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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-08-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103790

Qiao Gan

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Construal and impersonalization in German and English: Comparing impersonal pronouns in online hotel reviews 德语和英语中的构词法和非人格化：比较在线酒店评论中的人称代词

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-08-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103773

Bridgit Fastrich

{"title":"Construal and impersonalization in German and English: Comparing impersonal pronouns in online hotel reviews","authors":"Bridgit Fastrich","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103773","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103773","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The current work explores the concept of construal in German and English, focusing specifically on the communicative feature of (im)personalization. Incorporating insights from cognitive linguistics, semantics and pragmatics, it takes as object of analysis a means of <em>im</em>personalization, namely the use of human impersonal pronouns (HIPs) and, using a form-to-function approach, analyzes the dedicated HIPs <em>man</em> and <em>one</em>, as well as impersonally used 2nd personal pronouns <em>du</em> and <em>you</em> regarding their featural composition and pragmatic effects. The data consists of two parallel corpora of negative online hotel reviews taken from <span><span>Booking.com</span><svg><path></path></svg></span>. The findings reveal that German-speaking reviewers make use of HIPs more frequently and use the ‘less personal’ of the HIPs (<em>man</em>) as compared to English-speaking reviewers (who use the ‘more personal’ <em>you</em>), confirming the established contrast of German speakers using more impersonalized language. They further uncover a flexibility in the distribution and usage of German <em>man</em> that is not yet widely established in the literature, showing that German speakers use <em>man</em> in a myriad of ways to simultaneously impersonalize certain aspects of their reviews and indicate relevance to the reader. The findings point to a mixture of typological and linguacultural influences at play regarding the HIPs’ role in impersonalization in German and English negative online hotel reviews.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"308 ","pages":"Article 103773"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141951961","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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From engrams to schemas 从刻痕到图式

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103788

Konrad Szcześniak , Václav Řeřicha

{"title":"From engrams to schemas","authors":"Konrad Szcześniak , Václav Řeřicha","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103788","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103788","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>One of the principal concepts instrumental in cognitive linguistic research is that of schemas, defined as general, partly abstract mental outlines shared by the memories of specific concepts and experiences. They are mental frameworks guiding the way we perceive and remember information, and they play a major role in language learning and processing. While the concept of schemas has been addressed by many authors, who have described their nature and functioning, our understanding of schematic knowledge is still relatively speculative. For example, to account for how schemas emerge, “lossy compression” is postulated, which means that abstraction is achieved through forgetting. Such conjectures can be tested against some recent insights from memory research on engrams, defined roughly as networks of neurons activated in the processing of specific pieces of information. This overview paper presents findings from engram research suggesting that abstract schemas form in ways other than simple forgetting or erasure of information from memory. Instead, abstraction is achieved by accumulating different representation strengths for memory traces underlying frequent and infrequent (incidental) information.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"308 ","pages":"Article 103788"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141951962","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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Corrigendum to “Disentangling sources of difficulty associated with the acquisition of accusative clitics in French” [Lingua 180 (2016) 1–24] 更正："厘清与法语指称语气词习得相关的困难来源" [Lingua 180 (2016) 1-24]

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-07-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103789

Hélène Delage, Stephanie Durrleman, Ulrich H. Frauenfelder

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The use of gender-fair language in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland: A contrastive, corpus-based study 奥地利、德国和瑞士使用性别公平语言的情况：基于语料库的对比研究

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-07-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103787

Sabrina Link

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From nominal phrase ‘my word’ to agreement marker ‘Right(!)’: A pragmatic and prosodic analysis of Korean discourse marker nay mali 从名词性短语 "my word "到约定标记 "Right(!)"：韩语话语标记词 nay mali 的语用和韵律分析

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-07-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103774

Mikyung Ahn , Foong Ha Yap , Koonhyuk Byun

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Looking for someone: The encoding of indefinite human reference in Chinese/English aligned translation 寻找某人汉英对位翻译中不确定人称的编码

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-07-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103753

Ludovica Lena

{"title":"Looking for someone: The encoding of indefinite human reference in Chinese/English aligned translation","authors":"Ludovica Lena","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103753","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103753","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The existential-presentational construction <em>yǒu rén</em> [exist person] is the dominant strategy for encoding indefinite human reference in Chinese. In this sense, it is functionally equivalent to the indefinite pronoun <em>someone</em>, into which it naturally translates – especially in biclausal constructions (e.g., <em>yǒu rén lái</em> [exist person come] ‘someone is coming’). However, this equivalence is not always straightforward, as in some cases the “someone” translation is unavailable (e.g., <em>yǒu rén shuō…</em> [exist person say] ‘some people say…’). Our initial hypothesis posits that the interpretation of <em>yǒu rén</em> tends towards two prototypical meanings, Entity-referring and Kind-referring, each expected to exhibit a preferred alignment in translation. Using a parallel corpus of Chinese-to-English aligned novels, the analysis confirms alignment preferences for the two prototypes, in which the meaning of the referring expression (e.g., “someone” vs. “some people”) interacts with tense marking, specifically the nonpresent tense, and the co-occurrence of locatives in the aligned sentence, in bringing out Entity-referring interpretations. Additionally, findings indicate that preverbal subjects dominate in the aligned dataset, primarily due to the prevalence of biclausal constructions in the source subcorpus. It is argued that <em>yǒu rén</em> constructions are invariably anchored, either to spatiotemporal variables or to generic sets of entities. Despite their diversity, the situations they depict offer favorable contexts for the acceptance of discourse-new indefinite subjects in English. This also suggests, more broadly, that anchoring might in fact be the fundamental property of structures encoding indefinite human reference, not only in Chinese <em>yǒu rén</em> constructions but potentially across languages.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"308 ","pages":"Article 103753"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141786197","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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Morphosyntactic variation in spoken English in Dominica 多米尼克英语口语中的形态句法变异

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-07-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103777

Dagmar Deuber , Véronique Lacoste

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Unraveling the logical status of sentential relative clauses in English: Constructing a multifunctional framework 解读英语中句式相对从句的逻辑地位：构建多功能框架

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-07-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103775

Qi Liao, Chenguang Chang

{"title":"Unraveling the logical status of sentential relative clauses in English: Constructing a multifunctional framework","authors":"Qi Liao, Chenguang Chang","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103775","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103775","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Sentential relative clauses (hereafter SRCs) resemble comment adverbial clauses and can be paraphrased as <em>and</em>-coordinate equivalents. This study unravels the logical status of SRCs in English from a multifunctional perspective under the framework of systemic functional linguistics, with a view to revealing their distinguishing features in tactic (traditionally grammatical) and logico-semantic (traditionally semantic) relations. A review of relevant literature reveals that as researchers have been using varied formal criteria in examining their logical status, there is great controversy over whether SRCs are hypotactic elaborating clauses or paratactic extending clauses. Therefore, a multifunctional framework is constructed to ascertain the defining criteria: the taxis of an SRC is dependent on its status of speech function in discourse, and the logico-semantic relations on its experiential semantics in a wider discourse context. With extensive attested examples analyzed, we conclude that tactically, textual SRCs stand in a paratactic relation to their initiating clauses, while experiential SRCs stand in a hypotactic relation to their dominant clauses, and that logico-semantically, textual SRCs tend to enhance their initiating clauses along the textual line, while experiential SRCs expand their dominant clauses by elaboration, extension and enhancement along both the textual and experiential lines.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"308 ","pages":"Article 103775"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384124001049/pdfft?md5=970e7326490080936d1793af74ea1701&pid=1-s2.0-S0024384124001049-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141639140","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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The impact of directionality on interpreters’ syntactic processing: Insights from syntactic dependency relation measures 方向性对口译员句法处理的影响：句法依存关系测量的启示

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-07-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103778

Han Xu, Kanglong Liu

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