The English discourse marker
now has been characterized as a marker of “temporal relations between utterances in a discourse” (
Schiffrin, 1987) and as a “coherence marker” (
Aijmer, 1988). These and ...similar formulations are founded on the notion that discourse markers primarily serve functions related to local discourse coherence. In the present paper, drawing on relevance theory (
Sperber and Wilson, 1986, 1995), I argue that it is preferable to formulate the meaning of the marker
now without reference to coherence or discourse structure. Two possible relevance-theoretic proposals are considered, one (corresponding roughly to a proposal by
Quirk et al., 1985) in which
now contributes to the development of a higher-level explicature, and one in which
now encodes a procedural constraint on context selection. It is argued that the latter proposal has several advantages over the former and is more comprehensive and unified than existing coherence-based formulations.
We analyze public media talk that illustrate Norgaard’s spectrum of climate denial discourse. While these are theorized by Norgaard, our analysis of specific instances of media talk examines how ...speakers enact this spectrum of discourses to justify delay of immediate action on climate change. The analysis suggests there is an evolving public talk on climate where overt denial of climate science is increasingly seen at the political extreme and the more mainstream discourse, described here as an ecomodern discourse, appears aligned with climate science but delays the necessary immediate action to address climate change by among other things using fearful scenarios to argue against disrupting the status quo and appealing to technology to solve climate change.
The study of organizational tensions, contradictions, dialectics, and paradoxes is on the rise in the organizational sciences. This article sets forth an integrative methodology for studying these ...oppositional phenomena by aligning grounded theory techniques with the little “d” and big “D” orientations of organizational discourse analysis. This integrative methodology not only aids in identifying and determining various types of organizational oppositions and responses to them, but also fosters assessment of their potential power effects and micro organizing dynamics. We provide detailed steps for undertaking this integrative methodology, illustrate these steps with an extended example, and conclude with a discussion of new directions for using this approach.
This paper reports the findings of a study of two automatically generated corpora of multimodal digital items user-tagged as 'Black Lives Matter memes' and 'Blue Lives Matter memes'. The central aim ...is to flesh out the memetic trends representing the discourses and ideologies on the Black and blue memescape, which is explored in the wake of the most infamous but interest-generating tragedy in the history of the Blue Lives Matter movement, namely George Floyd's death at the hands of white police officer Derek Chauvin. Studied through a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analytic lens, the internet memes are shown to contribute to the polyvocal political discussion and, with some neutral or ambiguous exceptions, to display a positive (pro-) or - more often - negative (anti-) stance on each of the opposite movements (with anti-BLM items consituting the largest category in the dataset). Also, contrary to the well-entrenched conceptualisation of memes as a type of humour, the majority of the memes at hand manifest no humorous potential. Humour is present mainly among the negative-stance memes, which points to the disparagement of a target as a concomitant of humour in the memes on this serious political topic.
Success in written academic communication depends on the presence of elements related to author-reader interactions which supplement propositional information in the text, help readers reach the ...intended interpretation and shape the author's identity. But is this claim equally valid for online genres? This new environment demands an adaptation of the role of authors, texts, and readers concerning (a) a re-structuring of texts to fit the margins of the screen; (b) a new type of non-linear structure, with no specific reading sequence, which often blurs authorial intention; (c) a new type of reader that does not read in a linear way, but often engages in multi-tasking, is used to processing small chunks of text and often browses without a predictable reading sequence; and (d) a new context of text processing. This chapter addresses these qualities of electronic genres and their implications. For that purpose, 4 different academic texts will be analysed: (1) an academic printed journal uploaded online without variations, Computers in Human Behavior; (2) an online journal, First Monday; (3) several entries of a specialised native discourse on the Internet: Second Life New World Notes; and (4) a popular native online discourse, the technology blog by The Guardian.
There has been increasing interest in the discursive aspects of strategy over the last two decades. In this paper we review the existing literature, focusing on six major bodies of discursive ...scholarship: post‐structural, critical discourse analysis, narrative, rhetoric, conversation analysis, and metaphor. Our review reveals the significant contributions of research on strategy and discourse, but also the potential to advance research in this area by bringing together research on discursive practices and research on other practices we know to be important in strategy work. We explore the potential of discursive scholarship in integrating between significant theoretical domains (sensemaking, power, and sociomateriality), and realms of analysis (institutional, organizational, and the episodic), relevant to strategy scholarship. This allows us to place the papers published in this special issue on Strategy as Discourse: Its Significance, Challenges, and Future Directions among the body of knowledge accumulated thus far, and to suggest a way forward for future scholarship.
In 2014, U.S. president Barack Obama announced a White House Task Force to Protect Students From Sexual Assault, noting that "1 in 5 women on college campuses has been sexually assaulted during their ...time there." Since then, this one-in-five statistic has permeated public discourse. It is frequently reported, but some commentators have criticized it as exaggerated. Here, we address the question, "What percentage of women are sexually assaulted while in college?" After discussing definitions of sexual assault, we systematically review available data, focusing on studies that used large, representative samples of female undergraduates and multiple behaviorally specific questions. We conclude that one in five is a reasonably accurate average across women and campuses. We also review studies that are inappropriately cited as either supporting or debunking the one-in-five statistic; we explain why they do not adequately address this question. We identify and evaluate several assumptions implicit in the public discourse (e.g., the assumption that college students are at greater risk than nonstudents). Given the empirical support for the one-in-five statistic, we suggest that the controversy occurs because of misunderstandings about studies' methods and results and because this topic has implications for gender relations, power, and sexuality; this controversy is ultimately about values.
The article describes the results of the analysis of the institutional type of discourse – the administrative discourse – in terms of its typology. The study highlights four types of administrative ...discourse with a descending status vector. The first part of the article is a consideration of the discourse from the perspective of its relatedness to the institutional type, descending and ascending forms of communication, defining its specific features. The essential features of the administrative discourse are defined as follows: the protocoling, the primacy of law in the assessment, the functionality of the communication nature. In the second part of the work in accordance with the field principle the types of administrative discourse are selected and described: consultative, regulatory, evaluative and controlling, which is possible due to the verbalization of speech genres groups united by similar features. The given types of discourse have several common characteristics: a descending status vector of the sender, documenting, and the legitimacy of communication. Accordingly, 4 groups of speech genres were considered: polylogue genres of consultative discourse type, suggesting a collective speech activity; genres- motives for regulatory type, carrying out the regulatory function; assessment genres for the evaluative type of discourse with the aim of public rendering of the positive or negative evaluation; genres typical for controlling administrative discourse in order to monitor all of the above communications.
Partículas discursivas y prosodia Hidalgo, Antonio; Briz Gómez, Antonio
Spanish in context,
12/2023, Letnik:
20, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Abstracta ¿Sabes? y ¿entiendes? son partículas discursivas de control del contacto que desempeñan una función fático-apelativa, en mayor o menor medida fática o apelativa, a la que se añade ya sea ...como valor principal o subsidiario un valor modalizador, intensificador y, ocasionalmente, atenuante. En su descripción se subraya a menudo la importancia de la prosodia como rasgo determinante para establecer su función, pero son pocos los estudios que analizan de forma exhaustiva dicho comportamiento prosódico. Nuestra hipótesis de partida es que la diversidad funcional de estos marcadores va asociada a su versatilidad prosódica en virtud, entre otros factores, de la posición que ocupan en el discurso, atendiendo al modelo de unidades del discurso oral del Grupo Val.Es.Co. ( Grupo Val.Es.Co. 2014 ). Analizamos así su realización prosódica para poder llegar a establecer tendencias de regularidad que enriquezcan su descripción: se trata de una propuesta que aúna los criterios funcional, posicional y prosódico.
Dede Korkut Kitabi üzerine dilcilik sahasında yapılan araştırmalar, çoğunlukla, daha önceki araştırmacılar tarafından yanlış okunduğu düşünülen sözcüklerin yorumlanması/düzeltilmesi veya müstensih ...hatalarının tespit edilmesi gibi metnin doğruya en yakın okunuşuna ve yeniden kurulmasına yönelik çalışmalara dayanmaktadır. Bu tür çalışmalar, eserin hatalardan arındırılmış ve kusursuza en yakın şeklinin tasarlanması/kurulması için gereklidir. Ancak bu yapılırken eserle ilgili diğer düzeylerdeki çalışmaların geri plana itilmemesi, metin üzerinde çeşitli dil içi veya dil ötesi çalışmaların da gerçekleştirilmesi gerekmektedir. Bu sayede, eserle ilişkili daha fazla ayrıntıya ulaşma imkânı doğacak ve metnin yazıldığı dönem, şartlar, metnin estetik/edebi değeri, ayrıca üst yapısıyla ilgili diğer pek çok husus daha iyi anlaşılacaktır. Bu çalışmada, daha çok konuşma dilinin bir özelliği olarak şekillenip ortaya çıkan söylem belirleyiciler üzerinde durulduktan sonra, Dede Korkut Kitabi nda dönemin konuşma dilinin izleri olarak yorumlanabilecek bazı söylem belirleyiciler ele alınıp değerlendirilecektir. Böylece, Dede Korkut metnine konuşma dili odağında yaklaşılacak ve eserin söylem çözümlemesi yönündeki çalışmalara katkı sağlanacaktır.
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