Language practices in the construction of social roles in Late Modern English

Pahta, Päivi; Palander-Collin, Minna; Nevala, Minna; Nurmi, Arja

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“…Social roles performance is based on the expectations of the society (Berne, 1980;Biddle & Thomas, 1979;Pahta et al, 2010;Sapru, 2015;Skrynnik, 2019), which determine psychological behavioural norms and rules for speakers. The stereotypical performance of the social role at the verbal level of communication (Soloshchuk, 2006) takes place in accordance with the scenario, which is based on the principles of ecological communication.…”

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Variativity of the Speaker’s Verbal and Non-verbal Behavior in the English Managerial Discourse

Soloshchuk,

Skrynnik

2023

Psycholing.

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Introduction. This paper focuses on the study of the verbal and non-verbal repertoire of the speaker changing his/her social roles in the managerial type of discourse in the psycholinguistic perspective. The ambition of this analysis is to regard the strategies and tactics of the social roles’ performance with the detailed psycholinguistic analysis of the verbal and non-verbal repertoire of the speakers. Taking into account a speaker’s mental representations, sociolinguistic characteristics, interpreted as a speaker’s social status and roles, and the communicative situation itself, the research purposes are to explore the influence of the managerial context of communication on the communicative repertoire of the speaker transitioning from a leadership role to a subordinate one or from a subordinate role to a leadership role; the analysis of the difference in the realization of the communicative strategies by the same speaker performing either a leadership role or a subordinate social role in the managerial discourse also presents the goal of this paper. Methods and procedure of research. The research is carried out on the basis of the analysis of 578 dialogical fragments from film scripts in which changing of social roles by a discursive personality in the managerial discourse is presented. The discursive analysis, contextual and situational analysis, pragma-linguistic analysis, and elements of quantitative calculations are used in the article. Results. The verbal and non-verbal repertoire of the realization of the strategies and tactics for the social roles performance in the managerial discourse are distinguished in the article. Their ratio is calculated in the research in order to display the most efficient ones for the successful role performance. The paper proves that the usage of stereotyped verbal and non-verbal models of communication in the managerial discourse contributes to the realization of the certain social role, and thus, to the achievement of the communicative goals. Conclusions. The hierarchization of status-role relations in the managerial discourse influences the speech repertoire of the speaker. This is reflected in the verbal and non-verbal means of implementing the strategies of dominance and subordination in the managerial discourse. A promising area of the research is connected with the studying of discursive variability of verbal and non-verbal communicative components which provide the social roles’ performance in the intercultural managerial discourse with considering the psycholinguistic peculiarities of the speaker.

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Variativity of the Speaker’s Verbal and Non-verbal Behavior in the English Managerial Discourse

Soloshchuk,

Skrynnik

2023

Psycholing.

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“…In more modern literature, and especially in the contemporary period, code-switching is found in a variety of genres. It is probably closest to oral code-switching in the letters of multilingual correspondents (Nurmi and Pahta, 2012; Pahta et al, 2010; Swain, 2002); in private diaries, such as those of Cardinal Mazarin (Madelin, 1931); and in comic or journalistic prose where it parodies actual modes of speech (Wrenn, 1993). Its continuing prevalence in poetry (Lipski, 1982) is related both to the short unit of composition and its usefulness for stylized or ludic uses of language.…”

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Code-switching and multilingualism in literature

Gardner‐Chloros

Weston

2015

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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Code-switching in spoken modes has now been studied fairly extensively and is better understood at the conversational as well as the grammatical level. However, interest in written code-switching has developed more slowly and is still represented mainly in relation to specific periods, such as the Classical period and the medieval period, where a large number of works have now appeared. Linguists have questioned to what extent the models developed for spoken code-switching can be applied to writing, and a fortiori to literary writing. This introductory article reviews the main types of literary multilingualism and the main functions of code-switching within it. We conclude that there is at least a partial – and not inconsiderable – overlap between the functions of code-switching in spoken and written modalities.

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“…This article uses the framework of social network analysis, originally offered as an explanation for speaker innovation in the ground-breaking work of the Milroys in their Belfast sociolinguistics projects of the 1970s and 80s (Milroy & Milroy 1985). Milroy (1992) extended this approach to historical English sociolinguistics and this model, which views language as social practice, has since been further developed and applied in socio-historical linguistics with considerable success (see Tieken-Boon van Ostade 2000; Bergs 2005; Pahta et al 2010; Conde-Silvestre 2012 and Palander-Collin 2013 inter alia ).…”

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Special issue on sense of place in the history of English

Corrigan¹,

Montgomery²

2015

English Language and Linguistics

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This special issue is concerned with how the multidisciplinary concept ‘sense of place’ can be applied to further our understanding of ‘place’ in the history of English. In particular, the articles collected here all relate in some way to complicated processes through which individuals and the communities they are embedded within are defined in relation to others and to their socio-cultural and spatial environments (Convery et al.2012). We have brought together eight articles focusing on specific aspects of this theme using different theoretical models that offer new insights into the history of the English language from the Old English (OE) period to the twenty-first century. The findings will also be of interest to researchers in the fields of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, English dialectology, lexicography, pragmatics, prototype theory, sociolinguistics and syntactic theory.

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Language practices in the construction of social roles in Late Modern English

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Variativity of the Speaker’s Verbal and Non-verbal Behavior in the English Managerial Discourse

Variativity of the Speaker’s Verbal and Non-verbal Behavior in the English Managerial Discourse

Code-switching and multilingualism in literature

Special issue on sense of place in the history of English

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