{"title":"Media frames as adaptive networks of meaning: A conceptual proposition","authors":"Christian Pentzold , Claudia Fraas","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2023.09.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2023.09.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The article extends the study of frames in verbal media discourse. We mobilize insights from linguistic semantics and research in the related fields of cognitive science in order to formulate a frame-semantic understanding of frames as adaptive networks of meaning. It allows us to see frames as flexible scaffoldings whose elements are controlled by contextual configurations. This extension is helpful, we argue, because analyses of public discourse have, to date, mainly operated with a model of frames as fixed ensembles. Understanding frames not as invariant clusters but as adaptive networks has implications for empirical studies, too. Consequently, we outline the applicability of our proposition in an analytical scenario.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"93 ","pages":"Pages 95-106"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49863512","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":"No puedes hablar ahora: Voice in an interpreter-mediated court meeting","authors":"Martha Sif Karrebæk","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2023.08.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2023.08.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In interpreter-mediated encounters, one participant's contributions are multivoiced, other participants' contributions are collectively produced, as the interpreter mediates their words. It is interesting what mediation does to their voice, and even more relevant if participants speak in ways deviating from local norms. This paper offers a case study of an interpreter-mediated court meeting. I discuss how a courtroom interpreter handles the accused's contributions, what consequences the interpreter's choices have, and what it adds to our understanding of voice. I argue that speaking and being heard “in one's own terms” is not necessarily the most beneficial to less powerful institutional participants.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"93 ","pages":"Pages 79-94"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49863507","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":"Linguistic reflexivity and language-shaping: Countering representationalism in ecological research on language","authors":"Talbot J. Taylor , Jasper C. van den Herik","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2023.08.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2023.08.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Everyday metalinguistic ascriptions (“My name is Oliver”, “Swahili ng'ombe means cow”, “She lied about you”) seemingly attribute properties to phenomena of a distinctively linguistic ontology. However, non-representational approaches to cognition, such as ecological psychology, cannot accommodate this linguistic ontology without contravening their non-representational principles. An alternative might be to construe metalinguistic ascriptions as ‘folk’ fictions which are, strictly speaking, false. Yet this would render unintelligible the practical role that metalinguistic ascription occupies in everyday discourse. We suggest another alternative. By analogy to mindshaping approaches in folk-psychological debates, we propose a non-representational account of metalinguistic ascription as a form of language-shaping. Metalinguistic ascriptions shape language behavior over temporal and social scales by prospectively shaping discursive niches.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"93 ","pages":"Pages 67-78"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49863506","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":"Linguistic negotiation of place identity in a changing Tel Aviv neighborhood","authors":"Roey J. Gafter","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2023.08.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2023.08.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>The Tel Aviv neighborhood of HaTikva, originally home mostly to Mizrahi Jews, has undergone a considerable demographic shift in recent years. This paper discusses the narratives of Mizrahi longtime residents of the neighborhood, who are uncomfortable with the recent changes. Focusing on a micro-analysis of the </span>stylistic variation in two interviews, the results show that the voiced pharyngeal approximant (ʕ), a linguistic feature strongly associated with Mizrahi identity, is used in the construction of place identity, by reinforcing the links between these speakers’ Mizrahi identity and their status as authentic residents of the neighborhood.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"93 ","pages":"Pages 57-66"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49863508","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":"Theorizing rhetoric: A transatlantic perspective","authors":"Agnieszka Kampka , Marta Kobylska","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2023.08.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2023.08.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article presents the results of a comparative study on the leading theories used in European and North American rhetorical research. The aim of the study was to examine European rhetorical theories on their own terms and their relations with North American rhetorical practice. Using a mixed-method approach, the study addressed normative, declarative, and pragmatic dimensions of unity and theoretical diversity in contemporary Western rhetorical research. Study findings supported the premise that a Western theoretical community of knowledge of rhetoric scholars exists in the midst of the plurality of rhetorical research. The combined findings reveal strengths and shortcomings of North American and European perspectives, indicating how each draws from and/or pushes back against ways of thinking suggested by the other.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"93 ","pages":"Pages 43-56"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49863509","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":"Temporality and the cooperative infrastructure of human communication: Noticings to delay and to accelerate onward movement in mobile interaction","authors":"Anja Stukenbrock","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2023.06.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2023.06.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article examines how mobile participants, at interactionally delicate moments, deploy noticings to invite joint attention on objects in the speaker's vicinity. Complementing recent accounts of environmentally occasioned noticings, the focus of this study is on noticings as a practice to delay and, by contrast, to accelerate joint onward movement through museum spaces. It is argued that the interactional function of these noticings is, first, to draw the co-participant's attention to objects that they treat as noteworthy, and second, to request movement towards the speaker in order to jointly orient to the noticeable. The analysis shows that participants may launch noticings at opportune moments to serve their own spatiotemporal trajectory, either by detaining or by prompting co-participants on. The analysis draws on the methodology of Multimodal Conversation Analysis and a corpus of naturally occurring mobile interactions recorded with external cameras and eye-tracking glasses. Our observations on the double function of noticings in the local context may shed light on different ways in which we enact and draw on the cooperative infrastructure of human communication in social interaction.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"92 ","pages":"Pages 33-54"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50186572","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}
David A. Leavens , Mahmoud M. Elsherif , Hannah Clark
{"title":"What animals can tell us about attentional prerequisites of language acquisition","authors":"David A. Leavens , Mahmoud M. Elsherif , Hannah Clark","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2023.06.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2023.06.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Theories of human language acquisition frequently posit human-unique attentional specializations to jumpstart language acquisition. There is a broad consensus that the developmental processes supporting language acquisition in our species rely on human-unique cognitive adaptions pertaining to the deployment and understanding of attention. However, close attention to the empirical evidence held to support these hypothetical psychological processes, reveals significant gaps between the nature of the evidence provided and these conclusions. In ape-human comparisons, species is confounded with a myriad of lurking variables. We explore these confounds and their implications for models of human language acquisition that appeal to human-unique attentional adaptions, revealing a large theoretical space wherein the phenomena of attention deployment and understanding can coalesce under particular environmental regimes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"92 ","pages":"Pages 55-73"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50186573","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":"Attitudes towards age variation and language change in the British deaf community","authors":"Katherine Rowley, Kearsy Cormier","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2023.06.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2023.06.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There are age-related differences in signers of British Sign Language (BSL) and evidence that BSL is changing. Here we explore attitudes of BSL signers towards age-related differences and language change. We studied interview data from the BSL Corpus (Schembri et al., 2014) from 80 signers from four regions in the U.K. We carried out a thematic analysis following Braun and Clarke (2006) on responses to questions related to age variation and language change. Findings reveal signers were aware of variation and change in BSL, which also align with linguistic behaviour. Some variation and change was deemed more acceptable than others, e.g. signs for new concepts. Other changes were seen as a threat to BSL's vitality. We explore these attitudes, looking particularly at language endangerment and vitality within minority languages.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"92 ","pages":"Pages 15-32"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50186571","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":"Putting local dialect in the mix: Indexicality and stylization in a TikTok challenge","authors":"Kristel Doreleijers , Jos Swanenberg","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2023.06.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2023.06.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper investigates the role of local dialect forms and other semiotic signs in languagecultural practices on social media in the southern Dutch province North Brabant. Although dialect use is severely decreasing in this area, we find abundant dialect features in present-day media productions, but these are not simply some last remains. By conducting a qualitative discourse analysis of a carnivalesque music video (2020), we argue that non-linguistic resources and co-occurring dialect features are enregistered as recognizably ‘Brabantish’ for the purpose of indexing place-based identities. Moreover, we show that reproduction on TikTok (2021) takes place through recontextualization and indexical stance-taking.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"92 ","pages":"Pages 1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50186570","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":"Metapragmatic comments deconstructing the concept of self-mockery in Chinese on social media","authors":"Xiaoyi Bi , Wei Ren","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2023.07.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2023.07.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>This paper aims to unpack perceptions of self-mockery in present-day Chinese using an online self-mockery viral event. The metapragmatic<span> analysis of comments indicates that its interpretation is closely intertwined with other cultural factors and open to construal<span> in a folk manner. Despite folk concepts being largely consistent with etic understandings of self-mockery, they are at the same time emotional and socially salient. The interpretation of self-mockery within a social practice is determined by </span></span></span><em>how</em> it is enacted by <em>what</em> person and in comparison with others, i.e., the situationally (un)approved and culturally salient meaning.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"92 ","pages":"Pages 91-104"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50186575","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}