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A dynamic metaphor perspective on Trump and Xi's trade negotiation in governmental discourse 从动态隐喻视角看政府话语中的特朗普与习近平贸易谈判
IF 1.5 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2024-03-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.02.005
Xiaojuan Tan, Alan Cienki
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Verbal and visual communication in constructive news across cultures: A case study of a bilingual English-Spanish corpus with a focus on metaphor 跨文化建设性新闻中的语言和视觉交流：以隐喻为重点的英语-西班牙语双语语料库案例研究
IF 1.5 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2024-03-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.02.001
Ashley Riggs
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Up from Babel: On the (r)evolutionary linguistic thought of Eugène Lanti 从巴别向上欧仁-兰蒂的语言（进化）思想
IF 1.5 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2024-02-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.02.003
David Karlander
{"title":"Up from Babel: On the (r)evolutionary linguistic thought of Eugène Lanti","authors":"David Karlander","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.02.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2024.02.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Esperantist radical Eugène Lanti (1879–1947) anticipated a total ‘unification’ of humankind, envisioning that national, linguistic, and social differences would soon give way to a global, stateless, monolingual, postcapitalist utopia. This vision was grounded in Lanti's understanding of history as teleological progress toward increased rationality, social integration, and demythologization, as well as in his cosmopolitan reinterpretation of the social utility of Esperanto, which prioritised anti-nationalism, revolutionary tactics, and class-struggle over humanism and language rights. Lanti's linguistic–political thought is, consequently, an enticing and a reflexively potent example of a non-canonical approach to linguistic community, progress, and radical equality. A critical reading of it – as is laid out here – casts light on some of the tensions immanent in any linguistic universalism.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"96 ","pages":"Pages 13-25"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0271530924000120/pdfft?md5=17f59ff6fca83c1db4bf0ba31dff768e&pid=1-s2.0-S0271530924000120-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139986270","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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Artificial intelligence and the ethnographic encounter: Transhuman language ontologies, or what it means “to write like a human, think like a machine” 人工智能与人种学相遇：超人类语言本体论，或 "像人类一样写作，像机器一样思考 "的含义
IF 1.5 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2024-02-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.02.002
Eugenia Demuro , Laura Gurney
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Claims and contests: On the epistemic negotiation of place identity 主张与争议：关于地方身份的认识论谈判
IF 1.5 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2024-02-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.01.003
Felipe Leandro de Jesus , Sarah Rose Bellavance , Jennifer Nycz
{"title":"Claims and contests: On the epistemic negotiation of place identity","authors":"Felipe Leandro de Jesus ,&nbsp;Sarah Rose Bellavance ,&nbsp;Jennifer Nycz","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.01.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2024.01.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper investigates knowledge management in interaction and the role of epistemic stance in place identity construction. We examine how a US expat in Toronto negotiates her New Yorker identity in conversation with two Canadians by demonstrating how authoritative epistemic stances are employed to produce relations of distinction, adequation, and authentication in service of place identity construction. We also discuss ‘epistemic disputes’, wherein epistemic stances and claims to place identity are challenged through the notion of epistemic rights. In doing so, we argue for the fundamental connection between information state, management of knowledge in interaction, and processes of identity construction.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"95 ","pages":"Pages 42-54"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139699477","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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Assessing potential disinformation campaigns in anonymous online comments: Evaluating available textual cues in debates on the 2019 Hong Kong protests 评估匿名在线评论中潜在的造谣活动：评估 2019 年香港抗议活动辩论中的可用文本线索
IF 1.5 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2024-02-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.01.002
Cedric Deschrijver
{"title":"Assessing potential disinformation campaigns in anonymous online comments: Evaluating available textual cues in debates on the 2019 Hong Kong protests","authors":"Cedric Deschrijver","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.01.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2024.01.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Despite increasing attention to its spread, there has been little sustained engagement with online disinformation’s localized effects. This paper provides a case study of online commenters’ own interpretations of potential disinformation campaigns, by analyzing <em>The Financial Times</em><span>’s anonymous comment boards below coverage of the 2019 Hong Kong protests. Despite a lack of clear-cut evidence of ongoing disinformation campaigns, disparate textual features retrievable in discourse come to function as contextualization cues that situationally index ongoing disinformation campaigns. Participants’ awareness of the possibility of disinformation may thus engender accusations of disinformation towards any comment criticizing the protest movement<span>, with several arguments becoming stereotypically indexical of potential disinformation campaigns. The case study provides a linguistic-anthropological account of the interrelation between disinformation and social polarization.</span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"95 ","pages":"Pages 31-41"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139675412","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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Documenting the emerging social-semiotic landscape in children ages 5 to 12 记录 5 至 12 岁儿童新出现的社会-半社会景观
IF 1.5 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2024-02-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.01.001
Charlotte Vaughn , Kara Becker
{"title":"Documenting the emerging social-semiotic landscape in children ages 5 to 12","authors":"Charlotte Vaughn ,&nbsp;Kara Becker","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2024.01.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2024.01.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Despite widespread application of semiotic theory in sociolinguistics, the development of children's social-semiotic landscapes remains underexplored. This paper analyzes the spontaneous responses of 94 children to short American English speech samples, with emic coding of responses. Results support a view of children's social-semiotic landscapes as rich and expanding; children as young as 5 volunteer a wide range of social indexes, but substantive comments increase in developmental time. Children use personal and local information early and often. Developmental increases in comments relying on more public or evaluative social knowledge suggest a developmental process building outward from the personal to the public. Children offer a window into the vibrant scaffolding process that all language users utilize, connecting language to the social in a local and dialogic process.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"95 ","pages":"Pages 16-30"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139675379","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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Facework in translating and re-narrating vulgar language: The case of Macron's harsh statement against the unvaccinated in English language and Greek mainstream and alternative media 翻译和重新叙述粗俗语言的工作：马克龙在英语和希腊主流及另类媒体中针对未接种疫苗者的严厉言论案例
IF 1.5 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2024-01-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2023.12.005
Maria Constantinou
{"title":"Facework in translating and re-narrating vulgar language: The case of Macron's harsh statement against the unvaccinated in English language and Greek mainstream and alternative media","authors":"Maria Constantinou","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2023.12.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2023.12.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The present paper investigates, from a comparative and cross-cultural perspective, how ‘journalators’ in English-language and Greek media rendered a controversial statement by French President E. Macron against the non-vaccinated, with the use of the slang verb <em>emmerder</em><span>. The paper examines how journalators sought to render the verb and re-narrate that particular discursive instance, largely judged as vulgar, divisive and improper for a head of state, in order to save or aggravate the French president's face through selective appropriation and reframing. It draws on narrative theory of translation as developed by Mona Baker (2005, 2006, 2010), and explores the concept of facework (Goffmann, 1967; Brown and Levinson, 1978, 1987; Bull and Fetzer, 2010) and the notion of ethos (Mainguenau, 2002, 2014) to analyze from a critical discourse analytic perspective a corpus of press articles in English and Greek. The results of both quantitative and qualitative analysis indicate that there is an array of lexical choices and strategies to intensify or attenuate vulgarity and offensiveness and save or aggravate Macron's image. The study has also confirmed the role of ideology and ideological positioning in the choice not only of lexical choices but also what is selected or deselected to be translated.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"95 ","pages":"Pages 1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139419414","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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Speaking up and being heard: The changing metadiscourse about ‘voice’ in British parliamentary debates since 1800 大声疾呼并被倾听：1800 年以来英国议会辩论中有关 "声音 "的元话语的变化
IF 1.5 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2023.12.002
Melani Schröter , Theo Jung
{"title":"Speaking up and being heard: The changing metadiscourse about ‘voice’ in British parliamentary debates since 1800","authors":"Melani Schröter ,&nbsp;Theo Jung","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2023.12.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2023.12.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As a metaphor for political power, participation, and legitimacy, the concept of ‘voice’ is central to considerations of representative politics during the modern era. Little is known about how political actors themselves understood and referred to their own voices, those of others, and their respective significance for representative politics. This article focuses on the British Parliament, which was since the eighteenth century regarded as a paradigmatic incarnation of political voice and as the pinnacle of modern representative government. Based on a corpus of Hansard debates from 1800 to 2005, we analyse MPs' explicit references to ‘voice’ in parliamentary debates. We aim to explore the salience of ‘voice’ for MPs and of different aspects of voice as a vehicle for expressing political will. We also shed light on how metadiscursive references to ‘voice’ change over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"94 ","pages":"Pages 41-55"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0271530923000794/pdfft?md5=e13708ea01881d55fa513a8adcb4df4f&pid=1-s2.0-S0271530923000794-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139054381","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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Reading (in) law: A critical appraisal of the impact of language on disciplinary novices’ cognitive reading strategies 阅读（法律）：批判性评估语言对学科新手认知阅读策略的影响
IF 1.5 2区 文学
Language & Communication Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2023.12.001
Bongi Bangeni
{"title":"Reading (in) law: A critical appraisal of the impact of language on disciplinary novices’ cognitive reading strategies","authors":"Bongi Bangeni","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2023.12.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.langcom.2023.12.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article adopts a critical approach to literacy and genre analysis to explore the place for multilingualism at a South African historically white university's law faculty. Drawing on data from think-aloud protocols and semi-structured interviews, it seeks to gain insight into the following: the (meta)cognitive reading strategies used by first-year English additional language (EAL) students in reading the legal judgment; the impact of language on strategy use, and lastly, students' perceptions of the value of their home languages for mediating reading challenges as surfaced in the think-aloud protocols. Drawing on Tardy et al.’s (2020) theoretical framework for researching genre knowledge, the findings demonstrate how reading strategies are utilised differently for different purposes. Participants' uses of the strategies of ‘setting a context’ and ‘rereading’ illustrate how language intersects with home and school-based discourses and the impact thereof on reading.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"94 ","pages":"Pages 69-84"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0271530923000782/pdfft?md5=157bc560365f1679166b24ab23635cb6&pid=1-s2.0-S0271530923000782-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139062013","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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