The phenomenon of brain drain migration from Greece, also known as Greek neomigration, has acquired an astoundingly massive character due to the ongoing economic crisis in the country. Considering that a migrant’s identity is defined by a physical move from one place to another, this paper aims at exploring the discourse practices of place-making by Greek neomigrants, focusing on the role of social media in this endeavour. Drawing on discourse analysis (Myers 2010; Aguirre and Graham Davies 2015), identity construction theories (Blommaert 2005; Benwell and Stokoe 2006), environmental psychology (Proshansky, Fabian and Kaminoff 1983) and discourse-centred online ethnography (Androutsopoulos 2008), this study presents and discusses empirical data from a Greek neomigrant settled in the UK, who writes about his migration experience on his blog as well as on his Twitter and Facebook accounts. The analysis demonstrates that the Greek neomigrant place identity construction can be realized through a complex of linguistic and discourse strategies, including comparison and evaluation, construction of in-groups and out-groups, language and script alternations, entextualisation of other voices, and visual connotations. It is shown that, for migrants, social media constitute significant outlets for place-making, constructing place identity and asserting (or eschewing) belonging. In so doing, it also brings to the surface crucial social, cultural and psychological aspects of the current Greek neomigration phenomenon and confirms the potential of social media discourses to heighten awareness of neomigrants’ dis/integrating processes, placing discourse analysis at the service of global mobility phenomena.
{"title":"Place identity construction in Greek neomigrants’ social media discourse","authors":"Mariza Georgalou","doi":"10.1075/IP.00026.GEO","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/IP.00026.GEO","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The phenomenon of brain drain migration from Greece, also known as Greek neomigration, has acquired an\u0000 astoundingly massive character due to the ongoing economic crisis in the country. Considering that a migrant’s identity is defined\u0000 by a physical move from one place to another, this paper aims at exploring the discourse practices of place-making by Greek\u0000 neomigrants, focusing on the role of social media in this endeavour. Drawing on discourse analysis (Myers 2010; Aguirre and Graham Davies 2015), identity\u0000 construction theories (Blommaert 2005; Benwell and\u0000 Stokoe 2006), environmental psychology (Proshansky, Fabian and Kaminoff\u0000 1983) and discourse-centred online ethnography (Androutsopoulos 2008), this\u0000 study presents and discusses empirical data from a Greek neomigrant settled in the UK, who writes about his migration experience\u0000 on his blog as well as on his Twitter and Facebook accounts. The analysis demonstrates that the Greek neomigrant place identity\u0000 construction can be realized through a complex of linguistic and discourse strategies, including comparison and evaluation,\u0000 construction of in-groups and out-groups, language and script alternations, entextualisation of other voices, and visual\u0000 connotations. It is shown that, for migrants, social media constitute significant outlets for place-making, constructing\u0000 place identity and asserting (or eschewing) belonging. In so doing, it also brings to the surface crucial social, cultural and\u0000 psychological aspects of the current Greek neomigration phenomenon and confirms the potential of social media discourses to\u0000 heighten awareness of neomigrants’ dis/integrating processes, placing discourse analysis at the service of global mobility\u0000 phenomena.","PeriodicalId":36241,"journal":{"name":"Internet Pragmatics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41915103","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":"Internet pragmatics and the fuzziness of analytical categories","authors":"Andreas H. Jucker","doi":"10.1075/IP.00020.JUC","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/IP.00020.JUC","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36241,"journal":{"name":"Internet Pragmatics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48116092","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}
Internet communication has evolved a lot since it first became popular in the early nineties of the last century. Pragmatics has also evolved and has tried to come to terms with the non-stop changes that internet is constantly producing in our lives and especially in how we communicate and interact. We are probably now at a stage of internet development in which we can make some sound predictions regarding certain challenges that a pragmatics of internet communication will have to face in the next few years to deal with the radical changes that are taking place in today’s internet use. This article will be devoted to listing some of these research issues and to discussing what pragmatics can do to address them accurately, ranging from those issues centred upon the interpretation of online discourses to those involving interfaces and their options for contextualisation.
{"title":"An outline of some future research issues for internet pragmatics","authors":"Francisco Yus","doi":"10.1075/IP.00018.YUS","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/IP.00018.YUS","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Internet communication has evolved a lot since it first became popular in the early nineties of the last century.\u0000 Pragmatics has also evolved and has tried to come to terms with the non-stop changes that internet is constantly producing in our\u0000 lives and especially in how we communicate and interact. We are probably now at a stage of internet development in which we can\u0000 make some sound predictions regarding certain challenges that a pragmatics of internet communication will have to face in the next\u0000 few years to deal with the radical changes that are taking place in today’s internet use. This article will be devoted to listing\u0000 some of these research issues and to discussing what pragmatics can do to address them accurately, ranging from those issues\u0000 centred upon the interpretation of online discourses to those involving interfaces and their options for contextualisation.","PeriodicalId":36241,"journal":{"name":"Internet Pragmatics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46901962","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}
Online participatory environments have become saturated spaces in terms of the opportunities that they offer for the display of different viewpoints and ideologies. YouTube, as a popular video-sharing and networking site, constitutes a new media space that invites both individual and collaborative stance-taking by participants who gather, virtually, to address a particular topic, issue or event depicted visually and discussed textually through the comments that are posted on the site. This interactional dynamics triggers a dialogic sequence of follow-ups through which stances are formulated following up on previous stances or counterstances. Against this background, this paper reports on a case study of individual and collaborative, and interdiscursive and intradiscursive stance-taking in participants’ comments to an online review focusing on the strategic use of direct (tactile) and indirect (inferential) references to evidentiality and their co-occurrence with argumentative markers. In this multilayered context stance-taking does not only contribute to evaluation but also to the construction of collective identities.
{"title":"Evidentiality and stance in YouTube comments on smartphone reviews","authors":"Alejandro Parini, A. Fetzer","doi":"10.1075/IP.00025.PAR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/IP.00025.PAR","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Online participatory environments have become saturated spaces in terms of the opportunities that they offer for the\u0000 display of different viewpoints and ideologies. YouTube, as a popular video-sharing and networking site,\u0000 constitutes a new media space that invites both individual and collaborative stance-taking by participants who gather, virtually,\u0000 to address a particular topic, issue or event depicted visually and discussed textually through the comments that are posted on\u0000 the site. This interactional dynamics triggers a dialogic sequence of follow-ups through which stances are formulated following up\u0000 on previous stances or counterstances. Against this background, this paper reports on a case study of individual and\u0000 collaborative, and interdiscursive and intradiscursive stance-taking in participants’ comments to an online review focusing on the\u0000 strategic use of direct (tactile) and indirect (inferential) references to evidentiality and their co-occurrence with\u0000 argumentative markers. In this multilayered context stance-taking does not only contribute to evaluation but also to the\u0000 construction of collective identities.","PeriodicalId":36241,"journal":{"name":"Internet Pragmatics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49370691","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":"The future of internet pragmatics","authors":"Ruth Page","doi":"10.1075/IP.00021.PAG","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/IP.00021.PAG","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36241,"journal":{"name":"Internet Pragmatics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41834206","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 reviews The Semiotics of Emoji: The Rise of Visual Language in the Age of the Internet 978-1-4742-8198-0
本文评述了表情符号的符号学：网络时代视觉语言的兴起
{"title":"Marcel Danesi, The Semiotics of Emoji: The Rise of Visual Language in the Age of the\u0000 Internet","authors":"H. Haberland","doi":"10.1075/IP.00028.HAB","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/IP.00028.HAB","url":null,"abstract":"This article reviews The Semiotics of Emoji: The Rise of Visual Language in the Age of the Internet 978-1-4742-8198-0","PeriodicalId":36241,"journal":{"name":"Internet Pragmatics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45320243","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 main argument put forward in this paper is that traditional linguistic genre theories neglect the importance of media and their modal affordances in the formation of new genres. It argues that media cannot be viewed as (passive) configurations of technical, semiotic, and cultural features which are chosen by actors/ rhetors in order to serve their communicative needs, but rather as mediators whose modal affordances actively influence communicators’ meaning making choices. In order to support this argument, it will be shown how forms of discourse representation gradually developed from a stylistic device in oral communication to a genre constitutive practice (e.g., in printed academic communication), and eventually became a genre of its own (as the practice of “sharing” content) in social media communication. In the analyses, the focus is on the interplay between modal affordances of the different media in which discourse representation formats are used, their formal properties, and pragmatic factors (like audience expectations in different communicative genres and situations). It is shown how innovative aspects of a medium influence formal features of discourse representation which in turn serve different communicative purposes in different genres.
{"title":"Genres, media, and recontextualization practices","authors":"H. Gruber","doi":"10.1075/IP.00023.GRU","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/IP.00023.GRU","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The main argument put forward in this paper is that traditional linguistic genre theories neglect the importance\u0000 of media and their modal affordances in the formation of new genres. It argues that media cannot be viewed as (passive)\u0000 configurations of technical, semiotic, and cultural features which are chosen by actors/ rhetors in order to serve their\u0000 communicative needs, but rather as mediators whose modal affordances actively influence communicators’ meaning making choices. In\u0000 order to support this argument, it will be shown how forms of discourse representation gradually developed from a stylistic device\u0000 in oral communication to a genre constitutive practice (e.g., in printed academic communication), and eventually became a genre of\u0000 its own (as the practice of “sharing” content) in social media communication. In the analyses, the focus is on the interplay\u0000 between modal affordances of the different media in which discourse representation formats are used, their formal properties, and\u0000 pragmatic factors (like audience expectations in different communicative genres and situations). It is shown how innovative\u0000 aspects of a medium influence formal features of discourse representation which in turn serve different communicative purposes in\u0000 different genres.","PeriodicalId":36241,"journal":{"name":"Internet Pragmatics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45660602","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 examines a corpus of private text messages collected in Birmingham and surrounding towns in 2015. We look specifically at pragmatic roles played by the vocatives we find in the corpus. Since text messages are sent to targeted recipients, vocatives are structurally redundant, and we review literature concerning vocatives in spoken and written data to first see what categories others have proposed for these functions. We then challenge some of these categorisations, identifying a new category of ‘focuser’ which we argue is akin to a summons in spoken language. We also examine the pragmatic value of vocatives in performing identity work for both sender and receiver. We finish by looking at gendered performance of identity as a case study in our corpus of how text producers construct themselves and others.
{"title":"The pragmatic use of vocatives in private one-to-one digital communication","authors":"E. Asprey, Caroline Tagg","doi":"10.1075/IP.00024.ASP","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/IP.00024.ASP","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines a corpus of private text messages collected in Birmingham and surrounding towns in 2015. We look specifically at pragmatic roles played by the vocatives we find in the corpus. Since text messages are sent to targeted recipients, vocatives are structurally redundant, and we review literature concerning vocatives in spoken and written data to first see what categories others have proposed for these functions. We then challenge some of these categorisations, identifying a new category of ‘focuser’ which we argue is akin to a summons in spoken language. We also examine the pragmatic value of vocatives in performing identity work for both sender and receiver. We finish by looking at gendered performance of identity as a case study in our corpus of how text producers construct themselves and others.","PeriodicalId":36241,"journal":{"name":"Internet Pragmatics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47480865","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":"Some food for thought on the theory and practice of internet pragmatics","authors":"A. Fetzer","doi":"10.1075/IP.00019.FET","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/IP.00019.FET","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36241,"journal":{"name":"Internet Pragmatics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2019-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45562541","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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