2013 · Volume 33 · Number 3 TEXT&TALK AN interdisciplinary journal of language, discourse & communication studies

Editor Honorary Board Srikant Sarangi Wallace Chafe Centre for Language and University of California, Communication Research Santa Barbara, USA Cardiff School of English, Aaron V. Cicourel Communication and Philosophy University of California, Cardiff University San Diego, USA Humanities Building, Colum Drive Susan Ervin-Tripp Cardiff CF10 3EU University of California, Wales, UK Berkeley, USA M. A. K. Halliday Editorial Associate University of Sydney, Australia Aileen Doyle Bohumil Palek Cardiff University, UK Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Specialist Board Malcolm Coulthard University of Birmingham, UK Gunther Kress Institute of Education, London, UK Geoffrey Leech Lancaster University, UK Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz University of Wisconsin, Kenosha, USA Advisory Board Stuart Allan, Jim Martin, Bournemouth University, UK University of Sydney, Australia Karin Aronsson, Douglas W. Maynard, University of Stockholm University, Sweden Wisconsin, Madison, USA Peter Auer, Jacob L. Mey, University of Freiburg, Germany University of Southern Denmark, Jack Bilmes, Odense, Denmark University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA Greg Myers, Lancaster University, UK Jan Blommaert, Neal R. Norrick, Saarland University, Institute of Education, London, UK Saarbrücken, Germany Charles Briggs, Jan-Ola Östman, University of California, Berkeley, USA University of Helsinki, Finland Mary Bucholtz, Gerry Philipsen, University of California, Santa University of Washington, Seattle, USA ­Barbara, USA Paul Prior, University of Illinois, Christopher N. Candlin, Urbana-Champaign, USA Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Kay Richardson, Donal Carbaugh, University of University of Liverpool, UK Massachusetts, Amherst, USA Deborah Schiffrin, Georgetown Paul Drew, University of York, UK University, Washington, USA Andrew Goatly, Lingnan University, John Stewart, Hong Kong, P. R. China University of Dubuque, USA Gu Yueguo, Chinese Academy of Mike Stubbs, Social Science, Beijing, P. R. China University of Trier, Germany Marjorie Harness Goodwin, University Jan Svennevig, of California, Los Angeles, USA University of Oslo, Norway Sandra Harris, John Swales, University of Michigan, Nottingham Trent University, UK Ann Arbor, USA David Herman, Deborah Tannen, Georgetown Ohio State University, Columbus, USA University, Washington, USA Richard Heyman, Geoff Thompson, University of Calgary, Canada University of Liverpool, UK Yoshihiko Ikegami, Showa Women’s Joanna Thornborrow, University, Tokyo, Japan Cardiff University, UK Richard Lanigan, Southern Illinois Jef Verschueren, University, Carbondale, USA University of Antwerp, Belgium Ivana Markova, Margaret Wetherell, University of Stirling, UK Open University, UK Text&Talk 2013 | Volume 33 | Number 3

Contents

Richard Buttny, Azirah Hashim and Kiranjit Kaur Ethnopolitical discourse among ordinary Malaysians: diverging accounts of “the good-old days” in discussing multiculturalism 289

Eliecer Crespo-Fernández Words as weapons for mass persuasion: dysphemism in Churchill’s wartime speeches 311

Jan K. Lindström and Anne-Marie Londen Concession and reassertion: on a dialogic discourse pattern in conversation 331

Janaina Minelli de Oliveira, Vanessa Esteve and Mar Camacho Interaction in the virtual world: an analysis of students’ construal of pedagogic subject positions in a 3D virtual learning environment 353

Ted Sanders and Wilbert Spooren Exceptions to rules: a qualitative analysis of backward causal connectives in Dutch naturalistic discourse 377

Alison Sealey and Lee Oakley Anthropomorphic grammar? Some linguistic patterns in the wildlife documentary series Life 399