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Language and Dialogue - Volume 11, Issue 2, 2021
Volume 11, Issue 2, 2021
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Text operators as dialogical mechanisms in judgments of the French Court of Cassation
Author(s): Anna Dolata-Zaródpp.: 173–199 (27)More LessAbstractThe aim of this article is to present text markers as a dialogical mechanism in the French language used in a legal setting. The dialogue between the court and the public administration takes place primarily through a judgment’s justification. On the other hand, the dialogue between the authorities and the court takes place in two possible variants: as a response to the parties allegations raised in the complaint or cassation complaint or as arguments formulated in the cassation complaint. Analyzing the decisions issued by the French Cour de cassation, one may notice that this material is characterized by three aspects: intentional, conventional and institutional, as it refers to a set of established beliefs about the nature of the world of a given community.
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A negotiation analysis of risk assessment in community correction from the perspective of exchange structure
Author(s): Chuanyou Yuan and Xing Luopp.: 200–222 (23)More LessAbstractCommunity correction, as a new form of crime punishment towards restorative justice, is being widely practiced in China. This paper, adopting an ethnographic method, explores the exchange structure of risk assessment in community correction by analyzing a dataset of 12 assessments. The study finds that the risk assessment discourse is replete with the informing exchange (formulized as K1^(K2f)) and eliciting exchange (formulized as K2^K1). It further discusses how the canonical structures are invalidated and what variant structures could address the issue. These findings suggest that judicial social workers need to raise their linguistic awareness and offenders need more effective linguistic choices in order to improve the accuracy and effectiveness of risk assessment.
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#StayHome – A pragmatic analysis of COVID-19 health advice in Saudi and Australian tweets
Author(s): Dina Abdel Salam El-Dakhspp.: 223–245 (23)More LessAbstractThe current study aimed to examine how the government departments of health in Saudi Arabia and Australia provided health advice to the public through Twitter during the COVID-19 crisis. To this end, 100 Saudi and 100 Australian tweets were analysed by using Martínez-Flor’s (2003) advice linguistic realization strategies typology and an adapted version of Trosborg’s (1995) coding scheme for internal modifiers. The external modifiers that emerged in the data were also examined. The results showed a general tendency to use direct advice-giving strategies among Saudis and Australians. Statistical comparisons showed that Saudis used significantly more direct advice-giving strategies and external modifiers than Australians while Australians employed significantly more conventionally indirect strategies and internal modifiers than Saudis.
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The types and functions of humor in the work of a United States Senator
Author(s): Angela Cora Garciapp.: 246–270 (25)More LessAbstractThis study investigates the role interactional competence plays in the performance of political roles by examining the use of humor in events such as speeches, election campaign rallies, press briefings and televised news interviews. In this case study of a prominent United States Senator (the late Senator Edward Kennedy), twenty publically available video recordings from the C-SPAN online archives are analyzed using a conversation analytic approach. Two main types of humor were found in these data, self-deprecatory humor and humor that criticizes others. Three main functions of humor were identified (subtle self-promotion, managing challenging political and interactional situations, and creating solidarity with an audience). The results of this study contribute to our understanding of how humor can play a role in doing the work of a Senator.
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Speaker’s verbal behavior and collective audience responses in Korean political oratory
Author(s): Hyangmi Choi and Peter Bullpp.: 271–299 (29)More LessAbstractAn analysis was conducted of the discourse of South Korean political speakers in relation to collective audience responses, based on three situational contexts. Results showed marked contextual differences in the formatting of messages used to invite audience responses. In campaign speeches, explicit (dialogic) rhetorical devices (RDs) occurred most frequently, thereby supporting Bull and Miskinis’ (2015) hypothesis that such RDs are characteristic of political speech-making in collectivist far eastern societies. However, this hypothesis was substantively qualified by findings that (1) in the acceptance and inauguration speeches, implicit RDs were utilized more frequently than explicit (dialogic) RDs, and (2) in those two contexts, it was non-formatted messages that occurred more frequently than either explicit or implicit RDs separately.
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A mural that helped to bring down Jeremy Corbyn
Author(s): Wolfgang Teubertpp.: 300–331 (32)More LessAbstractIn the 2017 elections, the Labour party under Jeremy Corbyn did much better than expected, in spite of being denounced by the established British media for its radical anti-capitalist agenda. To turn the tables, the media then shifted their attack from this political programme to Corbyn’s alleged blindness towards antisemitic manifestations. The resulting loss of sympathy with voters cost Labour dearly in the 2019 elections and brought his leadership to an end. As key evidence for his moral failure to tackle the antisemitism issue, the media cited, in a barrage of pieces, his 2012 comments on a short lived London mural. Was it anti-capitalist or antisemitic? In the absence of any serious dialogue between contrary views, the judgment passed reasserted the underlying media agenda.
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Review of Vasilescu, Constantinescu, Stoica & White (2020): Exploring Discourse Practices in Romanian
Author(s): Domnița Dumitrescupp.: 332–339 (8)More LessThis article reviews Exploring Discourse Practices in Romanian
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Review of Bharat (2020): Shooting Terror: Terrorism in Hindi Films
Author(s): Caius Dobrescupp.: 340–343 (4)More LessThis article reviews Shooting Terror: Terrorism in Hindi Films
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Review of Mel’čuk & Milićević (2020): An Advanced Introduction to Semantics. A Meaning-Text Approach
Author(s): Ștefan Olteanpp.: 344–351 (8)More LessThis article reviews An Advanced Introduction to Semantics. A Meaning-Text Approach
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