Pub Date : 2024-08-10DOI: 10.1177/17504813241267055
Maaike Groenewege
{"title":"System prompt design: Bridging the gap between novice mental models and reality","authors":"Maaike Groenewege","doi":"10.1177/17504813241267055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813241267055","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":437874,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":"12 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141921016","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}
Pub Date : 2024-08-09DOI: 10.1177/01614681241267054
Rebecca Evanhoe
{"title":"Observing and designing signals of agency","authors":"Rebecca Evanhoe","doi":"10.1177/01614681241267054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01614681241267054","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":437874,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":"33 30","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141924581","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}
Pub Date : 2024-05-23DOI: 10.1177/17504813241253711
Mochammad Rizki Juanda, Eri Kurniawan, Budi Hermawan
The fraud genre is executed through the use of language that can deceive victims, enabling scammers to control conversations and guide victims into complying with the scammer’s intentions. This research aims to identify rhetorical moves and linguistic features used by scammers during mediated online transactions on social media. The data used in this study consists of nine conversation transcripts between scammers and victims during the process of selling online game account data through social media. The classification of moves and strategies is an ongoing process throughout the analysis. The analysis results identified 4 moves and 17 strategies employed by scammers in fraudulent transactions involving the sale of online game account data. Strategy 5 – Insisting on using a recommended middleman from the buyer is identified as a strategy that can indicate the potential for fraud in the mediated online transaction process.
{"title":"Move analysis of fraud in a mediated online transaction","authors":"Mochammad Rizki Juanda, Eri Kurniawan, Budi Hermawan","doi":"10.1177/17504813241253711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813241253711","url":null,"abstract":"The fraud genre is executed through the use of language that can deceive victims, enabling scammers to control conversations and guide victims into complying with the scammer’s intentions. This research aims to identify rhetorical moves and linguistic features used by scammers during mediated online transactions on social media. The data used in this study consists of nine conversation transcripts between scammers and victims during the process of selling online game account data through social media. The classification of moves and strategies is an ongoing process throughout the analysis. The analysis results identified 4 moves and 17 strategies employed by scammers in fraudulent transactions involving the sale of online game account data. Strategy 5 – Insisting on using a recommended middleman from the buyer is identified as a strategy that can indicate the potential for fraud in the mediated online transaction process.","PeriodicalId":437874,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141106876","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}
Pub Date : 2024-05-16DOI: 10.1177/17504813241251548
Baoqin Wu
{"title":"Book Review: Muhammad Afzaal, A Corpus-Based Analysis of Discourses on the Belt and Road Initiative Corpora and the Belt and Road Initiative","authors":"Baoqin Wu","doi":"10.1177/17504813241251548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813241251548","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":437874,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":"29 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140967627","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}
Pub Date : 2024-04-22DOI: 10.1177/17504813241241662
Nataliia Laba
This article explores how universities construe organizational identities and engage digital audiences through images on web homepages. Combining visual content analysis and a discourse-analytic approach informed by social semiotics, I interpret the discourses of identity in 400 images from organizational homepages of four top-tier public universities in Sydney, Australia – University of Sydney, University of New South Wales, University of Technology Sydney, and Macquarie University. Based on the social semiotic interpretation of images, I identify eight identity icons, each deploying a combination of semiotic resources to represent a specific organizational identity. The analysis suggests that universities prioritize featuring people, which results in an augmented sense of social presence on the homepage. Lastly, four identified strategies for digital audience engagement in images – proximation, alignment, equalization, and subjectivation – point to how these are instrumental in representing university life as both individual and shared experiences.
{"title":"From image to identity icon: Discourses of organizational visual identity on Australian university homepages","authors":"Nataliia Laba","doi":"10.1177/17504813241241662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813241241662","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores how universities construe organizational identities and engage digital audiences through images on web homepages. Combining visual content analysis and a discourse-analytic approach informed by social semiotics, I interpret the discourses of identity in 400 images from organizational homepages of four top-tier public universities in Sydney, Australia – University of Sydney, University of New South Wales, University of Technology Sydney, and Macquarie University. Based on the social semiotic interpretation of images, I identify eight identity icons, each deploying a combination of semiotic resources to represent a specific organizational identity. The analysis suggests that universities prioritize featuring people, which results in an augmented sense of social presence on the homepage. Lastly, four identified strategies for digital audience engagement in images – proximation, alignment, equalization, and subjectivation – point to how these are instrumental in representing university life as both individual and shared experiences.","PeriodicalId":437874,"journal":{"name":"Discourse & Communication","volume":"76 20","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140677057","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}
Pub Date : 2024-04-03DOI: 10.1177/17504813241237377
Lili Zhang, Christopher A Smith
For most English language learning engagements in expanding circle countries, textbooks play a key role in defining a syllabus and corralling students toward some measure of completion in a course of study. While scholars have shown how English is broadly seen as a prestigious skill, connected with upward socio-economic mobility, less work has been done on the discourses and ideologies carried by the textbooks, even though this is a billion-dollar-a-year industry with titles selling in the millions. Research clearly raises the need for further investigations of the discourses and world views that they carry as they appear in different territories. In this paper, using Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis, we analyze a corpus of texts books produced domestically within China. In China, English language learning has become a fundamental part of the aspirations of the emerging middle classes, who also tend to consume Western-style products and increasingly take on more individualistic Western-style values. Analysis shows that these textbooks carry language learning activities which combine a gloss of signifiers of more local, cultural ideas embedded in a privileged world inhabited by an aspirational, international middle-class.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-24DOI: 10.1177/17504813231222591
Yaping Guo, Wei Ren
Self-praise is a very common practice on social media and has attracted researchers’ attention in recent years. In contrast, how interlocutors respond to other netizens’ self-praise on social media has rarely been explored. This study investigates internet users’ responses to online self-praise by examining a dataset of 569 netizens’ self-praise responses to 75 self-praising microblogs collected from the Chinese social media platform Weibo. The study examines the strategies of users’ responses to bloggers’ self-praise and whether bloggers’ self-praise strategies influence netizens’ responses. It was found that Chinese netizens responded to self-praising blogs with various strategies, including compliment, congratulation, inquiry/remark, evasion, and challenging. The findings showed that netizens’ self-praise responses varied with the categories of self-praise strategies. Possible factors motivating the various strategies involved in netizens’ self-praise responses are also discussed. The study contributes to the literature on self-praise interaction and speech act responses.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-24DOI: 10.1177/17504813231219446
Altman Yuzhu Peng, T. W. Whyke, Feng Gu
Drawing on critical discourse studies (CDS), this article foregrounds how British higher education institutions respond to gender-critical controversies sparked by their staff members. Adopting Teun van Dijk’s sociocognitive approach, we analyse the University of Sussex’s crisis responses on Twitter (known as X today) concerning de-platforming campaigns against Kathleen Stock. The analysis unpacks how Sussex employs various discursive strategies to validate its institutional stance in the Stock incident. Sussex’s communicative actions aim to mitigate reputation damage caused by the incident. However, such discursive practices simultaneously indicate the university’s attempt to evade its institutional responsibility for equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) advocacy, neither do they address the reputation crisis caused by fellow Twitter users’ counter-narratives. The analysis points towards the need for a sociocognitive analysis of crisis responses to hold higher education institutions accountable for their core mission, amid trans-rights debates unfolding in wider society.
本文以批判性话语研究（CDS）为基础，探讨了英国高等教育机构如何应对其教职员工引发的性别批判争议。采用 Teun van Dijk 的社会认知方法，我们分析了苏塞克斯大学在推特（今日 X）上针对凯瑟琳-斯托克（Kathleen Stock）的去平台化运动所采取的危机应对措施。分析揭示了苏塞克斯大学在斯托克事件中如何运用各种话语策略来验证其机构立场。苏塞克斯的传播行动旨在减轻事件造成的声誉损害。然而，这种话语实践同时也表明该大学试图逃避其倡导平等、多样性和包容性（EDI）的机构责任，也没有解决推特用户的反叙述所造成的声誉危机。分析指出，有必要对危机反应进行社会认知分析，以便在更广泛的社会中展开跨性别权利辩论的同时，让高等教育机构对其核心使命负责。
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Pub Date : 2023-12-12DOI: 10.1177/17504813231211985
Laura Camargo-Fernández, Alba Polo-Artal
The Spanish far-right party – Vox – articulates several ideological components in public discourse, among which nativism and anti-feminism stand out. Anti-feminism is being central in the digital discourse of Vox female leaders, Carla Toscano and Rocío de Meer, and of the former Congress deputy, Macarena Olona. With the aim of deepening the analysis of the discursive representation of women in Vox, this research employs the approach and methodology of critical discourse analysis with the corpus, consisting of 6753 tweets from the accounts of these three leaders, taking into account three of the representation that they (re)produce. The results show the imaginary of the Spanish and Catholic-woman. The discourse of racial Spanishness is initiated through mystified historical events. This occurs with the representation of the Mother-woman, which reinforces the device of patriarchal femininity and the frame of the demographic change based on nativism. The representation of the Tormentor-woman is used to deny both the specificity of gender violence and the need for gender equality policies. These three frames are used to justify the anti-feminist discourse and to explain its modulations. The results show that we need to pay attention to gender in order to understand the discursive strategies of the far-right parties, with special care to the femonationalism strategy, as well as to observe its mobilizing and agglutinating capacity.
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Social media has become a powerful conduit for misinformation during major public events. As a result, an extant body of research has emerged on misinformation and its diffusion. However, the research is fragmented and has mainly focused on understanding the content of misinformation messages. Little attention is paid to the production and consumption of misinformation. This study presents the results of a detailed comparative analysis of the production, consumption, and diffusion of misinformation with authentic information. Our findings, based on extensive use of computational linguistic analyses of COVID-19 pandemic-related messages on the Twitter platform, revealed that misinformation and authentic information exhibit very different characteristics in terms of their contents, production, diffusion, and their ultimate consumption. To support our study, we carefully selected a sample of 500 widely propagated messages confirmed by fact-checking websites as misinformation or authentic information about pandemic-related topics from the Twitter platform. Detailed computational linguistic analyses were performed on these messages and their replies ( N = 198,750). Additionally, we analyzed approximately 1.2 million Twitter user accounts responsible for producing, forwarding, or replying to these messages. Our extensive and detailed findings were used to develop and propose a theoretical framework for understanding the diffusion of misinformation on social media. Our study offers insights for social media platforms, researchers, policymakers, and online information consumers about how misinformation spreads over social media platforms.
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