Language in and out of society: Converging critiques of the Labovian paradigm
Publication date: January 2019Source: Language & Communication, Volume 64Author(s): Johannes WoschitzAbstractWhat separates classical variationism from recent ‘social-semiotic’ approaches is its commitment to clearly distinguishable linguistic and social spheres. This distinction, as argued in this paper, is constructed through a juxtaposition of a social patterning of linguistic factors, and other social factors, which, when narrowly construed as changes from above, hinge on the conscious awareness of a linguistic feature. Recently, such a dichotomy has been called into question, since sociolinguists have begun theori...
Source: Language and Communication - November 2, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Introduction: Regimes of language and the social, hierarchized organization of ideologies
Publication date: Available online 26 October 2018Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): James CostaAbstractThis introduction seeks to problematize the notion of regimes of language with respect to how the term regimentation is used in the other social sciences, and with respect to language ideologies. It argues that regimentation, a term possibly more useful than regimes, strengthens the position already developed in semiotic anthropology that ideologies are not mere ideas but should also encompass social action, by focusing not only on ‘the rules of the [linguistic] game’ but also the strategies that guide social...
Source: Language and Communication - October 27, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Cognitive linguistics and the public mind: Idealist doctrines, materialist histories
This article explores ‘political’ dimensions of the Cognitive Linguistics (CL) movement, considered especially with reference to Ronald Langacker and George Lakoff. CL is discussed with respect to the institutional politics necessary for disciplinary survival in a changing US higher education system, and the broader socio-political circumstances of the field's origins and development. These factors intersect in Lakoff, responsible both for many of CL's major theoretical innovations, and for an assertive application of CL ideas in the public sphere. An exploration of Lakoff's political contributions allows affinities be...
Source: Language and Communication - October 25, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Pedagogic ventriloquation: Projected constructed direct reported speech in teacher talk
Publication date: January 2019Source: Language & Communication, Volume 64Author(s): Robert Jean LeBlancAbstractDrawing on an interactional sociolinguistic approach to classroom talk, I conceptualize pedagogic ventriloquation: representation of students' linguistic actions which have not actually happened but which are framed as potential or likely through quotatives and paralinguistic features, for the purposes of instruction. Using data from audio-recordings of a 9th grade ELA classroom in Southern California, I demonstrate the teacher's use of this form i) to provide an evidentiary base for claims about students' classro...
Source: Language and Communication - October 23, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Who empowers the Cuban people?: Agency and agentivity in the media
This article employs qualitative and quantitative analysis to examine how semantic roles are used to construct a hierarchy in U.S.-Cuba relations in recent articles from U.S., Miami, and Cuban newspapers. I study how social actors, such as the Cuban government, the Cuban people, the U.S. government, U.S. citizens, and U.S. businesses are mapped to different semantic roles, and how various newspapers ascribe agency to these different entities. The findings reveal asymmetries in semantic roles occupied by different participants in the sociopolitical sphere and show how Cubans and Cuban-American relations are constructed in t...
Source: Language and Communication - October 17, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
“Sensible protesters began leaving the protests”: A comparative study of opposing voices in the Hong Kong political movement
Publication date: January 2019Source: Language & Communication, Volume 64Author(s): Janet HoAbstractThis corpus-based study investigates the discursive presentations of the main social actors in the media coverage of the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement circa 2014. In particular, this work compares the strategies deployed by the South China Morning Post and China Daily in depicting the involvement of China, the Hong Kong government, the protesters and the students in the incident. The analysis of word co-occurrences revealed that the discursive portrayals of the social actors were very different in the South China Morning Post ...
Source: Language and Communication - October 17, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Editorial Board
Publication date: September 2018Source: Language & Communication, Volume 62, Part BAuthor(s): (Source: Language and Communication)
Source: Language and Communication - October 9, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Editorial Board
Publication date: September 2018Source: Language & Communication, Volume 62, Part AAuthor(s): (Source: Language and Communication)
Source: Language and Communication - October 5, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Editorial Board
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Source: Language and Communication - September 21, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Exaggerating and mitigating through metonymy: The case of situational and CAUSE FOR EFFECT/EFFECT FOR CAUSE metonymies
Publication date: Available online 5 September 2018Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Javier Herrero-RuizAbstractAlthough metonymy has been the object of an outstanding amount of research, the issue of how it can accomplish mitigation or exaggeration effects has received scant attention from the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics.By analysing the underlying cognitive operations, the aim of this paper is to go beyond previous research in order to demonstrate how some cases of understatement and overstatement can be explained via metonymies in a systematic way. We shall show how (1) situational metonymies that stan...
Source: Language and Communication - September 5, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Sustaining and revitalizing traditional Indigenous ways of speaking: An ethnography-of-speaking approach
This article makes a case for greater attention to traditional ways of speaking in Indigenous language maintenance and revitalization initiatives. It contends that traditional Indigenous communicative practices are overshadowed in many language revitalization programs by Euro-Western language ideologies and communicative norms that pervade language instruction. Through examples of speech by Lakota people, this article shows how the ethnography of speaking can usefully illuminate traditional Indigenous ways of speaking. It is posited that this “ethnography-of-speaking turn” promises to stimulate approaches to language r...
Source: Language and Communication - August 12, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Speaking through animals: Kawaiwete shamanism and metalingual play
Publication date: Available online 8 March 2018Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Suzanne OakdaleAbstractWorking from transcripts of Kawaiwete shamanic cures and myths, this paper looks at moments of referential play, situations in which animal terms are used to refer to humans and their physical states as well as moments when referential language is replaced by non-referential communication. As the Kawaiwete are a Tupian-speaking Brazilian indigenous people, their shamanic and myth performances offer a means of considering how a lowland people's language ideologies relate to the construction of ontology. Given tha...
Source: Language and Communication - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Shifting: Amerindian perspectivism in Kaska narrative performances
This article proposes a perspectival shift in views of Kaska storytellers’ code-switching to appreciate its verbal artistry, its role indexing features of the colonial encounter, and its connections to Kaska ontology. Despite the major social and economic changes experienced by Kaskas, the basic features of their lived reality remain unchanged, and they remain open to understanding the k'éh “ways” of other dene “people”, including those of animals and other animate beings. While English speakers may devalue the language shifts of Kaska storytellers, such shifts enhance their authority as prominent men who were a...
Source: Language and Communication - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Reporting, capturing and voicing speech amongst the Araweté
Publication date: Available online 22 March 2018Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Guilherme Orlandini HeurichAbstractThis paper addresses instances in which another person's speech is made one's own. Starting with the presentation of reported speech practices in daily conversations, then moving to semi-ritual retellings, speech play and the capture of another's voice by force, it finally brings examples of voicing nonhumans in ritual discourse. Drawing on studies of reported speech, voicing and capture in Amazonia and elsewhere, it suggests a possible connection between these different modalities of using another'...
Source: Language and Communication - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
“We talk in saltwater words”: Dimensionalisation of dialectal variation in multilingual Arnhem Land
Publication date: Available online 27 March 2018Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Jill VaughanAbstractIn Arnhem Land, northern Australia, speakers of the Burarra language live and communicate within a highly multilingual and multilectal language ecology. This paper explores how regional ideologies of socio-cultural distinctiveness and unity are projected into the linguistic space at the level of the language (within Maningrida's language ecology), as well as at the level of the lect (in terms of dialects and sociolects within the Burarra language). Drawing from current ethnography, naturalistic interactional and e...
Source: Language and Communication - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
