Talk, voice and gestures in reported speech: toward an integrated approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dris Soulaimani
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Reported Speech ◽  
Social Field ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Semiotic Resources

Drawing on Arabic data sets, this study examines reported speech in naturally occurring conversations. Building on earlier work in discourse analysis, the study demonstrates how reported speech is a multiparty social field in which much of the reporting involves not only speech but also intricate forms of voice patterns and embodied reenactments. The study argues that speakers create an integrated complex of reporting, including multimodal utterances that go beyond the stream of speech to include relevant nonlinguistic sounds and embodied gestures. Analysis also shows that participants engage in verbal and nonverbal forms of stance (evaluation) toward the reported activities. The speaker makes certain these stance displays are available to the addressees to achieve co-participation. In contrast to studies which restrict analysis to linguistic phenomena, this study approaches reported speech as a fine performance in which different kinds of semiotic resources are brought together.

Identifying stylizations in ethnically salient talk among disc jockeys

2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather B. Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Acoustic Analysis ◽  
Reported Speech ◽  
Linguistic Style ◽  
Radio Program ◽  
Artistic Representation ◽  
Acoustic Analyses ◽  
Analytical Category ◽  
Interactional Discourse

AbstractBefore accepting claims of the function of linguistic stylization, it is imperative that we are certain of what we are examining. Mikhail Bakhtin's widely cited definition that stylization is an “artistic representation of another's linguistic style” (1986:362) leaves unclear what counts as “artistic,” making identifying stylizations simultaneously intuitively obvious and empirically illusive. Drawing from 270 hours of data from a radio program, the current study uses interactional discourse and acoustic analyses to compare one disc jockey's exaggerations of ethnically salient accents (stylizations) with his mundane use of reported speech. The analyses demonstrate that in both types of talk he uses a similar bundle of interactional and acoustic resources to design his talk as belonging to someone else. The link between reported and stylized speech places stylizations in an analytical category distinct from that of crossing and its issues of language ownership. The pertinent questions are those of speaker responsibility. (Crossing, stylization, reported speech, discourse analysis, acoustic analysis)*

scholarly journals Crustal structure of Mesozoic rifting in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico from integration of seismic and potential fields data

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. T857-T867 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mei Liu ◽  
Irina Filina ◽  
Paul Mann
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Crustal Structure ◽  
Late Jurassic ◽  
Phase 1 ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
High Density ◽  
Magnetic Data ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Gravity And Magnetic ◽  
Northeastern Gulf Of Mexico

We have investigated the crustal structure of a 400 km wide zone of thinned continental crust in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico (GOM) using gravity and magnetic modeling along two deeply penetrated seismic transects. Using this approach, we identify two zones of prominent, southward-dipping reflectors associated with 7–10 km thick, dense, and highly magnetic material. Previous workers have interpreted the zones as either coarse clastic redbeds of Mesozoic age that are tilted within half-grabens or seaward-dipping reflectors of magmatic origin. Both seismic reflection lines reveal a 10 km thick and 67 km wide northern zone of high density near the Florida coastline beneath the Apalachicola rift (AR). The southern zone of high density occurs 70 km to the south in the deepwater central GOM along the northern flank of the marginal rift, a 48 km wide, southeast-trending structure of inferred Late Jurassic age that is filled by 3 km of low-density and low-magnetic susceptibility sediments including complexly deformed salt deposits. We propose that these two subparallel rifts and their associated magmatic belts formed in the following sequence: (1) AR formed during Triassic-early Jurassic (210–163 Ma) phase 1 of diffuse continental stretching and was partially infilled on its northern edge by southward-dipping volcanic flows; and (2) the similarly southward-dipping southern magmatic zone formed adjacent to the marginal rift during the early phase 2 of late Jurassic (161–153 Ma) rifting of the GOM continental extension; this southern area of SDR formation immediately preceded the formation of the adjacent oceanic crust that separated the rift-related evaporates into the northern and southern GOM. Our integrated approach combining 2D seismic, gravity, and magnetic data sets results in a more confident delineation of these deep crustal features than from seismic data alone.

College disability support offices as advertisements: A multimodal discourse analysis

2020 ◽  
pp. 146144562096692
Author(s):  
So Yoon Kim
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Genre Analysis ◽  
Multimodal Discourse Analysis ◽  
College Community ◽  
Multimodal Discourse ◽  
Disability Support ◽  
Semiotic Resources

This study examined the disability support offices (DSOs) websites of twelve US higher education institutions (HEIs) anchored in multimodal discourse analysis and genre analysis to examine how semiotic resources are deployed to describe DSO services on their websites and to determine the discursive functions of advertisement they perform. The DSO websites were within four clicks from HEI homepages but had inconsistent navigation paths, making it difficult to reach DSO websites. DSO websites were foregrounding promoting and branding the institutions rather than presenting the information about the services offered. This is achieved by using multimodal promotional rhetoric such as: (a) situating accessibility as central commodifiable attribute, (b) promoting the value of accessibility, (c) establishing the superiority of the institution, (d) constructing images of students with disabilities as empowered but dependent upon the DSO, and (e) situating students within a college community. Implications for DSO websites functioning as advertisements are also discussed.

scholarly journals PopNetD3—A Network-Based Web Resource for Exploring Population Structure

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1730-1735
Author(s):  
Javi Zhang ◽  
John Parkinson
Keyword(s):  
Population Structure ◽  
Neisseria Gonorrhoeae ◽  
Population Data ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Web Tool ◽  
Web Resource ◽  
Chromosome Level

Abstract We present PopNetD3, a web tool that provides an integrated approach for the network-based visualization of population structure based on the PopNet clustering framework. Users first submit a tab-delimited file that defines diversity of SNPs across the genome which is subsequently processed by the PopNet backend to define patterns of conservation at the chromosome level. The resulting population structure is visualized through a dedicated D3-based tool, allowing users to interactively examine chromosomal regions predicted to share ancestry. We illustrate the capabilities of PopNetD3 through an analysis of 16 strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae. PopNetD3 is capable of processing population data sets consisting of hundreds of individuals and is publicly available online at: http://compsysbio.org/popnetd3 Last Accessed: May 17, 2019.

scholarly journals Misunderstanding as a resource in interaction

Pragmatics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica S. Robles
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Multimodal Discourse Analysis ◽  
Multimodal Discourse ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Activity Assessment ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
A Site ◽  
A Current

The phenomenon of misunderstanding is a recurrent feature of everyday life – sometimes a source of frustration, sometimes a site of blame. But misunderstandings can also be seen as getting interactants out of (as well as into) trouble. For example, misunderstandings may be produced to deal with disaffiliative implications of ‘not being on the same page,’ and as such they may be deployed as a resource for avoiding trouble. This paper examines misunderstanding as a pragmatic accomplishment, focusing on the uses to which it is put in interactions as a practice for dealing with threats to intersubjectivity: the extent to which persons are aligned in terms of a current referent, activity, assessment, etc. A multimodal discourse analysis of audio and video recordings of naturally-occurring talk inspects moments in which misunderstandings are purported or displayed (rather than overtly invoked) as well as how such misunderstandings are oriented to as simply-repairable references, versus inferential matters more misaligned and potentially fraught. Rather than being a straightforward reflection of an experience of trouble with understanding, misunderstanding may also be collaboratively produced to manage practical challenges to intersubjectivity.

Multimodal Humor in Plenary Lectures in English and in Spanish

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez ◽  
Noelia Ruiz-Madrid
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Plenary Lecture ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Multimodal Discourse Analysis ◽  
Multimodal Discourse ◽  
Semiotic Resources

AbstractHumor is present in most instances of human to human interaction and has often been studied by discourse analysis (Long and Graesser 2009). These studies have taken several perspectives but have often ignored the multimodal aspect of humor even more if the genres selected have been in oral academic discourse. In this paper we focus on a genre that has rarely been studied, the conference plenary lecture. Taking as a theoretical model Multimodal Discourse Analysis (MDA) we look at the semiotic resources employed by two senior researchers: one Spanish, Dr. Jose Manuel Blecua and one British, Dr David Crystal. They were plenary speakers in two different conferences. In their speeches Dr. Blecua dealt with Spanish as a Foreign language and Dr. Crystal with English as a Foreign language. Although there does not seem to have been any point of contact between them, their lectures show a number of similarities especially with regard to the semiotic resources they use in order to produce humor.

A two-step integrated approach to detect differentially expressed genes in RNA-Seq data

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (06) ◽  
pp. 1650034 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naim Al Mahi ◽  
Munni Begum
Keyword(s):  
Simulation Study ◽  
Negative Binomial ◽  
Real Data ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Differentially Expressed ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Rna Seq ◽  
Software Packages ◽  
Treatment Conditions ◽  
Integrated Approaches

One of the primary objectives of ribonucleic acid (RNA) sequencing or RNA-Seq experiment is to identify differentially expressed (DE) genes in two or more treatment conditions. It is a common practice to assume that all read counts from RNA-Seq data follow overdispersed (OD) Poisson or negative binomial (NB) distribution, which is sometimes misleading because within each condition, some genes may have unvarying transcription levels with no overdispersion. In such a case, it is more appropriate and logical to consider two sets of genes: OD and non-overdispersed (NOD). We propose a new two-step integrated approach to distinguish DE genes in RNA-Seq data using standard Poisson and NB models for NOD and OD genes, respectively. This is an integrated approach because this method can be merged with any other NB-based methods for detecting DE genes. We design a simulation study and analyze two real RNA-Seq data to evaluate the proposed strategy. We compare the performance of this new method combined with the three [Formula: see text]-software packages namely edgeR, DESeq2, and DSS with their default settings. For both the simulated and real data sets, integrated approaches perform better or at least equally well compared to the regular methods embedded in these [Formula: see text]-packages.

scholarly journals The value and propriety of reintroduction as a conservation tool for rare plants

Botany ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 91 (5) ◽  
pp. v-x ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward O. Guerrant
Keyword(s):  
Ex Situ Conservation ◽  
Rare Plants ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Conservation Strategy ◽  
Ex Situ ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Conservation Value ◽  
The Third ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
New Locations

Three recent reviews of reintroduction for conservation purposes, which draw on substantial and largely nonoverlapping data sets, have come to strikingly different conclusions about its value. One concludes that “reintroduction is generally unlikely to be a successful conservation strategy as currently conducted”. Another concludes that “…this review cannot conclusively comment on the effectiveness of reintroductions…” The third concludes that there is “strong evidence in support of the notion that reintroduction, especially in combination with ex situ conservation, is a tool that can go a long way toward meeting the needs it was intended to address”. The argument over the conservation value of reintroduction is of more than academic interest. It illustrates a challenge facing land managers and decision makers who may be tempted to act on stated conclusions without thoroughly understanding their underlying assumptions, methodology, and terminology. The differing conclusions can be partially explained by different criteria of what constitutes success, how to measure it, and differing time scales considered. The propriety of reintroduction is briefly discussed and focuses on the following two issues: translocation of naturally occurring individuals to new locations and introduction outside a species' naturally occurring range. Both have appropriate uses but can be used in ways that detract from the survival prospects of taxa.

Discovering Psychological Principles by Mining Naturally Occurring Data Sets

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 548-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Goldstone ◽  
Gary Lupyan
Keyword(s):  
Data Sets ◽  
Naturally Occurring
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