{"title":"Where lol Is: Function and Position of lol Used as a Discourse Marker in YouTube Comments","authors":"Célia Schneebeli","doi":"10.4000/DISCOURS.10900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/DISCOURS.10900","url":null,"abstract":"Lol is probably one of the most popular words in computer-mediated communication. It is generally taken to be the acronym of “laughing out loud”, but it is not always used to indicate a humorous response; rather, it is multifunctional. Drawing on previous studies of the different functions of lol, this paper explores a possible correlation between the position and function of non-lexicalized lol in the specific context of YouTube comments. The hypothesis is that the function of lol largely depends on its position: clause-initial lol is not used with the same functions as clause-final lol. The data for the study come from the comment threads of three popular YouTube videos posted in 2017, 2018 and 2019 on the channel Miranda Sings, a channel posting humorous videos, which has a very wide audience and 10 million subscribers. The complete comment threads total 20,287 comments and 886 distinct occurrences of non-lexicalized lol. The analysis of the occurrences is both quantitative, aimed at determining the proportions of each use and position, and qualitative. Using the tools of discourse analysis and pragmatics, the study examines the functions of lol on two levels: the level of discourse organization and the level of social interaction.","PeriodicalId":51977,"journal":{"name":"Discours-Revue de Linguistique Psycholinguistique et Informatique","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46496389","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":"Short and stout as she was : relations inter-propositionnelles avec la structure « adjectif + as + sujet + be »","authors":"Bénédicte Guillaume","doi":"10.4000/DISCOURS.11046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/DISCOURS.11046","url":null,"abstract":"Nous etudions dans ce travail des syntagmes adjectivaux presentant un adjectif (pouvant eventuellement etre precede de as ou so) suivi du subordonnant as introduisant un sujet et la copule be a un mode fini (ci-apres « adj. + as ») : short and stout as she was, that was the highest bit she could reach. C’est l’ambivalence de cette structure, qui peut coder, en lien avec une proposition principale a laquelle elle sert de repere, une relation de type cause a effet ou bien de type paradoxal (concession), qui motive notre investigation, ainsi que le fait, peu note jusqu’alors, que l’emploi paradoxal est tres superieur en nombre a l’emploi causal (dans une proportion de un contre dix dans notre corpus d’environ 240 exemples, principalement issus du « Corpus of Contemporary American English » – COCA). Il semble que la mise en avant de l’adjectif en tete de syntagme, susceptible de provoquer un haut degre de conformite avec une notion donnee, ait une compatibilite forte avec la mise en place d’une relation paradoxale, car elle contribue a creer un contexte subjectif, non neutre. Par ailleurs, si l’on rencontre des exemples ambigus entre relation causale ou paradoxale, nous ne pensons pas qu’il existe des subordonnees « adj. + as » reellement hybrides, dans la mesure ou les deux relations sont radicalement opposees l’une a l’autre sur le plan semantique, et ne peuvent donc pas se combiner de maniere coherente.","PeriodicalId":51977,"journal":{"name":"Discours-Revue de Linguistique Psycholinguistique et Informatique","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45280542","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 Prominence Value of the Temporal Anchor of Free Indirect Discourse: A Comparison with the Perspectival Center","authors":"Jakob Egetenmeyer","doi":"10.4000/DISCOURS.11101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/DISCOURS.11101","url":null,"abstract":"Free indirect discourse (FID) is a kind of speech or thought representation that lacks specific marking. The entity to whom the speech or thought is attributed (the perspectival center) has been shown to be a contextually available prominent protagonist (see Hinterwimmer, 2019). A shortcoming of the literature is that it ignores the problem of the temporal anchoring of FID events. The present article is dedicated to such anchors. It focuses on their prominence value and discusses their relevant properties. It shows that FID has a strong tendency to be temporally anchored to a prominent time point. Thus, the protagonist and the anchor time point share the trait of prominence.","PeriodicalId":51977,"journal":{"name":"Discours-Revue de Linguistique Psycholinguistique et Informatique","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49308861","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":"De la mention de l’individu à celle du groupe : usage des expressions référentielles en fusion et en partition dans les récits d’enfants de 5 à 8 ans","authors":"Camille Dupret","doi":"10.4000/DISCOURS.11005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/DISCOURS.11005","url":null,"abstract":"Cette etude s’interesse a l’usage des expressions referentielles par les enfants en recit quand ils procedent a un regroupement de referents (fusion) et quand ils mentionnent separement les referents d’une entite precedemment presentee comme un groupe (partition). Les enfants ayant des difficultes a faire un usage clair de la reference en recit quand plusieurs referents sont candidats a etre selectionnes en discours (Hickmann, 2002), cette etude vise a observer comment ils expriment la relation entre une expression referentielle au pluriel et ses antecedents disperses dans la chaine discursive et, a l’inverse, les formes qu’ils utilisent pour separer plusieurs referents precedemment mentionnes comme un groupe. 45 enfants âges de 5 a 8 ans ont ete enregistres en train de produire deux recits a partir de supports images sans texte. Les resultats montrent que les enfants utilisent majoritairement des formes pronominales lors des fusions, peu importe la distance par rapport a l’antecedent, indiquant que les fusions s’inscrivent dans la continuite des chaines referentielles formees par les antecedents. Cependant, les plus grands (de 7-8 ans) semblent etre davantage capables de se reposer sur l’univers discursif institue pour clarifier les antecedents des expressions referentielles au pluriel. En partition, on trouve une plus grande variete de formes fortes qui expriment un contraste avec l’antecedent, mais les enfants les plus grands sont plus sensibles a la distance par rapport a l’antecedent dans le choix des formes.","PeriodicalId":51977,"journal":{"name":"Discours-Revue de Linguistique Psycholinguistique et Informatique","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48642792","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":"L’alternance actif / passif en français : une étude statistique sur corpus écrit","authors":"Yanis da Cunha, Abeillé","doi":"10.4000/DISCOURS.10956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/DISCOURS.10956","url":null,"abstract":"Nous etudions l’utilisation de la construction passive en francais ecrit, en mettant au jour des contraintes preferentielles. Nous avons extrait et annote un echantillon de 500 phrases (250 actives et 250 passives) du corpus arbore du francais (Abeille et al., 2019) puis nous avons modelise les donnees par regression logistique (Baayen, 2008). Si le passif court (sans complement d’agent) est plus frequent que le passif long (77 % des passifs sont courts), nous observons que dans pres de 80 % des cas de passif court, l’argument omis est recuperable en contexte. Nous montrons le role preponderant de la longueur des arguments et de la structure informationnelle dans l’alternance actif / passif. Nous montrons egalement que la construction passive obeit a des contraintes plus generales sur l’alignement harmonique des arguments (Bresnan et al., 2001 et 2007).","PeriodicalId":51977,"journal":{"name":"Discours-Revue de Linguistique Psycholinguistique et Informatique","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46944306","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 Sharing of Reference Strategies across Two Languages: The Production and Comprehension of Referring Expressions by Greek-Italian Bilingual Children","authors":"Maria Andreou, J. Torregrossa, C. Bongartz","doi":"10.4000/discours.10709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/discours.10709","url":null,"abstract":"Several studies have observed that bilinguals tend to use and accept overspecified, redundant referring expressions in one of their two languages. This tendency has been mainly analysed as an effect of cross-linguistic influence (for instance, from a non-null-subject language to a null-subject one) or quantity and quality of language exposure. We aim to show that, beyond cross-linguistic and language-exposure effects, the use and acceptability of overspecified forms is the outcome of individual patterns of reference management, which are shared across the two languages. We tested 31 Greek-Italian bilingual children by using a narrative task (assessing the use of referring expressions in discourse) and a timed judgement task (related to the interpretation of referring expressions). The results show that reference strategies can be shared between the two languages and, in the bilingual group at stake in this study, this sharing is not modulated by language dominance or proficiency. The study introduces individual variation as one of the factors to consider when dealing with bilingual reference acquisition.","PeriodicalId":51977,"journal":{"name":"Discours-Revue de Linguistique Psycholinguistique et Informatique","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48182139","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":"When Do We Leave Discourse Relations Underspecified? The Effect of Formality and Relation Type","authors":"Ludivine Crible, Vera Demberg","doi":"10.4000/DISCOURS.10848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/DISCOURS.10848","url":null,"abstract":"Speakers have several options when they express a discourse relation: they can leave it implicit, or make it explicit, usually through a connective. Although not all connectives can go with every relation, there is one that is particularly frequent and compatible with very many discourse relations, namely and. In this paper, we investigate the effect of discourse relation type and text genre on the production and perception of underspecified relations of contrast and consequence signalled by and. We combine a corpus study of spoken English, a production experiment and a perception experiment in order to test two hypotheses: (1) and is more compatible with relations of consequence than of contrast, due to factors of cognitive complexity and conceptual differences; (2) and is more compatible with informal than formal genres, because of requirements of recipient design. The three studies partially converge in identifying a stable effect of relation type and genre on the production and perception of underspecified relations of consequence and contrast marked by and.","PeriodicalId":51977,"journal":{"name":"Discours-Revue de Linguistique Psycholinguistique et Informatique","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46729715","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":"Factors Constraining Subject Expression in European Portuguese Spoken in Hamburg. A Bi-Generational Corpus Investigation","authors":"Cristina Flores, E. Rinke","doi":"10.4000/discours.10648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/discours.10648","url":null,"abstract":"The present study investigates subject expression in two generations of Portuguese migrants living in Hamburg, Germany. Based on a corpus of oral speech, we aim to assess whether second generation heritage speakers (HSs) differ from first generation migrants with respect to the factors constraining subject realisation/omission in European Portuguese (EP), a null subject language, in contact with German, a non-null subject language. The results do not reveal evidence in favour of ongoing language change, given that there are neither quantitative nor qualitative differences between the two generations of speakers. They show very similar overall rates of subject omission (around 67%) and they reveal sensitivity to the very same determining factors of subject pronoun realisation/omission, namely person and number, verb type, switch reference (topic continuity [TC]/topic shift [TS]) and distance. This finding is in line with previous corpus studies investigating the spontaneous speech of different generations of bilingual speakers or comparing monolingual and bilingual speakers of the same null subject language (e.g., Flores-Ferran, 2004; Nagy, 2015). We conclude that language contact per se does not necessarily lead to a diverging grammar at an inter-generational level, as long as stable input conditions allow for the acquisition of the constraints that are valid for null subject languages.","PeriodicalId":51977,"journal":{"name":"Discours-Revue de Linguistique Psycholinguistique et Informatique","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41291136","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":"L’expression du déplacement en italien et français L2 : influence translinguistique vs tendances communes","authors":"Simona Anastasio, S. Benazzo","doi":"10.4000/discours.10736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/discours.10736","url":null,"abstract":"Nous presentons dans cet article une etude transversale sur l’expression du deplacement dans le discours narratif oral chez des apprenants de l’italien et du francais langues secondes (L2), ayant comme langue maternelle (L1) soit une langue typologiquement proche (italien ou francais) soit une langue distante (anglais) de la variete cible. Ces combinaisons de langue source-langue cible (LS-LC) visent a verifier l’etendue de l’influence translinguistique et son evolution en fonction du niveau de competence de la L2 (intermediaire vs avance). Si des variations inter-typologiques sont attestees entre les locuteurs natifs de l’anglais vs ceux du francais et de l’italien, des differences intra-typologiques sont egalement identifiables dans la distribution de l’information de la trajectoire (locus) au sein d’une proposition entre les deux langues a cadrage verbal considerees. Les donnees non natives relevent des tendances communes attribuables aux principes generaux d’apprentissage dans les recits des apprenants intermediaires (c’est-a-dire emploi de formes verbales et prepositionnelles idiosyncrasiques, mais pas de differences liees a la L1). Certaines divergences liees a l’influence de la L1 sont aussi attestees mais surtout aux stades avances, lorsque l’apprenant maitrise un vocabulaire assez diversifie pour transferer des structures typiques de la L1 en L2 et si l’input favorise ce type de transfert.","PeriodicalId":51977,"journal":{"name":"Discours-Revue de Linguistique Psycholinguistique et Informatique","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43288877","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":"Modèles d’organisation thématique des paragraphes et entre les paragraphes, à l’épreuve de la Rectorique de Cyceron","authors":"G. Achard-Bayle, Ondřej Pešek","doi":"10.4000/discours.10794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/discours.10794","url":null,"abstract":"Cet article porte sur la question de l’organisation thematique des paragraphes et entre les paragraphes, et comporte deux parties : dans une premiere partie, nous abordons cette question a travers deux modeles theoriques francais et tcheques. Dans la seconde partie de l’article, ces modeles sont mis a l’epreuve du corpus, par une analyse textuelle. Cette analyse sera menee dans une double perspective : la premiere, historique, consistera a etudier les marques de segmentation telles qu’elles ont ete utilisees dans un manuscrit medieval, et ont joue le role de « precurseurs » de marqueurs du paragraphe ; la seconde, contemporaine, portera sur l’edition moderne du meme texte. En projetant la structure thematique et compositionnelle sur l’articulation du texte en paragraphes, nous chercherons a illustrer le role de ces segments dans le dispositif organisateur du texte.","PeriodicalId":51977,"journal":{"name":"Discours-Revue de Linguistique Psycholinguistique et Informatique","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83423175","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}