Editorial Board
Publication date: September 2019Source: Language & Communication, Volume 68Author(s): (Source: Language and Communication)
Source: Language and Communication - September 14, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
‘The illusion or the truth?’ – Back stage constructions of authenticity in an up-market restaurant
Publication date: November 2019Source: Language & Communication, Volume 69Author(s): Marie Maegaard, Martha Sif KarrebækAbstractBuilding on recent sociolinguistic and anthropological theories on authenticity, in this paper we take a sociolinguistic perspective on the construction of authenticity in a Copenhagen-based Bornholmian restaurant. Focus is on the tensions between different understandings of authenticity in the creation of a new predinner drink. Data include interactions between owner and staff where ingredients, serving, and glass design are negotiated, all connected to the general aim of creating a recognizabl...
Source: Language and Communication - August 22, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Experimental results on the effect of politeness strategies on perceptions of police
Publication date: November 2019Source: Language & Communication, Volume 69Author(s): Belen Lowrey-KinbergAbstractRecent confrontations between citizens and police in the United States have led to calls to improve police-community relations. One theory gaining prominence is procedural justice theory, which states that respectful and fair treatment improves perceptions of police, regardless of the interaction's material outcome. Yet “respect” in the policing literature is defined in myriad ways. This experiment tests the effects of three speech styles derived from politeness theory on perceptions of an officer in a simul...
Source: Language and Communication - August 7, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Groups speaking for themselves: Articulating first-person plural authority
Publication date: Available online 1 August 2019Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Hans Bernhard SchmidAbstractThis paper examines the ways in which group speech acts involve speakers. Against the view that groups need spokespeople speak for (or on behalf of, or in the name of) them, I argue that groups can speak for themselves. Group speech acts are a special type of joint intentional action. Groups speak when they express their illocutionary intention. Group illocutionary intentions are collective intentions of their members, and they are collective in virtue of the members' plural pre-reflective self-knowledge o...
Source: Language and Communication - August 2, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
How abstract concepts emerge from metaphorical images: The metonymic way
Publication date: November 2019Source: Language & Communication, Volume 69Author(s): Marianna Bolognesi, Paola VernilloAbstractWhile concrete concepts can be graphically represented within the pictorial mode by showing the referent that they designate, abstract concepts lack concrete referents that can be easily depicted. Nonetheless, in verbo-pictorial metaphors viewers are typically invited to construct comparisons between entities and this process often involves abstract concepts.This paper investigates the role of metonymy in abstract concepts representation within the pictorial mode. By means of qualitative and quanti...
Source: Language and Communication - July 22, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
What are group speech acts?
Publication date: Available online 22 June 2019Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Kirk LudwigAbstractThe paper provides a taxonomy of group speech acts whose main division is that between collective speech acts (singing Happy Birthday, agreeing to meet) and group proxy speech acts in which a group, such as a corporation, employs a proxy, such as a spokesperson, to convey its official position. The paper provides an analysis of group proxy speech acts using tools developed more generally for analyzing institutional agency, particularly the concepts of shared intention, proxy agent, status role, status function, conv...
Source: Language and Communication - June 24, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Voices from the outside: The instrumentality of radio messages in Colombian kidnappings
This article examines the linguistic instrumentality of the radio voice. By analysing the Voces del Secuestro messages, it is shown how a phenomenological listening of the radio voice gave hope in times of anguish. (Source: Language and Communication)
Source: Language and Communication - June 24, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Victims or non-humans: Exploring the semantic preference of refugees in Spanish news articles
Publication date: November 2019Source: Language & Communication, Volume 69Author(s): Jorge Soto-Almela, Gema Alcaraz-MármolAbstractThis paper explores the discursive representation of refugees in a 1.8-million-word corpus of Spanish news articles collected from the digital libraries of El Mundo and El País. Through a corpus-assisted methodology, synchronic and diachronic analyses have been conducted in order to examine the semantic preference of the lemma refugiado over the 2010–16 period. The results show a semantic preference of refugiado for two major semantic sets, namely victimization and dehumanization. Indeed, t...
Source: Language and Communication - June 24, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Editorial Board
Publication date: July 2019Source: Language & Communication, Volume 67Author(s): (Source: Language and Communication)
Source: Language and Communication - June 13, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Chronotopic relations: Chronotopes, scale, and scale-making
Publication date: Available online 10 May 2019Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Zane Goebel, Howie MannsAbstractRecent work on scale, chronotope and scale-making offers exciting ways for rethinking what we often refer to as “context”. In this paper, we review these ideas pointing to how we might reconcile some of the overlaps in the concepts of scale and chronotope, while examining how we might look at chronotopic connection across quite different empirical divides drawn from a number of separate research projects in Indonesia. We propose that scale can be thought of as chains of chronotopes and that the semio...
Source: Language and Communication - May 10, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Introduction: Chronotopes and chronotopic relations
Publication date: Available online 2 May 2019Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Anna De Fina, Sabina Perrino (Source: Language and Communication)
Source: Language and Communication - May 3, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Latinx perceptions of Spanish in Miami: Dialect variation, personality attributes and language use
This study examines the ways in which Cuban, Colombian, and Peninsular Spanish in Miami-Dade County (MDC) are conceptualized by Latinx participants in terms of implicit perceptions. We examine how Latinx college students – all residents of Miami – perceive Spanish language variation in Miami and predict putative differences in two domains: 1) personality characteristics related to warmth and competence traits (e.g., friendliness and intelligence), and 2) differences in usage and maintenance of Spanish. Data were analyzed for significance using a three by four within-subjects ANOVA with a series of specific statistical ...
Source: Language and Communication - April 30, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Towards Financial Semiology
Publication date: July 2019Source: Language & Communication, Volume 67Author(s): Shaul HayounAbstractThis paper offers a new avenue in contemplating semiology beyond linguistics: it introduces accounting as ‘Financial Semiology’. The paper discusses the implications of a semiological theorisation of accounting, particularly in problematising the conventional assumptions underlying two important accounting issues: recognition and measurement of the firm's assets, specifically with respect to the notion of alleged 'representation' of assets and their seemingly 'intrinsic value'. Through two core pillars in Saussure's sem...
Source: Language and Communication - April 29, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Commentary: Chronotopes, synchronization and formats
Publication date: Available online 27 April 2019Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Jan BlommaertAbstractAfter a brief discussion of how the notion of chronotope enables us to address issues of context and contextualization in a more adequate way, this commentary turns to how, in the papers of this volume, two major themes emerge. One is about chronotope as a primarily moral notion; the other about chronotopic relations as forms of synchronization, where the latter can be understood as revolving around indexical vector reorientation towards ‘formats’ (Source: Language and Communication)
Source: Language and Communication - April 27, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Editorial Board
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
