{"title":"Formality and Informality in Online Performances","authors":"","doi":"10.1075/ip.5.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.5.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36241,"journal":{"name":"Internet Pragmatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49581627","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}
{"title":"Review of Livnat, Shukrun-Nagar & Hirsch (2020): The Discourse of Indirectness: Cues, Voices and Functions","authors":"Helena Nurmikari","doi":"10.1075/ip.00079.nur","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00079.nur","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36241,"journal":{"name":"Internet Pragmatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49503833","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}
{"title":"Understanding Chinese Social Media","authors":"","doi":"10.1075/ip.4.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.4.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36241,"journal":{"name":"Internet Pragmatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44232297","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}
During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, many users around the world exploited internet memes as a digital source of humour to cope with the negative psychological effects of quarantining. Drawing on multimodal discourse analysis, this study investigates a set of COVID-19 internet memes to explore the quarantine activities and routines to understand ordinary people’s mindsets, anxieties and emotional narratives surrounding self-isolation as well as the pragmatically generated humorous meanings relying on verbal and visual components of memes. The findings revealed that quarantine humour is centred around themes including quarantine day comparisons focusing on the perceived effects of home quarantines on physical and mental well-being, quarantine routines, and physical appearance predictions at the end of quarantine. Intertextuality was a productive resource establishing connections between quarantine practices and popular texts. In addition, humorous meanings were created through anomalous juxtapositions of different texts and incongruity resolution is largely dependent on the combined meanings of verbal and visual components.
{"title":"Days of our ‘quarantined’ lives","authors":"Erhan Aslan","doi":"10.1075/ip.00075.asl","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00075.asl","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, many users around the world exploited internet memes as a\u0000 digital source of humour to cope with the negative psychological effects of quarantining. Drawing on multimodal discourse analysis, this study investigates a set of COVID-19 internet memes to explore the quarantine activities and routines to understand ordinary people’s mindsets, anxieties and emotional\u0000 narratives surrounding self-isolation as well as the pragmatically generated humorous meanings relying on verbal and visual components of memes. The findings revealed that quarantine humour is centred around themes including quarantine day comparisons focusing on the perceived effects of home quarantines on physical and mental well-being, quarantine routines, and physical appearance predictions at the end of quarantine. Intertextuality was a productive resource establishing connections between quarantine practices and popular texts. In addition, humorous meanings were created through anomalous juxtapositions of different texts and\u0000 incongruity resolution is largely dependent on the combined meanings of verbal and visual components.","PeriodicalId":36241,"journal":{"name":"Internet Pragmatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42085980","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}
The paper investigates formal language in persuasive discourse on the r/ChangeMyView subreddit. We collected a corpus of 100 million messages, split into subcorpora based on the user-awarded marker delta, which rewards changing an original poster’s view. Assuming that formality/informality is potentially an important factor in the persuasiveness of a message, we examine the two subcorpora with respect to formality markers. The results indicate no systematic variation along the formality/informality continuum between persuasive and non-persuasive posts on r/ChangeMyView. The posters use personal pronouns, suasive verbs, emphatics, imperatives, elaborate connectors and WH-questions with similar frequency, and express themselves using vocabulary and syntax of similar complexity. Moreover, keyword lists and n-gram rankings indicate no register difference. A qualitative analysis of concordance lines for persuade and change PRONOUN view paints a picture of a community that values factual, evidence-based discourse and openness to logical persuasion, with a linguistic norm of relatively formal, sophisticated register.
{"title":"Persuasive language and features of formality on the r/ChangeMyView\u0000 subreddit","authors":"Daria Dayter, Thomas C. Messerli","doi":"10.1075/IP.00072.DAY","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/IP.00072.DAY","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The paper investigates formal language in persuasive discourse on the\u0000 r/ChangeMyView subreddit. We collected a corpus of 100 million messages, split into\u0000 subcorpora based on the user-awarded marker delta, which rewards changing an original poster’s view. Assuming\u0000 that formality/informality is potentially an important factor in the persuasiveness of a message, we examine the two subcorpora\u0000 with respect to formality markers. The results indicate no systematic variation along the formality/informality continuum between\u0000 persuasive and non-persuasive posts on r/ChangeMyView. The posters use personal pronouns,\u0000 suasive verbs, emphatics, imperatives, elaborate connectors and WH-questions with similar frequency, and express themselves using\u0000 vocabulary and syntax of similar complexity. Moreover, keyword lists and n-gram rankings indicate no register difference. A\u0000 qualitative analysis of concordance lines for persuade and change PRONOUN view paints a picture\u0000 of a community that values factual, evidence-based discourse and openness to logical persuasion, with a linguistic norm of\u0000 relatively formal, sophisticated register.","PeriodicalId":36241,"journal":{"name":"Internet Pragmatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42637567","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}
{"title":"Pragmatics, Humour and the Internet","authors":"Francisco Yus","doi":"10.1075/ip.00067.yus","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00067.yus","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36241,"journal":{"name":"Internet Pragmatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43688874","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 article undertakes the first linguistic analysis of the innovative online pseudonyms (e.g., , <00Q007Narry>, ) used by fanfiction authors. Specifically, this research explores the most frequent lexical formation processes employed when creating pseudonyms, why these processes are used, and what they reveal about authorial identity in fanfiction communities. The most common formation methods identified across the 600 names analysed are compounding, blending, and variant spellings. All three of these processes allow authors to create memorable and unique names which distinguish their work from that of other writers in their community. Indeed, despite their use of pseudonyms, these authors are still highlighting their individual authorial identities, and they do this by turning the process of creating a pseudonym into a ludic experiment in linguistic innovation. Consequently, future studies should further explore the relationship between self-selected names and the articulation of identity.
{"title":"Constructing authorial pseudonyms and authorial identity in online fanfiction communities","authors":"L. Donlan","doi":"10.1075/ip.00040.don","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00040.don","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article undertakes the first linguistic analysis of the innovative online pseudonyms (e.g.,\u0000 , <00Q007Narry>, ) used by fanfiction authors. Specifically, this\u0000 research explores the most frequent lexical formation processes employed when creating pseudonyms, why these processes are used,\u0000 and what they reveal about authorial identity in fanfiction communities. The most common formation methods identified across the\u0000 600 names analysed are compounding, blending, and variant spellings. All three of these processes allow authors to create\u0000 memorable and unique names which distinguish their work from that of other writers in their community. Indeed, despite their use\u0000 of pseudonyms, these authors are still highlighting their individual authorial identities, and they do this by turning the process\u0000 of creating a pseudonym into a ludic experiment in linguistic innovation. Consequently, future studies should further explore the\u0000 relationship between self-selected names and the articulation of identity.","PeriodicalId":36241,"journal":{"name":"Internet Pragmatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48159913","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}
R. Heerik, Ellen Droog, Melanie Jong Tjien Fa, C. Burgers
Metaphor production is a creative process of thinking out of the box, which can be of great communicative value to language users. In this study, we explored how metaphor production can be stimulated by different types of cues in an internet environment. Participants (N = 318) were invited to co-create a metaphorical campaign slogan in a social media setting with randomly selected sets of real campaign slogans. We measured how linguistic (metaphor markers) and social media cues (likes) prompt direct metaphor. Results show that the metaphor marker ‘so’ stimulated metaphor production. Likes for previously posted metaphorical slogans did not affect the creation of a metaphor. We found a correlation between the actual and self-perceived creativity of the co-created slogans. Besides, the co-created metaphors both echoed and deviated from previously posted campaign slogans, leading to different degrees of creativity. Co-creation in a social media setting seems a fruitful environment for metaphor production.
{"title":"Thinking out of the box","authors":"R. Heerik, Ellen Droog, Melanie Jong Tjien Fa, C. Burgers","doi":"10.1075/IP.00049.HEE","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/IP.00049.HEE","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Metaphor production is a creative process of thinking out of the box, which can be of great communicative value to\u0000 language users. In this study, we explored how metaphor production can be stimulated by different types of cues in an internet\u0000 environment. Participants (N = 318) were invited to co-create a metaphorical campaign slogan in a social media\u0000 setting with randomly selected sets of real campaign slogans. We measured how linguistic (metaphor markers) and social media cues\u0000 (likes) prompt direct metaphor. Results show that the metaphor marker ‘so’ stimulated metaphor production. Likes for previously\u0000 posted metaphorical slogans did not affect the creation of a metaphor. We found a correlation between the actual and\u0000 self-perceived creativity of the co-created slogans. Besides, the co-created metaphors both echoed and deviated from previously\u0000 posted campaign slogans, leading to different degrees of creativity. Co-creation in a social media setting seems a fruitful\u0000 environment for metaphor production.","PeriodicalId":36241,"journal":{"name":"Internet Pragmatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49549570","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 study examines the ways in which multiple modern communication technologies facilitate, across time and space, the maintenance of a close interpersonal relationship between two best friends. The analysis, which focuses mainly on the openings and closings of the different types of communications, reveals a tendency for the friends to shorten openings and extend closings. However, this is possible only if the friends are fully aware of, and care about, the practical, social and emotional details of each other’s lives during periods of absence. The concomitant linguistic behaviours in their interpersonal interactions could be described as a kind of pragmatics of intimacy which cannot be achieved without the explicit and practical demonstration of that mutual care and concern.
{"title":"A pragmatics of intimacy","authors":"R. M. Reiter, D. Frohlich","doi":"10.1075/IP.00044.MAR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/IP.00044.MAR","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the ways in which multiple modern communication technologies facilitate, across time and space, the maintenance of a close interpersonal relationship between two best friends. The analysis, which focuses mainly on the openings and closings of the different types of communications, reveals a tendency for the friends to shorten openings and extend closings. However, this is possible only if the friends are fully aware of, and care about, the practical, social and emotional details of each other’s lives during periods of absence. The concomitant linguistic behaviours in their interpersonal interactions could be described as a kind of pragmatics of intimacy which cannot be achieved without the explicit and practical demonstration of that mutual care and concern.","PeriodicalId":36241,"journal":{"name":"Internet Pragmatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41744187","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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