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DISCURSIVE SELF IN MICROBLOGGING
SPEECH ACTS, STORIES AND SELF-PRAISE |
| By: |
Daria Dayter |
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Hardback |
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£80.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
9027256659 |
| ISBN 13: |
9789027256652 |
| Publisher: |
JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO |
| Pub. date: |
10 March, 2016 |
| Series: |
Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 260 |
| Pages: |
247 |
| Synopsis: |
This volume examines the language of microblogs drawing 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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Netherlands |
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John Benjamins Publishing Co |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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