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A polarity-sensitive item (PSI), as traditionally defined, is an expression that is restricted to either an affirmative or negative context. PSIs like ‘lift a finger’ and ‘all the time in the world’ sub-serve discourse routines like understatement and emphasis. Lexical–semantic classes are increasingly invoked in descriptions of the properties of PSIs. Here, we use English corpus data and the tools of Frame Semantics (Fillmore, 1982, 1985) to explore Israel’s (2011) observation that the semantic role of a PSI determines how the expression fits into a contextually constructed scalar model. We focus on a class of exceptions implied by Israel’s model: cases in which a given PSI displays two countervailing patterns of polarity sensitivity, with attendant differences in scalar entailments. We offer a set of case studies of polaritysensitive expressions – including verbs of attraction and aversion like ‘can live without’, monetary units like ‘a red cent’, comparative adjectives and time-span adverbials – that demonstrate that the interpretation of a given PSI in a given polar context is based on multiple factors. These factors include the speaker’s perspective on and affective stance towards the described event, available inferences about causality and, perhaps most critically, particulars of the predication, including the verb or adjective’s frame membership, the presence or absence of an ability modal like can, the grammatical construction used and the range of contingencies evoked by the utterance.
Bericht über die 19. Arbeitstagung zur Gesprächsforschung vom 16. bis 18. März 2016 in Mannheim
(2016)
Names in competition: A corpus-based quantitative investigation into the use of colonial place names
(2016)
Referentially equivalent toponyms occur very often in colonial and postcolonial contexts. These names are in competition, and this competition is reflected in language use and in changing frequencies of use in large corpora. The main theoretical and methodological assumption of this paper is that corpus frequencies of referentially equivalent toponyms change according to particular patterns, and that the Google Ngram Corpora and Google Ngram Viewers can be used to detect these patterns. The aims of this paper are twofold: firstly, a corpus-linguistic method for investigations into the use of names will be presented, applied, and critically evaluated; secondly, it will be shown that the correlation between patterns of frequency changes and patterns of socio-historical colonial and postcolonial events gives rise to cross-linguistic generalizations, for example, that an increase in public interest in a place strongly promotes one of the referenlially equivalent names, or that in renaming scenarios colonial toponyms in relation to new toponyms remain in stronger use in the language of the former colonial power than in languages of other colonial powers.
In their analysis of methods that participants use to manage the realization of practical courses of action, Kendrick and Drew (2016/this issue) focus on cases of assistance, where the need to be addressed is Self’s, and Other lends a helping hand. In our commentary, we point to other forms of cooperative engagement that are ubiquitously recruited in interaction. Imperative requests characteristically expect compliance on the grounds of Other’s already established commitment to a wider and shared course of actions. Established commitments can also provide the engine behind recruitment sequences that proceed nonverbally. And forms of cooperative engagement that are well glossed as assistance can nevertheless be demonstrably oriented to established commitments. In sum, we find commitment to shared courses of action to be an important element in the design and progression of certain recruitment sequences, where the involvement of Other is best defined as contribution. The commentary highlights the importance of interdependent orientations in the organization of cooperation. Data are in German, Italian, and Polish.
Wenn wir an Sprache denken, dann meist an Grammatiken, Rechtschreibung und Lexika. Sprache scheint demnach in der Form von Regeln und Wissen zu existieren. Dieser Band, der aus der Jahrestagung des IDS 2015 hervorgegangen ist, vertritt eine andere Vorstellung von Sprache: Sprache ist Werkzeug und Lebensform im sozialen und leiblichen Kontext. Sprechen und Schreiben bestehen aus routinisierten Praktiken, die an konkrete körperliche, sequenzielle, mediale und materielle Kontexte gebunden sind und bestimmten Zwecken dienen. Der Bezug auf Objekte und mediale Oberflächen und die leibliche Verfasstheit der Akteure und ihre Situiertheit im Raum sind unhintergehbare Bestimmungsstücke der Verwendung von Sprache. Sprache ist eingelassen in zwischenmenschliche Interaktionen, die sie selbst prägt, aus denen sie ihre Bedeutung bezieht und innerhalb derer sie sich wandelt und neue Verwendungen und Ausprägungen gewinnt.
Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge zeigen Anwendungen und Nutzen des Praktikenkonzepts in unterschiedlichen Feldern der Linguistik, wie der interaktionalen Linguistik, der Sozio-, Text- und Medienlinguistik, der synchronen und historischen Pragmatik und der Literalitätsforschung. Dabei rücken über die Perspektive der Praktiken auch die Schnittstellen der Linguistik zu ihren sozialwissenschaftlichen Nachbarwissenschaften, insbesondere zu Soziologie und Medienwissenschaft, in den Fokus.