Embedded tense interpretation and sequence of tense in Persian
Publication date: Available online 12 June 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Motahareh Sameri, Gholamhossein Karimi-DoostanAbstractThe present study aims at investigating tense interpretation in Persian complement and relative clauses and determining whether Persian is subsumed under the label of sequence of tense (henceforth SOT) or non-SOT languages. To achieve these aims, Persian past-under-past, present-under-past, and present-under-future constructions were examined. However, given that there was not a unanimous consensus between the researchers as to the interpretation of past-under-past constructions (which is one of the...
Source: Lingua - June 13, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Ourself and Themself: Grammar as expressive choice
Publication date: Available online 7 June 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Nancy SternAbstractPrevious scholarly work on the pronouns ourself and themself describes them as variants of ourselves and themselves. In this paper, attested tokens of ourself and themself are examined, and the contexts in which they appear are analyzed. This analysis shows that these forms, and even some less frequent examples of other mixed-number self pronouns, occur where this combination of singular and plural morphology fits the communicative context. While prescriptive pressures limit their frequency, the existence of these data falsifies the c...
Source: Lingua - June 8, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
South-Asian similatives: A typological perspective
Publication date: Available online 7 June 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Kalyanamalini Sahoo, Johan van der AuweraAbstractThis is a study of the similatives, the category that English such resorts under, in Bangla, Hindi, Odia, Kannada and Telugu. The reason for focusing on these five languages is double. First, their similatives have not received any scholarly attention. Second, the properties of these South-Asian similatives significantly add to our understanding of the typology of similatives. The study focuses on how similatives are similar to ‘ordinary’ demonstratives, yet still also different. Like demonstratives, ...
Source: Lingua - June 8, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Nostalgic diaspora or diasporic nostalgia? Discursive and identity constructions of Greeks in Qatar
Publication date: Available online 8 June 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Irene TheodoropoulouAbstractThis paper deals with the discursive constructions of transformative, agentive and creative ethnolinguistic self-conceptualizations and positionings of some select members of the approximately 3000-member Greek diasporic community in the State of Qatar. It is a digital and linguistic ethnographic study focusing on the linguistic and semiotic ways whereby Greeks in Qatar negotiate, challenge, process and ultimately respond to the sociopolitical and cultural narratives that constitute “nostalgia,” namely remembrance and hom...
Source: Lingua - June 8, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Dimensions of sociolinguistic distinction in postcolonial ethnic diversity: Folk perceptions of language across Namibia's rural/urban divide
This study addresses itself with the effects of urbanization on ethnolinguistic boundaries in Subsaharan African postcolonial environments using as a case study Namibia, an ethnically diverse country where indigenous languages co-exist with English and Afrikaans, the country's two lingua francas. The data that the study uses consist in spatialized perceptions of sociolinguistic distinctions elicited via Perceptual Dialectology methodologies, implemented for the first time in a multilingual environment. The study shows that the respondents perceive a sociolinguistic urban/rural divide. Urban areas are depicted as ethnically...
Source: Lingua - June 6, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
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Publication date: July 2019Source: Lingua, Volume 225Author(s): (Source: Lingua)
Source: Lingua - May 31, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
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Publication date: June 2019Source: Lingua, Volume 224Author(s): (Source: Lingua)
Source: Lingua - May 25, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Translanguaging in an academic setting
Publication date: Available online 22 May 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Mujahid Shah, Stefanie Pillai, Malarvizhi SinayahAbstractPakistan is home to diverse multilingual practices. However, these practices have not been extensively explored. This paper unpacks the interactive practices of a group of students in a university in Pakistan from the perspective of translanguaging. In particular, the paper examines the languages students use in informal class discussions in a university setting and explores their motivations for using different languages within this setting. Data collected through observations, video-recording an...
Source: Lingua - May 22, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
“Listisimo para los #XVdeRubi:” Constructing a chronotope as a shared imagined experience in Twitter to enact Mexicanness outside of Mexico
This article explores how transnationals who do not belong to one single social network employ language and online participation in the micro-blogging site, Twitter, to co-create a chronotope, an imagined space that transcends geography and temporality, and in doing so, signal their belonging to a Mexican community. Using an online-discourse approach, I examine the participation of Mexican immigrants and children of Mexicans living in the US in an online viral cultural event: XV de Rubí, a celebration that marks the fifteenth birthday of a girl coming of age. I show that individuals use Twitter to co-construct an imagined...
Source: Lingua - May 19, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Euphemisms and non-proximal manipulation of discourse space: The case of blue-on-blue
This article provides a pragmatic interpretation of the effects of euphemistic lexical choices made in public discourse in reference to taboo topics. It contributes to the cognitive pragmatic theory of proximization by considering how euphemisms weaken the potentially negative effect of specific linguistic representations or – more broadly – conceptualizations of forbidden reality, on the recipients. Doing so, such expressions extend the discourse space between the unpleasant phenomenon and the recipients’ deictic centre. Focusing on the military euphemism blue-on-blue and its use in various media, the paper interpre...
Source: Lingua - May 16, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Multilingual students’ use of their linguistic repertoires while writing in L2 English
This article examines six multilingual students’ composing processes and language use while writing in L2 English. Four participants have two L1s: Swedish and either Bosnian (N = 2) or Macedonian (N = 2). The remaining two participants have Swedish as their L1. Building on an L2 composing model (Wang and Wen, 2002) and the theory of Language Mode (Grosjean, 2008), the study uses think-aloud data to examine participants’ use of their language repertoires while writing an essay in L2 English. Think-aloud data revealed that Swedish served as the base language of thought for four of the participants. Th...
Source: Lingua - May 7, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
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Publication date: May 2019Source: Lingua, Volume 223Author(s): (Source: Lingua)
Source: Lingua - April 28, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Poi in Japanese Wakamono Kotoba ‘youth language’: A view from attenuation at the speech-act dimension
Publication date: Available online 25 April 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Tohru Seraku, Takako Akiha (Source: Lingua)
Source: Lingua - April 26, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Managing identity in football communities on Facebook: Language preference and language mixing strategies
Publication date: Available online 23 April 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Carmen Pérez-Sabater, Ginette Maguelouk MoffoAbstractIn this article, we examine language choice and code-switching in two different social media multilingual communities: comments posted on the official Facebook pages of the most important football clubs in Cameroon and Spain. In these two cases, non-standardised languages like indigenous Cameroonian languages or “minority” languages like Catalan have to compete with other languages. By means of a quantitative and Computer-mediated Communication Discourse Analysis (CMCDA), our results show that ...
Source: Lingua - April 25, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
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Publication date: Available online 19 April 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Marta Dynel (Source: Lingua)
Source: Lingua - April 19, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
