“In these pandemic times”: The role of temporal meanings in ambient affiliation about COVID-19 on Twitter

IF 2.3 2区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI:10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100595
Michele Zappavigna , Shoshana Dreyfus
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This paper explores the role of a particular set of commonly occurring temporal meanings relating to the shared experience of being in a pandemic (e.g., in these unprecedented times) and how these foster ambient affiliation on Twitter. Temporal meanings can be realised as a range of grammatical structures in texts and are linguistic resources that add meaning – in terms of dimensions such as manner, time, or place – to the main activities, entities or events in a clause. While often viewed in terms of their role in how experience is represented, we suggest they play a pivotal interpersonal role in how values are positioned and how social bonds are offered to ambient audiences. The paper also draws on communing affiliation, a system in the ambient affiliation framework for understanding how people share and contest values in social media environments, to show how these temporal meanings are functioning. Corpus-based discourse analysis of the contribution of temporal meanings to communing affiliation in a large of corpus of COVID-19 tweets was undertaken. Three major affiliation strategies that these temporal meanings were involved in were observed: centring in the service of convoking affiliation, contrasting in the service of finessing affiliation, and accentuating in the service of promoting affiliation.

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“在这些大流行时期”:时间意义在Twitter上关于COVID-19的环境从属关系中的作用
本文探讨了一组与大流行(例如,在这些前所未有的时代)的共同经历相关的特定常见时间含义的作用,以及这些含义如何在Twitter上培养环境从属关系。时间意义可以通过文本中的一系列语法结构来实现,是一种语言资源,可以在方式、时间或地点等维度上为子句中的主要活动、实体或事件增加意义。虽然人们通常认为它们在如何表现经验方面的作用,但我们认为它们在如何定位价值观和如何向周围受众提供社会联系方面发挥着关键的人际作用。本文还借鉴了社区隶属关系,这是环境隶属关系框架中的一个系统,用于理解人们如何在社交媒体环境中分享和竞争价值观,以展示这些时间意义是如何发挥作用的。对大量COVID-19推文语料库中时间意义对社区隶属关系的贡献进行了基于语料库的话语分析。我们观察到这些时间意义所涉及的三种主要的隶属策略:以唤起隶属关系为中心,以处理隶属关系为对比,以促进隶属关系为强调。
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