It's all my fault! The pragmatics of responsibility statements

Bing, Janet M.; Ruhl, Charles

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2007.04.010

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“…In the 2000s, acknowledgments research became more diversified in terms of fields of study and approaches, namely because more contributions came from or were concerned with the field of Linguistics (Bing and Ruhl, 2008;Gesuato, 2004;Giannoni, 2002). Finally, the 2000s and 2010s studies continue to build upon the "reward triangle" concept (Costas and van Leeuwen, 2012;Cronin 2012;Cronin, Shaw and Labarre, 2004;Giannoni, 2002;Roa-Atkinson and Velho, 2005).…”

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Acknowledgment Research Genealogy for Today’s Quantified Academia

Paul‐Hus

2016

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Section: Trends and Prevalent Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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2016

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“…In a study of responsibility statements that appear in acknowledgments in published articles, Bing and Ruhl (2008) identified the semantic value of components. They suggested that the basic formula for statements such as Naturally, I remain responsible for any mistakes still present and The views expressed are solely those of the authors is Acknowledge the convention + Content + Shortcomings + Responsibility of the author + No responsibility of others.…”

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“…Although the rates of use are quite a bit lower than the 50 percent cutoff used by Bardovi-Harlig (2009) and Culpeper (2010), the appearance of the recurring sequences in multiple compliment contexts with multiple users helps to empirically support their status as social formulas, especially for readers who have no knowledge of the language. Other studies that focus on contexts and the formulas used in them include the investigation of statements of responsibility in acknowledgments in academic articles (Bing & Ruhl, 2008) and concessive expressions in business letters (Vergaro, 2008).…”

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“…A second approach to determining how formulas are used is to explore one specific formula. Recent studies in English include conversational disclaimers (e.g., I wasn't trying to be nosey or anything, but I saw the letters on her desk ; Overstreet & Yule, 2001), academic responsibility statements ( Needless to say, all errors and omissions are my own ; Bing & Ruhl, 2008), and So + TIME constructions ( That's so last year! ; Wee & Tan, 2008).…”

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Formulas, Routines, and Conventional Expressions in Pragmatics Research

Bardovi‐Harlig¹

2012

Ann Rev Appl Linguist

101

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This article reviews the recent research on formulaic language in pragmatics from three perspectives: foundational issues, recurrent research questions, and the populations studied. Examination of foundational issues, including definitions and operationalization of the concept of formula in pragmatics, shows the way in which pragmatics understands formulaic language and what it contributes to the study of formulaic language, namely, a strong sense of social contract. Recurrent themes in contemporary investigations include how formulas are used in general and in specific contexts, determining how extensive the use of formulas is, attitudes toward formulas, acquisition of formulas in second language (L2) pragmatics, and formulas in pragmatics pedagogy. The third section reviews pragmatic research according to language community, defined for the purposes of this review as first language (L1; native-speaker communities), L2, cross-cultural comparisons, indigenized varieties, and lingua franca communities. The investigation of formula use by different communities addresses questions of the particular and the universal in formula use and the importance of community and community membership.

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“…Several discourse and linguistic analyses have studied acknowledgements found in dissertations, theses, monographies, and research articles (e.g. [17–19]).…”

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Acknowledgements are not just thank you notes: A qualitative analysis of acknowledgements content in scientific articles and reviews published in 2015

Paul‐Hus

Desrochers

2019

PLoS ONE

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Acknowledgements in scientific articles can be described as miscellaneous, their content ranging from pre-formulated financial disclosure statements to personal testimonies of gratitude. To improve understanding of the context and various uses of expressions found in acknowledgements, this study analyses their content qualitatively. The most frequent noun phrases from a Web of Science acknowledgements corpus were analysed to generate 13 categories. When 3,754 acknowledgement sentences were manually coded into the categories, three distinct axes emerged: the contributions, the disclaimers, and the authorial voice. Acknowledgements constitute a space where authors can detail the division of labour within collaborators of a research project. Results also show the importance of disclaimers as part of the current scholarly communication apparatus, an aspect which was not highlighted by previous analyses and typologies of acknowledgements. Alongside formal disclaimers and acknowledgements of various contributions, there seems to remain a need for a more personal space where the authors can speak for themselves, in their own name, on matters they judge worth mentioning.

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It's all my fault! The pragmatics of responsibility statements

Cited by 6 publications

References 14 publications

Acknowledgment Research Genealogy for Today’s Quantified Academia

Acknowledgment Research Genealogy for Today’s Quantified Academia

Formulas, Routines, and Conventional Expressions in Pragmatics Research

Acknowledgements are not just thank you notes: A qualitative analysis of acknowledgements content in scientific articles and reviews published in 2015

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