This study proposes a cross-linguistic framework for analyzing stance markers. The framework links cultural preferences for different intersubjectivity types to the argumentative strength encoded in stance markers, operationalized through the Control Cycle Model, thereby generating testable predictions about the distributional patterns of stance markers in English and Chinese tourism short videos (TSVs). Comparable corpora were compiled from the subtitles of popular TSVs sourced from YouTube and Douyin, and the distributional patterns of epistemic and effective stance markers were analyzed. Our findings indicate that stance markers with moderate to strong argumentative strength are preferred in both English and Chinese TSVs, reflecting the evaluation-oriented and action-guiding nature of TSVs. With respect to cross-linguistic differences, English TSVs favor stance markers with strong argumentative strength, whereas Chinese TSVs tend to rely on markers with moderate argumentative strength. These divergent preferences are shown to reflect culturally distinct orientations toward attitudinal versus responsive intersubjectivity. The study illustrates how this framework can trace cultural differences in stance marker distribution to dimensions of embodied cognition related to epistemic and effective control.

In expressing opinions, we use epistemic and effective stance marking strategies to understand and influence reality. This study conducted a cross-linguistic analysis of effective and epistemic stance marking in Chinese and English, based on 20 oral and 20 written opinion reports elicited on the topics of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), acupuncture, and vaccines. We found that 1) most Chinese speakers selected the topic of TCM and supported its effectiveness, while most English speakers selected and supported the topic of vaccines. 2) In the selection of stance categories, the Chinese native speakers tended to use effective stance markers significantly more than the English in both spoken and written reports, reflecting a striving for control over the realization of events, whereas the English native speakers primarily used epistemic stance markers significantly more than the Chinese in spoken language, reflecting their controlling for knowledge of reality and information credibility. 3) Chinese generally manifests greater subjectivity and more inclusive intersubjectivity, while English displays a higher degree of exclusive intersubjectivity, often reflected in the frequent use of IRE markers. 4) Spoken language in both Chinese and English demonstrates stronger subjectivity and flexibility than written language. 5) The differences in topic choice, level of support, and stance marker preferences between the Chinese and the English native speakers may be attributed to cultural/ emotional distance. This study can provide novel theoretical and methodological perspectives for investigating cross-linguistic and cross-cultural differences between languages, and shed light on disparities between spoken and written discourse. (c) 2025 Elsevier B.V. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.

Björn Wiemer & Juana I. Marín-Arrese (eds.), Evidential marking in European languages: Toward a unitary comparative account. Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. xvii + 732. - Volume 60 Issue 2

How to mark the epistemic status of an occurrence is an important issue in the study of finite clauses. Cognitivefunctional approach represented by Langacker and Nuyts proposed theories of clausal grounding and qualifications of states of affairs（SoAs）, respectively, which promotes the study of syntactic markers in the grounding roles of tense, aspect,modality and evidentiality. A review of their classical theories and recent studies finds three initiative aspects: 1)Grounding pertains to how the speaker implements grammatical markers to relate to the different cognitive ground. The role of speaker-involvement is emphasized in the observation of syntactic marking, revealing an epistemic turning in language study; 2) Based on an assessment of the reality of the event and the validity of the clausal proposition, a clause-internal/-external grounding system is proposed. Strategies of clausal grounding are extended from tense and modality to evidentiality. Evidential markers as grounding elements are considered as an important dimension of clausal grounding; and 3) Grounding strata of clausal markers include morphological, lexical and grammatical coding, which provides a new perspective to the study of clausal grounding.

人称代词"大家"具有典型的非人称代词特点.基于平行语料库对其英语对应策略及其影响因素进行考察发现,其对应偏好为:集合NP＞they＞零对应＞every+＞we＞动名化＞you＞one,其中非人称代词策略并不占绝对优势.使用R语言软件对上述对应策略分布的影响因素进行多元逻辑回归分析,拟合出影响策略选择的最优模型为:语言来源+量化+真实性+宾语性,各因素间没有交互作用:以对应策略every+为参照项,语言来源对you、集合NP、动名化及零对应的选择有显著影响,量化对we,they及you的选择有显著影响,真实性对they和we的选择有显著影响,宾语性只对集合NP的选择有显著影响.可以预测:英语非人称代词策略的选择主要受到量化和真实性影响.

During the past decade, the field of family language policy has broadened its scopeand turned its attention to diverse family configurations in versatile sociolinguistic contexts.The current study contributes to this endeavor by focusing on two single-parent families wholive in Finland and who strive to support Russian as a family language. Applying nexusanalysis as an epistemological stance and as an analytical lens, the study takes an emicperspective on family language policy. Furthermore, it examines how family language policy ismanifested and negotiated during mother-child play and what discoursesshape it. The findings reveal two contrasting ways in which family language policy ismanifested and negotiated in the families. Confident family language policy in one of thefamilies is informed by the mother’s historical body (i.e., prior experience of raising childrenbilingually), while in the other family, discourse in place represented by divergent languageideologies plays a significant role in shaping family language policy and is connected withhesitant decisions about language use in the family.

During the past decade, the field of family language policy has broadened its scopeand turned its attention to diverse family configurations in versatile sociolinguistic contexts.The current study contributes to this endeavor by focusing on two single-parent families wholive in Finland and who strive to support Russian as a family language. Applying nexusanalysis as an epistemological stance and as an analytical lens, the study takes an emicperspective on family language policy. Furthermore, it examines how family language policy ismanifested and negotiated during mother-child play and what discoursesshape it. The findings reveal two contrasting ways in which family language policy ismanifested and negotiated in the families. Confident family language policy in one of thefamilies is informed by the mother’s historical body (i.e., prior experience of raising childrenbilingually), while in the other family, discourse in place represented by divergent languageideologies plays a significant role in shaping family language policy and is connected withhesitant decisions about language use in the family.

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本文以认知语法基线/阐释模型为框架,基于其结构、系统和功能的整合分析思路,探讨汉语类指“一量名”结构三种类型的语义构建机制.研究表明,“一量名”类指义的浮现以类指光杆名词为基线,经历了将光杆名词植入“一量”情境和转喻“例代类”两次连续阐释,并在虚拟现实内触发了表概括义的心理空间.与光杆名词相比,“一量名”表类指时更突显言听双方的互动.同位“一量名”结构的前件基线决定复合结构的指称性质,后件构成阐释并参与塑造话语语义.兼指“一量名”结构在篇章内同时关联先前特定实体和后续属性谓语,通过视窗之间对应组合触发其类指义.

概念转喻研究包含狭义的转喻本体观和广义的转喻性语法观.狭义观侧重探究不同语言层面的转喻运作及其概念理据,是主流的转喻研究范式;广义观基于认知语法的语义分析路径,指出形式与概念结构之间的转喻属性和语义不确定性,是语法本质层面的转喻研究.本文指出两类视角都是认知参照点模式的体现,转喻本体高度内在于转喻性语法之中;而后者寻求概念层面的整合以统一解释各类语言现象,并不局限于转喻本体,这并非过度概括或无视语用因素.狭义观侧重组合层面,广义观强调转喻属性在用法事件各类埋藏式关联中的聚合体现.本文对广义观的特定研究取向和方法论意义提出思考,认为转喻研究应寻求兼顾两种转喻观.

E/E谓词表达认识性和言据性情态,是It复杂非人称构式的典型谓词.本文基于汉英双向平行语料库对含有E/E谓词的It复杂非人称构式与其汉语对应表达进行对比考察,分析发现:1)除少量零对应之外,E/E谓词在汉语中偏向于使用事件评价述谓,其汉语对应梯度依次为“事件评价述谓＞句内附谓状语＞句首状语＞主句述谓成分”;2)非人称策略在汉语中倾向于采用无主语、补语事件主语、物称主语、时间地点主语、概指名词主语、不定人称主语等形式;3)汉语两类典型的非人称格式为“补语事件主语+事件评价述谓”和“无主语+句内附谓状语+补语事件”.

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本文基于英汉语料库对转折类、详述类和推理类话语标记的组合能力进行了英汉对比分析,发现可形成的九种组合类型在两种语言中都有使用,但在整体频率、各组合类型及高频搭配项的频率方面英语都远高于汉语.英语更偏好使用异质话语标记组合,其共现方式表现为并置;汉语更偏好使用同质话语标记组合,其共现方式表现为补充.英汉语中三类同质话语标记组合的组合能力强弱排序一致,而六类异质话语标记组合的组合能力强弱排序大致相反.该现象可从对应的话语标记成员范围差异、具体话语标记的使用范围差异、以及形合与意合的差异等角度得到解释.

本文通过自建语料库对比国内外语言学期刊英语标题中介词的使用情况.数据表明,国内期刊标题中介词使用频率明显高于国际期刊,两类期刊标题中各高频介词语义分布及介词搭配项数量差异显著.汉语标题凸显研究过程,而英语标题凸显研究客体.国内外作者英语标题中介词使用差异是由英汉语言类型差异、英汉标题特征差异和不同期刊文章内容差异共同决定的.

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