This paper analyses Danish Tinder chats that in the very first message after ‘matching’ immediately launch the prospect of meeting. A collection of 41 threads is analyzed using Goffman’s (1967, 1974) concepts of face and interactional framing, outlining methods participants use to open a chat after having matched and addressing the interest and purpose they have approached in the other party. Methods include, in particular, inferences that can be made based on the type of activity or setting suggested for a future meeting, indirectness and ambiguity related to how the social actions are designed, and the conversational cues used such as emojis and enthusiasm markers. The analysis also shows how participants work out and negotiate whether they have a common interest in meeting, in particular, how they exploit and deal with ambiguities used extensively as a mechanism for flirting. The analysis further suggests that practices adhere to gender-stereotypes showing how participants may handle and orient to a norm that women should not agree to meet with a stranger early on in a chat correspondence.
{"title":"The invitation game","authors":"Elisabeth Muth Andersen","doi":"10.1075/ip.00111.and","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00111.and","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper analyses Danish Tinder chats that in the very first message after ‘matching’ immediately launch the\u0000 prospect of meeting. A collection of 41 threads is analyzed using Goffman’s (1967, 1974) concepts of face and interactional framing, outlining\u0000 methods participants use to open a chat after having matched and addressing the interest and purpose they have approached in the\u0000 other party. Methods include, in particular, inferences that can be made based on the type of activity or setting suggested for a\u0000 future meeting, indirectness and ambiguity related to how the social actions are designed, and the conversational cues used such\u0000 as emojis and enthusiasm markers. The analysis also shows how participants work out and negotiate whether they have a common\u0000 interest in meeting, in particular, how they exploit and deal with ambiguities used extensively as a mechanism for flirting. The\u0000 analysis further suggests that practices adhere to gender-stereotypes showing how participants may handle and orient to a norm\u0000 that women should not agree to meet with a stranger early on in a chat correspondence.","PeriodicalId":36241,"journal":{"name":"Internet Pragmatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141268286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Situated at the intersection of social media communication and pragmatics of language use online, this article will examine the social action of community veneration of a local plumber by members of a neighbourhood Facebook group, the vast majority of whom do not know each other personally (nor necessarily the plumber). Particular attention will be paid to the way in which this veneration is constructed over time through linguistic creativity and humour, such as limericks, exaggeration, and various terms of reverence and hero worship. In addition to these linguistic devices, it will be shown how the participants actively exploit the digital environment to create context-dependent humour through emojis, memes, and other graphics. The selected examples will illustrate how this collaborative veneration and playfulness also strengthen the sense of belonging in this group of online strangers.
{"title":"“Resident superhero”","authors":"Kerry Mullan","doi":"10.1075/ip.00112.mul","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00112.mul","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Situated at the intersection of social media communication and pragmatics of language use online, this article\u0000 will examine the social action of community veneration of a local plumber by members of a neighbourhood Facebook group, the vast\u0000 majority of whom do not know each other personally (nor necessarily the plumber). Particular attention will be paid to the way in\u0000 which this veneration is constructed over time through linguistic creativity and humour, such as limericks, exaggeration, and\u0000 various terms of reverence and hero worship. In addition to these linguistic devices, it will be shown how the participants\u0000 actively exploit the digital environment to create context-dependent humour through emojis, memes, and other graphics. The\u0000 selected examples will illustrate how this collaborative veneration and playfulness also strengthen the sense of belonging in this\u0000 group of online strangers.","PeriodicalId":36241,"journal":{"name":"Internet Pragmatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141271789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper examines how the communicative act of quotation may contribute to ordinary users’ discussion of politics through user comments following up on government- and opposition-party speeches during a pre-election and a non-election period in Britain. It analyses the linguistic formatting of the communicative act – as direct, indirect, mixed, hypothetical and scare quotation – and its production-format-specific distribution in the speeches of the political elite and in ordinary-user comments following up on the elite discourse. Particular attention is given to (1) references to the constitutive parts of the communicative act of quotation, to its felicity conditions and to social-context coordinates, (2) the discursive functions which quotation may fulfil in the two different contexts and timeframes, and (3) their perlocutionary effects.
{"title":"Being sensible is now a radical concept I LOVE that quote haha","authors":"A. Fetzer","doi":"10.1075/ip.00109.fet","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00109.fet","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper examines how the communicative act of quotation may contribute to ordinary users’ discussion of\u0000 politics through user comments following up on government- and opposition-party speeches during a pre-election and a non-election\u0000 period in Britain. It analyses the linguistic formatting of the communicative act – as direct, indirect, mixed, hypothetical and\u0000 scare quotation – and its production-format-specific distribution in the speeches of the political elite and in ordinary-user\u0000 comments following up on the elite discourse. Particular attention is given to (1) references to the constitutive parts of the\u0000 communicative act of quotation, to its felicity conditions and to social-context coordinates, (2) the discursive functions which\u0000 quotation may fulfil in the two different contexts and timeframes, and (3) their perlocutionary effects.","PeriodicalId":36241,"journal":{"name":"Internet Pragmatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140984016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Analyzing 20 comments posted in response to YouTube videos wherein two Asian American young women share their “lunchbox moment” stories, or first-person past-oriented accounts of how their (white) classmates at school reacted negatively to food that they brought from home for lunch, we demonstrate how posters collaboratively transform individual offline experiences of marginalization and difference into online moments of inclusion, solidarity, and shared identity. Integrating research on “second stories” (Sacks 1992), “story rounds” (Tannen 2005), online storytelling (Page 2011, 2018), and online-offline interconnections (e.g., Bolander and Locher 2020), we show how commenters of diverse backgrounds accomplish “adequation” (Bucholtz and Hall 2005) between their different minority identities in how they convey their own lunchbox moment stories. By using metadiscursive terms (e.g., “story”), “constructed dialogue” (Tannen 2007), ethnic category mentions, heritage languages, familiar address terms (e.g., first name), and emojis, YouTube posters create inclusion online and across cultural, ethnic, and spaciotemporal lines.
{"title":"“I’m only half Korean but I can relate to a lot of what you said”","authors":"Hanwool Choe, Cynthia Gordon","doi":"10.1075/ip.00108.cho","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00108.cho","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Analyzing 20 comments posted in response to YouTube videos wherein two Asian American young women share their\u0000 “lunchbox moment” stories, or first-person past-oriented accounts of how their (white) classmates at school reacted negatively to\u0000 food that they brought from home for lunch, we demonstrate how posters collaboratively transform individual offline experiences of\u0000 marginalization and difference into online moments of inclusion, solidarity, and shared identity. Integrating research on “second\u0000 stories” (Sacks 1992), “story rounds” (Tannen\u0000 2005), online storytelling (Page 2011, 2018), and online-offline interconnections (e.g., Bolander and Locher\u0000 2020), we show how commenters of diverse backgrounds accomplish “adequation” (Bucholtz\u0000 and Hall 2005) between their different minority identities in how they convey their own lunchbox moment stories. By\u0000 using metadiscursive terms (e.g., “story”), “constructed dialogue” (Tannen 2007),\u0000 ethnic category mentions, heritage languages, familiar address terms (e.g., first name), and emojis, YouTube posters create\u0000 inclusion online and across cultural, ethnic, and spaciotemporal lines.","PeriodicalId":36241,"journal":{"name":"Internet Pragmatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140266337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Existing research across the diverse field(s) of ‘discourse studies’ has started to explore the communicative orders and sequential practices surrounding emoji use (Skovholt, Grønning and Kankaanranta 2014; Herring and Dainas 2017; Gibson, Huang and Yu 2018; Sampietro 2019). However, researchers have not yet systematically analysed one of the demonstrable phenomena of emoji, which is their ambiguity as meaning-making devices (Miller et al. 2016; Jaeger et al. 2017). This study draws on Conversation Analysis to explore the issue of ambiguity in the use of one particular type of emoji, the wink (e.g., 😉, 🥴, 😜). Drawing on a data corpus of text conversations in Danish and in Spanish by users of the dating app ‘Tinder’, the analysis explores the phenomena of ambiguity in relation to the practice of flirting. The paper highlights four possible sources of ambiguity: idiosyncratic use, semiotic references, sequential placement, and relationship to ambiguous textual actions. The paper ends with reflections on possible future areas of research in the study of emoji and communication.
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Existing research across the diverse field(s) of ‘discourse studies’ has started to explore the communicative orders and sequential practices surrounding emoji use (Skovholt, Grønning and Kankaanranta 2014; Herring and Dainas 2017; Gibson, Huang and Yu 2018; Sampietro 2019). However, researchers have not yet systematically analysed one of the demonstrable phenomena of emoji, which is their ambiguity as meaning-making devices (Miller et al. 2016; Jaeger et al. 2017). This study draws on Conversation Analysis to explore the issue of ambiguity in the use of one particular type of emoji, the wink (e.g., 😉, 🥴, 😜). Drawing on a data corpus of text conversations in Danish and in Spanish by users of the dating app ‘Tinder’, the analysis explores the phenomena of ambiguity in relation to the practice of flirting. The paper highlights four possible sources of ambiguity: idiosyncratic use, semiotic references, sequential placement, and relationship to ambiguous textual actions. The paper ends with reflections on possible future areas of research in the study of emoji and communication.
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The paper explores the interplay of impoliteness, ethnic/religious humor and multimodality in online contexts. The argument advanced in the paper is that anti-Muslim memes are instantiations of ethno-religious humor that creatively incorporate linguistic impoliteness and visual dysphemism in manners that potentially propagate Islamophobia online. The analysis of a specialized corpus of memes suggests that multimodal impoliteness in these memes is mainly triggered by marked implicitness, reinforced by visual reference to targets. The humor-generating incongruity in these memes is often based on the anomalous juxtaposition of verbal and visual cues expressing ethnic and religious stereotypes, in ways that make the values expressed in these stereotypes easily acceptable. Such multimodal impoliteness creatively incorporates entertainment with emotional coercion, aiming at like-minded participants in the potential presence of targets. This constitutes a form of plausibly deniable incitement, meant to instigate attitude change and intimidate the victims, which consequently blurs the conceptual distinction between jocular abuse, impoliteness and hate speech.
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The paper explores the interplay of impoliteness, ethnic/religious humor and multimodality in online contexts. The argument advanced in the paper is that anti-Muslim memes are instantiations of ethno-religious humor that creatively incorporate linguistic impoliteness and visual dysphemism in manners that potentially propagate Islamophobia online. The analysis of a specialized corpus of memes suggests that multimodal impoliteness in these memes is mainly triggered by marked implicitness, reinforced by visual reference to targets. The humor-generating incongruity in these memes is often based on the anomalous juxtaposition of verbal and visual cues expressing ethnic and religious stereotypes, in ways that make the values expressed in these stereotypes easily acceptable. Such multimodal impoliteness creatively incorporates entertainment with emotional coercion, aiming at like-minded participants in the potential presence of targets. This constitutes a form of plausibly deniable incitement, meant to instigate attitude change and intimidate the victims, which consequently blurs the conceptual distinction between jocular abuse, impoliteness and hate speech.
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Rooted in African postcolonial pragmatics, this research pays particular attention to the strategic use of code-switching and other linguistic strategies for relationship maintenance in instant messaging communities that constitute translanguaging spaces. To this end, by means of a quantitative and computer-mediated communication discourse analysis, we examine the naturally-occurring interactions, on WhatsApp, of a group of 74 former university classmates who studied Spanish Philology in the mid-2000s at a Cameroonian university. The close observation of the group’s interactional strategies for relationship maintenance shows that members construct their online famille – their new social space for self-presentation – by means of (1) sociolinguistic and pragmatic norms drawn from indigenisation; (2) kinship terms as forms of address, in English and Spanish in texts mainly in French; and (3) the inclusion of religious terms as a politeness strategy. The use of Spanish as the tie-sign of the group is not as relevant as initially expected.
{"title":"Bonjour la famille!","authors":"Carmen Pérez-Sabater, Ginette Maguelouk-Moffo","doi":"10.1075/ip.00103.per","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00103.per","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Rooted in African postcolonial pragmatics, this research pays particular attention to the strategic use of\u0000 code-switching and other linguistic strategies for relationship maintenance in instant messaging communities that constitute\u0000 translanguaging spaces. To this end, by means of a quantitative and computer-mediated communication discourse analysis, we examine\u0000 the naturally-occurring interactions, on WhatsApp, of a group of 74 former university classmates who studied Spanish Philology in\u0000 the mid-2000s at a Cameroonian university. The close observation of the group’s interactional strategies for relationship\u0000 maintenance shows that members construct their online famille – their new social space for self-presentation – by\u0000 means of (1) sociolinguistic and pragmatic norms drawn from indigenisation; (2) kinship terms as forms of address, in English and\u0000 Spanish in texts mainly in French; and (3) the inclusion of religious terms as a politeness strategy. The use of Spanish as the\u0000 tie-sign of the group is not as relevant as initially expected.","PeriodicalId":36241,"journal":{"name":"Internet Pragmatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139444436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Incidents of online public shaming commonly start when a record of conduct that is perceived as transgressive by either one of the parties to that interaction or a third party observer is posted, in the form of a narrative description, photograph, audio/video-recording, screenshot, and so on to an online platform, followed by viral amplification of that online public denunciation post through sharing by others within and across platforms. Building on an analysis of 26 incidents of online public denunciations of public incivilities it is argued, in this paper, that public denunciations essentially involve inviting networked audiences to denounce entextualized moments of conduct, which are recontextualized as not only morally transgressive, but as also warranting public condemnation. It is proposed that the procedure by which online public denunciations are accomplished is thus recursive, as it not only involves the ascription of action to prior conduct of the target in question that construes that prior conduct as transgressive, but the embedding of the ascription of that complainable action within a public denunciation that invites condemnation of that ascribed action. However, since social media platforms allow for the re-entextualization and subsequent recontextualization of prior posts through which public condemnation has been invited, online public denunciations are themselves inevitably open to recursive recontextualization. It is concluded that online public denunciation is thus an inherently recursive form of social practice.
{"title":"Online public denunciation as recursive social practice","authors":"Michael Haugh","doi":"10.1075/ip.00105.hau","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00105.hau","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Incidents of online public shaming commonly start when a record of conduct that is perceived as transgressive by\u0000 either one of the parties to that interaction or a third party observer is posted, in the form of a narrative description,\u0000 photograph, audio/video-recording, screenshot, and so on to an online platform, followed by viral amplification of that online\u0000 public denunciation post through sharing by others within and across platforms. Building on an analysis of 26 incidents of online\u0000 public denunciations of public incivilities it is argued, in this paper, that public denunciations essentially involve inviting\u0000 networked audiences to denounce entextualized moments of conduct, which are recontextualized as not only morally transgressive,\u0000 but as also warranting public condemnation. It is proposed that the procedure by which online public denunciations are\u0000 accomplished is thus recursive, as it not only involves the ascription of action to prior conduct of the target in question that\u0000 construes that prior conduct as transgressive, but the embedding of the ascription of that complainable action within a public\u0000 denunciation that invites condemnation of that ascribed action. However, since social media platforms allow for the\u0000 re-entextualization and subsequent recontextualization of prior posts through which public condemnation has been invited, online\u0000 public denunciations are themselves inevitably open to recursive recontextualization. It is concluded that online public\u0000 denunciation is thus an inherently recursive form of social practice.","PeriodicalId":36241,"journal":{"name":"Internet Pragmatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139451852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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