Discursive self in microblogging : speech acts, stories and self-praise
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Discursive self in microblogging : speech acts, stories and self-praise
(Pragmatics & beyond : new series, v. 260)
John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2016
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume examines the language of microblogs drawing on the example of a group of eleven users who are united by their interest in ballet as a physical activity and an art form. The book reports on a three and a half year study which complemented a 20,000 word corpus of tweets with semi-structured interviews and participant observation. It deals with two main questions: how users exploit the linguistic resources at their disposal to build a certain identity, and how the community boundaries are performed discursively. The focus is on the speech acts of self-praise and complaint, and on the storytelling practices of microbloggers. The comprehensive treatment of the speech act theory and the social psychological approaches to self-disclosure provides a stepping stone to the analysis of identity work, for which the users draw on two distinctive interpretive repertoires - affiliative and self-promoting.
Table of Contents
- 1. Acknowledgements
- 2. Chapter 1. Introducing the pragmalinguistic approach to the study of Twitter
- 3. Chapter 2. Discursive identity: Self and group
- 4. Chapter 3. Disclosive speech acts: Self-praise and third party complaints
- 5. Chapter 4. Twitter as a communicative environment
- 6. Chapter 5. Describing the corpus and the annotation scheme
- 7. Chapter 6. Self-disclosure
- 8. Chapter 7. Third party complaints
- 9. Chapter 8. Narratives in microblogs
- 10. Chapter 9. Bringing the findings together: In-group language and interpretive repertoires
- 11. Glossary of ballet terms
- 12. References
- 13. Index
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