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Functions of Language - Volume 8, Issue 1, 2001
Volume 8, Issue 1, 2001
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Falling in love with style: Expressive functions of stylistic shifts in a Japanese television drama series
Author(s): Senko K. Maynardpp.: 1–39 (39)More LessThis study analyzes the emotive meanings of three strategies - vocatives/reference forms, desu/masu versus da verb forms, and the use and non-use of the interactional particle yo -in a particular Mode of Japanese discourse. The research site is a television drama series, Majo no Jooken (Conditions of a Witch), that depicts a forbidden love affair. With the chronological development of the relationship between the two main characters in focus, the stylistic shift observed in these strategies is understood in terms of different expressive functions, and as a means for presenting different aspects of selves. The analysis is conducted adopting advanced methodologies in conversation analysis and discourse analysis. This study reveals not only that emotion is imbued and omnipresent in language and interaction, but also and more importantly, that linguistic strategy such as stylistic shift expresses changing emotions between the characters, and, in particular, that stylistic shift indexes changing degrees of intimacy.
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From difference to divergence: The logogenesis of interactive tension
Author(s): Rick Iedema and Pieter Degelingpp.: 41–78 (38)More LessThis paper considers the tension which develops among participants present at a health planning meeting, and describes the ‘ymbolic violence’ Bourdieu 1991) committed by two speakers on another. The focus will be on the contradiction that arises between bureaucratic discourse which is oriented towards ‘ue process’ and the interpersonalising trend of the talk towards conflict. The paper presents an analysis of around ninety turns of talk, with the purpose of showing two things. First, because the talk is enacted in a formal context and through the bureaucratic register,it is constrained in terms of the ways in which the interpersonal politics can be acted out. Second, the divergence between the speakers’ interactive styles is shown to gradually exacerbate. To be able to bring out this interactive dynamic, the paper provides a ‘ogogenetic’ analysis of the interaction, maintaining an analytical dialectic among levels of language and context. Logogenesis here refers to an analytical perspective which regards the unfolding of meaning in both a systemic (meanings mobilising specific domains of language and not others) and a text-historicising way (meanings ‘evolve’ rom one another in the course of interaction and reinforce or stand in tension with one another).
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Expressing the notion of purpose in English and Spanish instructions
Author(s): Susana Murcia-Bielsa and Judy Delinpp.: 79–108 (30)More LessUsing a corpus of written consumer product instructions in English and Spanish, this paper provides a comparative description of the type and frequency of expressions used to convey the notion of an action’s PURPOSE or its goal. Based on our own observations and suggestions from previous literature, we present eight factors relevant to the choice between purpose expressions in both languages: the semantic relation underlying the purpose expression, the scope of the expression, whether the purpose expression constrains how the action is performed, whether the goal of the action is a process or a product, whether the goal is contrastive with some other possible goal, whether the information status of the goal needs to be expressed, whether the agent of the action needs to be specified, and whether the goal is optional. These features are either involved in the choice of which expression to use, in determining the placement of the expression in relation to the matrix action clause, or both. The paper presents the mappings between these features and the choice and placement of appropriate purpose expressions in each language.
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