Showing papers in "Journal of Pragmatics in 2013"

TL;DR: How and why digitally networked communication environments alter traditional notions of trust are discussed, and research is presented that examines how information consumers make judgments about the credibility and accuracy of information they encounter online.

TL;DR: In this article, a range of features that are central to the constitution of human action are discussed, including language structure, prosody, and visible embodied displays, and the accumulation and differentiation through time within local co-operative transformation zones of dense substrates.

TL;DR: The Journal of Pragmatics has its origins in the International Conference on Conversation Analysis 10 (ICCA10), which took place in Mannheim (Germany) in July 2010.

TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that an analysis of im/politeness as social practice necessitates a move away from a simplistic speaker-hearer model of interaction to a consideration of the broader participation framework within which they arise, and the positioning of the analysts vis-a-vis that participation order.

TL;DR: This article examined the syntactic, prosodic and embodied shape of directive response sequences used to launch, choreograph, monitor, and stall the ongoing progress of a routine communicative project occurring across temporal and spatial dimensions.

TL;DR: This paper analyzed how advanced foreign language learners use computer-mediated communication cues such as emoticons, nonstandard/multiple punctuation, and lexical surrogates in a quasi-synchronous computer mediated consensus-building discussion.

TL;DR: This paper investigated how ELF speakers improve their pragmatic competence by using the discourse markers yes/yeah, so and okay as expressions of (inter)subjectivity and connectivity, and found that speakers of English as a lingua franca in academic consultation hours tend to strategically re-interpret certain discourse markers in order to help themselves improve pragmatic competence and thus function smoothly in the flow of talk.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the coordinated practices of walking away as reflexively contributing to the organization of activity closings, and show how walking away is a negotiated matter, being initiated by some, aligned or disaligned by others, possibly retracted and revised.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the relation between echoic and pretence accounts of irony, and how theoretical debates about the nature of irony might suggest fruitful directions for future developmental research, and found that irony necessarily involves echoic use but does not necessarily involve pretence.

TL;DR: Turn-taking practices in political meetings that are part of a participatory democracy project have been studied in this paper, focusing on the practical problems encountered by speakers bidding for turns and by the chairman trying to make the floor accessible.

TL;DR: This article explored the interactional unfolding of epistemic status check (ESC) (e.g. ‘no idea?’, or ‘you don’t know?'), which is a frequently observed feature of teacher talk in language classrooms.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address aspects of embodiment, surfacing in interaction episodes in an auto shop, that resist such an approach, including embodied knowledge and kinesthetic experience, and discuss a variety of approaches that offer alternative views of the human body.

TL;DR: The authors argue that existing solutions to the problem of stability of emotional communication are problematic and suggest introducing a new class of non-ostensive communication, namely emotional expressions, which can be expressed through changes in prosodic cues, facial and bodily muscular configuration, pupil dilatation and skin colouration.

TL;DR: The authors investigated intercorrelations among two phonological and two syntactic sociolinguistic variables in 20 speakers of Brazilian Portuguese and concluded that some sociolectal cohesion does exist, but it may be weaker and more multidimensional than is commonly assumed.

TL;DR: Locher and Graham as mentioned in this paper argue that the move towards putting relationality or relationships to the forefront of interpersonal pragmatics research is nevertheless a very important one for interpersonal pragmetics more broadly.

TL;DR: This paper examined the use of hedges across three academic writing corpora: the English scientific writing corpus, the Chinese-authored English scientific article corpus, and the Chinese scientific article Corpus Based on the Hyland's (1998) classification scheme on hedges and the frequencies of their various types, hedges in the three corpora were identified and quantified.

TL;DR: Turn-design can also be seen as a task related to the multimodal, embodied, and interactive contingencies of online-construction of turns as discussed by the authors, where the speaker needs to orient the recipient to properties of the turn s/he is about to produce and display his/her understanding of the interaction so as the backdrop on which the production of the upcoming turn is based.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider if and to what extent globalisation affects the expression of politeness and impoliteness and draw their evidence from the service sector, primarily in Greece and in England.

TL;DR: Perniss et al. as mentioned in this paper found that iconicity in gestures can be a powerful communicative strategy in teaching new knowledge to children in demonstrations and this is in line with claims that it can be used as a scaffolding device in grounding knowledge in experience.

TL;DR: The authors examined the framing of constructed action in British Sign Language (BSL) narratives and found that in cases of introduction or switch reference, local reference via a noun phrase is preferred, while in case of maintenance of reference, omission of noun phrase identifying the referent is preferred.

TL;DR: This article investigated the issue of politeness and disagreement in two Hong Kong Internet discussion forums based on forum interlocutors' disagreement strategies and found that most strategies were direct and unmitigated but generally perceived as politic, appropriate, and not negatively marked by lay participants.

TL;DR: This article investigated whether 3-and 5-yearolds notice the infelicity of under-and over-informative utterances and then seek out further information in order to recover the speaker's intended meaning.

TL;DR: In this article, a social, deontological perspective of speaker meaning is proposed, where the speaker is held accountable to the moral order for what he or she is taken to mean in interaction.

TL;DR: The study revealed a picture with two sides: DCT requests and naturally occurring requests presented significant differences in a number of dimensions but at the same time they followed similar trends in terms of directness and lexical modification.

TL;DR: A literature review on emotion research for linguists and then focuses in particular on the creation of relational meaning within interpersonal pragmatics, taking a multi-modal approach to the study of relationship construction.

TL;DR: Turn-opening smiles initiate a shift from a neutral or serious emotional stance to a positive or humorous emotional stance as mentioned in this paper, and the utterances that follow the smile explicate the grounds for the displayed emotional stance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how repeated occurrences of client opposition and avoidance or resistance is managed over extended sequences of talk and across sessions by drawing from the methods of conversation analysis, resistance is analyzed in terms of how a client resists the constraints set up by a counsellor's questions and, subsequently, how resistance is oriented to by the next speaker.

TL;DR: This paper analyzed computer-mediated responses to compliments in Spanish as opposed to their face-to-face counterparts and found that aspects such as disembodiment, asynchronicity or relative lack of privacy have a crucial say in how online users respond to compliments.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the role of teacher self-talk in managing classroom interaction during unplanned moments of instruction and in building affective teacher-student relationships, and found that teacher selftalk, accomplished via specific prosodic cues, eye gaze direction, and body positioning, plays a significant role in managing the moments when aspects of pedagogical task need to be monitored or adjusted.

TL;DR: This paper carried out a qualitative multimodal analysis of the codification of verbal and non-verbal politeness strategies in a sub-corpus of five charity commercials aired on British television.