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Linguistic Recycling: The process of quoting in increasingly mediatized settingsEdited by Lauri Haapanen and Daniel Perrin
[AILA Review 33] 2020
► pp. 204–226
Edited by Lauri Haapanen and Daniel Perrin
[AILA Review 33] 2020
► pp. 204–226
More than recycled snippets of news
Quote cards as recontextualized discourse on social media
Focusing on Facebook pages from public broadcasters in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, this paper looks at ways in which written quotations and snippets of news are reused and shared in social media posts. Drawing on recent theorization of digital quotations as recontextualized discourse, the study deals with a specific genre of digital news: quote cards. The qualitative analysis identifies common design patterns, examines the functions of quote cards and shows how text and image are remixed and integrated into multimodal offerings, providing affordances for news-sharing practices and responses into political discourses.
Keywords: news bites, public service media, Facebook, intertextuality, user comments, multimodality, media linguistics
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Recontextualizing news content as shareable news bites
- 3.Data and method
- 4.Findings
- 4.1Quote-centric news bites and user engagement
- 4.2Quote cards as multimodal ensembles
- 4.2.1Text-only quote cards
- 4.2.2Quotee-related visuals
- 4.2.3Quote-related visuals
- 4.3Political opinion review and dialogization
- 4.4Contrasting multimodal design and quotation discourse
- 5.Conclusion
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