scholarly journals The Mexican albur in ethnopragmatic perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Justyna Tomczak-Boczko
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Background Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Cultural Scripts ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Linguistic Behaviour

The article aims to provide a semantic explication of the Mexican albur, a fight of words, and the discursive practices that it involves. Albur is described here as a cultural phenomenon, a social practice, a speech act, and a linguistic behaviour. Traditional theories of humour are considered inadequate for its description (they are characterised by a multiplicity of categories, vague criteria, and excessive descriptiveness). The author proposes to use the ethnopragmatic approach, with its cultural scripts, i.e. cultural norms, attitudes and background knowledge, common to a given community and reflected in language.

scholarly journals Information psychological war as discursive practice on the pages of fiction

2019 ◽  
pp. 57-71
Author(s):  
Ada Alexandrovna Bernatskaya
Keyword(s):  
Social Criticism ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Material Object ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Philosophical Aspect ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Selection Of

The purpose of the article is to outline the specifics of the discourse of information psychological war on the material of fiction.As a result of consistent interpretation of the key concepts as the basis of the linguo-philosophical aspect of the study, it is concluded that information psychological war as a socio-and linguo-cultural phenomenon responds to all the features and categories of discourse. The object of this research consists in the implementation of the information psychological war subtype, the dominant attribute of which is the material / object of study (a combination of aesthetic function with a number of social ones) and the content heterogeneity of the text as a condition for the potential realization of any discourses in it. The author raises an is sue about the scientific and ethical pro and contra of the research of fiction from the information psychological war perspective. The conclusion is made about the necessity of introducing the factor of “degree” of confrontation / struggle and, accordingly, the study of the fiction for the individual symptoms / features of information psychological war.The conditions and criteria for their establishment in specific practices are formulated.The article presents the targets of information psychological war in the discursive practices studied earlier by the author.In conclusion, the criteria for the selection of fiction texts in the aspect of information psychological war and the criteria for distinguishing information psychological war symptoms from social criticism are summarized.

Can cultural scripts be used for teaching interactional norms?

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Sadow
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Classroom Teaching ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Cultural Scripts ◽  
Teaching Situations

Abstract Improving the teaching of invisible culture is a recognised need in the TESOL sector. While there are both scholars calling for a more nuanced focus in classrooms, and teachers willing to take this approach, there has yet been no systematic approach developed for its teaching. This paper attempts to bridge the gap between theory and pedagogical need by proposing that the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) is a useful tool in ELT through which resources for teachers and learners can be developed. In particular, it will discuss the results of a pilot study into using cultural scripts to teach cultural norms, demonstrate how they can be applied to classroom teaching situations, and discuss how materials can be developed from the theories.

Following the Rules of Discourse

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaroslav Peregrin
Keyword(s):  
General Problem ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Human Language ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Rule Following ◽  
Human Practices ◽  
Normative Dimension

AbstractThis review article discusses Rebecca Kukla and Mark Lance's (2009) book on normative speech act theory and Joseph Heath's (2008) book on rule following, putting them into the context of the general problem of normativity of human discursive practices (and human practices in general). The upshot of the discussion is that while Heath's book advances our understanding of the normative dimension of human life, prominently including human language, Kukla and Lance's one presents a deeply interesting attempt at a framework for the study of discourse taking normativity of language at face value.

scholarly journals #WeareUnited, cyber-nationalism during times of a national crisis: The case of a terrorist attack on a school in Pakistan

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salma Kalim ◽  
Fauzia Janjua
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Terrorist Attack ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
National Crisis ◽  
Argumentative Strategies ◽  
Discourse Historical Approach

Seeing language as a social practice and national identities as a product of discourse, the study intends to analyze discursive practices employed on social media to create the discourses of sameness and difference in times of national crisis. Following the discourse historical approach, I have illustrated how argumentative strategies and topos have been strategically employed to draw boundaries between Us and Them. In this exploration of exclusionary rhetoric, I have also underlined the use of images, memes and hashtags in the meaning-making process. The study illustrates not only the ways in which the discourse of national identities are constructed, but also how the existing pillars of Pakistani national identities have been transformed and dismantled on social media following a national tragedy. By investigating the digital practices and discourses, this study seeks to understand the construction of Pakistani national identities from bottom-up discourses.

scholarly journals A Cross-Cultural Approach to Speech-Act-Sets: The Case of Apologies

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvie Válková
Keyword(s):  
Set Theory ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Language Community ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
Corpus Data

AbstractThe aim of this paper is to contribute to the validity of recent research into speech act theory by advocating the idea that with some of the traditional speech acts, their overt language manifestations that emerge from corpus data remind us of ritualised scenarios of speech-act-sets rather than single acts, with configurations of core and peripheral units reflecting the socio-cultural norms of the expectations and culture-bound values of a given language community. One of the prototypical manifestations of speech-act-sets, apologies, will be discussed to demonstrate a procedure which can be used to identify, analyse, describe and cross-culturally compare the validity of speech-act-set theory and provide evidence of its relevance for studying the English-Czech interface in this particular domain of human interaction.

scholarly journals Irony as a Cultural and Language Phenomenon

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 990-1002
Author(s):  
Anna A. Gornostaeva
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Contemporary Research ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Speech Genre

The article focuses on irony as a multilateral phenomenon, which is the subject of many spheres: history, philosophy, culture, literature, linguistics etc. Different views on irony’s production and interpretation, as well as its development in history, are analyzed. Irony is viewed as a historic and cultural phenomenon, as well as a linguistic one. Irony exists in the sphere of other phenomena - humour, satire, sarcasm, joke etc. These notions are interrelated, they have something in common, yet irony has its own characteristics and peculiarities. It is stated that irony and language are inseparable, irony can function as an utterance, as a speech act and as a speech genre. The aim of the article is to analyze the characteristics of irony in discourse and to determine the conditions of efficient ironic communication. The author argues that irony as a discourse category is a common product of both the speaker and the recipient. Thus, to be effective, an ironic speech act needs proper cultural, social and psychological atmosphere. Theoretical basis is represented by both classical works on the nature of the comic, and contemporary research on irony.

scholarly journals Directive Speech Acts in Aisha Saeed’s Novel Amal Unbound

2021 ◽  
Vol 317 ◽  
pp. 02004
Author(s):  
Amarylis Duta Pertiwi ◽  
Mytha Candria ◽  
Dwi Wulandari
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Linguistic Data ◽  
Illocutionary Acts ◽  
Directive Speech Acts ◽  
Directive Speech

Communication within society comprises diverse linguistic choices influenced by social interaction. This study discusses how structures of utterances and types of directive illocutionary acts pertain to the characters’ qualities and non-linguistic factors in Amal Unbound (2018) by Aisha Saeed. This analysis aims to find out the connection between utterances the characters’ qualities such as age, occupation, education, relationship, social status, and non-linguistic factor like the topic or purpose. The underlying theory used in this study is Bach and Harnish’s directive speech act categorization. This study was conducted using qualitative method since it involves discussion on linguistic data (words, phrases, sentences, and utterances). The result of the analysis shows that the utterances of the novel’s characters are affected by the quality they possess and surrounding non-linguistic factors. In conclusion, understanding illocutionary acts open our eyes of the significance of appropriate uses of language in social practice.

scholarly journals Truth and fake news in the classroom: the sense construction and the discoursive ethics in literacy practices

2021 ◽  
pp. 1219-1235
Author(s):  
Antônio Carlos Santos de Lima ◽  
Lilian Soares de Figueiredo Luz ◽  
Aurineide Profírio Barros Correia
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Discourse Ethics ◽  
Reading Process ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Literacy Practice ◽  
The World

This paper aims to present a proposal of literacy practice, which reflects current and relevant topics such as truth (FOUCAULT, 2014) and the fake news (FONTANA, 2021), from the perspective of discourse ethics (SOUTO MAIOR, 2020). In this proposal, we articulate the reflection on those topics together with the production of a review – a textual genre widely used in the academic sphere. We situate our proposal in the perspective of Applied Linguistics (AL), by focusing on the issue of language as a social practice, which reflects constitutive aspects of society and culture that is crossed by discursive practices built from ideological threads (FABRÍCIO, 2006) and, for this reason, are present in literacy practices. In this proposal we have used the movie called "The invention of lying" (2009), because we could realize this movie as a useful resource that allow subjects to reflect about different aspects which they face in their social context and is related to writing and reading process in the world (LIMA; SOUTO MAIOR, 2020)

scholarly journals The Directness Levels of Criticism: A Cross-Cultural Comparative Study of Korean and American Youtuber

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-119
Author(s):  
Aan Anisah Agustini Safari
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Cross Culture ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Cross Cultural Study ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
The Way

Background: Different countries may have different cultures that are influenced by their religion, traditions, or norms. These differences affect the way they speak, such as when they are commenting or giving opinions. Due to the way people express speech acts can be varied and lead to misinterpretation because of their differences, the researcher was intrigued to conduct this study. Methodology: This cross-cultural study was carried out to observe and compare the speech act of criticism between Korean and American YouTubers and to investigate the role of their cultural background in influencing the directness level they conveyed. First, the researcher selected three Korean Youtubers and Americans as well with food review content. Second, the researcher watched one video from each channel and took notes on every expression of criticism they used. Findings: The result of this study demonstrates that in American YouTubers speech, direct strategy emerges more frequently than the indirect one. Conversely, Korean YouTubers tend to use the indirect one. The finding also indicates that their speech behavior is related to their cultural norms, in which American culture encourages clear personal opinions, while Korean culture is a restraint to express their opinion or feeling clearly. Conclusion: Due to the considerable difference between Korean and American YouTuber speech, it can be concluded that culture takes a significant part in shaping one’s speech behavior. That is why people with different cultural backgrounds may have different ways of speaking.  Keywords: Criticism; cross-culture pragmatic; directness-indirectness.

THE CONSTRUCTION OF PROFESSIONAL DISCOURSE.Britt-Louise Gunnarsson, Per Linell, & Bengt Nordberg (Eds.). London: Longman, 1997. Pp. xiv + 328. $31.15 paper.

1998 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 448-449
Author(s):  
Sara Trechter
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Nonverbal Communication ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Teaching Economics ◽  
Professional Contexts

Most of the 14 papers in this volume were presented at the 1992 conference on Discourse and the Professions in Sweden. The collection focuses on diverse professional contexts and discourses (law, medicine, social work, mediation, teaching, economics, and science) as well as written, spoken, and nonverbal communication in European languages. The papers range from speech-act analyses of legal documents such as wills, patents, and contracts to the sociopolitical critique of the discursive practices surrounding doctors, patients, and the recipients of social assistance. The volume is held together thematically by each researcher's effort to demonstrate how professional ways of speaking are constantly being enacted, reenacted, and adapted in society.

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