Positioning the Self and Others : Linguistic Perspectives.

Intro -- Positioning the Self and Others -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1. Overview -- 2. Positioning, identity, indexicality, (inter)subjectivity, ideology -- 2.1 Positioning -- 2.2 Identity -- 2.3 Indexicality -- 2.4 (Inter)subjectivity and (inter)subjectification -- 2.5 Ideology -- 3. Summary of the chapters -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 2. Positioning through address practice in Finland-Swedish and Sweden-Swedish service encounters -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1 Address in Sweden Swedish and Finland Swedish -- 3. Data and methods -- 4. Findings -- 4.1 Participant roles: Customer and staff -- 4.2 Sweden and Finland -- 4.3 Younger and older participants -- 4.4 Situational differences -- 4.5 Discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- Transcription conventions and glossing symbols -- References -- Chapter 3. Sociocultural and linguistic constraints in address choice from Latin to Italian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and methods -- 3. The development of the system of address in Latin -- 3.1 Classical Latin -- 3.2 Late Latin -- 4. The system of address in Italian -- 4.1 Old Italian -- 4.2 16th century -- 4.3 18th century -- 4.4 20th-century -- 4.5 Present-Day Italian -- 5. Concluding remarks -- References -- Author query -- Chapter 4. Closeness at a distance: Positioning in Brazilian workplace emails -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review -- 2.1 Relating and positioning: The importance of phatic talk -- 2.2 Greetings and closings in emails -- 2.3 Culture and communication in Brazilian workplaces -- 3. Data and methods -- 4. Findings: Doing closeness at a distance -- 4.1 Greetings and closings -- 4.2 Absence of greetings and closings -- 4.3 Changes over time -- 5. Conclusion -- 6. Future research -- References.

Chapter 5. Beyond the notion of periphery: An account of polyfunctional discourse markers within the Val.Es.Co. model of discourse segmentation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1 Traugott (2012) and the problems for the SIPH: Sp. oye (hey) and mira (look), no doubt and surely -- 2.1 Traugott (2012) and the problems for the SIPH: Sp. oye (hey) and mira (look), no doubt and surely -- 2.2 The Val.Es.Co. model of discourse units: Towards a solution -- 3. Findings -- 3.1 An alternative analysis using the VAM proposal -- 3.2 A diachronic problem: The evolution of no doubt and surely within the VAM -- 3.2 A diachronic problem: The evolution of no doubt and surely within the VAM -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Author query -- Chapter 6. Metacommenting in English and French: A variational pragmatics approach -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background/literature review -- 2.1 Subjectivity and PMs -- 2.2 Identity, indexicality and PMs -- 2.3 From variationist to variational -- 2.4 Metacommenting in English and French -- 3. Data and methods -- 3.1 The corpora investigated -- 3.2 Raw rates of occurrence per 10,000 words -- 3.3 Classifying the markers into functional sub-types -- 4. Findings -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix -- Chapter 7. Direct speech, subjectivity and speaker positioning in London English and Paris French -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background/literature review -- 2.1 Characteristics of direct speech in spoken language -- 2.2 The evolving functions of direct speech: A diachronic perspective -- 3. Data and methods -- 4. Findings: Pragmatic functions and speaker positioning -- 4.1 Hedging and approximation -- 4.2 Imitation, focus and emphasis -- 4.3 Inner monologue -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 8. Positioning of self in interaction: Adolescents' use of attention-getters -- 1. Introduction.

2. Background review: Attention-getters in previous work -- 3. Data and methods: Corpus analysis of the attention getters -- 4. Findings -- 4.1 Look -- 4.2 Listen -- 4.3 Come on -- 4.4 Excuse me -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Chapter 9. Constellation of indexicalities and social meaning: Constellation of indexicalities and social meaning: The evolution of cioè in Contemporary Italian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and methods -- 3. The pragmatic functions of cioè: Background and findings -- 3.1 Contexts of use and age of speakers -- 4. Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 10. "Proper is whatever people make it": Stance, positionality, and ideological packaging in a dinnertime conversation -- 1. Constructing ideology via stance and positionality -- 2. The sociopolitical hierarchies of Spanish -- 3. "Now you can see how crazy we really are": Data and methods -- 4. Generating implication through stance-taking -- 5. The relationship between code choice and linguistic hierarchy -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix A. Full transcript -- Appendix B. Transcription conventions -- Chapter 11. Representations of self and other in narratives of return migration -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 3. Data and methods -- 3.1 Scope and data collection -- 3.2 Analytical focus -- 4. Findings -- 4.1 Greek ethnic membership alignment and class membership markers -- 4.2 Pronouns others and hierarchies: Greeks, ethnic, Anglos, and Aborigines in Australia -- 4.2 Pronouns others and hierarchies: Greeks, ethnic, Anglos, and Aborigines in Australia -- 4.3 Liminal identities -- 4.4 Constructed dialogue as a positioning device -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 12. Orthography as an identity marker: The case of bilingual road signs in the province of Bergamo -- 1. Preliminary remarks.

2. Bergamo and its territory: Sociolinguistic background -- 3. The survey -- 4. Analysis and discussion -- 4.1 The semiotics of code-preference in public signage -- 4.2 Orthography as an identity marker -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix: Maps -- Chapter 13. Positioning the self in talk about groups: Linguistic means emphasising veracity used by members of the Georgian Greek community -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Identification, boundaries, positioning, and veracity in discourse -- 3. Data -- 4. Emphasising veracity in the interview corpus -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Author index -- Subject index.

This volume focusses on address terms, pragmatic markers, code switching/choice and orthography, the indexicalities of which are explored in different communicative activities.

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