{"title":"Peer socialization in an oral preschool classroom","authors":"Kristella Montiegel","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2023.01.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2023.01.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span>Informed by the perspectives of Language Socialization and the Social Model of Childhood Disability, and using the method of Conversation Analysis, I investigate the communicative practices that facilitate peer </span>socialization processes in an oral classroom for deaf or hard-of-hearing preschoolers. Analyses show how children's interactions serve as mechanisms for socialization into norms and behaviors similar to what we see in general preschool settings, as well as those that are specific to their oral classroom. The children's varying communication skills and competencies enable different abilities and methods for peer teaching, illustrating the ever-shifting roles of socializing ‘experts’ and ‘novices.’ Additionally, the children orient to recipient design in </span>peer interaction, further demonstrating how they actively work to socialize each other. Data is drawn from 9 h of video-recordings in one oral classroom in California.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50198301","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":"Indicating ideology: Variation in Montenegrin orthography","authors":"Katharina Tyran","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2022.10.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2022.10.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This contribution discusses variation in orthography on a standard language level as a semiotic practice of extra-lingual exclusion and intra-lingual stylistic differentiation in a South Slavic language, Montenegrin. I will address recent orthography reforms and their use following the emancipation of Serbo-Croatian. Orthographic variants, I argue, function as semiotic means of exclusion from the former common language concept and as an emphasized differentiation to other standard varieties emerging from Serbo-Croatian, and therefore hold sociocultural indexicality. Such variation needs to be examined in its ideological embedding. Consequently, I will discuss how competing orthography reforms and variants following from these are connected to ideological disputes in the post-Serbo-Croatian linguistic sphere and how the use of either one orthography or another is constructed as stylistic representations of ideological perspectives.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50202265","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":"Prosody is used for real-time exercising of other bodies","authors":"Emily Hofstetter, Leelo Keevallik","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2022.11.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2022.11.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While the lexico-grammatical and embodied practices in various instructional activities have been explored in-depth (Keevallik, 2013; Simone & Galatolo, 2020), the vocal capacities deployed by instructors have not been in focus. This study looks at how a Pilates instructor coaches student bodies by modulating the prosodic production of verbal instructions and adjusting vocal quality in reflexive coordination with the students' ongoing movements. We show how the body of one participant can be expressed and enhanced by another's voice in a simultaneous assembly of action and argue for the dialogical conceptualization of a speaker. These voice-body assemblies constitute evidence of how actions were brought about jointly rather than constructed individually.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50202258","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":"A linguistic ethnography of the sense of belonging: Iraqi Turkmen women refugees in Turkey","authors":"Hasret Saygı","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2022.10.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2022.10.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article is concerned with the construction of a sense of (non-)belonging in the context of forced migration. It is based on linguistic ethnographic fieldwork carried out in a Turkish town with a group of Iraqi Turkmen women refugees. Using data from audio-recordings of spontaneous interactions in Turkish in informal social gatherings, interviews, and home visits, this research seeks to understand how the sense of belonging and the experience of the sense of otherness are expressed through the Iraqi Turkmen women's discursive accounts. The findings reveal that their perception of foreignness and display of belonging lie on a dynamic continuum, which may reflect the qualities of a liminal stage.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50202267","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":"Remaking futsuu ‘ordinary’ in the discourse of younger Japanese adults","authors":"Judit Kroo","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2022.11.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2022.11.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper examines the use of expressions related to <em>futsuu</em> ‘ordinary’ by contemporary Japanese younger adults. Under conditions of socioeconomic precarity, the achievement of an ‘ordinary life’ is falling out of reach for many younger adults in Japan creating a situation in which ‘ordinariness’ is framed as an aspirational goal. Analysis considers how younger Japanese adults use <em>futsuu</em> to discursively (re)-frame what counts as standard or desirable practice and to enfold otherwise marginalized practices into contextually dependent norms. In demonstrating how the deployment of <em>futsuu</em> expressions both reflects and shapes the ethnometapragmatic order of things, this paper argues that ordinariness itself is an interactionally contingent semiotic event.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50203030","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":"Cheering together: The interactional organization of choral vocalizations","authors":"Burak S. Tekin","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2022.11.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2022.11.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study demonstrates how cheering together in and as a choir is an interactional accomplishment in co-present video gaming activities. The relevance of producing choral vocalizations is established by participants collectively and simultaneously orienting to particular events in video games as cheerables. Vocalizations are often individually initiated and elongated, and the joining of other persons transforms these vocalizations into collective cheering. The theatrical movements of players establish a particular relevance for participants to engage in choral vocalizations. By way of establishing, sustaining, modifying and terminating their choral vocalizations in interaction, the choirs manifest their shared treatments of the cheerables in video gaming interactions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50202272","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":"“I don't mean extradimensional in a woo-woo sense”: Doing non-explanation in discussions of unidentified aerial phenomena","authors":"Chris McVittie , Andy McKinlay","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2022.11.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2022.11.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In everyday talk, speakers commonly provide explanations that “make plain” or “make intelligible” prior talk. Little work, however, has examined talk in which speakers offer no explanation for what is being described. We consider talk about “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAPs) from news media interviews. Interviewees distanced themselves from accountability for explaining UAPs or proposed multiple candidate explanations. Interviewers tabled their own potential explanations. Participants’ talk did not “make plain” or “make intelligible” phenomena being discussed. These findings show that explanations are a participants’ concern. These interactions allow discussion of topics of broad public interest, thereby “doing news”.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50202273","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":"Punctuating the other: Graphic cues, voice, and positioning in digital discourse","authors":"Jannis Androutsopoulos","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2022.11.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2022.11.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article investigates the nested relationship between graphic cues, voice, and positioning in digital discourse. The focus is on the ‘indignation mark’, or <!!1!>, an allographic sign used in German-language discussion boards on Reddit. The study's theoretical backdrop brings research on graphic practices in digitally-mediated communication into dialogue with sociolinguistic approaches to the enactment of group relations in discourse, in particular double-voicing, stylization, and positioning, thereby aiming to foster theory-building on both sides. Data is extracted from a large German-language forum (‘subreddit’) on Reddit and subjected to computational, sequential, and microlinguistic analysis. The findings show how participants in public online discussions use punctuation signs and other graphic cues to animate voices, i.e. ways of speaking that index recognizable social positions and ideologies; how these stylized voices provide a resource for positioning; and how participants display recognition of and alignment to this feature's indexical meaning. The findings also suggest that the ‘indignation mark’ is part of a wider ecology of graphic cues, which evolve constantly to enable multi-voicedness in public digital discourse. Overall, this paper aims to advance our understanding about how graphic elements of digital discourse are indexically and ideologically connected with positioning activities in online communities of practice.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50203029","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":"Non-lexical vocalizations help novices learn joint embodied actions","authors":"Saul Albert , Dirk vom Lehn","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2022.10.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2022.10.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Non-lexical vocalizations are key interactional resources for novices learning joint embodied actions. We use ethnomethodological video analysis of a beginners’ partner dance workshop to explore how novices use non-lexical vocalizations to navigate unfamiliar dance movements together. These vocalizations often accompany apologies, accounts, and bodily actions that mark moments of trouble with coordination. We show how these non-lexical vocalizations can provide reference points for novices who lack expert terminology to account for, evaluate, and re-animate their experiences of otherwise inchoate sequences of joint embodied action.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50202268","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":"Contextualization cues for media references in everyday conversation","authors":"Sylvia Sierra","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2022.11.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2022.11.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>While scholars have explored the importance of quoting media in accomplishing relationship and identity work in conversation, there is little work on how speakers phonetically and paralinguistically signal spoken media references specifically so that they may be recognized in the speech stream. This article demonstrates how speakers make 148 media references recognizable across 5 audio-recorded everyday conversations among friends. I identify 5 ways that these playful media references are signaled in talk: word stress and particular intonation contours, pitch register shifts, smiling and laughter, performing stylized accents, and singing. This systematic analysis of the contextualization cues used to signal media references in everyday talk contributes to understanding how speakers actively participate in intertextual processes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50202271","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}