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Memes as dialogic action : Structure and response in political communication
Author(s): Răzvan SăftoiuAvailable online: 31 August 2026show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for: show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for:AbstractThe present study re-evaluates internet memes as structured dialogic actions. Based on Weigand’s Mixed Game Model (MGM), it analyses a corpus of memes generated in response to a specific political episode involving the Romanian President in January 2026. Through the analytical lens of initiative and reactive acts, communicative games and subgames, and expectation structures, the study demonstrates how memes respond to prior discourse, exploit communicative silence, and perform evaluative claims within ongoing dialogic exchanges. The analysis indicates that memes function as second-order dialogue: simultaneously reacting to political discourse and generating new communicative interactions within the public sphere.
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The ethnopragmatics of Akan leave-takings and farewells
Author(s): Kofi AgyekumAvailable online: 26 August 2024show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for: show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for:AbstractThe paper examines leave-takings and farewells as linguistic routines in Akan. It emerged from my previous works on ethnopragmatics of Akan linguistic routines, namely apology, requests, greetings, thanking, advice, compliments, etc. This paper adopted Weigand’s (2010) Mixed Game Model, which deals with dialogic action games. It employs qualitative approaches including interviews, observation, and the recording of natural ethnographic events in the Akan society. These include closings and farewells at funerals, durbars, visits, travelling, arbitrations, folksongs, etc. The paper discusses the ethnosemantics of the leave-takings and farewell expressions. The findings of this paper will contribute to the use of dialogic action games in discussing other linguistic routines. This study will help further research in leave-taking and farewell in other Ghanaian languages.
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Language usage in the field of health care
Author(s): Marion GreinAvailable online: 11 July 2024show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for: show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for:AbstractWithin the last 15 years, more than 2.5 million “migrants” attended special language courses [so-called integration courses] in Germany. In the last three years “vocational language courses” increased, especially courses in the field of health care. The aim of the article is to show that language analysis in accordance with Edda Weigand’s MGM can help to get a better insight into language usage, needed especially in the field of health care. By means of analysing one specific medical dialogue, the need for seeing language use as intercultural use will be discussed.
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