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Locher, Nancy, April 1, 2014 [Interview]
No full textNancy Locher was interviewed on April 1, 2014, by Devin McKinney about her early life and the first years of her career at Gettysburg College as faculty member and Dean of Women, with focus on her memories of the spring 1971 Christ Chapel production of "Jesus Christ Superstar."Vannorsdall, John W.; Hanson, C. Arnold; Hanson, Jean; Thomson, Dave; Davison, Richard; Smoke, Kenneth L.; Mudd, Samuel A.; D'Agostino, Robert; Shand, John D.; Schaper, Donna; Mott, Kenneth F.; Williams, Frank B.; Sunderman, F. William; McCarney, Howard; Recla, Lawrence R.; Locher, Jack; Jones, W. Ramsey; Hook, Wade F.Carl Arnold Hanson Years
"Can I Be at Risk of Getting AIDS?" A Linguistic Analysis of Two Internet Columns on Sexual Health
No full textRecent global statistics highlight that, out of all new cases of HIV infection, 45% are diagnosed in young people (UNAIDS 2008). Despite a range of new initiatives aimed at increasing young people's knowledge of HIV at the beginning of the first decade of the twenty-first century (UNAIDS 2001), latest figures highlight that such initiatives have not been wholly successful in preventing new infection in young people (UNAIDS 2011). In light of this, the language patterns that young people use when seeking information about HIV/AIDS are investigated. Our focus in particular is on computer-mediated-communication, a relatively under-researched area in the sphere of health communication. Building on previous research (Locher 2006, 2010; Harvey et al. 2008; Harvey 2013), we examine one UK and one US Internet-based, professional, health advice column as sources of advice-information for young people. Despite numerous established health campaigns, young advice-seekers' questions reflect misinformed conceptions, such as the conflation of HIV and AIDS and confusion as to the way in which the virus can be contracted. Our linguistic research gives access to young people's lay beliefs about sexual health and highlights the need to redress such beliefs, with the aim of improving the effectiveness of health education initiatives. We suggest that computer-mediated communication can be one effective medium through which to assess young people's knowledge about HIV/AIDS, as well as effectively disseminating sexual health advice and information by health care bodies
Polite behavior within relational work : the discursive approach to politeness
No full textEver since Brown and Levinson’s (1978, 1987) seminal work, politeness research in linguistics has been thriving. It is only in the last couple of years, however, that alternative ways of looking at politeness have been investigated in more detail and have gained more followers. This paper aims at explaining one of these ways - the discursive approach to politeness - and argues for employing the notion of relational work to move away from a dichotomy between politeness and impoliteness. Instead, it is argued that relational work comprises negatively marked behavior (impoliteness/rudeness), positively marked behavior (politeness), as well as nonmarked, politic behavior which is merely appropriate to the interaction in question and not polite as such. The interactants’ assessments of linguistic behavior with respect to norms of appropriateness in social interaction is argued to be at the heart of politeness considerations rather than knowledge of prefabricated inherent linguistic devices. These theoretical considerations are illustrated with a discussion of non-elicited, written data
Relating at work : facets, dialectics and face
No full textThis article examines ‘relating at work’. Recent theorising in pragmatics has drawn attention to the importance of analysing relations, and yet the pragmatic study of relations is now intertwined so closely with the concept of face (e.g. Arundale, 2010a; Holmes et al., 2011; Locher and Watts 2005, 2008) that it might seem the two are synonymous. In this paper, I review this research from a multidisciplinary perspective, and then report a study on ‘relating at work’ in which leaders and interns were interviewed about their experiences of starting work in a culturally unfamiliar setting. I focus on one dialectic, connectedness–separateness, and report the challenges they described in ‘making contact’. In the discussion section and on the basis of my findings, I argue the following points: (a) relating at work entails a complex web of interrelated facets and ‘smooth relations’ is just one of employees’ relational concerns; (b) Relational Dialectic Theory offers much potential for interpersonal pragmatics; (c) dialectic tensions can occur at the individual as well as the interpersonal/relational levels and an interactional achievement analytic perspective needs to be complemented by an individual perspective; (d) Relational Dialect Theory and Face Theory are complementary to each other and should not be conflated
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No full text[Ergänzungen von Johann Bergmann]Impressum aus Kolophon: "... foelici fine consummatum Basileae opera & impensis Iohannis Bergman De Olpe Kalendas Maiis Anni &c. xcviii."Mit HolzschnittenV.d.Haegen: mit Beigaben von Thomas Beccadelli, S. Brant und J. Locher ; mit Zusätzen von Joh. BergmannDatum gemäss v.d.Haegen: 1.5. - (nach) 1.9.1496Sometimes found with 2 additional signatures, m and n the latter having the date 1 Sept. 1498 (Goff). GW records a variant (Pell 2187B). WoodcutsSignaturen: A-D⁸, E⁴F⁸-G⁴H⁸, I⁴, k⁴, a⁸, bc⁴, d-h⁸, i⁴, k-l⁸, m-n⁴, []
Constructing the identity of an advice-giver in an American internet advice column.
No full textThis paper is a contribution to research on the expression of expert advice-giving (e.g., Heritage and Sefi 1992; Silverman et al. 1992). We present a linguistic analysis of the ways in which the identity of the fictional expert advisor Lucy emerges in an Internet advice column run by professional health educators as part of a university health service. In discourse-analytical close readings of 280 question–answer records, we identify and discuss seven recurring strategies (the advisor's name, self-reference and use of address terms; expert information-giving; giving options and making readers think; the choice of vocabulary; offering opinions; the use of empathy; the display of humor), which together contribute to Lucy's voice as an expert advice-giver if the readers repeatedly access the question–answer exchanges. This emerging identity is in line with the site's mission to provide information designed to facilitate independent and responsible decision processes and corresponds to an ideal of nondirectiveness, as also identified in the literature on other advisory settings (He 1994; Sarangi and Clarke 2002; Vehviläinen 2003). The constructed identity of Lucy thus makes ‘Lucy Answers’ an attractive site to (re)turn to for advice and complements the other services provided by the health educators
Review of Locher, Jucker, Landert & Messerli (2023): Fiction and Pragmatics
No full textAs a dialogic scholar interested in teaching language and communication practices using fiction, I happily approached the 2023 book Fiction and Pragmatics by co-authors Miriam A. Locher, Andreas H. Jucker, Daniela Landert, and Thomas C. Messerli. I was eager to see how others in the related field of pragmatics approached fiction as data, something happening in affinity fields like Communications, Literature Studies, and Sociology in the United States. I was pleased to discover a simple, well-organized treatise that considers fiction through the lens of pragmatics. As part of Cambridge Elements in Pragmatics series, this book is designed to be succinct and authoritative, providing readers with deep comprehensive introduction of fiction and pragmatics. In a slim 66 pages, the authors demonstrate how fiction is appropriate data for pragmatic analysis and outline a methodology for doing so within the context of various types of fiction. Showing not only that literary interpretation can gain insights from pragmatic analysis but also that pragmatic analysis of fiction gives insight to the work of pragmatics itself, Locher, Jucker, Lander, and Messerli have provided scholars in pragmatics and adjacent studies a launching point. Furthermore, this reviewer commends the authors and Cambridge Elements for providing open and free access to this high-quality text, allowing wide scholarly and educational use
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No full text[Ergänzungen von Johann Bergmann]Impressum aus Kolophon: "... foelici fine consummatum Basileae opera & impensis Iohannis Berman de Olpe Kalendas Maiis anni &c.xcviii."Mit HolzschnittenV.d.Haegen: mit Beigaben von Thomas Beccadelli, S. Brant und J. Locher ; mit Zusätzen von Joh. BergmannDatum gemäss v.d.Haegen: 1.5. - (nach) 1.9.1496Sometimes found with 2 additional signatures, m and n the latter having the date 1 Sept. 1498 (Goff). GW records a variant (Pell 2187B). WoodcutsSignaturen: A-D⁸, E⁴F⁸-G⁴H⁸, I⁴, k⁴, a⁸, bc⁴, d-h⁸, i⁴, k-l⁸, m-n⁴, []⁴Digitalisierung=Digitization=Numérisation April 2021 TIF
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No full text[Ergänzungen von Johann Bergmann]Impressum aus Kolophon: "... foelici fine consummatum Basileae opera & impensis Iohannis Berman de Olpe Kalendas Maiis anni &c.xcviii."Mit HolzschnittenV.d.Haegen: mit Beigaben von Thomas Beccadelli, S. Brant und J. Locher ; mit Zusätzen von Joh. BergmannDatum gemäss v.d.Haegen: 1.5. - (nach) 1.9.1496Sometimes found with 2 additional signatures, m and n the latter having the date 1 Sept. 1498 (Goff). GW records a variant (Pell 2187B). WoodcutsSignaturen: A-D⁸, E⁴F⁸-G⁴H⁸, I⁴, k⁴, a⁸, bc⁴, d-h⁸, i⁴, k-l⁸, m-n⁴, []⁴Digitalisierung=Digitization=Numérisation April 2021 TIF
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