Discursive Self in Microblogging
Speech acts, stories and self-praise
1st Edition
Published on 15. February 2016
IX, 244 pages
978-90-272-6752-8 (ISBN)
Description
This volume examines the language of microblogs on the example of a group of eleven users who are united by their interest in ballet as a physical activity and an art form. The book reports on a three and a half year study which complemented a 20,000 word corpus of tweets with semi-structured interviews and participant observation. It deals with two main questions: how users exploit the linguistic resources at their disposal to build a certain identity, and how the community boundaries are performed discursively. The focus is on the speech acts of self-praise and complaint, and on the storytelling practices of microbloggers. The comprehensive treatment of the speech act theory and the social psychological approaches to self-disclosure provides a stepping stone to the analysis of identity work, for which the users draw on two distinctive interpretive repertoires - affiliative and self-promoting.
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Content
- Intro
- Discursive Self in Microblogging
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introducing the pragmalinguistic approach to the study of Twitter
- 1.1. The object of the study
- 1.2. Preliminary theoretical considerations
- 1.3. Aims and scope
- 1.4. The structure of the book
- Discursive identity
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Claims about the discursive identity
- 2.2.1 Identity is constructed in and through talk
- 2.2.2 Identity construction can be accomplished in dialogic talk through affiliation and disaffiliation with interlocutor(s).
- 2.2.3 Identity construction is performed by invoking in talk the categories-in-use through the category-bound actions or reports of such actions.
- 2.2.4 Identity is constructed discursively through speech acts of positioning.
- 2.2.5 In monologual discourse, storytelling is a key device for identity construction.
- 2.2.6 In everyday talk, identity is expressed through a succession of fragmentary, low-tellable stories.
- 2.3. Discursive identity in social media
- 2.4. Social interaction within the community
- 2.4.1 Language of the in-group
- 2.4.2 Pragmatics of the in-group and rapport-building
- 2.5. Conclusion
- Disclosive speech acts
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Self-disclosure in psychology
- 3.3. Disclosure through complaining
- 3.3.1 Grammatical and lexical features of complaints
- 3.3.2 Pragmatic aspects of complaining
- 3.3.3 Complaining online
- 3.4. Disclosure through self-praise
- 3.4.1 Compliments
- 3.4.2 Compliment responses
- 3.4.3 Self-praise
- 3.5. Conclusion
- Twitter as a communicative environment
- 4.1. The controversial status of Twitter
- 4.2. Content and user motivation: Existing taxonomies
- 4.3. The language of microblogs
- 4.4. Questioning the existing mode ecology
- 4.5. Conclusion
- Describing the corpus and the annotation scheme
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Material for the study
- 5.3 Ballet
- 5.4 Methodology
- 5.5 BaTwit corpus make-up
- 5.6 Ethical considerations
- 5.7 Overview of the pragmatic repertoire of the subjects
- 5.8 Conclusion
- Self-disclosure
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Self-praise on ballet topics: Emblematic features
- 6.3 Strategies for rendering self-praise appropriate
- 6.4 Linguistic features of self-praise
- 6.5 Uptake
- 6.6 Conclusion
- Third party complaints
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Frequencies of third party complaints: An overview
- 7.3. Topics and functions of third party complaints
- 7.4. Syntactic structure and lexical devices
- 7.5. Conclusion: Pragmatic space of complaints
- Narratives in microblogs
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Components of a narrative
- 8.3 Emergent narrative
- 8.4 Dimensions of narrative: Tellability, linearity and tellership on Twitter
- 8.5 Small stories. Live reporting
- 8.6 An outline of quantitative findings
- 8.7 Conclusion
- Bringing the findings together
- 9.1. Implicitness in Twitter discourse
- 9.1.1 Grammatical impliciteness
- 9.1.2 Lexical implicitness
- 9.2. Limitations of the study
- 9.3. Revisiting the research questions
- 9.4. Bringing the findings together: Doing identity on Twitter
- 9.5. The implications of the study
- Glossary of ballet terms
- References
- Index
