刊讯｜SSCI 期刊《语言与交际》2023年第88-93卷

LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION

Volume 88-93, January-November 2023

LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION（SSCI二区，2023 IF：1.89）2023年第88-93期共刊发研究性论文54篇。研究论文涉及社会和词汇变化的二元性、对话语码转换、语言反身性与语言塑造、ChatGPT元语言、Tiktok方言化、社交媒体上中文自嘲概念、普通话的女性气质构建、拳击中关键词汇重复等方面。欢迎转发扩散！（2023年已更完）

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目录

VOLUME 88

ARTICLES

■ Non-lexical vocalizations help novices learn joint embodied actions, by Saul Albert, Dirk vom Lehn, Pages 1-13.

■A linguistic ethnography of the sense of belonging: Iraqi Turkmen women refugees in Turkey, by Hasret Saygı, Pages 14-26.

■ Indexing the ‘included’ migrant? Social categorization and interpersonal digital interaction between labor migrants, teachers and employers in Norway, by Hilde Thyness, Kristin Vold Lexander, Pages 27-40.

■ Indicating ideology: Variation in Montenegrin orthography, by Katharina Tyran, Pages 41-51.

■ Prosody is used for real-time exercising of other bodies, by Emily Hofstetter, Leelo Keevallik，Pages 52-72.

■ Cheering together: The interactional organization of choral vocalizations，by Burak S. Tekin，Pages 73-89.

■ “I don't mean extradimensional in a woo-woo sense”: Doing non-explanation in discussions of unidentified aerial phenomena，by Chris McVittie, Andy McKinlay，Pages 90-98.

■ Contextualization cues for media references in everyday conversation, by Sylvia Sierra, Pages 99-110.

■ Demonstrating and guiding how to smell in tasting sessions: .nhHHHhh and the audible-visible production of sensorial intersubjectivity，by Lorenza Mondada, Pages 111-128.

■ Remaking futsuu ‘ordinary’ in the discourse of younger Japanese adults，by Judit Kroo, Pages 129-140.

■ Punctuating the other: Graphic cues, voice, and positioning in digital discourse，by Jannis Androutsopoulos, Pages 141-152.

■ Self-denigration in Chinese: An interactional speech act approach，by Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House, Fengguang Liu, Lin Jiao, Pages 153-167.

VOLUME 89

ARTICLES

■ The language predicament of South African universities in a global perspective, by Abram de Swaan，Pages 1-7.

■Metalinguistic negation of proper names: Evidence from Russian, by Elena Vilinbakhova, Igor Boguslavsky，Pages 8-22.

■ Towards a comprehensive model of style-shifting: Evidence from sibilant variation in Mandarin, by Yuhan Lin，Pages 23-41.

■ Introducing the Volume of Extremity (VoX) method to integrate prosodic data into discourse analysis，by Vered Silber-Varod, Anat Lerner，Pages 42-62.

■ Peer socialization in an oral preschool classroom，by Kristella Montiegel，Pages 63-77

■ Something wicked this way comes! Applying linguistic structures within Ricoer's interpretation theory，by LaReina Hingson, Brooke Anderson, Brandon Torruella, Lanna McRae, Scott Howell，Pages 78-91.

■ Heritage learners are more sensitive to effects of script: Evidence from Korean，by Yoolim Kim, Adam Charles Roberts，Pages 92-100.

VOLUME 90

ARTICLES

■ “Oh my god that would hurt”: Pain cries in feminist self-defence classes，by Ann Weatherall，Pages 1-13.

■ Hebrew stance-taking gasps: From bodily response to social communicative resource，by Yotam M. Ben-Moshe，Pages 14-32.

■ Sounding for others: Vocal resources for embodied togetherness，by Leelo Keevallik, Emily Hofstetter，Pages 33-40.

■ Neoliberalization of higher education in China: A critical discourse analytical approach，by Songsha Ren，Pages 41-51.

■ “Molière amoché”: Discourse on the quality of English-speaking Canadian politicians’ French in Canadian news media coverage of the 2020 conservative leadership debate，by Yulia Bosworth，Pages 52-62.

■ Linguistic features and pragmatic functions of direct reported speech in Italian troubles telling sequences，by Ilaria Riccioni, Gill Philip, Alessandra Fermani, Ramona Bongelli，Pages 63-81.

■ What would it be like for prelinguistic communication to be Gricean?，by Antonio Scarafone，Pages 82-94.

■ Lexical repetitions during time critical moments in boxing，by Misao Okada，Pages 95-113.

■ Voice matters: Social categorization and stereotyping of speakers based on sexual orientation and nationality categories，by Fabio Fasoli, Marko Dragojevic, Tamara Rakić, Susie Johnson，Pages 114-128.

VOLUME 91

ARTICLES

■ Indexical meaning of Mandarin full tone in the construction of femininity: Evidence from social perceptual data，by Feier Gao, Jon Forrest，Pages 1-20

■ Adapt, acquire, defuse, learn: Filipino online English tutors as intercultural bricoleurs，by Joy Hannah Panaligan, Nathaniel Ming Curran，Pages 21-31

■ Joining actions through effort sounds: Mothers and infants in routine activities，by Iris Nomikou，Pages 32-45

■ Japanese female English learners’ two-stage learning from Filipino and Western English teachers to acquire “accent-free” English，by Yoko Kobayashi，Pages 46-54

■ Perceptions of communicative competence: Stancetaking and explicit metapragmatic discourse in interactions of L1 and L2 users of Japanese，by Florian Grosser，Pages 55-70

VOLUME 92

ARTICLES

■ Putting local dialect in the mix: Indexicality and stylization in a TikTok challenge，by Kristel Doreleijers, Meertens Institute, Jos Swanenberg，Meertens Institute, Pages 1-14

■ Attitudes towards age variation and language change in the British deaf community，by Katherine Rowley, Kearsy Cormier，Pages 15-32

■ Temporality and the cooperative infrastructure of human communication: Noticings to delay and to accelerate onward movement in mobile interaction，by Anja Stukenbrock，Pages 33-54

■ What animals can tell us about attentional prerequisites of language acquisition，by David A. Leavens, Mahmoud M. Elsherif, Hannah Clark，Pages 55-73

■ Affect in Chinese cyberspace and beyond: Language objects and affective regimes in rural hostels，by Feifei Zhou，Pages 74-90

■ Metapragmatic comments deconstructing the concept of self-mockery in Chinese on social media，by Xiaoyi Bi, Wei Ren，Pages 91-104

VOLUME 93

ARTICLES

■ Generic options: Variable use of vos and uno in Patagonia Spanish (Argentina)，by Lucía Zanfardini, Bob de Jonge，Pages 1-14

■An Emmet's tale: The duality of social and lexical change，by Rhys J. Sandow，Pages 15-29

■ Arabic–French code-switching in medical consultations in Algeria: A conversation analytic study，by Khadidja Belaskri, Paul Drew，Pages 30-42

■ Theorizing rhetoric: A transatlantic perspective，by Agnieszka Kampka, Marta Kobylska，Pages 43-56

■ Linguistic negotiation of place identity in a changing Tel Aviv neighborhood，by Roey J. Gafter，Pages 57-66

■ Linguistic reflexivity and language-shaping: Countering representationalism in ecological research on language，by Talbot J. Taylor, Pages 67-78

■ No puedes hablar ahora: Voice in an interpreter-mediated court meeting，by Martha Sif Karrebæk，Pages 79-94

■ Media frames as adaptive networks of meaning: A conceptual proposition，by Christian Pentzold, Claudia Fraas，Pages 95-106

■ Lessons in linguistics with ChatGPT: Metapragmatics, metacommunication, metadiscourse and metalanguage in human-AI interactions，by Marta Dynel，Pages 107-124

■The “Balfour Gang” versus “the Saladin Gang”: Geographic metaphors and metonyms in Israel as securitized, polarizing constructs，by Elie Friedman，Pages 125-135

■ Form (Prosody)-Meaning (Pragmatics) pairings of discourse markers: A case study of Nǐ zhīdào (‘You Know’) as a construction in Chinese media interviews，by Yi Shan，Pages 136-154

■ Comprehending stories in pantomime. A pilot study with typically developing children and its implications for the narrative origin of language，by Ines Adornetti, Alessandra Chiera, Valentina Deriu, Daniela Altavilla, Francesco Ferretti，Pages 155-171

■ Impoliteness and morality as instruments of destructive informal social control in online harassment targeting Swedish journalists，by Oscar Björkenfeldt, Linnea Gustafsson，Pages 172-187

■ Commentary: The sociolinguistics of exclusion，by Scott Kiesling，Pages 188-191

■ Introduction: The sociolinguistics of exclusion – Indexing (non)belonging in mobile communities，by Cornelia F. Bock, Florian Busch, Naomi Truan，Pages 192-195.

摘要

Non-lexical vocalizations help novices learn joint embodied actions

Saul Albert，School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Loughborough University, UK

Dirk vom Lehn，Department of Management, King's College London, UK

Abstract Non-lexical vocalizations are key interactional resources for novices learning joint embodied actions. We use ethnomethodological video analysis of a beginners’ partner dance workshop to explore how novices use non-lexical vocalizations to navigate unfamiliar dance movements together. These vocalizations often accompany apologies, accounts, and bodily actions that mark moments of trouble with coordination. We show how these non-lexical vocalizations can provide reference points for novices who lack expert terminology to account for, evaluate, and re-animate their experiences of otherwise inchoate sequences of joint embodied action.

A linguistic ethnography of the sense of belonging: Iraqi Turkmen women refugees in Turkey

Hasret Saygı，Istanbul 29 Mayıs University, Faculty of Education, Department of Foreign Language Education, Istanbul, Turkey

Abstract

This article is concerned with the construction of a sense of (non-)belonging in the context of forced migration. It is based on linguistic ethnographic fieldwork carried out in a Turkish town with a group of Iraqi Turkmen women refugees. Using data from audio-recordings of spontaneous interactions in Turkish in informal social gatherings, interviews, and home visits, this research seeks to understand how the sense of belonging and the experience of the sense of otherness are expressed through the Iraqi Turkmen women's discursive accounts. The findings reveal that their perception of foreignness and display of belonging lie on a dynamic continuum, which may reflect the qualities of a liminal stage.

Indexing the ‘included’ migrant? Social categorization and interpersonal digital interaction between labor migrants, teachers and employers in Norway

Hilde Thyness，Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway

Kristin Vold Lexander，Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway

Abstract This paper investigates the co-construction of identities of inclusion and exclusion in digitally mediated migrant-host community interaction. Through both interview and digital interactional data, we look at the discursive social categorization of and by Lithuanian labour migrants and their majority population interlocutors and analyze the semiotic practices by which identity categories are talked and written into being in home-school collaboration and workplace interaction. To capture the negotiation of power, (in)equality and authority, we apply the concepts orders of indexicality (Blommaert, 2007), and adequation and distinction (Bucholtz & Hall 2005). Our analysis shows how participants draw on various semiotic resources to interactionally construct identities as included, such as media choice, punctuation, text composition and multimodality.

Indicating ideology: Variation in Montenegrin orthography

Katharina Tyran，University of Vienna, Department of Slavonic Studies, Spitalgasse 2, Hof 3, A-1090 Wien/Vienna, Austria

Abstract This contribution discusses variation in orthography on a standard language level as a semiotic practice of extra-lingual exclusion and intra-lingual stylistic differentiation in a South Slavic language, Montenegrin. I will address recent orthography reforms and their use following the emancipation of Serbo-Croatian. Orthographic variants, I argue, function as semiotic means of exclusion from the former common language concept and as an emphasized differentiation to other standard varieties emerging from Serbo-Croatian, and therefore hold sociocultural indexicality. Such variation needs to be examined in its ideological embedding. Consequently, I will discuss how competing orthography reforms and variants following from these are connected to ideological disputes in the post-Serbo-Croatian linguistic sphere and how the use of either one orthography or another is constructed as stylistic representations of ideological perspectives.

Prosody is used for real-time exercising of other bodies

Emily Hofstetter, Linköping University, Department of Culture and Society, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden

Leelo Keevallik，Linköping University, Department of Culture and Society, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden

Abstract While the lexico-grammatical and embodied practices in various instructional activities have been explored in-depth (Keevallik, 2013; Simone & Galatolo, 2020), the vocal capacities deployed by instructors have not been in focus. This study looks at how a Pilates instructor coaches student bodies by modulating the prosodic production of verbal instructions and adjusting vocal quality in reflexive coordination with the students' ongoing movements. We show how the body of one participant can be expressed and enhanced by another's voice in a simultaneous assembly of action and argue for the dialogical conceptualization of a speaker. These voice-body assemblies constitute evidence of how actions were brought about jointly rather than constructed individually.

Cheering together: The interactional organization of choral vocalizations

Burak S. Tekin，Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Ankara, Turkey

Abstract This study demonstrates how cheering together in and as a choir is an interactional accomplishment in co-present video gaming activities. The relevance of producing choral vocalizations is established by participants collectively and simultaneously orienting to particular events in video games as cheerables. Vocalizations are often individually initiated and elongated, and the joining of other persons transforms these vocalizations into collective cheering. The theatrical movements of players establish a particular relevance for participants to engage in choral vocalizations. By way of establishing, sustaining, modifying and terminating their choral vocalizations in interaction, the choirs manifest their shared treatments of the cheerables in video gaming interactions.

“I don't mean extradimensional in a woo-woo sense”: Doing non-explanation in discussions of unidentified aerial phenomena

Chris McVittie, Division of Psychology, Sociology, and Education, Queen Margaret University, Musselburgh, EH21 6UU, UK

Andy McKinlay，School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, Dugald Stewart Building, 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AD, UK

Abstract In everyday talk, speakers commonly provide explanations that “make plain” or “make intelligible” prior talk. Little work, however, has examined talk in which speakers offer no explanation for what is being described. We consider talk about “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAPs) from news media interviews. Interviewees distanced themselves from accountability for explaining UAPs or proposed multiple candidate explanations. Interviewers tabled their own potential explanations. Participants’ talk did not “make plain” or “make intelligible” phenomena being discussed. These findings show that explanations are a participants’ concern. These interactions allow discussion of topics of broad public interest, thereby “doing news”.

Contextualization cues for media references in everyday conversation

Sylvia Sierra，Syracuse University, 115 Sims Hall, Syracuse, NY, 13244, USA

Abstract While scholars have explored the importance of quoting media in accomplishing relationship and identity work in conversation, there is little work on how speakers phonetically and paralinguistically signal spoken media references specifically so that they may be recognized in the speech stream. This article demonstrates how speakers make 148 media references recognizable across 5 audio-recorded everyday conversations among friends. I identify 5 ways that these playful media references are signaled in talk: word stress and particular intonation contours, pitch register shifts, smiling and laughter, performing stylized accents, and singing. This systematic analysis of the contextualization cues used to signal media references in everyday talk contributes to understanding how speakers actively participate in intertextual processes.

Demonstrating and guiding how to smell in tasting sessions: .nhHHHhh and the audible-visible production of sensorial intersubjectivity

Lorenza Mondada, Department of Linguistics, University of Basel, Maiengasse 51, CH 4056, Basel, Switzerland

Abstract The paper describes the systematic use and sequential positioning of a specific nonlexical sound of the body, an audible sniff, indexing and making publicly audible that some smelling is being performed. It explores the methodic practice of audibly smelling in tasting sessions guided by an expert: it shows that the practice enables the smeller to secure and exhibit a primary access to a sensed object as well as to produce an epistemically and sensorially grounded descriptor of that object, presented as an authorized and normative description of the aroma. Several recurrent systematic sequential environments are described in which the practice of audibly smelling is observable, showing that it is used in a way that instructs the participants to engage themselves in smelling. The paper shows that the embodied sound of sniffing does not only manifest the individual sensorial engagement of its doer, but is also publicly orchestrated and recipient-designed in order to be heard as an instruction. In this way, the paper demonstrates how the production of a sound object such as an audible smelling sniff reveals the interactional order of sensorial practices; in turn, it also shows that sensoriality represents a perspicuous setting to better understand the articulation between sounds of the body and embodied actions.

Remaking futsuu ‘ordinary’ in the discourse of younger Japanese adults

Judit Kroo, Arizona State University, USA

Abstract This paper examines the use of expressions related to futsuu ‘ordinary’ by contemporary Japanese younger adults. Under conditions of socioeconomic precarity, the achievement of an ‘ordinary life’ is falling out of reach for many younger adults in Japan creating a situation in which ‘ordinariness’ is framed as an aspirational goal. Analysis considers how younger Japanese adults use futsuu to discursively (re)-frame what counts as standard or desirable practice and to enfold otherwise marginalized practices into contextually dependent norms. In demonstrating how the deployment of futsuu expressions both reflects and shapes the ethnometapragmatic order of things, this paper argues that ordinariness itself is an interactionally contingent semiotic event.

Punctuating the other: Graphic cues, voice, and positioning in digital discourse

Jannis Androutsopoulos, Institute for German Studies, Universität Hamburg, Überseering 35, 22297, Hamburg, Germany

Abstract This article investigates the nested relationship between graphic cues, voice, and positioning in digital discourse. The focus is on the ‘indignation mark’, or <!!1!>, an allographic sign used in German-language discussion boards on Reddit. The study's theoretical backdrop brings research on graphic practices in digitally-mediated communication into dialogue with sociolinguistic approaches to the enactment of group relations in discourse, in particular double-voicing, stylization, and positioning, thereby aiming to foster theory-building on both sides. Data is extracted from a large German-language forum (‘subreddit’) on Reddit and subjected to computational, sequential, and microlinguistic analysis. The findings show how participants in public online discussions use punctuation signs and other graphic cues to animate voices, i.e. ways of speaking that index recognizable social positions and ideologies; how these stylized voices provide a resource for positioning; and how participants display recognition of and alignment to this feature's indexical meaning. The findings also suggest that the ‘indignation mark’ is part of a wider ecology of graphic cues, which evolve constantly to enable multi-voicedness in public digital discourse. Overall, this paper aims to advance our understanding about how graphic elements of digital discourse are indexically and ideologically connected with positioning activities in online communities of practice.

Self-denigration in Chinese: An interactional speech act approach

Dániel Z. Kádár, Dalian University of Foreign Languages, China;Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary

Juliane House, University of Hamburg, Germany;Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary

Fengguang Liu,  Dalian University of Foreign Languages, China

Lin Jiao, Dalian University of Foreign Languages, China;Shenyang Normal University, China

Abstract In this study, we investigate self-denigration in Chinese by applying a strictly language-based interactional speech act approach. Previous research has often zeroed in on Chinese self-denigration by studying the pragmatic function of expressions selected beforehand by the researcher. As an alternative, we propose a bottom-up approach through which self-denigration can be captured in phases of interaction and expressions speech acts and expressions embedded in these phases. Our corpus consists of dialogues drawn from Chinese novels written between the 14th and 20th centuries. As our analysis shows, self-denigration often serves smoothening the flow of interaction and mimimising offence, along with expressing deference. Furthermore, self-denigration is more frequented in goal-oriented interactions than in ceremonial ones. Our results also contribute to previous discussions relating to Ide's (1989) renowned notion of ‘discernment’.

The language predicament of South African universities in a global perspective

Abram de Swaan，Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, KNSM-laan 88, 1019LL Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Abstract In many formerly colonized countries the colonial language still prevails as the medium of education and nationwide communication: at Independence, the various language groups would not accept another group's language as the new national medium. Much like India or the European Union, post-Apartheid South Africa officially adopted 11 languages on an equal footing. English remained in the lead and even expanded considerably. Afrikaans stayed in second position. The other African languages remained mainly as vernaculars. South African universities continued to teach in either English or Afrikaans, but black and colored students increasingly felt excluded from an Afrikaans curriculum. In a more varied and flexible academic policy, language choices should be made to depend on the relevant level of education, the academic discipline concerned, and the intended audience.

Metalinguistic negation of proper names: Evidence from Russian

Elena Vilinbakhova, St Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya Emb. 11, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia

Igor Boguslavsky，A.A.Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Bolshoy Karetny per. 19, Build.1, Moscow, 127051, Russia；Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo, 28660, Boadilla del Monte (Madrid), España

Abstract This paper examines metalinguistic negation of proper names on the data from the Russian National Corpus, including its pragmatic functions, its performance with regards to other cases of metalinguistic negation, and the opposition between explicit and implicit use of the metalinguistic predicate. The data showed that the speaker's most common aim is to reject a particular representation of the name owner in favor of another representation. Next, we discovered that metalinguistic negation is more natural in corrections of content ascribed to speaker than in reactions to a preceding interlocutor's comment. Finally, the metalinguistic predicate of naming can be expressed not only lexically, but also be part of the meaning of some syntactic constructions.

Towards a comprehensive model of style-shifting: Evidence from sibilant variation in Mandarin

Yuhan Lin，Shenzhen University, School of Foreign Languages, 1201 Huiwen Building, 518000, China

Abstract Research on style-shifting has shifted from more responsive models to one that prioritizes speaker agency. However, recent work suggests that cognitive and sociocultural factors influence intra-speaker variation in tandem. This study contributes to the literature by investigating the interplay between task, audience, and attitudinal effects on the style-shifting of/s/and/ʂ/by Southern Mandarin speakers living in Beijing. Historically merged in Southern Mandarin, the two phonemes are undergoing a lexical split. Speakers exhibit greater/s/-/ʂ/contrast in wordlist than in conversation and their/ʂ/production is predicted by an interaction between task, audience and Beijing orientation. High social salience of the sibilant merger/split also adds to the growing evidence that social meaning can be associated with structural phonological relations.

Introducing the Volume of Extremity (VoX) method to integrate prosodic data into discourse analysis

Vered Silber-Varod, The Tel Aviv University Center for AI and Data Science (TAD), Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

Anat Lerner，Mathematics and Computer Science Department, The Open University of Israel, Raanana, Israel

Abstract This study aims to integrate acoustic analysis into discourse analysis. We developed a method that targets the fifth and the ninety-fifth percentiles of acoustic parameters of the four prosodic dimensions: pitch (F0), power (amplitude), duration, and voice quality per each speaker. We then defined a new measure to express the Volume of Extremity (VoX) of a speaker's voice. To demonstrate the strength of our model, we analyzed two political interviews from the Israeli election campaign in 2019, one with Benjamin Netanyahu and the other with Benny Gantz. Findings suggest that the acoustically targeted utterances are meaningful to the speaker but in a complex manner.

Peer socialization in an oral preschool classroom

Kristella Montiegel，Department of Communication, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA

Abstract Informed by the perspectives of Language Socialization and the Social Model of Childhood Disability, and using the method of Conversation Analysis, I investigate the communicative practices that facilitate peer socialization processes in an oral classroom for deaf or hard-of-hearing preschoolers. Analyses show how children's interactions serve as mechanisms for socialization into norms and behaviors similar to what we see in general preschool settings, as well as those that are specific to their oral classroom. The children's varying communication skills and competencies enable different abilities and methods for peer teaching, illustrating the ever-shifting roles of socializing ‘experts’ and ‘novices.’ Additionally, the children orient to recipient design in peer interaction, further demonstrating how they actively work to socialize each other. Data is drawn from 9 h of video-recordings in one oral classroom in California.

Something wicked this way comes! Applying linguistic structures within Ricoer's interpretation theory

LaReina Hingson, Brigham Young University, United States

Brooke Anderson, Brigham Young University, United States

Brandon Torruella, Brigham Young University, United States

Lanna McRae, Brigham Young University, United States

Scott Howell，Brigham Young University, United States

Abstract Punctuation may seem to be minor, but even ‘minor’ editing influences the interpretation of a text. This paper draws in several novel connections in language and communication in order to look at how the punctuation of the exclamation mark, and the editors that select it, create a symbol that suggests to the reader how to appropriate the text. Using Ricoeur's interpretation theory as the foundation, this study applies linguistic structures of propositions, syntax, speech act functions, and genre to microscopically analyze the use of punctuation and how it functions to guide the reader's interpretation of a text. In the case of a religious text, the exclamation point is used to alert the reader to understand his own state of wickedness.

Heritage learners are more sensitive to effects of script: Evidence from Korean

Yoolim Kim, Korea Institute, Harvard University, CGIS South Building, 2nd Floor, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Adam Charles Roberts，Future Resilient Systems, Singapore-ETH Centre, Singapore, 138602, Singapore

Abstract This study reports on the processing differences of script between native (or L1) and heritage speakers of Korean to provide further theoretical insight into heritage languages. We address questions concerning the effects of script and how this varies depending on differential proficiencies in the written language. We find that heritage speakers of Korean are sensitive to different aspects of written Korean (Hangul and Hanja), during visual word recognition, compared to native speakers. That is, factors causing interference for native speakers facilitate processing for heritage speakers. This suggests that (1) written language does play key role in lexical knowledge, and (2) there are potentially important differences between native and heritage speakers in how written language shapes lexical knowledge.

“Oh my god that would hurt”: Pain cries in feminist self-defence classes

Ann Weatherall，School of Psychology, University of Bedfordshire, University Square, Luton LU1 3JU, United Kingdom

Abstract 

This study examines response cries produced by student spectators reacting to imagined pain in the setting of feminist self-defence classes. It investigates the vocal, verbal and embodied resources that constitute reactive displays to demonstrations and descriptions of physical techniques that can thwart attacks. It asks what the pain cries accomplish, considering their form and sequential organisation. Video-recordings of the classes were data. Drawing on discursive psychology and using multi-modal conversation analysis, the results detail how the conventionalised composition and positions of the cries make them mutually intelligible as reacting to a painful experience. They functioned to support the progression of the instructional activity that created a make-believe space where girls and women can resist violence. The findings confirm and extend what is known about the interactional environments and activities in which pain figures, further advancing the distinctive insights that an interactional approach brings. Data are in New Zealand English.

Hebrew stance-taking gasps: From bodily response to social communicative resource

Yotam M. Ben-Moshe，Department of Hebrew Language, University of Haifa, 199 Aba Khoushy Avenue, Mount Carmel, Haifa, 3498838, Israel

Abstract This paper describes 'gasps' – ingressive vocoids, ingressive nasal stops, and certain sharp inbreaths – expressing stance in Hebrew conversation. A sharp inbreath can be part of a startle reflex, but sequential analysis shows gasps used as carefully coordinated interactional resources. Gasps in themselves express high arousal only; valence and specific affective categories must be gathered from context. Gasps’ liminal status, blurring the lines between body and language, self and other, informs their expressive power, making them potent ways to redirect attention, display emotion, and express empathy. Despite their liminal status, gasps fit the usage patterns of established linguistic categories of affective expressions, such as response cries, prompting reconsideration of the limits of linguistic categories.

Sounding for others: Vocal resources for embodied togetherness

Leelo Keevallik, Linköping University, Sweden

Emily Hofstetter，Linköping University, Sweden

Abstract Standard models of language and communication depart from the assumption that speakers encode and receive messages individually, while interaction research has shown that utterances are composed jointly (C. Goodwin, 2018), dialogically designed with and for others (Linell, 2009). Furthermore, utterances only achieve their full semantic potential in concrete interactional contexts. This SI investigates various practices of human sounding that achieve their meaning through self and others' ongoing bodily actions. One person may vocalize to enact someone else's ongoing bodily experience, to coordinate with another body, or to convey embodied knowledge about something that is ostensibly only accessible to another's individual body. This illustrates the centrality of distributed action and collaborative agency in communication.

Neoliberalization of higher education in China: A critical discourse analytical approach

Songsha Ren，School of Foreign Languages, China West Normal University, China；Department of English and Communication, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China

Abstract Drawing on a transdisciplinary approach to critical discourse analysis, this paper looks at the case of Chinese higher education to explore how neoliberal ideology is constituted, recontextualized, and legitimated in the public discourse of Chinese universities in a socio-political context marked by the intricate integration of administration and politics. The analyses show how these universities have endeavored to respond to the economic imperatives of a globalizing knowledge-driven economy while strategically absorbing the socio-political governance agenda inherited from the state's institutional legacies. The findings suggest that the discourse of higher education in China is a highly contested space for competing ideologies, reproducing a narrative that facilitates the commodification of higher education and dismisses the contradictions between ideological values at the glonacal nexus.

“Molière amoché”: Discourse on the quality of English-speaking Canadian politicians’ French in Canadian news media coverage of the 2020 conservative leadership debate

Yulia Bosworth，Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Binghamton University, Library Towers 2224, Binghamton, NY, 13902-6000, USA

Abstract “In the course of a federal electoral campaign in Canada, the French language ability of the candidates is widely discussed in both French-language and English-language media. This article proposes a discourse analysis of a representative sample of articles recovered in both French-language (20) and English-language (15) online news publications targeting the French language proficiency of candidates who have participated in the 2020 Conservative leadership French-language debate. Through an examination of representations of the French language and French language ability, the study develops a comparative analysis of the evaluation of French language ability of English-speaking Canadian politicians in the French-language and English-language Canadian media in a comparative perspective, demonstrating that the divergent language representations and the ideologies they underpin condition a number of differences between the two respective discourses: the overwhelmingly negatively constructed commentary in the French-language corpus, the construal of French language ability as an acquirable skill and a tool of communication by English Canadian journalists and as an intrinsic faculty by French Canadian journalists, and the positing of a monolingual educated native speaker as a standard in French Canadian journalistic metadiscourse on language, with no such standard discernible in the English Canadian discourse. Crucially, in examining the ways in which the two discourses interact, and, potentially, influence one another, the analysis shows the reproduction of discourse to be unidirectional, with French-language discourse influencing its English-language counterpart. This finding suggests an important role of language ideologies circulating in the French-language press in judging French language ability in Canada, which can be problematic for bilingual speakers and adult learners of French, such as English-speaking Canadian politicians.”

Linguistic features and pragmatic functions of direct reported speech in Italian troubles telling sequences

Ilaria Riccioni, Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism, University of Macerata, Piazzale L. Bertelli, 1 – Macerata, 62100, Italy

Gill Philip, Department of Humanities, University of Macerata, Corso Cavour, 2 – Macerata, 62100, Italy

Alessandra Fermani, Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism, University of Macerata, Piazzale L. Bertelli, 1 – Macerata, 62100, Italy

Ramona Bongelli，Department of Political Sciences, Communication and International Relations, University of Macerata, Via Don Minzoni, 2 – Macerata, 62100, Italy

Abstract This article aims to investigate possible linguistic features and pragmatic functions of Direct Reported Speech (DRS) in a specific conversational context, which seems to favour the emerging of this phenomenon: the trouble telling sequence. The study, conducted on a corpus of naturally occurring interactions in Italian, describes some characteristics of this linguistic device from both a qualitative and a quantitative point of view, by analysing how and for what purposes it can be used. DRS produced by the Troubles Teller mostly aims to account for their point of view, to complain and criticise, to express feelings and emotions and to anticipate future behaviour; the Trouble Recipient uses DRS mainly to express support towards the conversational partner and to give advice.

What would it be like for prelinguistic communication to be Gricean?

Antonio Scarafone，LMU Munich, Faculty of Philosophy, Theory of Science and Religious Studies, Chair of Philosophy of Mind, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80359 Munich

Abstract It is often claimed that infant communication is premised on the recognition of Gricean communicative intentions. This picture rests on an equivocation between features of communication and features of cognition. Following Bart Geurts, I argue that the notion of common ground is best conceptualised as a normative condition. The overtness of a communicative act is the publicity inherent to shared commitments, and since commitments can be shared unknowingly, communicative intentions are not necessary for communicating. I discuss two key experiments with infants and I argue that, for the prelinguistic case, giving a commitment-based interpretation is always possible, and so communicative intentions are here explanatorily dispensable. Therefore, there is no obvious way of proving experimentally that infant communication is Gricean.

Lexical repetitions during time critical moments in boxing

Misao Okada，Department of Economics, Hokusei Gakuen University, Sapporo, Japan

Abstract This paper analyzes how a boxing coach co-constructs, or in some cases, co-experiences ‘not-postponable’ or ‘time critical’ (Mondada, 2014b: 270) moments with the boxer. It examines a coach's uses of some phonological features of self-repetition of lexical forms, e.g. nouns, or imperatives, in her instruction toward the boxer. The analysis shows how these phonological features relate to the specificities of the rapidly moving bodies of the boxer, the opponent, or the coach, across different types of training sessions. Thus, these features help the coach accomplish ‘sensing the world’ together (Mondada, 2019: 47) and/or co-constructing it with the instructed boxer.

Voice matters: Social categorization and stereotyping of speakers based on sexual orientation and nationality categories

Fabio Fasoli, University of Surrey, United Kingdom；Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Portugal

Marko Dragojevic, University of Kentucky, USA

Tamara Rakić, Lancaster University, United Kingdom

Susie Johnson，University of Surrey, United Kingdom

Abstract This research examined how listeners categorize and stereotype speakers belonging to intersecting social categories (nationality; sexual orientation) based on voice alone. In Study 1, British heterosexuals categorized the nationality and sexual orientation of British and Italian speakers who self-identified as gay or heterosexual. Participants correctly categorized British speakers as co-nationals and Italian speakers as foreigners. Categorization accuracy of gay speakers’ sexual orientation was poor. Italian gay speakers were perceived as most likely to be gay and non-native speakers. Study 2 examined stereotyping of speakers who sounded either native or foreign, and sounded either gay or heterosexual. Foreign-accented (vs. native-accented) speakers were rated as less competent, and gay-sounding (vs. heterosexual-sounding) speakers as less gender typical. Foreign-accented gay speakers were perceived as the least competent and gender typical.

Indexical meaning of Mandarin full tone in the construction of femininity: Evidence from social perceptual data

Feier Gao, School of Foreign Languages, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Jon Forrest，Department of Linguistics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

Abstract This paper examines the indexical association between Mandarin full tone and a newly emergent cute feminine style. Prior work has identified full tone as a component of cosmopolitanism in Mainland of China, but we argue that the influence of Taiwanese pop culture and social media phenomena has resulted in expanded indexical boundaries for this variable. A matched guise task was conducted to examine the connection between Mandarin full tone and social meanings, traits, and other symbolic resources for listeners of Mainland of China. The full tone stimuli were perceived as feminine and youthful, explicitly linked to Taiwan, influencer, and stereotypical “cute-coded” behaviors that typify a stylized femininity. We argue that both speaker traits and the more abstract social meanings are attached to full tone and can be activated during social perception.

Adapt, acquire, defuse, learn: Filipino online English tutors as intercultural bricoleurs

Joy Hannah Panaligan, Media Arts Cultures Consortium, Erasmus Programme+, Denmark

Nathaniel Ming Curran，The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, SAR, China

Abstract Since 2010, the Philippines has been one of the largest contributors of workers to the increasingly global industry of remote English language tutoring. In this nascent and growing industry, Filipino online English tutors are employed by online platforms as independent contractors where they instruct students on a piece-meal basis. This article draws on interviews with 11 Filipino online tutors to discuss the various strategies that Filipino online English tutors deploy to successfully navigate their encounters with students whose cultural backgrounds differ from their own. We suggest the notion of intercultural bricolage to make sense of online tutors' self-acquired strategies for retaining students and succeeding as online tutors despite the various difficulties encountered with this type of remote work. While the notion of intercultural bricolage applies to the practices of many offline language teachers as well, we highlight how elements unique to online teaching—including lesson-by-lesson contracts—make intercultural bricolage an indispensable component of tutors’ success on online language teaching platforms.

Joining actions through effort sounds: Mothers and infants in routine activities

Iris Nomikou，University of Portsmouth, UK

Abstract This paper analyses the effort sounds made by caregivers in routine interactions with very young infants. Video recordings were made of 15 mother-infant dyads in Germany during nappy changing. The multimodal analysis of the interactions revealed that effort sounds were used when handling the infant’s body, such as dressing them or lifting them up, but also made to link to the sensations of the infant. The sounds achieved their meaning within sequences of actions and contextualised via temporality, phonetic variation and multimodality. With these vocalisations, I propose, parents can give infants’ sensations a voice, make them public, and thus achieve a co-ordination of experience.

Japanese female English learners’ two-stage learning from Filipino and Western English teachers to acquire “accent-free” English

Yoko Kobayashi，Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Iwate University, 1-18-8 Ueda, Morioka, Iwate, 020-8550, Japan

Abstract This study conducted a questionnaire survey with 100 Japanese women who have taken English lessons in two formats, online and in-person, taught by both Filipino and Western English teachers whose different advantages are featured in Japan's English teaching industry. Analyzing their decisions on what types and modes of lessons to take at which learning stage and why, the study discusses how both expected and unexpected learning patterns and reasonings pertain to global issues of (1) the hierarchical diversification in the global English teacher labor market and (2) the privilege/marginalization of Japanese/Filipino women in the world of neoliberal learning/teaching of English as a tool for upward mobility.

Perceptions of communicative competence: Stancetaking and explicit metapragmatic discourse in interactions of L1 and L2 users of Japanese

Florian Grosser，Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna, Sensengasse 3a, 1090, Vienna, Austria

Abstract This article analyzes how perceptions of communicative competence are discursively constructed in interactions of L1 and L2 users of Japanese. Talking about appropriate language use is an inherently metapragmatic activity and therefore a product of metapragmatic stancetaking practices—here conceptualized as social actors’ positioning vis-à-vis potential and limitations of language use. The analysis shows that the interactants take stances toward (1) a general competence to speak Japanese, (2) a competence to translate into Japanese, and (3) competence in an honorific register. L2 users’ communicative competence is subject to interactional negotiation and evaluation. Naturalized links between competence, nationality, and identity are established through comparison, giving rise to intercultural discourse as a site for the (re-)production of native speaker ideologies.

Putting local dialect in the mix: Indexicality and stylization in a TikTok challenge

Kristel Doreleijers, Tilburg University, School of Humanities and Digital Sciences, Department of Culture Studies, PO Box 90153, 5000 LE, Tilburg, the Netherlands；Meertens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, PO Box 10855, 1001 EW, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Jos Swanenberg，Tilburg University, School of Humanities and Digital Sciences, Department of Culture Studies, PO Box 90153, 5000 LE, Tilburg, the Netherlands；Meertens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, PO Box 10855, 1001 EW, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Abstract This paper investigates the role of local dialect forms and other semiotic signs in languagecultural practices on social media in the southern Dutch province North Brabant. Although dialect use is severely decreasing in this area, we find abundant dialect features in present-day media productions, but these are not simply some last remains. By conducting a qualitative discourse analysis of a carnivalesque music video (2020), we argue that non-linguistic resources and co-occurring dialect features are enregistered as recognizably ‘Brabantish’ for the purpose of indexing place-based identities. Moreover, we show that reproduction on TikTok (2021) takes place through recontextualization and indexical stance-taking.

Attitudes towards age variation and language change in the British deaf community

Katherine Rowley, Deafness Cognition and Language (DCAL) Research Centre, University College London (UCL), UK

Kearsy Cormier，Deafness Cognition and Language (DCAL) Research Centre, University College London (UCL), UK

Abstract There are age-related differences in signers of British Sign Language (BSL) and evidence that BSL is changing. Here we explore attitudes of BSL signers towards age-related differences and language change. We studied interview data from the BSL Corpus (Schembri et al., 2014) from 80 signers from four regions in the U.K. We carried out a thematic analysis following Braun and Clarke (2006) on responses to questions related to age variation and language change. Findings reveal signers were aware of variation and change in BSL, which also align with linguistic behaviour. Some variation and change was deemed more acceptable than others, e.g. signs for new concepts. Other changes were seen as a threat to BSL's vitality. We explore these attitudes, looking particularly at language endangerment and vitality within minority languages.

Temporality and the cooperative infrastructure of human communication: Noticings to delay and to accelerate onward movement in mobile interaction

Anja Stukenbrock，Germanistisches Seminar, Universität Heidelberg, Hauptstr. 207-209 D-69117, Heidelberg, Germany；University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Abstract This article examines how mobile participants, at interactionally delicate moments, deploy noticings to invite joint attention on objects in the speaker's vicinity. Complementing recent accounts of environmentally occasioned noticings, the focus of this study is on noticings as a practice to delay and, by contrast, to accelerate joint onward movement through museum spaces. It is argued that the interactional function of these noticings is, first, to draw the co-participant's attention to objects that they treat as noteworthy, and second, to request movement towards the speaker in order to jointly orient to the noticeable. The analysis shows that participants may launch noticings at opportune moments to serve their own spatiotemporal trajectory, either by detaining or by prompting co-participants on. The analysis draws on the methodology of Multimodal Conversation Analysis and a corpus of naturally occurring mobile interactions recorded with external cameras and eye-tracking glasses. Our observations on the double function of noticings in the local context may shed light on different ways in which we enact and draw on the cooperative infrastructure of human communication in social interaction.

What animals can tell us about attentional prerequisites of language acquisition

David A. Leavens, School of Psychology, University of Sussex, UK

Mahmoud M. Elsherif, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK

Hannah Clark，School of Psychology, University of Sussex, UK；Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, UK

Abstract Theories of human language acquisition frequently posit human-unique attentional specializations to jumpstart language acquisition. There is a broad consensus that the developmental processes supporting language acquisition in our species rely on human-unique cognitive adaptions pertaining to the deployment and understanding of attention. However, close attention to the empirical evidence held to support these hypothetical psychological processes, reveals significant gaps between the nature of the evidence provided and these conclusions. In ape-human comparisons, species is confounded with a myriad of lurking variables. We explore these confounds and their implications for models of human language acquisition that appeal to human-unique attentional adaptions, revealing a large theoretical space wherein the phenomena of attention deployment and understanding can coalesce under particular environmental regimes.

Affect in Chinese cyberspace and beyond: Language objects and affective regimes in rural hostels

Feifei Zhou，Department of English, Lingnan University, 8 Castle Peak Road, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong

Abstract This article aims to expand current scholarship on affect in semiotic landscapes through studying a common, yet under-researched practice in Chinese hostels. A product of the emerging experience economy, rural hostels represent the latest trend in commercializing language and affect. This is the first study to focus on a crucial branding practice in rural hostels, i.e., emplacement of language objects that resemiotize various resources from Chinese cyberspace, a vibrant space with dynamic circulations of affects. The affective economy of such objects mediated through chains of language commodification (crossing online-offline boundary via Taobao, etc.) will be examined. I will show that hybrid features and complex trajectories of such objects accentuate the interpenetrations of the digital and the physical in a physically-demarcated land, further complicating the concept of ‘semiotic landscape’. Field-work data collected from southern China will be analyzed to explain the role of language objects in constructing distinctive affective regimes. I will conclude by discussing potential conflicts of these regimes with rural spaces and implications of these place-making practices against the backdrop of an increasingly wired rural China. In particular, it is suggested that rural residents' new roles within Chinese cyberspace may further shape the affective economy of language objects.

Metapragmatic comments deconstructing the concept of self-mockery in Chinese on social media

Xiaoyi Bi, School of Foreign Languages, Shandong Normal University, China

Wei Ren，School of Foreign Languages, Beihang University, China

Abstract This paper aims to unpack perceptions of self-mockery in present-day Chinese using an online self-mockery viral event. The metapragmatic analysis of comments indicates that its interpretation is closely intertwined with other cultural factors and open to construal in a folk manner. Despite folk concepts being largely consistent with etic understandings of self-mockery, they are at the same time emotional and socially salient. The interpretation of self-mockery within a social practice is determined by how it is enacted by what person and in comparison with others, i.e., the situationally (un)approved and culturally salient meaning.

Generic options: Variable use of vos and uno in Patagonia Spanish (Argentina)

Lucía Zanfardini, Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Argentina

Bob de Jonge，Center of Mexican and Latin American Studies, University of Groningen, Netherlands

Abstract The distribution of vos ‘you’ and uno ‘one’ in generic messages is studied in a corpus of female speakers of Spanish (Argentina).The question was how it is possible that the form vos, so clearly defined as the pronoun to refer to the interlocutor, could have an impersonal reading, alongside the indefinite pronoun uno, which seems much more fit to do the job. The alternation between the generic use of the forms vos and uno cannot be, in our view, the result of chance nor a merely stylistic tool, but corresponds to the communicative strategies that speakers utilize in each and every context. This paper studies the different factors that play a role in the selection of each of the pronouns.

An Emmet's tale: The duality of social and lexical change

Rhys J. Sandow，Queen Mary, University of London, UK

Abstract Stockwell and Minkova (2001: 34) state that ‘the lexicon is the language layer most responsive to socio-political and cultural changes’. Despite this, lexis has been labelled as the ‘Cinderella of sociolinguistics’ (Beal 2010; Durkin 2012) due to the lack of focus on this level of linguistic structure by variationist sociolinguists. This article redresses the dearth of lexis-oriented sociolinguistic studies by considering the ways in which the lexicon is responsive to cultural changes in Cornwall, UK, by providing a case-study of the polysemous noun emmet (‘ant’ or ‘tourist’). From a study of 80 speakers from Cornwall, I consider the variation and change of emmet from the perspectives of semasiological and onomasiological usage as well as its social meaning. I conclude that this article provides support for Stockwell & Minkova’s (2001) claim and that lexical variation can provide unique insights to the sociolinguistic endeavour and enable sociolinguists to tell new stories about language and society.

Arabic–French code-switching in medical consultations in Algeria: A conversation analytic study

Khadidja Belaskri, Department of English, University of Dr Moulay Tahar - Saida, Algeria

Paul Drew，Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York, York, UK

Abstract This paper reports a study of Arabic-French language alternation in medical consultations in Algeria to reveal the ways in which code-switching is used to build and organise activities in medical interactions. Conversation analysis is applied to examine the participants' linguistic choices. Audio-recorded data was collected in two public hospitals in the Northwest of Algeria. This study suggests that there are misperceptions in the research literature about doctors' use of French as a resource to disempower patients and to limit their contribution in consultations. It refines our understanding of the nature of language alternation – code switching - in Algerian medical consultations. The results show that: 1) French is dispreferred with patients, 2) code-switching is used as a resource to organise and distinguish activities in turns and sequences, however, 3) doctors' use of French can contribute to pushing back against patients' resistance and to disaffiliate with patients’ stances.

Theorizing rhetoric: A transatlantic perspective

Agnieszka Kampka, Department of Sociology, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Marta Kobylska，Center for Foreign Languages, University of Rzeszow, Rzeszow, Poland

Abstract This article presents the results of a comparative study on the leading theories used in European and North American rhetorical research. The aim of the study was to examine European rhetorical theories on their own terms and their relations with North American rhetorical practice. Using a mixed-method approach, the study addressed normative, declarative, and pragmatic dimensions of unity and theoretical diversity in contemporary Western rhetorical research. Study findings supported the premise that a Western theoretical community of knowledge of rhetoric scholars exists in the midst of the plurality of rhetorical research. The combined findings reveal strengths and shortcomings of North American and European perspectives, indicating how each draws from and/or pushes back against ways of thinking suggested by the other.

Linguistic negotiation of place identity in a changing Tel Aviv neighborhood

Roey J. Gafter，Department of Hebrew Language, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O.B 653, 8410501 Beer-Sheva, Israel

Abstract The Tel Aviv neighborhood of HaTikva, originally home mostly to Mizrahi Jews, has undergone a considerable demographic shift in recent years. This paper discusses the narratives of Mizrahi longtime residents of the neighborhood, who are uncomfortable with the recent changes. Focusing on a micro-analysis of the stylistic variation in two interviews, the results show that the voiced pharyngeal approximant (ʕ), a linguistic feature strongly associated with Mizrahi identity, is used in the construction of place identity, by reinforcing the links between these speakers’ Mizrahi identity and their status as authentic residents of the neighborhood.

Linguistic reflexivity and language-shaping: Countering representationalism in ecological research on language

Talbot J. Taylor, Linguistics Program, William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187, USA

Jasper C. van den Herik，Independent Scholar

Abstract Everyday metalinguistic ascriptions (“My name is Oliver”, “Swahili ng'ombe means cow”, “She lied about you”) seemingly attribute properties to phenomena of a distinctively linguistic ontology. However, non-representational approaches to cognition, such as ecological psychology, cannot accommodate this linguistic ontology without contravening their non-representational principles. An alternative might be to construe metalinguistic ascriptions as ‘folk’ fictions which are, strictly speaking, false. Yet this would render unintelligible the practical role that metalinguistic ascription occupies in everyday discourse. We suggest another alternative. By analogy to mindshaping approaches in folk-psychological debates, we propose a non-representational account of metalinguistic ascription as a form of language-shaping. Metalinguistic ascriptions shape language behavior over temporal and social scales by prospectively shaping discursive niches.

No puedes hablar ahora: Voice in an interpreter-mediated court meeting

Martha Sif Karrebæk，Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, Emil Holms Kanal 2, DK-2300 Kbh. S, Denmark

Abstract In interpreter-mediated encounters, one participant's contributions are multivoiced, other participants' contributions are collectively produced, as the interpreter mediates their words. It is interesting what mediation does to their voice, and even more relevant if participants speak in ways deviating from local norms. This paper offers a case study of an interpreter-mediated court meeting. I discuss how a courtroom interpreter handles the accused's contributions, what consequences the interpreter's choices have, and what it adds to our understanding of voice. I argue that speaking and being heard “in one's own terms” is not necessarily the most beneficial to less powerful institutional participants.

Media frames as adaptive networks of meaning: A conceptual proposition

Christian Pentzold, Department for Communication and Media Studies, Leipzig University, Germany

Claudia Fraas，Institute for Media Research, Chemnitz University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany

Pages 95-106

Abstract The article extends the study of frames in verbal media discourse. We mobilize insights from linguistic semantics and research in the related fields of cognitive science in order to formulate a frame-semantic understanding of frames as adaptive networks of meaning. It allows us to see frames as flexible scaffoldings whose elements are controlled by contextual configurations. This extension is helpful, we argue, because analyses of public discourse have, to date, mainly operated with a model of frames as fixed ensembles. Understanding frames not as invariant clusters but as adaptive networks has implications for empirical studies, too. Consequently, we outline the applicability of our proposition in an analytical scenario.

Lessons in linguistics with ChatGPT: Metapragmatics, metacommunication, metadiscourse and metalanguage in human-AI interactions

Marta Dynel，Department of Pragmatics, Institute of English Studies, University of Łódź, ul. Pomorska 171/173, 90-236 Łódź, Poland；Department of Creative Communication, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania

Abstract This paper discusses metalanguage, metadiscourse, metacommunication and metapragmatics testifying to users' conscious awareness enacted in human-AI interactions, based on a corpus of posts sent to Reddit's r/ChatGPT. The emphasis falls on users' foci of attention as they perform linguistic tests on ChatGPT and on how the “meta” practices manifest themselves interactionally on the selected subreddit, where human-AI interactions are showcased for entertainment purposes. The findings suggest that engaging with AI reflects and, potentially, enhances language users' metalinguistic, metadiscursive, metacommunicative and metapragmatic awareness. This awareness is mirrored in ChatGPT's output, indicative of its previous human-assisted training. Additionally, this investigation demonstrates that, when acknowledged as one subject of study, the four “meta” concepts are intricately intertwined as they may co-occur and overlap.

The “Balfour Gang” versus “the Saladin Gang”: Geographic metaphors and metonyms in Israel as securitized, polarizing constructs

Elie Friedman，The Department of Multi-Disciplinary Studies, Ashkelon Academic College, 12 Yitzchak Ben Zvi Street, Ashkelon, Israel

Abstract 

Research has illustrated that metaphors and metonyms are concepts that govern thought and action, playing a central role in constructing realities. While previous studies have demonstrated that metaphors and metonyms are utilized as tools for conceptualizing nations, this study examines how metaphoric and metonymic representations of specific locations within the nation-state can serve as polarizing constructs within the nation-state. The State of Israel presents an interesting case study regarding how metaphors and metonyms construct polarizing identities, following increasingly polarized cross-cutting cleavages. Utilizing the Sketch Engine ELEXIS Hebrew Web corpora, this study utilizes discourse analysis tools to characterize the reproduction of metaphorical and metonymic meanings of geographical locations, tapping into specific cultural codes of the Israeli speech community.

Form (Prosody)-Meaning (Pragmatics) pairings of discourse markers: A case study of Nǐ zhīdào (‘You Know’) as a construction in Chinese media interviews

Yi Shan，School of Foreign Studies, Nantong University, Nantong, 226019, China

Abstract This article makes the first empirical corpus-based study of the actual performance of the discourse marker (DM) nǐ zhīdào (NZ) in Chinese media interview conversations from the perspective of synchronic Construction Grammar (CxG).1 The main objective is to pair the prosody of NZ at varying utterance positions (‘form’ properties at prosodic and discourse structural levels) with its pragmatic functions (‘meaning’ properties at the discourse communicative level), to enhance our understanding within the existing literature, specifically in relation to pragmatics in spontaneous speech, and provide implications for the broader study of discourse markers. The analysis of the ‘form’ properties of NZ reveals distinct, context-specific attributes of such prosodic metrics as duration, tempo, pause, F0, and intensity at varying utterance positions; the analysis of its ‘meaning’ properties discovers pragmatic functions with characteristic utterance distributions; and the form-meaning pairing between prosody and pragmatics highlights the roles of prosody in deciphering and materializing pragmatics and of pragmatics in underlying and motivating prosody. This study has shown that insights gained from CxG can enhance our understanding of the fields of pragmatics, discourse, and interaction, and specific linguistic phenomena whose importance has been entrenched in these domains can be sufficiently explained using CxG. It follows that the notion of construction can be extended to the discourse (e.g., dialogue and conversation) level to approach the complexities of spoken language and address diverse elusive pragmatic issues like DMs effectively.

Comprehending stories in pantomime. A pilot study with typically developing children and its implications for the narrative origin of language

Ines Adornetti, Cosmic Lab, Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts, Roma Tre University, Via Ostiense 234-236, 00146, Rome, Italy

Alessandra Chiera, Cosmic Lab, Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts, Roma Tre University, Via Ostiense 234-236, 00146, Rome, Italy

Valentina Deriu, Cosmic Lab, Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts, Roma Tre University, Via Ostiense 234-236, 00146, Rome, Italy

Daniela Altavilla, Cosmic Lab, Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts, Roma Tre University, Via Ostiense 234-236, 00146, Rome, Italy

Francesco Ferretti，Cosmic Lab, Department of Philosophy, Communication and Performing Arts, Roma Tre University, Via Ostiense 234-236, 00146, Rome, Italy

Abstract This paper presents a pilot study aimed at investigating the comprehension of pantomimic stories and its possible cognitive underpinnings in typically developing children. A group of twenty-two Italian-speaking children aged between 8.02 and 10.11 years were included in the study. Participants watched short videos in which professional actors performed pantomime narratives; then answered a comprehension question and retold the stories. Analyses revealed positive correlations between the comprehension of pantomimes and age, theory of mind, and working memory. The implications of these results for a narrative model of language origin are discussed against the background of an eco-evo-devo perspective.

Impoliteness and morality as instruments of destructive informal social control in online harassment targeting Swedish journalists

Oscar Björkenfeldt, Sociology of Law Department, Lund University, Allhelgona Kyrkogata 18 C, 223 62 Lund, Sweden

Linnea Gustafsson，School of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, Halmstad University, Sweden

Abstract This study investigates the interplay between morality, impoliteness, and moral order in the online harassment of Swedish journalists on Twitter. It reveals how impoliteness serves as a tool to harm the media's epistemic credibility, rooted in anti-press and populist rhetoric, and exert destructive informal social control. The highlighted paradox is that provisions for freedom of speech, designed to protect, are paradoxically used to suppress journalists' voices through targeted insults and derogatory language. The study uncovers that such harassment is systematic, politically motivated, and morally grounded. We emphasize the urgent need to recognize and confront these subtle tactics that threaten journalistic freedom and, consequently, access to information in Sweden and internationally under growing criticism that seeks to delegitimize the media.

Commentary: The sociolinguistics of exclusion

Scott Kiesling，University of Pittsburgh, USA

Abstract This commentary reviews, synthesizes, and expands upon the articles in this special issue. The review notes that the papers update the idea that language style – the combination of habitual forms used in languaging – can be used in exclusionary practices. That said, the papers in this issue all approach exclusion in language style from a different standpoint, and this diversity of approaches and topics at once demonstrates how central the exclusionary function of language is for humans, and at the same time suggests some generalizations about how to theorize about exclusion. I note some of the different sociolinguistic processes used in the exclusion cases in the issue, and suggest that we should also study the opposing process on creating inclusion through sociolinguistics.

Introduction: The sociolinguistics of exclusion – Indexing (non)belonging in mobile communities

Cornelia F. Bock, Universität Hamburg, Germany

Florian Busch, University of Bern, Switzerland

Naomi Truan，Leiden University, the Netherlands

Abstract The special issue on ‘The sociolinguistics of exclusion: Indexing (non)belonging in mobile communities’ delves into the phenomenon of exclusion as a means and outcome of social positioning within diverse communities undergoing continual transformation due to social, demographic, political, and technological changes. Through empirical studies that critically engage with exclusionary discourse practices, this issue analyzes the semiotic means that social actors employ to presuppose and/or entail exclusion. Additionally, it explores the underlying ideological assumptions on which these choices are perceived, rationalized, justified, and/or contested as exclusionary.

期刊简介

This journal is unique in that it provides a forum devoted to the interdisciplinary study of language and communication. The investigation of language and its communicational functions is treated as a concern shared in common by those working in applied linguistics, child development, cultural studies, discourse analysis, intellectual history, legal studies, language evolution, linguistic anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, the politics of language, pragmatics, psychology, rhetoric, semiotics, and sociolinguistics.

该期刊的独特之处在于它提供了一个致力于语言和交流的跨学科研究的论坛。语言及其交际功能的研究被视为应用语言学、儿童发展、文化研究、话语分析、思想史、法律研究、语言进化、语言人类学、语言学、哲学、政治学、语言学、语用学、心理学、修辞学、符号学和社会语言学等领域的共同关注点。

The journal invites contributions which explore the implications of current research for establishing common theoretical frameworks within which findings from different areas of study may be accommodated and interrelated. By focusing attention on the many ways in which language is integrated with other forms of communicational activity and interactional behaviour, it is intended to encourage approaches to the study of language and communication which are not restricted by existing disciplinary boundaries. 

该期刊欢迎学者探讨当前研究对建立共同理论框架的影响，在这些框架内，来自不同研究领域的发现可以被容纳和相互关联。该期刊通过关注语言与其他形式的交际活动和互动行为相结合的多种方式，旨在鼓励不受现有学科界限限制的语言和交际研究方法。

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/language-and-communication

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