Subjectivity in Language and in Discourse

416 Pages·2012·10.59 MB·English

by  Nicole Baumgarten

SUBJECTIVITY IN LANGUAGE AND IN
DISCOURSE
STUDIES IN PRAGMATICS
SeriesEditors:KerstinFischer,Maj-BrittMosegaardHansen,AnneBarron
The Studies in Pragmatics series is dedicated to publishing innovative,
authoritative monographs, and edited collections from all micro-, macro- and
metapragmaticlinguisticperspectives.Rootedintheinterdisciplinaryspiritofthe
Journal of Pragmatics, it welcomes not only book proposals from linguistics
proper but also pragmatically oriented proposals from neighboring disciplines
such as interactional sociology, language philosophy, communication science,
social psychology, cognitive science, and information science. The goal of the
series is to provide a widely read and respected international forum for high-
quality theoretical, analytical, and applied pragmatic studies of all types. By
publishingleadingedgeworkonnaturallanguagepractice,itseekstoextendour
growingknowledgeoftheforms,functions,andfoundationsofhumaninteraction.
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FISCHER Approaches to Discourse Particles
AIJMER & SIMON- Pragmatic Markers in Contrast
VANDENBERGEN
FETZER & FISCHER Lexical Markers of Common Grounds
CAFFI Mitigation
ROSSARI, RICCI & Grammaticalization and Pragmatics:
SPIRIDON Facts, Approaches, Theoretical Issues
FRASER & TURNER Language in Life, and a Life in Language:
Jacob Mey – A Festschrift
HANSEN & Current Trends in Diachronic Semantics
VISCONTI and Pragmatics
BARTH-WEINGARTEN, Where Prosody Meets Pragmatics
DEHE´ & WICHMANN
KALTENBO¨CK, New Approaches to Hedging
MIHATSCH &
SCHNEIDER
SUBJECTIVITY IN LANGUAGE AND IN
DISCOURSE
EDITED BY
NICOLE BAUMGARTEN
University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
INKE DU BOIS
University of Bremen, Germany
JULIANE HOUSE
University of Hamburg, Germany
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Series Editors
Kerstin Fischer
University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
University of Manchester, UK
Anne Barron
Leuphana Universita¨t Lu¨neburg, Germany
Consulting Editor
Jacob L. Mey
University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Editorial Board
Diane Blakemore, University of Salford, UK
Shoshana Blum-Kulka, Hebrew University, Israel
Laurel Brinton, University of British Columbia, Canada
Claudia Caffi, University of Genoa, Italy
Alessandro Duranti, UCLA, USA
Anita Fetzer, University of Wu¨rzburg, Germany
Marjorie Goodwin, UCLA, USA
Hartmut Haberland, Roskilde University, Denmark
William F. Hanks, University of California, USA
Sachiko Ide, Tokyo Women’s University, Japan
Kasia Jaszczolt, University of Cambridge, UK
Elizabeth Keating, University of Texas, USA
Sotaro Kita, University of Bristol, UK
Ron Kuzar, University of Haifa, Israel
Lorenzo Mondada, University of Lyon 2, France
Henning Noelke, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Etsuko Oishi, Fuji Women’s University, Japan
Srikant Sarangi, Cardiff University, UK
Marina Sbisa`, University of Trieste, Italy
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ABLE OF ONTENTS
List of Contributors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Introduction
Nicole Baumgarten, Juliane HouseandInke DuBois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Part I IndividualLanguagesand Registers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Super, Uber,So,andTotally: Over-the-top Intensification to MarkSubjectivity
in ColloquialDiscourse
Rachelle Waksler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Collective Aspects ofSubjectivity: The SubjectPronouneme´ıB(‘we’)
in ModernGreek
Theodossia-SoulaPavlidou. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Objectivizing Subjectivity: PersonDeixis andthe Constitution of Dialogic
Identity (with anExampleof German DiscourseData)
GabrieleDiewald andMarijana Kresic´. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Authorial Stance inResearch Article Abstracts andIntroductions from
TwoDisciplines
Phuong DzungPho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Subjectivity inthe Discourse of Depressed AcuteCare Hospital Patients
Helen Tebble. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Part II LanguageContact Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Subjectivity inEnglish Lingua Franca Interactions
Juliane House. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Metadiscourse andthe Construction of Speaker Identities in L2Academic
Presentational Talk
Nicole Baumgarten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
viii TableofContents
SayingWhatYouThink:AnAnalysis ofFrench andAustralian English
Non-Native Speaker Expressionof Subjectivity
KerryMullan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Subjectivity andIntersubjectivity as Aspects of Epistemic StanceMarking
JanusMortensen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Subjective Modality inPersian andEnglish Parallel Texts
MohammadAmouzadeh, Manoochehr TavangarandShadi Shahnaseri . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Part III Cross-Linguistic Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Subjectivity inContrast: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison of ‘I Think’in
Australian English, FrenchandSwedish
KerryMullan andSusannaKarlsson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Hedging inGerman andRussianConference Presentations:
ACross-Cultural View
AnnaBreitkopf-Siepmann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Grammatical, Pragmatic andSociolinguistic Aspectsof the First Person
Plural Pronoun
InkeDu Bois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Subjectivity inAcademic Discourse: ACross-Linguistic Comparison of the
Author’s Presence in French,ItalianandGerman Research Articles in Linguistics
NadineRentel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Authorial Presence andStance inGerman andFrenchLetters toShareholders
Anne Ku¨ppers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Self-Presentation andAdaptationin Institutional Discourse: An Analysis of
German andFrenchIntroductory Rounds of University Seminars
Claudia Scharioth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
AuthorIndex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
SubjectIndex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
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IST OF ONTRIBUTORS
Mohammad Amouzadeh,University ofIsfahan, Iran
NicoleBaumgarten, University ofSouthern Denmark,Denmark
AnnaBreitkopf-Siepmann, Germany
GabrieleDiewald, LeibnizUniversita¨t Hannover,Germany
InkeDuBois, Universita¨t Bremen, Germany
Juliane House, Institut fu¨r Allgemeine und Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft, University of
Hamburg,Germany
SusannaKarlsson, The LanguageCouncilof Sweden,Sweden
Marijana Kresic´,University of Zadar,Croatia
AnneKu¨ppers, Universite´ catholique deLouvain,Belgium
JanusMortensen,TheResearchCentreforCulturalandLinguisticPracticesintheInternational
University, Denmark
KerryMullan, RMITUniversity,Australia
Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou,Aristotle University ofThessaloniki, Greece
Phuong Dzung Pho, Vietnam National University-HCMC, Vietnam and Monash University,
Australia
NadineRentel,UniversityofAppliedSciences,Zwickau;Westsa¨chsischeHochschuleZwickau,
Germany
ClaudiaScharioth, Europa-Universita¨t Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
ShadiShahnaseri, University of Isfahan, Iran
ManoochehrTavangar,University of Isfahan, Iran
HelenTebble, MonashUniversity,Australia
RachelleWaksler, SanFranciscoState University,SanFrancisco, CA,USA