非洲英语中表示信任的语用标记

IF 1.8 1区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Toyese Najeem Dahunsi, Oluwayomi Rosemary Olaniyan, Ayobami Adetoro Afolabi, Richard Akano
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通过研究语言来理解社会价值,以及它们在不同的语言群体中如何变化,在学术界受到的关注很少。在本研究中,我们考察了语言如何反映信任作为一种社会价值,以及语用语言资源中信任的索引。我们进一步确定了这些资源在五个非洲英语语料库中的流行程度。我们考察了16个注释语用标记。每个语料库都标识每个语料库的所有实例。对于每一条,提取200条一致性线,并根据其用途进行排序。用语用预设和格里希合作原则作为分析框架。这些标记具有保证信任的语用功能,因此被归类为不信任的语言相关物。通过话语命题的过度信息性,我们发现在每一种标记的使用中,格里西的数量准则都被明显地蔑视。语料库中标记物的频率各不相同,尼日利亚语料库中标记物的频率最高,其次是加纳、肯尼亚、坦桑尼亚和南非语料库。这些标记似乎是无处不在的语言资源,可以通过话语来研究社会价值观。然而,对于此类研究,建议使用一套兼容和比较的语料库,以确保研究结果的客观性、可靠性和研究过程的可复制性。
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Trust-indicating pragmatic markers in selected African englishes
The study of language to understand social values and how they may vary among speech communities has received very little attention in scholarship. In this study, we examine how language reflects trust as a social value and the pragma-linguistic resources that index trust in discourse. We further determine the prevalence of such resources in five African English corpora. We examine sixteen commentary pragmatic markers. All instances of each are identified per corpus. For each, 200 concordance lines are extracted and sorted according to their use. Pragmatic presupposition and Gricean cooperative principle are used as analytical frameworks. The markers are found to have trust-assuring pragmatic functions, and are thus categorized as linguistic correlates of distrust. The Gricean maxim of quantity is found to be predominantly flouted in each use of the markers through over-informativeness of utterance propositions. The markers vary in the corpora, with the highest frequencies found in the Nigerian corpus, followed by Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa corpora. The markers appear to be pervasive linguistic resources that can be used to study social values through discourse. For such studies, however, a set of compatible and comparative corpora is recommended to ensure outcome objectivity, reliability and replicability of research procedure.
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期刊介绍: Since 1977, the Journal of Pragmatics has provided a forum for bringing together a wide range of research in pragmatics, including cognitive pragmatics, corpus pragmatics, experimental pragmatics, historical pragmatics, interpersonal pragmatics, multimodal pragmatics, sociopragmatics, theoretical pragmatics and related fields. Our aim is to publish innovative pragmatic scholarship from all perspectives, which contributes to theories of how speakers produce and interpret language in different contexts drawing on attested data from a wide range of languages/cultures in different parts of the world. The Journal of Pragmatics also encourages work that uses attested language data to explore the relationship between pragmatics and neighbouring research areas such as semantics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis and ethnomethodology, interactional linguistics, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, media studies, psychology, sociology, and the philosophy of language. Alongside full-length articles, discussion notes and book reviews, the journal welcomes proposals for high quality special issues in all areas of pragmatics which make a significant contribution to a topical or developing area at the cutting-edge of research.
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