Repair strategies and social interaction in spontaneous spoken French: the pragmatic particle enfin

2001 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Beeching
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Degenerate Version ◽  
The Way

The spoken language has traditionally been regarded as being a degenerate version of the written language, marred by backtrackings and repetitions. This paper explores the role of the pragmatic particle enfin when it is used as a corrective, both to introduce a repair and, in its mitigating or hedging capacity, as a mediator of social relations. An attempt is made to account for the pragmatico-syntactic characteristics of a particular manifestation of corrective enfin – the echo/self-mimic corrective. The behaviour of enfin is arguably a microcosm in a much larger universe of rules governing the way speakers produce and hearers interpret the shifting signals of participatory discourse.

Hat die gesprochene Sprache eine eigene Grammatik? Grundsätzliche Überlegungen zum Status gesprochensprachlicher Konstruktionen und zur Kategorie ‚gesprochenes Standarddeutsch‘

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Georg Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Spoken Language ◽  
Written Language ◽  
General Question ◽  
Standard Language ◽  
Empirical Basis ◽  
Research Context ◽  
Theoretical Question

AbstractAlthough most linguists agree that spoken language differs in relevant aspects from written language, it is still controversial whether they have different grammatical systems. In this article, I raise the general question of whether it is possible to speak of a specific grammar of spoken language. For this purpose the problem of spoken versus written modality is discussed together with the problem of rules and regularity (chapter 2); furthermore, the role of the concept “standard language” in this research context is discussed (chapter 3). Using different examples, I analyze syntactic phenomena of contemporary spoken German (chapter 4). On this empirical basis, the central theoretical question is developed and answered: Are there grammatical constructions in spoken Standard German which can be explained by the special modality – e.g. the fluidity and irreversibility – of the oral medium (chapter 5)?

scholarly journals Borrowed identities: Class(ification), inequality and the role of credit-debt in class making and struggle

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 1417-1434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Sparkes
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Differentiation ◽  
Class Analysis ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Class Inequality ◽  
Cultural Goods ◽  
Relative Class ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
The Way

Class analysis has re-emerged as a pertinent area of enquiry. This development is linked to a growing body of work dubbed cultural class analysis, that utilises Bourdieu’s class scheme to develop rich understandings of how culture and lifestyle interacts with economic and social relations in Britain, generating inequalities and hierarchies. Yet cultural class analyses do not properly account for the way individuals resist their relative class positions, nor the role of unsecured credit in facilitating consumption. This article contributes to this area by examining how unsecured credit and problem debt influences consumption and class position amongst individuals with modest incomes. Drawing on 21 interviews with individuals managing problem debt, this article details how class inequality emerges through affective states that include anxiety and feelings of deficit. It also shows how these experiences motivate participants to rely on unsecured credit to consume cultural goods and engage in activities in a struggle against their class position, with the intention of enhancing how they are perceived and classified by others. The findings indicate that cultural class analyses may have overlooked the symbolic importance of mundane consumption and goods in social differentiation. This article further details how these processes entangle individuals into complex liens of debt – which lead to over-indebtedness, default, dispossession and financial expropriation – illustrating how investigations of credit-debt can better inform understandings of class inequality, exploitation and struggle.

scholarly journals Drawing the Impossible— the role of architectural drawing in the production of meaning in social space

Cubic Journal ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 90-107
Author(s):  
Luke Tipene
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Architectural Drawing ◽  
Specific Mode ◽  
Pictorial Essay

This pictorial essay reflects on a unique category of architectural drawing that depicts spaces that cannot physically exist. It suggests that this specific mode of drawing plays a significant role in the production of meaning in social space through depicting ephemeral characteristics of our social relations. This argument is discussed in relation to Michel Foucault’s theoretical allegory of the heterotopic mirror, and illustrated through accompanying images of the drawing project The Virtual Relations (2009). This project used the methodology of “drawing the impossible” with Henri Lefebvre’s theory for the production of space to explore ephemeral conditions of social interaction in the domestic interior as five spatial descriptions.

Dombey and Son and the Question of Reproduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 178-190
Author(s):  
Michal P. Ginsburg
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
Domestic Ideology ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Way

This chapter examines the role of reproduction, labour, and maintenance in Dombey and Son as it pertains to both the domestic sphere and the public sphere of economic and social relations. It shows that the reproduction and maintenance of the material home are represented in the novel mostly by the effects of their absence. It analyses both the ideological stakes of such representation and the way it ends up conflicting with claims about the naturalness of family and home that support domestic ideology. The chapter further argues that the way Dickens represents the firm of Dombey and Son also shows the need for, and the lack or failure of, the labour of reproduction and maintenance. It then discusses how ‘management’ is introduced to cure the ills of both the socio-economic and the domestic sphere.

scholarly journals Why a critical geopolitics cannot be Confucian

2021 ◽  
pp. 204382062110177
Author(s):  
Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Theoretical Orientation ◽  
Critical Geopolitics ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Confucian Thought ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
The Way

In this commentary, I welcome An et al.’s (2021) commitment to explore the role of Confucian thought in the contemporary practices of statehood in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Nonetheless, I also take issue with the authors’ argument that a Confucian geopolitics is needed to replace inadequate ‘Western geopolitical frameworks’. Confucian philosophies promote a hierarchical social order based on authority and subordination, and the way in which they are selectively and strategically utilized in contemporary China represents an important subject of analysis. However, they should not be viewed as a framework of analysis, as they obscure rather than shed light on spatial and class struggles – even in the hybridized stylization endorsed by An et al. Critical political economic and critical geopolitical perspectives with a global theoretical orientation and a knowledge of place and culture offer more promise in the disentangling of state practices and social relations in the PRC.

scholarly journals The Reformation and the Linguistic Situation in Norway

Nordlit ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Endre Mørck
Keyword(s):  
Spoken Language ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Religious Literature ◽  
Short Account ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The Church ◽  
Modern Form ◽  
The Way

The article gives a short account of the development of the spoken language from Old Norwegian to Modern Norwegian, the transition from Norwegian to Danish as the written language in Norway and the language of the church around the Reformation. It is argued that the changes in the spoken language were a long-term development completed, on the whole, at the time of the Reformation, that the transition from Norwegian to Danish as the written language was also well on the way before the Reformation, and that the vernacular was not abruptly introduced in the Lutheran service. So, the linguistic situation in the centuries following the Reformation is only to a lesser degree a result of the Reformation itself. The Reformation should first and foremost be credited with the translation of the Bible into Danish and with it the consolidation of a modern form of Danish which was spread through the extensive religious literature of the time. Later this consolidated written language formed the basis for the development of a higher variety of spoken Norwegian.

scholarly journals DINAMIKA HUKUM ISLAM DAN PERUBAHAN SOSIAL

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Titin Samsudin
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Social Community ◽  
Concrete Form ◽  
The Social ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Way

Abstract The dynamism of Islamic law must have an effect on the process of social interaction. In vice versa, social status that absorbed through interaction between religion and society will have an implication to the social process. social change in society always demands changes in the law, so legal change can lead to social change. Sociologically, the society always changes. The change of a society can be influenced by the way of thinking and the value of existing in society. The more advanced the way of thinking of a society will be more open problematika that happened, The more problematic faced by society hence the settlement demand also getting harder. So it takes a serious effort in solving it. Thus the role of Islamic law in answering all issues that are increasingly growing in the social community is very urgent done. As an illustration and concrete and concrete form of the dynamic of Islamic law.  Abstrak Dinamisasi hukum Islam pastilah berpengaruh terhadap proses interaksi sosial. demikian pula sebaliknya status sosial yang terserap melalui interaksi antara agama dan masyarakat akan berimplikasi terhadap proses sosial. perubahan sosial dalam masyarakat selalu menuntut adanya perubahan hukum, demikian pula perubahan hukum dapat menimbulkan perubahan sosial. Secara sosiologis masyarakat senantiasa mengalami perubahan. Perubahan suatu masyarakat dapat dipengaruhi oleh polapikir dan tata nilai yang ada dalam masyarakat. Semakin maju cara berpikir suatu masyarakat maka akan semakin terbuka problematika yang terjadi, Semakin banyak problematika yang dihadapi oleh masyarakat maka tuntutan penyelesaiannya juga semakin berat. Sehingga membutuhkan upaya yang sungguh-sungguh dalam menyelesaikannya. Dengan demikian peranan hukum Islam dalam menjawab semua persoalan yang semakin hari semakin berkembang dalam sosial masyarakat sangatlah urgen dilakukan. Sebagai gambaran dan bentuk konkrit serta nyata dari dinamisnya hukum Islam.

scholarly journals Multimodal- Stylistic Representation of Comparison in Airtel Nigeria 4G Visual Commercials

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Evangeline Agwa Fomukong Seino
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Survey Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Coherent Structure ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Multimodal Text ◽  
Words And Images

In semiotics, a code of communication which is a set of conventions used for meaning making can be spoken language, written language or an image. Modes of communication are used to accomplish a desired effect in daily social interaction. This social interaction can be found in the communication between the advertiser and the consumer, and the writer and the reader. This study analyses some of these modes used in the Airtel Nigeria 4G visual commercials and examines how the advertisers make use of the concept of the composition of elements in a multimodal text which bases on the idea that the advertisers and the viewers are abreast with what information is mutually known and understood. This view is explicitly shown in the composition of elements, words and images, combine aesthetics and persuasion through meaningful elements that form a coherent text of code-specific structures that produce meaning. The study follows the survey research design and the data is analysed following four steps of assigning incidents to frames, elaborating frames, relating themes to frames and interpreting the data as a coherent structure. The study concludes that the advertisers of Airtel Nigeria 4G visual commercials make ample use of metaphors associating 3G with negative frames and 4G with positive frames, drawing inspiration from gargets used daily by their audience. They vividly and successfully create a demarcation between 3G and 4G, persuading consumers to go for the Airtel Nigeria 4G products. 

scholarly journals Grammatical Influences (Morphological) of Albanian Language in the Languages of Minorities in the Region of Prizren

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 63-67
Author(s):  
Senad Neziri
Keyword(s):  
Spoken Language ◽  
Minority Language ◽  
Folk Tales ◽  
Minority Community ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to prove the presence of calques (loan translation) of Albanian language in the languages of minorities (Gorani community, Bosnian community) in the region of Prizren. We will make an effort to provide evidence for the role of Albanian as a donor language through daily contacts with the members of the above-mentioned communities. The corpus of this study will be the edited volume of songs and folk tales from minority areas, respectively from the population of Gorani and Bosnian ethnicity and their dialects. The research will be focused in minority areas in the municipality of Dragash (Sharr) where Gorani people live, as well as in other areas of minority language speakers, mainly in Zhupa, in the municipality of Prizren. The paper will be important in enlightening the facts of using the structure of Albanian, both in the spoken language of the minority community and that of Albanian community. The cases where certain elements of Albanian language are encountered in another language, where Albanian appears as a donor language, will be considered as important. The reason which has pushed us to conduct the research regarding the presence of Albanian elements, basically morphological, in a non-Albanian speaking community in Kosovar society, respectively in the multi-ethnic society of Prizren, is the way of speaking of this minority community and the confirmation of the impact of Albanian language and ethno-culture on this minority language since ancient times to the present.

Structure, Knowledge and Practice: Art Exhibitions and Power during the Nineteenth Century

1984 ◽  
Vol 32 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 20-45
Author(s):  
Gordon J. Fyfe
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Art Exhibitions ◽  
Art Exhibition ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Structure Knowledge ◽  
The Way

This paper concerns the relationship between nineteenth century art exhibitions and the social construction of the artist. Attention is focused on the institutional conditions which endorsed the fine artist in the role of an individuated creator within the context of the changing social relations of artistic production. In this way art exhibitions are considered as sites of cultural production and it is argued that matters of their organization relate fundamentally to both questions of power and the production of the artist's pictorial authority. An assessment of the problems that faced the powerful Royal Academy of Arts and its Exhibition points to the way in which such questions took on political and class hues in the context of a developing capitalist society. It is suggested that what is at stake here is the way in which the institution of the art exhibition relates to the emergence of a dominant tradition of creativity – symbolically restating the class situation of the bourgeoisie.

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