RITUAL FRAME INDICATING EXPRESSIONS (AN ACADEMIC CONVERSATION)
The present paper is based on an interview, conducted by Victor V. Leontyev with Juliane House and Dániel Z. Kádár. It provides an overview of a new theory in pragmatics, namely, Ritual Frame Indicating Expressions (RFIEs). This theory provides a bottom-up and corpus-based approach to the s...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Volgograd State University
2021-06-01
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| Series: | Vestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Seriâ 2. Âzykoznanie |
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| Online Access: | https://l.jvolsu.com/index.php/en/archive-en/686-science-journal-of-volsu-linguistics-2021-vol-20-no-2/speech-mechanisms-and-units-of-text-communication/2205-house-j-k-d-r-d-z-leontyev-v-v-ritual-frame-indicating-expressions-an-academic-conversation |
| Summary: | The present paper is based on an interview, conducted by Victor V. Leontyev with Juliane House
and Dániel Z. Kádár. It provides an overview of a new theory in pragmatics, namely, Ritual Frame Indicating
Expressions (RFIEs). This theory provides a bottom-up and corpus-based approach to the study of various
pragmatically important expressions through which the participants of an interaction indicate their awareness of
the Ritual Frame underlying the interaction. ‘Ritual Frame’ encompasses a cluster of standard situations in which
the rights and obligations of the participants are clearly defined. The corpus-based RFIE approach complements
sociopragmatic approaches to various expression types, including so-called ‘politeness markers’, honorifics, forms
of address and so on, and it also helps us to systematically capture the relationship between expressions and
speech acts. In studying RFIEs, the analyst focuses on the ways in which RFIEs spread across various standard
situations. The study of this issue also allows the researcher to contrastively examine the use of RFIEs across
linguacultures. Such contrastive research helps us to unearth major linguacultural differences. For example, the
research of J. House and D.Z. Kádár has revealed that while in East Asian linguacultures such as Chinese RFIEs
tend to be strongly associated with a particular speech act, this relationship is casual in Western linguacultures. |
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| ISSN: | 1998-9911 2409-1979 |