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Self-reported irony and psychosocial factors : A cross-sectional study
Available online: 09 April 2025More LessAbstractThe current study examines individual differences in self-reported irony use in a sample of 151 young adult females in Poland (Mage = 22.19; SD = 2.17). In addition to self-reported irony use (via the Irony Self-Report Scale, a Polish translation of the Sarcasm Self-Report Scale, SSS, Ivanko et al. 2004), we analyzed Big Five personality traits (Ten-Item Personality Inventory, Gosling et al. 2003), humor styles (The Humor Styles Questionnaire, Martin et al., 2003), and self-reported social media use, frequency of face-to-face interactions, and the number of siblings. Self-reported irony use was partially predicted by the personality trait of agreeableness and by three humor styles — aggressive, self-defeating and self-enhancing. Among the other variables, only the number of siblings proved to be a significant predictor of self-reported irony use. Overall, our results add to the emerging literature on individual differences in irony use.
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The realization of apologies in a second language
Author(s): Vasfiye GeçkinAvailable online: 14 February 2025More LessAbstractThis study examines intercultural pragmatic competence in the way advanced Turkish learners of English realize the act of apologizing in English. The data were obtained from six dialogic scenarios of apologies that the students acted out in class. The main objective was to explore role of gender and directness in the use of apology strategies (AS) in English as a foreign language (EFL) within the framework of the Mixed Game Model. In this dialogic model, the situation-based act-outs were video-recorded, transcribed, and coded either as direct or indirect AS use. The use of illocutionary force indicating deceives as a direct AS and assuming responsibility and offering repair as indirect AS use stood out for both groups. Males were more indirect in their AS than females. The paper concludes that directness, rather than gender, is a key predictor in realizing apologies in a second language.
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Transparent communication in public transit : A cross-generic comparison of dialogic features of Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s website and Instagram
Author(s): Mariasophia FalconeAvailable online: 10 January 2025More LessAbstractThe growing need for sustainable lifestyle practices, both individual and collective, has sparked ongoing debates on environmental and social sustainability. Public transit plays a key role in these discussions, for its capability to meet both (Mattioli 2016; Miller et al. 2016). Recently, public bodies have successfully used participatory web tools, such as social media and websites, to promote services and engage users. This approach has fostered increased trust and improved perceptions of transparency by making information more accessible (Criado et al. 2013; Song and Lee 2016). Dialogic features in texts, pointing to interaction between writer and audience (Bondi 2022), can create the impression of transparent communication, thereby showcasing willingness to build an open dialogue. Therefore, this study analyzes dialogic features on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (MTA) website and Instagram, revealing how both platforms distinctively resort to dialogicity to enhance communicative transparency and align with the audience’s expectations.
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Beyond acceptable criticism : Assessing Japanese politicians’ debasing rhetoric
Author(s): Ofer Feldman and Ken KinoshitaAvailable online: 25 October 2024More LessAbstractThis paper utilizes the concept of debasement to examine politicians’ rhetoric in Japan. It focuses on 3,233 questions posed by opposition party members to Cabinet ministers during the 2023 meetings of the Budget Committee in both houses of the National Diet. The analysis identifies debasement comments, examining the linkage between the use of such language and a list of socio-political variables, including ideological orientation, differences in electoral systems, and previous career occupation. From a cross-cultural perspective, abusive rhetoric in Japan might not seem to be an extreme phenomenon, but because of cultural factors even the use of “mild” invective language indicates a clear intention of politicians to debase the reputation of their counterparts in the parliament.
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The ethnopragmatics of Akan leave-takings and farewells
Author(s): Kofi AgyekumAvailable online: 26 August 2024More LessAbstractThe 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 2024More LessAbstractWithin 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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Writing-in-interaction
Author(s): Lorenza Mondada and Kimmo Svinhufvud
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Blogs as interwoven polylogues
Author(s): Marina Bondi
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Indeterminacy in dialogue
Author(s): Carla Bazzanella
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