Hearer-Oriented Attitude Datives in Social Context

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youssef A. Haddad
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Shared Identity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Levantine Arabic ◽  
Social Acts ◽  
Main Message

This chapter examines the social functions of hear-oriented attitude datives in Levantine Arabic. These are often used to grab the hearer’s attention, especially in such activities as storytelling. In addition, the datives may also be employed by a speaker to anchor the main message of her utterance, along with her evaluation of it, to her hearers and to mark their engagement in an attempt to recruit their empathy, solicit their assent, and/or invoke a shared identity, experience, knowledge, and membership. The chapter analyzes specific instances of hearer-oriented attitude datives as used in different types of social acts (e.g., promises) and in different types of activities (e.g., gossip).

Speaker-Oriented Attitude Datives in Social Context

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youssef A. Haddad
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Shared Values ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Rapport Management ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Levantine Arabic ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Social Acts

This chapter examines the social functions of speaker-oriented attitude datives in Levantine Arabic. It analyzes these datives as perspectivizers used by a speaker to instruct her hearer to view her as a form of authority in relation to him, to the content of her utterance, and to the activity they are both involved in. The nature of this authority depends on the sociocultural, situational, and co-textual context, including the speaker’s and hearer’s shared values and beliefs, their respective identities, and the social acts employed in interaction. The chapter analyzes specific instances of speaker-oriented attitude datives as used in different types of social acts (e.g., commands, complaints) and in different types of settings (e.g., family talk, gossip). It also examines how these datives interact with facework, politeness, and rapport management.

Subject-Oriented Attitude Datives in Social Context

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youssef A. Haddad
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Potential Cost ◽  
Potential Gain ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Levantine Arabic ◽  
Social Acts ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Evaluative Attitude

The focus of this chapter is on Levantine Arabic attitude datives that take the subject of the construction in which they occur as a referent. The chapter analyzes specific instances of subject-oriented attitude datives as used in different types of social acts. It shows that when a speaker uses these datives in representatives (i.e., statements that may be assessed as true or false), she expresses an evaluative attitude toward an event as either unimportant/trivial or unexpected/surprising, based on her familiarity with the subject of that event and her expectations of that subject. When a speaker uses the same datives in directives (e.g., requests), she evaluates the potential cost of the action required by her utterance as minimal compared to any potential gain. All social functions are contingent on contextual factors, including the sociocultural, situational, and co-textual context.

scholarly journals The Non-Aesthetic Aspect of Mangkunagaran-Style Dance: Study From The Perspective of Social Context

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-152
Author(s):  
Malarsih Malarsih ◽  
Usrek Tani Utina ◽  
Moh Hasan Bisri
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Culture ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Aesthetic Aspect ◽  
Data Validity ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This study aims at analyzing the non-aesthetic aspect of Mangkunagaran-style dance from the perspective of its social context. The method employed in the study is interpretative-descriptive qualitative. The approach used social culture to analyze the perspectives. The research was conducted in Pura Mangkunagaran, with the focus of research lies on the non-aesthetic aspect of Mangkunagaran-style dance taken from the perspective of its social context. Techniques for collecting data was an observation, interview, and documentation study. The data validity mainly used data triangulation. Results show that from the perspective of social context, the Mangkunagaran-style dance is divided into four major social functions, i.e., the social order for integration, the function of expression, the function of entertainment, and the function of Psychiatric, Aesthetic, and Economic. These for main social functions are taken part in the existence of Mangkunagaran-style dance in Pura Mangkunagaran and wider communities.

Sound-Making Objects

2021 ◽  
pp. 289-324
Author(s):  
Ellen Swift ◽  
Jo Stoner ◽  
April Pudsey
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Social Function ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Acoustic Environment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Alarm Sounds ◽  
Shed Light

The chapter investigates a specific functional category of objects of everyday life: sound-producing objects, with a focus on ordinary, simple items such as bells, clappers, and rattles, and their social function and contribution to everyday experience. After an initial overview of the types of artefacts studied and their dating, evidence from a close examination of the objects themselves is set alongside wider knowledge of their use and social context available from visual and textual sources, and historical and anthropological studies that shed light on the social function of sound-making objects. An innovative aspect of this chapter is the use of evidence from artefact replicas regarding likely notes played, and the volume of the sound produced. This directly inform understanding of the possible roles played by particular types of instruments within everyday social experience in Roman and late antique Egypt, for instance whether they were suited to public performance, more individual entertainment and play, or wider social functions such as the production of alarm sounds, and their audibility to different social groups with discrepant hearing capacity, such as young children, or elderly people. Drawing on experimental recording data including the recreation of the acoustic environment within a Romano-Egyptian house, the final section examines how the sounds produced by the objects may have contributed more widely to the creation of ambient environments and collective experiences.

scholarly journals “We believe in democracy…”: Epistemic Modality in Justin Trudeau’s Political Speeches

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 130
Author(s):  
Tofan Dwi Hardjanto ◽  
Nala Mazia
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Epistemic Modality ◽  
Auxiliary Verbs ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Word Classes ◽  
Political Speeches ◽  
Discourse Functions

This article investigates epistemic modality in political discourse. It focuses on modality markers in terms of their word classes, semantic meanings and discourse functions in political speeches. The data were taken from three speeches delivered by the 23rd Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The results show that the markers found in the three speeches are of five different types, i.e., lexical verbs, modal adjectives, modal adverbs, modal auxiliary verbs and modal nouns, with meanings ranging from possibility, probability, to certainty. The markers also indicate the speaker’s commitment whose degree reflects the function in the social context. The speaker’s commitment is divided into three degrees of engagement, each of which serves as a means to be polite, to be diplomatic, and to be persuasive. The findings suggest that Trudeau tends to use reasonable judgment expressions to sound diplomatic and persuasive in his speeches. 

The Unbroken Messiah: A Johannine Feature and its Social Functions

1995 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 428-441
Author(s):  
Bruce W. Longenecker
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Fourth Gospel ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Narrative Approaches ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Biblical Study ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
The University

Two areas of biblical study identified as ‘growth points’ are the sociological and narrative approaches to early Christianity and its literature. Although these two approaches may be the offspring of different departments within the university, they are intricately related: narratives relate to a social context to the extent that they reinforce or subvert socio-perspectives. This project explores the interface of the two, examining one aspect of the narrative of the Fourth Gospel and considering ways in which it might have functioned within the social context of Johannine Christianity. While some literary critics draw high walls around a text to contain the ‘text world’ and keep it from outside contamination, others work on the basis that narratives are often referential, pointing to other narratives and building their own storyline in relation to them in some fashion. The latter approach is the one taken here, as certain points in the Johannine storyline are considered in relation to two important stories within early Christian tradition and within Judaism. The starting-point for this investigation is the feeding miracle in John 6.

Concluding Discussion to Part II

2021 ◽  
pp. 325-334
Author(s):  
Ellen Swift ◽  
Jo Stoner ◽  
April Pudsey
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Multiple Roles ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Everyday Objects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sensory Qualities ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Life Course

The chapter draws together themes in the material studied in Part II; as well as summarizing some of the principal findings from the individual chapters, it examines in particular how the artefacts studied, and the activities associated with them, related to life course stages, and how they contributed to wider aspects of social practice and social experience. The consideration of objects in relation to the life course illustrates that everyday objects were important as a means to inhabit and perform particular roles, especially socialization into roles at the thresholds between different life course stages such as the transition between adolescence and adulthood. Domestic artefact evidence is also shown to illuminate wider aspects of social practice and experience, developing understanding of the social functions and values of the objects, their multiple roles including status display, and the experiences to which they contributed, and achieving insights through the comparison of the different activities under study. The sensory qualities of the objects, and how sensation was important to particular activities, are also explored briefly, as well as the amuletic properties of functional and other artefacts, which may have protected processes and products, as well as users. It is suggested that amuletic qualities included the sounds of objects, as well as their appearance. In this chapter, it is also considered how the dress objects examined in Part I, and the functional material considered in Part II, were integrated together into the wider social context.

scholarly journals Analysis of social factors of the harry potter bullied In harry potter and the sorcere's stone Joanne kathleen rowling’s

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 205-216
Author(s):  
Resti Hartika
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Harry Potter ◽  
Physical Contact ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
The Social

This research aims to analyze to illustrate the kind of bully action that do Dursleys, Draco Malfoy and Professor Severus Snape in Harry Potter. To describe the factors that trigger the Dursleys, Draco Malfoy and Professor Severus Snape take action against bully Harry Potter. To illustrate the social impact of the bully acts committed by the Dursleys, Draco Malfoy and Professor Severus Snape in Harry Potter in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Joanne Kathleen Rowling. The method of the research is descriptive qualitative, which tries to explain about the correlations between author life background and its influence to the literary work produced. Sources of data in this study include the source of primary data and secondary data. Data collection techniques used in this study is a technique to read and record. The measures undertaken to analyze the data is as follows (1) Read the novel Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone works J.K. Rowling. (2) Marking a sentence or a paragraph discussing about the social context associated with the bully action. (3) Analyzing the results about the social context are associated with the bully, the social picture, and social functions and (4) Describe results. After analyzing the social factors that Harry Potter bully (intimidated) in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the author concludes the analysis into three findings: first to describe the type of action undertaken bully Dursleys, Draco Malfoy and Professor Severus Snape in Harry Potter. The types of bullying done of verbal bullying, where the actors perform intimidation through their words to a bully victim. Then bullying involving physical contact between the offender and the victim either directly or indirectly. This type of bullying usually include punching, kicking, slapping, choking, biting, spitting, even destroy the belongings of the victims, and relational bullying (friendship). Second to describe the factors that trigger the Dursleys, Draco Malfoy and Professor Severus Snape take action against Harry Potter bully. Factors child's own personal self, namely anxiety and feeling inferior from an agent, competition is not realistic, feelings of resentment arising from hostility or because the bullies had been the victim of bullying before, and the inability to handle emotions positively. Family factors namely lack of warmth and level of awareness of parents are low on his son, Pattern foster parents who are too permissive so that children are free to take whatever measures are desirable or otherwise. Factors association. Third to describe the social impact of the bully acts committed by the Dursleys, Draco Malfoy and Professor Severus Snape in Harry Potter. The social impact of the action bully among others They have a strong need to dominate and subdue other students and to get their own way. Are impulsive and are Easily angered. Are Often defiant and aggressive toward adults, Including parents and teachers. Show little empathy toward students who are victimized If they are boys, they are physically stronger than most other boys in general.    

Final Remarks

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youssef A. Haddad
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Sociocultural Context ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Levantine Arabic ◽  
Linguistic Phenomenon

This chapter highlights the crucial role that context plays in interaction. It hastens to add that the interplay between context and language use is an empirical issue; that is, the investigation of the social functions of a linguistic phenomenon, include the phenomenon of attitude datives examined in this study, requires a close and systematic analysis of the context in which the phenomenon occurs; thus, the focus on Levantine Arabic. The chapter goes on to delineate the three types of context that need to be taken into account in any sociopragmatic analysis. These are the co-textual context, the situation context, and the sociocultural context. Finally, it underlines the significance of sociopragmatic analyses of the type put forth and employed in this study from a learnability perspective, including foreign language education.

scholarly journals “We believe in democracy…”: Epistemic Modality in Justin Trudeau’s Political Speeches

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 130
Author(s):  
Tofan Dwi Hardjanto ◽  
Nala Mazia
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Epistemic Modality ◽  
Auxiliary Verbs ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Word Classes ◽  
Political Speeches ◽  
Discourse Functions

This article investigates epistemic modality in political discourse. It focuses on modality markers in terms of their word classes, semantic meanings and discourse functions in political speeches. The data were taken from three speeches delivered by the 23rd Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The results show that the markers found in the three speeches are of five different types, i.e., lexical verbs, modal adjectives, modal adverbs, modal auxiliary verbs and modal nouns, with meanings ranging from possibility, probability, to certainty. The markers also indicate the speaker’s commitment whose degree reflects the function in the social context. The speaker’s commitment is divided into three degrees of engagement, each of which serves as a means to be polite, to be diplomatic, and to be persuasive. The findings suggest that Trudeau tends to use reasonable judgment expressions to sound diplomatic and persuasive in his speeches. 

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