Research Catalog

Title

Discursive self in microblogging : speech acts, stories and self-praise / Daria Dayter.

Author

Dayter, Daria

Publication

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]

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Description

vii, 247 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Pragmatics & beyond new series, 0922-842X ; 260

Uniform Title

Pragmatics & beyond companion series ; 260.

Subject

• Discourse analysis > Pychological aspects
• Microblogs
• Social media
• Discourse analysis > Psychological aspects
• Diskursanalyse
• Korpus
• Social Media

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Acknowledgements -- Introducing the pragmalinguistic approach to the study of Twitter -- The object of the study -- Preliminary theoretical considerations -- Aims and scope -- The structure of the book -- Discursive identity : self and group -- Introduction -- Claims about the discursive identity -- Identity is constructed in and through talk -- Identity construction can be accomplished in dialogic talk through affiliation and disaffiliation with interlocutor(s) -- Identity construction is performed by invoking in talk the categories-in-use through the category-bound actions or reports of such actions -- Identity is constructed discursively through speech acts of positioning -- In monologuai discourse, storytelling is a key device for identity construction -- In everyday talk, identity is expressed through a succession of fragmentary, low-tellable stories -- Discursive identity in social media -- Social interaction within the community -- Language of the in-group -- Pragmatics of the in-group and rapport-building -- Conclusion -- Disclosive speech acts : self-praise and third party complaints -- Introduction -- Self-disclosure in psychology -- Disclosure through complaining -- Grammatical and lexical features of complaints -- Pragmatic aspects of complaining -- Complaining online -- Disclosure through self-praise -- Compliments -- Compliment responses -- Self-praise -- Conclusion -- Twitter as a communicative environment -- The controversial status of Twitter -- Content and user motivation : Existing taxonomies -- The language of microblogs -- Questioning the existing mode ecology -- Conclusion -- Describing the corpus and the annotation scheme -- Introduction -- Material for the study -- Ballet -- Methodology -- BaTwit corpus make-up -- Ethical considerations -- Overview of the pragmatic repertoire of the subjects -- Conclusion -- Self-disclosure -- Introduction -- Self-praise on ballet topics : emblematic features -- Strategies for rendering self-praise appropriate -- Self-praise bald on record -- Explicit self-praise modified -- Linguistic features of self-praise -- Uptake -- Conclusion -- Third party complaints -- Introduction -- Frequencies of third party complaints : an overview -- Topics and functions of third party complaints -- Syntactic structure and lexical devices -- Conclusion: Pragmatic space of complaints -- Narratives in microblogs -- Introduction -- Components of a narrative -- Emergent narrative -- Dimensions of narrative: Tellability, linearity and tellership on Twitter -- Small stories. Live reporting -- An outline of quantitative findings -- Conclusion -- Bringing the findings together: In-group language and interpretive repertoires -- Implicitness in Twitter discourse -- Grammatical impliciteness -- Lexical implicitness -- Limitations of the study -- Revisiting the research questions -- Bringing the findings together : doing identity on Twitter -- The implications of the study -- Glossary of ballet terms -- References -- Index.

ISBN

• 9789027256652
• 9027256659
• 9789027267528 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2015043269

OCLC

• 928580664
• SCSB-10756227

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library