The metapragmatic negation as a rapport-oriented mitigating device

Ran, Yongping

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2012.11.012

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“…For instance, the disclaimer bushi shuo dahua ( I’m not boasting ) at first denied the speaker’s intention to brag. After extensive use, it has become accepted as a metapragmatic construction that comes before self-praise and mitigates self-praising without concealing it (Ran, 2013: 98). That explains why there is no disclaimer in our data.…”

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‘Versailles literature’ on WeChat Moments – humblebragging with digital technologies

Zuo

2023

Discourse & Communication

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Versailles literature is a newly emerged phenomenon on Chinese social networking sites. It is in essence an indirect form of self-praise. Despite its popularity on social media, there is little research on this phenomenon. This study investigates the pragmatic strategies for performing VL on WeChat Moments. The results showed that Versailles literature often includes strategies such as implicit self-praise, modified explicit self-praise, and self-praise through comments and replies, among which the tactics that have not been observed before, such as bragging in a foreign language, creating false ‘question–answer’ or ‘compliment–response’ interactions and commenting to the adverts. These strategies are implemented in various ways by virtue of the technological affordance of WeChat Moments, in order to balance the disclosure and the dissimulation of the object of praise. The study also discusses the distinctive features of VL and explains the absence of some frequent strategies of self-praising in Versailles literature.

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‘Versailles literature’ on WeChat Moments – humblebragging with digital technologies

Zuo

2023

Discourse & Communication

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“…Mey, 1993;Caffi, 2006;Hübler, 2011), the salience and hierarchy of metapragmatic awareness (Verschueren, 1999(Verschueren, , 2000, and markers that reflect metapragmatic awareness (Grundy, 2000;Verschueren, 1999Verschueren, , 2000. Recently, researchers also conducted a metapragmatic analysis of specific linguistic structures (e.g., Bublitz & Hübler, 2007;Ran, 2013). Current metapragmatics studies mostly explore the self-reflexive, self-monitoring, and intervening nature of language in general or from a micro perspective (e.g., Caffi, 1984Caffi, , 1994Lucy, 1993;Silverstein, 1993;Hübler & Bulitz, 2007;Hübler, 2011).…”

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Metapragmatic Expressions as Relation-oriented Strategies in Peer Feedback: A Case Study of Business English Writing

Chen

2022

IJELS

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This paper explores the interpersonal functions of metapragmatic expressions (MPEs) in peer feedback, where students were assigned a business English writing task, and examines the metapragmatic awareness revealed in this context from the metapragmatics perspective. It is shown in the data that the use of MPEs in peer feedback not only helps students to deliver information by creating common ground but also reflects their concern for their interpersonal relations. Data analysis indicates that students in peer feedback use MPEs as relation-oriented strategies such as hedging, complementing, repairing, inducing, and transferring strategies to manage and regulate their relations so that effective feedback can be achieved, which reflects their consideration of relational factors, including face work and emotion management on both sides of feedback. The present study deepens our understanding of the mechanisms of MPEs in peer feedback and advances our knowledge of metapragmatic awareness in classroom discourse, providing some implications for foreign language teaching.

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Metapragmatic Pragmemes

Parvaresh¹

2016

Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy &Amp; Psychology

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The metapragmatic negation as a rapport-oriented mitigating device

Cited by 12 publications

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‘Versailles literature’ on WeChat Moments – humblebragging with digital technologies

‘Versailles literature’ on WeChat Moments – humblebragging with digital technologies

Metapragmatic Expressions as Relation-oriented Strategies in Peer Feedback: A Case Study of Business English Writing

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