In Memoriam: Professor Alexandra Jaffe – By Dr. James Costa and Ms. Janet Connor
Publication date: May 2019Source: Language & Communication, Volume 66Author(s): (Source: Language and Communication)
Source: Language and Communication - April 17, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The problematic definition of ‘Chinese’ in Hong Kong
Publication date: July 2019Source: Language & Communication, Volume 67Author(s): Adam Scott ClarkAbstractHong Kong's language policy is codified in Article 9 of its Basic Law, which declares English and a non-specific ‘Chinese’ as the region's official languages. The definition of English is not particularly troublesome in Article 9; however, formulating a sound definition for the word ‘Chinese’ is problematic in the Hong Kong context. What does Chinese mean in Hong Kong? Does it refer to Cantonese, Putonghua, written Chinese, all of these or some of these? Hong Kong is a region wherein several languages are used w...
Source: Language and Communication - April 15, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Group speakers
Publication date: Available online 20 March 2019Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Grace PatersonAbstractThis paper examines group speech acts to argue against the view, here called speaker intentionalism, that one is a speaker behind a speech act in virtue of having the relevant communicative illocutionary intention. An alternative view is presented called speaker responsibilism according to which one is a speaker in virtue of having certain responsibilities. Complexities are considered which arise from the kinds of responsibilities the speaker has and the specific ways in which they are acquired. (Source: Language and Communication)
Source: Language and Communication - March 21, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Metapragmatics of normalcy: Mobility, context, and language choice
Publication date: Available online 8 March 2019Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Farzad KarimzadAbstractDrawing on data from Iranian Azerbaijani migrants, I propose the notion of chronotopization to understand how perceptions of normative social behavior are dynamically constructed and organized with respect to time, space, and the people involved in the interaction. The differently scaled chronotopes of normalcy (re-)constructed and enregistered in these processes, I argue, guide social actors' sociolinguistic behaviors and normative judgments. Through an analysis of participants' metacommentaries on appropriate ...
Source: Language and Communication - March 8, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Editorial Board
Publication date: March 2019Source: Language & Communication, Volume 65Author(s): (Source: Language and Communication)
Source: Language and Communication - March 4, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Telling the Other's side: Formulating others' mental states in driver training
This article examines ascriptions of mental states to other road users in live traffic driver training. Through this practice, instructors formulate how others make sense of the trainee driver's car. Using multimodal conversation analysis, we demonstrate how others' side formulations support trainee drivers' communicative handling of the car during ongoing coordination events. In contrast, formulations occurring after coordination events serve educational ends, yielding the generic inferential practices by which competent drivers make contextual sense of others' actions. Therefore, others' side formulations comprise an imp...
Source: Language and Communication - March 4, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Odysseus the traveler: Appropriation of a chronotope in a community of practice
Publication date: Available online 21 February 2019Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Anna De Fina, Giuseppe Paternostro, Marcello AmorusoAbstractIn this article we analyze the role of chronotopes in the formation and negotiation of identities. In particular, we consider the case of a superdiverse community of practice formed by minors asylum seekers and teachers in a school of Italian in Sicily, Italy. In our analysis we stress the role of reciprocity on the ways in which the chronotopic figure of Odysseus is reinterpreted and appropriated by members of this community. We look at how through a process of mutual en...
Source: Language and Communication - February 22, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Free the code, free the world: The chronotopic “worldness” of the virtual world of Ryzom
This article deploys Bakhtinian concepts of chronotopes operating at different scales to explore the worldness of one such online “world” (Ryzom's Atys). I will show that these different layered chronotopes become visible at moments of crisis. In each crisis, the chronotopic worldness of Atys affords developers and players not only a domain for potential conflict, but also political collaboration and engagement. (Source: Language and Communication)
Source: Language and Communication - February 21, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Chronotopic identities: Narrating Made in Italy across spatiotemporal scales
Publication date: Available online 12 February 2019Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Sabina Perrino, Gregory KohlerAbstractThe potential that narratives have to transport storytellers and audiences across time and space has made them fertile sites to study temporal and spatial effects in many disciplines. Through an analysis of a corpus of oral narratives that we collected in Northern Italy, this article extends Bakhtin's notion of literary chronotopes to empirical real-time oral narratives as they emerge in our interviews with Italian executives. In particular, we explore how brand identities are (co)constructed ...
Source: Language and Communication - February 13, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Language, Mobility and Belonging
Publication date: Available online 11 January 2019Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Kinga Kozminska, Leonie Schulte, Nancy Hawker, Rosemary Hall (Source: Language and Communication)
Source: Language and Communication - January 12, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Change over time in the type and functions of crib speech around the fourth birthday
Publication date: July 2019Source: Language & Communication, Volume 67Author(s): Danielle L. Mead, Adam WinslerAbstractCrib speech, the monologue speech of a young child before s/he falls asleep, has been examined in very few studies to date. Private speech has been explored in relation to potential motivational and self-regulatory functions, but few studies have examined private speech in pretend play or pre-sleep contexts. This longitudinal case study examines the crib speech of a young girl between the ages of 46 and 50 months by exploring the content of her speech and how it changes over time, relations between types o...
Source: Language and Communication - January 10, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Talking about mindfulness: An ethnography of communication analysis of two speech communities
Publication date: July 2019Source: Language & Communication, Volume 67Author(s): Daniel Stofleth, Valerie ManusovAbstractMindfulness as a concept and practice has gained significant recognition, referenced and employed in both academic studies and the popular press. Broad conclusions are drawn about its relationships to other variables and its impacts or benefits. Taking an Ethnography of Communication approach, we perform a communication codes analysis on two speech communities (popular press articles and academic journal articles) to determine what each references when writing about ‘mindfulness.’ Academic articles w...
Source: Language and Communication - January 10, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Exploring the ESOL-PSIT relation: Interpellation, resistance and resilience
This article explores the relationship between English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) and Public Service Interpreting and Translation (PSIT) and the problematic juxtaposition of the two in Government discourse. I analyse the discursive construction of the ESOL/PSIT subject at different levels and problematise language support provisions as acts of interpellation, drawing on quantitative and qualitative data collected in conjunction with associates at Multilingual Manchester that shed light on lived experience of provisions. I conclude that any city-region language strategy needs to address three interrelated issues...
Source: Language and Communication - January 7, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
‘Back to the “futur”’: Mobility and immobility through English in Algeria
Publication date: Available online 4 January 2019Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Camille JacobAbstractBased on year-long ethnographic fieldwork, this paper examines how global discourses of English as the “international language” are read, reproduced and appropriated in non-Anglophone postcolonial settings, taking Algeria as a case study. English is heralded as the “language of the future”, equated with “moving on” from the colonial past towards new connections, new horizons, and new articulations of a global-national identity. It is both a movement forward, and an attempt at reaching back to a more ...
Source: Language and Communication - January 5, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
‘They just had such a sweet way of speaking’: Constructed voices and prosodic styles in Kodiak Alutiiq
Publication date: July 2019Source: Language & Communication, Volume 67Author(s): Julia Coombs FineAbstractResearch in sociocultural linguistics has increasingly focused on the interplay of prosodic style, interactional stance, and personahood. This analysis investigates the prosodic stylization of constructed dialogue in Kodiak Alutiiq, an endangered Aleut-Yupik-Inuit language. Conceptualizing prosodic styles as comprised of multiple variables, I analyze each speaker's average F0, F0 range, voice quality, speech rate, and intonation contour across excerpts of constructed dialogue and non-constructed dialogue speech. The re...
Source: Language and Communication - January 5, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
