
The Pragmatics of Negative Self-Identification: I Am What I'm Not
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Ihr Forschungsinteresse liegt in der korpusbasierten, pragmatisch orientierten Kritischen Diskursanalyse. Dabei konzentriert sie sich insbesondere auf pragmatische Strategien zur Legitimation von Meinungsäußerungen und zur Konstituierung von Expertise in digitalen Medien.
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2. IDENTITY, (NEGATIVE) SELF-IDENTIFICATION AND THE SOCIAL WORLD
2.1. Conceptualizing identity
2.2. Contemporary struggles around identity
2.3. The discourse context: Self-identification on web forums
2.4. Summary
3. THEORETICALLY CONTEXTUALIZING NEGATIVE SELF-IDENTIFIERS
3.1. Studying forms, meanings, and functions
3.2. Theorizing negatives
3.3. Theorizing the identifying noun phrase
3.4. The structure "I + copula + NOT + identifying NP" in British English
3.5. Summary
4. FUNCTIONALLY CONCEPTUALIZING NEGATIVE SELF-IDENTIFICATION
4.1. Negative self-identifiers as speech acts
4.2. Negative self-identifiers as context-dependent meaning potentials
4.3. Negative self-identifiers and (corpus-based) Critical Discourse Analysis
4.4. Summary
5. THE EMPIRICAL STUDY: DATA AND METHOD
5.1. Theoretical and methodological principles
5.2. Data selection and collection
5.3. Summary
6. THE EMPIRICAL STUDY: ANALYTICAL APPROACH AND ANNOTATION
6.1. A formal-functional framework of negative self-identifiers in use
6.2. Corpus annotation
6.3. Data analysis
6.4. Summary
7. CONCEPTUALLY PROFILING NEGATIVE SELF-IDENTIFIERS
7.1. Theoretical considerations and methodological principles
7.2. Results
7.3. Summary
8. NEGATIVE SELF-IDENTIFIERS AND THEIR IMMEDIATE CO-TEXTS
8.1. General co-textual profile
8.2. Negative self-identifiers and their formally related co-texts
8.3. Summary
9. THE DISCOURSE FUNCTIONS OF NEGATIVE SELF-IDENTIFIERS
9.1. Functional analysis of formally related co-texts
9.2. Functional analysis of co-texts preceding negative self-identifiers
9.3. Qualitatively studying negative self-identifiers in context
9.4. Summary
10. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION
11. REFERENCES
APPENDIX
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