Participation in Public and Social Media Interactions
Editors
This book deals with participation frameworks in modern social and public media. It brings together several cutting-edge research studies that offer exciting new insights into the nature and formats of interpersonal communication in diverse technology-mediated contexts. Some papers introduce new theoretical extensions to participation formats, while others present case studies in various discourse domains spanning public and private genres. Adopting the perspective of the pragmatics of interaction, these contributions discuss data ranging from public, mass-mediated and quasi-authentic texts, fully staged and scripted textual productions, to authentic, non-scripted private messages and comments, both of a permanent and ephemeral nature. The analyses include news interviews, online sports reporting, sitcoms, comedy shows, stand-up comedies, drama series, institutional and personal blogs, tweets, follow-up YouTube video commentaries, and Facebook status updates. All the authors emphasize the role of context and pay attention to how meaning is constructed by participants in interactions in increasingly complex participation frameworks existing in traditional as well as novel technologically mediated interactions.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 256] 2015. vi, 285 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 26 January 2015
Published online on 26 January 2015
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Researching interactional forms and participant structures in public and social mediaJan Chovanec and Marta Dynel | pp. 1–23
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Reconsidering participation frameworks
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Participation frameworks and participation in televised sitcom, candid camera and stand-up comedyAlexander Brock | pp. 27–47
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Participation structures in Twitter interaction: Arguing for the broadcaster roleFawn Draucker | pp. 49–66
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Participant roles and embedded interactions in online sports broadcastsJan Chovanec | pp. 67–95
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Participation and interpersonal pragmatics
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Troubles talk, (dis)affiliation and the participation order in Taiwanese-Chinese online discussion boardsMichael Haugh and Wei-Lin Melody Chang | pp. 99–133
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Humour in microblogging: Exploiting linguistic humour strategies for identity construction in two Facebook focus groupsMiriam A. Locher and Brook Bolander | pp. 135–155
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Impoliteness in the service of verisimilitude in film interactionMarta Dynel | pp. 157–182
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“That’s none of your business, Sy”: The pragmatics of vocatives in film dialogueRaffaele Zago | pp. 183–207
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Forms of participation
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A participation perspective on television evening news in the age of immediacyLinda Lombardo | pp. 211–231
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What I can (re)make out of it: Incoherence, non-cohesion, and re-interpretation in YouTube video responsesElisabetta Adami | pp. 233–257
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Enhancing citizen engagement: Political weblogs and participatory democracyGeorgia Riboni | pp. 259–280
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Index | pp. 281–285
“This is such a timely volume, given that participation has become a hot topic because it is so relevant to public and social media. The volume contains a wealth of riches: varying contexts (e.g. sports commentaries, news, weblogs, sitcoms, film), methods (from qualitative analyses to corpus-based analyses) and theoretical perspectives (from humour to impoliteness). I cannot imagine but that any reader will be inspired by something here.”
Jonathan Culpeper
“In an ever-changing world of public and social media, this volume is an important conceptualisation of how new modes of communication generate new ways of interacting. What endears me most to this book is that it works through the newness and complexity of mediated discourse, in its many forms, by drawing on a reliable framework, namely participation frameworks. It is comforting to see that Goffman’s notion participation prevails as a lens through which to understand our changing world of interaction. Methodologically core the empirical analysis in this volume is the pragmatics of interaction and this neatly transposes our conceptualisations of language in face-to-face interactions to virtual and public spheres.
For scholars of media discourse, pragmatics and social interaction, this will become a core and trusted text.”
For scholars of media discourse, pragmatics and social interaction, this will become a core and trusted text.”
Anne O’Keeffe, MIC, University of Limerick
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General