{"title":"China’s real estate agents’ persuasion realizations on WeChat Moments","authors":"Jianyou He, Dengshan Xia","doi":"10.1075/prag.22062.he","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.22062.he","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Persuasion is a well-documented language phenomenon in the fields of rhetoric, communication, and sociopsychology.\u0000 However, there is still a need for further research into persuasion on social media from a pragmatic perspective. The current\u0000 research contributes to the existing literature on persuasion, particularly in virtual environments, by examining the tactics of\u0000 online persuasion with a dataset of 409 excerpts from WeChat Moments. It examines the frequency and percentage of persuasive\u0000 strategies deployed by fourteen Chinese real estate agents. Additionally, a qualitative analysis of each tactic is conducted,\u0000 supported by specific examples. The findings indicate that, in increasing order of frequency, persuasion attempts on the\u0000 participants’ WeChat Moments are primarily realized through rational, ethos, and emotional appeals. The determinants of this\u0000 strategic inclination are examined with respect to the anonymity afforded by the Internet, media effect, community of practice and\u0000 Chinese cultural particulars.","PeriodicalId":515853,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)","volume":"72 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141817679","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 nothing serious, take it easy”","authors":"Qingsheng Jiang, Yansheng Mao, Yihang Wang","doi":"10.1075/prag.23041.jia","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.23041.jia","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Prior studies have focused on the prevalence, causes and impacts of patients’ negative emotions during\u0000 doctor-patient communication. However, to date, there is a paucity of research focusing on doctors’ emotion-regulating strategies\u0000 and their effects on online medical consultation (OMC). In this connection, drawing on the concept of extrinsic emotion\u0000 regulation, this paper analyzes empirically the doctors’ strategies in regulating patients’ emotions and examines the effects\u0000 based on data from Dingxiang Yisheng, one of the largest online medical consultation platforms in China. It is\u0000 found that doctors deploy extensive discourse of relational work and diagnosis to regulate patients’ negative emotions. Comments\u0000 from patients not only reveal the effectiveness of doctors’ strategies in alleviating negative emotions but also showcase that\u0000 patients attribute the relief of their emotions to doctors’ expertise, attitude, response speed, and communication skills. All\u0000 these findings contribute to theoretical insights into emotion regulation and have practical implications for online\u0000 doctor-patient communication.","PeriodicalId":515853,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)","volume":" 83","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141365705","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":"A relevance-theoretic analysis of Colloquial Singapore English hor","authors":"Junwen Lee","doi":"10.1075/prag.22073.lee","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.22073.lee","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The Colloquial Singapore English or Singlish particle hor has been observed to convey different\u0000 pragmatic effects when pronounced with either a rising or falling intonation contour. In this paper, I propose, using a\u0000 relevance-theoretic framework, that hor encodes the procedural content that the proposition it marks is\u0000 accessible to the addressee, i.e. it can be readily recalled by the addressee. Pronouncing hor with a rising or\u0000 falling intonational contour then indicates that this procedural content should be interpreted as a question or directive\u0000 respectively – a rising contour indicates a check on whether the hor-marked proposition is accessible to the\u0000 addressee, while a falling contour indicates an instruction to the addressee to make the hor-marked proposition\u0000 accessible. This analysis also accounts for hor’s unacceptability with directives that seek to impose a new\u0000 obligation on the addressee that requires immediate action, which has not been previously observed in the literature.","PeriodicalId":515853,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)","volume":"19 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140981491","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":"Metaphors to describe sanctions against Iran in American and Iranian newspapers","authors":"Rasoul Mohammad Hosseinpur, Mahdi Mansouri","doi":"10.1075/prag.22069.moh","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.22069.moh","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Since Iran’s 1979 revolution, Sanctions Against Iran (SAI) has been one of the most crucial issues concerning Iran\u0000 and the US’ relationships, and both parties employ different metaphors to depict the situation in line with their own ideologies.\u0000 This study explored the conceptual metaphors (CM) concerning the sanctions against Iran in two corpora of the editorials and news\u0000 extracted from an international American newspaper (New York Times) and a local Iranian English press\u0000 (Iran Daily). Following Charteris-Black’s (2004) framework for\u0000 Critical Metaphor Analysis, sixty editorial news texts (thirty for each), since 2013 until 2021, were scrutinized for the CMs in\u0000 the two corpora. The findings revealed that although both newspapers took advantage of the metaphors in description of the\u0000 sanctions against Iran, there were significant differences between them in the employment of the CMs. The American newspaper\u0000 enjoyed more frequent and diverse metaphors to represent the sanctions compared to the Iranian newspaper, and “SAI is a\u0000 pain/illness” (22.7%) was the most frequent conceptual metaphor in the New York Times whereas “SAI is a human”\u0000 (32.4%) and “SAI is a journey” (18.9%) were the common metaphors in Iran Daily. The results suggest how language\u0000 could be manipulated to serve different purposes.","PeriodicalId":515853,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)","volume":"104 26","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140978166","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":"Prosodic features of polite speech","authors":"Lucien Brown, Grace Eunhae Oh, K. Idemaru","doi":"10.1075/prag.23003.bro","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.23003.bro","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper uses interactional data to investigate the acoustic characteristics of polite or deferential speech in\u0000 Korean. We asked fourteen Korean speakers to perform two tasks with two different interlocutors: a status superior and a friend.\u0000 Consistent with previous studies of non-interactional data, deferential speech has lower pitch and shimmer, and quieter final\u0000 syllables. However, divergent from previous studies, deferential speech featured higher jitter (in some locations), higher shimmer\u0000 and higher H1-H2 (on one task). Through analysis of different locations in prosodic structure, we found that females used more\u0000 pitch variation on final syllables in deferential speech. We argue that these mixed results show the importance of context in\u0000 signalling vocal politeness, and also complexities of using interactional data. The findings advance the study of multimodal\u0000 politeness beyond the analysis of experimental data.","PeriodicalId":515853,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)","volume":"5 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141011447","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":"The use of the non-lexical sound öö in Hungarian same-turn self-repair","authors":"Zsuzsanna Németh","doi":"10.1075/prag.23019.nem","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.23019.nem","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper explores the use of the non-lexical schwa-like sound öö in three Hungarian\u0000 self-initiated same-turn self-repair phenomena, namely, searching, replacing, and searching converted into aborting. Since\u0000 self-repair inherently prevents the turn from progressing towards possible completion, by deploying the non-lexical\u0000 öö in the course of the three repair operations, speakers can vocalize and promise continuation without\u0000 producing lexical elements. Öö thus serves as a delaying technique and an indication that the speaker is aware of\u0000 the obligation to make the unit-under-way recognizably complete, and is ready to satisfy this obligation. When the\u0000 turn-in-progress is halted and verbally marked with öö in the course of the three repair operations under\u0000 investigation, the speaker displays to the other participants that the turn is problematic in some respects, but she is ready to\u0000 attend to the problem in order to produce a recognizably complete action.","PeriodicalId":515853,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)","volume":" 18","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140688219","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}
Fathi Migdadi, Muhammad A. Badarneh, Areej Qudaisat
{"title":"‘Where have you been hiding this voice?’","authors":"Fathi Migdadi, Muhammad A. Badarneh, Areej Qudaisat","doi":"10.1075/prag.22027.mig","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.22027.mig","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study explores compliments given by judges to contestants on the TV talent show Arab Idol. A\u0000 total of 120 comments from the third season 2014–2015 were analyzed for compliment types, structures, lexicon, and supportive\u0000 remarks. Spenser-Oatey’s (2000, 2002, 2005a, 2005b, 2008) rapport management theory was employed to determine how judges managed rapport with contestants\u0000 through compliments. The analysis shows that the majority of judges’ compliments on the show were explicit\u0000 compliments that were based on three syntactic patterns and four types of positive semantic carriers conveying\u0000 complimenting adjectives, verbs, nouns, and adverbs. A smaller category of implicit compliments involved such\u0000 strategies as comparison/contrast, rhetorical questions, and\u0000 praising contestant’s country. Both categories were typically qualified by supportive or weakening elements\u0000 such as repetition, encouragement, and criticism, resulting in a third category\u0000 of ‘macro-compliments’. The study shows that rapport management accounts to a large extent for the judges’\u0000 complimenting behavior.","PeriodicalId":515853,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)","volume":"36 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140242050","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":"Embodied interaction with face masks and social distancing","authors":"Ulrike Schröder, Sineide Gonçalves","doi":"10.1075/prag.23021.sch","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.23021.sch","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this article, we ask how interlocutors proceed with their daily activities in the first months of the Covid-19\u0000 pandemic when faced with new ways of communication due to social distancing and the use of face masks. We carried out a\u0000 fine-grained analysis of different micropractices from daily work in a healthcare center in Brazil and built our analysis on\u0000 multimodal conversation analysis (MCA), interactional linguistics (IC), as well as gesture studies (GS). The analysis revealed\u0000 that particularly the following recurrent patterns seem to be characteristic for communication during the pandemic in the given\u0000 microcontexts: (a) a high use of deictic gestures, (b) an intensification of prosodic means, (c) verbal strategies such as\u0000 reformulation and repetition, (d) the integration of object manipulation and (e) mitigation strategies in case of new formats that\u0000 imply intrusion such as controls at travel checkpoints.","PeriodicalId":515853,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)","volume":"125 15","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140087730","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":"Multiple repair solutions in response to open class repair initiators (OCRIs) in next turn","authors":"Aonrumpa Thongphut, Jagdish Kaur","doi":"10.1075/prag.22065.tho","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.22065.tho","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The study examines repair practices of speakers following an open class repair initiator (OCRI) in next turn in\u0000 hospitality and tourism (HT) service encounters mediated through English as a lingua franca (ELF). The data comprise fifteen hours\u0000 of naturally occurring ELF service encounters recorded at three HT sites in Thailand. Using conversation analytic procedures, the\u0000 analysis reveals that speakers may offer multiple repair solutions following an OCRI, which appear oriented to a potential problem\u0000 of understanding rather than one of hearing. The participants combine repetition of the trouble-source turn with\u0000 comprehension-enhancing techniques such as lexical replacement, rephrasing of prior talk and explication of potentially\u0000 problematic words. As it is pertinent that messages are accurately relayed and received, speakers adopt a proactive stance and\u0000 combine repair practices to raise explicitness and improve communicative clarity. In ELF HT service encounters, the principle of\u0000 increased collaborative effort prevails and underlies communicative effectiveness.","PeriodicalId":515853,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)","volume":"71 32","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140486309","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":"How face is perceived in Chinese and Japanese","authors":"Qi Xiao, Ling Zhou","doi":"10.1075/prag.22075.xia","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.22075.xia","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study aims to examine how Chinese and Japanese speakers perceive face-enhancement and face-threat from a\u0000 value-construct perspective. A mixed-method research design consisting of a questionnaire and structured interviews was employed.\u0000 The results suggest that the values which trigger face-enhancement and face-threat are differently distributed between the two\u0000 linguacultures in face-threatening and face-enhancing situations. Both Chinese and Japanese participants agreed that competence\u0000 was the top value for face-enhancement. The Chinese participants considered status superiority as the more sensitive triggering\u0000 value of face-enhancement, whereas the Japanese participants believed that good public image, self-esteem, and pride were the main\u0000 factors. In face-threatening scenarios, the Japanese participants paid more attention to self-abasement and shame, inconsideration\u0000 and irresponsibility, whereas the Chinese were more sensitive to incompetence. We attribute these differences in individuals’\u0000 perspectives on interpersonal relationships as a possible cause of their divergent perceptions of face.","PeriodicalId":515853,"journal":{"name":"Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)","volume":"1 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139526018","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}