刊讯｜SSCI 期刊《语用学杂志》2022年第189卷

JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS 

Volume 189（2022）

    Journal of Pragmatics（SSCI一区，2020 IF：1.476）2022年第189卷共发文11篇，其中研究性论文7篇，书评4篇。研究论文涉及话语标记、双重否定、方言中的助词、指示代词等内容。

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刊讯｜SSCI 期刊 《语用学杂志》2022年第188卷

刊讯｜SSCI 期刊《语用学杂志》2022年第187卷

目录

ARTICLES

• The final particle uè in Longxi Qiang: A marker of realis and stance,by Wuxi Zheng,Pages 17-36

• The development of the Chinese discourse marker and expressive wanle,by Fangqiong Zhan, Chaofen Sun,Pages 37-54

• The scalar interpretation of double negation,by Yechezkel Shabanov, Einat Shetreet,Pages 55-65

• Loss and emergence: (Double) demonstratives and ‘indefinite this’ in Ontario dialects,by Laura Rupp, Sali A. Tagliamonte,Pages 66-78

• Negation as involvement: Building intersubjectivity via the Hebrew lo tagid construction,by Einat Kuzai,Pages 79-91

• Reenactments during tellings: Using gaze for initiating reenactments, switching roles and representing events,by

  Martin Pfeiffer, Clarissa Weiss,Pages 92-113

• Multimodality,interactional competence,and the ‘intercultural’in achieving intercultural service encounters in Japan,by Stephen J. Moody,Pages 114-133

BOOK REVIEWS

• Smartphone Communication. Interactions in the App Ecosystem, Francisco Yus. Routledge, Abingdon (2022), 330 pp.,, 35 pp. B/W Illustrations; ISBN: 978-1-032-06066-8 (hbk); ISBN: 978-1-032-06067-5 (pbk); ISBN: 978-1-003-20057-4 (ebk),by Maria Angeles Ruiz-Moneva,Pages 1-3

• “Don't act like a Sati-Savitri!”: Hinglish and other impoliteness strategies in Indian YouTube comments,by Shrutika Kapoor,Pages 4-16

• Dialogic patterns of the oppressor-oppressed dynamic in climate change denial,by Margaret Rasulo,Pages 147-159

• Virtual performatives as face-work practices on Twitter: Relying on self-reference and humour,by Tuija Virtanen,Pages 134-146

摘要

The final particle uè in Longxi Qiang: A marker of realis and stance

Wuxi Zheng

School of Chinese Language and Literature, South China Normal University

Abstract This paper explores the nature of the final particle uè in Longxi Qiang, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in China. Previous studies have briefly described the uses of sentence final particles in ‘tail-head’ construction in Qiang varieties such as Longxi, Ronghong, and Puxi Qiang. Other studies indicate that the distribution of uè is not restricted to ‘tail-head’ construction. More features of the Qiang language are found by analyzing the uses of uè in narratives and conversations. First, the absence and presence of uè reflect the realis and irrealis distinction. The Qiang language lacks grammatical tense, but uè serves as a temporal reference to distinguish future and non-future. The choices of the final particle and person marker do not depend on aspect, but rather the realistic status of the events. Second, the use of uè signals the interlocutor's/narrator's evaluation from a third-party perspective, as well as his/her strong epistemic certainty or personal viewpoint regarding an entity or proposition.

The development of the Chinese discourse marker and expressive wanle

Fangqiong Zhan

Hong Kong Shue Yan University

Chaofen Sun

Stanford University

Abstract This paper focuses on the multifunctional non-compositional construction wanle as a discourse marker (DM) and an expressive in Modern Chinese as well as how they came into being in the history of Chinese. There have been a few works on the semantics and pragmatic function of the chunked wanle, however, none of them discusses it from a diachronic constructional perspective, and none has proposed the differences between its use as a DM and as an expressive. Based on the extensive classical data, we argue that even though both the DM and the expressive wanle originated from the inflected change-of-state verb, they developed with different trajectories. From a diachronic constructional point of view, we further argue that the development of the DM and the expressive wanle may have involved multiple mechanisms and multiple inputs.

The scalar interpretation of double negation

Yechezkel Shabanov

Department of Linguistics, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel

Einat Shetreet

Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel

Abstract The meaning of expressions modified by double negation (e.g., not unhappy or not not interesting) has long been discussed, with views advocating that the two negations must be logically interpreted (i.e., not unhappy means happy), and others arguing that the modified expression always yields a weaker version than the unmodified expression. The current study aimed to understand the possible interpretations of double negation experimentally. We used a novel range-marking task, allowing (Hebrew-speaking) participants to mark not only the location of a certain expression on the scale, but also the size it occupies. We collected measures of the range sizes, their location, as well as the inclusion of the edge of the scale. Doubly-negated adjectives were compared to unmodified adjectives and singly-negated adjectives, and adjectives modified by hedges, considering their mitigation effect. We were able to provide the first empirical evidence that double negation can be interpreted both logically and pragmatically. Additionally, we showed dissimilarities between double negations and hedges, suggesting that doubly-negated expressions present a stronger mitigation effect than hedges.

Loss and emergence: (Double) demonstratives and ‘indefinite this’ in Ontario dialects

Laura Rupp

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Sali A. Tagliamonte

University of Toronto, Canada

Abstract Studies in language variation and change normally conduct quantitative analyses of (relatively) large samples. In this article we demonstrate how even meagre tokens can provide key information about the characteristics of change in conditions of loss. As a case study, we study double demonstrative constructions (DDEMO_NPs) in Ontario, Canada. We show that DDEMO_NPs are obsolescent, restricted to older male speakers doing blue collar jobs. Building on theories of dialect recession (Schilling-Estes and Wolfram, 1999), we argue that on their way to moribund status, DDEMO_NPs undergo a process of ‘concentration’ of the kind postulated by Jankowski and Tagliamonte (2017). Specifically, we demonstrate that from among the potential range of forms and functions of demonstratives, speakers relatively frequently use DDEMO_NPs as ‘indefinite this’ (Prince, 1981a), a fairly recent usage of this to introduce a new referent into discourse. This finding suggests that loss of a form is not a simple matter of decreasing frequency. Rather, qualitative scrutiny of the data is essential to expose more nuanced trajectories of decline. Additionally, studying obsolescent dialect features may reveal the origins of new uses; we will advance the idea that DDEMO_NPs provide an alternative perspective on the emergence of indefinite this via discourse-pragmatic innovation.

Negation as involvement: Building intersubjectivity via the Hebrew lo tagid construction

Einat Kuzai

School of Cultural Studies, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Tel Aviv, Israel

Abstract This paper examines the contemporary use of a standard negation construction that has yet to be described in the literature, thereby contributing to pragmatic typology. The construction in question referred to here as the Hebrew lo tagid (NEG say.FUT.2.SG.MS) construction, consists of an optional affirmative clause or constituent and a negated prefixed verbum dicendi. Syntactically, the construction displays properties of a routinized chunk, and its verb component is semantically interpreted as a negator. Qualitative and quantitative analyses of corpus data reveal that the lo tagid construction rejects addressees' presuppositions like other negation structures. However, it tends to appear in a specialized discourse pattern of contrastive scalarity which correlates with the construction's general argumentative function of intensifying writers' stances. Examining the construction's analyzability, compositionality, and construal shows that its morpho-syntactic makeup distinctively shapes this argumentative function as an involvement strategy that triggers addressees' internal evaluations of the topic discussed. This research, then, extends previous accounts of how negation may be hearer-oriented.

Reenactments during tellings: Using gaze for initiating reenactments, switching roles and representing events

Martin Pfeiffer

German Department, University of Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, D-14469 Potsdam, Germany

Clarissa Weiss

Department of German Linguistics, University of Freiburg, Platz der Universität 3, D-79085 Freiburg, Germany

Abstract In this paper, we draw on German dyadic face-to-face conversations among friends in order to examine the interactional functions of gaze in reenactments, i.e. “re-presentations or depictions” (Sidnell, 2006: 377) of previously experienced or imagined events. Firstly, we show that reenactors use several different gaze patterns depending on whether the depicted original event is dialogic or non-dialogic. Secondly, we compare the use of different resources for initiating reenactments and switching roles during reenactments with regard to the interactional function of the different alternatives. Specifically, we describe a multimodal practice for switching characters during reenactments that are designed to invite laughter. In sum, the findings add to our knowledge about the various communicative functions of gaze in social interaction.

Multimodality, interactional competence, and the ‘intercultural’ in achieving intercultural service encounters in Japan

Stephen J. Moody

Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages, Brigham Young University, 3069 JFSB, Provo, 84660 UT, USA

Abstract This study uses a multimodal conversation analysis to examine the interactional competence of participants in intercultural service encounters. American customers were video recorded while placing orders at small food shops in rural Japan. Two encounters illustrate how participants used multimodal resources to collaboratively achieve transactional goals in the face of features—linguistic difficulty and relational talk occasioned by language and sociocultural identities—that might be attributed to the ‘intercultural’ setting. The analysis shows how the participants used gesture, movement, and body position in concert with standard transactional routines to navigate relational and transactional sequences of talk and accomplish a shared, transactional goal. The discussion then considers whether these sequential developments are partly responsible for the particular ‘intercultural’ nature of these encounters, thereby contributing to a more nuanced understanding of the interactional components of service encounters between participants of different cultural backgrounds.

期刊简介

Since 1977, the Journal of Pragmatics has provided a forum for bringing together a wide range of research in pragmatics, including cognitive pragmatics, corpus pragmatics, experimental pragmatics, historical pragmatics, interpersonal pragmatics, multimodal pragmatics, sociopragmatics, theoretical pragmatics and related fields. Our aim is to publish innovative pragmatic scholarship from all perspectives, which contributes to theories of how speakers produce and interpret language in different contexts drawing on attested data from a wide range of languages/cultures in different parts of the world.

自 1977 年以来，《语用学杂志》 提供了一个论坛，汇集了广泛的语用学研究，包括认知语用学、语料库语用学、实验语用学、历史语用学、人际语用学、多模态语用学、社会语用学、理论语用学和相关领域。我们的目标是从各个角度发表创新的实用主义学术成果，这有助于利用来自世界不同地区的各种语言/文化的经证实数据，对说话者如何在不同环境中产生和解释语言的理论做出贡献。

The Journal of Pragmatics also encourages work that uses attested language data to explore the relationship between pragmatics and neighbouring research areas such as semantics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis and ethnomethodology, interactional linguistics, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, media studies, psychology, sociology, and the philosophy of language. Alongside full-length articles, discussion notes and book reviews, the journal welcomes proposals for high quality special issues in all areas of pragmatics which make a significant contribution to a topical or developing area at the cutting-edge of research.

《语用学杂志》还鼓励使用经过验证的语言数据来探索语用学与邻近研究领域之间的关系，例如语义学、话语分析、对话分析和民族方法学、交互语言学、社会语言学、语言人类学、媒体研究、心理学、社会学和语言哲学。除了长篇文章、讨论笔记和书评外，该杂志还欢迎对语用学所有领域的高质量特刊提出建议，这些建议对前沿研究的主题或发展领域做出重大贡献。

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