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Text & Talk

An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language, Discourse & Communication Studies

ISSN: 1860-7349

Herausgegeben von: Srikant Sarangi

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Text & Talk (founded as TEXT in 1981) is an internationally recognized forum for interdisciplinary research in language, discourse, and communication studies, focusing, among other things, on the situational and historical nature of text/talk production; the cognitive and sociocultural processes of language practice/action; and participant-based structures of meaning negotiation and multimodal alignment. Text & Talk encourages critical debates on these and other relevant issues, spanning not only the theoretical and methodological dimensions of discourse but also their practical and socially relevant outcomes.

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discourse analysis
applied linguistics
pragmatics
sociolinguistics
corpus linguistics
multimodality
genre analysis
communication
professional practice

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Full Length Articles, Short Articles, Systematic Literature Reviews, Review Articles, Forum Discussions, Research Notes.

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Text & Talk was founded in 1981 under the original title TEXT. The journal title was changed to TEXT & TALK in 2006 and Srikant Sarangi has been Editor since 1998.

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Band 43 Heft 6

November 2023

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Frontmatter

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Announcement

Seiten: vii-vii

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Research Articles

26. August 2022

Arabic songs: an affective forum for combating COVID-19 and other insecurities

Rania Habib

Seiten: 733-753

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Like other literary genres, songs can be a successful outlet for achieving certain goals. Using a qualitative and descriptive approach utilizing the stancetaking framework, this study examines the development and use of more than 50 Arabic songs as a vehicle to not only inform the public about COVID-19, but also take affective stances that connect the current distressing situation of the Arab people due to COVID-19 with past hardships and crises. These stances invoke salient sociocultural values that are understood and evaluated similarly by Arab people. Evaluating and positioning the insecurity of the pandemic against insecurities of the past activates the affects and messages of the stance, which align with the evaluations and affects of the listeners. That Arab people from different countries share similar evaluations of their insecurities and invoke similar sociocultural values in response to their dreadful situations is indicative of the co-construction of a shared Arab identity through the sociocognitive intersubjectivity of the stances that are indexed to shared repertoires, sociocultural values, and affects.

Open Access 26. Mai 2022

Aggression in diplomatic notes – a pragmatic analysis of a Chinese-American conflict in times of colonisation

Juliane House, Dániel Z. Kádár, Fengguang Liu, Yulong Song

Seiten: 755-776

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This study examines veiled aggression in diplomatic language use from the point of view of speech acts. More specifically, we examine how the speech act of ‘Tell’ is used to realise aggression in a small corpus of diplomatic notes written between February and May 1844, exchanged between a US American and a Chinese diplomat. Tell, by default, presents a ‘neutral’ informative illocution. However, in contexts of diplomatic conflicts, particularly when a threat is made, realising Tell often helps the aggressor to deliver menacing messages under a veneer of civility. Tell is also often intertwined with other speech acts through which aggression is realised, such as Request and Complain. By modelling the aggressive function of Tell in the ritual genre of diplomatic notes, this paper fills a knowledge gap by studying aggression in a setting in which aggression operates within the boundaries of the ritual frame of a diplomatic genre.

9. September 2022

Are netizens social Darwinists?: Recontextualization of Chinese survival discourse in online discussions about the US-China trade war

Qing Liu

Seiten: 777-796

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Survival discourse has emerged as a prominent theme in online discussions about the US–China trade war on the Chinese social media platform Zhihu. This study undertakes a critical discourse analysis of this emergent discourse by examining 80 answers (totaling 95,753 words) from Zhihu users within the broader context of the invocation of survival discourses in modern Chinese history. An intertextual method was adopted in this study, which helps us to better understand netizens’ arguments in favor of the Chinese government’s tough stance on the trade war with the US and the probable success of this strategy. The analysis reveals the historicity and intertextuality of these discourses, identifies strategies which are employed to support a tough stance on the trade war, and reflects on their implications.

11. Oktober 2021

Note-taking/making as a resource for substantiating advice at a second language speaking center

Eunseok Ro

Seiten: 797-825

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This paper uses conversation analysis as an analytical approach to investigate how a tutor and her students in one-on-one speaking consultation sessions at a university in Hong Kong participate in interview-practice activities using English as a medium of instruction. The study uses approximately 4 h of recordings from six tutoring sessions. In particular, by focusing on how interactional practices are intertwined with the activity of note-taking/making, this paper offers a close examination of the advice-giving activity with the use of notes. The findings illustrate that whether the notes reflect what the student shares during an interview-practicing activity or a Q-A sequence during advice-giving activity, the tutor uses the notes to account for her ensuing advice. Based on the findings, I argue that the tutor’s notes play a pivotal role in grounding her advice during interview consultations at the L2 speaking center.

6. September 2022

Politeness, performance, and pointing: gesture in Chinese reality television

Lysander Schleh

Seiten: 827-846

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This study examines the use of gesture by participants of the reality television show Sisters Who Make Waves. Based on 23.5 h of footage involving 30 participants, the analysis focuses on gestural communication by the female participants, who must straddle a formal/informal communicative environment dictated by the medium of reality television. More specifically, I examine two features of pointing gestures by the participants: social parameters and context constraints. The main interest is how a combination of general cultural norms as well as considerations of the interlocutor’s social status contribute to gesture use. Context constraints and pragmatic concerns are also analyzed regarding the choice of manual or non-manual pointing gestures. These factors are seen to play a strong role in gesture choice. The findings show that the participants are sensitive to these social and contextual variables, especially regarding concepts like saving face, politeness, and friendly intimacy.

30. Mai 2022

Participatory viewers’ engagement with the dual translation problem on the danmu interface: a social semiotic case study

Yang Yuhong

Seiten: 847-870

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This article looks at participatory viewers’ engagement with foreign language video contents facilitated by the danmu interface on a video-sharing website in China. Using the video of the Chinese athlete Sun Yang’s public hearing hosted on Bilibili as a case study, this article investigates Bilbili users’ danmu -based translational efforts and their engagement with the translation problem inherent in the hearing through multimodal discourse analysis, with supportive analysis of individual users’ danmu footprints from a diachronic perspective. Danmu -based viewer activities are approached from the social semiotic perspective and situated in the distribution stratum of the communicative practice of video sharing, with a view to understand participatory viewers’ meaning making processes in their consumption of videos on the danmu interface. The findings show a manifest willingness from participatory viewers to engage with the dual translation problem specific to this case, who submit different kinds of translational inputs onto the video frame in response to the untranslated video and articulate translation-related discourses as prompted by the inherent translation problem in the video. This study contributes to social semiotic discourse analysis of danmu -mediated communication as well as to non-professional translation studies through a focus on novel translation practices emergent in the Chinese context of participatory viewing.

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Journal Impact Factor	0.6	2022, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2023)
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Editorial

Editor

Srikant Sarangi
Aalborg University, Denmark
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Cardiff University, UK

Editorial Assistant

Jean Pietrowicz

textandtalk@degruyter.com

Specialist Board

Johannes Angermuller (University of Warwick, UK)
Paul Baker (Lancaster University, UK)
Malcolm Coulthard (University of Birmingham, UK)
Anna De Fina (Georgetown University, USA)
Anita Fetzer (University of Augsburg, Germany)
Nigel Harwood (The University of Sheffield, UK)
Jacob L. Mey (University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark)
Jan-Ola Östman (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Peter R. R. White (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)

Honorary Board

Aaron V. Cicourel (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Bohumil Palek (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
John Swales (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)

Advisory Board

Stuart Allan (Cardiff University, UK)
Jannis Androutsopoulos (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Karin Aronsson (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Michael Bamberg (Clark University, USA)
John A. Bateman (University of Bremen, Germany)
Monika Bednarek (The University of Sydney, Australia)
Marina Bondi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Ruth Breeze (University of Navarra, Spain)
Richard Buttny (Syracuse University, USA)
François Cooren (Université de Montréal, Canada)
Kira Hall (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
Marjorie Harness Goodwin (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Richard Heyman (University of Calgary, Canada)
Juliane House (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Susan Hunston (University of Birmingham, UK)
Elizabeth Keating (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Helen Kelly-Holmes (University of Limerick, Ireland)
Inger Lassen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Sirpa Leppänen (Jyväskylä University, Finland)
Paul Luff (King’s College London, UK)
Gerlinde Mautner (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria)
Paul McIlvenny (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Lorenza Mondada (University of Basel, Switzerland)
Neal R. Norrick (Saarland University Saarbrücken, Germany)
Sigrid Norris (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)
Paul Prior (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Kay Richardson (University of Liverpool, UK)
Shi-xu (Hangzhou Normal University, China)
Jan Svennevig (University of Oslo, Norway)
Maite Taboada (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Caroline Tagg (The Open University, UK)
Deborah Tannen (Georgetown University, Washington, USA)
Joanna Thornborrow (University of Western Brittany, France)
Crispin Thurlow (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Karen Tracy (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
Theo van Leeuwen (University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark)

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Online ISSN: 1860-7349
Print ISSN: 1860-7330
Typ: Zeitschrift
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: De Gruyter Mouton
Erstveröffentlichung: 1. Januar 1981
Erscheinungsweise: 6 Hefte pro Jahr
Zielgruppe: Researchers in the interdisciplinary field of language, communication and discourse analysis