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Confronting blackface : Stancetaking in the Dutch Black Pete debate
2020
ecently, the Netherlands witnessed an agitated discussion over Black Pete, a blackface character associated with the Saint Nicholas festival. This paper analyzes a televised panel interview discussing a possible court ban of public Nicholas festivities, and demonstrates that participants not only disagree over the racist nature of the blackface character but also over the terms of the debate itself. Drawing on recent sociolinguistic work on stancetaking, it traces how panelists ‘laminate’ the interview’s participation framework by embedding their assessments of Black Pete in contrasting dialogical fields. Their stancetaking evokes opposing trajectories of earlier interactions and conjures u…
A too ambiguous concept to be taught? : English teachers' notions of pragmatic competence
2013
Tutkielman tarkoituksena oli selvittää englanninopettajien käsityksiä pragmaattisen kompetenssin opettamisesta. Tutkielmassa tutkittiin haastattelujen avulla opettajien ajatuksia pragmaattisen kompetenssin luonteesta, oppijan ominaisuuksista sekä opettajan roolista oppijan pragmaattisen kompetenssin saavuttamisessa. Lisäksi haluttiin selvittää opetetaanko pragmaattisia periaatteita luokassa, ja mitä menetelmiä käyttäen. Lopuksi haastateltavilta kysyttiin heidän mielipiteitään pragmaattisen kompetenssin arvioimisesta. Pragmaattinen kompetenssi on suhteellisesen uusi tutkimuskohde kielen oppimisen ja opettamisen saralla. Sitä on aiemmissa tutkimuksista tutkittu enimmäkseen oppijoiden näkökulm…
Līdzību pragmalingvistiskā analīze
2019
Bībeles stāsti, kurus Evaņģēlijā sauc par līdzību stāstiem vai parabolām ir biblisks žanrs, kas ir pētīts pēdējo desmitgāžu laikā. Šajā periodā šos stāstus sāka analizēt no tekstuālās, literārās, un vēsturiskās perspektīvas. Pētījumi atklāj, ka zinātniska pieeja ir nepieciešama, lai izprastu un izskaidrotu Bībeles stāstus. Darbā tiek izmantots novatoriska perspektīva un divu līmeņu parabolu nozīmju analīze. Semantiskās nozīmes analīzē tika pētīta teksta literārā nozīme, tā atklāja gan parabolu raksturīgās pazīmes, gan lingvistisko līdzekļu un stratēģiju izmantojumu burtiskās nozīmes izveidošanā. Pragmatiskās nozīmes analīzē uzmanība tika vērsta uz pārnesto un konteksta nozīmi. Pragmatiskās …
Diachrony and Neology: Semantic Change, Subjectivization and the Representation of Thinking. The Meaning of the Catalan Verb Esmar, from ‘Setting the…
2015
L’estudi de la neologia és indestriable de l’estudi del canvi lingüístic i, doncs, de la diacronia. Ens proposem ací descriure el procés de canvi semàntic que va experimentar el verb esmar, forma patrimonial del llatí *adaestimare, paral·lela del cultisme estimar. Aquesta recerca es fonamenta en l’aprofitament dels corpus textuals i altres materials despullats manualment. Sobre aquests materials, s’ha assajat l’anàlisi de la subjectivació i de les inferències que proposa la teoria de la inferència invitada del canvi semàntic (= TIICS). The study of neology is inextricably linked with the study of language change and, therefore, with diachrony. The aim of this paper is to describe the semant…
Legitimacy Maintenance After a Corporate Social Irresponsibility Scandal: Lessons From The Parmalat Case
2014
From the organizations’ perspective, maintaining legitimacy in such contexts has been considered relatively unproblematic (Patriotta, 2011; Scherer et al., 2013) as it entails following adaptive strategies and conforming substantially (or even merely symbolically) to the dominant institutional logics (Suchman, 1995; Elsbach, 1994; Scherer et al., 2013). 3 Nonetheless, whilst the implementation of a adaptive strategy to maintain the corporation with its main audiences is a necessary phase, it cannot be considered sufficient to assure the maintenance of audience support. Audiences evaluate competitive advantage and other sources of reassurance that supporting the company is worthwhile from a …
Modernising Labour Law: Re-Shaping Discourse(s) and Text(s)
2012
The European Union establishes minimum requirements in the field of labour rights and work organisation (EC Treaty, articles 136-139). These requirements regard the consultation and information of workers, working hours, equal treatment and pay, insolvency and the transfer of undertakings. Since the 1990s the discourse on the relationship between the EU and member states in the field of labour law has changed significantly and it has been increasingly supplemented by framework agreements between the EU and the actors involved in the labour law dialogue. From this point of view, the Green Paper on Modernising labour law (Green Paper – Modernising labour law to meet the challenges of the 21st…
White Paper on Governance: EU Attempt to Popularize Legal Discourse?
2015
Since the 1990s the discourse on the relationship between the EU institutions and member states in the field of European action has changed significantly and it has been increasingly supplemented by framework agreements between the actors involved in the Community dialogue. In this regard, the White Paper on Governance (Brussels, 25.7.2001 - COM(2001) 428final) contains a series of recommendations on how to enhance democracy in Europe and boost the legitimacy of the institutions. The aim is to modernize European public action in order to increase the accountability of European executive bodies to the elected assemblies and open up the Union's decision-making procedures to allow citizens to …
Discurso de especialidad, discurso especializado o discurso situado?
2018
In a representative problematic, the discourse reflects the behaviour, which integrant may have in a social interaction. The discourse analyses of specific professional communicative situations require observing the linguistic behaviour of the participant from empiric and authentic data (Charaudeau, 2009: 50). This study alludes to the description of specific communicative situations and to the discourse adaptation of the specialized revues produced in a socio-professional context, dealing with the descriptors of selected products, in order to compare the representations of the cocoa and wine descriptions. The suggested lexicographic analysis first explores the different way of defining the…
«Spersonalizzazione e passivizzazione nel discorso giuridico amministrativo. Decodifica del testo e cooperazione. Italiano e spagnolo a confronto».
2008
The article examines the decode processes of the legal and administrative discourse, which user can be both the community, in its heterogeneity, both a private citizen. In particular, in the case of the administrative and of the legal discourse, the required feedback from the transaction comes from the user's linguistic skills implemented by the correct decoding of the normative text and by acting in accordance with the rules imposed. In this way, are established between the State and the citizen-receiver relationships of reciprocity underlying on the correct application of the Grice’s Cooperation maxims. Through the brief analysis on the syntax of the texts found for this work, it was foun…
Harmonization of Communication in Professional Setting
2020
The 21st century has introduced many changes in modern workplaces which have become multilingual and multicultural. The present paper sheds light on selected aspects of workplace discourse, revealing that backstage communication in a professional setting plays a very significant role in establishing and maintaining effective subject-bound transaction and/or interaction between the partners involved in communication. The theoretical framework of the paper is designed to consider recent contributions in professional communication research supported by some seminal theoretical writings on linguistic ecology that explore the role of language in natural interactions that occur among people worki…