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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
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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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Coordinating multimodal and screen-based actions in proposal sequences of video-mediated collaborative drawing 协调多模态和基于屏幕的动作在建议序列的视频媒介协同绘图
IF 1.4 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.08.001
Tuire Oittinen , Tiina Räisänen
{"title":"Coordinating multimodal and screen-based actions in proposal sequences of video-mediated collaborative drawing","authors":"Tuire Oittinen ,&nbsp;Tiina Räisänen","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.08.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.08.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates ways in which proposal sequences are coordinated via multimodal and screen-based actions in video-mediated collaborative drawing. More specifically, we focus on moments when participants who deploy a drawing tool engage in joint decision-making related to a logo drawing task. We draw on 15 h of screen-recorded data from university students’ video-mediated sessions and use the method of multimodal conversation analysis (CA). Our analysis shows that proposal sequences are initiated and advanced via verbal, embodied and screen-based actions and their unfolding depends on various aspects, including the timing and way of mobilizing the drawing tool and the roles of the participants (i.e., drawer vs. other participants). The study highlights drawing as a resource and affordance in joint decision-making.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"104 ","pages":"Pages 210-227"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144890532","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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Introduction: Digital technology as human experience 引言：数字技术作为人类的经验
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.05.003
Andreas Candefors Stæhr, Lian Malai Madsen
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Top-down and bottom-up semiotic landscapes in Eastern Suburb Memory: A scalar-chronotopic approach 东郊记忆中的自上而下和自下而上的符号学景观：一个标量-时间顺序方法
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.07.001
Everard Jun-Jie Ma, Bill Tian-You Tang, Brian Hok-Shing Chan
{"title":"Top-down and bottom-up semiotic landscapes in Eastern Suburb Memory: A scalar-chronotopic approach","authors":"Everard Jun-Jie Ma,&nbsp;Bill Tian-You Tang,&nbsp;Brian Hok-Shing Chan","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.07.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.07.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>There is a trend for old industrial areas to be redeveloped into commercialised areas to promote consumption and city branding. In such redevelopment, differentiated semiotic landscapes (SLs) are utilized to project identities and to promote consumption. This article examines the top-down and bottom-up SLs in the <em>Eastern Suburb Memory</em> (ESM) in Chengdu, China that was converted from an industrial heritage site. Drawing on Bakhtin's notion of ‘chronotope’, we focus on the differences between the chronotopes invoked by the government and those by entrepreneurs for the purposes of national identification and commercialisation through translingual and multimodal practices. We find that the top-down choreographies tend to invoke the chronotope of the Chinese industrialisation period in the past to evoke national solidarity and pride for publicity and tourism. In contrast, the grassroots' SLs utilise more ancient and broader chronotopes (e.g. the Republic of China and contemporary Europe) across multiple scale-levels to evoke nostalgia and exoticism. Furthermore, this article explores the emerging tendency of the two types of SLs to transcend binary oppositions and achieve mutual absorption through the lens of assemblage.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"104 ","pages":"Pages 97-112"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144604441","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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Human-animal vocal communication, a (now) legitimate topic for linguistics and the analysis of social interaction 人类与动物的声音交流，是语言学和社会互动分析的一个（现在）合法的话题
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.07.003
Chloé Mondémé
{"title":"Human-animal vocal communication, a (now) legitimate topic for linguistics and the analysis of social interaction","authors":"Chloé Mondémé","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.07.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.07.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The study of animal vocalizations has long been the exclusive domain of animal behavior research, which studies animal vocal productions for various reasons, but mostly as an inquiry into the origins of human verbal language. Recently, insights from linguistics have followed the trend set by what is sometimes referred to as an “animal turn” in the social sciences and humanities. This has resulted in treating the interaction between humans and non-human animals as a research topic in its own right. The part of linguistics interested in the multimodal analysis of social interaction was particularly well-equipped to deal with those non-verbal, though meaningful and (sometimes) cooperative, interactions. This permitted (i) a reconsideration of classic linguistic phenomena (e.g., participation, sequentiality, intentionality) and (ii) detailed analyses of the interactional production of meaning in interspecies interaction, while eschewing speculations about the origin of language. This contribution outlines these new developments, and shows how the articles of this Special Issue on “sound patterns in interspecies interaction” specifically contribute to them.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"104 ","pages":"Pages 131-139"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144654733","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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“Telling the China story well” in Cambridge undergraduate admissions interviews 剑桥大学本科招生面试中的“讲好中国故事”
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.005
Daniel Weston
{"title":"“Telling the China story well” in Cambridge undergraduate admissions interviews","authors":"Daniel Weston","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article explores how Chinese candidates draw on aspects of their sociocultural background during the University of Cambridge undergraduate admissions interview, an academic gatekeeping encounter. Tannen's three-tiered narrative framework is used to capture how candidates provide (small-n) narratives about China; how these narratives are organized by themes or (big-N) Narratives; and how these Narratives stand in relation to the cultural ideologies, or Master Narratives, disseminated throughout Chinese society. The analysis shows that candidates do not simply reproduce these Master Narratives during the interview. Owing to its interculturality, and marked power differential, candidates are shown instead to engage in careful acts of sociocultural positioning in order to express ideas and opinions—sometimes on matters of geopolitical sensitivity—that may not align with those of their interviewers. In so doing, they also problematize the notion of the “immigrant story”, in which migrant candidates efface and replace their sociocultural identity with one that is fully accommodating.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"104 ","pages":"Pages 50-65"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144564037","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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“Calling-out” and “halting” summonses: Drawing the attention of a coworker on the move “呼叫”和“暂停”召唤：引起正在移动的同事的注意
IF 1.4 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.002
Angeliki Balantani, Esther González-Martínez
{"title":"“Calling-out” and “halting” summonses: Drawing the attention of a coworker on the move","authors":"Angeliki Balantani,&nbsp;Esther González-Martínez","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We examine the activity of securing the attention of a prospective interlocutor by means of a summons-answer sequence when the summoned party is walking away from the summoner. We focus on two forms of first-name summonses. Calling-out summonses are produced when the coparticipants are at a significant distance from each other and the summoner remains stationary. Halting summonses are produced when the summoner is moving towards the summoned party and is about to reach them. The data are video recordings of hospital staff corridor interactions oriented towards recruiting a coworker for a practical task.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"104 ","pages":"Pages 179-196"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144748833","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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Enlanguaged affordances in social practices: A critical rethinking of Gibson's approach to language 社会实践中的语言支持：对吉布森语言研究方法的批判性反思
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.07.004
Rasmus Gahrn-Andersen
{"title":"Enlanguaged affordances in social practices: A critical rethinking of Gibson's approach to language","authors":"Rasmus Gahrn-Andersen","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.07.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.07.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Jones and Read argue that Gibson's concept of affordances can significantly contribute to radical, non-representationalist approaches in linguistics. In line with their perspective, this paper asserts that a crucial initial step must be taken: a critical examination of Gibson's account of the relationship between affordances and language. Specifically, I argue that we should question the assumption that affordance-relative awareness necessarily precedes linguistic behavior, a hypothesis I term Gibson's ‘awareness first, words second’ hypothesis. The paper develops a positive argument around the concept of ‘enlanguaged affordance’, demonstrating how insights from practice theory, radical cognitive science, and distributed approaches to language can converge around this central idea. The paper aims to illuminate how linguistic skills and competencies contribute to shaping social practices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"104 ","pages":"Pages 121-130"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144632160","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 effect of speech rate on easy language audios comprehension 语速对简易语言音频理解的影响
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.07.005
Marina Pujadas-Farreras , María J. Machuca
{"title":"The effect of speech rate on easy language audios comprehension","authors":"Marina Pujadas-Farreras ,&nbsp;María J. Machuca","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.07.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.07.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Easy Language is a simplified language variety designed to make information more comprehensible for diverse target groups, including individuals with intellectual disabilities, second-language learners, and those with neurocognitive disorders. Although certain guidelines and standards of Easy Language give some recommendations regarding prosodic aspects, these have not yet been tested with the target user groups considered in this study. This study investigates the impact of speech rate on comprehension of Easy Language audios in Catalan, as well as the acceptability of different speech rates and users' preferences. Three participant groups were involved: individuals with intellectual disabilities, neurotypical second-language learners, and a neurotypical control group. Four distinct speech rates were assessed (130 wpm, 150 wpm, 170 wpm, and 190 wpm). The results indicated that speech rate had no significant effect on comprehension across any group. However, it is important to highlight that all three groups agreed that 150 wpm was the most acceptable speed, and it was also among the most preferred speeds.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"104 ","pages":"Pages 140-155"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144662923","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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