scholarly journals Birthday, Culture, and Social Media

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2 (20)) ◽  
pp. 86-122
Author(s):  
Marta Dąbrowska
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Lingua Franca ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
The Way

Life in the modern age is dominated by social media. What used to be very much a private affair, like birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, etc., is now celebrated in front of oftentimes the whole world, and not infrequently, through the medium of the language that is not our own. The object of investigation in the present paper is the speech act of birthday wish sent to someone via Facebook. The analysis demonstrates that although the speech act has a universal aim – to show interest in another person and make them feel good, and although in many cases the language of conveying wishes, beside the native tongues, is the same, this notably being English, the lingua franca of contemporary world, the way the wish is expressed may differ markedly from culture to culture, thereby showing the underlying cultural values and norms of the users and of their native language use. The socio-pragmatic analysis presented here focuses on posts collected from personal profiles of British, Polish, Indian, and Armenian users, and investigates, among others, the choice of language, the formulaic vs. personalised character of the wish, and the character of strategies that make the wishes more personally oriented, with the aim to demonstrate visible differences across cultures regarding the way birthday wishes are phrased.

REQUESTING SPEECH ACT OF UTTERANCES IN OCEAN’S ELEVEN BY STEVEN SODERBERGH: A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 410
Author(s):  
Nurul Hasanah ◽  
Japen Sarage
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Parts Of Speech ◽  
The Real ◽  
Syntactic Form ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Actual Use

The term sentence and utterance are made different in terms that the former refers to syntactic structure, while the latter points out the actual function of such a structure in real communication. The same things apply to the terms request and requesting. The first term suggests the structural characteristics of sentence asking people to do something while the second term indicates the real sentence causing people to do something. The first deals with formal grammar while the second deals with pragmatics the actual use of language in communication.This article attempts to see requesting in its possible different syntactic forms as parts of speech acts in Ocean’sEleven by Steven Soderbergh. A pragmatic approach is applied since it uses context as a part of linguistic analysis involving the speaker, addressee, time, location, and genre in the conversation. A syntactic form of a sentence only cannot represent the real meaning of intention.The analysis of speech act of the conversation in the film brings us to an understanding that pragmatics encourage us to comprehend different kinds of setting to achieve requesting as a part of language use. Pragmatics as a branch of linguistics reveals mutual understanding between the speaker and the hearer.

scholarly journals Prospects and Challenges of Afan Oromo: A Commentary

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 606-612
Author(s):  
Tamene Keneni Walga
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Lingua Franca ◽  
African Languages ◽  
Unfair Treatment ◽  
The People ◽  
The Way

Afan Oromo- the language of the Oromo- is also known as Oromo. The word ‘Oromo’ refers to both the People of Oromo and their language. It is one of the widely spoken indigenous African languages. It is also spoken in multiple countries in Africa including Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Tanzania among others. Moreover, it is spoken as a native language, second language and lingua-franca across Ethiopia and beyond. Regardless of its scope in terms of number of speakers and geographical area it covers, Afan Oromo as a literary language is only emerging  due to perpetuating unfair treatment it received from successive Ethiopian regimes. This commentary sought to examine prospects and challenges of Afan Oromo. To this end, drawing on existing literature and author’s own personal observations, salient prospects and challenges of Afan Oromo have been presented and briefly discussed. Suggestions to confront the challenges foreseen have been proposed by the author where deemed necessary. The paper concludes with author’s concluding remarks concerning the way forward.

Emergent Minority Publics

2020 ◽  
pp. 193-209
Author(s):  
Kathryn E. Graber
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Native Language ◽  
The Political ◽  
Discussion Boards ◽  
Geographic Boundaries ◽  
Emerging Patterns

This chapter looks at the political ramifications of native-language media. It examines emerging patterns of media participation in digital contexts, particularly the increasing participation of nonlinguists in linguistic metacommentary. It also looks at the Buryat diaspora's growing presence on internet-based discussion boards and social media. The chapter points out the possibilities that seem to democratize engagement and expand the Buryat public to include members beyond the region. It also mentions how Buryat individuals offer new opportunities to police language use and reterritorialize Buryat belonging within the geographic boundaries of Buryatia.

Language and Humour in Cameroon Social Media

2016 ◽  
pp. 131-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilla Arundie Tabe
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Mobile Telephone ◽  
Linguistic Markers ◽  
Gricean Maxims ◽  
E Mail

This chapter explores language use that incites laughter in Cameroon e-mail, Facebook, Yahoo Messenger and mobile telephone SMS. The incongruity and the incongruity-resolution theory (Ritchie, 1999; Mulder & Nijholt, 2002) and Gricean maxims were useful in the analysis of 270 electronic chats and messages. Results indicate patterns of language that create humour like flouting of Gricean maxims, special repetition of punctuation marks, sound devices, emoticons and hyperbole. Cameroonians employ these humorous linguistic forms for pleasure, intimacy and to maintain cultural values. It was established that the Facebook platform was more hospitable to humour than the others because all the linguistic markers that were detected to generate humour were found in it with high rates of occurrences.

scholarly journals A Socio-pragmatic Analysis of Selected Covid-19-related Utterances

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Acheoah John Emike ◽  
Garba Azika Jega ◽  
Okoh Gloria Onyemariechi
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Linguistic Competence ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
Situational Context ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Linguistic Structures

This study is a socio-pragmatic analysis of selected utterances of interlocutors whose discourse subject is “Covid-19”. In using language, it is not enough to be grammatical; language use should be underpinned by contextual nuances because this is a good way of using language as actions that produce results or effects. Therefore, the analysis of the selected linguistic structures in this study is an investigation of linguistic competence demonstrated through lexical choices and speech act sequencing. The approach explored in the study is discursive and integrative; for example, instead of strictly listing the speech acts performed in each utterance, they are mentioned in terms of how they impinge on the on-going interaction. The study underscores who says “what?”, “how?” and “why?”. Although this study is mainly hinged on the Pragma-crafting Theory, Bach and Harnish’s [1] speech act taxonomy is explored in the classification of the speech acts performed in the utterances. On the whole, the study concludes that the socio-pragmatic use of language is underpinned by the psychological and situational context(s), and produces expected results due to speaker-hearer shared knowledge.

scholarly journals KESANTUNAN BERBAHASA DALAM PESAN WHATSAPP MAHASISWA YANG DITUJUKAN KEPADA DOSEN

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 230
Author(s):  
Enggar Dhian Pratamanti ◽  
Rati Riana ◽  
Sofyandanu Setiadi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Note Taking ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Observation Method ◽  
The Way

<p>A relationship between student and lecturer need communication, whether it is inside or outside a campus. This communication should be in politeness boundaries, although it is uttered in a semiformal situation. The emerge of social media as a result of a technology development affects the communication between student and lecturer. This research examines the speech act and politeness used by student to communicate with his lecturer through <em>Whatsapp</em>. This study aims to describe and analyze the politeness used by student when he communicates with his lecturer using <em>Whatsapp</em> and to describe and analyze the politeness deviation used by student to communicate with his lecturer using <em>Whatsapp.</em> The data source comes from <em>Whatsapp</em> chatting application. The data is the student’s utterance which is used to communicate with the lecturer through <em>Whatsapp.</em> That data is used to collect the information so that it can be analyzed. Technique of collecting data uses observation method, note-taking technique, and interview. Qualitative method is used to analyze the data. Based on the analyses, it is found that there are many of the student’s utterance used to communicate with the lecturer using <em>Whatsapp </em>is not fulfill the politeness value. In that utterance, many politeness deviation were found such as the use of slank, the out of context discussion, the way to deliver intention impolitely, and the inappropriate of using paralinguistic aspect.</p>

scholarly journals POLITENESS, SPEECH ACT, AND DISCOURE IN SASAK COMMUNITY

MABASAN ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Muh. Junaidi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Communicative Action ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Speech Communities ◽  
Negative Face

Politeness, speech act and discourse have become an interest area of language use in context. Attention has been drawn to the universality of politeness strategies across the culture. This study examines the nature of pattern of communication in terms of politeness, speech acts and discourse in Sasak speech community. The subject of the study is 1 Tuan Guru giving religious speech in Sikur village. Participant observation is used as the method of data collection in this study. A video recording was used to collect data. Result of the study shows that reminding and suggesting are not the acts of indicating or threatening addressees’ negative face, but positive strategies used to minimize the threat for addressees’ positive face and negative one as a means of saving addressees’ negative face. These three variables were interrelated to decipher the nature of speech pattern of language use in the Sasak speech community. The notion of face should be analyzed according to norms and cultural values of such acts in different speech communities. Hence, the universality of communicative action and the type of speech act in a given speech community are crucial variable to scrutinize the language use in context

scholarly journals Analyzing Speech Acts In The Pakistani Social Media Scenario: A Gender-Based Comparison

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-44
Author(s):  
Anmol Ahmad ◽  
Fizza Farrukh
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Linguistic Differences ◽  
Twitter Data ◽  
The Status ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Gender Based

Gender studies have been an invigorating field of study under numerous lenses. Such explorations explore the inimitable distinctiveness and resemblance between the two genders. Correspondingly, this study focuses particularly on written communication of Pakistanis. Utilizing Searle’s Taxonomy for Speech Acts (1969) and Wulandari (2014)’s Taxonomy for Speech Act Functions, this research investigates differences and similarities of language use among Males and Females on the online social platforms of Facebook and Twitter. Data comprises of a thousand utterances accounted from selected social mediums. Results reveal Pakistani Males tend to use Expressive Acts often within their language while updating their status messages on Facebook and Twitter; contrastingly, Pakistani Females prefer to employ the Directive and Assertive Acts frequently in their language used in Facebook and Twitter status updates. Furthermore, Pakistani Males utilize the medium for informing their potential audience about various topics. While, Pakistani Females make use of the status messages to achieve multiple purposes, including: informing, suggesting and asserting. Through application of ANOVA, study’s results validate linguistic differences in language use of Pakistani Males and Females. It corroborates the fact that gender-based differences are part of the identity of a person and these are reflected through the medium of language elaborately.

scholarly journals A Pragmatic Analysis of the Discourse of Humour and Irony in Selected Memes on Social Media

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-95
Author(s):  
SAMUEL JOSHUA FUBARA
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
General Theory ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
The Other ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Written Texts ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
Eclectic Approach ◽  
The One

The aim of this study is to examine how memes peculiar to Nigerians on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram employ language to convey humour and irony. Memes can be aptly conceptualized as internet-based entertainment contents principally propagated through social networking and micro-blogging sites which come in varied forms like pictures and written texts, written texts that may or may not be conversational in nature, videos, animations and GIFs. This study adopts a qualitative eclectic approach in its analysis of conversational memes which served as data gathered from Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Guided by the General Theory of Verbal Humour (GTVH), thirty (30) conversational memes were purposively selected for discussion using the guises or forms of humour as the unit of analysis on the one hand and discussions situated within empirical and theoretical postulations on the other hand. Findings from the study showed that all the reactions to the originating posts exhibit some form of incongruity and were also verbally ironical. The nature of the originating posts in line with the speech act classification were also found to be expressives and assertives. The study further revealed that three guises of humour namely sarcasm, witticism and pun were prominent in the reaction to the originating posts with sarcasm constituting the major guise of humour used while also pointing out that users on Twitter use humour more than those on Facebook and Instagram.

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