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Slurs and speech acts
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.003
Aldo Frigerio , Maria Paola Tenchini
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Black humour as official slogan: The CDA from Chinese anti-epidemic discourse
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.002
Yifan Chen, Qian Gong, Sender Dovchin
{"title":"Black humour as official slogan: The CDA from Chinese anti-epidemic discourse","authors":"Yifan Chen,&nbsp;Qian Gong,&nbsp;Sender Dovchin","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Black humour is associated with illness, death, and crisis and is frequently used as grassroots resistance to hegemonic power. However, black humour has received little attention concerning how it is appropriated by the state. Thus, this study contributes to reconceptualise black humour as the anti-epidemic slogans of the Chinese Communist Party by combining Bakhtin's carnivalesque and Van Leeuwen's (2007) legitimation strategies within Critical Discourse Analysis paradigm to investigate how inhumane slogans are legitimised. Our findings reveal that the CCP employs three legitimation strategies–authorisation, moral evaluation, and rationalisation–to maintain its power status through official slogans. This study offers a new perspective on how power relations are sustained and renegotiated through the official language in China.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"100 ","pages":"Pages 166-175"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143101010","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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Ways of participating in a colleague's project: Radio use as collaborative activity in UN military observer training
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.11.007
Iira Rautiainen
{"title":"Ways of participating in a colleague's project: Radio use as collaborative activity in UN military observer training","authors":"Iira Rautiainen","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.11.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.11.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines interactional moments of radio use in an adult learning setting, focusing on ways team members in a patrolling exercise participate in their colleague's project in UN military observer training. I show that in training settings, participation involves joint orientation to a shared objective, and it is used to facilitate learning and development of new skills. Radio communication is an emblematic part of UN military observers' work, and it is the way patrols keep in touch with their base. Learning to use the radio is thus an important objective in the training. The data come from authentic simulated military observer training using English as a lingua franca. Findings are scalable to and applicable in various collaborative working and learning settings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"100 ","pages":"Pages 137-153"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143091938","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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Japanese women's desire for the West and English study motivation
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.006
Yoko Kobayashi
{"title":"Japanese women's desire for the West and English study motivation","authors":"Yoko Kobayashi","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study reconsiders the well-documented argument that young Japanese women's romantic desire (<em>akogare</em>) for the gender equality of the West motivates them to study English. This study analyzes numerical and written data from 100 female Japanese English learners aged 20 to 59. The findings revealed that while <em>akogare</em> for the West serves as a catalyst for English study among them, the motivational effect differs by age and self-perceived English proficiency. The study also shows that many research participants assess young Japanese women's <em>akogare</em> for the West as natural due to their perceptions of the West as a place endowed with positive attributes (e.g., appreciation for individual freedom).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"100 ","pages":"Pages 176-185"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143101011","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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Sequence organization in the instruction of embodied activities 在具体活动指导中的顺序组织
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2024-11-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.11.003
Oskar Lindwall , Lorenza Mondada
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“Democracy under attack”: Viewpoint and doxa in the coverage of the Jan. 6th, 2021 events at the US Capitol “民主受到攻击”：2021年1月6日美国国会大厦事件报道中的观点和观点
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2024-11-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.11.001
Philippe Hambye , Samuel Vernet
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Name it till you mean it: Intersections between formal and semantic neological procedures in naming emerging pandemic objects in Spanish 说出它的意思在用西班牙语命名新出现的流行对象时，形式和语义新程序之间的交叉点
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.10.010
Miguel Sánchez Ibáñez , Paula Pérez Sobrino
{"title":"Name it till you mean it: Intersections between formal and semantic neological procedures in naming emerging pandemic objects in Spanish","authors":"Miguel Sánchez Ibáñez ,&nbsp;Paula Pérez Sobrino","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.10.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.10.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The goal of this study is to investigate the relationship between formal and semantic neological procedures in the coinage of COVID-19-related emerging realities. Our study is based on a survey conducted to elicit the spontaneous creation of neologisms in Spanish related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants were asked to name a set of pandemic-related objects presented to them in a set of pictures. Naming strategies resulted mostly from the intersection of metonyms with compounding and metaphors with syntagmation. Participants preferred metonymy-based strategies to name objects they have fewer clues to identify. On the other hand, objects resulting from the adaptation of pre-existing items were mostly named using metaphors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"99 ","pages":"Pages 274-288"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142656567","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 flood of illegal immigrants or a humanitarian crisis provoked by the government – A comparative mixed-methods analysis of framing strategies of Poland's two leading media outlets 非法移民泛滥还是政府挑起的人道主义危机--对波兰两家主要媒体报道策略的混合方法比较分析
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.10.005
Marcin Kosman
{"title":"A flood of illegal immigrants or a humanitarian crisis provoked by the government – A comparative mixed-methods analysis of framing strategies of Poland's two leading media outlets","authors":"Marcin Kosman","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.10.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.10.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The present paper aims at reconstructing, analyzing, and explaining the framing of the situation at the Polish-Belarusian border in 2021 and early 2022 by Poland’s two most influential television stations: the state-controlled right-wing TVP and the commercial left-liberal TVN. The main analytical approach used in this study was Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA). It is a branch of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) that pays special attention to the sociopolitical contexts, allowing the researcher to go beyond purely linguistic analyses and focus on (both micro and meso) sociological implications. Therefore, the study analyzed the discourses through the lenses of securitization and embedding the findings into a broader discussion about migration in Poland. The paper demonstrates that the coverage of the events by both stations was radically different: the state television largely reproduced the discourse of the then ruling party, whereas the liberal TVN focused on the delegitimization of the then government and the border guard, accusing them of violating international law.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"99 ","pages":"Pages 259-273"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142656566","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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Responses to refusal in online recruitment communication: A Chinese contextual study 在线招聘交流中对拒绝的反应：中国背景研究
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.11.002
Wei Ren, Han Zhang
{"title":"Responses to refusal in online recruitment communication: A Chinese contextual study","authors":"Wei Ren,&nbsp;Han Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.11.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.11.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While refusals as a speech act have been extensively studied, little research has explored how individuals respond to refusals, particularly in online communication contexts. This study investigates how Chinese job applicants and human resource (HR) staff respond to recruitment refusals both before and after interviews in online settings. Drawing on a dataset of 200 chat logs sourced from two prominent Chinese social media platforms, this research identifies three major categories of refusal response strategies, encompassing 13 distinct types. The findings reveal that both job applicants and HR staff tend to accept refusals, albeit in differing manners. Applicants employ more diverse and verbose responses compared to HR. The study highlights applicants' heightened rapport management awareness, while HR's responses suggest a focus on impression management on behalf of their companies. Furthermore, our analysis reveals that both parties utilize more strategies in post-interview refusal responses, reflecting stage-specific pragmatic awareness. This study highlights the complexities of interpersonal dynamics in recruitment communication and provides insights into how participants navigate refusal responses to manage rapport and impressions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"99 ","pages":"Pages 289-301"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142656788","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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Instructed perception and action: The mutual accomplishment of manual know-how in using VR games 指导感知和行动：在使用虚拟现实游戏时手动诀窍的相互成就
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.10.011
Arja Piirainen-Marsh, Margarethe Olbertz-Siitonen
{"title":"Instructed perception and action: The mutual accomplishment of manual know-how in using VR games","authors":"Arja Piirainen-Marsh,&nbsp;Margarethe Olbertz-Siitonen","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.10.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.10.011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates how manual know-how is manifested in instructed action in a technologized setting characterised by distributed spaces and bodies. Drawing on data from a temporary game lab where co-present participants try out virtual reality games, it analyses how an experienced VR user instructs novice participants in accomplishing the steps required to set up the game, in interacting with virtual objects and resolving troubles with tasks in the virtual environment. We show how instructions are fitted to and serve to advance the practical activity, and how they are recipient designed to teach novice users the manual and bodily techniques for interacting with the virtual game and its features.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"99 ","pages":"Pages 313-332"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142656568","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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