Lotte van Burgsteden , Hedwig te Molder , Elliott M. Hoey , Hanneke Hulst
{"title":"When science meets society: The role of unsolicited self-disclosures in conversations between researchers and community members","authors":"Lotte van Burgsteden , Hedwig te Molder , Elliott M. Hoey , 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}
{"title":"The influence of media narratives in the formation of post-conflict discursive landscapes: Stance, engagement and doubt","authors":"Samara Velte","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.02.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.02.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study provides insights into the discursive means through which media outlets engage in the symbolic development of political conflicts by showing various degrees of trust and certainty towards major historical milestones that may contribute to the resolution of the conflict. Leaning on media linguistics and discourse studies, it observes the changes in expressions of stance in Spanish and Basque print media in the context of the final years of the Basque armed conflict (1958–2018), and concludes that initial hesitant coverages can influence the posterior discursive landscape that emerges in critical moments of peace processes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"102 ","pages":"Pages 15-29"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143529783","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":"A sequential approach to simultaneity in social interaction: The emergent organization of choral actions","authors":"Lorenza Mondada , Burak S. Tekin , Mizuki Koda","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.02.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.02.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The topic of simultaneity has recently been debated within multimodal Conversation Analysis (CA), interrogating the intricate temporal relations between vocal, verbal and embodied resources. This article contributes to this debate by discussing simultaneity in relation to sequentiality, a key principle characterizing human interaction. First, it examines the way simultaneity has been treated in the CA literature, highlighting both the specificity of simultaneous phenomena in social interaction and their diversity. Second, it focuses on an exemplary case of simultaneity, collectively produced choral actions. It demonstrates how participants orient to the production of simultaneous conduct, while achieving this simultaneity through the sequential organization of their actions. These actions are prepared, projected, produced and maintained in sequentially unfolding ways, achieved as such by participants. This paper argues that while simultaneity is a gloss for referring to specific temporal arrangements of conduct, sequentiality is the organizational principle securing their actual accomplishment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"102 ","pages":"Pages 1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143520903","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}
{"title":"Expressives, directives and assertions: Cognitive dimensions of speech acts","authors":"Hubert Hågemark, Peter Gärdenfors","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.02.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.02.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite the considerable amount of research devoted to speech act theory, relatively little attention has been paid to the cognitive foundations underlying different speech act classes. This article addresses this gap by introducing a framework of cognitive dimensions associated with the performance of expressives, directives and assertions. Drawing on empirical data, we argue that each class requires distinct cognitive capacities related to acquisition, intention-involvement, intersubjectivity, involvement, detachment, cooperation and natural meaning. In addition, we propose a set of pragmatic criteria that can be used to structure rudimentary instances of speech acts in both primates and human infants.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"101 ","pages":"Pages 84-104"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143478908","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}
{"title":"“There's No ‘I’ in Team”: Identity work in hockey post-game interviews","authors":"Sarah M. Adams","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.02.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.02.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The present study contributes to work on sports discourse by undertaking an interactional analysis of talk in hockey post-game interviews. Drawing upon studies of interview contexts including broadcast news interviews and sports post-game interviews, I examine hockey journalists' questions and players' responses, where issues of ‘blame’ and ‘praise’ quickly reveal themselves to be of primary consequence to these participants. I draw attention to concrete aspects of turn design that the interlocutors make use of in constructing their questions and answers; through these question-answer sequences, which are quantified as part of the analysis, the participants collaboratively construct and reinforce the hockey community of practice and foster an essential positive relationship between the individual and his team, which I gloss as “teamness”.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"101 ","pages":"Pages 70-83"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143436962","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":"Language and trust: Struggles for recognition of migrant people in the political realm","authors":"Iker Erdocia","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.02.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.02.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article explores the influence of language on the political participation of people who have migrated. It examines the ways in which language-related features shape the recognition and trust-building processes for migrant individuals during their engagement with the public in local-level political elections in Ireland. Adopting a relational approach to the concepts of political recognition and trust, the article examines data from interviews with councillors and candidates of migrant background who either speak English as an additional language or speak a variety other than Irish English. The study reveals a nuanced perspective of the impact of language on political participation, with varying viewpoints among participants. These differences can be partly attributed to the different forms of capital associated with candidates.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"101 ","pages":"Pages 46-57"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143377042","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}
{"title":"Chinese thanking interaction from premodern to modern China: A diachronic analysis","authors":"Limin Huang , Dengshan Xia","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.013","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study aims to trace the evolution of thanking interaction from premodern to modern China, drawing on data collected from dramatic texts in the 16th-18th centuries and the mid-20th century. The results show that in both periods Chinese thanking features a similar interactional structure. However, notable diachronic changes are revealed in three respects. First, our data disclose a significant process of routinization and simplification of rituals in the forms of thanking. Second, there is a remarkable shift in thanking strategies and thanking response strategies. Third, we have identified an attenuation in the functions of thanking. The diachronic changes might be motivated by China's modernization in which the New Culture Movement plays a vital role.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"101 ","pages":"Pages 28-45"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143154604","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":"Human affiliative responses to companion animal vocalizations","authors":"Stefan Norrthon , Jenny Nilsson","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates how humans affiliate with animals’ experiences and emotional states when faced with an animal vocalization in everyday interaction. Multimodal interaction analysis is used to study vocal, bodily and verbal actions and reactions of humans, horses, dogs and cats. The analysis shows humans treat animal vocalizations as meaningful actions, often as signs of affect, that mobilize affiliation and subsequent actions in the next turn. Human responses to animal vocalizations include tokens of surprise or sympathy, verbalizations of emotions, and suggested solutions to problems. The study is part of the inclusive linguistic paradigm, aiming at showing how understanding across species boundaries is achieved and how humans affiliate with animal emotions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"101 ","pages":"Pages 1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143154602","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}
{"title":"Appraisal theory and the analysis of point of view in news and views journalism – unpacking journalistic “persuasiveness”","authors":"Peter R. White","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.11.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.11.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper offers a demonstration of Appraisal Theory as an analytical framework for dealing with point of view in journalistic discourse. It takes journalistic “persuasiveness” as its central theme and thereby offers novel insights into a key, much scrutinised property of news journalism – its potential for influencing public understandings and expectations of the way the world is and ought to be. In operating with this notion of “persuasiveness”, the paper outlines lines of inquiry for dealing with news journalism texts which are often treated as distinct, both with respect to their stylistic properties and their communicative effects. Specifically, the concern is with the communicative functionality of both news “reporting” and journalistic “commentary”, or with what are here termed “news journalism” and “views journalism”. Appraisal Theory offers an account of the resources for conveying evaluative meanings and the framework is demonstrated through a comparison of a news report and a commentary piece concerned with the same subject matter – a decision by an education scholarship provider to include in its application form optional questions about candidates' sexuality. Specifically the paper demonstrates how similarities and differences in the two pieces’ “persuasiveness” can be discovered through an analysis which attends to four points of interest: (1) tendencies in the different types of attitudinal assessment by which the reader is positioned to adopt negative or positive views, (2) whether attitudinal assessments are conveyed explicitly or implicitly, (3) whether the attitudes being conveyed are authorial or are attributed to external sources and (4) the nature of the entities or phenomena which the reader is being positioned to view positively or negatively.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"100 ","pages":"Pages 95-107"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143100997","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":"Virtual spaces, real interactions - Analyzing communication in virtual reality","authors":"Karsten Senkbeil","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper discusses how the immersive qualities of Social Virtual Reality (SVR) technology – the <em>sense of presence</em> in a simulated space, and a <em>sense of embodiment</em> through motion tracking and avatars – have an impact on verbal communication among its users. It argues that, rather than clearly distinguishing between technology-mediated versus analog types of spaces, bodies, and communicative acts, focusing on <em>hybrid</em> and <em>blended</em> forms of (for example) deictic referents promises deeper insights. This paper discusses results from research on a corpus of audiovisual data acquired in experiments with SVR. Beyond the concrete use case of SVR, adapting existing linguistic conceptualization to user experiences with novel technologies contributes to discourses on the interrelatedness of technological affordances and human action.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"100 ","pages":"Pages 212-223"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143101006","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}