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Suomela-Salmi, Eija; Dervin, Fred

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“…Fewer cross-cultural studies, however, have been conducted on the textual characteristics of diverse cultures as they are presented in national discourses. The advertising (Terlutter et al, 2010; Yoon & Kim, 2021) and academic (Suomela-Salmi & Dervin, 2009) discourses have received a certain amount of attention in terms of the cross-cultural difference on explicitness of expression, but many other types of discourse are still left understudied. This study selects the international diplomatic discourse as the subject to investigate the national-level cross-cultural differences in explicitness of expression with quantitative register analytical methods derived from linguistics.…”

Section: A Dynamic Linguistic Macro-perspective On the Cultural Varia...mentioning

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Culture and Explicitness of Persuasion: Linguistic Evidence From a 51-Year Corpus-Based Cross-Cultural Comparison of the United Nations General Debate Speeches Across 55 Countries (1970-2020)

Shen

2022

Cross-Cultural Research

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The explicitness of expression or persuasion has been a critical subject of study in cross-cultural studies. The majority of cross-cultural comparisons in this respect, however, have been based on questionnaires and surveys. This study seeks to diversify the methods and validate the results with a corpus-based register analytical approach. Based on the United Nations General Debate Corpus (UNGDC) that comprises comparable multi-cultural speeches, a diachronic comparison (1970-2020) is made between the 2518 speeches (altogether 7,090,221 tokens) of 55 cultures from the East (East, South, and Southeast Asia) and the West (European Union, North America, and Australia) on the dimension ‘explicitness of persuasion’, a synthesized variable operationalized with 6 linguistic features, with the register analytical framework of Multi-Dimensional Analysis (MDA). The potential impacts of the political contexts on the cross-cultural gap in persuasion explicitness are tentatively discussed with the case studies on China and the United States. The results reveal significant difference between the exemplars from the East and the West on the overtness of persuasion, and the gap is generally narrowing down over the 51 years. The quantitative results provide political-setting linguistic evidence for the relevant findings of Hall, Hofstede, and Inglehart & Welzel, and the narrowing gap between cultures from the East and the West in the explicitness of expression points to an open and dynamic view of cultures. This study may offer implications for further research on the cultural styles of political persuasion.

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Culture and Explicitness of Persuasion: Linguistic Evidence From a 51-Year Corpus-Based Cross-Cultural Comparison of the United Nations General Debate Speeches Across 55 Countries (1970-2020)

Shen

2022

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“…Nevertheless, these two terms seem to be distinct to a certain extent. The former often denotes the discourse of hard sciences while the latter embodies the language used in various disciplines encompassing both hard and soft sciences (Suomela-Salmi & Dervin, 2009). Some scholars view scientific discourse as a particular linguistic register (Lemke, 1990).…”

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Engendering Linguistic Variation in Literary Prose via Scientific Discourse

Zidane¹

2022

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Scientific discourse is characterized by the prevalence of assertive linguistic acts denoting facts devoid of fiction. It is mainly used in scholarly writings to serve scientific, technical or didactic objectives. Nevertheless, it may be found in literary works in their distinct genres including scientific and non-scientific fiction. Consequently, the present article aims at depicting the role and implication of the language of science in literature. It attempts to reveal the authors' manipulation of scientific discourse to denote a sort of linguistic variation within their writings. Various examples were extracted from literary works to illustrate the functional and stylistic variation crafted through the use of the language of science. Discourse analysis was applied to study the functions of scientific language in literary texts. The scrutiny of the mined examples has unveiled that the insertion of scientific discourse in literary prose helps to divulge the characters' register and the writers' stylistic craft.

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« Je commence à devenir plus cool » : retours d’enseignants de langue débutants sur leur imaginaire professoral

Muller¹

2021

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Culture and Explicitness of Persuasion: Linguistic Evidence From a 51-Year Corpus-Based Cross-Cultural Comparison of the United Nations General Debate Speeches Across 55 Countries (1970-2020)

Culture and Explicitness of Persuasion: Linguistic Evidence From a 51-Year Corpus-Based Cross-Cultural Comparison of the United Nations General Debate Speeches Across 55 Countries (1970-2020)

Engendering Linguistic Variation in Literary Prose via Scientific Discourse

« Je commence à devenir plus cool » : retours d’enseignants de langue débutants sur leur imaginaire professoral

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