Discursive Self in Microblogging Speech Acts, Stories and Self-Praise |
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Author:
| Dayter, Daria |
Series title: | Pragmatics and Beyond New Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-90-272-5665-2 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2016 |
Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $143.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionThis 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.