‘Mum, the pot broke’: Taking responsibility (or not) in language

Dreyfus, Shoshana J.

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“…mereka menemukan sesuatu yang berharga 'they discovered something valuable (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2014). In the middle voice construction, Process is seen as self-generated, and there is no agency feature in the grammatical slot (Dreyfus, 2017). This also occurs with the Process + Range structure; for example, in the clause, Bahasa Indonesia mengalami dominasi (the Indonesian language experienced dominations), 'dominations' is put in Range position.…”

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‘The Research is Conducted…’: An Exploration of a Grammatical Metaphor Syndrome in Indonesian Research Articles

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The research examined the use of one grammatical metaphor (hereafter GM) syndrome frequently found in Indonesian language research articles (hereafter RAs). This syndrome followed the lexicogrammatical structure of Process+Range or Process+Medium. An interesting feature of this GM syndrome, which, to date, had not been studied, was that while GM typically increased the lexical density of a clause by condensing meaning into nominal groups. This GM syndrome seemed to do the opposite. e.g., rather than writing ‘merubah’ (changed) as Process, writers used ‘melakukan perubahan’ (do some changes), which had the structure of Process+Range. This had the effect of delexicalizing the verb as well as increasing the number of words in the clauses. Instead of seeing this form as a mere ritual in academic writing, the research sought to understand the functional role in the RAs. The data was taken from a small corpus of RAs from two refereed Indonesian humanities journals. The occurrences of this GM syndrome were identified. A systemic analysis was then conducted with a metafunctional lens, examining the ideational, interpersonal, and textual functions of this form of GM syndrome. The analysis reveals that ideationally, GM syndrome is a resource to manage technicality, abstraction, taxonomy, and activity sequence; textually, the syndrome is a resource organizing textual coherence through the management of hyperThemes; and interpersonally, the syndrome functions as a resource for Graduation, which decreases the force of propositions.

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‘The Research is Conducted…’: An Exploration of a Grammatical Metaphor Syndrome in Indonesian Research Articles

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“…Quanto à percepção de responsabilidade, os julgamentos de plausibilidade e a emoção que o participante acreditava que seriam atribuídos à desculpa, a ausência de diferenças nos tipos de relacionamento e nos tipos de desculpa são indicativos sistemáticos de que os processos podem ser relativamente independentes dessas variações situacionais. Obviamente isso não pode ser concluído sem reconhecer limitações potenciais do estudo, que envolvem não somente a amostragem (alunos universitários), como as próprias situações utilizadas nos cenários experimentais ou mesmo a linguagem (Dreyfus, 2017).…”

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Pedir Desculpas: Categorias e Efeitos em Três Tipos de Relacionamento Interpessoal

2018

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Resumo Embora pedidos de desculpas sejam tratados como mecanismos de gerenciamento de impressão em psicologia, ainda se conhece pouco sobre a dinâmica de oferecê-las (e não somente de recebê-las) em diferentes tipos de relacionamento interpessoal. Cenários experimentais para pedir desculpas em três condições independentes (interagindo com um parente íntimo, amigo íntimo ou par romântico) foram respondidos por 239 participantes, seguidos por medidas de plausibilidade, responsabilidade e emoção, além da escala de Intimidade Social de Miller. Quatro categorias principais foram identificadas e testadas em suas associações com os relacionamentos. Desculpas a parentes revelaram-se de causalidade externa ou interna, a pares românticos revelaram-se internas ou de reparação, enquanto a amigos revelaram-se de desengajamento moral ou externas. Não foram encontradas diferenças nos julgamentos de responsabilidade, plausibilidade e emoção. Discute-se tanto o papel das desculpas para a prevenção de conflitos interpessoais quanto o impacto de variáveis situacionais e disposicionais nos processos de justificação social.

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“…Based on the combinatorial analysis of agency, voice, and theme, Dreyfus 2017proposes a cline of responsibility in English, as shown in Figure 2. Using this cline, Dreyfus (2017) shows that even her three-year-old son was capable of manipulating transitivity resources to construe the same reality, but one which minimises any responsibility attributed to himself as the do-er by saying The pot broke. Although the active voice and the passive voice (with Agent) both explicitly assign responsibility to the do-er, Dreyfus (2017) further argues that the active voice assigns higher responsibility by placing the do-er I in the initial, thematic position in the clause, therefore foregrounding the agentive role with textual prominence.…”

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“…The seminal work of Calzada-Peréz (2007), which inspires the present study, usefully deploys transitivity in relation to causation and voice for a corpus of European Parliament speeches and translations. However, while transitivity continues to attract new interest in discourse analysis (Chaemsaithong and Kim 2018;Dreyfus 2017;Lukin 2013), it has not drawn much recent attention in translation studies, except for Wu's studies (2016, 2018) of the English translation of Chinese Zen Buddhist texts and Chinese government reports.…”

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Shifts of agency in translation: a case study of the Chinese translation of Wild Swans

2020

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Le présent article plaide en faveur d'une reconsidération de la transitivité en tant qu'outil d'analyse dans la traductologie descriptive, notamment dans la recherche sur la traduction de l'agentivité. La transitivité regroupe l'ensemble des ressources lexico-grammaticales représentant la réalité dans la langue (Eggins 2001/2005 : 206). Ces choix de traduction ont été étudiés productivement par certains chercheurs en traduction fortement influencés par la linguistique systémique fonctionnelle (LSF). Toutefois, le sujet n'a pas jusqu'à maintenant suscité beaucoup d'intérêt chez les traductologues en général, peut-être en raison de l'apparente complexité du cadre analytique de la LSF. Le présent article se consacre à l'analyse de la transitivité en raison de sa pertinence pour la traductologie, notamment pour ceux qui souhaitent étudier comment l'agentivité, l'idéologie, la caractérisation et les récits se manifestent dans les textes. Il s'appuie sur de nouvelles méthodologies linguistiques d'analyse de la transitivité ainsi que sur des systèmes linguistiques complémentaires de la voix, du thème et de la modalité, car cette combinaison offre une vision plus holistique de la transitivité. L'étude, qui se concentre sur la traduction de l'agentivité de Mao au début de la Révolution culturelle dans l'autobiographie politiquement controversée de Jung Chang, Wild Swans, a révélé des changements draconiens dans la caractérisation de Mao dans la traduction chinoise de Pu Zhang, publiée à Taiwan, qui modifient le récit global. Le présent article propose une catégorisation des équivalences et des changements de l'agentivité linguistique sur la base d'une analyse textuelle, contribuant à une catégorisation plus systématique de la traduction de l'agentivité.

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‘Mum, the pot broke’: Taking responsibility (or not) in language

Cited by 19 publications

References 9 publications

‘The Research is Conducted…’: An Exploration of a Grammatical Metaphor Syndrome in Indonesian Research Articles

‘The Research is Conducted…’: An Exploration of a Grammatical Metaphor Syndrome in Indonesian Research Articles

Pedir Desculpas: Categorias e Efeitos em Três Tipos de Relacionamento Interpessoal

Shifts of agency in translation: a case study of the Chinese translation of Wild Swans

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