Language and sexuality studies today

Heiko Motschenbacher

doi:10.1075/jls.00011.mot

Language and sexuality studies today

Journal of Language and Sexuality ◽

10.1075/jls.00011.mot ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Heiko Motschenbacher

Keyword(s):

Language Use ◽

Sexuality Studies ◽

Short Overview

Abstract This article presents a short overview of the field of language and sexuality since the mid-1990s and discusses two issues that have repeatedly played a role in my own work in the field during the last decade: the incompatibility of the term homosexual with non-heteronormative language use, and the question of what counts as queer linguistic work.

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Dialogue in the stream of life

Language and Dialogue ◽

10.1075/ld.5.2.01wei ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 197-223 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Edda Weigand

Keyword(s):

Social Context ◽

Communities Of Practice ◽

Language Use ◽

Point Of View ◽

Game Model ◽

Short Overview ◽

Speech Communities ◽

The Social ◽

Holistic Theory

The paper considers dialogue from the point of view Wittgenstein has called ‘the stream of life’ and aims at describing analytically what happens in complex dialogues of performance. A short overview is given of approaches which use the term ‘communities’ to structure performance, e.g. ‘communities of practice’ or ‘speech communities’. Contrary to these approaches which are either oriented towards parts of the whole, such as speech, or address the whole only vaguely by terms of the social context, a genuinely holistic theory needs a solid constitutive basis which is considered to be the sequence of action and reaction in the complex whole of the action game. Language use means dialogic action. By analysing a complex authentic action game the methodology of such a holistic theory like the Mixed Game Model can be demonstrated in detail.

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FROM EFL TO ELF: THE NEW KID ON THE BLOCK

Zbornik radova 18 ◽

10.51728/issn.2637-1480.2019.15.257 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 257-275

Author(s):

Elma Dedović-Atilla ◽

Vildana Dubravac

Keyword(s):

Foreign Language ◽

English Language ◽

Language Use ◽

Language Teaching ◽

English Language Teaching ◽

World Language ◽

Lingua Franca ◽

Short Overview ◽

The World ◽

Globalized World

Today we witness that English has already virtually taken one of the crucial roles on the global stage. Therefore, this paper´s goal is to explore the change that the English Language use has undergone in today´s globalized world that has led to the birth of a new construct in the field of English Language conceptualization, namely English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). In order to achieve this, the paper is organized in several sections covering the following topics: the spread of English throughout the world; a short overview of divergent stances and conceptions of English as a world language; introduction of ELF concept and pinpointing the line of distinction between the concepts of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). The paper accentuates the need for the reconstruction of the places and roles that EFL and ELF assume in present-day linguistic reality, together with the need to raise the awareness about the differences between the two and their implications in English Language Teaching (ELT).

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Multimodal language use in Savosavo

Pragmatics ◽

10.1075/prag.27.2.01bre ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 173-206 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Jana Bressem ◽

Nicole Stein ◽

Claudia Wegener

Keyword(s):

Language Use ◽

Solomon Islands ◽

Language Documentation ◽

Semiotic Analysis ◽

Southwest Pacific ◽

Short Overview ◽

Endangered Language ◽

First Results ◽

Multimodal Language ◽

Manual Mode

Abstract Departing from a short overview on pragmatic gestures specialized for the expression of refusal and negation, the article presents first results of a study on those gestures in Savosavo, a Papuan language spoken in the Solomon Islands in the Southwest Pacific. The paper focuses on two partly conventionalized gestures (sweeping and holding away) and shows that speakers of Savosavo use the gestures in a very similar way as speakers of German, English or French, for example. The article shows how a linguistic and semiotic analysis might serve to uncover proto-morpho-semantic structures in a manual mode of communication and contributes to a better understanding of the conventional nature and cross-linguistic distribution of gestures. Moreover, by examining partly conventionalized gestures in a small, little known and endangered language, it presents a particular approach to the analysis of multimodality in the field of language documentation.

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Computer simulations for the TEM bend contour technique

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100163137 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 54 ◽

pp. 134-135

Author(s):

Vladimir Yu. Kolosov ◽

Anders R. Thölén

Keyword(s):

Computer Simulations ◽

Real Space ◽

Advantages And Disadvantages ◽

Short Overview ◽

Diffraction Contrast ◽

Beam Method ◽

Convergent Beam ◽

Contour Technique

In this paper we give a short overview of two TEM applications utilizing the extinction bend contour technique (BC) giving the advantages and disadvantages; especially we consider two areas in which the BC technique remains unique. Special attention is given to an approach including computer simulations of TEM micrographs.BC patterns are often observed in TEM studies but are rarely exploited in a serious way. However, this type of diffraction contrast was one of the first to be used for analysis of imperfections in crystalline foils, but since then only some groups have utilized the BC technique. The most extensive studies were performed by Steeds, Eades and colleagues. They were the first to demonstrate the unique possibilities of the BC method and named it real space crystallography, which developed later into the somewhat similar but more powerful convergent beam method. Maybe, due to the difficulties in analysis, BCs have seldom been used in TEM, and then mainly to visualize different imperfections and transformations.

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Linguistic Competence in Aphasia

Perspectives on Augmentative and Alternative Communication ◽

10.1044/aac17.3.87 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 17 (3) ◽

pp. 87-92

Author(s):

Leonard L. LaPointe

Keyword(s):

Language Use ◽

Linguistic Competence ◽

Careful Study ◽

Feral Children ◽

Performance Factors ◽

Performance Loss ◽

Linguistic Rules ◽

Communication Goals ◽

Aphasia Treatment ◽

And Performance

Abstract Loss of implicit linguistic competence assumes a loss of linguistic rules, necessary linguistic computations, or representations. In aphasia, the inherent neurological damage is frequently assumed by some to be a loss of implicit linguistic competence that has damaged or wiped out neural centers or pathways that are necessary for maintenance of the language rules and representations needed to communicate. Not everyone agrees with this view of language use in aphasia. The measurement of implicit language competence, although apparently necessary and satisfying for theoretic linguistics, is complexly interwoven with performance factors. Transience, stimulability, and variability in aphasia language use provide evidence for an access deficit model that supports performance loss. Advances in understanding linguistic competence and performance may be informed by careful study of bilingual language acquisition and loss, the language of savants, the language of feral children, and advances in neuroimaging. Social models of aphasia treatment, coupled with an access deficit view of aphasia, can salve our restless minds and allow pursuit of maximum interactive communication goals even without a comfortable explanation of implicit linguistic competence in aphasia.

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