Language and Literature ( IF 0.6 ) Pub Date : 2021-09-29 , DOI: 10.1177/09639470211047732 Joanna Gavins 1 , Sara Whiteley 1 , Duygu Candarli 2
This article reports on some of the results of a project undertaken by researchers at the University of Sheffield with The National Trust in the UK, which seeks to examine the discourse found in guestbooks located in the Trust’s holiday rental cottages. Our key interests lie in the ways in which holidaymakers perform particular identities through the stylistic choices they make when writing entries in guestbooks, the role linguistic creativity plays in these performances, and the extent to which cognitive-linguistic analysis can help us understand guestbooks as socially and conceptually complex sites of linguistic interaction. Between 2014 and 2018, we collected over 800,000 words of data from 13 holiday cottages in two popular holiday regions in the UK: the Roseland Peninsula in South East Cornwall and the Port Quin area of Northern Cornwall. Our dataset was analysed and tagged using NVivo qualitative coding software, which enables the identification of both linguistic and non-linguistic features of the discourse and makes these items searchable. In the present discussion, we use Text World Theory to explore both the situational context of this discourse, or the ‘discourse-world’, and the conceptual structures, or ‘text-worlds’, which result from linguistic interaction in the minds of participants. We suggest that the unified examination of these two interacting levels of discourse enables a holistic investigation of the pragmatic and conceptual environment which surrounds the production and reception of the guestbook discourse; the linguistic and stylistic features of the texts themselves; and the mental representations that arise from them. In particular, we present a case-study analysis of the guestbooks of Caragloose, a three-bedroomed former farmhouse in South East Cornwall, which our study found to contain levels of linguistic creativity which were exceptional in our dataset. We outline the key stylistic features of this discourse and show how one collective linguistic endeavour in particular in Caragloose fosters an exceptionally experimental style across multiple entries. We reveal how the resulting discourse, although taking place between strangers separated in both time and space, exhibits a density of creativity more commonly associated with collaborative discourse produced between intimates in a face-to-face situation.
中文翻译:
语言共创性和身份在国民信托假日小屋留言簿话语中的表现
本文报告了谢菲尔德大学的研究人员与英国国民信托基金共同开展的一个项目的一些结果,该项目旨在检验位于该信托基金度假出租小屋的留言簿中的话语。我们的主要兴趣在于度假者通过他们在留言簿中撰写条目时所做的文体选择来表现特定身份的方式,语言创造力在这些表演中的作用,以及认知语言分析在多大程度上可以帮助我们将留言簿理解为具有社会意义的以及概念上复杂的语言互动场所。2014 年至 2018 年期间,我们从英国两个热门度假区的 13 间度假屋中收集了超过 800,000 字的数据:康沃尔东南部的罗斯兰半岛和康沃尔北部的昆港地区。我们的数据集使用 NVivo 定性编码软件进行分析和标记,该软件能够识别话语的语言和非语言特征,并使这些项目可搜索。在目前的讨论中,我们使用文本世界理论来探索这个话语的情境语境,或“话语世界”,以及由参与者头脑中的语言交互产生的概念结构或“文本世界” . 我们建议对这两个相互作用的话语层次进行统一检查,可以对围绕留言簿话语产生和接受的语用和概念环境进行全面调查;文本本身的语言和文体特征;以及由此产生的心理表征。特别是,我们对 Caragloose 的留言簿进行了案例研究分析,这是康沃尔东南部的三居室前农舍,我们的研究发现其中包含在我们的数据集中异常的语言创造力水平。我们概述了该话语的主要文体特征,并展示了一项集体语言努力(尤其是在 Caragloose 中)如何在多个条目中培养出一种非常实验性的风格。我们揭示了由此产生的话语是如何发生的,尽管发生在时间和空间上分开的陌生人之间,但表现出的创造力密度更常见于在面对面的情况下亲密的人之间产生的协作话语。我们的研究发现其中包含在我们的数据集中非常出色的语言创造力水平。我们概述了该话语的主要文体特征,并展示了一项集体语言努力(尤其是在 Caragloose 中)如何在多个条目中培养出一种非常实验性的风格。我们揭示了由此产生的话语是如何发生的,尽管发生在时间和空间上分开的陌生人之间,但表现出的创造力密度更常见于在面对面的情况下亲密的人之间产生的协作话语。我们的研究发现其中包含在我们的数据集中非常出色的语言创造力水平。我们概述了该话语的主要文体特征,并展示了一项集体语言努力(尤其是在 Caragloose 中)如何在多个条目中培养出一种非常实验性的风格。我们揭示了由此产生的话语是如何发生的,尽管发生在时间和空间上分开的陌生人之间,但表现出的创造力密度更常见于在面对面的情况下亲密的人之间产生的协作话语。