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Laughter and language attitudes in students’ discussions about language use in Nigeria 尼日利亚学生讨论语言使用时的笑声与语言态度
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.11.008
Sopuruchi Christian Aboh, Hans J. Ladegaard
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Texting in Time: Approaching time and temporalities of smartphone-based interactions 即时短信：接近智能手机互动的时间和时间性
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.005
Florian Busch
{"title":"Texting in Time: Approaching time and temporalities of smartphone-based interactions","authors":"Florian Busch","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper discusses the multifaceted phenomena of time and temporality in smartphone-based communication as a central dimension of communicative and social experience in mediatized and mobilized societies. Although temporal aspects have traditionally been considered in the linguistic study of digital media, there is a notable lack of research explicitly addressing temporal practices, i.e. the temporal agency, of participants in digital communication. The Swiss research project “Texting in Time” investigates these practices using screen capture videos, providing a detailed and immersive view of participants’ smartphone-based interactions. This methodological approach allows for the analysis of various processual phenomena of digitally written communication—from message construction to patterned multi-participation in simultaneous chats. The project examines these dynamics by developing a scalar view of temporalities. Large-scale analyses reveal the temporal patterns structuring everyday smartphone use during days and weeks, while small-scale analyses provide insights into the moment-to-moment organization of digital interactions within minutes and seconds. This paper, by showcasing both analytical perspectives, underscores the significance of revisiting the concept of temporality in digitally mediated interactions, offering relevant insights for advancing our understanding of contemporary mobile communication in linguistic research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"100 ","pages":"Pages 196-211"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143101007","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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“Two hands are powerful”. Handedness variation and genre in New Zealand Sign Language “两只手很有力”。新西兰手语的偏手性变化和体裁
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.07.003
Rachel McKee , Mireille Vale , George Major , Sara Pivac Alexander , Miriam Meyerhoff
{"title":"“Two hands are powerful”. Handedness variation and genre in New Zealand Sign Language","authors":"Rachel McKee ,&nbsp;Mireille Vale ,&nbsp;George Major ,&nbsp;Sara Pivac Alexander ,&nbsp;Miriam Meyerhoff","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.07.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.07.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The use of a lesser-used or minority language in new media is typically a stimulus for genre development and stylistic variation. This study considers online video texts in New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) as a window on such variation and style change, specifically in handedness (whether signs are produced with one or both hands). Sign language research has previously identified that variation in sign handedness is patterned by phonological environment and as well as discourse context: reduction of a two-handed form by dropping the weak hand (WD) is associated with relaxed and spontaneous registers, while the addition of the weak hand to a one-handed sign (‘weak prop’ – asymmetrical, or symmetrical ‘doubling’) has been noted as a feature in performative genres such as poetry and public speaking. To explore whether handedness variation marks an emerging genre of online video posts in NZSL, and whether this may be part of a shift towards greater use of two-handed forms in NZSL, this study examines the distribution of variable features in a corpus of online posts, conversations and personal narratives, and compares usage in recordings made across 17 years. The effect of signers' sociolinguistic characteristics is also analysed. To explore the social meaning of this variation, metapragmatic insights sought from NZSL users about perceived stylistic effects of hand doubling in the data contribute qualitatively to an understanding of genre and style development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"100 ","pages":"Pages 60-76"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143100992","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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How does the state ignore? Ideologies and practices of substantive and procedural listening in U.S. school board meetings 政府是如何忽视的？美国学校董事会会议中实质性和程序性倾听的意识形态与实践
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.007
Joshua Babcock , Ilana Gershon
{"title":"How does the state ignore? Ideologies and practices of substantive and procedural listening in U.S. school board meetings","authors":"Joshua Babcock ,&nbsp;Ilana Gershon","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>For democracy to function, sometimes—even often—people must be ignored, not silenced. In this paper, we turn to U.S. school board meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic to explore how people organize to ignore specific speech acts or participant roles in local democratic contexts. Focusing on the semiotic organization of these meetings, we ask: how does the state listen to its citizens—or not? Why do people repeatedly show up to participate in local democratic fora despite widespread disillusionment with their effectiveness? And how are individuals socialized to expect democratic participant structures organized around substantive uptake rather than procedural listening? We analyze the “state ignored subject” and its double, the “state-ignoring subject,” as institutionally structured and inhabited figures in the reflexively public space of the U.S. school board meeting. We show how these positions do not revolve around offering or refusing seats at the metaphorical table but strategically managing what happens <em>after</em> seats are allocated and voices are given space—seats and voices that might need to be categorically ignored for decisions to be made.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"100 ","pages":"Pages 186-195"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143101009","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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Mediating social and informational serendipity 调解社会和信息意外
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.010
Jacqueline Militello
{"title":"Mediating social and informational serendipity","authors":"Jacqueline Militello","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article examines how social serendipity has developed and been transformed in professional networking communicative practices that previously were predominantly in person and are now also digitally mediated through LinkedIn, videoconferencing, and virtual reality. Using a linguistic ethnographic approach, I apply Björneborn’s (2017) theory of serendipity that posits three broad affordances: (1) diversifiability, the ability to meet heterogeneity; (2) traversability, the ability to explore; and (3) sensoriability, the ability to perceive through the senses. Data come from projects on professional networking practices from 2017 through 2023, and include ethnographic observations, interviews, and recorded networking events. Findings show mediating technologies have significantly transformed aspects of the face-to-face networking process, with changes in serendipity, linked to environmental affordances of diversifiability, traversability, and sensoriability. Existing theorizations explain many underlying fundamental aspects of human communication that shape our interactions with humans but newer frameworks are needed to account for the intersection with technologies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"100 ","pages":"Pages 274-291"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143128525","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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Depicting force at the potter's wheel 描绘陶工轮子上的力量
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.009
Eton Churchill
{"title":"Depicting force at the potter's wheel","authors":"Eton Churchill","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines how performed depictions (Clark, 2016) animate and mobilize bodily force in enskillment. Analysis of 15 h of videotaped interaction at the potter's wheel in Japan illustrates how depictions formed through the use of touch, gestures, and onomatopoeia orient novice attention to aspects of force (e.g., source, path, intensity). The sensei's depictions can serve to initiate instruction on specific skill components, to prompt the novice's work, and to synchronize guidance with the novice's efforts—allowing forces to be analogously co-experienced (Nishizaka, 2017). Across trajectories of action, depictions resonate with earlier instantiations, but are redesigned to emphasize dimensions of force most relevant to the instructional needs of the moment. This study contributes to our understanding of action formation and ascription by illustrating how multimodal resources and the depictions they form (re)configure embodied realizations of force.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"100 ","pages":"Pages 258-273"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143101003","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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How to teach know-how? Corrective manual demonstrations in teaching construction work 如何传授知识？在教学施工工作中进行纠正手册演示
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.008
Hanna-Ilona Härmävaara , Nathalie Schümchen-Schram
{"title":"How to teach know-how? Corrective manual demonstrations in teaching construction work","authors":"Hanna-Ilona Härmävaara ,&nbsp;Nathalie Schümchen-Schram","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Drawing on 20 h of video data from a vocational school construction site, this conversation analytic paper analyzes corrective demonstrations that target the skilled use of task-relevant tools in the context of learning manual work. With narrated demonstrations, the teacher shows the students how to skillfully use the tools and guides their vision to see how the material outcome should be interpreted in materially complex tasks. Orientation to the students' emerging expertise shows in how corrective demonstrations are built on participants’ existing procedural understanding that is redirected by means of corrective demonstration. A crucial element in these multimodally designed demonstrations is tool transfer that marks the beginning and the end of the demonstration sequence.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"100 ","pages":"Pages 224-242"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143101005","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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Affective place branding: Mediatization of the Wutong-scape in Shanghai 情感性场所品牌化：上海梧桐景观的媒介化
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.012
Jiajie Chen
{"title":"Affective place branding: Mediatization of the Wutong-scape in Shanghai","authors":"Jiajie Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article explores the meta-semiotic complexity of place branding through the theoretical lenses of affect and mediatization. Drawing on ethnographic data collected through ‘city-walking’ experiences, photographs of semiotic landscapes, and public discourses on social media, this article investigates how the affective potentials of nostalgic Shanghai are regulated, experienced, modulated and creatively transformed through the dynamic interplay between mediatization, mediation and remediation. The findings suggest two major implications. Firstly, an open-textured but still recognizable realm of affective arrangement emerges within the constant calibration of the three-way interplay in affective place branding. Secondly, consumers enter into such a realm embedded with their reciprocal capacities of affecting and being affected. Their affective resonance with the situated environment ultimately brands the place.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"100 ","pages":"Pages 243-257"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143101004","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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Disorienting discourses and the making of gentrifiers in redeveloping Brooklyn 迷失方向的话语和重建布鲁克林的中产阶级的形成
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.001
Shonna Trinch, Edward Snajdr
{"title":"Disorienting discourses and the making of gentrifiers in redeveloping Brooklyn","authors":"Shonna Trinch,&nbsp;Edward Snajdr","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We study how large and small discursive neoliberal moves create contemporary urban space. We explore neoliberalism’s coordinates, how it gets vocalized, and its variously scaled economic realities. The setting is Brooklyn's changing status in 2003 from “outer borough” and marginal to Manhattan to a new economic and cultural center of its own. Focusing on private developer, Forest City Ratner's (FCRC) 2003 Atlantic Yards redevelopment with its large-scale movement of capital and corporate land seizure, we situate our family’s 2003 move to Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood to examine the circulating discourses of gentrification and redevelopment. [ii] The area proposed to be developed as Atlantic Yards has been renamed Pacific Park.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"100 ","pages":"Pages 122-136"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143100995","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, smartphone and territories of the self 人类，智能手机和自我领域
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.11.009
Lian Malai Madsen, Andreas Candefors Stæhr
{"title":"Human, smartphone and territories of the self","authors":"Lian Malai Madsen,&nbsp;Andreas Candefors Stæhr","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.11.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.11.009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, we interrogate the applicability of Goffman's theory on ‘territories of the self’ to study the relationship between human and the smartphone. We look into how a number of Copenhagen adolescents and their parents reflect on their everyday lives with smartphones. Our analytical framework is based on discursive psychology and positioning analysis. Through this framework we investigate the interpretative repertoires invoked by the participants in their small stories of their everyday life with smartphones and discuss how they relate to territorial concerns. Overall, the analysis suggests that the smartphone creates new conditions for the territorial self as it involves an intersection of the possessional territory, the information and conversational preserves and to some extent the sheath.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"100 ","pages":"Pages 154-165"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143101012","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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