Disclaimer as a metapragmatic device in Chinese: A corpus-based study

Yang, Kun

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2020.12.011

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“…Pragmatic awareness means the speaker’s ability to recognize the pragmalinguistic realization patterns that might be most appropriate for carrying out a speech act in given contexts (McConachy, 2019). For example, when using echolalia to achieve pragmatic functions, they would bear in mind that “politeness or interpersonal relationship conventions should be maintained” (Yang, 2021).…”

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Where There Is an Echo, There Is an Intention: Understanding the Echolalia Phenomenon of Children With Epilepsy and Autism

Yang

2022

Communication Disorders Quarterly

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Echolalia is a typical feature of children with epilepsy and autism, but whether it is pathological is still controversial. This article aims to explore the contentious issue of echolalia based on data from three selected children with epilepsy and autism. Through discourse analysis, we explored two types of echolalia: immediate echolalia and delayed echolalia. It was found that the two types of echolalia were used to achieve interactional function, interpersonal function, and experiential function. Our research also found that the echolalia phenomenon reflected the participants’ pragmatic awareness when dealing with new information. This article will contribute to understanding echolalia in children with epilepsy and autism and provide intervention methods for children with language impairment.

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Where There Is an Echo, There Is an Intention: Understanding the Echolalia Phenomenon of Children With Epilepsy and Autism

Yang

2022

Communication Disorders Quarterly

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“…When speakers build their trustworthiness image (i.e. competence, integrity and benevolence), they can use some linguistic strategies, such as hedges, disclaimers or evidential discourse markers (McCready, 2015; Yang, 2021).…”

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How sajiao (playing cute) wins forgiveness: The effectiveness of emojis in rebuilding trust through apology

Yang

2022

Discourse & Communication

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Prior studies have found that emojis can contribute to rebuilding customers’ trust when after-sale staff apologize to them, but studies on the different types of emojis and their different levels of effectiveness in rebuilding trust are still needed. In this paper, we explore the different types and frequencies of emojis and their effectiveness in rebuilding trust based on commercial discourses. Our data are collected from conversations between after-sale staff and customers during Ali Trademanager after-sale service. We find three types of emojis frequently used when after-sale staff apologizing to customers: face-related emojis, gesture-related emojis, and object-related emojis. Moreover, face-related emojis are the most frequently used, as their nature is to express emotion and attitude. The most effective emojis are the whimper emoji and kiss emoji, which are used by after-sale staff for sajiao (literally, ‘playing cute’). On the other hand, we show that the least effective emojis are the sorry emoji and happy emoji, which are deemed insincere because they violate the quality maxim and quantity maxim in the Cooperative Principle. This paper thus contributes to understanding the nature and function of emojis in commercial communication.

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Lawyers’ metapragmatic expressions in the opening speech of Anglo-American criminal trials

Chaemsaithong

Simuang

2023

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Disclaimer as a metapragmatic device in Chinese: A corpus-based study

Cited by 6 publications

References 24 publications

Where There Is an Echo, There Is an Intention: Understanding the Echolalia Phenomenon of Children With Epilepsy and Autism

Where There Is an Echo, There Is an Intention: Understanding the Echolalia Phenomenon of Children With Epilepsy and Autism

How sajiao (playing cute) wins forgiveness: The effectiveness of emojis in rebuilding trust through apology

Lawyers’ metapragmatic expressions in the opening speech of Anglo-American criminal trials

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