The ethnopragmatics of English stage-of-life words as forms of address

Farese, Gian Marco

doi:10.1080/07268602.2022.2043824

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“…Wierzbicka, 1996Wierzbicka, , 2003Wierzbicka, [1991; in the last ten years, e.g. Bromhead & Ye, 2020;Farese, 2022;Goddard & Wierzbicka, 2014;Levisen & Waters, 2017a;Wong, 2014;Ye, 2017, Part I). Here, I further advance the semantically-enhanced discourse studies lens used in this current study.…”

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Tensions in talking about disasters: Habitual versus climate-informed – The case of bushfire vocabulary in Australia

Bromhead

2022

Australian Journal of Linguistics

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Disasters occasion ways of speaking and writing in the societies in which they take place. Now, due to climate change, events such as wildfires, floods and heatwaves are becoming more severe and more frequent. Therefore, the climate crisis poses a challenge, not only materially, but discursively. Habitual vocabulary may no longer be appropriate, and there is a pull between these turns of phrase and newer ones informed by climate change. The article takes the case of Australia whose public discourse in English about 'bushfires' has been characterized by traditional vocabulary, focused on battling the elements. Through three examples, the study treats tensions between the habitual and the climate-informed in event names (e.g. Black Summer), a social category (volunteer firefighters) and a construction of political critique (I don't hold a hose). The frame taken is semanticallyenhanced discourse studies, inspired by natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) and other cultural takes. A transtextual approach is used, along with research from humanities and social science. The study finds that through the interplay between habitual and climate-informed vocabulary about 'bushfires', one can view conceptions of events, cultures, social relations, identities and relationships to places in Australia. Extreme weather formations and climate change formations cannot be easily separated.

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Section: Methodological Frames and Background To The 'Bushfire' Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tensions in talking about disasters: Habitual versus climate-informed – The case of bushfire vocabulary in Australia

Bromhead

2022

Australian Journal of Linguistics

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Stage-of-life words at the crossroads of language, culture and cognition

Farese

2022

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Nowhere is the interface between language, culture and cognition more clearly visible than in word meanings and in cases of translational non-equivalence between words of different languages. One such case is that of the meanings of stage-of-life words in different languages. This paper presents a contrastive analysis between the English boy and the Italian ragazzo made adopting the principles and methods of cross-linguistic semantics. The analysis demonstrates that the semantic non-equivalence between these two stage-of-life words results from the different age and time spans covered by each word and different cultural assumptions about the transition to manhood, showing how these differences are reflected in discourse in the respective languages. First, a discourse analysis is made for each word; after that, two separate semantic explications are produced with the Natural Semantic Metalanguage methodology and then contrasted to highlight the differences in meaning and the role of culture in the formation of different conceptualisations of the human life cycle.

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The ethnopragmatics of English stage-of-life words as forms of address

Cited by 2 publications

References 17 publications

Tensions in talking about disasters: Habitual versus climate-informed – The case of bushfire vocabulary in Australia

Tensions in talking about disasters: Habitual versus climate-informed – The case of bushfire vocabulary in Australia

Stage-of-life words at the crossroads of language, culture and cognition

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