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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-04-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103735

Daniel Karczewski , Alicja Zawistowska-Sadowska , Marcin Trojszczak

{"title":"Gender stereotypes, patriarchal beliefs, and normative generics: A survey-based measure of what Polish parents communicate in norm-breaching scenarios involving children","authors":"Daniel Karczewski , Alicja Zawistowska-Sadowska , Marcin Trojszczak","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103735","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Normative generics, which are statements that can be seen as reflecting the social world, can be powerful tools by which parents convey norms to children. In this article, we explored how two interrelated issues, the perceived salience of gender stereotypes and the socially constructed system of patriarchy, could affect what parents communicate in the context of parent–child interactions that concern the breaching of a salient gender norm. By analyzing data from two perception studies, we found that some norms pertaining to hair length or table manners triggered a more frequent use of normative generics than other norms and that the individuals who espoused traditional gender values tended to prefer one mode of norm responsiveness (i.e., norm-following) and used more normative generics than those espousing nontraditional gender norms. In this way, the study contributed to our understanding of how rules of behavior shared by members of a given group, as well as beliefs in a system of hierarchical power, might favor the use of normative generics.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"305 ","pages":"Article 103735"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140638465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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 linguistic and metalinguistic abilities of monolingual and bilingual speakers with Prader–Willi syndrome 普拉德-威利综合征患者的单语和双语语言能力和金属语言能力

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-04-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103724

Estela Garcia-Alcaraz , Juana M. Liceras

{"title":"The linguistic and metalinguistic abilities of monolingual and bilingual speakers with Prader–Willi syndrome","authors":"Estela Garcia-Alcaraz , Juana M. Liceras","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103724","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Although bilingualism is encouraged and promoted among typically developing (TD) individuals, some countries continue to recommend monolingualism for non-TD individuals. This common practice seems unfounded because existing research investigating the effects of bilingualism on non-TD individuals has not revealed a detrimental effect of bilingualism. In this study, we analyzed the linguistic and metalinguistic abilities of individuals with Prader–Willi syndrome (PWS). To manipulate grammaticality and semantics, a grammaticality judgment task was created and administered in Spanish to eight Spanish monolingual speakers and seven Spanish–Catalan bilingual speakers, all with PWS. Similar results were obtained for linguistic and metalinguistic abilities in both groups, even if the bilingual speakers were Catalan dominant. Thus, these results not only support previous research within the field in not identifying a negative effect of bilingualism but also emphasize the fact that bilingual speakers can mirror monolingual speakers even in their “weaker” language.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"304 ","pages":"Article 103724"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384124000536/pdfft?md5=4c04e9df2481cbe165bec247626d5dbe&pid=1-s2.0-S0024384124000536-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140558996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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What is a morphological future doing in a si-clause? Traces of mirativity in Spanish 形态将来时在 si-clause 中做什么？西班牙语中的镜像痕迹

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-04-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103710

Susana Rodríguez Rosique

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Chinese is a discourse-configurational language: Miyagawa’s typology revisited 汉语是一种话语构型语言：重新审视宫川的类型学

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-03-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103716

Chen Zhao

{"title":"Chinese is a discourse-configurational language: Miyagawa’s typology revisited","authors":"Chen Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103716","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Assuming the Strong Uniformity Principle, Miyagawa recently proposed a typology of languages based on distinct patterns of Feature Inheritance at Phase C. In this typology, Chinese is identified as a Category II language (with the δ-feature on C and the φ-feature on T). That is, Chinese is regarded as a non-discourse-configurational language similar to English. This paper aims to review Miyagawa’s discussion of Chinese and argue for its reclassification as a Category III language, that is, a discourse-configurational language like Spanish. I contend that Miyagawa’s discussion of Chinese only pertains to Aboutness-shift topic, a type of topic base-generated in the CP domain across languages; as a result, his conclusions are unsustainable. On the other hand, I show that phenomena like Object Preposing, forced A-focalization, and the distribution of Familiar and Contrastive topics in non-assertive embedded clauses provide compelling evidence that the δ-feature has lowered to T in Chinese. Finally, I address a potential counterargument presented by the Chinese <em>wh</em>-adverbial <em>zenme</em> ‘how come’. I argue that <em>zenme</em> is not base-generated in the CP periphery, but rather inserted in the TP layer.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"304 ","pages":"Article 103716"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140309484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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What do Chinese bidirectional Life–Xì (‘Drama’) similes/metaphors tell us about metaphorical bidirectionality? 中国的双向 "命Xì"（"戏"）比喻/隐喻对隐喻的双向性有何启示？

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-03-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103714

Ming-Yu Tseng

{"title":"What do Chinese bidirectional Life–Xì (‘Drama’) similes/metaphors tell us about metaphorical bidirectionality?","authors":"Ming-Yu Tseng","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103714","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates bidirectionality in figurative expressions by focusing on a pair of explicit bidirectional similes/metaphors in Chinese. This pair of similes/metaphors is also a saying: <em>rénshēng rú xì, xì rú rénshēng</em> (‘life is like a drama, a drama is like life’). The juxtaposition of bidirectional <span>life</span>–<span>xì (‘</span>drama’) similes – and the bidirectional pattern of metaphorical thought that motivates them – is rarely addressed in metaphor studies. By drawing on discourse examples in which the pair of metaphors is used, this paper examines how the bidirectional figurative expressions are interpreted in discourse and what light the pair of metaphors can shed on metaphorical bidirectionality. Building upon the recent discussion of metaphorical bidirectionality and extended conceptual metaphor theory, this paper develops an enriched understanding of bidirectionality, which is conceptualised as a symmetrical perspective that regards two subjects as interacting with one another on a more or less equal footing, or the principal subject and subsidiary subject as being reversible, and which exhibits unsettling metaphoricity in the literal–metaphorical continuum.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"303 ","pages":"Article 103714"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140309270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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‘‘I’m the ghost hunter’’: Self-disclosure and its membership categorization in Chinese police interrogations of suspects 我是捉鬼人"：中国警方审讯嫌疑人时的自我披露及其成员分类

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-03-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103725

Chengtuan Li , Zhiwei Zhao , Jing Han

{"title":"‘‘I’m the ghost hunter’’: Self-disclosure and its membership categorization in Chinese police interrogations of suspects","authors":"Chengtuan Li , Zhiwei Zhao , Jing Han","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103725","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Drawing on Membership Categorization Analysis (MCA), this study investigates how and for what institutional goals, Chinese police officers, through doing self-disclosure, manipulate the membership categories of their own and the suspects and set up relational pairs in their interrogations of suspects. Analyzing 47 episodes of authentic police interrogations of suspects, we find that Chinese police officers’ self-disclosures coalesce around membership categorization in four ways: 1) the co-membership categorization to achieve account-challenging; 2) the co-membership categorization to realize persuasion; 3) the bonded relational pairing that entails a bond with suspects via standardized relational pairs to perform persuasion; 4) the conflictive relational pairing that showcases a conflict against suspects through relational pairs to accomplish accusation. The categorization practices underlying self-disclosures work to facilitate the institutional goals of persuasion and education (PE) of suspects in the Chinese context. Overall, these findings give a glimpse into the dynamic process of membership categorization between the Chinese police and the suspects during interrogations and offer a fresh perspective for analyzing self-disclosure practices in specific contexts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"304 ","pages":"Article 103725"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140296896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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Complaint formulation and negotiation: The use of zenme-interrogatives in e-commerce service encounters 投诉的提出与协商：电子商务服务接触中禅宗问句的使用

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-03-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103715

Xu Huang , Yongping Ran

{"title":"Complaint formulation and negotiation: The use of zenme-interrogatives in e-commerce service encounters","authors":"Xu Huang , Yongping Ran","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103715","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In Mandarin Chinese, <em>zenme</em>-interrogatives serve a dual purpose. First, they can be employed to inquire about the precise cause or reason for an occurrence, as in the case of causal <em>zenme</em> (“how come”). Second, they can be applied to seek information about the specific method for performing a task, as in the case of manner <em>zenme</em> (“how do you”). Drawing on data from Taobao (a prominent Chinese online shopping platform), this study investigates the application of causal <em>zenme</em> in the formulation and negotiation of customer complaints during Chinese e-commerce service encounters. It also conducts a nuanced analysis of the normative practices that underlie customer complaints. The analysis reveals that <em>zenme</em>-interrogatives are frequently employed to highlight deviations from normative business practices at the epistemic and deontic levels. At the epistemic level, these interrogatives are used to challenge agents’ asserted epistemic authority, or they point to agents’ disregard for customers’ entitlement to necessary information. At the deontic level, they are used to infringe upon customers’ deontic authority in receiving compensation or benefiting from other remedial actions. Overall, the findings contribute to our comprehension of how <em>zenme</em>-interrogatives are utilized to convey negative evaluations and emotions rather than simply solicit information or explanations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"303 ","pages":"Article 103715"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140187792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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Re-investigating the classification of definite CL-NP constructions in Chinese dialect: An empirical study based on semantic maps 汉语方言中定语CL-NP结构分类的再研究：基于语义图的实证研究

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-03-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103713

Junyi Xu , Chenliang Zhou

{"title":"Re-investigating the classification of definite CL-NP constructions in Chinese dialect: An empirical study based on semantic maps","authors":"Junyi Xu , Chenliang Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103713","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study aims to assess the fitness of the “quasi-article/quasi-demonstrative” framework for classifying definite classifiers in varieties of Chinese. Taking the Suzhou (Wu) variety of Chinese as our target, we utilize an approach of the Probabilistic Semantic Maps within a trilingual parallel corpus (English-Mandarin-Suzhou Wu). Contrary to the earlier understanding that only one type of definite classifiers exists in Suzhou, functioning exclusively either as definite articles or demonstratives in English, our research indicates the presence of two distinct types. Additionally, it appears that these two types are not aptly categorized under the “quasi-article/quasi-demonstrative” framework. Our results indicate no distinct association between the choice of classifiers for expressing identifiability in Suzhou and the one of utilizing definite articles or demonstratives in English. The observed discrepancies suggest a reconsideration of current assumptions due to the limited similarities between English grammatical categories of definiteness and varieties of Chinese definite expressions. Consequently, this study advocates that grammatical categories should be established within a particular language, rather than relying on external theoretical frameworks of other languages.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"303 ","pages":"Article 103713"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140133824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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Offers in Nigerian English 以尼日利亚英语提供

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-03-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103701

Ulrike Gut , Foluke Unuabonah , Florence Daniel , Anika Gerfer , Rotimi Oladipupo , Folajimi Oyebola

{"title":"Offers in Nigerian English","authors":"Ulrike Gut , Foluke Unuabonah , Florence Daniel , Anika Gerfer , Rotimi Oladipupo , Folajimi Oyebola","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103701","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article is concerned with the speech act of offers in educated Nigerian English within a variational pragmatics approach. In particular, this study explores the offer strategies chosen by Nigerian English speakers and the effect the speakers’ and hearers’ social status and social distance, the type of offer and formality of the context might have on them. A total of 325 Nigerian respondents filled in questionnaires containing 13 discourse completion tasks varying in these variables. 782 valid responses were analysed according to the structure of the communicative act, the offer superstrategy and substrategy used as well as the use of multiple languages. Results show that the variables context, social status, social distance and offer type all influence the linguistic form of offers. Nigerian English speakers use little code-switching and differ systematically from speakers of other varieties of English in terms of using more directives.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"303 ","pages":"Article 103701"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384124000305/pdfft?md5=7265c659fb22a89f879bb1e702107d1f&pid=1-s2.0-S0024384124000305-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140122003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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Gender classification of Korean personal names: Deep neural networks versus human judgments 韩国人名的性别分类：深度神经网络与人类判断

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-03-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103703

Hyesun Cho

{"title":"Gender classification of Korean personal names: Deep neural networks versus human judgments","authors":"Hyesun Cho","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103703","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In many languages, female and male names have different phonotactic characteristics. The name–gender relationship is probabilistic; therefore, it can be captured more adequately using stochastic models than deterministic phonological theories. In this study, a total of 6,000 most commonly used names (3,000 for each gender) in Korean were used to train a deep neural network (DNN), which is an ensemble model of recurrent neural networks and convolution neural networks. The phonotactic learner (PL) was used as the baseline model. The DNN and PL models predicted the gender of 50 test names compiled from low-frequency names. The models’ predictions were compared with human judgments on the gender of the test names. The models’ predicted labels matched the names’ actual labels, with a higher accuracy in the DNN (90%) than in the PL (76%). The predictions also matched the labels assigned by human subjects with a higher accuracy for the DNN (86%) than the PL (72%). The DNN model correlated more closely with human judgments (<em>r<sup>2</sup></em> = 0.743) than the PL (<em>r<sup>2</sup></em> = 0.312). Considering the similarity of responses between the DNN and humans, these results suggest that neural network models should be incorporated into phonological studies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"303 ","pages":"Article 103703"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140103820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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