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Evaluative labels in public discourse: A political crisis from diverse perspectives 公共话语中的评价标签：不同视角下的政治危机
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.07.002
Virginija Masiulionytė, Jurga Cibulskienė, Inesa Šeškauskienė
{"title":"Evaluative labels in public discourse: A political crisis from diverse perspectives","authors":"Virginija Masiulionytė,&nbsp;Jurga Cibulskienė,&nbsp;Inesa Šeškauskienė","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.07.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.07.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates evaluative labels used in public discourse to frame events and main actors during the Belarusian political crisis in 2021. The data includes opinion articles from US-American, German, Lithuanian, and Russian (pro-Kremlin) media. Each sub-corpus consists of roughly 30,000 words. The time period of the data is from May 23, 2021 to February 23, 2022. The research aims to identify the main targets of evaluative labels and to determine values and value systems encoded in evaluation. Discourse analysis has been employed to examine labels referring to a selected number of referents. Our findings reveal that the main dividing line runs between the USA, Germany, Lithuania, and Russia. The targets in the US-American, German, and Lithuanian public discourses include Lukashenko, his form of governance and his government's actions. In contrast, labels in the Russian public discourse primarily address the Belarusian opposition, including Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. In the data, the prevalent type of evaluation is explicitly negative. The results contribute to the existing research on how language can shape different understanding of reality.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"104 ","pages":"Pages 156-178"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144662924","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 interface of prosody and pragmatics: A phono-pragmatic analysis of bebin (‘look’) in Persian 韵律与语用的结合：波斯语中“看”的音位语用分析
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.004
Reza Kazemian, Mohammad Amouzadeh, Homa Asadi
{"title":"The interface of prosody and pragmatics: A phono-pragmatic analysis of bebin (‘look’) in Persian","authors":"Reza Kazemian,&nbsp;Mohammad Amouzadeh,&nbsp;Homa Asadi","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the phono-pragmatic properties of <em>bebin</em> (‘look’) in Persian within the framework of Interactive Grammar (IG), focusing on its prosodic characteristics and various pragmatic functions in interaction. Specifically, it explores how variations in prosodic features (duration, <em>f</em><sub><em>0</em></sub>, and intensity) correlate with the four primary functions of <em>bebin</em>: directive, attention signal, discourse marker, and interjection. The findings highlight the dynamic interplay between prosody and pragmatics, demonstrating how prosodic cues facilitate pragmatic interpretation and how pragmatic functions influence prosodic realization. Moreover, the study provides evidence of a systematic relationship between phonetic reduction and grammaticalization, with increased phonetic reduction observed in more grammaticalized uses of <em>bebin</em>. This contributes to broader discussions on the role of prosody in linguistic change. The study also addresses challenges related to functional overlap and polysemy, offering insights into the complexities of interactive discourse. Finally, the quantifiable nature of the analysis makes it highly applicable to computational linguistics, particularly in training language models for corpus annotation and enhancing pragmatic understanding in natural language processing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"104 ","pages":"Pages 29-49"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144562802","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 expression of polyphonic city image: A perspective from the linguistic landscape of Beijing’s Hutongs 复调城市形象的表达——从北京胡同的语言景观看
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.001
Jining Chen
{"title":"The expression of polyphonic city image: A perspective from the linguistic landscape of Beijing’s Hutongs","authors":"Jining Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates how linguistic landscapes function as semiotic systems for the expression of city image, using Beijing’s Hutongs as a case study to explore the interaction between linguistic landscapes and urban identity formation. Adopting an ethnographic approach, the study employs a three-tier “frame-polyphony-semiotics” theoretical framework to identify four dominant frames in the Hutong linguistic landscape. These include the historical–cultural, globalization, political-discourse, and everyday-life frames, which respectively correspond to four distinct city images: “Old Beijing”, “Global Metropolis”, “Institutionalized Space”, and “Lived Community”. The findings suggest that linguistic landscapes not only mirror urban spatial configurations and everyday practices but also actively contribute to city-image construction through frame overlap and polyphonic interactions. By examining linguistic landscapes’ semiotic structures and social embeddedness, this study demonstrates their role as discursive instruments that mediate meanings across diverse contexts, shaping city image in dynamic ways. Finally, the study explores the ecological interplay between people, urban spaces, and semiotic resources, offering fresh perspectives on conceptualizing cities as readable and interpretable textual spaces.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"104 ","pages":"Pages 9-28"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144313083","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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Issues of phonetics and social action in human-animal interaction 人与动物互动中的语音学与社会行为问题
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.007
Richard Ogden , Leelo Keevallik
{"title":"Issues of phonetics and social action in human-animal interaction","authors":"Richard Ogden ,&nbsp;Leelo Keevallik","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In encounters between humans and animals, both parties make use of sound, some of which are vocal. Since the anatomy of vocal tracts is different in different species, the production of sounds varies, while humans find ways to partially match the acoustics of animal sounds. Analytic challenges lie in the representation of the various sounds, as we need to move beyond the IPA, and in establishing when and how animals become participants in interspecies interaction.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"104 ","pages":"Pages 113-120"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144632159","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 art and politics of micronational language planning 微民族语言规划的艺术与政治
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.003
David Karlander
{"title":"The art and politics of micronational language planning","authors":"David Karlander","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article discusses the language politics of micronations. It argues that micronational language planning offers a three-pronged satirical rejoinder to mainstream language politics. First, micronational language politics pushes back at attempts to frame nation-states and national languages as irrelevant in a globalized world. Second, it rebuffs neo-romantic sociolinguistic critiques of globalization. Third, it troubles technocratic approaches to language policy and planning (LPP). This argument is grounded in a close analysis of two micronational art projects: Elgaland-Vargaland and Ladonia. These micronations simultaneously appropriate and debase traditional LPP, creating both a defamiliarization of well-worn language ideologies and a destabilization of technocratic linguistic expertise. This is a promising starting point for reimagining research into the politics of language.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"104 ","pages":"Pages 82-96"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144596950","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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Linguistic landscape as semiotic stance-taking interactant: Orders of affect and citizen-consumer subjectification in ‘treaty port area’ 语言景观作为符号学立场的互动：“条约港区”的情感秩序与公民-消费者主体化
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-09-01 Epub Date: 2025-07-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.006
Zhixin Liu
{"title":"Linguistic landscape as semiotic stance-taking interactant: Orders of affect and citizen-consumer subjectification in ‘treaty port area’","authors":"Zhixin Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Inspired by ‘affective regime’, linguistic landscape (LL) research has increasingly foregrounded affect as a central concern. By developing the interactional approach of ‘affective stancetaking’, the paper extends current scholarship by explaining how affect circulates historically and how it affords specific positioning to sign viewers. Drawing on a longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork in China's treaty port area, I examine how an affect (ranging from nostalgia, xiaozi, to party loyalty) becomes interdiscursively produced by semiotic stancetaking processes across LL signs. Furthermore, the place-making project unfolds systematic ‘orders of affect’, embedded with multiple co-existent authorities (i.e., polycentricity) that govern local identity, cosmopolitan-class elitism, and party-state citizenship. This analysis highlights how LL communications discursive-ideologically subjectify citizen-consumers into political and economic structures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"104 ","pages":"Pages 66-81"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144589082","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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Theories of perception between semiophilia and semiophobia 半亲与半恐之间的知觉理论
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.05.002
Adrian Pablé
{"title":"Theories of perception between semiophilia and semiophobia","authors":"Adrian Pablé","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.05.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.05.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper argues that there exist philosophical disagreements over the nature and function of signs when it comes to theorizing perception. For this purpose, the paper compares three thinkers in terms of how they position themselves towards the thesis of perception as sign-mediated, namely Uexküll's semiotic biology, Gibson's ecological psychology, and Harris' integrationism. While Gibson stresses that perception is direct and unmediated, Harris suggests that perceptions are semiologically complex. In the final part, the paper introduces Tim Ingold's concepts of ‘semiophilia’ and ‘semiophobia’ within the context of a philosophy of semiotics and applies them to the theories of perception discussed. The conclusion that the paper draws is that the three thinkers subscribe to incompatible views on human-animal and human-world relations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"103 ","pages":"Pages 150-158"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144189930","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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‘But for calves we were sweeter’. Traditional Finnish cattle calling as trans-species pidgin “但对小牛来说，我们更甜美。”传统的芬兰牛叫声作为跨物种的混杂语
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.005
Anni Jääskeläinen
{"title":"‘But for calves we were sweeter’. Traditional Finnish cattle calling as trans-species pidgin","authors":"Anni Jääskeläinen","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Examining archived recorded cattle calls, this article describes the traditional Finnish ways of cattle calling and suggests that these calls were a trans-species pidgin, a variety made more accessible to animals. This variety used simplified grammar with specific constructions, special phonetic features, melody, rhythmic alterations, gestures, changes in sound quality, and material objects; the purpose was to establish understanding between humans and animals. Furthermore, the article shows how these calls were modified when different species of domestic animals were called. Grazing practices, appearance and the behaviour of animals, as well as landscapes and the aspiration for beauty all influenced how these calls would evolve.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"103 ","pages":"Pages 50-64"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143859069","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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Prosodic matching beyond humans: On the interactional basis of “cat-directed” talk 超越人类的韵律匹配：基于“猫导向”谈话的互动基础
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.007
Katariina Harjunpää , Beatrice Szczepek Reed
{"title":"Prosodic matching beyond humans: On the interactional basis of “cat-directed” talk","authors":"Katariina Harjunpää ,&nbsp;Beatrice Szczepek Reed","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This conversation analytic study investigates a Finnish-speaking caretaker interacting with a cat and her two kittens while she records them on video. The study shows that when talking to the cats, the human prosodically matches their meows, chirps, trills, and purrs by approximating their pitch, duration, voice quality, loudness, and rhythm. Matching occurs with directives, questions, and response tokens (<em>m-hm</em>), as well as with imitative interjections (<em>miu</em>). Through different combinations of prosodic and lexical imitation, the human makes her talk responsive to the cats’ local conduct, and displays understanding and sharing of their ongoing activities and/or affective stances. The study sheds light on how prosodic features associated with so-called animal-directed talk emerge in the interspecies interactions in instances of matching.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"103 ","pages":"Pages 65-85"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143874886","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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Look at me, please! Human auditory attention-getting devices in dog-human play 请看着我！狗-人游戏中的人类听觉注意力获取装置
IF 1.3 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.004
Robert W. Mitchell, Emily Howard, Mahala Saylor, Landon Minor
{"title":"Look at me, please! Human auditory attention-getting devices in dog-human play","authors":"Robert W. Mitchell,&nbsp;Emily Howard,&nbsp;Mahala Saylor,&nbsp;Landon Minor","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.04.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We examined sounds used as attention-getting devices (AGDs) from videotapes of interspecies interactions between familiar and unfamiliar humans (<em>n</em> = 24) and dogs (<em>n</em> = 24) in which humans invited the dog to play. Coders coded nonverbal AGDs and one verbal AGD—calling the dog's name—from all videotapes, as well as whether or not dogs were attending to and playing with the human before and after the AGDs. Humans more often used AGDs when dogs were not attending than attending. Dogs tended not to attend or play following AGDs. When dogs changed attention before to after an AGD, they were more likely to change from not attending to attending, rather than the reverse.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"103 ","pages":"Pages 1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143833635","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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