Arthur Barron
Biographic Data
| ID | 287222 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arthur Barron |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arthur |
| FAMILY NAME | Barron |
| SIGNATURE | BARRON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leuphana University of Lüneburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2962-7985 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 170 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1952 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Variational Pragmatics and World Englishes
Although speakers across World Englishes share many commonalities in their use of language in context, each variety of English is inextricably shaped by and adapted to its own particular socio‐cultural, historical, and linguistic context. Hence, what is regarded as an appropriate convention of language use may differ across varieties. Variational pragmatics is the study of pragmatic variation within one language. At the interface of World English…
I'll get it: Payment offers, payment offer sequences and gender on First Dates
Settling the bill is an integral part of a first date, with payment negotiation potentially involving a number of speech acts, not least payment offers. Research on payment offers and on payment negotiation sequences represents a desideratum. Furthermore, psychological and sociological research points to payment negotiation in dating as a site of gender construction. However, pragmatic research on gender variation and payment offer sequences is l…
Payment offers, suggestions to share expenses and payment negotiation sequences on initial dates in Germany and the United Kingdom
Irish English and Irish Studies: Exploring language use and identity through fictional constructions of laddism
The construction of a linguistic collective identity uses a pool of conscious and unconscious elements that deal with age, gender, or ethnic belonging. In the Irish communicative system, one present-day type of collective masculine identity is that of “the lads.” Previous studies on “laddish” behaviour and performance from literary or social perspectives explored conduct in contexts such as sports, violence, sex, or alcohol. To encourage interdis…
Contrastivity and comparability: Pragmatic variation across pluricentric varieties
The recent pragmatic turn in the study of pluricentric varieties marks a shift in analytical focus, with increasingly more research contrasting the conventions of language use and interaction across pluricentric varieties. This turn demands new data types and new methods of analysis which uphold the principles of contrastivity and comparability. Addressing this basic requirement for the case of cross-varietal speech act analyses, the present arti…
Using corpus-linguistic methods to track longitudinal development: Routine apologies in the study abroad context
Despite the recent emergence of corpus pragmatics, the use of corpus linguistic methods in interlanguage pragmatics remains limited. This study employs corpus linguistic methods to shed light on recurring patterns of use within a speaker group over time and also between speaker groups. We examine the extent to which a group of 33 Anglophone learners of German develop their knowledge of pragmatic routines in realising apologies in study abroad. Da…
Pragmatic development and stay abroad
This Special Issue on Pragmatic Development and Stay Abroad further extends the research on pragmatic development, focusing in particular on pragmatic learning in a stay abroad context. The present introduction contextualises the papers and draws on key themes shared across papers. In so doing, it provides several impulses for future research on the study of pragmatic development in the stay abroad context. Specifically, the topics focused on inc…
Learner pragmatics at the discourse level: Staying “on topic” in a telecollaborative eTandem task
The speech act of 'offers' in Irish English
This article takes a variational pragmatic approach to investigating language use in Ireland by focusing on the speech act of 'offers' in Irish English as compared to those in British English. Using comparable Irish and British components of the International Corpus of English, the analysis centres on the offer strategies and strategy realisations employed in these offers. The study highlights the need for corpus analyses of speech acts to includ…
Introduction: Undoing the demos
In Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution, Wendy Brown argues that neo-liberalism has undermined democracy in a hitherto unprecedented form. To be specific, neo-liberalism has undermined what is at the heart of democracy: popular sovereignty, the demos – it has, in a word, undone the demos and, hence, democracy. Analysing neo-liberalism and its relationship to democracy, Brown draws on the works of Michel Foucault and Karl Marx. Th…
Public Information Messages: A Contrastive Genre Analysis of State-Citizen Communication
Article 2. Public Information Messages: A Contrastive Genre Analysis of State-Citizen Communication was published on November 1, 2016 in the journal English and American Studies in German (volume 5, issue 1).
Explorations in regional variation: A variational pragmatic perspective
The present article introduces the Special Issue entitled “A Variational Pragmatic Approach to Regional Variation in Language”, a collection of papers which celebrates the work of Klaus P. Schneider (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany) on the occasion of his 60th birthday
Tag questions across Irish English and British English: A corpus analysis of form and function
The present study, situated in the area of variational pragmatics, contrasts tag question (TQ) use in Ireland and Great Britain using spoken data from the Irish and British components of the International Corpus of English (ICE). Analysis is on the formal and functional level and also investigates form-functional relationships. Findings reveal many similarities in the use of TQs across the varieties. They also point, however, to a lower use of TQ…
Variational Pragmatics
Variational pragmatics is the study of how language use varies within one language as a result of such macrosocial factors as region, gender, age, ethnic identity, and socioeconomic class. The entry sketches the field of variational pragmatics, introducing the framework and methodologies employed to date before then turning to the social relevance of variational pragmatic research, implications for the classroom and possible future developments i…
Pragmatics of Discourse
Discourse is language as it occurs, in any form or context, beyond the speech act. It may be written or spoken, monological or dialogical, but there is always a communicative aim or purpose. The present volume provides systematic orientation in the vast field of studying discourse from a pragmatic perspective. It first gives an overview of a range of approaches developed for the analysis of discourse, including, among others, conversation analysi…
Constructing small talk in learner-native speaker voice-based telecollaboration: A focus on topic management and backchanneling
Free software production as critical social practice
This paper analyses the phenomenon of free and open source software (FOSS) in the light of Luc Boltanski and Ève Chiapello's The new spirit of capitalism. It argues that collaborative FOSS production by volunteer software developers is a species of critical social practice in Boltanski and Chiapello's sense: rooted in resistance to capitalist social relations, and yet also a source of values that justify the new routes to profitability associated…
Public Information Messages: A contrastive genre analysis of state-citizen communication
Public information messages are an important means of state-citizen communication in today’s societies. Using this genre, citizens are directed to “never ever drink and drive”, to “slow down” and to “learn to say no”. Yet, this book presents the first in-depth analysis of public information messages from a linguistic perspective, and indeed also from a cross-cultural perspective. Specifically, the study, adopting genre analysis, contrasts a corpu…
Interlanguage pragmatics: From use to acquisition to second language pedagogy
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Kant, Copyright and Communicative Freedom
The rapid recent expansion of copyright law worldwide has sparked efforts to defend the ‘public domain’ of non-propertized information, often on the ground that an expansive public domain is a condition of a ‘free culture’. Yet questions remain about why the public domain is worth defending, what exactly a free culture is, and what role (if any) authors’ rights might play in relation to it. From the standard liberal perspective shared by many cri…
Variational pragmatics: Studying the impact of social factors on language use in interaction
Variational pragmatics: A Focus on Regional Varieties in Pluricentric Languages
Acquisitional pragmatics: Focus on foreign language learners
1. Introduction Calls for research into the acquisition of pragmatic competence in a second language have been a familiar feature of the interlanguage pragmatic landscape since the 1990s. Indeed, one of the first of these many calls was made as early as 1992 by Kasper in an article focusing on pragmatic transfer. In this article, she writes “... the majority of interlanguage pragmatics studies focus on use, without much attempt to say or even imp…
Ah no honestly we're okay: ” Learning to upgrade in a study abroad context
Interlanguage studies have found learners' use of internal modifiers to develop in terms of frequency, choice and variety over time spent in the target speech community. Much of this research has, however, concentrated on syntactic and lexical downgrading. Studies focusing on upgrading, i.e., intensifying forms of internal modification, remain in very short supply. This study focuses on the acquisition of upgrading in refusals of offers by 33 Iri…
Introduction: Harmony or Dissonance? Copyright Concepts and Musical Practice
The institution of copyright has frequently been criticized by scholars of popular music for systematically misrepresenting and under-privileging popular music as a field of creative practice. In this respect, it is sometimes suggested, copyright law harbours a bias in favour of Western art music that is remarkably similar to that embedded in musicology, the discipline in opposition to which popular music studies chiefly defines itself. Setting t…
Acquisition in Interlanguage Pragmatics: Learning how to do things with words in a study abroad context
Acquisition in Interlanguage Pragmatics provides readers with a much-needed insight into the development of pragmatic competence, an area of research long neglected in interlanguage pragmatics. The longitudinal investigation which provides the basic material for this book consists of a corpus of requests, offers and refusals of offers elicited from Irish learners of German over a ten-month study abroad period using production questionnaires and a…
Variational pragmatics: Studying the impact of social factors on language use in interaction
Free software production as critical social practice
This paper analyses the phenomenon of free and open source software (FOSS) in the light of Luc Boltanski and Ève Chiapello's The new spirit of capitalism. It argues that collaborative FOSS production by volunteer software developers is a species of critical social practice in Boltanski and Chiapello's sense: rooted in resistance to capitalist social relations, and yet also a source of values that justify the new routes to profitability associated…
Ah no honestly we're okay: ” Learning to upgrade in a study abroad context
Interlanguage studies have found learners' use of internal modifiers to develop in terms of frequency, choice and variety over time spent in the target speech community. Much of this research has, however, concentrated on syntactic and lexical downgrading. Studies focusing on upgrading, i.e., intensifying forms of internal modification, remain in very short supply. This study focuses on the acquisition of upgrading in refusals of offers by 33 Iri…
The speech act of 'offers' in Irish English
This article takes a variational pragmatic approach to investigating language use in Ireland by focusing on the speech act of 'offers' in Irish English as compared to those in British English. Using comparable Irish and British components of the International Corpus of English, the analysis centres on the offer strategies and strategy realisations employed in these offers. The study highlights the need for corpus analyses of speech acts to includ…
Tag questions across Irish English and British English: A corpus analysis of form and function
The present study, situated in the area of variational pragmatics, contrasts tag question (TQ) use in Ireland and Great Britain using spoken data from the Irish and British components of the International Corpus of English (ICE). Analysis is on the formal and functional level and also investigates form-functional relationships. Findings reveal many similarities in the use of TQs across the varieties. They also point, however, to a lower use of TQ…
Variational pragmatics in the foreign language classroom
Pragmatic development and stay abroad
This Special Issue on Pragmatic Development and Stay Abroad further extends the research on pragmatic development, focusing in particular on pragmatic learning in a stay abroad context. The present introduction contextualises the papers and draws on key themes shared across papers. In so doing, it provides several impulses for future research on the study of pragmatic development in the stay abroad context. Specifically, the topics focused on inc…
Constructing small talk in learner-native speaker voice-based telecollaboration: A focus on topic management and backchanneling
Copyright Law's Musical Work
This article addresses and contests a particular narrative about the history of copyright law's engagement with music, an exemplary version of which is to be found in Lydia Goehr's highly influential The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works(1992). According to this narrative, copyright law's conception of the musical object that it protects by means of a property right derives from an aesthetic conception of the musical ‘work’ that itself emerged fr…
Using corpus-linguistic methods to track longitudinal development: Routine apologies in the study abroad context
Despite the recent emergence of corpus pragmatics, the use of corpus linguistic methods in interlanguage pragmatics remains limited. This study employs corpus linguistic methods to shed light on recurring patterns of use within a speaker group over time and also between speaker groups. We examine the extent to which a group of 33 Anglophone learners of German develop their knowledge of pragmatic routines in realising apologies in study abroad. Da…
Understanding spam: A macro-textual analysis
Kant, Copyright and Communicative Freedom
The rapid recent expansion of copyright law worldwide has sparked efforts to defend the ‘public domain’ of non-propertized information, often on the ground that an expansive public domain is a condition of a ‘free culture’. Yet questions remain about why the public domain is worth defending, what exactly a free culture is, and what role (if any) authors’ rights might play in relation to it. From the standard liberal perspective shared by many cri…
Acquisitional pragmatics: Focus on foreign language learners
1. Introduction Calls for research into the acquisition of pragmatic competence in a second language have been a familiar feature of the interlanguage pragmatic landscape since the 1990s. Indeed, one of the first of these many calls was made as early as 1992 by Kasper in an article focusing on pragmatic transfer. In this article, she writes “... the majority of interlanguage pragmatics studies focus on use, without much attempt to say or even imp…
The Citizen's Charter Programme
Learner pragmatics at the discourse level: Staying “on topic” in a telecollaborative eTandem task
Explorations in regional variation: A variational pragmatic perspective
The present article introduces the Special Issue entitled “A Variational Pragmatic Approach to Regional Variation in Language”, a collection of papers which celebrates the work of Klaus P. Schneider (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany) on the occasion of his 60th birthday
I'll get it: Payment offers, payment offer sequences and gender on First Dates
Settling the bill is an integral part of a first date, with payment negotiation potentially involving a number of speech acts, not least payment offers. Research on payment offers and on payment negotiation sequences represents a desideratum. Furthermore, psychological and sociological research points to payment negotiation in dating as a site of gender construction. However, pragmatic research on gender variation and payment offer sequences is l…
Payment offers, suggestions to share expenses and payment negotiation sequences on initial dates in Germany and the United Kingdom
Interlanguage pragmatics: From use to acquisition to second language pedagogy
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Introduction: Harmony or Dissonance? Copyright Concepts and Musical Practice
The institution of copyright has frequently been criticized by scholars of popular music for systematically misrepresenting and under-privileging popular music as a field of creative practice. In this respect, it is sometimes suggested, copyright law harbours a bias in favour of Western art music that is remarkably similar to that embedded in musicology, the discipline in opposition to which popular music studies chiefly defines itself. Setting t…
Feminism, Aestheticism and the Limits of Law
The Accused.Alexander Weissberg
Through the Glass of Soviet Literature. Ernest J. Simmons
Discours juridique et colonisation du moi dans l'Etat moderne
Anne Barron looks at the implications of Foucault 's social theory for liberal democratic constitutional theory. Collectivist administration is not the consequence of later 19th century political-social developments, but is the shadow side of the Enlightenment project itself. The constitution expresses the People as subject, administration, the People as object. Enlightenment legality is not only a matter of delimiting the sphere of co-existing s…
Ronald Dworkin and the Challenge of Postmodernism
The Citizen's Charter Programme
Feminism, Aestheticism and the Limits of Law
Acquisition in Interlanguage Pragmatics: Learning how to do things with words in a study abroad context
Acquisition in Interlanguage Pragmatics provides readers with a much-needed insight into the development of pragmatic competence, an area of research long neglected in interlanguage pragmatics. The longitudinal investigation which provides the basic material for this book consists of a corpus of requests, offers and refusals of offers elicited from Irish learners of German over a ten-month study abroad period using production questionnaires and a…
The Legal Properties of Film
This article focuses on the manner in which the law of copyright in the UK has made sense of a particular cultural artifact – film – in the process of figuring it as an object in which property rights can subsist. It traces the history of legislative and judicial attempts to circumscribe the boundaries around this object, noting that two approaches have emerged and now co‐exist: a ‘physicalist’ approach which treats a film as co‐extensive with it…
Variational pragmatics in the foreign language classroom
Introduction: Harmony or Dissonance? Copyright Concepts and Musical Practice
The institution of copyright has frequently been criticized by scholars of popular music for systematically misrepresenting and under-privileging popular music as a field of creative practice. In this respect, it is sometimes suggested, copyright law harbours a bias in favour of Western art music that is remarkably similar to that embedded in musicology, the discipline in opposition to which popular music studies chiefly defines itself. Setting t…
Copyright Law's Musical Work
This article addresses and contests a particular narrative about the history of copyright law's engagement with music, an exemplary version of which is to be found in Lydia Goehr's highly influential The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works(1992). According to this narrative, copyright law's conception of the musical object that it protects by means of a property right derives from an aesthetic conception of the musical ‘work’ that itself emerged fr…
Understanding spam: A macro-textual analysis
Acquisitional pragmatics: Focus on foreign language learners
1. Introduction Calls for research into the acquisition of pragmatic competence in a second language have been a familiar feature of the interlanguage pragmatic landscape since the 1990s. Indeed, one of the first of these many calls was made as early as 1992 by Kasper in an article focusing on pragmatic transfer. In this article, she writes “... the majority of interlanguage pragmatics studies focus on use, without much attempt to say or even imp…
Ah no honestly we're okay: ” Learning to upgrade in a study abroad context
Interlanguage studies have found learners' use of internal modifiers to develop in terms of frequency, choice and variety over time spent in the target speech community. Much of this research has, however, concentrated on syntactic and lexical downgrading. Studies focusing on upgrading, i.e., intensifying forms of internal modification, remain in very short supply. This study focuses on the acquisition of upgrading in refusals of offers by 33 Iri…
Variational pragmatics: A Focus on Regional Varieties in Pluricentric Languages
Variational pragmatics: Studying the impact of social factors on language use in interaction
Kant, Copyright and Communicative Freedom
The rapid recent expansion of copyright law worldwide has sparked efforts to defend the ‘public domain’ of non-propertized information, often on the ground that an expansive public domain is a condition of a ‘free culture’. Yet questions remain about why the public domain is worth defending, what exactly a free culture is, and what role (if any) authors’ rights might play in relation to it. From the standard liberal perspective shared by many cri…
Public Information Messages: A contrastive genre analysis of state-citizen communication
Public information messages are an important means of state-citizen communication in today’s societies. Using this genre, citizens are directed to “never ever drink and drive”, to “slow down” and to “learn to say no”. Yet, this book presents the first in-depth analysis of public information messages from a linguistic perspective, and indeed also from a cross-cultural perspective. Specifically, the study, adopting genre analysis, contrasts a corpu…
Interlanguage pragmatics: From use to acquisition to second language pedagogy
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Free software production as critical social practice
This paper analyses the phenomenon of free and open source software (FOSS) in the light of Luc Boltanski and Ève Chiapello's The new spirit of capitalism. It argues that collaborative FOSS production by volunteer software developers is a species of critical social practice in Boltanski and Chiapello's sense: rooted in resistance to capitalist social relations, and yet also a source of values that justify the new routes to profitability associated…
Variational Pragmatics
Variational pragmatics is the study of how language use varies within one language as a result of such macrosocial factors as region, gender, age, ethnic identity, and socioeconomic class. The entry sketches the field of variational pragmatics, introducing the framework and methodologies employed to date before then turning to the social relevance of variational pragmatic research, implications for the classroom and possible future developments i…
Pragmatics of Discourse
Discourse is language as it occurs, in any form or context, beyond the speech act. It may be written or spoken, monological or dialogical, but there is always a communicative aim or purpose. The present volume provides systematic orientation in the vast field of studying discourse from a pragmatic perspective. It first gives an overview of a range of approaches developed for the analysis of discourse, including, among others, conversation analysi…
Constructing small talk in learner-native speaker voice-based telecollaboration: A focus on topic management and backchanneling
Public Information Messages: A Contrastive Genre Analysis of State-Citizen Communication
Article 2. Public Information Messages: A Contrastive Genre Analysis of State-Citizen Communication was published on November 1, 2016 in the journal English and American Studies in German (volume 5, issue 1).
Explorations in regional variation: A variational pragmatic perspective
The present article introduces the Special Issue entitled “A Variational Pragmatic Approach to Regional Variation in Language”, a collection of papers which celebrates the work of Klaus P. Schneider (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany) on the occasion of his 60th birthday
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