Article
Linguistics
Kimberley Pager-McClymont
Summary: This paper builds on Pager-McClymont's model of pathetic fallacy to explore the impact of its converse on narratives and readers' or viewers' perspective of texts. The link between pathetic fallacy and its converse are established, and examples from literature and multimodal texts are provided to illustrate how the converse of pathetic fallacy is featured and its effects on narratives, especially characterisation. The use of Conceptual Metaphor Theory reveals prevalent mappings that go against the conventional conceptual metaphors in several instances of PF's converse.
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
(2023)
Article
Anthropology
Jack Sidnell
Summary: Ho Chi Minh's extended essay discusses the organizational and practical problems faced by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the obstacles to mass mobilization. It highlights the negative effects of a speech sickness called "ba hoa" on lower and middle-ranking cadres and proposes Ho Chi Minh's own mode of expression as an exemplary model. This analysis provides insights into the semiotics of exemplarity in contemporary Vietnam.
JOURNAL OF LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Communication
Karin Idevall Hagren, Theres Bellander
Summary: This study examines the (de)legitimization of the Swedish strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden's largest newspaper, Dagens Nyheter. The findings highlight the role of national discourses in framing the strategy, including the emphasis on trust and responsibility. It also shows how affect and different delegitimization strategies are important factors in discourses.
Article
Linguistics
Nancy E. Avila-Ledesma
Summary: This study aims to explore language usage in the correspondence between Irish immigrants in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand and their families in Ireland, using corpus and computational methods. Specifically, it focuses on the function of the mental verb "think" in reinforcing and maintaining emotional and physical links between emigrants and their families. The research will analyze linguistic patterns quantitatively and qualitatively to gain insights into historical communication forms and involvement-marking strategies in private letters during Irish emigration in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Article
Language & Linguistics
Neus Nogue-Serrano
Summary: The main aim of this chapter is to analyze under-determination, generalization, vagueness, and ambiguity in the speaker's self-reference strategies used in Catalan parliamentary debate and Twitter. The theoretical background of the analysis includes classical studies on deixis and person deixis, as well as participation frameworks, functional linguistics, ethnography of communication, and Twitter communication analysis. The corpus-driven analysis focuses on parliamentary discourses and tweets of two members of the Parliament of Catalonia in the autumn of 2020.
STUDIA LINGUISTICA
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Fei Lei, Xinjie Chen, Xitao Fan
Summary: This study examined the psychological process among motivation, WTC, FLE, FLCA, and PPLI in online L3 learning. The findings indicated that college students had a certain willingness to use L3 for communication in online classes.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS
(2023)
Article
Anthropology
Jack Sidnell
Summary: This essay explores how the question of the relationship between language and action is understood in the context of language reform by Vietnamese communist revolutionaries. It suggests that reconfiguring the language-action relationship is achieved through identifying and proscribing disconnected speech and promoting speech that is aligned with action.
JOURNAL OF LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Linguistics
Douglas Biber, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, Randi Reppen, Tove Larsson
Summary: This article extends the research on genitive variation in English by considering premodifying nouns as a third variant and attempting to account for all tokens of the genitive. The study finds that contextual factors play a different role in predicting the use of genitive variants across registers.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Ferran Suner, Barbara De Cock
Summary: This study focuses on the influence of L2 learners' attitudes toward and perception of sexual taboos on their comprehension of metaphorical taboo expressions. The results show that a higher degree of reticence to talk about sex is associated with a worse performance on the metaphor comprehension test. Furthermore, learners with a stay-abroad experience outperformed their counterparts on the comprehension test, but they did not guess the meaning from the context more successfully. Participants with stay-abroad experience found it more acceptable to use sexual taboo expressions.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Lexi Xiaoduo Li
Summary: This study investigates the value of integrating data-driven learning (DDL) into indirect corrective feedback (CF) as a revising tool, with a focus on promoting accuracy in using collocations in the second language (L2). The study found that corpus queries were superior to dictionaries in resolving collocation errors and reducing error rates.
COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING
(2023)
Article
Linguistics
Andreas Trotzke, Laura Reimer
Summary: This paper compares the comprehension of non-canonical speech acts and indirect speech acts, finding that they differ in the accuracy and speed of identifying the primary illocutionary force.
JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS
(2023)
Article
Linguistics
Bilal A. Al-Adaileh
Summary: This paper explores the use of off-record indirectness as a common mode of conversation in naturally occurring social interactions in Jordanian Arabic. The study finds that off-record indirectness reflects the speaker's consideration of the recipient's face wants, allowing for the indirect communication of face-threatening acts. Politeness justifies the deliberate flouting of communication norms and the use of implicatures. In addition, off-record indirectness is also used for humor and as a preferred style among family members and close relationships. However, some instances of off-record indirectness may be perceived as impolite. The study argues that these instances are doing interactional facework in terms of second-order politeness. Thus, while off-record indirectness is always face work, it is not always politeness.
JOURNAL OF POLITENESS RESEARCH-LANGUAGE BEHAVIOUR CULTURE
(2023)
Article
Law
Rob Kahn
Summary: This article offers a semiotic perspective on the debate over critical race theory (CRT) bans in the United States, highlighting the stages and developments of the discourse.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW-REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE SEMIOTIQUE JURIDIQUE
(2023)
Article
Language & Linguistics
Kaila Heltzel, Massimo Verzella
Summary: This study focuses on the production and development of the television adaptation of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels, specifically the first season of "My Brilliant Friend". It explores the concepts of faithfulness and authenticity in relation to this adaptation through discourse analysis. The study highlights the complexities and ambiguities of these concepts, as they are often intertwined with their semantic opposites.
Article
Psychology, Educational
L. Hannah, E. E. Jang, M. Shah, V. Gupta
Summary: Using machines for scoring writing has significant implications for formative assessment, but the validity of machine scoring in the K-12 context needs further research.
LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT QUARTERLY
(2023)
Article
Linguistics
Huiyu Zhang, Qi Jin, Binji Zao
Summary: This study conducts an in-depth case study of the reception of Chinese films in the Anglophone world, focusing on the success of Zhang Yimou's Hero. Through sentiment analysis and corpus-based keyword analysis, the study finds that Hero received a positive response from both professional and general audiences in terms of characters, plot, scenes, and translation. Professional audiences emphasized the aesthetic value and quality of subtitles, while general audiences highlighted the preference for dubbing.
ASIA PACIFIC TRANSLATION AND INTERCULTURAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Linguistics
Aylin Coskun Kunduz, Silvina Montrul
Summary: This paper investigates the vulnerability of aspectual and mood morphology in adult heritage speakers, focusing on the Turkish evidentiality system. Comparing second-generation adult and school-age child Turkish heritage speakers to first-generation immigrants, the results reveal weak mappings between the indirect evidential marker and its pragmatic use in story-telling for the heritage speakers. The study suggests that early heritage language experience and use contribute to the variability observed in child and adult Turkish heritage speakers in this domain.
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
(2023)
Article
Linguistics
Zhonggang Sang
Summary: The question of how translation is done is crucial in translation studies. Despite the existence of various paradigms, a consensus has not been reached. Based on Activity Theory, an explanatory framework for understanding the methodology of translation activity is proposed, which can also be used for evaluating automatic translation operations.
ASIA PACIFIC TRANSLATION AND INTERCULTURAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Marta Ndakalako Alumbungu, Nhlanhla Mpofu
Summary: This study examines the self-developed strategies employed by Grade 7 ESL teachers in Namibia's Oshikoto region to enhance reading comprehension. The findings reveal that experienced teachers continue to use pedagogical methods acquired during their initial teacher education, but these methods do not guarantee improved reading comprehension for learners. Importantly, these teachers did not adapt their practices to suit their specific cultural and linguistic contexts and the needs of their learners.
LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION
(2023)
Article
Linguistics
Faezeh Sadat Shahvarani, Mostafa Azari Noughabi, Atefeh Razi
Summary: Due to the novelty of the concept of L2 teacher grit, its determinants have been less explored. This study aimed to investigate whether EFL teachers' grit could be influenced by their work engagement and resilience. The results showed that L2 teacher resilience and work engagement positively contributed to EFL teachers' domain-specific grit, with teacher engagement being a stronger predictor. These findings imply the importance of enhancing teachers' strengths to maintain their passion and determination throughout their career, highlighting the critical role of positive psychology in language teaching research.
JOURNAL OF MULTILINGUAL AND MULTICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
