J House
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 32170 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J House |
| NOMBRES | J |
| APELLIDO | House |
| FIRMA | HOUSE J |
| AFILIACIONES | Universität Hamburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2650-1404 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 100 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 409 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 100 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1971 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Chinese phrasal downgraders
In this study we investigate why phrasal downgraders such as mei-guanxi 没关系 (‘does not matter’) and meishi(-meishi) 没事 (没事) (‘no problem(-no problem)’) turn out to be problematic even for advanced L2 learners of Chinese. Although both mei-guanxi and meishi(-meishi) are standardly mentioned in Chinese L2 textbooks, various of their uses are still surprisingly irritating for L2 learners. We look at the heart of such irritations by following a tripa…
Small talk in diplomatic negotiation
In this study, we investigate the function of Small Talk in a high-profile summit on nuclear arms control where the participants negotiated further steps in the détente period of the Cold War. We divide manifestations of Small Talk into themes, allowing us to identify a cluster of topics. We also consider the function of the elements of this cluster in the sequential build-up of the summit. We examine the pragmatic functions of Small Talk themes …
Interpreting literalised rituals as a genre
The aim of this article is to systematically describe the genre of literalised rituals from a historical pragmatic perspective. The study is based on a corpus drawn from the archaic Chinese source Shijing 詩經 (‘ The Book of Odes ’), which is a renowned collection of poetic texts written between the eleventh and sixth centuries bc . We examine a particular section of Shijing as an example par excellence for the genre of literalised rituals. Charact…
Chinese as a historical diplomatic language
In this study, we explore historical tributary diplomatic language use in Chinese. For many centuries, China as a major power in (South) East Asia conducted diplomatic exchanges with neighbouring countries through a tributary system, using Classical Chinese as a lingua franca . Since Chinese tributary diplomatic language use has received little attention in pragmatics, we hope to fill a knowledge gap. We examine a corpus of petitions by Ryūkyūan …
Unsolicited advice in mediatised Chinese New Year celebrations
This study investigates advice-giving during Chinese New Year family celebrations when older relatives tend to provide unsolicited advice for younger family members. First, we consider New Year advice featured in social media recordings through the lens of interaction ritual, using a corpus of TikTok videos. Second, we investigate how older and younger evaluators assess behaviours in such mediatised events. We found that the behaviour of older fa…
On the Problematic Use of ‘don’t worry’ by Chinese Learners of English
In this paper, we examine uses of ‘don’t worry’ by Chinese speakers of English, which may trigger intercultural irritations. We investigate such problematic uses from a contrastive angle, by considering whether they relate to the fact that in Chinese there are two expressions which may be equivalents of English ‘don’t worry’: fangxin 放心 (lit. ‘ease your heart’) and bie-danxin 别担心 (lit. ‘don’t burden your heart’). First, we present uses of ‘don’t …
Refusing gifts in Chinese
In this study, we examine patterns of gift-refusing in Chinese. Exchanging gifts is a fundamental part of Chinese social interaction which follows ostensible ritual conventions: a gift is often expected to be refused before it can be accepted. We focus on conventionalised expressions through which speech acts realising genuine gift-refusing are indicated. Such expressions have an important interactional function because Chinese ritual gift-exchan…
Analysing sympathy from a contrastive pragmatic angle
In this study, we provide a replicable language-anchored framework for capturing expressions of sympathy in interaction, by contrasting Chinese and English sympathising behaviour. Our framework combines interaction ritual and speech acts, and it captures sympathising without associating it with one particular speech act from the outset. Methodologically, we follow a tripartite design: First we identify puzzlements which ritual sympathising can tr…
Beyond the deferential view of the Chinese V pronoun nin 您
In this paper, we revisit the long-held assumption that the Chinese second-person V pronoun nin 您 is an essentially ‘deferential’ pronoun. We examine uses of nin in settings where disagreement occurs and where conventionally the T pronoun ni would be preferred. Our research follows a bipartite design. First, we used a Discourse Completion Test to discover under what circumstances Chinese speakers use nin if disagreement emerges. The results revea…
Flattery in historical China
In this study we examine how flattery was realised in historical Chinese interactions. We bring together ritual, speech acts and interaction, studying a corpus of interactions drawn from the late imperial satirical novel Guanchang Xianxing Ji 官场现形记 (‘Officialdom Unmasked’). Many claims have been made about the prevalence of flattery in Chinese social interaction, in particular in historical China. Since little language-anchored research has been …
Ostensible invitations in Chinese – A pragmatic perspective
In this study, we examine ostensible invitations in Chinese, i.e. cases where an interactant invites the addressee to an event when both participants are aware of the fact that the invitation is not a real one. In order to identify pragmatic similarities and differences between ostensible and genuine invitations, we compare two corpora of naturally-occurring online exchanges on WeChat, including 70 ostensible and 70 genuine invitations. Our analy…
Offering food and alcohol in Chinese and English
In this paper, we compare conventions of offering food and alcohol in Chinese and English. We define offering as an interaction ritual because in many linguacultures, food and drink are offered by following certain conventions, the observing of which is a ritually sacred duty for the host. Foreign residents in China are often irritated by Chinese conventions of offering food and drink. We try to explain such irritations by investigating how Chine…
Complaining in historical Chinese criminal trials
This study examines late-imperial Chinese criminal trials, starting from the observation that, in historical Chinese criminal trials, the speech act Complain is not only surprisingly frequent but is also often realised by the magistrate conducting the trial. We examine Complains in a corpus drawn from late imperial Chinese gong’an 公案 (literally, ‘criminal case’) novels. Whilst fictive in nature, such novels feature courtroom interactions in a tur…
Offering gifts in Chinese
Speech acts and interaction in second language pragmatics
In this position paper, we argue that second language (L2) pragmatic research needs to explore new avenues for integrating speech acts and interaction, by proposing a radically minimal, finite and interactional typology of speech acts. While we will introduce what we mean by integrating speech acts and interaction in detail below, the following argument helps us to summarise the issue we consider in this study: When we describe language behaviour…
Routine and Ritual Small Talk in Chinese rural shops
The Pragmatics of English as a Lingua Franca
English as a lingua franca (ELF) is defined and a comprehensive overview of research into the pragmatics of ELF is given. Early ELF studies often investigated ELF as a learner language, but more recent research takes a broader view by examining the ways that EFL speakers accomplish communication in everyday practices. Three strands of recent research are described: one identifies strategies for negotiation of meaning, the second studies the role …
An interactional approach to speech acts for applied linguistics
In this paper, we present an approach for applied linguists to undertake research on speech acts in an interactionally anchored way. We first critically revisit studies on speech acts, with a special focus on L2 pragmatics, arguing that there is a clear need to further interconnect speech acts and interaction by relying on a finite, replicable and interactional typology of speech acts. We then suggest a methodological procedure through which such…
Sympathising with patients in historical China
In this study, we examine how family members expressed sympathy when visiting patients in mid-eighteenth-century China, by studying a corpus of patient visits drawn from the renowned Chinese novel Hongloumeng 红楼梦 (Dream of the Red Chamber). The study of such visits is methodologically challenging because these visits were less scripted than many other ritual interactions, operating with many seemingly ad hoc elements. We approach patient visits i…
Bargaining in Chinese livestream sales events
In this study, we examine practices of bargaining in Chinese livestream sales events. In such livestreams, the host, usually an Internet celebrity, invites a company representative to advertise a product for the customers who are usually fans of the host. Following the promotion, the host is expected to bargain with the seller to reduce the price of the item for the customers. We approach livestream bargaining as a ritual practice in which ostens…
Chinese “face”-related expressions in Peking and Teochew Opera scripts
This paper presents a historical contrastive pragmatic study of the use of Chinese “face”-related expressions in Peking and Teochew Opera scripts. The rationale behind this investigation is that contemporary Mandarin and the Minnan Dialect operate with very different inventories of “face”-related expressions, and it is worth considering whether this difference also applies to historical language use, and, if so, how. Studying this matter is parti…
The language of diplomatic mediation - A case study of an emergency meeting in the wake of the Yugoslav wars
In this paper, we examine the language of diplomatic mediation from the perspective of speech acts and interaction, by studying an unofficial transcript of an emergency meeting in 1991 between representatives of the European Economic Community (EEC) and Slovenia and Croatia. We use a bottom-up methodology, bringing together ritual, speech acts and interaction, to capture recurrent conventions of diplomatic mediation in a strictly language-anchore…
Cross‐Cultural Pragmatics
In this entry, we provide an overview of the field of cross‐cultural pragmatics. We first summarize the historical development of the field. We then provide six Principles through which the modus operandi of cross‐cultural pragmatics can be best described. Finally, we provide examples of current research in the field.
The Pragmatics of Language and Politics
In this entry, we overview pragmatic research on language and politics. We first summarize studies in this area. We then discuss three strands of research that are particularly important in the further development of this field.
Einführung in die Sprachlehrforschung
Welche Faktoren beeinflussen das Erlernen einer Fremdsprache, und was folgt daraus für den Fremdsprachenunterricht? Dieser Schlüsselfrage unterrichtlichen Geschehens geht die Sprachlehrforschung nach. Sie verbindet dabei lerntheoretische mit didaktischen Überlegungen und zieht Ergebnisse aus Nachbardisziplinen wie Zweitsprachenerwerbsforschung, Linguistik und Psychologie heran. Die 3. Auflage dieser bewährten Einführung in Grundlagen und Methoden…
English as a lingua franca
In this paper I argue against the widespread assumption that the English language in its role as lingua franca is a serious threat to national languages and to multilingualism. I support this argument by making a distinction between 'languages for communication' and 'languages for identification'. Further support for the stance against one-sidedly attacking English as a killer language will be drawn from the findings of three research projects cu…
Income dynamics and adult mortality in the United States, 1972 through 1989
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to examine relationships between income and mortality, focusing on the predictive utility of single-year and multiyear measures of income, the shape of the income gradient in mortality, trends in this gradient over time, the impact of income change on mortality, and the joint effects of income and age, race, and sex on mortality risk. METHODS: Data were taken from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for the ye…
Text and context in translation
I think and I don't know in English as lingua franca and native English discourse
Aggressive complaining on Social Media
This paper examines the ways in which the speech act of complaint is realised in social media contexts. To date, little attention has been devoted to the realisation of this speech act in online settings, despite the fact that such settings provide different affordances for complaining than many of their spoken and written counterparts. In the current study, we aim to make a step towards filling this knowledge gap by demonstrating that in online …
Social Theory as Science
T/V pronouns in global communication practices
In this paper we investigate how the second person pronominal T-form is translated in IKEA catalogues in a number of different languages. IKEA is renowned for using the T-form as a form of branding: it promotes this form even in those countries where it might not be perceived favourably. However, our examination of a sample of IKEA catalogues shows that there are frequent deviations from IKEA's T-policy. By examining translations of the T-form in…
Ludic impoliteness and globalisation on Twitter
Developing pragmatic competence in English as a lingua franca
Translation Quality Assessment
The paper first reports on three different approaches to translation evaluation which emanate from different concepts of "meaning" and its role in translation. Secondly, a functional-pragmatic model of translation evaluation is described, which features a distinction between different types of translations and versions, and stresses the importance of using a "cultural filter" in one particular type of translation. Thirdly, the influence of Englis…
Interaction Ritual and (Im)Politeness
This paper provides insight into interaction ritual theory, by devoting special attention to the interface between interaction ritual and (im)politeness. We focus on several key pragmatic features of interaction ritual, illustrating their operation. We also describe different research approaches for systematically studying interaction rituals. Finally, we present a case-study of Chinese university military trainings to illustrate the operation of…
Subjectivity in English as Lingua Franca discourse
This article presents the first empirical corpus-based investigation of the way speakers of English as a lingua franca (ELF) use the marker you know in interaction. While most previous studies of the use of you know stress its interpersonal functions in native English use, this study puts forward the strong hypothesis that ELF use of you know is critically different in that ELF speakers use you know predominantly as a self-serving strategy for pu…
Impoliteness in Germany
In this paper, I first look at how the notions of “politeness” and “impoliteness” have been discussed in the literature including my own ideas of relating universal levels of impoliteness to culture and language-specific levels. Given this framework and my earlier postulation of a set of dimensions along which German speakers were found to prefer expressions that are more direct than indirect, more explicit than implicit, and generally more conte…
Cross-Cultural Pragmatics
German and Japanese war crime apologies
In this paper we present a diachronic corpus-based contrastive pragmatic study of German and Japanese Second World War crime apologies. War apology is a very emotively loaded and sensitive phenomenon, in particular because the crimes perpetrated can never be undone. We approach war apologies by examining their pragmatic features and explore the diachronic development of these features. Our aim is to offer a different insight into the phenomenon o…
Speech acts and interaction in second language pragmatics
In this position paper, we argue that second language (L2) pragmatic research needs to explore new avenues for integrating speech acts and interaction, by proposing a radically minimal, finite and interactional typology of speech acts. While we will introduce what we mean by integrating speech acts and interaction in detail below, the following argument helps us to summarise the issue we consider in this study: When we describe language behaviour…
Self-denigration in Chinese
In this study, we investigate self-denigration in Chinese by applying a strictly language-based interactional speech act approach. Previous research has often zeroed in on Chinese self-denigration by studying the pragmatic function of expressions selected beforehand by the researcher. As an alternative, we propose a bottom-up approach through which self-denigration can be captured in phases of interaction and expressions speech acts and expressio…
A new critique of the binary first- and second-order distinction in politeness research
In this paper, we revisit the renowned binary distinction between the first- and second-order perspectives on politeness through an approach that combines speech acts with interaction. We challenge the long-held assumption that speech acts are 'artificial', providing a mere 'second-order' perspective on politeness. As an alternative, we propose an approach through which one can study speech act realisation and pragmatic phenomena such as politene…
Ritual frames and mimesis
In this paper, we examine the phenomenon of mimesis, i.e. the way in which people copy each other's behaviour. We focus on an understudied type of mimesis, which we define as 'performative mimesis'. This type of mimesis tends to occur in complex participatory settings where the interactants follow a perceived 'scripted' form of pre-existing behaviour. Our data consists of transcripts of Chinese university 'military trainings', i.e. training cours…
Politeness Markers’ Revisited - A Contrastive Pragmatic Perspective
This paper revisits the concept of ‘politeness marker’, by proposing the bottom-up and corpus-based model of ‘ritual frame indicating expressions’ (RFIEs). Our central argument is that, in certain linguacultures, the relationship between ‘politeness markers’ and politeness itself is significantly stronger than in others. Therefore, any theory which argues that there is a definite relationship between form and politeness - or totally rejects this …
Why Some People Are More Unemployed than Others
Authentic vs elicited data and qualitative vs quantitative research methods in pragmatics
English as a global lingua franca
In this paper I will look at the controversy surrounding the current status of English in the world. I will consider the question of whether the dominant role of English as a lingua franca (ELF) is a menace to other languages, to multilingual communication and to the profession of translation and interpreting, or whether a positive evaluation of the omnipresence of English as a default means of communication can be justified. I will argue for a c…
(Im)politeness in cross-cultural encounters
In this article I will first discuss the notions of ‘politeness’ and ‘impoliteness’ including a multilevel model of politeness and impoliteness that relates universal levels to culture- and language-specific ones. Given this framework and my earlier postulation of a set of parameters along which members of two linguacultures differ in terms of communicative styles and preferences conventionally holding in a particular linguaculture, I will provid…
Introduction
Industrial Britain
A Note On Positivism
A Model for Assessing Translation Quality
Social Theory as Science
Politeness Markers in English and German
Learning the Pragmatics of Discourse
WILLIS EDMONDSON, JULIANE HOUSE, GABRIELE KASPER, BRIGITTE STEMMER; Learning the Pragmatics of Discourse: A Project Report, Applied Linguistics, Volume 5
Some Methodological Problems and Perspectives in Contrastive Discourse Analysis
Journal Article Some Methodological Problems and Perspectives in Contrastive Discourse Analysis Get access JULIANE HOUSE JULIANE HOUSE University of Hamburg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Applied Linguistics, Volume 5, Issue 3, Autumn 1984, Pages 245–254, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/5.3.245 Published: 01 October 1984
Renoir and the Earthly Paradise
Journal Article Renoir and the Earthly Paradise Get access JOHN HOUSE JOHN HOUSE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Oxford Art Journal, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1985, Pages 21–27, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/8.2.21 Published: 01 December 1985
Why Some People Are More Unemployed than Others
Cross-Cultural Pragmatics
Einführung in die Sprachlehrforschung
Developing Pragmatic Fluency in English as a Foreign Language
This study explores whether pragmatic fluency can best be acquired in the classroom by provision of input and opportunity for communicative practice alone, or whether learners profit more when additional explicit instruction in the use of conversational routines is provided. It is hypothesized that such instruction raises learners' awareness of the functions and contextual distributions of routines, enabling them to become more pragmatically flue…
Income dynamics and adult mortality in the United States, 1972 through 1989
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to examine relationships between income and mortality, focusing on the predictive utility of single-year and multiyear measures of income, the shape of the income gradient in mortality, trends in this gradient over time, the impact of income change on mortality, and the joint effects of income and age, race, and sex on mortality risk. METHODS: Data were taken from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for the ye…
Translation Quality Assessment
The paper first reports on three different approaches to translation evaluation which emanate from different concepts of "meaning" and its role in translation. Secondly, a functional-pragmatic model of translation evaluation is described, which features a distinction between different types of translations and versions, and stresses the importance of using a "cultural filter" in one particular type of translation. Thirdly, the influence of Englis…
English as a lingua franca
In this paper I argue against the widespread assumption that the English language in its role as lingua franca is a serious threat to national languages and to multilingualism. I support this argument by making a distinction between 'languages for communication' and 'languages for identification'. Further support for the stance against one-sidedly attacking English as a killer language will be drawn from the findings of three research projects cu…
Politeness in Germany
Spanisch-Zapotekische Bitt-und Dankeshandlungen
Text and context in translation
Introduction
Subjectivity in English as Lingua Franca discourse
This article presents the first empirical corpus-based investigation of the way speakers of English as a lingua franca (ELF) use the marker you know in interaction. While most previous studies of the use of you know stress its interpersonal functions in native English use, this study puts forward the strong hypothesis that ELF use of you know is critically different in that ELF speakers use you know predominantly as a self-serving strategy for pu…
Some aspects of pragmatics
Part of current pragmatics research aims at opening up new avenues of inquiry by revisiting and revising some of its central topics and keywords, such as implicature, explicature, truth, varieties of meaning, meaning inference, relevance, politeness, and face. This review article attempts to contribute to this endeavor by making some comments on and beyond Kecskes and Horn's (2007) Explorations in Pragmatics: Linguistic, Cognitive and Intercultur…
Impoliteness in Germany
In this paper, I first look at how the notions of “politeness” and “impoliteness” have been discussed in the literature including my own ideas of relating universal levels of impoliteness to culture and language-specific levels. Given this framework and my earlier postulation of a set of dimensions along which German speakers were found to prefer expressions that are more direct than indirect, more explicit than implicit, and generally more conte…
Exposure to fine particulate matter and acute effects on blood pressure
BACKGROUND: Observational studies and controlled experiments have provided evidence that airborne particulate matter (PM) is capable of acutely increasing blood pressure (BP) in certain scenarios. The goal of this study was to evaluate whether and to what extent obesity and community location affect relationships between fine particulate matter (PM(2.5)) and blood pressure (BP) measures. METHODS: Using data from a stratified random sample survey …
I think and I don't know in English as lingua franca and native English discourse
The Social Structuring of Mental Health over the Adult Life Course
The sociology of aging draws on a broad array of theoretical perspectives from several disciplines, but rarely has it developed its own. We build on past work to advance and empirically test a model of mental health framed in terms of structural theorizing and situated within the life course perspective. Whereas most prior research has been based on cross-sectional data, we utilize four waves of data from a nationally representative sample of Ame…
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