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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103948

Robert Fuchs , Xinyue Yao , Peter Collins , Adam Smith

{"title":"Non-standard morphosyntactic variation in L2 English varieties world-wide: a corpus-based study","authors":"Robert Fuchs , Xinyue Yao , Peter Collins , Adam Smith","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103948","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103948","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Previous research has identified and studied a wide range of non-standard syntactic constructions in global varieties of English. However, there is currently a lack of large-scale corpus-based evidence on non-standard syntactic variation in English from a global perspective. The present study seeks to fill this gap through an analysis of a set of syntactic constructions across the fourteen L2 and six L1 varieties of English included in the <em>Corpus of Global Web-based English</em>, totalling 1.9 billion words. We conceptualise non-standard features as lying outside the “core” of the language that represents the object of description in English grammars, including those that might be regarded as “colloquial” or “vernacular”, such as <em>there</em>-existentials with singular agreement. The methodological approach is onomasiological, modelled on the alternation between non-standard features and corresponding standard forms. Across 28 morphosyntactic features drawn from eWAVE 3.0, a total of 289,827 non-standard and more than 37 million standard occurrences were analysed in a logistic mixed effects regression model. Register variation was accounted for by means of a co-variate for involved discourse following Biber’s Multidimensional Analysis. Results indicate a relatively low degree of non-standardness across both L1 and L2 varieties. The register dimension of involved discourse is the most important variable governing non-standard variation, followed by differences between world regions. These results were further confirmed by a hierarchical clustering model and a multidimensional scaling analysis.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"322 ","pages":"Article 103948"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143937320","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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Chinese coverbal phrases and coverbs: a systemic functional account 汉语口头禅与口头禅：系统的功能描述

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103939

Pin Wang

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Emotion and moral stance in evaluations of impoliteness in L1 and L2 from video clips of workplace interactions 职场互动视频片段对第一、二语言不礼貌行为的情感和道德立场评价

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103949

Nicola McNab , Irini Mavrou

{"title":"Emotion and moral stance in evaluations of impoliteness in L1 and L2 from video clips of workplace interactions","authors":"Nicola McNab , Irini Mavrou","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103949","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103949","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates how emotions and moral stance influence evaluations of impoliteness between first language (L1) and second language (L2) English users, from an interdisciplinary perspective combining pragmatics, bilingualism, emotion research, and moral psychology. The study widens previous impoliteness research by focusing on both L1 and L2 users and analyses moral stance and emotions following a mixed methods approach. The study was preregistered prior to data collection and analysis. Fifty-five L1 English participants and 45 Spanish-speaking participants with L2 English watched video clips of workplace interactions and assessed the level of impoliteness in these videos. Moreover, the participants indicated the emotions they experienced after watching the video clips and completed the Moral Foundations Questionnaire. The results revealed that L2 users perceived higher levels of impoliteness. By contrast, emotional reactions to impoliteness did not significantly differ between L1 and L2 English users. Qualitative analysis of the participants’ emotions showed that these alluded to notions of moral order, with moral emotions being prevalent. The moral foundation of harm/care appeared to be the most prominent within impoliteness evaluations. In light of the above findings, this study suggests L2 (pragmatics) teaching should raise L2 learners’ awareness of the pesonal and psychological factors involved in impoliteness events, provide input on inferences from gesture, and draw on workplace interactions as a useful context for discussions on infelicitous interactions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"322 ","pages":"Article 103949"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143873286","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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Nominalised Activities in Chinese History Texts: A Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspective 中国历史文本中的名词化活动：系统功能语言学视角

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103935

Jing Hao

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Deciphering cross-genre dynamics: Testing the Law of Abbreviation and the Meaning-Frequency Law in Chinese across genres 解读跨体裁动态：跨体裁汉语缩略语规律和意义频次规律的检验

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103934

Zhuolun Li , Lei Lei

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Mandarin-speaking children’s acquisition of the additive particle ye ‘also’ 讲普通话的儿童对加点词 "也 "的习得

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103936

Haiquan Huang , Yixiong Chen , Xuewu Qin , Xin Wang , Jie Xu

{"title":"Mandarin-speaking children’s acquisition of the additive particle ye ‘also’","authors":"Haiquan Huang , Yixiong Chen , Xuewu Qin , Xin Wang , Jie Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103936","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103936","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Previous studies have reported conflicting findings on children’s interpretation of additive particles. One of the previous studies has reported that Mandarin-speaking children up to 7 have difficulty deriving the presupposition triggered by the additive particle <em>ye</em> ‘also’. By contrast, another body of research has found that 3-to-4-year-olds can correctly interpret additive particles across languages. Such conflicting findings might have resulted from the different research techniques. Moreover, no study has been conducted to probe whether children are able to identify subject- versus object-associated focus in sentences with an additive particle. Against this backdrop, the current study attempts to systematically re-evaluate how Mandarin-speaking children interpret sentences with <em>ye</em> ‘also’, using an adapted research method. Two experiments were conducted with 3-to-4-year-olds and a group of adult controls. Experiment 1 probed whether children were able to identify object-associated focus in sentences with <em>ye</em>. Experiment 2 evaluated whether another group of children were able to identify subject-associated focus in sentences with <em>ye</em>. It was found that 3-year-olds already performed quite well and 4-year-olds nearly had adult-like performance in both experiments. The findings indicate that Mandarin-speaking preschoolers are able to identify subject- versus object-associated focus in sentences with <em>ye</em>, and such a linguistic ability develops in an incremental fashion. We discuss the methodological and theoretical implications of the findings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"320 ","pages":"Article 103936"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143816545","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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Do we swear more with friends or with acquaintances? F#ck in social networks 我们对朋友骂人多还是对熟人骂人多？f# ck在社交网络

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103931

Mikko Laitinen , Paula Rautionaho , Masoud Fatemi , Mikko Halonen

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Linguistic indicators differentiating translated and untranslated diplomatic discourse: A diachronic analysis of the United Nations General Debate (1946–2022) 区分翻译和非翻译外交话语的语言指标：联合国一般性辩论的历时分析（1946-2022）

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103933

Lin Shen , Haidee Kotze

{"title":"Linguistic indicators differentiating translated and untranslated diplomatic discourse: A diachronic analysis of the United Nations General Debate (1946–2022)","authors":"Lin Shen , Haidee Kotze","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103933","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103933","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the linguistic features that distinguish translated from untranslated English diplomatic discourse at the United Nations General Debate (UNGD) and investigates whether these features change from 1946 to 2022 and vary in relation to English language varieties. The translation features identified by elastic net regression analysis suggest that translated texts exhibit higher levels of formality, abstractness, and informational density than untranslated texts, aligning with existing studies on translated language. Over time, the translated texts tend to lag behind untranslated speeches in terms of language change, supporting the notion that UN translation is a conservative language variety: UN translators tend to be slow in adopting innovative usages, preferring established variants. Varietal differences are also evident in relation to the selected translation features. These findings contribute to the understanding of translated language and underscore the importance of considering diachronic analysis and varietal influences in relation to the features of translated language.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"320 ","pages":"Article 103933"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143748541","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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“How is that unparliamentary?”: The metapragmatics of ‘unparliamentary’ language in the Australian Federal Parliament “这怎么不符合议会？”：澳大利亚联邦议会中“非议会”语言的元语用

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103932

Sam Hames, Michael Haugh, Simon Musgrave

{"title":"“How is that unparliamentary?”: The metapragmatics of ‘unparliamentary’ language in the Australian Federal Parliament","authors":"Sam Hames, Michael Haugh, Simon Musgrave","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103932","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103932","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Parliamentary discourse is highly regulated, leading to an almost blanket avoidance of explicit vulgarity or overtly offensive language. Yet it is nevertheless replete with examples in which the language used by members is construed as ‘unparliamentary’. This study examines the occurrence of ‘unparliamentary’ as a metapragmatic label across the entire corpus of the Australian Federal Hansard from 1901 to 2024, and probes how it can be used to implement specific metapragmatic acts (i.e. doing something through labelling talk as ‘unparliamentary’), as well as how it can also become an object of metapragmatic discourse (i.e. a topic of debate in its own right). In so doing we explore how the boundaries of offensive, objectionable or otherwise disorderly language use in parliamentary discourse are established, maintained, contested, as well as change and evolve over time. As the Australian Federal Hansard constitutes a relatively large corpus of more than 900 million tokens, the study draws in a dialogic and iterative manner from both computational and interpretive methods of analysis. This dialogic form of analysis indicates that what is encompassed by the notion of ‘unparliamentary’ is broader and more complex than what is prescribed in the Standing Orders and associated codes of practice of the Australian Federal Parliament.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"320 ","pages":"Article 103932"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143734786","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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Implicit and explicit linguistic biases: The influence of social dominance orientation (SDO) upon hierarchical language attitudes 内隐和外显语言偏见：社会支配倾向对等级语言态度的影响

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-05-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103928

Robert M. McKenzie , Kristofor McCarty , Mimi Huang

{"title":"Implicit and explicit linguistic biases: The influence of social dominance orientation (SDO) upon hierarchical language attitudes","authors":"Robert M. McKenzie , Kristofor McCarty , Mimi Huang","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103928","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103928","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Research indicates that various social factors can predict language attitudes. However, although social dominance orientation (SDO), the individual’s preference for societal hierarchies, has been found to determine evaluations of a range of social groups and socially meaningful topics, its role in predicting more deeply embedded implicit attitudes in conjunction with more deliberative explicit attitudes towards specific language varieties and their speakers is currently unknown. The present research examined the effect of SDO upon English nationals’ (<em>N</em> = 306) explicit and implicit evaluations of phonological variants indexical of (i) Northern English speech and (ii) Southern English speech in England on competence (Study 1) and warmth (Study 2) dimensions. Regression analysis, controlling for demographic variables, demonstrated that high-SDO predicted negative explicit competence and warmth attitudes towards Northern English speech. Conversely, SDO did not determine self-report Southern English speech evaluations. Likewise, SDO did not predict implicit competence or warmth attitudes. The study findings are discussed in relation to the methodological and theoretical value for (socio)linguists of incorporating SDO measures into research investigating language attitudes at different levels of evaluational awareness.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"319 ","pages":"Article 103928"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143685796","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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