回塞内加尔东南部期间谈判法律地位
IF 1.4 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2026.01.008
Nikolas Sweet
{"title":"Contested encounters: Negotiating in-law status during a migrant's return to southeastern Senegal","authors":"Nikolas Sweet","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2026.01.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2026.01.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article follows a complex drama about how interlocutors manage semiotic resources to negotiate who they are for others. It analyzes a homecoming encounter between a returning migrant and a peer in southeastern Senegal as a way to capture the often contested interactional dynamics through which interlocutors ask: “who are we to one another?” While affinity becomes a central question, the encounter is remarkable in that interlocutors avoid the most salient forms of honorifics. The management of interactional disjunctures becomes a central theme, which often plays out through complex negotiations of addressivity and gaze in a multi-party interaction. This encounter demonstrates how perceptions of a relationship become socially negotiated in front of and through others.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"107 ","pages":"Pages 127-141"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146189512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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Playful signs in the city: Toward a semiotics of transgression in urban linguistic landscapes 城市中好玩的标志：走向城市语言景观中的越界符号学
IF 1.4 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2026.01.005
Ge Song (宋歌)
{"title":"Playful signs in the city: Toward a semiotics of transgression in urban linguistic landscapes","authors":"Ge Song (宋歌)","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2026.01.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2026.01.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban residents move through linguistic landscapes where public signage frequently produces unintended meanings through error, contradiction, or spatial interaction. While ordinary signs aim to regulate and inform, some generate irony or humor, which are termed “playful signs”. This study asks what playful signs reveal about the dynamics of language and space in the city. Drawing on online sources and off-line fieldwork, it develops an analytical framework with three progressive dimensions: inherent language flaws and ambiguities, meaning-making through visual arrangement, and dynamic interaction of text and space. These dimensions demonstrate that playful signs constitute a semiotics of transgression, which interrupts normative meanings while energizing urban semiotic ecologies. By positioning playful signs in geosemiotics, ecolinguistics, and metrolingualism, the study shows their sociolinguistic significance as accidental yet powerful practices that destabilize conventions and reimagine urban communication as a site of creativity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"107 ","pages":"Pages 84-96"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146189513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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