{"title":"COVID-19 Online Medical Consultation: Understanding the Affective Practice","authors":"Yu Zhang","doi":"10.1093/applin/amae045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amae045","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 During the outbreak of coronavirus disease (2019) COVID-19, many online medical consultation (OMC) platforms in China set up a section for the public to consult with doctors about COVID-19 disease. This study explores the COVID-19 OMC discourse, focusing on the affective dimension. The present study examines COVID-19 OMC interactions between doctors and inquirers. It finds that the inquirers’ negative emotions are implicitly expressed through epistemic expressions which can be heard and responded to with respect to emotion by the doctors. Another major finding is that by making use of deontic and epistemic expressions, the doctors provide empathic responses; or, in other words, they ascribe emotional stance to inquiries that involve no explicit emotional expressions. This study can contribute to a new perspective for studying affective engagement in doctor–patient interactions, particularly in emerging infectious disease communication between doctors and patients/caregivers in the OMC context.","PeriodicalId":512841,"journal":{"name":"Applied Linguistics","volume":"64 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141697588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"It’s an Imagined Fuṣḥatopia: Teacher Language Ideologies and Multilingual Practices in Arabic Heritage Learning in the United States","authors":"Yousra Abourehab","doi":"10.1093/applin/amae036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amae036","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article examines teacher ideologies and multilingual practices in teaching Arabic as a heritage language in the USA. Using indexicality and its nexus to language ideologies, it identifies the key index values assigned to Standard Arabic (SA) and how these shape teacher positioning for teaching Arabic heritage. The article also analyzes the extent to which these ideologies are congruent or incongruent with their classroom practices. The findings of in-depth semi-structured interviews showed teachers’ veneration of SA with representations that index ‘perfection’, ‘majesty’, ‘purism’, and ‘generosity’. Although teachers seemed tolerant of using Arabic dialects strategically, their overall positioning supported teaching SA and minimized teaching dialects. Drawing on data from a larger corpus of around 25 hr of classroom video recordings, teachers showed ubiquitous multilingual and multidialectal practices in classroom discourse. With its dual focus on language ideologies and practices, this article enriches the discussion about the idealization of SA (fuṣḥatopia) as restricting the potential of Arabic dialects as important resources for learning SA. It also disrupts the linguistic hierarchy between SA and the dialects.","PeriodicalId":512841,"journal":{"name":"Applied Linguistics","volume":"51 18","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141269671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Practice and Automatization in Second Language Research: Perspectives From Skill Acquisition Theory and Cognitive Psychology","authors":"Majid Nikouee","doi":"10.1093/applin/amae035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amae035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":512841,"journal":{"name":"Applied Linguistics","volume":"32 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141274273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Problematic Use of ‘don’t worry’ by Chinese Learners of English","authors":"J. House, D. Kádár, Fengguang Liu, Jihong Zhao","doi":"10.1093/applin/amae020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amae020","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this paper, we examine uses of ‘don’t worry’ by Chinese speakers of English, which may trigger intercultural irritations. We investigate such problematic uses from a contrastive angle, by considering whether they relate to the fact that in Chinese there are two expressions which may be equivalents of English ‘don’t worry’: fangxin 放心 (lit. ‘ease your heart’) and bie-danxin 别担心 (lit. ‘don’t burden your heart’). First, we present uses of ‘don’t worry’ by Chinese learners of English and examine them through the lens of speech acts and interaction. Second, we undertake a corpus-based study of the speech act-indicating interactional uses of ‘don’t worry’, fangxin and bie-danxin, teasing out their conventional uses. Finally, we consider whether uses of ‘don’t worry’ by Chinese learners of English are influenced by pragmatic transfer and, if so, what this transfer looks like.","PeriodicalId":512841,"journal":{"name":"Applied Linguistics","volume":"26 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140711305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"English-Medium Instruction in Higher EducationThe Evolution of EMI Research in European Higher Education","authors":"Beatrice Zuaro","doi":"10.1093/applin/amae022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amae022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":512841,"journal":{"name":"Applied Linguistics","volume":"101 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140728683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}