Showing papers in "Journal of Pragmatics in 2015"

TL;DR: In this paper, the use of forward-referring headlines in online news journalism by conducting an analysis of 100,000 headlines from 10 different Danish news websites has been studied and the results show that commercialization and tabloidization seem to lead to a recurrent use of forwarding-reference in Danish online news headlines.

TL;DR: It is argued that hashtags contribute to relevance by adding a layer of activation to certain contextual assumptions and thus guiding the reader's inferential processes, and may guide the hearer in the derivation of both explicitly and implicitly communicated meaning.

TL;DR: Gibbs and Steen as mentioned in this paper argue that there is a distinction between the deliberate and non-deliberate use of metaphor, which is controversial and is reminiscent of the traditional view of metaphor in poetics and rhetoric.

TL;DR: Examination of how the ideal of sharedness is maintained and negotiated through epistemic and deontic resources in secondary care consultations where patients are given a choice between invasive and non-invasive treatment options suggests that the physician's presentation of treatment options is often tilted in favor of one proposal over the other.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the interactional unfolding of student smiles in instructed language learning settings drawing on data from both English as a Second Language and as a Foreign Language class data sets, and found that students smile in both instruction and instruction.

TL;DR: This study uses conversation analysis to explore how epistemic and deontic orientations are raised and made relevant in different types of responses to treatment proposals across two health care settings – New Zealand general practice consultations and Swedish hospital-based physician encounters.

TL;DR: The authors resituate DMT so that it can offer new insights into the processes and products of metaphorical language use, and propose a new approach to the study of metaphors in communication.

TL;DR: The interactions between these levels of analysis offer a rich, non-essentialist view of translation as a social relation, as a product, and as a teachable mode of decision-making.

TL;DR: The notion of "offence" lies at the core of current models of impoliteness and it is also well acknowledged that being impolite is not necessarily the same thing as being offended.

TL;DR: The authors revisited some of the more recent developments in politeness research and highlighted the need to clarify and refine the scope of the research questions and develop an interdisciplinary approach within interpersonal pragmatics.

TL;DR: This paper followed a pre-test-instruction-post-test design to examine the effectiveness of teaching email requests to faculty to a group of 28 intermediate-level Chinese students of English.

TL;DR: The authors examined the range of ways in which hyperbole is manifest, in both its pure uses and its prevalent co-occurrences with other tropes, concluding that it does not align closely with either metaphor or irony but is a distinctive figure of speech in its own right, characterized by the blatant exaggeration of a relevant scalar property for the purpose of expressing an evaluation of a state of affairs.

TL;DR: This paper found no evidence in support of the deliberate metaphor proposal, which raises serious doubts about the psychological validity of the idea that some metaphors are produced and understood as being deliberate, and no empirical study has explored whether people really infer greater deliberation and cross-domain mappings when encountering pragmatic signals of metaphor.

TL;DR: The authors survey five types of evidence, from questionnaire and corpus studies, L1 and L2 acquisition studies and impoliteness studies, that lead them to place at the heart of im/politeness not indirectness but conventionalization as a three-way relationship between expressions, contexts and speakers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the experimental evidence provided so far is compatible with two alternative explanations of the empirical data: (i) face-threatening contexts block the derivation of scalar inferences, or (ii) in facethreatening contexts the scalar inference is in fact derived as part of the intended interpretation but is less likely to be accepted (as true).

TL;DR: This paper used conversation analysis to examine client resistance in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) sessions for clients with depression and found that clients displayed active resistance to such proposals by drawing on one of three types of ‘inability to comply' account: (1) appeals to restrictive situational factors; (2) appeal to fixed physical states; (3) assertions of previous effort to do what the therapist was proposing.

TL;DR: This paper explored what combinations of Contrastive Discourse Markers (CDM) occur in English (eg, but, on the other hand), and Implicative DiscourseMarkers (IDM), and what combinations occur when one member is taken from each class.

TL;DR: The authors analyse data from informal, naturally occurring conversations in a UK-based online forum and introduce a range of metalinguistic expressions which are used to refer to mock polite behaviors in lay interactions and describe the different structures of mock polite behaviours.

TL;DR: This article investigated how embodied interactional practices involving material objects relate to the organization of social action in student-student interaction, highlighting the material nature of an interactional context and examining how students orient in talk and by bodily-visual means to their and their co-conversants' textual documents during individual task work.

TL;DR: In this paper, a planning session during which three adult learners of Italian as a foreign language prepare for a classroom presentation in their L2 is analyzed, and the final planning product is a written script for the presentation.

TL;DR: In this paper, a synchronic typology of non-prototypical uses of personal pronouns is presented together with a short characterization of the communicative motivations and effects of these uses.

TL;DR: This article explored how future actions are nominated as well as how agents (performers) of future actions were targeted in Finnish conversational directive sequences, where subjects need not always be expressed and where special constructions, e.g. with zeroperson forms, exist for leaving personal reference open.

TL;DR: This article found that in almost half the cases the personal subject pronoun je ‘you’ gets a generic interpretation in the Spoken Dutch Corpus, but only 12% of readings is generic, and 88% is deictic for questions.

TL;DR: The authors argue that impersonal uses of the second person establish a direct referential link to the addressee, just like personal uses, and their status as "impersonal" is a function of sentential contexts and conversational conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, weekly meetings for optimising maintenance plans on offshore oil and gas wells on the Norwegian Continental Shelf were recorded and analyzed within the framework of activity analysis, which combines sequential nature of turn-taking with the structural components of a given activity type vis-a-vis role-relationships among participants.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the beliefs of 178 German English language teachers and students about German vague language, including vague non-verbal indicators, vague responses to health enquiries, and vague epistemic stance indicators that indexed explicitly a lack of knowledge.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate a sub-corpus of call centre interactions building on and extending the work of Jagodzinski (2013) and Archer (2008, 2011a,b), and provide real-life evidence of: how impoliteness and/or verbal aggression are performed in the call centre, the extent to which they are mutually related, and how they link with the notion of instrumentality.

TL;DR: The authors compared the deployment of reflexive metadiscourse in research articles from three disciplines (Medicine, Economics and Linguistics) written in Spanish, by looking at the occurrence of certain lexico-grammatical features that signal it.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the language preferences of 1454 adult multilinguals for inner speech and for emotional inner speech in their different languages and found that the use of the first language (L1) and various languages learnt later in life (LX) are used significantly less frequently for emotional and inner speech.