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{"title":"Mobile events: Exploring mobile conversations in context as communicative events","authors":"Caroline Tagg","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article puts forward the ‘mobile event’ – a communicative event mediated in part by mobile phone messaging – as a way of understanding how social actions are accomplished at the intersection of online and offline activity. It draws methodologically on an innovative approach to mobile mediated communication which analyses individuals' mobile conversations within the immediate physical spaces in which they unfold. Interactional analysis of selected mobile events carried out by a British couple points to the centrality of offline interaction within communicative events involving mobile conversations, as well as to the importance of ‘device attending’ as an organizing principle in the management of contemporary communicative practices at the online-offline nexus.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"103 ","pages":"Pages 108-125"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143887036","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}

{"title":"Artificial intelligence in the training of public service interpreters","authors":"Laura Parrilla Gómez ,&nbsp;Encarnación Postigo Pinazo","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Great advances achieved in recent years in artificial intelligence (AI) have made it possible to address the huge challenges posed in the field of education. Indeed, thanks to the development of innovative practices, Sustainable Development Goal 4 has been enhanced. This goal is one of the 17 global goals established by the United Nations in 2015 as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It consists of ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and of promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all.</div><div>Over the last decade, new applications and digital tools have allowed future interpreters to access training materials in the field of Public Service Interpreting (PSI) and to develop their skills during their training. The full potential of these AI tools, however, have yet to be fully explored in the field of Translation and Interpreting, and specifically in the Public Service sector.</div><div>Transcription and audio recognition tools have been analysed (Ünlü, 2023; Parrilla Gómez and Postigo Pinazo, 2023), as well as the tools to support preparation phases such as terminology management (Braun, 2019). But the use of the different AI options available on the market require further analysis to verify their validity for training purposes.</div><div>Given the important role of new technologies in the training of interpreters, and the need to upskill interpreters working in the public sector, we explored the potential of AI technologies to help ensure quality training and the attainment of the 2030 Education Agenda. The research questions were thus as follows: What are the ethical and pedagogical implications of AI for the training of Public Service interpreters? How can educators, researchers and future interpreters benefit from these tools? And lastly: Which tools could adequately replace the real materials which are lacking? In order to answer these questions, three AI tools (Chat GPT, Twee, and ElevenLabs) have been analysed to assess their effectiveness in generating material for the bilateral interpreting classroom in the context of public services, and then to analyse the students‘ and teachers’ opinion of these materials.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"103 ","pages":"Pages 86-107"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143879221","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}

{"title":"Prosodic matching beyond humans: On the interactional basis of “cat-directed” talk","authors":"Katariina Harjunpää ,&nbsp;Beatrice Szczepek Reed","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This conversation analytic study investigates a Finnish-speaking caretaker interacting with a cat and her two kittens while she records them on video. The study shows that when talking to the cats, the human prosodically matches their meows, chirps, trills, and purrs by approximating their pitch, duration, voice quality, loudness, and rhythm. Matching occurs with directives, questions, and response tokens (<em>m-hm</em>), as well as with imitative interjections (<em>miu</em>). Through different combinations of prosodic and lexical imitation, the human makes her talk responsive to the cats’ local conduct, and displays understanding and sharing of their ongoing activities and/or affective stances. The study sheds light on how prosodic features associated with so-called animal-directed talk emerge in the interspecies interactions in instances of matching.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"103 ","pages":"Pages 65-85"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143874886","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}

{"title":"‘But for calves we were sweeter’. Traditional Finnish cattle calling as trans-species pidgin","authors":"Anni Jääskeläinen","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Examining archived recorded cattle calls, this article describes the traditional Finnish ways of cattle calling and suggests that these calls were a trans-species pidgin, a variety made more accessible to animals. This variety used simplified grammar with specific constructions, special phonetic features, melody, rhythmic alterations, gestures, changes in sound quality, and material objects; the purpose was to establish understanding between humans and animals. Furthermore, the article shows how these calls were modified when different species of domestic animals were called. Grazing practices, appearance and the behaviour of animals, as well as landscapes and the aspiration for beauty all influenced how these calls would evolve.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"103 ","pages":"Pages 50-64"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143859069","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}

{"title":"Embodied variation in the sequential greetings of the ucholtz (dairy) cow","authors":"Leonie Cornips","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores the potential contributions of sociolinguistics to the expanding field of intraspecies and interspecies studies of nonhuman animals. The study focuses on variation in successive greeting activities displayed by cows during social interactions with either another cow or a human. The research question examines whether embodied variation, including vocalization, in a cow’s social encounters serves as a resource for social meaning-making. Ethnographic fieldwork findings indicate that individual cows consistently monitor their interaction partners — through gaze, ear position, vocalizations and/or head nods — before collaboratively proceeding to the next step in the opening stages of an encounter.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"103 ","pages":"Pages 34-49"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143854501","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}

{"title":"Introduction: Linguistic approaches to point of view in journalism","authors":"Martina Temmerman,&nbsp;Jelle Mast,&nbsp;Peter R.R. White","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"103 ","pages":"Pages 30-33"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143833634","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}

{"title":"Look at me, please! Human auditory attention-getting devices in dog-human play","authors":"Robert W. Mitchell,&nbsp;Emily Howard,&nbsp;Mahala Saylor,&nbsp;Landon Minor","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We examined sounds used as attention-getting devices (AGDs) from videotapes of interspecies interactions between familiar and unfamiliar humans (<em>n</em> = 24) and dogs (<em>n</em> = 24) in which humans invited the dog to play. Coders coded nonverbal AGDs and one verbal AGD—calling the dog's name—from all videotapes, as well as whether or not dogs were attending to and playing with the human before and after the AGDs. Humans more often used AGDs when dogs were not attending than attending. Dogs tended not to attend or play following AGDs. When dogs changed attention before to after an AGD, they were more likely to change from not attending to attending, rather than the reverse.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"103 ","pages":"Pages 1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143833635","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}

{"title":"Routine and Ritual Small Talk in Chinese rural shops","authors":"Dániel Z. Kádár ,&nbsp;Yilin Chai ,&nbsp;Juliane House","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.03.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.03.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this study, we propose an integrative approach to Small Talk by bringing together routine and ritual, and also by approaching Small Talk through the lens of ritual, speech acts and discourse. Routine manifestations of Small Talk include banal phatic interaction, such as weather talk which follows conventionalised patterns, has limited bonding capacity and no deeper meaning. Ritual Small Talk, on the other hand, refers to phatic interaction which also follows conventionalised patterns but has a deeper purpose and meaning, and has a more lasting bonding capacity. We analyse a corpus featuring shop-talk in a rural Chinese town, hence filling a knowledge since Small Talk in rural settings has been understudied. We conduct a bipartite analysis, i.e. we first consider how interactions in our corpus tend to be opened and closed, and then we analyse our data through Small Talk themes. Our analysis shows that in Chinese rural shops routines do not simply dissolve when the participants become more familiar, but rather they transform into ritual. This finding shows that Small Talk in the setting studied operates differently from what has been observed in urbanised contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"103 ","pages":"Pages 14-29"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143830183","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}

{"title":"Manual know-how in interaction","authors":"Niina Lilja,&nbsp;Arja Piirainen-Marsh","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.03.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.03.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"102 ","pages":"Pages 50-56"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143685586","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}

{"title":"When science meets society: The role of unsolicited self-disclosures in conversations between researchers and community members","authors":"Lotte van Burgsteden ,&nbsp;Hedwig te Molder ,&nbsp;Elliott M. Hoey ,&nbsp;Hanneke Hulst","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.02.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.02.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recently, there have been calls for a new approach to science communication, emphasizing relationship building between researchers and the public. To date, what relationship building looks like in practice remains unclear. In this conversation-analytic study, we analyze conversations between researchers from different disciplines and community members to examine relationship building in real life. We analyzed a recurring pattern in these conversations where community members provide unsolicited self-disclosures. Such self-disclosures serve as one approach through which community members establish a link between “science” and their lifeworld, aiming to build a relationship with researchers. In response, researchers generally disattended the self-disclosure but occasionally asked questions that probed deeper into community members’ self-disclosures. We discuss the implications for science communication theory and practice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"102 ","pages":"Pages 30-49"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143561920","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}