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NAME: Chloé DISKIN-HOLDAWAY

INSTITUTION: The University of Melbourne, Australia

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:

She is Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics in the School of Languages and Linguistics of the University of Melbourne. Her research areas are sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, discourse-pragmatic variation, language attitudes and ideologies, and discourse analysis, with special focus on the sociolinguistics of migration and globalization. She is current chair of the Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change (DiPVaC) Research Network.

TITLE: Integrating phonetics and discourse-pragmatic variation: the case of just

ABSTRACT:

Discourse-pragmatic markers (DPMs) are commonly studied as lemmas, with much focus on their distributional and functional patterns (see e.g., Beeching 2016; Pichler 2016; Peterson et al. 2022) and comparatively less attention paid to their phonetic realization. Notable exceptions include Drager (2011), who found that quotative versus non-quotative like had different phonetic realizations, and Tamminga (2014), who found that function word like (including DPM like) was more advanced in a sound change in /ai/ than like as a lexical verb. These findings suggest that grammaticalization processes may be implicated in phonetic variation or sound change.

This paper presents findings from recent collaborative work on just in Australian (AusE) and New Zealand English (NZE) from my work with the Canberra Corpus Collective (see e.g., CCC 2019). We aim to investigate whether discourse-pragmatic change in just has proceeded in line with, or independently, of a sound change in AusE and NZE, whereby the vowel in STRUT has become more like the vowel in KIT. We extract over 11,000 tokens of just from the Origins of New Zealand English (ONZE) Corpus (Gordon, Maclagan, & Hay 2007) and the Sydney Speaks corpus (e.g., Grama, Travis & Gonzalez Ochoa 2021) which include 722 speakers with years of birth ranging from the 1850s to the 2000s.

We find that the youngest speakers in the corpora have higher frequencies of just overall. They also have high proportions of just like, just sort of and just because (see also Bender & Kathol 2001) – collocates that are absent among the older speakers. The findings align with a parallel phonetic analysis showing that these ‘newer’ collocational uses are more likely to be implicated in the sound change than STRUT vowels found in other lemmas. This shows that words such as just that have expansive functions and have undergone extensive grammaticalization may have different phonetic profiles that can shed light on variation and change.

REFERENCES:

Beeching, K. (2016). Pragmatic Markers in British English: Meaning in Social Interaction. Cambridge University Press.
Bender, E., & Kathol, A. (2001). Constructional effects of just because . . . doesn’t mean . . . Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 27(1), 13-26.
Canberra Corpus Collective – CCC (2019) [Diskin, C., J. Hay, K. Drager, P. Foulkes, K. Gnevsheva, J. Grama, J. Brand, C. Travis, D. Loakes, G. Docherty, E. Sheard, and S. Gonzalez] The emergence of the discourse-pragmatic marker ‘just’: linking changes in usage to changes in pronunciation. Presented at the Linguistic Society of New Zealand conference, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Drager, K. K. (2011). Sociophonetic variation and the lemma. Journal of Phonetics, 39(4), 694-707.
Grama, J., Travis, C., & Gonzalez Ochoa, S. (2021). Ethnic variation in real time: Change in Australian English diphthongs. In H. Van de Velde, N.H. Hilton and R. Knooihuizen (Eds.), Language Variation & European Perspectives VIII (pp. 292-314). John Benjamins.
Gordon E., Maclagan M., Hay J. (2007). The ONZE corpus. In Beal J.C., Corrigan K.P., Moisl H.L. (Eds.) Creating and digitizing language corpora (pp.82-104). Palgrave Macmillan.
Peterson, E., Hiltunen, T., & Kern, J. (Eds.). (2022). Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change: Theory, Innovations, Contact. Cambridge University Press.
Pichler, H. (2016). Discourse-pragmatic variation and change in English: New methods and insights. Cambridge University Press.
Tamminga, M. (2014). Sound change without frequency effects: Ramifications for phonological theory. Proceedings of the 31st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, ed. R. E. Santana-LaBarge, 457-465. Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

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NAME: Miklós KONTRA

INSTITUTION: Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:

TITLE: The life and difficult death of the mother-tongue question as a means of linguistic genocide in Hungary

In memory of
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (1940–2023)

ABSTRACT:

In memory of Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (1940–2023)

Based on the United Nations’ preparatory work for the Genocide Convention (1948), Skutnabb-Kangas (2000: 311–318) defined linguistic genocide as killing a language without killing its speakers (as in physical genocide) or (through passivity) letting a language die. For decades before the 2022 census, the Hungarian Central Statistical Office used a mother-tongue question which collapsed Romani-speakers and Boyash-speakers as cigányok ‘Gypsy language speakers’. The Census Bureau thus effectively invisibilized both the Romani- and the Boyash-speakers (over 50 000 adults), which is the worst case of linguistic genocide in Hungary (Kontra 2019: 102–106).
In agreement with Eckert (2000: 74), who urged (socio)linguists to discover meanings, rather than presuppose them, I will analyze the various meanings of the term anyanyelv ‘mother-tongue’ as used in a Hungarian encyclopedia (1936), four important Hungarian dictionaries, and the Census Bureau – contrasting them with mother tongue as defined by Skutnabb-Kangas (2000: 105 ff.), using the criteria of origin, identification, competence, and function. I will also show the similarities and important dissimilarities in the meanings of anyanyelv as used by Croatia-Hungarians and Hungary-Hungarians. Apart from the lessons of linguistic racism (May 2023), this story shows how intentional linguistic manipulation can thrive for decades.

REFERENCES:

Eckert, Penelope 2000. Linguistic variation as social practice. Oxford: Blackwell.
Kontra, Miklós 2019. Felelős nyelvészet. Budapest: Gondolat Kiadó.
https://mek.oszk.hu/22400/22434/22434.pdf
May, Stephen 2023. Linguistic racism: Origins and implications. Ethnicities, Volume 23, Issue 5: 651–661.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/14687968231193072
Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove 2000. Linguistic Genocide in Education – or Worldwide Diversity and Human Rights? Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.

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NAME: Manfred STEDE

INSTITUTION: University of Potsdam/Germany

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:

Professor of applied computational linguistics at Potsdam University. His research areas are discourse structure and automatic text understanding, currently with special focus on social sciences. Ongoing projects deal with rhetorical aspects of argumentation, the automatic evaluation of argumentative student essays, and the examination of conflict development in the UN Security Council.

He studied Computer Science and Linguistics at TU Berlin 1985-89; M.Sc. in Computer Science, Purdue Univ./Indiana, 1990; PhD at Univ. of Toronto Computer Science, 1996; Research assistant in Computational Linguistics projects at TU 1995-2001; since 2001, professor at Potsdam University.

TITLE: Climate Change in Politics: The Case of the German Bundestag

ABSTRACT:

Climate change is a topic that by now has become almost a constant in the political discourse in many societies. In my talk, I will discuss the communication about climate done by German members of parliament in the period 2017-2021. We assembled a corpus from three sources: The Tweets delivered by the politicians; the speeches given in the Bundestag; and the official press releases issued by the parliamentary groups (factions). All material was filtered for the climate change topic. We study the differences in opinions and arguments on the three channels, as well as the developments over time, and also take a look at the behavior of „the public” in the same time period, using Google Trends as a proxy for the changing popularity of relevant terms.

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NAME: Csilla DÉR

INSTITUTION: Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:

Csilla Ilona DÉR is habilitated associate professor at the Department of Hungarian Linguistics, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, and (co-)founder and (co-)leader of the Research Group in Pragmatics. She also works as a senior research fellow at the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.

Her main research interests are the synchronic and diachronic description of discourse markers and independent clauses in Hungarian and the pragmatics of spontaneous spoken language.

TITLE: Variations of independent (insubordinate) clauses with metalinguistic function in Hungarian

ABSTRACT:

In many languages of the world, independent (insubordinate) clauses can have a metalinguistic function. These constructions “are used to make comments or to provide explanations on the content of certain stretches of discourse” (Lastres-López 2020: 75), among which we will analyze the ones referring to the language activity itself. In Hungarian, there are such clauses both among complement (1) and conditional insubordinate clauses (2), but their detailed description has not yet been done:
(1) Ariadném, hogy finoman fejezzem ki magam,
that midly express vpfx myself.Acc

az azóta eltelt több mint két hétben fokozta az iramot. (MNSz2, #2477864, doc#114, lit)
’Ariadne, to put it mildly, has picked up the pace in the more than two weeks since then’

(2) Veszek egy pisztolyt. Végül is – ha már itt tartunk –,
if already here be.Ind.Prs.Pl1

veszélyeztetett lennék, mert az újságírókat biztos sokan veszélyeztetik (MNSz2, #133906500,doc#1045, press)
’I’ll buy a gun. After all, speaking of which, I would be at risk, because journalists are certainly endangered by many people’
Corpus analyzes are performed on the 1.5 million word database of MNSz2 (Hungarian Gigaword Corpus) in six subcorpora (written and spoken press, literature, official, scientific, personal). We use two types of methods:
1) We examine the independent clauses starting with Hogy ‘that’ and Ha ‘if’ in the random sample of 500 hits containing any form (both finite and non-finite versions) of the following verbs of saying: mond ‘to speak’, beszél ‘to speak’, kérdez ‘to ask’,
válaszol ‘to answer’, felel ‘to answer’, összefoglal ‘to sum up’, fogalmaz ‘to formulate’.
2) Using a special CQL query (based on the hypothesis that most insubordinate sentences are usually short in Hungarian), we search for metalinguistic insubordinate clauses – containing 4, 5 or 6 words after the conjunctions – in the whole material of MNSz2.
We seek answers to the following questions:

In what formal variants do the insubordinate clauses appear? What are the mandatory and optional elements (e.g. verb mode, particles)? What are the most typical formulaic uses?
In which positions are these independent clauses used (are they more frequent at the end of the statement, cf. Kaltenböck – Keizer 2022: 679)?
What are the non-insubordinated formal and functional variants (3) of the independent clauses (4) containing the given verb of saying, and what frequency distribution do they show compared to each other? What can be concluded from the existence of these variants regarding the degree of pragmaticization of the subordinate clause?

(3) A ‘ 99-es koncepciót, ha röviden akarok fogalmazni,
if briefly want.Ind.Prs.Sg1 compose.inf

akkor úgy      tudom                         jellemezni                   a          magam
then     so        know.Ind.Prs.Sg1       characterize.inf           the       myself
számára          és         hangosan,
for                   and      loudly
hogy a kérdésfeltevések befejezetlen koncepciója. (MNSz2, #54009629,doc#901, official)
’The concept of ’99, if I want to put it briefly, [then] I can describe it to myself and out loud as an unfinished concept of questioning.’
(4) A Villám géppuskák befagytak a nagy orosz télben, ezek sohasem mondtak csődöt.
Ha       fennkölten      akarok                        fogalmazni:
if          loftily               want.Ind.Prs.Sg1      compose.Inf
a háborúkat egyszerű fegyverekkel és tiszta célokkal szokták megnyerni. (MNSz2, #29188405,doc#529, literature)
’The Villám machine guns froze up in the big Russian winter, [but] these never failed. If I want to put it exaltedly, they win the wars with plain weapons and clear aims’
According to our assumptions, in comparison to non-independent forms, insubordinated clause variants appear in less formal registers (dialogues of fiction texts, written spoken language), but prefer the left periphery (initial) position, as non-independent forms do.

REFERENCES:

Kaltenböck, Gunther, Keizer, Evelien 2022. Insubordinate if-clauses in FDG: Degrees of independence. Open Linguistics 8: 675–698.
Lastres-López, Cristina 2020. Beyond conditionality: On the pragmaticalization of interpersonal if-constructions in English conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 157: 68–83.
MNSz2 = Magyar Nemzeti Szövegtár 2. [Hungarian Gigaword Corpus] https://clara.nytud.hu/mnsz2-dev/

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Dér, Csilla Ilona 2023. Types and functions of insubordinate complement clauses with hogy ‘that’ in Hungarian. Journal of Pragmatics 208: 115-137.
Krepsz, Valéria — Horváth, Viktória — Hámori, Ágnes — Gyarmathy, Dorottya — Dér, Csilla Ilona 2022. Backchannel responses in Hungarian conversations: a corpus-based study on the effect of the partner’s age and gender. Linguistica Silesiana 43: 113–140.

NAME: Jana Pflaeging

INSTITUTION: University of Salzburg

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:

Jana Pflaeging is a post-doctoral researcher in English and applied linguistics at the Department of English and American Studies at Salzburg University. Her research interests are in variationist sociolinguistics as well as in multimodal genre studies and text/discourse linguistics.

TITLE: Awareness and Sociolinguistic Monitoring: Comparing (ing), (t), Like, You Know and Pauses

ABSTRACT:

Sociolinguistic monitoring is hypothesised to be a cognitive mechanism that tracks the speech signal for socially meaningful cues of variable features and monitors their frequency (Labov et al. 2011). Ideas about the monitor have been most widely tested in perception – in form of the matched-guise test in which the frequency of target features is manipulated, e.g. (ing) as -ing or -in. Labov et al. (2011) found speakers to be heard as more unprofessional with increasing numbers of –in. Further work in this paradigm has found listeners’ age (Labov et al. 2011), gender/sex (Stecker 2020) and pragmatic language ability (Wagner & Hesson 2014) as well as variable type (Levon & Buchstaller 2015) and the variable’s social salience (Levon & Fox 2014) to impact evaluation.

In this study, we continue exploring the workings of speech monitoring by focusing on the factor of awareness of the attitude target and the type of variable. In particular, we ask whether the evaluation we observe in (ing) and (t)-deletion is similar to the evaluation of speech planning features, e.g. filled and unfilled pauses (see Fruehwald 2016), and the discourse-pragmatic markers you know and like. The study includes 600 respondents in England (100 per variable), who were recruited via Prolific. Similar to Labov et al.’s original design, participants rated seven versions of the same news report with varying frequencies of either (ing)- and (t)-variants, you know, like, um or unfilled pauses on a professionalism-scale. Guises were based on one speaker and one text and differed only in the occurrence of a given feature. The survey also assessed whether participants became aware that a respective variable had been manipulated.

Our results indicate different distributions for (ing) and (t) as opposed to the pragmatic markers and speech-planning features. An increase in token numbers of you know, like, um and pauses elicited lower professionalism ratings. This suggests that the monitoring mechanism may be extended to features other than phonological, sociolinguistic variables. In line with Levon & Fox’s (2014) findings for (ing) in the UK, varying frequencies of (ing) and (t)-deletion did not prompt evaluation differences overall. However, participants who realised that (ing) had been manipulated did evaluate guises with more apical variants as less professional. In fact, this response pattern was found across all variables: Respondents’ awareness differed for attitude targets: (t)-deletion was never noticed, (ing) by 9%, followed by unfilled (31 %), and filled pauses (50%), you know (60%) and like (61%). However, an awareness of the attitude target generally resulted in more negative evaluation and a different distribution of evaluation across different token numbers.

This study shows that the same experimental setup results in different awareness conditions. It also suggests that participants’ awareness of a variable impacts their evaluation and may explain their (in)sensitivity to frequency differences. Thus, an assessment of participants’ awareness of the attitude target is an indispensable element of future research into the social meanings of variable features.

REFERENCES:

Freitag, Raquel Meister Ko. 2020. Effects of the linguistics processing: palatals in Brazilian Portuguese and the sociolinguistic monitor. U Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 25(2). 21–30.

Fruehwald, Josef. 2016. Filled pause choice as a sociolinguistic variable. U. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 22, 41-49.

Labov, William, Sharon Ash, Maya Ravindranath, Tracey Weldon, Maciej Baranowski & Naomi Nagy. 2011. Properties of the sociolinguistic monitor. Journal of Sociolinguistics 15(4). 431–463.

Levon, Erez & Isabelle Buchstaller. 2015. Perception, cognition, and linguistic structure: the effect of linguistic modularity and cognitive style on sociolinguistic processing. Language Variation and Change 27. 319–348.

Levon, Erez & Sue Fox. 2014. Social salience and the sociolinguistic monitor: A case study of (ING) and TH-fronting in Britain. Journal of English Linguistics 42. 185–217.

Stecker, Amelia. 2020. Investigations of the sociolinguistic monitor and perceived gender identity. U Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 26(2). 119–128.

Wagner, Suzanne Evans & Ashley Hesson. 2014. Individual sensitivity to the frequency of socially meaningful linguistic cues affects language attitudes. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 33(6). 651–666.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Pflaeging, J.; Schleef, Erik; Mackay, Bradley (2024). Sociolinguistic Monitoring and L2 Speakers. To appear in Linguistics.

Pflaeging, Jana (2024). Diachronic Multimodality Research – A Mini-Review. Frontiers in Communication. Research Topic: The Multimodality of Communication.

Stöckl, Hartmut & Pflaeging, Jana (2022). Multimodal Coherence Revisited: Notes on the Move from Theory to Data in Annotating Print Advertisements. Frontiers in Communication. Research Topic: The Multimodality of Communication. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2022.900994

Pflaeging, Jana; Wildfeuer, Janina; Bateman, John A. (eds., 2021). Empirical Multimodality Research: Methods, Applications, Implications. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter.

Stöckl, Hartmut; Caple, Helen; Pflaeging, Jana (eds., 2020). Shifts towards Image-centricity in Contemporary Multimodal Practices. New York/London: Routledge.

NAME: Ben GIBB-REID

INSTITUTION: University of York

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:

I’m currently a PhD student at the University of York in the Department of Language and Linguistic Science. My research interests are chiefly forensic speech science, discourse-pragmatic variation, acoustic phonetics, and sociolinguistics. My AHRC funded PhD project focuses on the phonetic variation of the discourse-pragmatic variables like, yeah and just with a view to aid forensic voice comparison. My supervisors are Paul Foulkes, Vincent Hughes and Traci Walker. I teach phonetics at both the University of York and University of York St John and outside of my doctoral research I am involved in the York Dialect Project and a project investigating teacher dialect perceptions.

TITLE: Creating a functional taxonomy of discourse-pragmatic yeah using inter-rater reliability

ABSTRACT:

When dealing with polyfunctional discourse-pragmatic markers (DPMs), many previous works have provided a taxonomy of their functions (for examples see Diskin 2017: 148; Tagliamonte 2016; Pichler 2016); however, most of these approaches have been top-down, relying on functions previously noted in the literature. Creating a taxonomy is an iterative process, but with a few notable exceptions (Eiswirth, 2022; Wagner et al., 2015), this is often a process that remains undisclosed, raising issues of transparency and replicability. This paper provides a step-by-step account of the process of creating a taxonomy for the DPM yeah. We initially rely on top-down information from previous studies (Drummond & Hopper, 1993b, 1993a; Fuller, 2003; Tao, 2003), utilising a 102 token subset of a corpus of conversational data from Derby, UK (see Docherty & Foulkes, 1999). We form an initial list of the functions of yeah in all turn positions, not just turn-initial as in previous work (Drummond & Hopper, 1993b; Tao, 2003; Trouvain & Truong, 2012). Then, we test this taxonomy with the creation of a decision tree and subsequent multi-level inter-coder reliability testing. Starting with low agreement levels between two coders (58%), we adjust the decision tree and reach 82% agreement between three coders. Upon further adjustment of the tree, and the inclusion of a secondary function for the DPM, we reach 91% agreement across three coders. The study aims to contribute to the wider discussion on operationalisation in quantitative discourse-pragmatic research (see Pichler, 2013).

REFERENCES:

Docherty, G. J., & Foulkes, P. (1999). Derby and Newcastle: Instrumental phonetics and variationist studies. Urban Voices: Accent Studies in the British Isles, 47–71.
Drummond, K., & Hopper, R. (1993a). Back channels revisited: Acknowledgment tokens and speakership incipiency. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 26(2), 157–177.
Drummond, K., & Hopper, R. (1993b). Some uses of yeah. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 26(2), 203–212.
Eiswirth, M. E. (2022). Developing and testing interaction-based coding schemes for the analysis of sociolinguistic variation. Language & Communication, 87, 11–28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2022.05.001 Fuller, J. M. (2003). The influence of speaker roles on discourse marker use. Journal of Pragmatics, 35(1), 23–45. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-2166(02)00065-6
Pichler, H. (2013). The structure of discourse-pragmatic variation (Vol. 13). John Benjamins Publishing.
Pichler, H. (2016). Uncovering discourse-pragmatic innovations: Innit in Multicultural London English. Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change in English: New Methods and Insights.
Tagliamonte, S. (2016). Teen talk: The language of adolescents. Cambridge University Press.
Tao, H. (2003). Turn Initiators in Spoken English: A Corpus-Based Approach to Interaction and Grammar Hongyin Tao University of California Los Angeles, USA. Corpus Analysis: Language Structure and Language Use, 46, 187. Wagner, S. E., Hesson, A., Bybel, K., & Little, H. (2015). Quantifying the referential function of general extenders in North American English. Language in Society, 44(5), 705–731.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Gibb-Reid, B. (2023) Just one word: An analysis of just as a speaker discriminant using various acoustic measures. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 3775-3779). Guarant International.

Gibb-Reid, B., Foulkes, P. & Hughes V. (2022) Exploring the phonetic variation of ‘yeah’ and ‘like’. York Papers in Linguistics 2, Issue 18, pp.1-27, December 2022. [Paper]

NAME: Ágnes KUNA

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SHORT BIOGRAPHY:

TITLE: Discursive patterns of self-justification in conflict narratives of doctors and nurses and its impact on conflict outcomes

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims: Conflicts among healthcare professionals have a direct impact on the quality of patient care, making it essential to understand the characteristics of these conflicts. Self-justification is a common factor in conflicts, and exploring its characteristics in the narratives of healthcare professionals was our primary objective.
Methods: We conducted a qualitative analysis of previously recorded semi-structured interviews with 25 Hungarian doctors and 25 Hungarian nurses. The analysis focused on identifying expressions of self-justification using content analysis.
Results: We identified 371 expressions indicating self-justification and 42 expressions indicating avoidance in the conflict stories. These expressions were categorized into 10 self-justification related categories (such as Superiority, Justice, Sacrificiality, Judgement, Counter-Action, Alliance, Omission, Power, Hierarchy, System) and 1 avoidance-related category, based on their content. The majority of the expressions were found in the Judgment category, which typically involved negative evaluations of the other party. Self-justification had a varied linguistic representation, in the form of recurrent concepts rather than recurrent words. Self-justification-related expressions were more prevalent in the interviews with doctors, accounting for 71.7% of the total, while nurses accounted for 28.3%. Within each category, interviews with doctors contained a higher number of self-justification-related expressions. Stories of unresolved conflicts tended to have more expressions related to self-justification and fewer expressions related to avoiding self-justification. This trend was consistent across the self-justification categories, with the exception of Sacrificiality, Alliance, and Counter-action.
Discussion: The presence of self-justification in conflict narratives may hinder constructive conflict resolution among healthcare professionals. Therefore, it is crucial to support healthcare professionals in recognizing and transforming self-justification tendencies to promote effective conflict resolution.

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NAME: Dóra KOCSIS

INSTITUTION: ImproversGroup

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:

Dóra Kocsis is a psychologist and has also been working as an organizational development specialist, trainer and coach for the last 9 years. Prior to her current roles she worked as a team leader in a major telecommunication company and later as a consultant and trainer with individuals. With academic backgrounds in economics, French and mathematics, and psychology, she brings a diverse skill set to her work. Her primary area of interest lies in exploring how self-justification influences our interactions and potentially hinders our ability to resolve conflicts constructively.

TITLE: Discursive patterns of self-justification in conflict narratives of doctors and nurses and its impact on conflict outcomes

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims: Conflicts among healthcare professionals have a direct impact on the quality of patient care, making it essential to understand the characteristics of these conflicts. Self-justification is a common factor in conflicts, and exploring its characteristics in the narratives of healthcare professionals was our primary objective.
Methods: We conducted a qualitative analysis of previously recorded semi-structured interviews with 25 Hungarian doctors and 25 Hungarian nurses. The analysis focused on identifying expressions of self-justification using content analysis.
Results: We identified 371 expressions indicating self-justification and 42 expressions indicating avoidance in the conflict stories. These expressions were categorized into 10 self-justification related categories (such as Superiority, Justice, Sacrificiality, Judgement, Counter-Action, Alliance, Omission, Power, Hierarchy, System) and 1 avoidance-related category, based on their content. The majority of the expressions were found in the Judgment category, which typically involved negative evaluations of the other party. Self-justification had a varied linguistic representation, in the form of recurrent concepts rather than recurrent words. Self-justification-related expressions were more prevalent in the interviews with doctors, accounting for 71.7% of the total, while nurses accounted for 28.3%. Within each category, interviews with doctors contained a higher number of self-justification-related expressions. Stories of unresolved conflicts tended to have more expressions related to self-justification and fewer expressions related to avoiding self-justification. This trend was consistent across the self-justification categories, with the exception of Sacrificiality, Alliance, and Counter-action.
Discussion: The presence of self-justification in conflict narratives may hinder constructive conflict resolution among healthcare professionals. Therefore, it is crucial to support healthcare professionals in recognizing and transforming self-justification tendencies to promote effective conflict resolution.

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Csupor, É., Kuna, Á., Pintér, J., Kaló, Z., & Csabai, M. (2017). Konfliktustípusok és konfliktuskezelés magyar egészségügyi dolgozók körében. Orvosi Hetilap, 158(16), 625–632.
Ford, C. (2020). Dangerous Love: Transforming Fear and Conflict at Home, at Work, and in the World. Oakland, CA: Berreth-Koehler Publishers.
Iglesias, M. E. L., de Bengoa Vallejo, R. B., (2012). Conflict resolution styles in the nursing profession. Contemporary Nurse, 43(1), 73–80.
Irinyi, T. (2019). Összefüggések az egészségügyi szakdolgozói kiégettség, az általuk elszenvedett agresszió gyakorisága és a munkahelyi konfliktusaik között.
Leever, A. M., Hulst, M. V. D., Berendsen, A. J., Boendemaker, P. M., Roodenburg, J. L. N., & Pols, J. (2010). Conflicts and conflict management in the collaboration between nurses and physicians – A qualitative study. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 24(6), 612–624.
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Kocsis, D., Csabai, M., & Kuna, Á. (2023). Az önigazolás szerepe és jellemzői egészségügyi dolgozók konfliktusaiban. Alkalmazott Pszichológia, 23(1), 7-23.

NAME: Márta CSABAI

INSTITUTION: Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, Budapest, Hungary

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:

Márta Csabai is a clinical and health psychologist and a professor at the Institute of Psychology at the University of the Reformed Church in Budapest, Hungary. Over the past 30 years, she has developed professional and training programs for health psychology in Hungary. In addition to publishing and editing 20 books, she also serves on the editorial boards of several journals and has contributed to developing teaching software and scientific documentaries. Her research focuses on the social-psychological aspects and psychological care of physical illnesses, the well-being of health professionals, and conflict management in different healthcare contexts.

TITLE: Discursive patterns of self-justification in conflict narratives of doctors and nurses and its impact on conflict outcomes

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims: Conflicts among healthcare professionals have a direct impact on the quality of patient care, making it essential to understand the characteristics of these conflicts. Self-justification is a common factor in conflicts, and exploring its characteristics in the narratives of healthcare professionals was our primary objective.
Methods: We conducted a qualitative analysis of previously recorded semi-structured interviews with 25 Hungarian doctors and 25 Hungarian nurses. The analysis focused on identifying expressions of self-justification using content analysis.
Results: We identified 371 expressions indicating self-justification and 42 expressions indicating avoidance in the conflict stories. These expressions were categorized into 10 self-justification related categories (such as Superiority, Justice, Sacrificiality, Judgement, Counter-Action, Alliance, Omission, Power, Hierarchy, System) and 1 avoidance-related category, based on their content. The majority of the expressions were found in the Judgment category, which typically involved negative evaluations of the other party. Self-justification had a varied linguistic representation, in the form of recurrent concepts rather than recurrent words. Self-justification-related expressions were more prevalent in the interviews with doctors, accounting for 71.7% of the total, while nurses accounted for 28.3%. Within each category, interviews with doctors contained a higher number of self-justification-related expressions. Stories of unresolved conflicts tended to have more expressions related to self-justification and fewer expressions related to avoiding self-justification. This trend was consistent across the self-justification categories, with the exception of Sacrificiality, Alliance, and Counter-action.
Discussion: The presence of self-justification in conflict narratives may hinder constructive conflict resolution among healthcare professionals. Therefore, it is crucial to support healthcare professionals in recognizing and transforming self-justification tendencies to promote effective conflict resolution.

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Bánfalvi, A. (2017). Egy rejtőzködő áramlat az orvosképzésben. Metszetek, 6(2), 56–78.
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Bochatay, N., Kuna, Á., Csupor, É., Pintér, J. N., Muller-Juge, V., Hudelson, P., Nendaz, M. R., Csabai, M., Bajwa, N. M., & Kim, S. (2020). The role of power in health care conflict: recommendations for shifting toward constructive approaches. Academic Medicine, 96(1), 134-141.
Csupor, É., Kuna, Á., Pintér, J., Kaló, Z., & Csabai, M. (2017). Konfliktustípusok és konfliktuskezelés magyar egészségügyi dolgozók körében. Orvosi Hetilap, 158(16), 625–632.
Ford, C. (2020). Dangerous Love: Transforming Fear and Conflict at Home, at Work, and in the World. Oakland, CA: Berreth-Koehler Publishers.
Iglesias, M. E. L., de Bengoa Vallejo, R. B., (2012). Conflict resolution styles in the nursing profession. Contemporary Nurse, 43(1), 73–80.
Irinyi, T. (2019). Összefüggések az egészségügyi szakdolgozói kiégettség, az általuk elszenvedett agresszió gyakorisága és a munkahelyi konfliktusaik között.
Leever, A. M., Hulst, M. V. D., Berendsen, A. J., Boendemaker, P. M., Roodenburg, J. L. N., & Pols, J. (2010). Conflicts and conflict management in the collaboration between nurses and physicians – A qualitative study. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 24(6), 612–624.
Molnár, P., Csabai, M. & Csörsz, I. (2003). Orvosi professzionalizáció és magatartástudomány. Magyar tudomány, 173(11), 1391–1400.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Kocsis, D., Csabai, M., & Kuna, Á. (2023). Az önigazolás szerepe és jellemzői egészségügyi dolgozók konfliktusaiban. Alkalmazott Pszichológia, 23(1), 7-23.

NAME: Adam KONOPKA

INSTITUTION: Collegium Civitas

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:

Doctor of linguistics, a graduate of international relations at UKW in Bydgoszcz, and sociology at the University of Gdańsk. He scientifically deals with discourse analysis, examining topics such as birth control in the Polish People’s Republic, the migration crisis, species protection policy and decommunization of public space. He works mostly with Discourse-Historical Approach and socio-semiotic multimodal analysis. Member of the board of the Social Communication Research Section of the Polish Sociological Association.

TITLE: Linguistic transformations of public discourse birth control in communist Poland. Discursive study of press articles from 1956-1989.

ABSTRACT:

In 1956 Polish People’s Republic’s parliament significantly liberalized the abortion law. Since then, the discussion on birth control broke out, covering topics such as abortion, contraception or sexual education. In my research I focused on the transformations that occurred in the press related to both Communist Party, Catholic Church and women’s organisations, between 1956 and 1989 (the year of the political transformation). Combining Discourse-Historical Approach (Reisigl & Wodak, 2001; Reisigl 2014) and Systemic-Fuctional Discourse Analysis (Martin & Rose, 2007) and rooting the data deeply in Wodak’s (2001) theory of context, I studied the shifts in subtopics, argumentation, appraisal and labelling the social actors. I will present my findings on discursive shifts (Krzyżanowski, 2018) present in birth control discourse in communist Poland and how they could have contributed to changing the social understanding of birth control-related language in Poland and further to restricting the abortion laws in 1993 and 2020.

REFERENCES:

Krzyżanowski, M. (2018). Discursive Shifts in Ethno-Nationalist Politics: On Politicization and Mediatization of the “Refugee Crisis” in Poland. Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 16(1–2), 76–96.

Martin, J.R., & Rose, D. (2007). Working with Discourse: Meaning Beyond the Clause, London: Bloomsbury.
Reisigl, M. (2014). Argumentation Analysis and the Discourse-Historical Approach: A Methodological Framework. In: C. Hart i P. Cap (Red.), Contemporary Critical Discourse Studies. Bloomsbury.
Reisigl, M. & Wodak, R. (2001). Discourse and Discrimination. Rhetorics of Racism and Anti-semitism. Routledge.
Wodak, R. (2001). The Discourse-Historical Approach. W R. Wodak i M. Meyer (Red.), Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis (s. 63–94). Sage Publications.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Niedzialkowski, K., Konopka, A. & Putkowska-Smoter, R. (2021). To Hunt or to Protect? Discourse-coalitions in the Polish Wolf Management. Conservation and Society 19(2):p 91-100, DOI: 10.4103/cs.cs_20_4
Rancew-Sikora, D., & Konopka, A. (2020). Potencjał sieciowej analizy dyskursu w badaniu debat o klimacie. Miscellanea Anthropologica Et Sociologica, 21(4), 22–35.
Rancew-Sikora, D., & Konopka, A. (2019). Polska w autobusie. Przykład analizy dyskursu skoncentrowanej na metaforze, Studia Socjologiczne (2): 155-177, DOI: 10.24425/sts.2019.126143
Konopka, A. (2019). „Us” and „them” in the language of conservative islamophobia – referential and predicational strategies in Polish right-wing press discourse on the migration crisis in 2015, Studia Humanistyczne AGH, 18 (1), p. 33-50, DOI: dx.doi.org/10.7494/human.2019.18.1.33
Konopka A. (2019). Strategie nacisku. Prasa kobieca w latach 1956–1959 a dostęp do w pełni legalnej aborcji w PRL-u, [in:] Kobiety wobec dominacji i opresji, Desperak I., Hyży E., Kuźma I. B., Pietrzak E. (ed.), Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź, p. 25-41, https://www.doi.org/10.18778/8142-431-8.03

NAME: Stephen LEVEY

INSTITUTION: University of Ottawa

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:

Stephen Levey is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Ottawa. He is interested in grammatical variation and change, contact linguistics and pidgin and creole languages.

TITLE: Learning to sound like a native speaker: Evidence from discourse-pragmatic variation and change

ABSTRACT:

Learning to sound like a native speaker:
Evidence from discourse-pragmatic variation and change
Stephen Levey, Laura Kastronic & Yasmine Abou Taha

The last three decades have witnessed intensified interest in the investigation of second language (L2) acquisition from a sociolinguistic perspective (e.g., Howard et al. 2013). Within this research context, increasing attention has been paid to the L2 acquisition of target-language (TL) vernacular norms (Labov 1984). This line of inquiry has prompted a number of key questions: To what extent are those norms (in)completely acquired, and how can this be assessed (Howard et al. 2013)? How proficient must learners be in their L2 to master TL vernacular features? What is the role, if any, of L2 speakers’ first language (L1) in mediating the acquisition of TL variables, especially in cases where the variables in question have structural analogues in L2 speakers’ L1 (see e.g., Odlin 2003)? We confront these questions by drawing on three newly constituted corpora recorded from 63 speakers in the Canadian National Capital Region. The first corpus represents L2 English recorded from native Canadian francophones. A second corpus of vernacular English recorded from native anglophones furnishes a local community baseline variety of the TL against which L2 usage patterns are calibrated. A third corpus of local Canadian French represents L2 speakers’ first language (L1).

We present a case study exploring the L2 acquisition of quotative variation and change in the local TL benchmark variety. Our diagnostic measures of L2 acquisition focus on the replication of the TL inventory of quotative variants; approximation of TL variant usage rates; and, crucially, the replication of the TL set of implicit constraints governing variant selection. The triangulation of quantitative evidence across the three corpora factored into our research design reveals that: (i) higher-proficiency L2 speakers closely approximate TL community norms with respect to the use of the innovative be like quotative expression; and (ii) the existence of a parallel linguistic change, être comme, in L2 speakers’ native French arguably has a facilitative effect on the L2 acquisition of TL patterns of variation, as gauged from detailed comparisons of the environmental constraints governing variant selection. Taken together, our findings challenge ubiquitous assumptions that L2 acquisition characteristically involves only partial mastery of TL patterns and constraints (Schleef et al. 2011) and foreground the importance of L1 transfer effects in refining and enhancing our understanding of the (advanced) L2 acquisition of discourse-pragmatic variation and change.

REFERENCES:

Howard, Martin, Raymond Mougeon and Jean-Marc Dewaele. 2013. Sociolinguistics and second language acquisition. In The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics, eds. Robert Bayley, Richard Cameron and Ceil Lucas, 340-359. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Labov, William. 1984. Field methods of the project on linguistic change and variation. In Language in Use: Readings in Sociolinguistics, eds. John Baugh and Joel Sherzer, 28-54. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Odlin, Terence. 2003. Cross-linguistic influence. In The Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, eds. Catherine J. Doughty and Michael H. Long, 436-486. Oxford: Blackwell.
Schleef, Erik, Miriam Meyerhoff and Lynn Clark. 2011. Teenagers’ acquisition of variation:
A comparison of locally-born and migrant teens’ realisation of English (ing) in Edinburgh and London. English World-Wide 32(2): 206-236.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Levey, S. Standard and non-standard English. To appear in S. Fox ed. Language in the British Isles, 3^rd Cambridge: Cambridge University Press in press
de Almeida, M.A. , de Andrade Berlinck, R., and Levey, S. Confronting grammatical
ideology with usage: Towards a socially realist account of spoken Portuguese. In G.
Massini-Cagliari, R. de Andrade Berlinck, & A.T. Carmo Rodrigues (eds.)
Understanding Linguistic Prejudice: Critical Approaches to Language Diversity in Brazil,
Springer, pp.85-108, 2023 (joint author)
Abou Taha, Y., & Levey, S. Palestinian Arabic in the diaspora: Assessing the case for contact-induced change. In A.K. Ali and A Hachimi (eds.) Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXXIII. Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 3-26, 2022 (joint author)
Levey, S., Kastronic, L. Digesto, S., and Chiasson-Léger, M. Quotative variation and change: Evidence from French, with additional insights from Brazilian Portuguese and Italian. Peterson, T. Hiltunen & J. Kern eds. Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change: Theory, Innovations, Contact. Cambridge: C.U.P., pp.61-82, 2022. (primary author)

NAME: Raniah Al MUFARREH

INSTITUTION: King Khalid University

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:

Professional Summary: Experienced Director of the Documentation and Archive Center with a background in linguistics and academia. Skilled in communication, time management, and leadership. Currently serving as an advisor at the Administrative Vice Presidency. Passionate about community work and utilizing technology for social development.

Education:

Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Florida, USA
Master’s degree in (Theoretical) Linguistics, University of Florida, USA
Academic English Certificate, INTO USF, Tampa, Florida, USA
Master’s degree in (Applied) Linguistics, King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia
Bachelor’s degree in English Literature, Girls’ Education College, Abha, Saudi Arabia

Work Experience:

Director for the Documentation and Archive Center, King Khalid University
Advisor at the Administrative Vice Presidency, King Khalid University
Dean of College of Arts and Sciences (Ahad Rufaidah), King Khalid University
Head of the Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences (Dhahran Aljanoub), King Khalid University
Associate Professor of Linguistics, Department of English, King Khalid University

Research Experience:

Extensive research in Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Women and Language, Language Documentation, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Translation.

Interests:

Actively engaged in community work and utilizing technology for social development.
Enthusiastic about languages and cultures, communication etiquette, and organizing events.

TITLE: Unveiling Humblebragging Among Arab Influencers

ABSTRACT:

This research investigates humblebragging within Arabic social media discourse, focusing on Twitter, Snapchat, and TikTok, prominent platforms in Arab countries. With 140 excerpts collected from influential figures, the study aims to identify the themes and strategies prevalent in humblebragging. The study addresses the following questions: What are the common topics of humblebragging among Arabic social media influencers? What linguistic strategies are employed by influencers to humblebrag effectively? Through content discourse analysis, this study endeavors to unveil the underlying themes and linguistic strategies used in humblebragging within the Arab online community. The findings aim to contribute to understand self-presentation and communication dynamics in digital spaces, offering insights into the cultural and sociolinguistic nuances of humblebragging within Arabic-speaking contexts.

REFERENCES:

Tentative list: Barros García, M. J., Terkourafi, M., 2014. First-order politeness in rapprochement and distancing cultures: Understandings and uses of politeness by Spanish native speakers from Spain and Barros García, M. J., Terkourafi, M., 2014. First-order politeness in rapprochement and distancing cultures: Understandings and uses of politeness by Spanish native speakers from Spain and Spanish nonnative speakers from the U.S. Pragmatics, 24, 1-34.

Bella, S., Ogiermann, E., 2019. An intergenerational perspective on (im)politeness. Journal of Politeness Research, 15 (2), 163-93.

Bousfield, D., Locher, M., 2008. Impoliteness In Language: Studies on Interplay with Power in Theory and Practice, Mouton de Gruyter.

Bousfield, D., 2008. Impoliteness in Interaction, Benjamins.

Bousfield, D., 2010. Researching impoliteness and rudeness: issues and definitions. In M Locher and S. L. Graham, eds., Interpersonal Pragmatics. De Gruyter Mouton.

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Chang, W.-L. M., Haugh, M., 2011. Evaluations of (im)politeness of an intercultural apology. Intercultural Pragmatics, 8(3). Doi:10.1515/iprg.2011.019

Chen, S. H., Zhu, Y., 2022. Criticism of the Political Economy of Communication in Versailles Literature. Journal of Nanchang University, 3,64-72. Doi:10.13764/j.cnki.ncds.2022.03.002.

Chen, Y. N., 2021. Analysis of parody and confrontation in Versailles literature. Young Journalists, 8, 100-101. Doi:10.15997/j.cnki.qnjz.2021.08.051.

Eelen, G., 2001. A Critique of Politeness Theories, St. Jerome Publishing.

Finker, L. N., Félix-Brasdefer, J. C., 2015. Pragmalinguistic variation and barista perceptions in US café service encounters. In K. Beeching and H. Woodfield, eds., Researching
Sociopragmatic Variability Perspectives from Variational, Interlanguage and Contrastive
Pragmatics. Palgrave Macmillan, pp.19–48. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137373953_2

Gu, Y.G., 1990. Politeness phenomena in modern Chinese. Journal of Pragmatics, 14, 237-257.

Guo, Y. P., Ren, W., 2020. Managing image: The self-praise of celebrities on social media. Discourse, Context & Media, 38, 1-9.

Haugh, M., Chang, W-L. M., 2019. “The apology seemed (in)sincere”: Variability in perceptions of (im)politeness. Journal of Pragmatics, 142, 207-22.

Jiang, J.G., 2020. Kua Kua Qun: Identity anxiety, overflow of praise and group fakeadoration. Modern Communication, 42, 70-75.

Ogiermann, E., Suszczyńska, M., 2011. On im/politeness behind the Iron Curtain. In F. Bargiela and D. Z. Kádár, eds., Politeness across cultures. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 194-215.

Watts, R. J., 1992. Linguistic politeness and politic verbal behavior: Reconsidering claims for universality. In R. Watts, S. Ide and K. Ehlich, eds., Politeness in Language: Studies in Its History, Theory, and Practice. Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 43-69.

Watts, R. J., 2003. Politeness. Cambridge University Press. Xu, G.Y, Sun, Z.J, Luo, L.L., 2023. Making friends with “abandonment”: The social representation and rational examination of Nonsense Literature. Young Journalists, 4, 41- 43.

Yan, H.C., 2020. The “praise group” of the “post 00s” youth: Creating identity, self-irony, and value confusion. Hunan Social Sciences, 3, 160-164.

Zhang, Z.H., Zhao, J.H., 2023. A study on the dissemination of “crazy literature” in youth groups from the perspective of interaction ritual chain. New Media Research, 3, 52-55.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Al Mufarreh, R. (2023). How much, what and how: three-dimensional discourse analysis of Saudi women and men’s self-disclosure. Saudi Journal of Language Studies, 3(4), 200-219. Al Mufarreh, R. (2023). Is Syntax Separate or Shared Between Arabic and English? Syntactic Priming in Arabic-English Bilinguals. Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 13(10), 2468-2481. Al Mufarreh, R. (2024). Cultural courtesies: Decoding politeness formulas in the Aseer dialect of Arabic. Journal of Research in Language & Translation, 4(1), 38-62. Retrieved from https://jrlt.ksu.edu.sa/sites/jrlt.ksu.edu.sa/files/users/user975/Al%20Mufarreh%202024.pdf Al Mufarreh, R (accepted for publication) From Lockdown to Laugh-town: Analyzing Saudi’s Humorous Memes during the COVID-19 Crisis

NAME: Károly NAGY

INSTITUTION: Eotvos Lorand University

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:

TITLE: The critical analysis of construction of Turkish national identity in the 2016 translated english republic day speech of recep tayyip erdogan

ABSTRACT:

Politicians often use language and discourse to strengthen their positions, power structures and political ideologies. Critical Discourse Analysis looks at political discourse with the aim to critique the connection of discourse and power (Fairclough, 2015) and to reveal hidden meaning in discourse. The theoretical framework, called the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) was applied for analysis of power and ideologies within discourse because it connect different levels of communication through lexical, topical, semantic and pragmatic analysis by investigating the micro-level strategies in communication (discourse and language use) and the macro-level features (e.g., power, dominance, and inequality; van Dijk, 2015). In order to reveal the features resulting from the interplay between these two levels of discourse, the political speech of one of the most influential politicians in Turkish history, namely Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the current president of Turkey, has been chosen as the corpus of this study. To be able to detect the global repercussions of his ideologies or of the ensuing ideological changes, the translated English versions of the aforementioned politician was analysed in this study. This study’s aim was to analyse the argumentative strategies employed by Erdogan in his 2016 Republic Day speech. Through argumentative topics, in other words topoi (recurrent themes, arguments, or motifs) along with their lexical realisations, which were used for the construction of the ideology of national identity. Through the help of DHA excerpts were used from the corpus and the topoi of history, definition, comparison threat and favourable time were identified in the highest ration. The interplay of these topoi enabled Turks to develop a deep sense of connection and pride towards their nation. The topoi structures allowed them to reflect understand the distinctiveness of their national identity, its historical context and favourable time.

REFERENCES:

Ahmad, F. (2014). Turkey: The quest for identity. Oneworld.
Baker, M. (1993). Corpus linguistics and translation studies. Implications and applications. In M. Baker, G. Francis, & E. Rognini-Bonelli (Eds.), Text and technology (pp. 233–243). John Benjamins.
Balci, B., & Yavuz, M. H. (2018). Turkey’s July 15th coup: What happened and why. University of Utah Press.
Çağaptay, S. (2020). Erdogan’s empire: Turkey and the politics of the Middle East. I.B. Tauris.
Fairclough, I., & Fairclough, N. (2012). Political discourse analysis: A method for advanced students. Routledge.
Fairclough, N. (2015). Language and power. Routledge.
Fairclough, N., & Wodak, R. (1997). Critical discourse analysis. In T. A. van Dijk (Ed.), Discourse studies: A multidisciplinary introduction: Volume 2: Discourse as social interaction. (pp. 259–283). SAGE.
Fromkin, D. (2009). A peace to end all peace: The fall of the ottoman Empire and the creation of the modern Middle East. H. Holt and Co.
Hall, S. (1996). The question of cultural identity. In S. Hall, D. Held, D. Hubert & K. Thompson (Eds.), Modernity: An introduction to modern societies (pp. 595–634). Blackwell.
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Kress, G. (1985). Ideological structures in discourse. In T. A. van Dijk (Ed.), Handbook of discourse analysis: Discourse analysis in society (pp. 27–43). Academic Press.
Renan, E. (1990). What is a nation? In H. K. Bhabha (Ed.), Nation and narration (pp. 8–22). Routledge
Reisigl, M. & Wodak, R. (2001). Discourse and Discrimination: Rhetorics of Racism and Anti-Semitism. Routledge.
Vadai, K. (2017). Critical discourse analysis for language education: Unveiling power, ideology and manipulation in political discourse. Working Papers in Language Pedagogy, 11, 96–138. https://langped.elte.hu/WoPaLParticles/W11Vadai.pdf
van Dijk, T. A. (2001a). Multidisciplinary CDA: A plea for diversity. In R. Wodak & M. Meyer (Eds.), Methods of critical discourse analysis (pp. 95–120). SAGE.
van Dijk, T. (2001b). Discourse, ideology and context. Folia Linguistica, 35(1-2), 11–40.
https://doi.org/10.1515/flin.2001.35.1-2.11
van Dijk, T. A. (2006a). Discourse and manipulation. Discourse & Society, 17(3), 359–383. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926506060250
van Dijk, T. A. (2015). Critical discourse analysis. In D. Tannen, H. E. Hamilton & D. Schriffin (Eds.) The handbook of discourse analysis (pp. 466–485). Wiley Blackwell.
Wodak, R. (2001). The discourse-historical approach. In R. Wodak and M. Meyer (Eds.), Methods of critical discourse analysis, (pp. 62-94). London. Wodak, R. (2006). History in the making/The making of history: The ‘German Wehrmacht’ in collective and individual memories in Austria. Journal of Language and Politics, 5(1), 125–154. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.5.1.08wod
Wodak, R. (2009). The Discourse of Politics in Action. Palgrave Macmillan. Wodak, R. (2011). Suppression of the Nazi past, coded languages, and discourses of silence: Applying the discourse-historical approach to post-war anti-semitism in Austria. In D. M. Seymour & M. Camino (Eds.), The Holocaust in the twenty-first century (pp. 197–220). Routledge.
Wodak, R. (2015). The Politics of Fear: What Right‐Wing Populist Discourses Mean. Sage.
Wodak, R., De Cillia, R., & Reisigl, M. (2009). The discursive construction of national identity. Edinburgh University Press.
Wodak, R., Nowak, P., Pelikan, J., Gruber, H., de Cillia, R., & Mitten, R. (1990). Wir sind alle unschuldige Täter: Diskurshistorische Studien zum Nachkriegsantisemitismus [„We are all innocent perpetrators” Discourse historic studies in post war antisemitism]. Suhrkamp.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Nagy, K. (2023, June). The Discourse-Historical Approach and Ideologies in the Speeches of Turkish Presidents. In Linguistic Forum-A Journal of Linguistics (Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 57-84).
Nagy, K. (2023). Understanding political concepts through Critical Discourse Analysis: Ideologies concerning Turkish National Identity in the speeches of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and Recep Tayyip Erdogan. ALKALMAZOTT NYELVTUDOMÁNY, 2023(2. klsz), 212-231.

NAME: Taofeek O. DALAMU, PhD

INSTITUTION: Anchor University, Lagos Nigeria

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:

Dr. Taofeek Dalamu obtained a Ph.D. in English Language from the University of Lagos. As a faculty member, he currently teaches English at the Department of Languages & Linguistics, Anchor University, Lagos, Nigeria. This individual specialises in Systemic Functional Linguistics, as applicable to Discourse Analysis, Multimodality, Social Semiotics, and Digital Humanities in relation, mostly, to advertising communications. As a functional social semiotician, Dr. Dalamu exhibits a variety of over 55 publications in reputable international journals across the globe. See: www.hq.ssrn.com/taofeekdalamu/papers, www.academia.com/taofeekdalamuuniversityoflagos, and www.researchgate.net.cdn/taofeekdalamu. kkk

TITLE: Advertising Agenda: An Expression of Multimodality Landscapes

ABSTRACT:

Multimodality is a growing field in the domain of visual communications. That view influences this study to focus on the activities of semiotic designers regarding the choice of texts – written modes and images, employed to communicate readers. The concept of affordances (Baldry & Thibault, 2010; Forceville, 2020) operates as the framework for elucidating the contributions of semiotic resources in the analysed advertisements. In addition, the application of ideational strengths to the written modes provides a leeway for quantifying the wording parameters into tables and graphs (Kress & van Leeuwen, 2021). This study manifests material processes (Strengthens enamel) and relational processes (you’re asleep), being the eminent texts, as the circumstances of location (in everyday food; each week), and cause (for silky skin) enhance the clauses (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2014). Apart from the splintered structures of some written modes (Lux; Nivea body milk), deviant coinages such as beta (better) and konfydens (confidence) elucidate the semiotic creative freedom of the communication designers to construct meanings. The pictures of young ladies dominate the advertisements, seducing the audience into consumption (Bateman, 2014; Bateman, Wildfeuer & Hiippala, 2017). Moreover, Coca-Cola deploys a dog-like specie to fascinate readers. The dog-like phenomenon functions as transduction affordance, performing human responsibilities. The images of colour such as blue, red, pink, and grey are evident in the semiotic systems to signify excellence, satisfaction, tranquility, serenity, and acceptance (Feisner, 2006). Therefore, one might use this medium to call for a critical theorisation of colours in social semiotics, which might assist designers in the appropriate application of colour in meaning making.

REFERENCES:

Baldry, S., & Thibault, P. (2010). Multimodal transcription and text analysis. Equinox.
Bateman, J. (2014). Text and image: A critical introduction to the visual/verbal divide. Routledge.
Bateman, J., Wildfeuer, J., & Hiippala, T. (2017). Multimodality: Foundations, research and analysis. De Gruyter Mouton.
Feisner A. (2006). Color: How to use color in art and design. Laurence King Publishing.
Forceville, C. (2020). Visual and multimodal communication: applying the relevance principle. Oxford: OUP.
Halliday, M., & Matthiessen, C. (2014). Halliday’s introduction to functional grammar. Routledge.
Kress, G., & van Leeuwen, T. (2021). Reading images: A grammar of visual design. Routledge.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Dalamu, T. O., & Ayoola, T. A. (2024). The Lingua-Historical Perspective of the Evolution of Afrobeat from Fela-Anikulapo-Kuti to Portable. Humanus Discourse 4(1), 1-38. [NIGERIA]
Dalamu, T. O., & Yang, K. (2023). Exploring 2020 #ENDSARS Protests’ Components in Nigeria within the Schematics of Social Semiotics. Revista de Estudos da Linguagem 32(4), xx-xx. [BRAZIL, in press].
Dalamu, T. O., & Ayoola, T. A. (2023). Parasitism: A Historical Semiosis of Advertising Communications. Journal of Cultural and Creative 1ndustries 4(1), 1-43. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21134/jcci.v4i1.2007 [SPAIN].
Dalamu, T. O. (2023b). Colour grammatical effects on advertising nuances: A social semiotic analysis. In To, V., Amundrud, T., & Humphrey, S. (Eds.). Systemic functional linguistics theory and application in global contexts: Selected papers from the 1st international online systemic functional linguistics interest group conference. University of Tasmania, (pp. 207-228). DOI: https://doi.org/25959/MKMC-2C45 [AUSTRALIA]
Dalamu, T. O. (2023a). Mode, the Hub of Multimodality: A Case Study of Oral-B® Toothpaste Advertising. DELTA, 39(2), 1-35. https://www.scielo.br/j/delta/a/5hBQ6dLh8Z7J3h8gZLwD76L/?lang=en or https://doi.org/10.1590/1678-460X202339253786 [BRAZIL].
Dalamu, T. O., & Yang, K. (2022b). Advertising: An Entity of Business Discourse. Ethical Lingua, 9(2), 723-742. DOI: http://doi.org/10.30605/25409190.378 [INDONESIA]
Dalamu, T. O., & Yang, K. (2022a). Advertising Linguistics Framework: An Instrument of Teaching Grammar in EFL University Classrooms. Crossroads: A Journal of English Studies, 38(2022), 58-89. DOI: http://doi.org/10.15290/CR.2022.38.3.04 [POLAND).
Dalamu, T. O. (2021b). Social Semiotic Genre: Exploring the Interplay of Words and Images in Advertising. AFLLM, 11, 19-51. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1344/AFLM2021.11.2. [SPAIN]
Dalamu, T. O., & Ogunlusi, G. (2020g). Revitalising Cultural Characteristics in Advertising in Nigeria within a Sketch of Systemic Paradigm. Anagramas Rumbos Y Sentidos De La Comunicación, 19(37), 13-48. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22395/angr.v19n37a2. [COLOMBIA].
Dalamu, T. O. (2020d). Black: A Persuasive Metaphor in Guinness Stout’s Advertisements in Nigeria. Revista de Humanudades, 40(2020), 37-68. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5944/rdh.40.2020.21415 (SPAIN) –
Dalamu, T. O. (2020b). Investigating Multilingual Contexts in the Nigerian Advertising Space: A Domain of Intellectual Stimulation. Crossroads: A Journal of English Studies, 29(2), 4-26. DOI:15290/cr.2020.29.2.01 [POLAND].
Dalamu, T. O. (2020a). Discoursing Children Characteristics of Zenith Bank^®, Nigeria, Advertising: An Expression of Clause as Representation. Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 16(1), 333-365. https://www.jlls.org/index.php/jlls/article/view/1271 [TURKEY]

NAME: Melinda SEBŐK

INSTITUTION: Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:

TITLE: Pragmatic aspects of silence in János Pilinszky’s art

ABSTRACT:

When Ferenc Szabó examines the central issues of Christianity in the intellectual context of modernity in his book Christianity and Modernity, he highlights that literature in its discourse always reinterprets its doubts about God, the transcendent, arising from existential experience. Although Pilinszky tries to express the brokenness of the theological interpretation tradition of literature with the statement „I am a poet and Catholic”, the world of experience expressed in his art can be considered Catholic, since a Catholic worldview shaped not only his poetry, but also his stagecraft. Pilinszky is an artist in search of redemption, his laconic works express human passion even at the risk of silence. Several examples of the poetics of silence can be observed in his art, such as lack of communication, the speechlessness, the muteness, action without words, articulate silence or transcendent tranquillity. In their pragmatic approach, silence also has a communicative function. The presentation examines the pragmatic aspects of silence in János Pilinszky’s texts.

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NAME: Anna ZIĘBA

INSTITUTION: Adam Mickiewicz University

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:

Anna Zieba is Assistant Professor and a researcher at the Faculty of Ethnolinguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan, Poland). She holds a PhD in applied linguistics. Her research interests concern visual and multimodal representation of concepts and practices. This allows her to combine her job with her other passions i.e. photography and interior design. The author of The impact of national culture on press news and a holder of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education Grant, and the Clifford and Mary Corbridge Trust Scholarship (Cambridge University).She has published in renowned journals in the field of Social Semiotics: Social Semiotics and Visual Communication. An active participant in numerous international conferences on Systemic Functional Linguistics.

TITLE: Metaverse Metamorphosis: A Critical Exploration of Advertising Discourse and Societal Dynamics in the Digital Realm

ABSTRACT:

This research study focuses on the evolving discourse of the metaverse and its impact on the way we perceive and represent things in the digital world. It explores the dynamic relationship between societal changes and technological advancements and emphasizes the influence of the new digital space on perception and representation within its boundaries. The study is mainly concerned with advertising discourse (Eyada, 2023; Gursoy et al., 2023; Kadry, 2022; Kim, 2021), with a case study of a campaign organized on one of the metaverse platforms. The research aims to reveal the changes brought about by the exceptional potential of the digital environment, whose construction provides developers with heightened control over user experience and introduces innovative approaches to directing attention. The findings also shed light on reception and comprehension dynamics, including aspects such as multisensory overload and somatosensory mismatch, which influence user interactions in virtual environments.
Using a multimodal social semiotic framework (Hodge & Kress, 1988; Jewitt & Henriksen, 2016; Kress & van Leeuwen, 2001; Kress, 2009), this study delves into the translation of discourses from real-world restaurant advertising into a virtual one and scrutinizes how language, both visual and verbal, adapts to metaverse-induced transformations. Additionally, it adopts a critical approach, examining how the complex interplay of visual and verbal elements reflects and reinforces societal power relations. For instance, it discusses how dominant groups may utilize the platforms to maintain power and privilege and how marginalized groups leverage blockchain technology to resist and challenge entrenched power structures.

REFERENCES:

Eyada, B. (2023). Advertising in the Metaverse: Opportunities and Challenges. International Journal of Marketing Studies, 15(1), 22-30.
Gursoy, D., Lu, L., Nunkoo, R., & Deng, D. (2023). Metaverse in services marketing: an overview and future research directions. The Service Industries Journal, 43(15-16), 1140-1172.
Hodge, R. I. V., & Kress, G. R. (1988). Social semiotics. Cornell University Press.
Jewitt, C., & Henriksen, B. (2016). Social semiotic multimodality. Handbuch sprache im multimodalen Kontext, 7, 145-153.
Kadry, A. (2022). The metaverse revolution and its impact on the future of advertising industry. Journal of Design Sciences and Applied Arts, 3(2), 131-139.
Kim, J. (2021). Advertising in the metaverse: Research agenda. Journal of Interactive Advertising, 21(3), 141-144.
Kress, G. R., & Van Leeuwen, T. (2001). Multimodal discourse: The modes and media of contemporary communication. Arnold.
Kress, G. (2009). Multimodality: A social semiotic approach to contemporary communication. Routledge.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

1. Zieba, A., Dzienisiewicz, D. (2023). Urlop w PRL-u: multimodalna analiza dyskursu polskich widokówek z okresu 1945–1989. Napis:Pisane światłem. Fotografia – tekst i kontekst, 29, ss. 45-70. doi: https://doi.org/10.18318/napis.2023.1.3
2. Zieba, A. (2021). Book review: To See and Be Seen: The Environments, Interactions and Identities behind News Images. Visual Communication. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470357221996400
* Zieba, A. (2023). Book review: To See and Be Seen: The Environments, Interactions and Identities behind News Images. Visual Communication, 22(4), 725-728. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470357221996400
3. Zięba, A. (2020). Visual representation of happiness: a sociosemiotic perspective on stock photography. W: Social Semiotics, 1-21.https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2020.1788824
* Zieba, A. (2023) Visual representation of happiness: a sociosemiotic perspective on stock photography, Social Semiotics, 33:1, 188-208, DOI: 10.1080/10350330.2020.1788824

NAME: Paloma Batista Cardoso

INSTITUTION: Federal University of Sergipe

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:

Paloma Cardoso has a License in Letters/ Portuguese (2013-2018), by the Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil, and a Master’s degree in Linguistics (2019-2021). Currently, she is a PhD researcher at the same institution (2021-currently). She has experience with syntax and pragmatics. Now, she is developing a thesis whose objective is, in a multimodal approach, to investigate the relationship between face, hand gestures and negation in Brazilian Portuguese.

TITLE: Negativas: a prototype for searching and classifying negative structures with ‘não’ in speech data

ABSTRACT:

Negation is common to all natural languages. In Brazilian Portuguese (BP), it can be expressed by não in pre-verbal (NEG1), double (NEG2), and post-verbal (NEG3) positions. From a variationist perspective, these three negative structures are three forms to express opposition. From a pragmatic perspective, NEG1, NEG2, and NEG3 assume different communicative functions, such as politeness. Traditionally, studies about negation with não use small samples as database, given the difficulty of handling the large volume of data generated by this type of linguistic documentation. As a result, conclusions about the use and functions of NEG1, NEG2 and NEG3 are based on subjective, non-generalizable interpretations, which undermines the understanding of this phenomenon. To deal with this problem, the tool negativas was developed. It enables the automatic search for NEG1, NEG2, and NEG3 with a success rate of 93%. Besides problems related to the recognizing of boundaries and prosodic features that could not be learned by artificial intelligence, we believe that this tool has the potential to automate the description of a large volume of data on negative structures with não in BP

REFERENCES:

Brugman, H., Russel, A., & Nijmegen, X. (2004). Annotating Multi-media/Multi-modal Resources with ELAN. In LREC (pp. 2065-2068).
Cardoso, P. B. (2023). Speech, hand, and facial gestures: a proposal of a multimodal approach to describe negative structures with não in Brazilian Portuguese. Revista de Estudos da Linguagem, v. 31, n. 2, p. 719-763. Caseli, H., Freitas, C., & Viola, R. (2022). Natural Language Processing. Brazilian Computer Society.
Dahl, Ö. (2010). Typology of negation. InLaurence R. Horn (ed.), The expression of negation, 9-38.
Freitag, R. M. K. (2013). Banco de dados Falares Sergipanos. Working Papers in Linguistics, 14(2), 156-164.
Goldnadel, M. (2016). Pragmatic functions of double negation utterances: analysis of data from Curitiba (PR). Virtual journal of language studies-ReVEL. Novo Hamburgo, RS. Vol. 14, nesp 13 (nov. 2016), p. 144-180.
Honnibal, M., Montani, I., Van Landeghem, S., and Boyd, A. (2020). spaCy: Industrial-strength Natural Language Processing in Python.
McShane, M.; Nirenburg, S. (2021). Linguistics for the Age of AI. Mit Press. Pedregosa, F., Varoquaux, G., Gramfort, A., Michel, V., Thirion, B., Grisel, O., … & Duchesnay, E. (2011). Scikit-learn: Machine learning in Python. The Journal of machine Learning research, 12, 2825-2830.
Petry, P., Goldnadel, M.; Lamberti, L. (2021). Pragmatic functions of utterances with double negation in Porto Alegre at the end of the 20th century: a qualitative analysis of data extracted from sociolinguistic interviews. Journal of ABRALIN, 1-38.
Universal dependencies for Portuguese. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling), pages 197-206, Pisa, Italy.
Rocha, R. S. (2013). A dupla negação no português paulistano (PhD thesis, University of São Paulo).
Schwenter, S. A. (2005). The pragmatics of negation in Brazilian Portuguese. Lingua, 115(10), 1427-1456.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Batista Cardoso, P. (2023). Speech, hand, and facial gestures: a proposal of a multimodal approach to describe negative structures with não in Brazilian Portuguese. Revista de Estudos da Linguagem, 31(2).
Freitag, R. M. K., Cardoso, P. B., & Tejada, J. (2022). Linguistic and paralinguistic constraints on the function of (eu) acho que as DM in Brazilian Portuguese: A multilevel approach. Pragmatics & Cognition, 29(2), 324-346.

NAME: Brad Mackay

INSTITUTION: University of Salzburg

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:

TITLE: Awareness and Sociolinguistic Monitoring: Comparing (ing), (t), Like, You Know and Pauses

ABSTRACT:

Sociolinguistic monitoring is hypothesised to be a cognitive mechanism that tracks the speech signal for socially meaningful cues of variable features and monitors their frequency (Labov et al. 2011). Ideas about the monitor have been most widely tested in perception – in form of the matched-guise test in which the frequency of target features is manipulated, e.g. (ing) as -ing or -in. Labov et al. (2011) found speakers to be heard as more unprofessional with increasing numbers of –in. Further work in this paradigm has found listeners’ age (Labov et al. 2011), gender/sex (Stecker 2020) and pragmatic language ability (Wagner & Hesson 2014) as well as variable type (Levon & Buchstaller 2015) and the variable’s social salience (Levon & Fox 2014) to impact evaluation.

In this study, we continue exploring the workings of speech monitoring by focusing on the factor of awareness of the attitude target and the type of variable. In particular, we ask whether the evaluation we observe in (ing) and (t)-deletion is similar to the evaluation of speech planning features, e.g. filled and unfilled pauses (see Fruehwald 2016), and the discourse-pragmatic markers you know and like. The study includes 600 respondents in England (100 per variable), who were recruited via Prolific. Similar to Labov et al.’s original design, participants rated seven versions of the same news report with varying frequencies of either (ing)- and (t)-variants, you know, like, um or unfilled pauses on a professionalism-scale. Guises were based on one speaker and one text and differed only in the occurrence of a given feature. The survey also assessed whether participants became aware that a respective variable had been manipulated.

Our results indicate different distributions for (ing) and (t) as opposed to the pragmatic markers and speech-planning features. An increase in token numbers of you know, like, um and pauses elicited lower professionalism ratings. This suggests that the monitoring mechanism may be extended to features other than phonological, sociolinguistic variables. In line with Levon & Fox’s (2014) findings for (ing) in the UK, varying frequencies of (ing) and (t)-deletion did not prompt evaluation differences overall. However, participants who realised that (ing) had been manipulated did evaluate guises with more apical variants as less professional. In fact, this response pattern was found across all variables: Respondents’ awareness differed for attitude targets: (t)-deletion was never noticed, (ing) by 9%, followed by unfilled (31 %), and filled pauses (50%), you know (60%) and like (61%). However, an awareness of the attitude target generally resulted in more negative evaluation and a different distribution of evaluation across different token numbers.

This study shows that the same experimental setup results in different awareness conditions. It also suggests that participants’ awareness of a variable impacts their evaluation and may explain their (in)sensitivity to frequency differences. Thus, an assessment of participants’ awareness of the attitude target is an indispensable element of future research into the social meanings of variable features.

REFERENCES:

Freitag, Raquel Meister Ko. 2020. Effects of the linguistics processing: palatals in Brazilian Portuguese
and the sociolinguistic monitor. U Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 25(2). 21–30.

Fruehwald, Josef. 2016. Filled pause choice as a sociolinguistic variable. U. Penn Working Papers in
Linguistics 22, 41-49.

Labov, William, Sharon Ash, Maya Ravindranath, Tracey Weldon, Maciej Baranowski & Naomi Nagy.
2011. Properties of the sociolinguistic monitor. Journal of Sociolinguistics 15(4). 431–463.

Levon, Erez & Isabelle Buchstaller. 2015. Perception, cognition, and linguistic structure: the effect of
linguistic modularity and cognitive style on sociolinguistic processing. Language Variation and
Change 27. 319–348.

Levon, Erez & Sue Fox. 2014. Social salience and the sociolinguistic monitor: A case study of (ING) and
TH-fronting in Britain. Journal of English Linguistics 42. 185–217.

Stecker, Amelia. 2020. Investigations of the sociolinguistic monitor and perceived gender identity.
Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 26(2). 119–128.

Wagner, Suzanne Evans & Ashley Hesson. 2014. Individual sensitivity to the frequency of socially
meaningful linguistic cues affects language attitudes. Journal of Language and Social
Psychology 33(6). 651–666.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

NAME: Annika Labrenz

INSTITUTION: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:

Annika Labrenz is a doctoral research fellow in the Research Unit “Emerging Grammars in Language Contact Situations” (RUEG) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In her research she focuses on register variation, discourse organization, multilingualism, and language contact.

TITLE: Variability and variation in epistemic stance markers: A corpus study of German stance expressions across situation- and speaker-related factors

ABSTRACT:

Epistemic stance, as a type of evaluative stance, serves to indicate one’s degree of certainty about one’s claims and/or one’s source of knowledge (cf. Du Bois 2007, Imo and Ziegler 2022). The marking of epistemic stance in discourse can be realised through a variety of linguistic features (e.g. lexical, prosodic, syntactic structures).

In this paper, I present findings from a corpus study on expressions such as the German ich glaube (‘I believe’), which overtly mark an epistemic stance and have been shown to vary systematically across registers in English (cf. Gray and Biber 2014). In addition to situational variables (formality and mode), I examine the role of age, gender, and type of language acquisition (bilingually vs. monolingually raised) in the use of these markers. Given societal hierarchies, one might expect differences in the use of epistemic stance expressions such that speakers who are in a position that is (historically) set as the norm in the Global North would use less of such overt markers. Consequently, I hypothesise differences in frequency in the following way: adults < adolescents, male < female, monolingually < bilingually raised.

To test these hypotheses, I conducted a corpus analysis of the German subcorpus of the RUEG corpus (https://hu.berlin/rueg-corpus). The data were elicited using the Language Situations set-up (https://hu.berlin/LangSit) yielding different communicative situations with regard to (in)formality and mode. Initial analyses focused on specific expressions such as ich glaube (‘I believe’), ich denke (‘I think’), ich vermute (‘I assume’), ich weiß (nicht) (‘I (do not) know’), either as matrix clauses or as insertions often accompanied by word order inversion.

A linear mixed effect model that takes the individual speaker as random effect shows a highly significant effect of formality and mode on the general use of these evaluative stance markers: In line with Gray and Biber (2014), the model predicts that overt expressions of epistemic stance occur more frequently in informal than in formal situations and in spoken than in written mode. Contrary to my expectations, the sociolinguistic variables of age group, gender, and type of acquisition show no significant effects on their use. The data indicate that individual variation might outweigh group effects.

In sum, the results suggest that the communicative situation and individual preferences may be the main drivers for the use of such epistemic stance markers. In addition to these findings, I intend to present results from future analyses on the potential correlation between the use of epistemic stance expressions and personality traits, and on a larger variety of stance markers, including stance adverbials (e.g. supposedly) which are less overt and thus may show different distributional patterns.

REFERENCES:

Du Bois, John W. (2007). The stance triangle. In: Stancetaking in Discourse, ed. by Robert
Englebretson. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 139–182. https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.164
Gray B, Biber D. (2014). Stance markers. In: Corpus Pragmatics: A Handbook, ed. by Karin Aijmer, Christoph Rühlemann. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 219-248. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139057493.012
Imo, W. and Ziegler, E. (2022). Migration in the Ruhr Area: Stance-taking and attitude expression in talk-in-interaction. In: Approaches to Migration, Language and Identity, ed. by Anita Auer, Jennifer Thorburn. Oxford: P. Lang, 71-111.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Labrenz, A., Iefremenko, K., Katsika, K., Allen, S. Schroeder, C., Wiese, H. (to appear) Dynamics of discourse markers in language contact. In S. Allen, H. Wiese, A. Alexiadou, & M. Keller (eds.), Linguistic dynamics in heritage speakers. Language Science Press.
Labrenz, A. (2023). Functional variation of German also across registers and speaker groups, Contrastive Pragmatics, 4(2), 289-320. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/26660393-bja10077
Labrenz, A., Wiese, H., Allen, S., & Pashkova, T. (2022). The three-dot sign in language contact. Pragmatics and Cognition 29(2), 246-271. doi: https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.21021.lab

NAME: Dennis PRESTON

INSTITUTION: University of Kentucky

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:

Dennis R. Preston is Adjunct Professor of Linguistics at the University of Kentucky, Regents Professor Emeritus at Oklahoma State University, where he was was Director of Research on the Dialects of English in Oklahoma and Co-Director of the Center for Oklahoma Studies, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University; he has been a visiting scholar at Osaka Shoin Women’s College and the Universities of Canterbury (New Zealand), Hawai’i, Arizona, Michigan, Copenhagen, Colorado, Indiana University Southeast, SUNY Oswego, Berkeley, and Chicago, Kentucky, and UC Davis, and UMass Amherst and a Fulbright Researcher in Poland and Brazil. He was Director of the 2003 Linguistic Society of America Institute, President of the American Dialect Society, and has served on the Executive Boards of those societies and others, as well as the editorial boards of numerous journals and panels of granting agencies. He is a member of the advisory committees of several international research projects and is invited frequently for presentations in both academic and popular venues. His work focuses on sociolinguistics and dialectology, including four recent NSF grants, two in folk linguistics and two in language variation and change. His most recent book-length publications are, with Nancy Niedzielski, Folk linguistics (2000), with Daniel Long, A handbook of perceptual dialectology, Volume II (2002), Needed research in American dialects (2003), with Brian Joseph and Carol G. Preston, Linguistic diversity in Michigan and Ohio (2005), with James Stanford, Variation in indigenous languages (2009), with Nancy Niedzielski, A reader in sociophonetics (2010), with Alexei Prikhodkine, Responses to language varieties (2015) and, with Jennifer Cramer, “Changing perceptions of Southernness,” Special double issue of American Speech 93:3&4, Fall-Winter 2018. He is an Erskine Fellow of the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) and a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the Linguistic Society of America and was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Polish Republic in 2004.

TITLE: Discourse Change: Not So Fast

ABSTRACT:

This is a presentation about how speakers do not change discourses over time, particularly their discourses about language. It is a specific examination of the Labovian uniformitarian hypothesis in the context of language attitudes and ideologies as revealed in discourses across time.
This presentation is rooted in several concepts, First, it challenges the assertion that the principal goal of historical sociolinguistics and historical pragmatics is the study of „language use” (Auer et al, 2015; Jacobs & Juker 1975). Second, it contests the idea that historical sociolinguistics and pragmatics is „bad data” (Nevalianen 1999), a devaluation based on the possibility that what is written may not reflect the actual use of the times. Third, it disregards the related suspicion that what people say about language is subject to an „observer’s paradox” concern in the social psychology of language, one which has resulted in devious attempts acquire speaker’s „true thoughts” (e.g., matched guise experiments, implicit attitude tests, eye-tracking tasks, and even such neural probes as those that reveal event response potentials).
This presentation shows that these mistaken notions are due to limiting language use to production and not meaning and that such meanings are open to semanto/pragmatic analyses that reveal implicit and presupposed as well as asserted beliefs about and attitudes towards language. In so doing, it shows that the observer’s’ paradox need not apply and agrees with Weinreich et al (1968) that the „subjective correlates” of language must be derived from independent investigation rather than variable language structure itself and that such correlates are one of the essential problems to be solved in the study of language variation and change.
The bulk of this presentation involves the examination of several examples of historical discourses from plays, novels, and other sources by means of semanto-pragmatic analyses that highlight implicit and presupposed notions about language—its subjective correlates. It is not the discovery of semanto-pragmatic uses of earlier times but the use of semanto-pragmatic tools to discover what was meant in the unasserted discourses of the past. Following Potts (2014), the four specific analytic categories used are those of semantic and pragmatic presuppositions and semantic and pragmatic implications.
For example, in Coriolanus, perhaps Shakespeare’s most language-oriented play, in a series of comments, Menenius 1) semantically implicates that those trained as soldiers are not educated in refined language, 2) pragmatically implicates that those in the military cannot distinguish between and/or control the choice of military and refined language, 3) semantically presupposes the existence of a civilian and military registers, 4) pragmatically implicates that military language is „rough,” and 5) pragmatically implicates that „rough” language may be insulting. Since none of this is asserted, we must assume that, even if it does not represent Shakespeare’s own language attitudes and ideologies, it must surely represent those he tacitly assumed would be available to his audience.
More importantly related to the theme of this meeting, exactly such unasserted ideological and attitudinal stances can be found in current English discourses about language, civilians, and soldiers—evidence that, in fact, discourses of these topics have not changed over time. That is of course an exaggeration; an examination of the discoursal settings, the contexts, the stances of the interlocutors, and a host of other things linguists know about discourse may shed light on subtle difference in the deployment of attitudinal and ideological stances. This paper asserts, however, that if these subtleties, ones that overcome the objections of bad data and the observer’s paradox, are not sought in current as well as historical discourse, comparable patterns of ideological and attitudinal formation that will allow studies over time, place, and groups and perhaps reveal differences and changes in discourse where they actually occur will go undetected.

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

With Betsy E. Evans. Language regard. In Robert Bayley & Erica Benson (eds.), Needed research in American dialects. PADS 2023, 246-267. Historical folk sociolinguistics. Roczniki Humanistyczne 71,6:185-201 (Special Issue).
L’évolution de la linguistique populaire comme domaine d’étude. In Linda Becker, Sandra Herling, and Holger Wochele (eds). Manuel de linguistique populaire. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 63-76.
With Karen Chavira, Code choice in El Paso: Stable triglossia? In M. Reif, N. Mundt, & F. Polzenhagen (eds), Explorations into linguistics, literature, and culture. Berlin: Peter Lang, 371-390.
With Robert Bayley and Xiaoshi Li (eds). Variation and Second Language Acquisition: Crosslinguistic Perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Revs: Àlvaro Calero-Pons, Language in Society 52:721-7311 (2023), doi:10.1017/S0047404523000532
Palatalization: Variation and social meaning. In Gitte Kristiansen, Karlien Franco, Stefano De Pascale, Laura Rosseel and Weiwei Zhang (eds), Cognitive sociolinguistics revisited (Volume 48 in the series Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL]). Berlin & New York: De Gruyter Mouton, 339-358.

NAME: Erik SCHLEEF

INSTITUTION: University of Salzburg

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:

Erik Schleef is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Salzburg, Austria. His research focuses on variation and change in dialects of the British Isles, the acquisition of variation, sociolinguistics and perception, and language and gender in educational settings. He is co-editor of the Routledge Sociolinguistics Reader and co-author of Doing Sociolinguistics: A Practical Guide to Data Collection and Analysis.

TITLE: Awareness and Sociolinguistic Monitoring: Comparing (ing), (t), Like, You Know and Pauses

ABSTRACT:

Sociolinguistic monitoring is hypothesised to be a cognitive mechanism that tracks the speech signal for socially meaningful cues of variable features and monitors their frequency (Labov et al. 2011). Ideas about the monitor have been most widely tested in perception – in form of the matched-guise test in which the frequency of target features is manipulated, e.g. (ing) as -ing or -in. Labov et al. (2011) found speakers to be heard as more unprofessional with increasing numbers of –in. Further work in this paradigm has found listeners’ age (Labov et al. 2011), gender/sex (Stecker 2020) and pragmatic language ability (Wagner & Hesson 2014) as well as variable type (Levon & Buchstaller 2015) and the variable’s social salience (Levon & Fox 2014) to impact evaluation.

In this study, we continue exploring the workings of speech monitoring by focusing on the factor of awareness of the attitude target and the type of variable. In particular, we ask whether the evaluation we observe in (ing) and (t)-deletion is similar to the evaluation of speech planning features, e.g. filled and unfilled pauses (see Fruehwald 2016), and the discourse-pragmatic markers you know and like. The study includes 600 respondents in England (100 per variable), who were recruited via Prolific. Similar to Labov et al.’s original design, participants rated seven versions of the same news report with varying frequencies of either (ing)- and (t)-variants, you know, like, um or unfilled pauses on a professionalism-scale. Guises were based on one speaker and one text and differed only in the occurrence of a given feature. The survey also assessed whether participants became aware that a respective variable had been manipulated.

Our results indicate different distributions for (ing) and (t) as opposed to the pragmatic markers and speech-planning features. An increase in token numbers of you know, like, um and pauses elicited lower professionalism ratings. This suggests that the monitoring mechanism may be extended to features other than phonological, sociolinguistic variables. In line with Levon & Fox’s (2014) findings for (ing) in the UK, varying frequencies of (ing) and (t)-deletion did not prompt evaluation differences overall. However, participants who realised that (ing) had been manipulated did evaluate guises with more apical variants as less professional. In fact, this response pattern was found across all variables: Respondents’ awareness differed for attitude targets: (t)-deletion was never noticed, (ing) by 9%, followed by unfilled (31 %), and filled pauses (50%), you know (60%) and like (61%). However, an awareness of the attitude target generally resulted in more negative evaluation and a different distribution of evaluation across different token numbers.

This study shows that the same experimental setup results in different awareness conditions. It also suggests that participants’ awareness of a variable impacts their evaluation and may explain their (in)sensitivity to frequency differences. Thus, an assessment of participants’ awareness of the attitude target is an indispensable element of future research into the social meanings of variable features.

REFERENCES:

Freitag, Raquel Meister Ko. 2020. Effects of the linguistics processing: palatals in Brazilian Portuguese and the sociolinguistic monitor. U Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 25(2). 21–30.
Fruehwald, Josef. 2016. Filled pause choice as a sociolinguistic variable. U. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 22, 41-49.
Labov, William, Sharon Ash, Maya Ravindranath, Tracey Weldon, Maciej Baranowski & Naomi Nagy. 2011. Properties of the sociolinguistic monitor. Journal of Sociolinguistics 15(4). 431–463.
Levon, Erez & Isabelle Buchstaller. 2015. Perception, cognition, and linguistic structure: the effect of linguistic modularity and cognitive style on sociolinguistic processing. Language Variation and Change 27. 319–348. Levon, Erez & Sue Fox. 2014. Social salience and the sociolinguistic monitor: A case study of (ING) and TH-fronting in Britain. Journal of English Linguistics 42. 185–217.
Stecker, Amelia. 2020. Investigations of the sociolinguistic monitor and perceived gender identity. U Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 26(2). 119–128. Wagner, Suzanne Evans & Ashley Hesson. 2014. Individual sensitivity to the frequency of socially meaningful linguistic cues affects language attitudes. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 33(6). 651–666.

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NAME: Mónika VARGA

INSTITUTION: HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics

SHORT BIOGRAPHY:

Mónika Varga is a Research Fellow at the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics. Her field of research is historical linguistics (text linguistics, syntax, morphology) of Hungarian, historical pragmatics of Hungarian registers and building historical corpora.

TITLE: „Horribly friendly” – Discourse-pragmatic variation and change in Middle Hungarian registers: the case of negative emotive words and intensifiers

ABSTRACT:

The use of negative emotive intensifiers is a socially and culturally embedded pragmatic feature thus lending itself to variation and change. The lexical meaning of negative emotive intensifiers is associated with negative emotions, but they can be used as intensifying elements regardless of the polarity of the target they modify, e.g. awful and awfully good ‘very good’ (cf. Chang & Shao 2020; Szabó, Vincze & Bibok 2023). The change involves a process called polarity loss or delexicalization. This occurs when a negative emotive word transforms into an intensifier for another word in a neutral or positive context. Nevertheless, there can be found occurrences of these elements both with and without polarity loss in the same time period or from the same speaker.

As the historical aspects of delexicalization of negative emotive words in Hungarian remain understudied (with some references available for Modern Hungarian after 1772 in Szabó, Guba & Szabó 2022 and for 20th-century and more recent data Dér 2013), the present study aims to address this gap. It conducts thorough research using corpus data spanning the 16th and the 18th century, building on the Old and Middle Hungarian Corpus of Informal Language Use containing private letters and documents of witch trials and the Middle Hungarian Corpus of Memoirs and Dramas. An inventory specific to this period was outlined in advance, informed by close readings across various registers, listing intensifiers and other attitude markers of the era (e.g. Varga 2022). The comparison of this inventory to those representing later periods reveals remarkable differences, suggesting that polarity loss predominantly occurred more recently. Besides, there is an instance of a change in the opposite direction (from a neutral, or even negative meaning to positive uses).

The questions of the research are the following: How do the different (evaluative and/or intensifying) functions of the studied negative emotive words vary in usage? At which stage of development are the different elements in the current period? Preliminary studies suggest that the answers to these questions can largely be text-dependent. For instance, the original/lexical meaning of the word rettenetes ‘horrible’ carries a negative connotation. However, instances of its use in a positive context can be traced back to the 17th–18th century, as seen in Miklós Bethlen’s memoir: “Bethlen Gergely és Mikes Kelemen rettenetes barátosok voltak, merő Pilades és Orestes” ‘Gergely Bethlen and Kelemen Mikes were horribly friendly with each other, just like Pilades and Orestes’; in this occurrence, ‘horrible’ describes a very close friendship. The analysis shows the distribution of the studied elements in negative, neutral and positive contexts in order to describe the stages of delexicalization within the specified period and registers (for more recent data, see Dér 2013). The boundaries between intensity and polarity are not straightforward in the historical material. When investigating variation and change, both contextual features (such as the target of the given negative emotive word and the role of collocations and co-occurring patterns) and structural factors are considered. One of these structural factors is iconicity, which explores whether the form of negative words influences speakers’ choices; for instance, this includes the distinction between szörnyű ‘horrible,’ which can function as both an adjective and an adverb, and szörnyen or szörnyűképpen ‘horribly,’ specifically marked as an adverb. Given that not all authors in the corpora use negative emotive words as intensifiers, situational and socio-pragmatic characteristics are also to be dealt with (for Salem witch trials cf. Grund 2021 and for Hungarian witchcraft records see Varga 2019). The letters and memoirs provide insights into the usage by individuals of that period.

To refine the results, the study examines the role of registers based on four text-types, comparing non-fiction and fiction, dialogues and monologues, as well as speech-based and constructed material.

REFERENCES:

Chang, Yuxuan & Shao, Bin 2020. Literature Review on Negative Emotive Intensifiers in English. Higher Education of Social Science 18: 55–59.
Dér, Csilla 2013. Iszonyatosan/rettenetesen/őrületesen jó! A fokozószók grammatikalizációjáról [Terribly/awfully/crazy good! About the grammaticalization of intensifiers]. In Gecső, Tamás & Sárdi, Csilla (Eds.) Az interkulturális kommunikáció elmélete és gyakorlata [The theory and practice of intercultural communication] (pp. 71–76). Kodolányi János Főiskola, Tinta.
Grund, Peter J. 2021. “I haue ben most grieviously afflected”. Intensifying experience. Sociopragmatics of stance. Community, language, and the witness depositions from the Salem witch trials (pp. 113–143). John Benjamins.
Szabó, Martina Katalin, Guba, Csenge & Szabó, Kristóf 2022. Adalékok a negatív emotív fokozók időbeli szemantikai változásához [Additional data to the historical semantic change of negative emotive intensifiers.] In Forgács, Tamás, Németh, Miklós & Sinkovics Balázs (Eds.) A nyelvtörténeti kutatások újabb eredményei XI. [Recent results of the historical linguistic research] (pp. 387–402). SZTE BTK Magyar Nyelvészeti Tanszék.
Szabó, Martina Katalin, Vincze, Veronika & Bibok, Károly 2023. “Thank you for the terrific party!” – An analysis of Hungarian negative emotive words. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 19(3): 451–485.
Varga, Mónika 2019. Elváltozék csodaképpen – Kommunikációról és írásról boszorkányperekben. [Discourse representation and communication in witchcraft records.] In Haader, Lea et al. (Eds.) Forráskutatás, forráskiadás, tudománytörténet [Research and Publishing of Source Materials and the History of Science]III. (pp. 340–54). MNyT, ELTE MNyFI.
Varga, Mónika 2022. Pragmatikai markerekről 18. századi regiszterekben: összehasonlító elemzés. [On pragmatic markers in 18^th century registers: a comparison.] In Forgács, Tamás, Németh, Miklós & Sinkovics, Balázs (Eds.) A nyelvtörténeti kutatások újabb eredményei XI. [Recent results of the historical linguistic research] (pp. 431–445.) SZTE BTK Magyar Nyelvészeti Tanszék.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Varga, Mónika 2023. Pragmatikai markerek terjedéséről középmagyar regiszterekben [On the diffusion of pragmatic markers in Middle Hungarian registers] In: Cser, András; Nemesi, Attila László (eds.) Nyelvelmélet és diakrónia 5. [Linguistic theory and diachrony] Budapest: Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem Bölcsészet- és Társadalomtudományi Kar. 211-252.
Varga, Mónika 2023. Lejegyzésmintázatok és -változatok boszorkányperes tanúkihallgatási kéziratok alapján. [Patterns and variants of recording based on manuscripts of witness depositions of witch trials] In: Boros, István; Takács, László (eds.) Aut lego vel scribo. Budapest: Szent István Társulat, Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont, Moravcsik Gyula Intézet. 213-232.
Varga, Mónika 2023. Jobb, inkább csak engedjük el – Az inkább, a jobban és a jobb funkcióiról és variációjáról középmagyar regiszterekben [Better, rather just let it go – On the functions and variation of inkább, jobban and jobb in Middle Hungarian registers]. ARGUMENTUM 19: 124-155.
Varga, Mónika 2022. Boszorkányos lelemények: 18. századi tanúvallomás-kéziratok írásos, lejegyzői, valamint nyelvjárás-történeti kontextusa [The scribal and dialectal context of Hungarian witness depositions’ manuscripts from 18th century witchcraft records] NYELVTUDOMÁNYI KÖZLEMÉNYEK 118: 209-230.
Varga, Mónika 2022. Kommunikáció és szövegformálás boszorkányperekben. [Communication and text formation in witch trials.] Budapest: Szépirodalmi Figyelő Alapítvány.
Varga, Mónika 2022. Pragmatikai markerekről 18. századi regiszterekben: összehasonlító elemzés. [On pragmatic markers in 18^th century registers: a comparison.] In Forgács, Tamás; Németh, Miklós; Sinkovics, Balázs (eds.) A nyelvtörténeti kutatások újabb eredményei XI. [Recent results of the historical linguistic research] Szeged: SZTE BTK Magyar Nyelvészeti Tanszék. 431–445.
Varga, Mónika 2022. „Alkalmas ideig gyötörte”: Pragmatikai markerek funkcióinak alakulásáról 16–18. századi regiszterekben. [„Tortured for a suitable time”. On changes of functions of pragmatic markers in 16–18^th century registers] JELENTÉS ÉS NYELVHASZNÁLAT 9: 133-153.

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