Metapragmatic discourse and metapragmatic function

Silverstein, Michael

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“…This metaphor is a descriptive heuristic for clarifying and addressing the problem of imagining relevant resources. Silverstein (1993) and Agha (2007) provide general accounts of how relevant context is established for social identification within and across events. Latour (2005) provides a comprehensive account of how heterogeneous resources in a network together make social identification and other processes possible.…”

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“…Working in the field of linguistic anthropology, Silverstein (1992Silverstein ( , 1993 provides a sophisticated account of how relevant context emerges so that a speech event and its constituent utterances come to have meaning. He explains how key utterances in an interaction come to have definite functions, and how the overall event comes to be identifiable as some recognizable type, as indexical signs point to relevant aspects of the context.…”

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“…In this article, we draw on Silverstein (1992Silverstein ( , 1993, Agha (2007), and Latour (2005) to answer this question. When offering an account of any given social process or phenomenon, some aspects of context become relevant and other potentially relevant ones do not.…”

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Life as a Chord: Heterogeneous Resources in the Social Identification of One Migrant Girl

Wortham

Rhodes

2013

Applied Linguistics

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The social and natural worlds provide heterogeneous resources that contribute both to instances of social identification and to life trajectories. One might claim or be assigned membership in various groups, which emerge at different spatial and temporal scales, and resources for social identification are often combined in novel ways to yield unexpected identities. To account for the trajectories of identification that any individual travels, analysts must determine which configurations of resources become relevant in a given case. Of the many resources that might be relevant to identifying an individual, event, or setting, a few generally become salient-somewhat like several musical notes coming together to constitute a chord. We illustrate this contingent process by describing one young Mexican migrant in the USA, sketching relevant aspects of family interactions, educational practices, local community characteristics, and national discourses. This girl, her family, and other actors combine heterogeneous resources in contingent ways as they navigate and establish an emerging trajectory of identification through which she becomes a 'good reader' .

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Life as a Chord: Heterogeneous Resources in the Social Identification of One Migrant Girl

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Rhodes

2013

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“…This lead to Dad aligning with the stance that semushi too may be derogatory and thus better not uttered in front of others (line 52). While the issue of "metapragmatic talk" (Silverstein 1993), or talk about language use, will be taken up again later (see Section 4.3), suffice it to say here that as these immigrant parents were distant from their core group of Japanese speakers residing in Japan, on occasion they displayed epistemic stances of uncertainty as to whether certain words and expressions were still used among members of that group. In this way, linguistic and cultural expertise among these nativespeaking Japanese parents was relative, flexible, and negotiated in ways that socialized the relatively novice participant.…”

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Shifting of “expert” and “novice” roles between/within two languages: Language socialization, identity, and epistemics in family dinnertime conversations

Takei

Burdelski

2018

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This article explores the construction and shifting of "expert" and "novice" roles between and within two languages (Japanese and English). Taking a language socialization perspective while drawing upon insights from conversation analysis on epistemics in interaction, it analyzes seven hours of audio recordings of dinnertime talk in a Japanese-speaking immigrant family with a university-aged adult daughter living together in Australia. The analysis identifies several key communicative practices, such as word definitions and repair, which participants deploy in displaying epistemic stances that constitute the self and family members as possessing relatively more or less knowledge and expertise (epistemic status) with respect to these two languages. The findings reveal the dynamics of language socialization in a bilingual/immigrant setting in which the relative roles of expert and novice emerge, shift, and are negotiated in interaction. In conclusion, the findings are discussed in relation to language expertise, power and hierarchy, agency and bidirectional language socialization.

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“…I den anden udgave er der ikke indsat dette niveauforskel i udsigelsen, men begge saetninger er, med sprogvidenskabsmanden Michael Silversteins term, metapragmatiske, dvs. at man sprogligt indikerer, hvordan sproget skal udføres, performes (Silverstein 1993). Den tredje udgave er sjaelden, men kan belaegges i de muslimske korankommentarer, hvor det kan forstås som et påbud om at fremsige eller påkalde Herrens navn, muligvis som led i en art andagtsøvelse -måske som led i de vigilier eller liturgier, som Muhammad og hans følgere tilsyneladende praktiserede intensivt i islams allertidligste fase.…”

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Danske koranstudier: Et forskningshistorisk over-, side- og udblik

Hoffmann¹

2016

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Et forskningshistorisk over-, side-og udblik I dette forskningshistoriske rids vil jeg introducere til dansk islamforsknings sine qua non og evergreen, koranforskningen. Til trods for denne unikke og prominente status er det også en forskning, der alt andet lige har vaeret nichepraeget og i stigende grad vaeret bagatelliseret eller, i bedste fald, relativeret. Det er ikke desto mindre min hypotese eller påstand, at dette forskningsfelts status og relevans er stigende.Artiklen vil falde i tre afsnit: allerførst et vue over dansk koranforskning før årtusindskiftet, fra reformationstiden til moderniteten. Dernaest følger et afsnit om koranforskningen i det nye millennium -med inddragelse af denne signaturs egen rolle. Herefter opstiller jeg nogle betragtninger over feltets mulige opblomstring for endelig at afslutte med nogle argumenter for koranforskningens frugtbare parløb med universitetsteologien. Som et appendiks til dette historiske vue har redaktionen indvilget i at trykke min 2013-tiltraedelsesforelaesning som professor mso (med saerligt område) i koran-og islamstudier ved Det Teologiske Fakultet. Denne forelaesning komplementerer så at sige essayets bagudskuende og historiske blik ved at pege på nogle mulige samfundsmaessige potentialer og fordringer for Koranen og koranforskningen.

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Metapragmatic discourse and metapragmatic function

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Life as a Chord: Heterogeneous Resources in the Social Identification of One Migrant Girl

Life as a Chord: Heterogeneous Resources in the Social Identification of One Migrant Girl

Shifting of “expert” and “novice” roles between/within two languages: Language socialization, identity, and epistemics in family dinnertime conversations

Danske koranstudier: Et forskningshistorisk over-, side- og udblik

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