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The International Journal of Learning: Annual Review, 2009
The present paper examines the pragmatic comprehension and metapragmatic awareness of academic L2... more The present paper examines the pragmatic comprehension and metapragmatic awareness of academic L2 learners, as manifested in exam scripts from a written exam specifically designed to assess students' pragmatic awareness. The exam is offered to fourth semester students of the Faculty of English Studies of the University of Athens, upon the completion of an academic language course, Genres in English, which deals with various media genres of English, mainly from newspapers and magazines. Contrary to extensive studies in pragmatics and oral communication in L2 contexts, in this paper we present our attempt to raise students' pragmatic awareness through a metapragmatic analysis of written texts. In particular, we place emphasis on written discourse reception and expect our students to be able to identify pragmatically inferred effects retrieved from a text by linking parts of the text together. This approach to teaching pragmatics engages learners in a genuine reading context requesting the reader's spontaneous reaction and contribution to the process of meaning making in L2. Our research has confirmed that pragmatics can be taught in an L2 environment. More specifically, our study shows that it is possible to raise students' pragmatic awareness in an L2 academic context by teaching them how to provide a metapragmatic analysis of newspaper and magazine texts. Concerning the factors affecting students' pragmatic awareness, we would like to argue that further consolidation through practicing with the pragmatic comprehension and metapragmatic analysis of texts appears to contribute to raising students' pragmatic awareness. Finally, it can also be argued that pragmatic awareness relates to language proficiency, as, on the one hand, cases of low pragmatic awareness are shown to be students with poor English, and, on the other hand, students with a high level of language proficiency exhibit raised pragmatic awareness even when they have only had limited practice with analysing texts.
Russian Journal of Linguistics
Interest in non-academic ways of understanding of im/politeness has so far been evident primarily... more Interest in non-academic ways of understanding of im/politeness has so far been evident primarily in analyses of the sequential development of real-life interactions. However, understandings of im/politeness can be found in other sources such as related articles in on-line newspapers and their ensuing comments. The main aim of this paper is to contribute to this rather neglected area in im/politeness research, thus placing emphasis on the underexplored societal rather than individual level of im/politeness. The data to be investigated comes from two on-line articles and the comments they received. The articles appeared in a popular Greek free press on-line newspaper, LIFO, in 2014 and 2017 and were written by the same journalist. Both articles and ensuing comments express lay understandings of impoliteness and are discussed in the paper in terms of van Dijk’s (1998, 2006a, b) ideological discourse analysis and ‘ideological square’ that revolves around positive self-presentation and ...
Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 2001
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 1994
Brno Studies in English, 2013
The present paper examines two commercials promoting a Greek airliner, Aegean Airlines. Both comm... more The present paper examines two commercials promoting a Greek airliner, Aegean Airlines. Both commercials involve creative and novel multimodal metaphors through which the specific airline services are compared to the services offered by buses (informing passengers) and the Greek army (catering services and meals). The form and function of the Aegean multimodal metaphors are examined in relation to the generic dimensions of multimodal metaphors in advertising as put forth by Forceville (2007). It is shown that the metaphors in question display, in broad terms, the generic features of multimodal metaphors identified in TV commercials, but violate an established and long-preserved genre-related convention, namely that the target domain of the metaphor coincides with the advertised product. It is argued that the upsetting of generic norms attested in the specific commercials, which introduces the viewer into a counterfactual, albeit wishful, world, has repercussions on the metaphor's conceptualisation and verbalisation. In the paper, the perceived incongruity in the depiction of the main characters ('bus driver' as 'pilot', 'army caterer' as 'air-hostess') is addressed briefly as creating humour.
Teaching and Learning (Im)Politeness, 2015
Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 2000
Language and Literature, 1993
Intercultural Pragmatics, 2000
This paper discusses an advanced language assessment tool designed to assess university students&... more This paper discusses an advanced language assessment tool designed to assess university students' linguistic competence in L2. The tool serves the final exam of a course offered to second-year students of English language and literature. Of the three parts of the exam, (1) reading, (2) language awareness, and (3) writing, the third part (language awareness) explicitly addresses students' pragmatic competence. In the light of our work, assessing students' pragmatic competence is shown to involve the identification of certain levels of competence ensuing from the interpretive routes learners follow in their attempt to (a) interpret the communicator's intention, (b) identify the linguistic devices that lead them to this interpretation, and (c) explicitly verbalize the link between linguistic devices and interpretation. The suggested ranking of levels draws on data from statistical analysis of 190 final exam scripts. The proposed assessment of pragmatic competence manife...
The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, 2012
Narrative Inquiry, 2005
The present paper is a study of narrative and its relation to the construction of conflicting ide... more The present paper is a study of narrative and its relation to the construction of conflicting identities in interaction. The paper is concerned with a group of young Greeks who categorise themselves as members of a particular subculture, but also construct a number of other, often conflicting, identities through the stories they tell in the course of their conversations with two researchers. By focusing on the many narratives these people volunteer to recount to the researchers, the paper aims to delve into narrative positioning and its relation to the plurality of emerging identities in the specific encounters. Particular emphasis is placed on the young people's attempt to delegitimate established figures of power and authority in order to legitimate their own group and present a positive image of themselves. By providing a detailed discussion of identities as constructed in situated discourse, the paper also aims to stress the dynamics of identity construction in context. The present study follows the line of research that focuses on narrative and its relation to the construction of situated identities (Cheshire
Pragmatics, 2009
The present paper is concerned with the narratives produced in the conversations of six young peo... more The present paper is concerned with the narratives produced in the conversations of six young people in Greece. Drawing on the broader framework of Discourse Analysis and Sociolinguistics as well as on the Social Constructionist paradigm, our paper follows the line of research that focuses on situated analysis of identities. Initially, the paper sets out to examine the identity(ies) constructed through the stories these people tell in the specific encounters. The overall aim of the paper is to relate these locally constructed identities to the larger socio-cultural identity of the participants and to examine whether they can be seen as indices of Greekness. Our analysis shows that, in the course of their story-telling, the participants construct 'in-group' identities mainly by co-constructing their narratives and by performing successive narratives with a similar point. The interactants' foregrounding and cultivation of their in-group identity is probably an indication of their Greekness, namely of the attested tendency of Greek people to value and thus cultivate in-group relations of intimacy and solidarity in interaction.
This paper is concerned with a multimodal communicative act, the televised promotion of the '... more This paper is concerned with a multimodal communicative act, the televised promotion of the 'Athens 2004 Olympic Games' on National Hellenic televisión. The first aim of the paper is to show that the commercial examined constitutes a "multimodal metaphor" (Forceville, 2004 and 2005) through which the audience is essentially invited to interpret the 'Athens 2004 Olympic Games' in terms of a 'festival'. The second aim of the paper is to explain how it is that a commercial such as this one, which foregrounds entertainment and celebrations, is almost unanimously received by a multicultural audience as successñilly advertising the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. In the framework of Relevance Theory, the pragmatic and cognitive benefits of the specific multimodal metaphor are discussed in terms of positive cognitive effects and processing effort (Sperber and Wilson, 1986/1995; Wilson and Sperber, 2004). Experimental evidence on native and non-native audi...
Intercultural Pragmatics, 2000
... in rudeness. However, intentionality is loaded with problems not least because capturing spea... more ... in rudeness. However, intentionality is loaded with problems not least because capturing speakers' true intentions is a highly prob-lematic, almost impossible task (Culpeper 2009; Garcés-Conejos Blitvich 2009). In our study ...
The International Journal of Learning: Annual Review, 2009
The present paper examines the pragmatic comprehension and metapragmatic awareness of academic L2... more The present paper examines the pragmatic comprehension and metapragmatic awareness of academic L2 learners, as manifested in exam scripts from a written exam specifically designed to assess students' pragmatic awareness. The exam is offered to fourth semester students of the Faculty of English Studies of the University of Athens, upon the completion of an academic language course, Genres in English, which deals with various media genres of English, mainly from newspapers and magazines. Contrary to extensive studies in pragmatics and oral communication in L2 contexts, in this paper we present our attempt to raise students' pragmatic awareness through a metapragmatic analysis of written texts. In particular, we place emphasis on written discourse reception and expect our students to be able to identify pragmatically inferred effects retrieved from a text by linking parts of the text together. This approach to teaching pragmatics engages learners in a genuine reading context requesting the reader's spontaneous reaction and contribution to the process of meaning making in L2. Our research has confirmed that pragmatics can be taught in an L2 environment. More specifically, our study shows that it is possible to raise students' pragmatic awareness in an L2 academic context by teaching them how to provide a metapragmatic analysis of newspaper and magazine texts. Concerning the factors affecting students' pragmatic awareness, we would like to argue that further consolidation through practicing with the pragmatic comprehension and metapragmatic analysis of texts appears to contribute to raising students' pragmatic awareness. Finally, it can also be argued that pragmatic awareness relates to language proficiency, as, on the one hand, cases of low pragmatic awareness are shown to be students with poor English, and, on the other hand, students with a high level of language proficiency exhibit raised pragmatic awareness even when they have only had limited practice with analysing texts.
Russian Journal of Linguistics
Interest in non-academic ways of understanding of im/politeness has so far been evident primarily... more Interest in non-academic ways of understanding of im/politeness has so far been evident primarily in analyses of the sequential development of real-life interactions. However, understandings of im/politeness can be found in other sources such as related articles in on-line newspapers and their ensuing comments. The main aim of this paper is to contribute to this rather neglected area in im/politeness research, thus placing emphasis on the underexplored societal rather than individual level of im/politeness. The data to be investigated comes from two on-line articles and the comments they received. The articles appeared in a popular Greek free press on-line newspaper, LIFO, in 2014 and 2017 and were written by the same journalist. Both articles and ensuing comments express lay understandings of impoliteness and are discussed in the paper in terms of van Dijk’s (1998, 2006a, b) ideological discourse analysis and ‘ideological square’ that revolves around positive self-presentation and ...
Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 2001
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 1994
Brno Studies in English, 2013
The present paper examines two commercials promoting a Greek airliner, Aegean Airlines. Both comm... more The present paper examines two commercials promoting a Greek airliner, Aegean Airlines. Both commercials involve creative and novel multimodal metaphors through which the specific airline services are compared to the services offered by buses (informing passengers) and the Greek army (catering services and meals). The form and function of the Aegean multimodal metaphors are examined in relation to the generic dimensions of multimodal metaphors in advertising as put forth by Forceville (2007). It is shown that the metaphors in question display, in broad terms, the generic features of multimodal metaphors identified in TV commercials, but violate an established and long-preserved genre-related convention, namely that the target domain of the metaphor coincides with the advertised product. It is argued that the upsetting of generic norms attested in the specific commercials, which introduces the viewer into a counterfactual, albeit wishful, world, has repercussions on the metaphor's conceptualisation and verbalisation. In the paper, the perceived incongruity in the depiction of the main characters ('bus driver' as 'pilot', 'army caterer' as 'air-hostess') is addressed briefly as creating humour.
Teaching and Learning (Im)Politeness, 2015
Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 2000
Language and Literature, 1993
Intercultural Pragmatics, 2000
This paper discusses an advanced language assessment tool designed to assess university students&... more This paper discusses an advanced language assessment tool designed to assess university students' linguistic competence in L2. The tool serves the final exam of a course offered to second-year students of English language and literature. Of the three parts of the exam, (1) reading, (2) language awareness, and (3) writing, the third part (language awareness) explicitly addresses students' pragmatic competence. In the light of our work, assessing students' pragmatic competence is shown to involve the identification of certain levels of competence ensuing from the interpretive routes learners follow in their attempt to (a) interpret the communicator's intention, (b) identify the linguistic devices that lead them to this interpretation, and (c) explicitly verbalize the link between linguistic devices and interpretation. The suggested ranking of levels draws on data from statistical analysis of 190 final exam scripts. The proposed assessment of pragmatic competence manife...
The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, 2012
Narrative Inquiry, 2005
The present paper is a study of narrative and its relation to the construction of conflicting ide... more The present paper is a study of narrative and its relation to the construction of conflicting identities in interaction. The paper is concerned with a group of young Greeks who categorise themselves as members of a particular subculture, but also construct a number of other, often conflicting, identities through the stories they tell in the course of their conversations with two researchers. By focusing on the many narratives these people volunteer to recount to the researchers, the paper aims to delve into narrative positioning and its relation to the plurality of emerging identities in the specific encounters. Particular emphasis is placed on the young people's attempt to delegitimate established figures of power and authority in order to legitimate their own group and present a positive image of themselves. By providing a detailed discussion of identities as constructed in situated discourse, the paper also aims to stress the dynamics of identity construction in context. The present study follows the line of research that focuses on narrative and its relation to the construction of situated identities (Cheshire
Pragmatics, 2009
The present paper is concerned with the narratives produced in the conversations of six young peo... more The present paper is concerned with the narratives produced in the conversations of six young people in Greece. Drawing on the broader framework of Discourse Analysis and Sociolinguistics as well as on the Social Constructionist paradigm, our paper follows the line of research that focuses on situated analysis of identities. Initially, the paper sets out to examine the identity(ies) constructed through the stories these people tell in the specific encounters. The overall aim of the paper is to relate these locally constructed identities to the larger socio-cultural identity of the participants and to examine whether they can be seen as indices of Greekness. Our analysis shows that, in the course of their story-telling, the participants construct 'in-group' identities mainly by co-constructing their narratives and by performing successive narratives with a similar point. The interactants' foregrounding and cultivation of their in-group identity is probably an indication of their Greekness, namely of the attested tendency of Greek people to value and thus cultivate in-group relations of intimacy and solidarity in interaction.
This paper is concerned with a multimodal communicative act, the televised promotion of the '... more This paper is concerned with a multimodal communicative act, the televised promotion of the 'Athens 2004 Olympic Games' on National Hellenic televisión. The first aim of the paper is to show that the commercial examined constitutes a "multimodal metaphor" (Forceville, 2004 and 2005) through which the audience is essentially invited to interpret the 'Athens 2004 Olympic Games' in terms of a 'festival'. The second aim of the paper is to explain how it is that a commercial such as this one, which foregrounds entertainment and celebrations, is almost unanimously received by a multicultural audience as successñilly advertising the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. In the framework of Relevance Theory, the pragmatic and cognitive benefits of the specific multimodal metaphor are discussed in terms of positive cognitive effects and processing effort (Sperber and Wilson, 1986/1995; Wilson and Sperber, 2004). Experimental evidence on native and non-native audi...
Intercultural Pragmatics, 2000
... in rudeness. However, intentionality is loaded with problems not least because capturing spea... more ... in rudeness. However, intentionality is loaded with problems not least because capturing speakers' true intentions is a highly prob-lematic, almost impossible task (Culpeper 2009; Garcés-Conejos Blitvich 2009). In our study ...