Veröffentlicht seit 20. Juni 2012

Lodz Papers in Pragmatics

ISSN: 1898-4436

Editors-in-Chief: Paul Chilton, Monika Kopytowska

Begründet von: Piotr Cap

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Lodz Papers in Pragmatics (LPP) is an international journal committed to publishing excellent theoretical and empirical research in the area of pragmatics and related disciplines focused on human communication, both in everyday interactions and in the media, whether spoken or written, and whether institutional or interpersonal. LPP　editors understand linguistic pragmatics as research area which focuses on the contextual aspects of meaning, which invites interdisciplinary perspective on linguistic data and intersects traditional modules, such as phonetics, phonology, syntax, or text linguistics and discourse analysis.

LPP publishes original peer-reviewed papers and review articles. It aims to provide a comprehensive perspective on today’s pragmatics, integrating diverse research from all over the world and assisting in further definition of the field. Affiliated with University of Lodz, at the crossroads between Eastern and Western Europe, the Slavic and the Anglo-Saxon tradition, LPP is uniquely suited to not only represent current research in linguistic pragmatics, but also provoke confrontation and provide a forum for discussion for researchers rooted in different schools, distant both in theory and geographic space, from Europe and beyond.

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Human communication
Everyday interactions
Media
Contextual aspects of meaning
Phonetics
Phonology
Syntax
Text linguistics
Discourse analysis

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Mai 2023

Öffentlich zugänglich 20. Juli 2023

Frontmatter

Seiten: i-vii

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20. Juli 2023

Various dimensions of expressivity

Mikołaj Deckert, Krzysztof Kosecki

Seiten: 1-6

Öffentlich zugänglich 20. Juli 2023

An integrated explicit and implicit offensive language taxonomy

Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Anna Bączkowska, Chaya Liebeskind, Giedre Valunaite Oleskeviciene, Slavko Žitnik

Seiten: 7-48

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Abstract

The current study represents an integrated model of explicit and implicit offensive language taxonomy. First, it focuses on a definitional revision and enrichment of the explicit offensive language taxonomy by reviewing the collection of available corpora and comparing tagging schemas applied there. The study relies mainly on the categories originally proposed by Zampieri et al. (2019) in terms of offensive language categorization schemata. After the explanation of semantic differences between particular concepts used in the tagging systems and the analysis of theoretical frameworks, a finite set of classes is presented, which cover aspects of offensive language representation along with linguistically sound explanations (Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk et al. 2021). In the analytic procedure, offensive from non-offensive discourse is first distinguished, with the question of offence Target and the following categorization levels and sublevels. Based on the relevant data generated from Sketch Engine (https://www.sketchengine.eu/ententen-english-corpus/), we propose the concept of offensive language as a superordinate category in our system with a number of hierarchically arranged 17 subcategories. The categories are taxonomically structured into 4 levels and verified with the use of neural-based (lexical) embeddings. Together with a taxonomy of implicit offensive language and its subcategorization levels which has received little scholarly attention until now, the categorization is exemplified in samples of offensive discourses in selected English social media materials, i.e., publicly available 25 web-based hate speech datasets (consult Appendix 1 for a complete list). The offensive category levels (types of offence, targets, etc.) and aspects (offensive language property clusters) as well as the categories of explicitness and implicitness are discussed in the study and the computationally verified integrated explicit and implicit offensive language taxonomy proposed in the study.

20. Juli 2023

On metonymy-based lexical innovations in Nigerian Pidgin English and Tok Pisin: A cognitive linguistic perspective

Krzysztof Kosecki

Seiten: 49-70

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As contact languages, pidgins and creoles arise in mixed linguistic environments. Drawing much of their vocabularies from one, frequently European, language and – to a lesser extent – from a number of indigenous languages, they have lexicons that are reduced in comparison with those of their lexifiers. To compensate for the poor lexification, pidgin and creoles create novel polysemy-based extensions of lexical items or develop periphrastic constructions equivalent of the missing lexical roots. Assuming a cognitive linguistic perspective, which emphasizes the role of conceptualization in the construction of meaning and the figurative character of concepts, the paper deals with the lexicons of Nigerian Pidgin English and Tok Pisin, two contact languages representative for the Atlantic and the Pacific – the two major areas of linguistic contact. The analysis focuses on the first of the above-mentioned compensation strategies. It is argued that (i) the expressions borrowed from English and various indigenous languages acquire senses that are absent in English; (ii) the new senses are frequently based on metonymy, which serves as a major polysemy-based strategy of lexicon extension; (iii) most of the novel lexical extensions fall within the metonymic patterns that are well-established in English.

20. Juli 2023

Fear is an illness of the brain. A cognitive account of a novel constructive scenario of fear

Anna Dąbrowska

Seiten: 71-85

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Once we perceive a situation as a danger, threat, or shock, the information about a fearful stimulus is immediately sent to the amygdala, which, being a component of the limbic system, is responsible for fear and anxiety processing, and plays an important role in emotion and behaviour. As the research suggests, the message about a potentially frightening situation can reach the amygdala long before we are even consciously aware of it. Then, the amygdala is to trigger a fight-or-flight reaction, marked by our increased heart rate and respiration to prepare for action (cf. LeDoux 2007). The aim of the research is, first, to account for the most prototypical cognitive scenario of fear through the prism of Cognitive Linguistics (cf. Kövecses 1986, 2015) and supply it with this neuroscientific and psychological knowledge of fear . We learn that in addition to the most common human reactions to fear , i.e. the one of a fighter or the one of a runaway, a modern man reacts to fear by denying it as well as by displacing fear from their subconscious mind. Second, by investigating the novel metaphor FEAR IS AN ILLNESS OF THE BRAIN, we aim to propose a novel constructive cognitive scenario of fear , which helps us deal with this unwanted emotion in contemporary situations that generate fear , e.g. in the era of (post)Covid-19 pandemic (WHO 2021, July 15).

20. Juli 2023

Blending parody: The case of My Corona

Galia Hirsch

Seiten: 87-103

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This contribution is an attempt to integrate the notion of conceptual blending (Fauconnier and Turner 1998; Fauconnier and Turner 2002; and Fauconnier and Turner 2003) and Linda Hutcheon’s (1985) view of parody as a form of repetition maintaining a critical distance, through the analysis of a multimodal Internet meme. The case study chosen is a parodic music video of the Knack’s classic hit My Sharona , showing the absurdity in everyday life during the times of the Covid-19 pandemic. The study is thus based on two conceptual paradigms: Blending Theory and Pragmatic Studies of Parody.

20. Juli 2023

Animals are the homeless: A portrayal of sea ice dependent animals losing their natural habitat. A cognitive linguistics-oriented analysis of chosen climate change awareness raising campaigns

Aleksandra Majdzińska-Koczorowicz

Seiten: 105-124

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The text aims at discussing the verbo-visual means of expression employed in three climate change-related campaigns in the context of their effectiveness. The chosen climate change awareness raising campaigns by two non-governmental organisations, EcoEduca and World Wide Fund for Nature Inc. (WWF), deal with the results of Arctic permafrost thaw resulting in the loss of sea ice dependent animals’ habitat. A cognitive linguistics oriented analysis refers to the theory of metaphor (Lakoff and Johnson 1980, Forceville 1996, Kövecses 2002, 2014), conceptual blending (Fauconnier and Turner 2003), and construal (Langacker 1987, 2008). The visual layer will also be described with reference to a grammar approach to visual communication (Kress and Van Leeuwen 1996, 2001, Machin 2010).

20. Juli 2023

Prototypes in emotion concepts

Paul Wilson, Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk

Seiten: 125-143

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Although we have gained great insight into the variety of cultural influences on emotion concept prototypes from a plethora of studies examining such cross-cultural effects, there has been relatively little academic focus on the nature of emotion concept prototypes within a cultural perspective. Our discussion of the nature of emotion concept prototypes centres on essentialist versus non-essentialist principles. We argue that at a general, decontextualised level, essentialist and non-essentialist principles predict similarity in the structure of emotion concept prototypes. We further argue that context is central in assessments of the nature of emotion concept prototypes from a cultural perspective. Rather than asking how emotion concept prototypes differ as a consequence of how certain influences might vary from one culture to another, a key question is whether emotion concept prototypes vary in different contexts within and between cultures and what this might inform us about the nature of emotion concept prototypes.

20. Juli 2023

“Shut up! Don’t say that! You’ve got to say ḤASHĀKEM!” The pragmatics of Ḥashāk and its variants in colloquial Algerian Arabic

Boudjemaa Dendenne

Seiten: 145-174

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In this paper, the pragmatic functions served by ḥāshāk and its variants in colloquial Algerian Arabic (CAA) are unravelled. Literally, ḥāshāk means “You’re exalted/exempt from X/I distance you from X,” where X is a bad thing or socially/religiously unacceptable act. Its variants include ḥāsha , ḥāshākem , ḥāshāh / ḥāshāha / ḥāshāhem , maḥashākesh , and the verb ḥāsha / ḥāshi . As far as the author is aware, this is the first study on the pragmatics of ḥāshāk and its variants in colloquial (Algerian) Arabic. Two complementary data sets were collected and analyzed: an online survey administered to native speakers ( N = 263) and a corpus of naturally occurring examples gained using an ethnographic method ( N = 172). The findings indicated that the core semantic import (exaltative/excepting/exempting meaning) is retained in CAA and further extended to perform other pragmatic functions: apologetic, appreciative, requestive, concessive, critical, defensive, and sarcastic. These intertwined functions are expected in an array of highly conventionalized contexts. These findings were discussed from an eclectic perspective (e.g., pragmatic reversal, pragmatic markers, politeness theory, and rapport management).

20. Juli 2023

“Face” in retrospective: The use of “thanks” and “to thank” In Old Saxon and Old High German

Valentina Concu

Seiten: 175-198

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Despite being often criticized, the notion of face has recently begun to be applied in diachronic pragmatic investigations on directives, requests, apologies, and terms of address. The present study also uses the notion of face to investigate the use of Dank ‘thanks’, Dankbarkeit ‘thankfulness’, and danken ‘to thank’ in expressions of gratitude in Old Saxon and Old High German, laying the foundations to a better understanding of the speech act of thanking in the history of German. The data suggest that, although the manifestation of gratitude was common, the expressions containing Dank , Dankbarkeit , and danken could mostly be found when the addresser was in a lower social position than the addressee. The same situation was observed when these nouns and verbs were used with the meaning of “to reward” and “to praise.” These findings provide evidence to the claim that the effects of a speech act on the speaker’s or hearer’s face are mostly situational rather than being an intrinsic property. They also suggest that, in strictly hierarchical societies such as the Old Saxon and Old High German ones, addressers would threaten their own negative face only if they were in a lower social position than the addressees.

20. Juli 2023

The emotional strain in community interpreting: Cognitive aspects of direct versus indirect address as observed by interpreters

Przemysław Boczarski

Seiten: 199-218

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In Poland, as in most countries, interpreting (similarly to translation) is a free profession (apart from sworn translation and interpreting rendered by certified translators and interpreters) which does not adhere to any particular prescriptive code or officially accepted regulations. Efforts have been made both internationally and domestically to introduce a set of universal principles or a professional working framework on commercial and scholar grounds (various codes of conduct drafted by organisations worldwide) to standardise techniques and approaches to interpreting with the aim of establishing a set of practices to ensure high quality interpreting. Regardless of the prescriptive nature of such codes or guidelines and the work of scholars, one of the matters that is of essence and still seems open for discussion is the choice of the grammatical person in which interpreters render and relay interpreted messages to their clients. This article presents a short description of what community interpreting is, its place within the interpreting domain, and it focuses on the aspect of direct/indirect address (using first or third grammatical person, respectively, while interpreting), its emotional and cognitive strain which the interpreters experience, and related lexical and grammatical choices they consequently make. The purpose of the article is the identification of possible reasons of such choices on the basis of feedback received from professionally active interpreters (both as full-time and part-time interpreters) in diverse settings: business, community, remote interpreting. The study reveals that the choice of grammatical person depends on many factors, such as cognitive and emotional strain, personal preference, context, client, and, in most cases, it is not dictated by any code of conduct.

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Editorial

Editors-in-Chief
Paul Chilton, Lancaster University, University of Warwick, UK
Monika Kopytowska, University of Lodz, Poland

LPP editorial contact address:
Department of Pragmatics
University of Lodz
Pomorska 171/173
90-236, Łódź
Poland
e-mail: LPP@degruyter.com; mkopytowska@uni.lodz.pl

Founding Editor
Piotr Cap, University of Lodz, Poland

Review Editor
Svetlana Kurteš, University of Madeira, Portugal

Editorial Advisory Board
Johannes Angermuller, Open University, UK
Derek Bousfield, University of Central Lancashire, UK
Robyn Carston, University College London, UK
Jonathan Charteris-Black, University of West of England, UK
Piotr P. Chruszczewski, University of Wrocław, Poland
Alan Cienki, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Seana Coulson, University of California, San Diego, USA
Jonathan Culpepper, Lancaster University, UK
Louise Cummings, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Zohreh R. Eslami, Texas A&M University, USA
Małgorzata Fabiszak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Anita Fetzer, University of Augsburg, Germany
Charles J. Forceville, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Bruce Fraser, Boston University, USA
Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr., University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Rachel Giora, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Cheryl Glenn, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Christopher Hart, Lancaster University, UK
Bob Hodge, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Sachiko Ide, Japan Women’s University, Tokyo, Japan
Cornelia Ilie, Malmö University, Sweden
Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt, University of Cambridge, UK
Adam Jaworski, University of Hong Kong, China
Andreas H. Jucker, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Henryk Kardela, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland
Istvan Kecskes, State University of New York, USA
Dennis Kurzon, University of Haifa, Israel
Michiel Leezenberg, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, State University of Applied Sciences in Konin, Poland
Michael Meeuwis, University of Gent, Belgium
Gabriela Missikova, Constantine the Philosopher University, Slovakia
John Newman, University of Alberta, Canada
Neal R. Norrick, Saarland University; Germany
Wiaczesław Nowikow, University of Lodz, Poland
Manuel Padilla Cruz, University of Seville, Spain
Louis de Saussure, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Marina Sbisà, University of Trieste, Italy
Gunter Senft, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Piotr Stalmaszczyk, University of Lodz, Poland
Marina Terkourafi, Leiden University, Netherlands
Ken P. Turner, University of Brighton, UK
Jef Verschueren, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Deirdre Wilson, University College London, UK
Ruth Wodak, Lancaster University, UK

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Online ISSN: 1898-4436
Print ISSN: 1895-6106
Typ: Zeitschrift
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: De Gruyter Mouton
Erstveröffentlichung: 20. Juni 2012
Erscheinungsweise: 2 Hefte pro Jahr
Zielgruppe: Researchers interested in linguistic pragmatics and other related topics