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Interactional Entanglements: A Frame Analysis Of Negotiated Identities In Ethnographic Research On The Language Classroom, Mark A. Ouellette
Interactional Entanglements: A Frame Analysis Of Negotiated Identities In Ethnographic Research On The Language Classroom, Mark A. Ouellette
UTA Working Papers in Linguistics
This study examines interactional entanglements that occurred during ethnographer-participant interactions in a language classroom. It draws upon Goffman's notion of framing to analyze how research participants use deixis to position the ethnographer vis-à-vis themselves within classroom speech events. The analysis shows that the teacher and students negotiated identities by appealing to the researcher's allegiances within an underlying judicial trial frame. As a marginal native, the ethnographer is particularly susceptible to others' social positioning, which raises questions concerning the very personal involvement of the ethnographer conducting research in an educational setting. This article underscores the argument that impression management is not …
Speech Act, Evidentiality, And Implicature In The Korean Topic-Construction, Jung Sun Son
Speech Act, Evidentiality, And Implicature In The Korean Topic-Construction, Jung Sun Son
UTA Working Papers in Linguistics
Is it possible to map pragmatic or discourse-oriented features onto the syntax level? The Korean topic marker -(n)un has a contrastive reading that induces conventional implicature, and is closely associated with a modal morpheme that can be regarded as a kind of agreement with evidentials. This paper attempts to represent such pragmatic features (implicature and evidentiality) as being involved in the topic-construction at the syntax level. To accomplish this, the paper introduces a Speech Act Projection (SAP), whose head encodes illocutionary force, and an Evidentiality Projection (EvidP), which is headed by a modal morpheme or evidential marker. The conventional implicature …
We Shall Be Watching You, You're Going To Die, And Other Threats: A Corpus-Based Speech Act Approach, Natalie Raun Carter
We Shall Be Watching You, You're Going To Die, And Other Threats: A Corpus-Based Speech Act Approach, Natalie Raun Carter
UTA Working Papers in Linguistics
Using a speech act approach, this paper examines the similarities and differences between English-language threats made by terrorists and those made by non-terrorists, with a focus on pronoun use and sentence-type. Both groups employ a variety of sentence-types in their threats, but use declarative statements most often. 1st person nominative pronouns occur as subjects of clauses much more frequently than 2nd person pronouns in both the terrorist and non-terrorist threat data. Non-terrorist threats, however, make significantly more use of the 1st person singular nominative pronoun, while terrorist threats use the 1st person plural nominative pronoun more frequently.
Nous And On In Semi-Formal French: Pragmatic Uses Of Institutionality And Distancing, Deborah King
Nous And On In Semi-Formal French: Pragmatic Uses Of Institutionality And Distancing, Deborah King
UTA Working Papers in Linguistics
French linguists have long noted the substitution of the indefinite pronoun on for the 1st person plural pronoun nous, in both formal and informal situations. Studies of informal conversation have found this replacement to be nearly categorical (Laberge and Sankoff 1980; Coveney 2000). By contrast, this study found a much higher percentage of nous compared to on in interviews and speeches with political or business-related themes (roughly 60% nous to 40% on). The data suggest that many speakers use nous and on in pragmatically distinct ways: nous for institutionality, on for distancing. However, nous can underscore institutionality even in potentially …
Magic In Six Dimensions, Jeremiah Farrell
Magic In Six Dimensions, Jeremiah Farrell
Word Ways
A royal flush in poker consists of the ace, king, queen, jack and ten, all in the same suit. Our magic begins by having the spectator choose one of the cards in any of the four royal flushes. This choice could be by random draw or the spectator can merely think of one of the 20 cards. In either case he does not inform the magician of his choice but will write it on a slip of paper for future reference.
"Redun-Dances": Humorous Redundancies, Don Hauptman
"Redun-Dances": Humorous Redundancies, Don Hauptman
Word Ways
For many years, I have archly interpolated into written and spoken communications what I call "redun-dances": redundancies used deliberately for humorous effect.
Deep Acrostics, A. Anil
Deep Acrostics, A. Anil
Word Ways
Acronyms use the first letter of each word of a name. Diacronyms instead use the first two letters of names. While not yet called that, they featured in "Short People" in the November issue. Diacrostics are diacronyms of whole sentences. Unlike aconyms, which usually have to be defined and memorised, diacrostics may be -- and triacrostics often are -- directly readable, especially if the context is known, the language is simple, or the sentence is a familiar quotation.
Front Cover And Publication Information
Front Cover And Publication Information
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue, including a table of contents.
A Poem, J. James Mancuso
Look Back!, A. Ross Eckler
Look Back!, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
In the August 1986 Word Ways, Willard Espy presented a clever poem with its modus operandi explained in the last three lines.
Highly Irregular Verbs, Richard Lederer, Kern Mann
Highly Irregular Verbs, Richard Lederer, Kern Mann
Word Ways
Most English adjectives take on the suffixes -er and est as they journey from their base forms to their comparative and superlative incarnations, as in smart smarter smartest and funny funnier funniest. Some intrepid logologists have created sequences of unrelated words that look like adjectival progressions but aren't.
Hiya, Ed!, Steve Kahan
Hiya, Ed!, Steve Kahan
Word Ways
A collage of colleges is camouflaged within the universe of universities presented in the twenty-question exam that follows. Simply extract a letter from each word in the list, implant another in its place, and scramble the resulting collection of characters to reveal the requisite institute of advanced learning. To wit, ORALLY would become BAYLOR upon rearrangement after "B" replaces one of the "L"s.
Sherlockiana, Dana Richards
Sherlockiana, Dana Richards
Word Ways
Word Puzzles selected from "Victorian Engimas and Sherlockian Puzzles" by the author.
Punk Whiz 12, A. Anil
Punk Whiz 12, A. Anil
Word Ways
Another Pun Quiz. The misdefinitions usually also hint at the actual meanings, as in cryptic crosswords.
Flagging Spirits, Ronnie B. Kon
Flagging Spirits, Ronnie B. Kon
Word Ways
In the February 2010 Look Back! column, Ross Eckler renews his wife Faith's request from the August 1981 Kickshaws for an answer to a riddle from a 1831 British publication. He notes that a year's subscription to Word Ways was offered for the solution, but that it went unclaimed. Apropos of nothing, one wonders whether that means that the offer is still open.
A Christmas Wish, Simon Nightingale, Bridget Nightingale
Arbitrary Words, Susan Thorpe
Arbitrary Words, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
This is a sequel to Unusual Words (Word Ways 2008145) which examines words with single like letters having different pronunciations, thus being represented by different phonetic symbols. Arbitrary Words looks at words with two like bigrams which have different pronunciations and different phonetic symbols. ARBITRARY is one such word, the first AR being pronounced as the A in bath, but the second AR as the AR in arise. Words in which one of the two bigram letters is represented by the same phonetic symbol in both bigrams are not included.
Name Categories, Lacey Echols
Name Categories, Lacey Echols
Word Ways
To begin, write your last name across the top of the grid. You should have enough columns for each letter in your name. For each category in the left column, fill in the cells with a word beginning with the letter in the top row. If duplicate letters appear in the top row, then you should think of two different words for that category. Additional categories could be added or exchanged for the ones below.
Martin Gardner Et La Poesie, Alain Zalmanski
Martin Gardner Et La Poesie, Alain Zalmanski
Word Ways
Celebration of Mind: Gathering for Gardner
Back Cover
Word Ways
Back cover of this issue, including instructions for authors and subscribers.
Acrostic Dictionary Of Wordplay Terms, A. Anil
Acrostic Dictionary Of Wordplay Terms, A. Anil
Word Ways
A bunch of definitive reverse acrostics presented in February ('10-8) included seven wordplay terms, with especially fun ones for logology and logophile. I thought a rather immoderate list of wordplay terms similarly defined might be appreciated by logology fans. Read the definitions first. If they are not clear, then consult the examples, which are given as "answers" if needed.
Letter Height Lipograms, A. Anil
Letter Height Lipograms, A. Anil
Word Ways
lip-marylambs mars wee ewe mar owns a wee ewe; ewe owns a snow over. mars moves cause ewe same sure moves. as mar comes on courses, so ewe comes on. -- a no-no! ewe amuses coursers, roar "ewe on course! eux-eux-eux!"
Dictionary Of American Regional English: Some Transposals, Darryl Francis
Dictionary Of American Regional English: Some Transposals, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
When the American Dialect Society (ADS) was founded in 1889, one of the major goals of its charger members was to do for the United States what Joseph Wright was doing for England in compiling his English Dialect Dictionary. But of course the task of making a dictionary of the dialects of the United States was going to be a lot bigger because of the size of the country. So the Society began by publishing word lists made by professors who jotted down unfamiliar terms or expressions as they visited places new to them. For decades, lists were published …
The Adaption Of Akkadian Into Cuneiform, Kristin M. Pearce
The Adaption Of Akkadian Into Cuneiform, Kristin M. Pearce
Colonial Academic Alliance Undergraduate Research Journal
The written history of the Ancient Near East began when cuneiform was invented, ca 3200 BCE. Cuneiform became a very adaptable writing system that was attested in various forms for nearly three millennia. Cuneiform was created to represent the language isolate of Sumerian and its first adaptation was into the Semitic language of Eblaite. However the most successful adaptation of the cuneiform writing system occurred with Akkadian. Old Akkadian was adapted into cuneiform around 2350 BCE. The adaptation of cuneiform to Akkadian is intricately connected to the respect the Akkadian/Semitic speaking scribes felt cuneiform deserved. Old Akkadian cuneiform takes into …
The Four Key Factors That Drive Successful Decisions, Joseph Yeager, Linda Sommer
The Four Key Factors That Drive Successful Decisions, Joseph Yeager, Linda Sommer
The Qualitative Report
The mechanisms of language operate as the vehicles for motivation, thinking and deciding. Language is a replica, a model, a representational map of reality. In the same way that a flawed roadmap will misrepresent reality and mislead a traveler, a flawed linguistic rationale will mislead a decision maker in any situation. In high-stakes situations that occur in globalized organizations, such as the current economic meltdown, the importance and consequences of flawed linguistic rationales are obvious. Simple suggestions for self examination of linguistic rationales are offered.
By The Numbers, Jon Racherbaumer
By The Numbers, Jon Racherbaumer
Word Ways
This article originally was part of Racherbaumer's column "On the Slant" in the August 2010 issue of GENII magazine. It is used with permission.
80 Years Of Gardner Magic, Jeremiah Farrell, Karen Farrell
80 Years Of Gardner Magic, Jeremiah Farrell, Karen Farrell
Word Ways
The magician and historiam Max Maven poignantly eulogized Martin Gardner in his article "In Memoriam" in the July 2010 issue of GENII magazine. Commenting on the diverse interests of Gardner in non-fiction, puzzles, recreational mathematics, philosophy, games, skepticism, word play and magic, Maven noted: "So far as is known, the final Gardner publication during his lifetime was a magic trick that he contributed to the May 2010 issue of Word Ways, a quarterly journal with a small but fervent readership. I will mention, without humility, that the trick was based on one of mine -- which in turn was …