SUBJECTIVITY IN LANGUAGE AND IN DISCOURSE STUDIES IN PRAGMATICS SeriesEditors:KerstinFischer,Maj-BrittMosegaardHansen,AnneBarron The Studies in Pragmatics series is dedicated to publishing innovative, authoritative monographs, and edited collections from all micro-, macro- and metapragmaticlinguisticperspectives.Rootedintheinterdisciplinaryspiritofthe Journal of Pragmatics, it welcomes not only book proposals from linguistics proper but also pragmatically oriented proposals from neighboring disciplines such as interactional sociology, language philosophy, communication science, social psychology, cognitive science, and information science. The goal of the series is to provide a widely read and respected international forum for high- quality theoretical, analytical, and applied pragmatic studies of all types. By publishingleadingedgeworkonnaturallanguagepractice,itseekstoextendour growingknowledgeoftheforms,functions,andfoundationsofhumaninteraction. Other titles in this series: FISCHER Approaches to Discourse Particles AIJMER & SIMON- Pragmatic Markers in Contrast VANDENBERGEN FETZER & FISCHER Lexical Markers of Common Grounds CAFFI Mitigation ROSSARI, RICCI & Grammaticalization and Pragmatics: SPIRIDON Facts, Approaches, Theoretical Issues FRASER & TURNER Language in Life, and a Life in Language: Jacob Mey – A Festschrift HANSEN & Current Trends in Diachronic Semantics VISCONTI and Pragmatics BARTH-WEINGARTEN, Where Prosody Meets Pragmatics DEHE´ & WICHMANN KALTENBO¨CK, New Approaches to Hedging MIHATSCH & SCHNEIDER SUBJECTIVITY IN LANGUAGE AND IN DISCOURSE EDITED BY NICOLE BAUMGARTEN University of Southern Denmark, Denmark INKE DU BOIS University of Bremen, Germany JULIANE HOUSE University of Hamburg, Germany United Kingdom – North America – Japan India – Malaysia – China EmeraldGroupPublishingLimited HowardHouse,WagonLane,BingleyBD161WA,UK Firstedition2012 Copyrightr2012EmeraldGroupPublishingLimited Reprintsandpermissionservice Contact:[email protected] Nopartofthisbookmaybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,transmittedinany formorbyanymeanselectronic,mechanical,photocopying,recordingorotherwise withouteitherthepriorwrittenpermissionofthepublisheroralicencepermitting restrictedcopyingissuedintheUKbyTheCopyrightLicensingAgencyandintheUSA byTheCopyrightClearanceCenter.Noresponsibilityisacceptedfortheaccuracyof informationcontainedinthetext,illustrationsoradvertisements.Theopinionsexpressed inthesechaptersarenotnecessarilythoseoftheEditororthepublisher. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN:978-1-78190-269-1 ISSN:1750-368X(Series) Studies in Pragmatics (SiP) Series Editors Kerstin Fischer University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen University of Manchester, UK Anne Barron Leuphana Universita¨t Lu¨neburg, Germany Consulting Editor Jacob L. Mey University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Editorial Board Diane Blakemore, University of Salford, UK Shoshana Blum-Kulka, Hebrew University, Israel Laurel Brinton, University of British Columbia, Canada Claudia Caffi, University of Genoa, Italy Alessandro Duranti, UCLA, USA Anita Fetzer, University of Wu¨rzburg, Germany Marjorie Goodwin, UCLA, USA Hartmut Haberland, Roskilde University, Denmark William F. Hanks, University of California, USA Sachiko Ide, Tokyo Women’s University, Japan Kasia Jaszczolt, University of Cambridge, UK Elizabeth Keating, University of Texas, USA Sotaro Kita, University of Bristol, UK Ron Kuzar, University of Haifa, Israel Lorenzo Mondada, University of Lyon 2, France Henning Noelke, University of Aarhus, Denmark Etsuko Oishi, Fuji Women’s University, Japan Srikant Sarangi, Cardiff University, UK Marina Sbisa`, University of Trieste, Italy This page intentionally left blank T C ABLE OF ONTENTS List of Contributors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Introduction Nicole Baumgarten, Juliane HouseandInke DuBois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Part I IndividualLanguagesand Registers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Super, Uber,So,andTotally: Over-the-top Intensification to MarkSubjectivity in ColloquialDiscourse Rachelle Waksler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Collective Aspects ofSubjectivity: The SubjectPronouneme´ıB(‘we’) in ModernGreek Theodossia-SoulaPavlidou. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Objectivizing Subjectivity: PersonDeixis andthe Constitution of Dialogic Identity (with anExampleof German DiscourseData) GabrieleDiewald andMarijana Kresic´. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Authorial Stance inResearch Article Abstracts andIntroductions from TwoDisciplines Phuong DzungPho. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Subjectivity inthe Discourse of Depressed AcuteCare Hospital Patients Helen Tebble. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Part II LanguageContact Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Subjectivity inEnglish Lingua Franca Interactions Juliane House. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Metadiscourse andthe Construction of Speaker Identities in L2Academic Presentational Talk Nicole Baumgarten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 viii TableofContents SayingWhatYouThink:AnAnalysis ofFrench andAustralian English Non-Native Speaker Expressionof Subjectivity KerryMullan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 Subjectivity andIntersubjectivity as Aspects of Epistemic StanceMarking JanusMortensen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 Subjective Modality inPersian andEnglish Parallel Texts MohammadAmouzadeh, Manoochehr TavangarandShadi Shahnaseri . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Part III Cross-Linguistic Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 Subjectivity inContrast: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison of ‘I Think’in Australian English, FrenchandSwedish KerryMullan andSusannaKarlsson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 Hedging inGerman andRussianConference Presentations: ACross-Cultural View AnnaBreitkopf-Siepmann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 Grammatical, Pragmatic andSociolinguistic Aspectsof the First Person Plural Pronoun InkeDu Bois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319 Subjectivity inAcademic Discourse: ACross-Linguistic Comparison of the Author’s Presence in French,ItalianandGerman Research Articles in Linguistics NadineRentel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339 Authorial Presence andStance inGerman andFrenchLetters toShareholders Anne Ku¨ppers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 Self-Presentation andAdaptationin Institutional Discourse: An Analysis of German andFrenchIntroductory Rounds of University Seminars Claudia Scharioth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379 AuthorIndex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391 SubjectIndex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399 L C IST OF ONTRIBUTORS Mohammad Amouzadeh,University ofIsfahan, Iran NicoleBaumgarten, University ofSouthern Denmark,Denmark AnnaBreitkopf-Siepmann, Germany GabrieleDiewald, LeibnizUniversita¨t Hannover,Germany InkeDuBois, Universita¨t Bremen, Germany Juliane House, Institut fu¨r Allgemeine und Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft, University of Hamburg,Germany SusannaKarlsson, The LanguageCouncilof Sweden,Sweden Marijana Kresic´,University of Zadar,Croatia AnneKu¨ppers, Universite´ catholique deLouvain,Belgium JanusMortensen,TheResearchCentreforCulturalandLinguisticPracticesintheInternational University, Denmark KerryMullan, RMITUniversity,Australia Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou,Aristotle University ofThessaloniki, Greece Phuong Dzung Pho, Vietnam National University-HCMC, Vietnam and Monash University, Australia NadineRentel,UniversityofAppliedSciences,Zwickau;Westsa¨chsischeHochschuleZwickau, Germany ClaudiaScharioth, Europa-Universita¨t Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany ShadiShahnaseri, University of Isfahan, Iran ManoochehrTavangar,University of Isfahan, Iran HelenTebble, MonashUniversity,Australia RachelleWaksler, SanFranciscoState University,SanFrancisco, CA,USA
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