Sep 2026· Contrastive Pragmatics· pp. 1-38· 0 citations· 21 references
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This article discusses usage-based conceptions of the term ‘hate speech’ in Danish and German to understand ‘folk’ perceptions of the expression in the two languages. The study is based on popular usage of the term on social media and metareflective discourse on hate speech in interviews with native speakers. The findings show that the English loan word ‘hate speech’ and its German and Danish loan translations are metapragmatically significant expressions which function as evaluative tokens for moral assessments of communicative behaviour as part of politicised discursive practice online. Notably, the interviewees do not reference these online practices, pointing to a gap between spontaneous linguistic performance and metacommunicative awareness. Comparison across the languages further reveals variation in the ideological-political discourses into which the hate speech token is recruited online as well as differences in the moral orientations underpinning the understanding of hate speech in popular reasoning.
In the conditions of high competition in the market for goods and services, companies are forced to seek increasingly effective methods of attracting consumers’ attention. This study analyzes directive speech acts of English and Russian advertising texts and examines the aspects of their use in detail. Directive speech...
A. V. Nikolaeva, L. V. Shorina, S. N. Chizhikova· Linguistics and Intercultura...· 0 citations
This article examines how phatic norms in Kazakh and English are condensed in the shift from face-to-face interaction to digital communication while preserving culturally specific meanings. It focuses on brief confirmations, forms of address, gratitude formulas, apologies, emojis, and other signals that sustain social...
Konyrbayeva Gulnur Saukhanovna, Smagulova Guldarkhan Nurgaziyevna, Kazhibayeva Gulden et al.· Journal of Language Teaching...· 0 citations
This study examines hostile expressions in Balinese language comments on social media concerning discussions of Ngaben and cremation practices from a forensic linguistic perspective, with particular attention to their potential relation to hate speech and their illocutionary functions. The study aims to identify forms...
Putu Ary Sintya Dewi, I. W. Pastika, I. Sosiowati· International journal of soc...· 0 citations
The article examines the pragmatic functions of code-switching in contemporary Kazakh-language social media discourse. The aim of the study is to systematize the main types of code-switching, identify its pragmatic functions in Kazakh-language digital communication, and describe the communicative factors influencing la...
G. Murzabekova· Батыс Қазақстан инновациялық...· 0 citations
Is a literary text an act of communication, and if so, how does it work? Relating works of literature to everyday utterances, this book focuses on the relationship between meaning and language in literary works. It uses an influential theory from linguistic pragmatics, relevance theory, to reveal a connection between l...
