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Evaluative labels in public discourse: A political crisis from diverse perspectives 公共话语中的评价标签：不同视角下的政治危机
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-07-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.07.002
Virginija Masiulionytė, Jurga Cibulskienė, Inesa Šeškauskienė
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The effect of speech rate on easy language audios comprehension 语速对简易语言音频理解的影响
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-07-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.07.005
Marina Pujadas-Farreras , María J. Machuca
{"title":"The effect of speech rate on easy language audios comprehension","authors":"Marina Pujadas-Farreras ,&nbsp;María J. Machuca","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.07.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.07.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Easy Language is a simplified language variety designed to make information more comprehensible for diverse target groups, including individuals with intellectual disabilities, second-language learners, and those with neurocognitive disorders. Although certain guidelines and standards of Easy Language give some recommendations regarding prosodic aspects, these have not yet been tested with the target user groups considered in this study. This study investigates the impact of speech rate on comprehension of Easy Language audios in Catalan, as well as the acceptability of different speech rates and users' preferences. Three participant groups were involved: individuals with intellectual disabilities, neurotypical second-language learners, and a neurotypical control group. Four distinct speech rates were assessed (130 wpm, 150 wpm, 170 wpm, and 190 wpm). The results indicated that speech rate had no significant effect on comprehension across any group. However, it is important to highlight that all three groups agreed that 150 wpm was the most acceptable speed, and it was also among the most preferred speeds.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"104 ","pages":"Pages 140-155"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144662923","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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Human-animal vocal communication, a (now) legitimate topic for linguistics and the analysis of social interaction 人类与动物的声音交流，是语言学和社会互动分析的一个（现在）合法的话题
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-07-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.07.003
Chloé Mondémé
{"title":"Human-animal vocal communication, a (now) legitimate topic for linguistics and the analysis of social interaction","authors":"Chloé Mondémé","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.07.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.07.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The study of animal vocalizations has long been the exclusive domain of animal behavior research, which studies animal vocal productions for various reasons, but mostly as an inquiry into the origins of human verbal language. Recently, insights from linguistics have followed the trend set by what is sometimes referred to as an “animal turn” in the social sciences and humanities. This has resulted in treating the interaction between humans and non-human animals as a research topic in its own right. The part of linguistics interested in the multimodal analysis of social interaction was particularly well-equipped to deal with those non-verbal, though meaningful and (sometimes) cooperative, interactions. This permitted (i) a reconsideration of classic linguistic phenomena (e.g., participation, sequentiality, intentionality) and (ii) detailed analyses of the interactional production of meaning in interspecies interaction, while eschewing speculations about the origin of language. This contribution outlines these new developments, and shows how the articles of this Special Issue on “sound patterns in interspecies interaction” specifically contribute to them.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"104 ","pages":"Pages 131-139"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144654733","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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Enlanguaged affordances in social practices: A critical rethinking of Gibson's approach to language 社会实践中的语言支持：对吉布森语言研究方法的批判性反思
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-07-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.07.004
Rasmus Gahrn-Andersen
{"title":"Enlanguaged affordances in social practices: A critical rethinking of Gibson's approach to language","authors":"Rasmus Gahrn-Andersen","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.07.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.07.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Jones and Read argue that Gibson's concept of affordances can significantly contribute to radical, non-representationalist approaches in linguistics. In line with their perspective, this paper asserts that a crucial initial step must be taken: a critical examination of Gibson's account of the relationship between affordances and language. Specifically, I argue that we should question the assumption that affordance-relative awareness necessarily precedes linguistic behavior, a hypothesis I term Gibson's ‘awareness first, words second’ hypothesis. The paper develops a positive argument around the concept of ‘enlanguaged affordance’, demonstrating how insights from practice theory, radical cognitive science, and distributed approaches to language can converge around this central idea. The paper aims to illuminate how linguistic skills and competencies contribute to shaping social practices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"104 ","pages":"Pages 121-130"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144632160","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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Issues of phonetics and social action in human-animal interaction 人与动物互动中的语音学与社会行为问题
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-07-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.007
Richard Ogden , Leelo Keevallik
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Top-down and bottom-up semiotic landscapes in Eastern Suburb Memory: A scalar-chronotopic approach 东郊记忆中的自上而下和自下而上的符号学景观：一个标量-时间顺序方法
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-07-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.07.001
Everard Jun-Jie Ma, Bill Tian-You Tang, Brian Hok-Shing Chan
{"title":"Top-down and bottom-up semiotic landscapes in Eastern Suburb Memory: A scalar-chronotopic approach","authors":"Everard Jun-Jie Ma,&nbsp;Bill Tian-You Tang,&nbsp;Brian Hok-Shing Chan","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.07.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.07.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>There is a trend for old industrial areas to be redeveloped into commercialised areas to promote consumption and city branding. In such redevelopment, differentiated semiotic landscapes (SLs) are utilized to project identities and to promote consumption. This article examines the top-down and bottom-up SLs in the <em>Eastern Suburb Memory</em> (ESM) in Chengdu, China that was converted from an industrial heritage site. Drawing on Bakhtin's notion of ‘chronotope’, we focus on the differences between the chronotopes invoked by the government and those by entrepreneurs for the purposes of national identification and commercialisation through translingual and multimodal practices. We find that the top-down choreographies tend to invoke the chronotope of the Chinese industrialisation period in the past to evoke national solidarity and pride for publicity and tourism. In contrast, the grassroots' SLs utilise more ancient and broader chronotopes (e.g. the Republic of China and contemporary Europe) across multiple scale-levels to evoke nostalgia and exoticism. Furthermore, this article explores the emerging tendency of the two types of SLs to transcend binary oppositions and achieve mutual absorption through the lens of assemblage.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"104 ","pages":"Pages 97-112"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144604441","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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The art and politics of micronational language planning 微民族语言规划的艺术与政治
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-07-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.003
David Karlander
{"title":"The art and politics of micronational language planning","authors":"David Karlander","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article discusses the language politics of micronations. It argues that micronational language planning offers a three-pronged satirical rejoinder to mainstream language politics. First, micronational language politics pushes back at attempts to frame nation-states and national languages as irrelevant in a globalized world. Second, it rebuffs neo-romantic sociolinguistic critiques of globalization. Third, it troubles technocratic approaches to language policy and planning (LPP). This argument is grounded in a close analysis of two micronational art projects: Elgaland-Vargaland and Ladonia. These micronations simultaneously appropriate and debase traditional LPP, creating both a defamiliarization of well-worn language ideologies and a destabilization of technocratic linguistic expertise. This is a promising starting point for reimagining research into the politics of language.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"104 ","pages":"Pages 82-96"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144596950","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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Linguistic landscape as semiotic stance-taking interactant: Orders of affect and citizen-consumer subjectification in ‘treaty port area’ 语言景观作为符号学立场的互动：“条约港区”的情感秩序与公民-消费者主体化
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-07-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.006
Zhixin Liu
{"title":"Linguistic landscape as semiotic stance-taking interactant: Orders of affect and citizen-consumer subjectification in ‘treaty port area’","authors":"Zhixin Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Inspired by ‘affective regime’, linguistic landscape (LL) research has increasingly foregrounded affect as a central concern. By developing the interactional approach of ‘affective stancetaking’, the paper extends current scholarship by explaining how affect circulates historically and how it affords specific positioning to sign viewers. Drawing on a longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork in China's treaty port area, I examine how an affect (ranging from nostalgia, xiaozi, to party loyalty) becomes interdiscursively produced by semiotic stancetaking processes across LL signs. Furthermore, the place-making project unfolds systematic ‘orders of affect’, embedded with multiple co-existent authorities (i.e., polycentricity) that govern local identity, cosmopolitan-class elitism, and party-state citizenship. This analysis highlights how LL communications discursive-ideologically subjectify citizen-consumers into political and economic structures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"104 ","pages":"Pages 66-81"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144589082","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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“Telling the China story well” in Cambridge undergraduate admissions interviews 剑桥大学本科招生面试中的“讲好中国故事”
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-07-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.005
Daniel Weston
{"title":"“Telling the China story well” in Cambridge undergraduate admissions interviews","authors":"Daniel Weston","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article explores how Chinese candidates draw on aspects of their sociocultural background during the University of Cambridge undergraduate admissions interview, an academic gatekeeping encounter. Tannen's three-tiered narrative framework is used to capture how candidates provide (small-n) narratives about China; how these narratives are organized by themes or (big-N) Narratives; and how these Narratives stand in relation to the cultural ideologies, or Master Narratives, disseminated throughout Chinese society. The analysis shows that candidates do not simply reproduce these Master Narratives during the interview. Owing to its interculturality, and marked power differential, candidates are shown instead to engage in careful acts of sociocultural positioning in order to express ideas and opinions—sometimes on matters of geopolitical sensitivity—that may not align with those of their interviewers. In so doing, they also problematize the notion of the “immigrant story”, in which migrant candidates efface and replace their sociocultural identity with one that is fully accommodating.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"104 ","pages":"Pages 50-65"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144564037","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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The interface of prosody and pragmatics: A phono-pragmatic analysis of bebin (‘look’) in Persian 韵律与语用的结合：波斯语中“看”的音位语用分析
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-07-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.004
Reza Kazemian, Mohammad Amouzadeh, Homa Asadi
{"title":"The interface of prosody and pragmatics: A phono-pragmatic analysis of bebin (‘look’) in Persian","authors":"Reza Kazemian,&nbsp;Mohammad Amouzadeh,&nbsp;Homa Asadi","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the phono-pragmatic properties of <em>bebin</em> (‘look’) in Persian within the framework of Interactive Grammar (IG), focusing on its prosodic characteristics and various pragmatic functions in interaction. Specifically, it explores how variations in prosodic features (duration, <em>f</em><sub><em>0</em></sub>, and intensity) correlate with the four primary functions of <em>bebin</em>: directive, attention signal, discourse marker, and interjection. The findings highlight the dynamic interplay between prosody and pragmatics, demonstrating how prosodic cues facilitate pragmatic interpretation and how pragmatic functions influence prosodic realization. Moreover, the study provides evidence of a systematic relationship between phonetic reduction and grammaticalization, with increased phonetic reduction observed in more grammaticalized uses of <em>bebin</em>. This contributes to broader discussions on the role of prosody in linguistic change. The study also addresses challenges related to functional overlap and polysemy, offering insights into the complexities of interactive discourse. Finally, the quantifiable nature of the analysis makes it highly applicable to computational linguistics, particularly in training language models for corpus annotation and enhancing pragmatic understanding in natural language processing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"104 ","pages":"Pages 29-49"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144562802","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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