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‘So you think you can play with me’ – Louis Moholo-Moholo and the semiotics of freedom “所以你认为你可以和我一起玩”——路易斯·莫霍罗-莫霍罗和自由的符号学
IF 1.4 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.09.008
Ana Deumert , Nkululeko Mabandla
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Shifting style-shifts? Higher-order style-shifting in Hong Kong Cantonese-English languaging through indexicality and audience design style-shifts转移?基于索引性和受众设计的香港粤语-英语高阶语体转换
IF 1.4 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.09.007
Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales
{"title":"Shifting style-shifts? Higher-order style-shifting in Hong Kong Cantonese-English languaging through indexicality and audience design","authors":"Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.09.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.09.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines style-shifting between monolingual and bilingual Cantonese-English styles in Hong Kong through audience design and indexicality. Using narrative elicitation, YouTube data, and an attitudinal experiment, it finds that bilingual styles are often downplayed in public but appear more robust in scripted speech, where speakers exercise greater control and tap into alternative indexical meanings. Attitudinal data confirm that these monolingual/bilingual styles carry distinct social meanings, shaped by processes such as enregisterment, which enable their mobilization. Based on these findings, the study proposes an “independent layers” socio-indexical model, where these styles function as distinct yet overlapping resources. In a field focused on <em>micro</em>-level shifts, this research contributes a novel Hong Kong perspective, showing how speakers navigate <em>macro</em>-stylistic choices amid shifting audiences, ideological pressures, and identity work in a postcolonial context.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"105 ","pages":"Pages 68-93"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145106609","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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Metaphorical emergence through propositional and imagistic modes of metaphor processing 隐喻通过命题模式和意象模式的加工产生
IF 1.4 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.10.003
Omid Khatin-Zadeh
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Constructing a linguistic commonwealth: John Hart's ideology and rhetoric of spelling reform 构建语言共同体：约翰·哈特的拼写改革思想与修辞
IF 1.4 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.09.010
Andrew Ji Ma
{"title":"Constructing a linguistic commonwealth: John Hart's ideology and rhetoric of spelling reform","authors":"Andrew Ji Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.09.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.09.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Orthographic standardisation and codification had a central place in linguistic scholarship of the Renaissance period. This paper situates the study of John Hart's proposals for spelling reform in a political context. Instead of focusing entirely on the scientific content of his linguistic writings, it brings together the technical, ideological, and rhetorical dimensions in one discussion, seeking to investigate how Hart's ideas about language were informed by the theory and practice of Tudor politics. I argue that Hart maps at least four meanings of the concept <em>commonwealth</em> onto his understanding of spelling rationalisation. This linguistic endeavour can be seen as a programme to construct a commonwealth of orthography, which was modelled on the Tudor ideology and rhetoric of creating a socio-political commonwealth.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"105 ","pages":"Pages 161-171"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145333208","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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A multimodal local grammar of evaluation in picture books 绘本评价的多模态局部语法
IF 1.4 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.11.001
Ding Huang, Jiajin Xu
{"title":"A multimodal local grammar of evaluation in picture books","authors":"Ding Huang,&nbsp;Jiajin Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.11.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.11.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Local grammar is an approach to account for a specific meaning or discourse function, such as evaluation, in a particular type of discourse. Existing research predominantly examines writing and speech by adults, while little investigation has been conducted on texts produced by and intended for children. This study aimed to contribute insights into the meaning of evaluation co-constructed with texts and images in children's picture books. The study identified multimodal local grammar patterns of evaluation from 77 picture books selected from the Oxford Reading Tree series. Results demonstrate how enriched evaluative meaning is conveyed through texts and images, revealing recurrent verbal-visual co-selection units that target specific aspects of evaluative meaning. The multimodal local grammar approach maintains the advantage of systematically and comprehensively describing a discourse function in language and ensures the efficiency of image annotation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"105 ","pages":"Pages 259-278"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145579171","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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“Intonation and emotional framing in political rallies:A multimodal approach to populist political speech” 政治集会中的语调与情感框架：民粹主义政治演讲的多模态分析
IF 1.4 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.08.003
Pablo Agustin Artero Abellan
{"title":"“Intonation and emotional framing in political rallies:A multimodal approach to populist political speech”","authors":"Pablo Agustin Artero Abellan","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.08.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.08.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article examines how intonation functions as a mechanism of emotional framing in political speech. Drawing on a multimodal analysis of campaign rally fragments from Donald Trump and Barack Obama during the 2016 U.S. election, the study investigates how prosodic features—pitch contour, tempo, pausing, intensity, and voice quality—shape affective alignment and ideological positioning. Using acoustic analysis (via Praat) and discourse-pragmatic interpretation, the article identifies distinct prosodic strategies that frame reassurance, attack, and collective emotion. Trump's delivery is characterized by steep pitch falls, high intensity, and compressed tempo, projecting certainty and control. Obama, by contrast, employs rising–falling contours, tonal modulation, and slowed tempo to model emotional co-presence and reflective unity. These patterns reveal contrasting affective logics of leadership: one performative and populist, the other dialogic and compositional. The article contributes to prosodic pragmatics, political communication, and affect theory by demonstrating how intonation operates not merely as an expressive overlay but as a core semiotic system for constructing political meaning in real time.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"105 ","pages":"Pages 10-21"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145059925","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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Boundaries of gestures: Naive segmentation of the stream of human hand movements 手势的边界：人类手部动作流的朴素分割
IF 1.4 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.09.002
Ewa Jarmołowicz-Nowikow, Maciej Karpiński
{"title":"Boundaries of gestures: Naive segmentation of the stream of human hand movements","authors":"Ewa Jarmołowicz-Nowikow,&nbsp;Maciej Karpiński","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.09.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.09.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Naïve observers and researchers alike segment behavior into manageable units for analysis; yet, the nature and application of these units vary. This study examines differences in gesture segmentation between naïve observers and experts, as well as variability among naïve observers. We review a range of gesture definitions and segmentation cues, emphasizing the distinctions between perceiving gestures in interpersonal interactions and identifying them in video recordings, whether by trained or untrained annotators. In our empirical study, naïve observers annotated gestures and their prominent phases under two conditions: video-only (“silence”) and video with audio (“speech”), using ELAN software. The analyzed material consisted of an excerpt from a Member of Parliament's address. The results revealed no significant differences between conditions in the number of identified gestures, total or mean gesture duration. However, we found different levels of inter-annotator agreement in the two conditions and identified certain patterns in how participants distinguished gestures from the continuous flow of hand movements, which differed from expert segmentations. Results showed variability in annotation granularity, with naïve observers marking fewer gestures than experts. Additionally, prominence marking varied: naïve observers differed from experts, especially in the “silence” condition. These findings underscore the nonintuitive nature of gestures as behavioral units and the influence of theoretical training on segmentation practices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"105 ","pages":"Pages 22-36"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145106508","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 propositional meaning of metaphor: A critical review against the Davidsonian approach 隐喻的命题意义：对戴维森方法的批判回顾
IF 1.4 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.08.002
Shunkai Wang
{"title":"The propositional meaning of metaphor: A critical review against the Davidsonian approach","authors":"Shunkai Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.08.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.08.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The non-cognitive content account by Donald Davidson ascribes metaphor to the domain of use and asserts that metaphors only have literal meanings. We argue that the Davidsonian approach cannot elucidate the way information is conveyed. Davidson and his supporters’ arguments fail to capture the nature of similes and dead metaphors. From their perspective, metaphor understanding is attributed merely to its aesthetic aspect. We contend that metaphors can not only evoke experience but also communicate knowledge. We address the deficiency of the Davidsonian account through dead metaphor, simile and aesthetic properties. Structure mapping theory and research on embodiment can provide novel insights into the meaning-construction underlying metaphor comprehension. Emphasizing the cognitive account, we posit a paradigm of proposition construction procedure underpinning metaphor comprehension.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"105 ","pages":"Pages 1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144989585","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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Voicing and staging Indigenous resilience: Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen's performance of the Sámi yoik Máze 发声与舞台表演：艾拉·玛丽·Hætta Isaksen对Sámi yoik Máze的表演
IF 1.4 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.09.009
Pia Lane
{"title":"Voicing and staging Indigenous resilience: Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen's performance of the Sámi yoik Máze","authors":"Pia Lane","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.09.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.09.009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Across the world, Indigenous traditions have often been silenced. Norway implemented oppressive policies towards the Indigenous Sámi people, targeting their language and culture practices. Traditional Sámi singing <em>yoik</em>, was associated with Sámi religion and at times banned though retained as cultural and social memory. This article explores Sámi resistance and resilience in the face of European colonial oppression, focusing on the traditional practice of yoik as a means of cultural endurance and resilience. Through an analysis of Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen's performance of <em>Máze</em> - broadcasted by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) - the article examines how yoik operates as a multifaceted communicative practice. Though suppressed, yoik still persisted as a vital expression of Sámi identity, memory, resistance and resilience. The performance of <em>Máze</em> is situated within broader historical contexts of colonial violence and Sámi protests, particularly in relation to the Alta Dam controversy as the village Máze, due to the construction of the dam, was supposed to be submerged. Through the interplay of voice, instrumentation, bodily posture, camera work, and stage design, Ella Marie's performance of Máze enacts a powerful reminder of colonial past, but also resilience and ongoing decolonial resistance. Yoiks such as Máze are songs of struggle historically and contemporary and have become a means to overcome historical silences, giving voice to all those who resisted silencing and showed resilience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"105 ","pages":"Pages 172-180"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145333206","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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Did language originate with Homo erectus? The scavenging inference 语言起源于直立人吗？清除推理
IF 1.4 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.10.005
Rudolf Botha
{"title":"Did language originate with Homo erectus? The scavenging inference","authors":"Rudolf Botha","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.10.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.10.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>At issue in this article is the claim that human language originated in a new foraging behavior of early <em>Homo erectus</em>: confrontational scavenging as aggressive competition for edible remains of megafauna. Made by Derek Bickerton, among others, this claim represents the conclusion of a composite inference – the Scavenging Inference – drawn by him from “indirect” and “inferential” evidence. The inference starts from data about cut marks on fossil megafauna bones, and ends, via a sequence comprising four simple inferences, with the conclusion that early <em>Homo erectus</em> scavengers used signals with the property of displaced reference for recruiting band members. This article reconstructs these simple inferences and appraises their soundness, finding it to be questionable in various ways. Consequently, the Scavenging Inference cannot be used to make a strong case for the view that language originated with early <em>Homo erectus</em>. The simple inferences are reconstructed and appraised in the framework of the Windows Approach shown in the article to incorporate a range of conceptual constructs that are well suited to investigating the origin and evolution of human language.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"105 ","pages":"Pages 231-244"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145473978","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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