Cargando…
The discursive construction of identities on- and offline : personal - group - collective /
This volume explores the complexities and challenges of linguistic identity construction across a range of online and offline contexts. Focussing on 'clusivity' as an overarching aspect, its contributions are situated in the social constructivist paradigm and offer a multifaceted operation...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Otros Autores: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Amsterdam :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2018]
|
| Colección: | Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ;
78. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Introduction: Identity construction in complex discourse contexts; 1. Introduction; 2. Recasting sites of identity construction in the digital age; 3. The lens of clusivity; 4. Three strands of identity; 5. The contributions; References; Part I. Personal identities; Great pretenders: The phenomenon of impersonating (pseudo- )historical personae in medieval blogs, or: Blogging for someone else's fame?; 1. Framing the objective
- 2. Browsing through relevant notions and frameworks3. Blog, what art thou?
- Assessing the surface levels of Chaucer's Blog; 4. Framing the 'pretenders': Medieval aficionados, role-playing metagamers and fun "hunch-backed keepers of a dark culture and age"?; 5. A brief conclusion regarding intentional frame breaks, or: Blogging for one's own fame after all ; References; Constructing personal identities online: Self-disclosure in popular blogs; 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical background and research aims; 3. Material; 4. Analysis; 5. Conclusions; References
- The development of identity in Batman comics1. Introduction; 2. Data and methodology; 3. Fictional dialogues and worlds; 4. Reading for character and identity construction in comics; 5. Characters in the DC Batman universe; 6. Conversation analysis and the comics data; 7. From Spoiler to Robin to Batgirl; 8. Conclusion; References; Part II. Group identities; Code-switching and identity construction in WhatsApp: Evidence from a (digital) community of practice; 1. Introduction; 2. Code-switching and group identity: Theoretical dimensions; 3. WhatsApp as a socio-technical mode
- 4. Analysis of the WhatsApp data5. Questionnaire results and discussion; 6. Conclusion; References; Identity and metapragmatic acts in a student forum discussion thread; 1. Introduction; 2. Constructing identity; 3. Material: The Student Room; 4. Identity and metapragmatic acts in the Freshers Week discussion; 5. Discussion and conclusions; References; Indeterminate us and them: The complexities of referentiality, identity and group construction in a public online discussion; 1. Aims, data and methodology; 2. 'Identity' and 'referentiality' in public online discussions
- 3. Anaphoric, cataphoric and indeterminate pronoun reference in the sample thread4. Negotiating referential identity
- the we-set and the they-set in indeterminate uses in the sample thread; 5. Constructing complex identities
- predicating expressions and the propositional level; 6. Discussion and conclusions; References; "no prizes to anybody spotting my typo, by the way": The interplay between criticism and identity management in the comments sections on newspaper websites; 1. Introduction; 2. Data, goals and methodology; 3. The communicative situation