{"title":"Lexical repetitions during time critical moments in boxing","authors":"Misao Okada","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2023.01.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2023.01.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper analyzes how a boxing coach co-constructs, or in some cases, co-experiences ‘not-postponable’ or ‘time critical’ (<span>Mondada, 2014b</span><span>: 270) moments with the boxer. It examines a coach's uses of some phonological features of self-repetition of lexical forms, e.g. nouns, or imperatives, in her instruction toward the boxer. The analysis shows how these phonological features relate to the specificities of the rapidly moving bodies of the boxer, the opponent, or the coach, across different types of training sessions. Thus, these features help the coach accomplish ‘</span><em>sensing</em> the world’ together (<span>Mondada, 2019</span>: 47) and/or co-constructing it with the instructed boxer.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"90 ","pages":"Pages 95-113"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50197387","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}
{"title":"“Oh my god that would hurt”: Pain cries in feminist self-defence classes","authors":"Ann Weatherall","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2023.01.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2023.01.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examines response cries produced by student spectators reacting to imagined pain in the setting of feminist self-defence classes. It investigates the vocal, verbal and embodied resources that constitute reactive displays to demonstrations and descriptions of physical techniques that can thwart attacks. It asks what the pain cries accomplish, considering their form and sequential organisation. Video-recordings of the classes were data. Drawing on discursive psychology and using multi-modal conversation analysis, the results detail how the conventionalised composition and positions of the cries make them mutually intelligible as reacting to a painful experience. They functioned to support the progression of the instructional activity that created a make-believe space where girls and women can resist violence. The findings confirm and extend what is known about the interactional environments and activities in which pain figures, further advancing the distinctive insights that an interactional approach brings. Data are in New Zealand English.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"90 ","pages":"Pages 1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50197385","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}
{"title":"Linguistic features and pragmatic functions of direct reported speech in Italian troubles telling sequences","authors":"Ilaria Riccioni , Gill Philip , Alessandra Fermani , Ramona Bongelli","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2023.03.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2023.03.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article aims to investigate possible linguistic features and pragmatic functions of Direct Reported Speech (DRS) in a specific conversational context, which seems to favour the emerging of this phenomenon: the trouble telling sequence. The study, conducted on a corpus of naturally occurring interactions in Italian, describes some characteristics of this linguistic device from both a qualitative and a quantitative point of view, by analysing how and for what purposes it can be used. DRS produced by the Troubles Teller mostly aims to account for their point of view, to complain and criticise, to express feelings and emotions and to anticipate future behaviour; the Trouble Recipient uses DRS mainly to express support towards the conversational partner and to give advice.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"90 ","pages":"Pages 63-81"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50197391","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}
{"title":"Hebrew stance-taking gasps: From bodily response to social communicative resource","authors":"Yotam M. Ben-Moshe","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2022.12.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2022.12.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper describes 'gasps' – ingressive vocoids, ingressive nasal stops, and certain sharp inbreaths – expressing stance in Hebrew conversation. A sharp inbreath can be part of a startle reflex, but sequential analysis shows gasps used as carefully coordinated interactional resources. Gasps in themselves express high arousal only; valence and specific affective categories must be gathered from context. Gasps’ liminal status, blurring the lines between body and language, self and other, informs their expressive power, making them potent ways to redirect attention, display emotion, and express empathy. Despite their liminal status, gasps fit the usage patterns of established linguistic categories of affective expressions, such as response cries, prompting reconsideration of the limits of linguistic categories.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"90 ","pages":"Pages 14-32"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50197384","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}
{"title":"Metalinguistic negation of proper names: Evidence from Russian","authors":"Elena Vilinbakhova , Igor Boguslavsky","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2022.12.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2022.12.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper examines metalinguistic negation of proper names on the data from the Russian National Corpus, including its pragmatic functions, its performance with regards to other cases of metalinguistic negation, and the opposition between explicit and implicit use of the metalinguistic predicate. The data showed that the speaker's most common aim is to reject a particular representation of the name owner in favor of another representation. Next, we discovered that metalinguistic negation is more natural in corrections of content ascribed to speaker than in reactions to a preceding interlocutor's comment. Finally, the metalinguistic predicate of naming can be expressed not only lexically, but also be part of the meaning of some syntactic constructions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"89 ","pages":"Pages 8-22"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50198295","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}
{"title":"Heritage learners are more sensitive to effects of script: Evidence from Korean","authors":"Yoolim Kim , Adam Charles Roberts","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2023.01.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2023.01.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>This study reports on the processing differences of script between native (or L1) and heritage speakers of Korean to provide further theoretical insight into heritage languages. We address questions concerning the effects of script and how this varies depending on differential proficiencies in the written language. We find that heritage speakers of Korean are sensitive to different aspects of written Korean (Hangul and Hanja), during </span>visual word recognition, compared to native speakers. That is, factors causing interference for native speakers facilitate processing for heritage speakers. This suggests that (1) written language does play key role in lexical knowledge, and (2) there are potentially important differences between native and heritage speakers in how written language shapes lexical knowledge.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"89 ","pages":"Pages 92-100"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50198297","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}
LaReina Hingson, Brooke Anderson, Brandon Torruella, Lanna McRae, Scott Howell
{"title":"Something wicked this way comes! Applying linguistic structures within Ricoer's interpretation theory","authors":"LaReina Hingson, Brooke Anderson, Brandon Torruella, Lanna McRae, Scott Howell","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2023.01.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2023.01.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Punctuation may seem to be minor, but even ‘minor’ editing influences the interpretation of a text. This paper draws in several novel connections in language and communication in order to look at how the punctuation of the exclamation mark, and the editors that select it, create a symbol that suggests to the reader how to appropriate the text. Using Ricoeur's interpretation theory as the foundation, this study applies linguistic structures of propositions, syntax, speech act functions, and genre to microscopically analyze the use of punctuation and how it functions to guide the reader's interpretation of a text. In the case of a religious text, the exclamation point is used to alert the reader to understand his own state of wickedness.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"89 ","pages":"Pages 78-91"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50198298","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}
{"title":"Towards a comprehensive model of style-shifting: Evidence from sibilant variation in Mandarin","authors":"Yuhan Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2022.12.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2022.12.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Research on style-shifting has shifted from more responsive models to one that prioritizes speaker agency. However, recent work suggests that cognitive and sociocultural factors influence intra-speaker variation in tandem. This study contributes to the literature by investigating the interplay between task, audience, and attitudinal effects on the style-shifting of/s/and/ʂ/by Southern Mandarin speakers living in Beijing. Historically merged in Southern Mandarin, the two </span>phonemes are undergoing a lexical split. Speakers exhibit greater/s/-/ʂ/contrast in wordlist than in conversation and their/ʂ/production is predicted by an interaction between task, audience and Beijing orientation. High social salience of the sibilant merger/split also adds to the growing evidence that social meaning can be associated with structural phonological relations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"89 ","pages":"Pages 23-41"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50198300","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}
{"title":"The language predicament of South African universities in a global perspective","authors":"Abram de Swaan","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2022.12.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2022.12.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In many formerly colonized countries the colonial language still prevails as the medium of education and nationwide communication: at Independence, the various language groups would not accept another group's language as the new national medium. Much like India or the European Union, post-Apartheid South Africa officially adopted 11 languages on an equal footing. English remained in the lead and even expanded considerably. Afrikaans stayed in second position. The other African languages remained mainly as vernaculars. South African universities continued to teach in either English or Afrikaans, but black and colored students increasingly felt excluded from an Afrikaans curriculum. In a more varied and flexible academic policy, language choices should be made to depend on the relevant level of education, the academic discipline concerned, and the intended audience.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"89 ","pages":"Pages 1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50198294","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}
{"title":"Introducing the Volume of Extremity (VoX) method to integrate prosodic data into discourse analysis","authors":"Vered Silber-Varod , Anat Lerner","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2022.12.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2022.12.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study aims to integrate acoustic analysis into discourse analysis. We developed a method that targets the fifth and the ninety-fifth percentiles of acoustic parameters of the four prosodic dimensions: pitch (F0), power (amplitude), duration, and voice quality per each speaker. We then defined a new measure to express the Volume of Extremity (VoX) of a speaker's voice. To demonstrate the strength of our model, we analyzed two political interviews from the Israeli election campaign in 2019, one with Benjamin Netanyahu and the other with Benny Gantz. Findings suggest that the acoustically targeted utterances are meaningful to the speaker but in a complex manner.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"89 ","pages":"Pages 42-62"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50198299","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}