Sociolinguistic Area Research Articles

Lexical Language Contact Phenomena: A Combined Model Based on the Vocabulario español-guarani (18th century)

Abstract The purpose of this work, which falls within the areas of lexicography (studying missionary linguistics) and sociolinguistics (studying cultural contact), is to analyse the linguistic and cultural contacts between Spanish and Guarani, based on lexicographic material extracted from the Vocabulario español-guarani by Pablo Restivo (1728). The basis of the analysis is provided by the names of animals—one of the ‘secular’ fields where the highest frequency of borrowings is found (Cerno & Obermeier 2013). The methodology applied is the Haspelmath model (2009) and the Gruda model (2018). The premise is that the arrival and work of the Jesuit missionaries created cultural contact that is reflected in the codified language and, in turn, in this dictionary of the time. The main contribution is a new combined model of lexical reflections in a situation of cultural contact that can be applied in the analysis of this kind of lexicographic work, while an additional section provides a presentation of Restivo’s work and its background.

O stavovima prema jeziku

The aim of the paper is to present theoretical observations about attitudes towards language through the prism of social psychology and from a sociolinguistic point of view by reviewing the basic terms, perspectives, and research of theoretical and methodological significance for this area of sociolinguistics. At the same time, we will present their usual methodological framework and the importance of research.

Challenges of Linguistic Human Rights in Relation to Language Education

Linguistic human rights (LHRs) envelop many questions and ambiguous areas of language pedagogy and sociolinguistics. Difficulties arise as one must understand, due to the demands of linguistic rights, what treatment is owed to whom while balancing the sensitivities of a culture and the linguistic demands of individuals. Further, linguistic concerns themselves are highly complex, as one language may be endangered while another is privileged—complicating LHRs as one navigates the many interests and differences found in language use and acquisition in any given culture or community. Through secondary research, this paper will work toward identifying the difficulties they face, in part by looking at historical developments of LHRs and language education in the West. This secondary research primarily focused on peer-review publications within the last ten years, with key terms including “linguistic human rights,” “language rights,” “culture and language,” and “bilingualism and court decisions.” This approach to linguistic human rights will help reveal the differences in value individuals hold toward language education depending on various factors (e.g., immigration, political conflict, cultural identity) and the interplay between linguistic rights and language education. Additionally, it is through this approach that one sees the variety of responses and proposed solutions to the issues surrounding LHRs, but disagreement on how best to address the issue of LHRs remains. Ultimately, both researchers and instructors would benefit from being aware of linguistic human rights and historical interactions between cultures and language rights, as both shape the education—and therefore the lives—of students.

‘The seas was like mountains’: intra-writer variation and social mobility in Irish emigrant letters

Abstract This paper presents a case study based on the writing of James Horner, one of the many Irish emigrants who crossed the Atlantic between the late 1700s and early 1800s. Communication between Horner and his family back in Ireland was kept through personal correspondence. His letters, which contain about 14,000 words in total, are part of the Corpus of Irish English Correspondence (CORIECOR), and they provide detailed accounts of his experiences and impressions of the recently adopted country. They also show progressive standardisation, which makes them an interesting site for historical sociolinguistic analysis: shifting from vernacular Irish English towards a more standardised type of English to some degree. Our study focuses on the use of subject-verb agreement and addresses the following research questions: does geographical and social mobility condition Horner’s speech? If so, how does an individual’s social status affect language? The findings reported below show that social mobility as well as dialect contact seem to have contributed to general standardisation and the subsequent blurring of identity markers in language use. The paper, thus, offers new perspectives on the analysis of intra-speaker variation using historical data and contributes to the discussion of the need for this type of micro-analysis in the area of historical sociolinguistics.

"Szczliwe dni" Stefana Badeniego jako rdo socjolektu owieckiego dwudziestolecia midzywojennego

The subject of the research in the following article is the language of the hunters from the beginning of the 20th century depicted in memoirs The Happy Days by Stefan Badeni.The linguistic analysis proves that in accordance with the thesis by Bogdan Walczak, from the areas of historic sociolinguistics, the language used by the author constitutes a precious source for research connected with hunters sociolects, showing typical items as well as those rare in usage. The before mentioned linguist proves the balanced and regular usage and also variety in hunters sociolect. Moreover, there are also terms not recorded before in branch dictionaries but the usage in context shows the items were fixed in the hunters sociolect during the interwar period.The characteristic language for Badeni presents diminutive forms of sociolectal items as well as lexical and semantic innovations created due to modifications of dialectal names.

Islamic Boarding School Linguistic Landscape in The Development of Arabic Language Skills and Islamic Knowledge

Linguistic landscape is one area of ​​sociolinguistics that examines specifically the phenomenon of language use in public spaces, be it monolingual, bilingual or multilingual. Islamic boarding schools as geographically exclusive Islamic educational institutions have a linguistic landscape phenomenon that is characterized and based on Arabic. This is in line with the Islamic orientation built in pesantren education. This study aims to explore the use of Arabic in the public space of Islamic boarding schools and its contribution to the development of Arabic language skills and Islamic knowledge of students. This research is a qualitative research with descriptive analysis. In this study, data collection used the observing method and the documentation method. The listening method is used to collect data in the form of writing while the documentation method is used to collect data in the form of pictures taken by cell phone. All data is processed and given a code and then selected based on who produced the text. The results of this study are: (1) The linguistic landscape of Arabic in the pesantren environment is categorized into 3 categories: verses of the Qur'an, Matan Hadith Nabawi, and Maqolah of Ulama. (2) The linguistic landscape of Arabic is part of the pesantren learning process indirectly, especially in supporting classroom learning so that it is internalized in life. (3) The linguistic landscape of Arabic has significance in developing the Arabic language skills and Islamic knowledge of the students in the pesantren environment.

The macrosociolinguistics of language contact

Abstract This contribution provides an overview of macrosociolinguistic approaches to the study of language contact, with a focus on contact languages. It addresses the current state of the art and future of the field. It also reflects on the global inequalities of power in the study of contact languages and the ways in which research on contact languages can serve as a model for North-South cooperation. Studies on contact languages and their histories of formation show how power and prestige are tightly connected to demographic factors and the political, economic, and ideological frameworks that mold language structures. They also inform us about the mechanisms that seemingly exert an influence on the correlations between structural and extra-linguistic factors. New areas of comparative inquiry with large datasets, new methods and varied contexts continue to diversify and further our understanding of the macrosociolinguistics of contact. These advances require a dialogue with other focus areas of sociolinguistics and a critical, self-reflective approach to the epistemological basis of the field.

Multilingual linguistic landscape of Cyprus

ABSTRACT The topic of linguistic landscapes (LLs) is very important in the area of sociolinguistics of multilingual societies. A linguistic landscape reflects the underlying ideologies regarding languages and their speakers, linguistic diversity, language statuses and perceived values. This study investigated multilingual LL of Cyprus under the conceptual framework of Geo–semiotics by implementing an in–depth qualitative and quantitative landscape analysis of visible semiotic signs in public space, trying to interpret their indexicality and deeper layers of meaning in relation to multilingualism situation in the country, the link between discourse and space, as well as the perceptions and attitudes of the Greek Cypriot population towards multilingualism and multilingual LL. We used photographic material in our data collection – 4,200 photos of all geographical areas of Cyprus, which were analysed quantitatively and qualitatively and interpreted in terms of language, arrangement of displayed text and images, LL genre, visual semiotics, placement and surroundings in line with the principles of the symbolic construction of the public space. It was found that sign readers have a positive attitude towards multilingualism and multilingual signs in Cyprus and that the LL in Cyprus is complex and unique and is related to the political economy of language and space.

Introduction: spaces of upset in the Nordic region

Abstract This introductory article opens the thematic issue Spaces of Upset in the Nordic Region. It introduces the contributions of the issue, outlines the concepts that unite them, and discusses the sociolinguistic area in which they are set: the Nordic region. Centering on Denmark, Finland and Sweden, the article offers an overview of some of the sociolinguistic, ideological and political characteristics of the region and the countries it comprises. The Nordic region is widely seen as a paradigm case of social stability, consensus and cohesion. This vision is, however, a mirage. To be sure, upset often lingers below the discursive veneer of Nordic harmony, concord and agreement. Breaking with this outlook, this thematic issue takes a closer look at some of the antipodes of this sociolinguistic and ideological condition. Its contributions engage with ‘spaces of upset’, that is, with manifestations and experiences of sociolinguistic rupture, upheaval or change, in and through which visions of sociolinguistic stability and cohesion are disrupted and challenged. These spaces of upset bear witness to social, ideological and linguistic tensions and changes, be they incipient, enduring or surpassed. They accordingly provide a new take on processes of continuity and change, pointing out the ideological faultlines of the orders they disrupt, or upset.

Theorizing the speaker and speakerness in applied linguistics

In this Forum Discussion paper, we put forward the concept of ‘speakerness’ and discuss how this notion can be of relevance to the professions associated with language teaching and learning. By ‘speakerness’ we understand the processes through which social actors get defined by their language practices. We connect this concept with the ongoing debates around so-called ‘non-native’ speakers of English, which have clear implications for ‘non-native teachers’. We revisit these debates by widening the scope; that is, by making connections with another controversy around speakerness, namely that around the so-called ‘new speakers’ of European minority languages. By aligning the two strands of debate, we argue that they respond to common trajectories of nation-building and colonial expansion articulated through the ways in which nationalist and colonialist discourses have constructed languages and deployed them as means of state and colonial rule. After tracing the historical origins of the notion of ‘native speaker’ and summarizing the debates on ‘non-native speakers’ and ‘new speakers’, we point to the ways in which a critical engagement with the concept of speakerness can throw light on other sociolinguistic areas in which the issue of speaker legitimacy is often recruited to naturalize inequalities of race, class or gender.

Men and Women in Suicide Notes: A Corpus-Based Rhetorical Moves Analysis

Research on suicide notes has always focused on proving whether the notes are genuine or simulated. There are still very few studies on suicide notes that focus on the genders of the writer and the influence of genders in this type of letter. This research aims to examine the suicide notes in two corpora—one corpus written by males and the other by females—using two different theories. Swales’ move-structure theory is used to see the pattern of occurrence of the rhetorical moves to establish a generic structure of the notes in the two corpora, and Bhatia’s communicative purpose theory is used to see what purposes of communication are dominant in the notes. The notes are analyzed based on the gender of the writers to also examine whether gender plays a role in the use of language, especially for personal communication. The study uses a mixed-method approach, in which a corpus software AntConc is used in the quantitative design to gather more comprehensive data, and linguistic theories are used in the interpretation of the data. The analysis shows that there are differences in the dominant recurring moves and communicative purposes in the two corpora, which suggests the role of gender in determining language use in personal communication. The result of this study is hoped to add to the literature of the study of gender as well as in the broader area of discourse analysis and sociolinguistics.

Emergence and evolutions: Introducing sign language sociolinguistics

AbstractThe sociolinguistics of sign languages parallels as well as complements the sociolinguistics of spoken languages. All of the key areas of sociolinguistics, such as multilingualism, language contact, variation, and language attitudes—are of immediate relevance to sign languages. At the same time, sign language researchers using a range of data sources and methods (e.g., sign language corpora, linguistic elicitation, and linguistic ethnography) have showed that the unique natures and features of sign languages allow us to look at all these areas from a different vantage point. First, deficit perspectives on deafness serve to sharply distinguish the reality of sign languages from that of spoken languages. The linguistic status of sign languages has been long contested, and certain forms of signing are still labeled “nonlanguage.” The delineation and differentiation of sign languages, and of sign languages from other signing practices (e.g., gesturing, home sign) has therefore been a key issue. Second, sign languages are used by both deaf and hearing people, in contexts where spoken/written languages, and increasingly also other sign languages are in use, leading to complex multimodal forms of sign–spoken, sign–written, and sign–sign language contact, and to hierarchical constellations of language attitudes and ideologies in relation to signed and spoken languages and variants.

Ambivalent attitude towards language as a consequence of unofficial bilingualism in Ukraine

The language situation of informal bilingualism in Ukraine is considered, as well as other factors that cause an ambivalent attitude towards the national language. The influence of citizens' memories of the Soviet past, the course of the war with Russia, the current legislation that strengthens the status of the Ukrainian language as a national language is analyzed. The fact of distorted understanding of the concepts of language norm, national language, native language, language convenient for communication is proved in the mass consciousness of citizens.
 The results of the questionnaire survey of students and teachers of the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture, Kharkiv Higher College of Arts, subscribers of public libraries of Novobavarsky and Industrial districts of Kharkiv are outlined. Percentages are given. That confirms the ambivalent attitude of Ukrainian citizens to their native language.
 It is emphasized that the leading areas of modern sociolinguistics are issues of language policy, language situation, language variability.
 The language community in Ukraine and the social and communicative system in the country are deeply studied. The study of sociolects as group language features of different social groups and many borrowings that have a destructive effect on the literary Ukrainian language and citizens' awareness of the essence of the national language is being updated.
 The language situation with Ukrainian bilinguals, who have a Soviet past and remember the Russian language of instruction at school and university, is outlined, but given the requirements of today, diglossia is used in social communication. Diglossia is considered as a sociolinguistic phenomenon that involves the conscious choice of a language depending on the language situation.
 It is a common phenomenon in the Ukrainian communicative environment. The legislative framework on national language policy in Ukraine is not able to remove from the mass consciousness of citizens distorted ideas about their native language. Consequently, the logical chain is broken that in Ukraine the national language is Ukrainian, that it is native to Ukraine citizen and should be convenient for communication.

التخطیــــط اللغـــــــــوی فـــــی مصـــــــر بین الإصلاح والسیاسة اللغویة الجهود المعجمیة لمجمع اللغة العربیة المعجم الوسیط أنموذجا

التخطيط اللغوي في مصر بين الإصلاح والسياسة اللغوية الجهود المعجمية لمجمع اللغة المعجم الوسيط أنموذجا السيد عبيد قسم اللغة العربية , کلية الآداب والعلوم الإنسانية – جامعة قناة السويس , جمهورية مصر العربية . البريد الالکتروني : drsayed.ebeed@art.suez.edu.eg الملخص : تعيش اللغة ويتعايش أهلها معها، فبهم تحيا، ويحيون بها،تواصلا فيما بينهم، وتحقيقا لأغراضهم، فإذا کثر استخدامها حييت وتطورت وازدهرت وانتشرت، وإذا أهملت بليت واضمحلت وربما آل بها الحال إلى الموت والاندثار ، ولکن لابد لهذا الاستخدام أن يکون له هدف ويتبعه تخطيط لتحقيق هذا الهدف ، ومتابعة لاستمرار التطور، والتنمية للغة لتکون صالحة للاستخدام ومواکبة لتطور الحياة، تلبى حاجات مستخدميها على مر العصور. ولتحقيق هذا الهدف لابد من سياسة لغوية واضحة المعالم محکمة العناصر أو البنود ، تضعها النخبة السياسية واللغوية معا وتشرف الهيئات اللغوية والتعليمية على تنفيذها ومتابعة نتائجها وتقييم مخرجاتها وتقويم مساراتها. تتبدى إشکالية البحث فى ضعف مستوى اللغة العربية فى الاستخدام على مستوى التعليم، والإعلام ، وعدم مواکبة هذا الاستخدام لمتطلبات الحياة وتطورها التکنولوجى المتلاحق. ولما کان مجمع اللغة العربية هو المؤسسة اللغوية الأکبر والأکثر تأثيرا فى مجال اللغة العربية، والذى يوکل إليه الإصلاح اللغوى، والمحافظة على سلامة اللغة وتطورها لمواکبة العصر، فقد اختار الباحث جهود مجمع اللغة العربية ممثلة فى التخطيط اللغوى فى مجال المعاجم، واتخذ المعجم الوسيط أنموذجا على ما يقوم به المجمع من تخطيط وتطوير لهذا المستوى من اللغة، على اعتبار أن التخطيط والسياسة اللغوية تدخل ضمن إطار ومجالات علم اللغة الاجتماعى. يهدف البحث من خلال تتبع السياسة اللغوية والتخطيط اللغوي، اصطلاحا وممارسة فى الإصلاح اللغوي ، ممثلا فى جهود مجمع اللغة العربية بالقاهرة فى صناعة المعجم ، ودوره فى إصلاح المتن ، وتوحيد وتطوير الاستخدام اللغوى للعربية الفصحى المعاصرة فى مجالات الحياة، التعليم والإعلام والتواصل والتفکير تحقيقا للمطالب الفردية والجماعية فى التعامل مع مؤسسات الدولة وهيئتها. الکلمات المفتاحية: التخطيط اللغوى – السياسة اللغوية – الإصلاح اللغوى – مجمع اللغة العربية. Language Planning in Egypt between Reform and Language Policy: The Lexical Efforts of the Arabic Language Academy: El-Waseet Lexicon as a Model Elsayed Ebeed Department of Arabic Language, Literature Faculty of Arts and Humanities , Suez Canal University,Egypt. E-mail: drsayed.ebeed@art.suez.edu.eg Abstract: The language lives and its people live with it. They use language to communicate with each other and to achieve their purposes. If language is used frequently, it will live, develop, flourish, and spread. If it is neglected, it will decay and may have led to death and extinction. But this use must have a goal and follow planning to achieve this goal. The language also needs to be developed in order to be usable, updated, and meet the needs of its users throughout ages. To achieve this goal, a clear, well defined language policy is necessary to be developed by the political and linguistic elite, and the linguistic and educational institutions must oversee the implementation of this policy, following up its results, and evaluating its outputs. The problem of research is the weakness of the Arabic language when it is used in education, media and the failure to keep up with the requirements of life and its subsequent technological development. Since the Arabic language Academy is the largest and most influential language institution in the field of Arabic language, which is entrusted with linguistic reform, and maintaining the integrity and development of the language to keep pace with the times, the researcher chooses the efforts of the Arabic language Academy represented in the linguistic planning in the field of dictionaries, and El-Waseet dictionary as a model on the plan and development of the Academy for this level of language, considering that planning and linguistic policy falls within the framework and areas of sociolinguistics. The research aims to follow linguistic policy and linguistic planning in order to achieve a linguistic reform, represented in the efforts of the Arabic language Academy in Cairo in the dictionary industry, and its role in the reform of the content, and the unification and development of the linguistic use of contemporary Classical Arabic in the fields of life, education, media, communication and thinking in order to achieve individual and collective demands in dealing with state institutions and authorities. Keywords: Language Planning, Language Policy, Language Reform, Arabic Language Academy

Identifying the Register Demolishing Hierarchy in American Discourse through Transition Relevance Place: Brooklyn Nine-Nine

In discourse, Transition Relevance Place (TRP), which transpires when the speaker changes in turn-taking, indicates numerous issues about participants' relationships, intentions, and roles in that conversation. For example, silence has the power to signal various concerns, ranging from comfort to awkwardness. Overlapping might mean cooperation or challenge depending on the context. Besides, etiquette in a conversation is scrupulously observed in formal exchanges, and interrupting the speaker is considered a severe violation of etiquette in conversations. Interlocutors tend to obey the sequences of transition in conversations, and exceptions are functional as participants of a conversation perceive them as divergent from the expected flow. In this sense, TRP is rather observable in a register regarding the possible effects it might contribute to it. As an area of sociolinguistics, register defines language use proper to a particular function in a context. Therefore, this study will argue that in an American comedy sitcom, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, the interlocutors reconstruct the usual formal register by demolishing hierarchy through TRP.

Actitudes de los maestros en formación hacia las lenguas extranjeras y la educación multilingüe

Durante las dos últimas décadas la enseñanza de las lenguas extranjeras ha contado con un gran impulso en la Comunidad Autónoma de Aragón. Sin embargo, todavía está en vías de desarrollo la investigación sobre su situación y resultados tanto a nivel académico como sociolingüístico. El objetivo de este trabajo es explorar las actitudes de los maestros de Educación Primaria en formación en la Universidad de Zaragoza hacia la educación multilingüe y hacia las lenguas extranjeras preponderantes en el sistema educativo autonómico y estatal (inglés y francés), así como conocer el uso que hacen de las mismas. Los resultados del cuestionario completado por 874 alumnos de 1º y 4º curso de magisterio muestran la presencia de actitudes neutras hacia el francés y favorables hacia el inglés y la educación multilingüe, así como el influjo de algunas variables, como el perfil lingüístico del sujeto o el curso académico, principalmente signifivativas en las actitudes hacia la enseñanza multilingüe. Foreign languages teaching has been intensely implemented in Aragon during the last two decades. Nevertheless, there are still few researches focused on its situation and results in both the academic and the sociolinguistic area. The main objective of this research is to explore the attitudes of teacher training students in Zaragoza University towards multilingual education and the main foreign languages taught in the educational system regional and national (English and French). The study also aims to examine the use of these languages among future teachers. The research was carried out through a survey with 874 participants from 1st and 4th grade of Primary Education Teacher Training. The results show neutral attitudes towards French language and favorable attitudes towards English and multilingual education. It has been also found the influence of some variables like the linguistic profile and the academic grade, mainly sifnificant in the attitudes towards multilingual education.

Emergence and Evolutions: Introducing Sign Language Sociolinguistics

Emergence and Evolutions:Introducing Sign Language Sociolinguistics Annelies Kusters (bio) and Ceil Lucas (bio) sign languages, rural sign language, village sign language, sociolinguistics, variation, multimodal The very nature of sign languages in society is such that all of the areas of sociolinguistics are relevant to their study (Schembri and Lucas 2015; Roy and Metzger 2014). Sign languages range from national ones such as American Sign Language (ASL; Supalla and Clark 2014); or rural sign languages such Adamorobe Sign Language used in Ghana and in many other communities, where members of a community, both hearing and deaf, use a sign language (Nyst 2007; Zeshan and de Vos 2012); to alternate sign languages (Kendon 1989) such as Plains Indian Sign Language used by the hearing speakers of mutually unintelligible Native American languages and sometimes used also by deaf members of these communities (Davis 2015). Sign languages that have emerged in differing contexts have been used on different scales too: rural sign languages are used locally, in wider language ecologies that feature the ample use of gesture (Branson et al. 1999); national sign languages, which mostly emerged in deaf schools and deaf families are widely used throughout countries and beyond national borders (e.g., in contexts of migration); and some sign languages are used around the world in international contexts, most notably American Sign Language (ASL) and International [End Page 320] Sign (Parks 2014; Parks and Kusters forthcoming). The geographical spread of sign languages has developed largely independently from that of spoken languages, and researchers have identified sign language families (Padden 2011). Sign sociolinguists have documented the varied social contexts of these sign languages, which emerged respectively in mostly deaf contexts (e.g., Palfreyman 2019), in mixed deaf/hearing contexts (e.g., Marsaja 2008), and in mostly hearing contexts (e.g., Kendon 1989), and have proposed accounts on how these contexts of use shape the structures of sign languages (e.g., Schembri et al. 2018; Ellis et al. 2019). Naturally, the sensory asymmetries between deaf and hearing people, and related sensory access to languages impacts on sign languages, their use, and conceptualizations of them (De Meulder et al. 2019). This is one crucial difference between sign language sociolinguistics and spoken language sociolinguistics, which we expand on below. In a Dialogue section of the Journal of Sociolinguistics (vol. 26, no. 1), author pairs introduce a number of themes and debates in sign language sociolinguistics, explore why these are debates; how the debates are situated within sociolinguistics as a whole; and how spoken language sociolinguistics does or does not have similar debates. In order to give authors room to think beyond established subject areas (such as "language contact" or "variationism"), we chose five titles that foreground and represent debates rather than subject areas: Geographies and Circulations; Lumping and Splitting; Hierarchies and Constellations; Classifications and Typologies; Natural and Elicited. These main themes and debates in sign language sociolinguistics, as well as main parallels and differences with spoken language sociolinguistics, are introduced below. Themes in Sign Language Sociolinguistics Sign languages do not exist in sociolinguistic vacuums—sign languages are used in contexts where spoken/written languages, and increasingly also other sign languages are in use. An increasing number of signers are fluent in multiple spoken/written and/or signed languages. In short, multilingualism as concerns deaf and hearing sign language users is an extremely rich topic for investigation (Van Herreweghe and Vermeerbergen 2004; [End Page 321] Zeshan and Webster 2020). Multilingualism of course is closely linked to language contact, with all of the phenomena attested in spoken language contact and bilingualism also seen in sign language situations, along with some unique ones related to the multimodal nature of sign languages and the sensory asymmetries between deaf and hearing signers. Examples of signed and spoken/written language contact include fingerspelling (i.e., the manual representation of a writing system which has been assimilated into the phonology of many sign languages), the (partial) mouthing of spoken words, codeblending (also called sign-speaking or code-mixing), and chaining (e.g., signing a concept and then fingerspelling it); (e.g., Bagga-Gupta 2000; Holmström and Schönström 2018; Lucas and Valli 1992; Tapio 2019). Adam and Braithwaite (2022...

Analysis of the discursive sequence in the message from the President of Brazil transmitted online by Broadcaster Jovem Pan in the radio program Os Pingos nos Is

This article is based on the area of ​​Interactional Sociolinguistics and is the result of the analysis of the discursive sequence of courtesy or rudeness in the presidential message of the President of Brazil, Bolsonaro. The oral corpus constituted by the oral interaction of the president with the reporters of Emissora Jovem Pan of the radio program Os Pingos nos Is on the weekly live on May 28, 2020 was collected as a reference. The discursive messages used by political representatives are messages spread to a immediate and easily accessible public as well as to an international society. Politicians present their messages to the people with the ability to have their speech conveyed with courtesy or rudeness. In most political speeches or interviews, they tend to break the interactional order due to evasion of questions. Politicians deal with the answers that the recipients want to know, responding from another point that favors them and does not harm them politically. This article aimed to analyze the discursive sequence of courtesy or rudeness in the presidential message that highlighted the theme of the coronavirus pandemic. The analysis reveals that order and thematic balance were maintained in view of the development of oral interaction in the program Pingos Nos Is by Jovem Pan.

Analysis: Life history and interactive narratives in the context of the Coronavirus pandemic

This article is based on the area of Interactional Sociolinguistics and proposes the analysis of excerpts concerning a life story and interactive narratives in contexts of the Coronavirus pandemic. A first written corpus and a second oral corpus based on life narratives were collected as reference. In this analysis of life stories and interactive narratives in the context of Coronavirus disease we have a discursive sequence that allowed us to evaluate and interpret a tale and several experiences lived in this pandemic time that our planet has faced up to the moment of data collection.

Cohesion and coherence in the argumentative text in defense of the Portuguese language published by José Pacheco Pereira

This article is based on the area of Interactional Sociolinguistics and presents an analysis of excerpts from the argumentative text published by José Pacheco Pereira “O vírus que atacou a língua portuguesa”. Fragments of the text were analyzed to interpret cohesion and coherence and the justification of its arguments in the reading of this article is presented. In this initiative, the results revealed the pragmatic interpretation that the text had with the COVID-19 pandemic.