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Researching Corpus Pragmatics in Irish English
No full textThis Introduction to the Special Issue describes the research background to Irish English Corpus Pragmatics. It also gives a brief overview of the papers accepted for the Special Issue. These papers introduce new approaches to the field of Irish Corpus Pragmatics, allowing scholars to expand their methodological tool boxes in dealing with Pragmatics on the basis of corpus evidence.Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.Technische Universität Dortmund (1006
On Transcendence in Miyazaki's Fantastic Worlds
No full textThis chapter is concerned with the works of Miyazaki Hayao and investigates how transcendence is communicated by his fantastic worlds and characters that are often based on Japanese religions and mythology. These characters and worlds thereby represent Japanese iconography and mythological images, while being created in a way to cater to the modern, global world. Furthermore, they are designed to visualise the transcendent in immanent structures by using specific visual effects, designs, and shapes. By establishing a typology of the portrayal of transcendence in immanent forms, I will show how Miyazaki’s fantastic worlds and characters deal with the difference of transcendence and immanence.Dieser Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit Werken von Miyazaki Hayao und stellt sich vor dem Hintergrund der Nutzung japanischer religiöser und mythologischer Elemente die Frage, inwiefern seine fantastischen Darstellungen Transzendenz verkörpern. Sie spiegeln unumgänglich japanische Ikonographie und mythologische Bilder aus japanischen Religionen wider, während sie zugleich für die moderne, globale Welt entworfen wurden. Die Welten und Figuren sind zudem so charakterisiert, dass sie das Transzendente in immanenten Formen sichtbar werden lassen. In diesem Beitrag wird daher eine Typologie dargestellter Transzendenz in immanenten Formen vorgeschlagen, mit der gezeigt wird, wie Miyazakis fantastische Welten und Charaktere die Differenz von Transzendenz und Immanenz bearbeiten
Directives and Politeness in SPICE-Ireland
No full textWorking from the perspective of Leech's (The Pragmatics of Politeness. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014) modification to Blum-Kulka et al.'s (Cross-cultural pragmatics: Requests and apologies. Norwood, NJ, Ablex, 1989) approach to classifying requests, this study investigates how far impositive directive speech acts are found in spoken Irish English, a variety of English which is well-known for avoiding face threats. The study further investigates how these impositive speech acts are influenced by the genre of the spoken category. In order to do so, this study uses data from the southern component of SPICE-Ireland, a pragmatically annotated corpus of spoken Irish English, and analyses data from six different genres of spoken conversation: Broadcast discussions, Business transactions, Classroom discussions, Face-to-face conversations, Legal presentations and Telephone conversations. These genres are classified in terms of the concepts of 'language of distance' versus 'language of immediacy'. In the data, impositive strategies are frequently found, particularly so in private settings of 'language of immediacy'. In the more public and formal settings of 'language of distance', by contrast, indirect strategies are more prominent.Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.Technische Universität Dortmund (1006
Isn’t There More than One Way to Bias a Polar Question?
No full textI show that speaker bias in polarity focus questions (PFQs) is context sensitive, while speaker bias in high negation questions (HNQs) is context insensitive. This leads me to develop separate accounts of speaker bias in each of these kinds of polar questions. I argue that PFQ bias derives from the fact that they are frequently used in conversational contexts in which an answer to the question has already been asserted by an interlocutor, thus expressing doubt about the prior assertion. This derivation explains their context sensitivity, and the fact that similar bias arises from polar questions that lack polarity focus. I also provide novel evidence that the prejacents of HNQs lack negation, and thus only have an outer negation reading (see, e.g., Ladd in Papers from the seventeenth regional meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, vol. 17, pp. 164–171, 50 ; Romero and Han in Linguistics and Philosophy 27(5):609–658, 67 ; Krifka in Contrastiveness in information structure, alternatives and scalar implicatures, pp. 359–398, 49 ; AnderBois in Questions in discourse, pp. 118–171, 3 ; Frana and Rawlins in Semantics and Pragmatics 12(16):1–48, 17 ; Jeong in Journal of Semantics 38(1):49–94, 40 ). Based on a treatment of HNQs as denoting unbalanced partitions (Romero and Han in Linguistics and Philosophy 27(5):609–658, 67 ), and competition with their positive polar question alternatives, I propose a novel derivation of speaker bias in HNQs as a conversational implicature. Roughly, if the speaker is ignorant, then a positive polar question will be more useful because it is more informative, so the use of an HNQ conveys that the speaker is not ignorant. The denotation of the HNQ then makes clear which way the speaker is biased. The result separates high negation from verum focus, and I argue that it is more parsimonious and has better empirical coverage than prior accounts.Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) (4531
A Response to 'Serving in the Household and the Imagination: The Brontës, Alcott and the Interconnected Roles of a Neglected 'Transatlantic' Female Figure,' by Paula Guimarães
No full textA Response to “Serving in the Household and the Imagination: The Brontës, Alcott and the Interconnected Roles of a Neglected ‘Transatlantic’ Female Figure,” by Paula Guimarãe
The Hull House Women, an International Network, and Chicago's Immigrant Population
No full textThis paper explores the creation and purpose of Chicago's Hull House. It provides an overview of volunteer work by women in the US and addresses the European influence on Jane Addams's idea for Hull House and the various educational aspects and approaches used by the Hull House educators.
Founded, funded, and administered by women, the Hull House settlement is shown as a prime example of the nascent spirit of American volunteerism that epitomized that era. Women were able to participate in the settlement because of the evolving perception of their role in society. It was possible to devote one's life to charity and not to marriage and child-raising. The force of the Hull House residents was to combine their individual skills and strengths to work as a united group of very dynamic and talented women. Education, experience, and exchange were the three pillars of their very successful settlement home. In their efforts to reform and better the living conditions in the rundown Chicago neighborhood, the Hull House women became involved in politics and policymaking. Thereby, they began to have a voice which became louder and louder and could not be silenced
Emerging Research in Australian Studies
No full textAlan Baxter's 2020 novella 'The Roo', which began as a social media joke in response to an article about an aggressive garden-eating Kangaroo, is a slasher-horror, self-described
"gonzo" narrative. Unsurprisingly, gore and conflict are prominent fixtures in 'The Roo', and they quickly form a rhythm, a pattern of violence. The disruptive violence of the text, along with several of its other generative elements, constitute the text’s 'Stimmung'. A reading for 'Stimmung' uncovers the capacities to which the novella can affectively engage with readers, by means of its genre play, performative efficiency, and especially its violent resonances. My close reading reveals the extent to which 'The Roo' takes up and takes on different forms of violence, whether it resonates with Rob Nixon’s conception of slow violence or what Slavoj Žižek refers to as performative efficiency. The novel's cycles of violence put center stage the links between domestic abuse and rural dispossession. The article attunes to and consolidates these conceptions of violence and 'Stimmung' to gesture toward key elements producing presence and aesthetic experience, drawing from the scholarship of Rita Felski and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, amongst others
Politics and the Renaming of Defence Cantonments in the 'Second Republic' in Zimbabwe
No full textLike Kenya, Namibia, and South Africa, Zimbabwe was one of the countries that the imperial mission had targeted to establish as a settler economy. The objective of creating a white settler colony was evident in the entire colonial system, including place naming. Generally, place naming served political functions of declaring power and authority over the entire colony. While white minority rule ended in 1980, it, however, left some symbolic imprints on the cultural landscape of the independent nation, Zimbabwe. Given that colonialism entrenched white identity on the cultural landscape, this article interrogates efforts by the Mnangagwa government, which assumed political office in November 2017, to dislodge Rhodesian memory from the cultural landscape. This article demonstrates that decolonisation is not an event but an ongoing process that political elites execute whenever they want to serve present political purposes. It interrogates the dialectics of political power and remembering the past in Zimbabwe during the aftermath of the military-induced political change of November 2017. The re-inscription of the landscape that the Mnangagwa regime executed specifically targeted military cantonments throughout the country. This decolonisation process was ostensibly done to dismantle white identities from the cultural landscape. However, this article argues that the place renaming exercise served to write back the liberation war legacy into mainstream history, symbolically declared the regime’s political power, and served to legitimise the political status quo. These political purposes had roots in the succession race and the internal party politics within the Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front (ZANU- PF) that preceded the political transition