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337015764 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code P&bns 256 Eb 15 9789027268945 06 10.1075/pbns.256 13 2014045738 DG 002 02 01 P&bns 02 0922-842X Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 256 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Participation in Public and Social Media Interactions</TitleText> 01 pbns.256 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.256 1 B01 Marta Dynel Dynel, Marta Marta Dynel University of Lódz 2 B01 Jan Chovanec Chovanec, Jan Jan Chovanec Masaryk University of Brno 01 eng 291 vi 285 LAN009000 v.2006 CFG 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 06 01 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. 05 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. <br />For scholars of media discourse, pragmatics and social interaction, this will become a core and trusted text. Anne O’Keeffe, MIC, University of Limerick 05 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 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/pbns.256.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027256614.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027256614.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/pbns.256.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/pbns.256.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/pbns.256.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/pbns.256.hb.png 10 01 JB code pbns.256.01cho 1 23 23 Article 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Researching interactional forms and participant structures in public and social media</TitleText> 1 A01 Jan Chovanec Chovanec, Jan Jan Chovanec 2 A01 Marta Dynel Dynel, Marta Marta Dynel 10 01 JB code pbns.256.p1 Section header 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Reconsidering participation frameworks</TitleText> 10 01 JB code pbns.256.02bro 27 47 21 Article 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Participation frameworks and participation in televised sitcom, candid camera and stand-up comedy</TitleText> 1 A01 Alexander Brock Brock, Alexander Alexander Brock 01 In order to reconstruct the participation frameworks of three TV comedy subgenres, this article follows the common differentiation into the fictitious characters&#8217; communication and the discourse between a comedy&#8217;s production crew and the television audience. The TV viewer is conceptualised as the central and ratified empirical recipient. At the same time, it is argued that a fictitious overhearer&#8217;s position is created for her/him on the level of the characters&#8217; communication, using camera position, sound and other technical means. Participation frameworks are reconstructed for sitcom, candid camera and stand-up comedy, which differ considerably from each other and are definitive for their respective sub-genre. Some manipulations of the basic constellations are also analysed, including meta-humour. 10 01 JB code pbns.256.03dra 49 66 18 Article 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Participation structures in Twitter interaction</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Arguing for the <i>broadcaster</i> role</Subtitle> 1 A01 Fawn Draucker Draucker, Fawn Fawn Draucker 01 In offering a new platform for electronically-mediated interaction, the Twitter medium brings with it new implications for participation. Building on Goffman&#8217;s (1981) production format, this paper argues for the role of broadcaster, a &#8220;followable&#8221; party that makes talk available to recipients, as a participant in Twitter interaction. Evidence from a corpus of tweets relating to the National Hockey League (NHL) is presented, showing that the broadcaster role can be separated from Goffman&#8217;s traditional roles of animator, author, and principal. The broadcaster, however, is shown to be held responsible for talk produced for the account, even when the broadcaster is demonstrably distinct from other production roles. Additionally, the broadcaster is shown to be a potential target of address in tweets from other Twitter users. This evidence suggests that users see the broadcaster as an active participant in the production of talk, and should be included in participation frameworks for Twitter interaction. 10 01 JB code pbns.256.04cho 67 95 29 Article 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Participant roles and embedded interactions in online sports broadcasts</TitleText> 1 A01 Jan Chovanec Chovanec, Jan Jan Chovanec 01 Many communicative events in the media are structurally rather complex, containing several levels on which utterances are produced, mediated and received. The present chapter applies and develops Goffman&#8217;s notion of embedded interactions and their participant arrangements by identifying several distinct interactional frames found in modern media genres. Using data from online sports commentaries, the article documents how the individual frames of interaction are represented and linguistically reflected in the written text of the commentary and how the existence of such frames affects the participation framework of the entire communicative act. The analysis distinguishes between horizontal interactions, occurring on the level of the interactants within a specific frame, and vertical interactions, which cut across the boundaries of the communicative frames and which may be addressed to fictitious and non-present as well as real recipients. Since the modern media reach out to the audience by providing for their active involvement, the participant role of the audience as recipients is changing to the extent that they can become co-producers of parts of the media text. Thus, while participants are shown to have multiple roles, the distinction between the production and the reception sides of communication becomes blurred in those genres that encourage or provide for active audience participation. 10 01 JB code pbns.256.p2 Section header 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Participation and interpersonal pragmatics</TitleText> 10 01 JB code pbns.256.05hau 99 133 35 Article 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Troubles talk, (dis)affiliation and the participation order in Taiwanese-Chinese online discussion boards</TitleText> 1 A01 Michael Haugh Haugh, Michael Michael Haugh 2 A01 Wei-Lin Melody Chang Chang, Wei-Lin Melody Wei-Lin Melody Chang 01 Online discussion boards are a common forum in which everyday users share troubles, elicit various forms of empathy and sympathy, and also seek advice from others. One challenge facing participants, as well as analysts, is the interpretation of expressions of discontent or dissatisfaction as either troubles talk, complaining, seeking advice, or some combination of these, given that each of these social actions/activities invokes a distinct preference structure and presumed differences in what counts as an affiliative or disaffiliative response. In this paper, drawing on an analysis of threads in a Taiwanese online parenting discussion board, we propose that one way in which participants navigate this complex array of preferences and (dis)affiliative responses is through the instantiation of a locally situated participation order, which is both afforded and constrained by the interactions that are mediated via online discussion boards. We further argue that emotional support can be indicated through both affiliative responses, such as mutual encouraging, mutual bemoaning, and empathic suggesting, as well as through disaffiliative responses, such as accusing and advising. We conclude that soliciting emotional support constitutes an important relational practice in online parenting discussion boards, whereby a warrant for sharing troubles with acquaintances and even strangers is established for these kinds of interactions. 10 01 JB code pbns.256.06loc 135 155 21 Article 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Humour in microblogging</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Exploiting linguistic humour strategies for identity construction in two Facebook focus groups</Subtitle> 1 A01 Miriam A. Locher Locher, Miriam A. Miriam A. Locher 2 A01 Brook Bolander Bolander, Brook Brook Bolander 01 Research within interpersonal pragmatics highlights the relational aspect of language in use (Locher and Graham 2010). While this focus has especially been dealt with in politeness research, it can also be fruitfully combined with the study of identity construction through language (see Locher 2008). The use of humour is such a means of identity construction since showing a sense of humour in interaction is valued in many contexts. This chapter reports on a project on Facebook status updates (see Bolander and Locher 2010, Locher and Bolander 2014) and thus provides insights into identity construction in an interactive Web 2.0 social network site, where the participation framework is such that status updates are written in a semi-public environment in front of an audience of ratified Facebook friends, who can decide to move from the role of overhearer/eavesdropper to participating actively. We conducted a qualitative discourse analytic study of how humour is used in status updates by participants of two Facebook focus groups. These humorous acts of microblogging (Zhao and Rosson 2009; Yus 2011; Zappavigna 2012) are contrasted with different types of identity construction in the other status updates. While some but not all convey that they have a sense of humour, others also evoke identities in connection with other personality traits, as well as making pastime, work, and relationships claims. 10 01 JB code pbns.256.07dyn 157 182 26 Article 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Impoliteness in the service of verisimilitude in film interaction</TitleText> 1 A01 Marta Dynel Dynel, Marta Marta Dynel 01 This paper addresses the issue of impoliteness in the context of the verisimilitude of film discourse. Taking as its departure point the notion of participation framework encompassing two levels of communication underlying film interaction and drawing on the recent developments in the relevant scholarship on impoliteness, the present article puts forward a number of hypotheses about how impoliteness, albeit extremely frequent and superfluous, is plausibly rendered and does not strike viewers as being inconceivable given the way it is realised on the characters&#8217; level of communication. To this end, a few pragmatic factors are discussed: impoliteness as a character trait, the speaker&#8217;s power, sanctioning impoliteness within a community of practice, and the nature of hearers&#8217; reactions to impoliteness. 10 01 JB code pbns.256.08zag 183 207 25 Article 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">&#8220;That&#8217;s none of your business, Sy&#8221;</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">The pragmatics of vocatives in film dialogue</Subtitle> 1 A01 Raffaele Zago Zago, Raffaele Raffaele Zago 01 The present paper attempts to throw light on the utility of vocatives within the twofold participation framework of film dialogue. This is done through a case study investigating the pragmatic functions and positions of vocatives in the famous films &#8220;Erin Brockovich&#8221;, &#8220;One Hour Photo&#8221;, and &#8220;Sliding Doors&#8221;. The paper identifies various types of vocatives at the inter-character level, namely summonses, relational vocatives, adversarial vocatives, emphatic vocatives, turn management vocatives, mitigators, insults, badinage vocatives and vocatives validating the addressee&#8217;s identity. It will be underlined that, at the inter-character level, vocatives typically act as illocutionary force enhancing devices, and that, in this respect, film dialogue makes the most of a tendency attested in naturallyoccurring language, i.e. the preponderant use of vocatives to perform functions which go far beyond the mere identification of the addressee. The functions and positions of vocatives will be discussed in their implications for the recipient design. In particular, it will be argued that vocatives facilitate viewers&#8217; suspension of disbelief, contribute to viewers&#8217; involvement, foster the comprehensibility of the plot, and signal crucial scenes. 10 01 JB code pbns.256.p3 Section header 11 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Forms of participation</TitleText> 10 01 JB code pbns.256.09lom 211 231 21 Article 12 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">A participation perspective on television evening news in the age of immediacy</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>A </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">participation perspective on television evening news in the age of immediacy</TitleWithoutPrefix> 1 A01 Linda Lombardo Lombardo, Linda Linda Lombardo 01 In a context of intense media competition and a contemporary culture of talk, traditional TV news has devised ways to make news more interactive and closer to the TV audience. In British TV news programmes, the live exchange between news presenter and correspondent has been identified as a key site for discourse in a dialogic mode (Montgomery 2007; Tolson 2006). This study adopts a participation framework approach to analyse the live exchanges in a corpus of BBC evening news programmes over time. Findings indicate that while the frequency of live exchanges is sustained, they become shorter and less interactive, at the same time as other strategies are adopted to give the impression of extensive, immediate reporting. What emerges is an overriding concern with giving the appearance of &#8220;liveness&#8221;, sacrificing the interactive format of the traditional live exchange. The &#8220;token interactivity&#8221; which results may not encourage the kind of audience participation that facilitates understanding and retention. 10 01 JB code pbns.256.10ada 233 257 25 Article 13 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">What I can (re)make out of it</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Incoherence, non-cohesion, and re-interpretation in YouTube video responses</Subtitle> 1 A01 Elisabetta Adami Adami, Elisabetta Elisabetta Adami 01 The present paper examines patterns of relatedness in exchanges built by the video responses to one of YouTube &#8220;Most Responded&#8221; videos. The analysis shows the presence of a diversified range of patterns, as a result of the interactants&#8217; creative use of the video response option, which affords text-production through copy-and-paste. The results trace a continuum from fully cohesive and coherent exchanges to exchanges presenting no clues of relatedness, with a great variation in-between the two poles. Videos often respond incoherently, disregarding the meaning, diverting from the topic or foregrounding a background element of the video they respond to. In other cases, responses are created through the reuse of previously made texts, so that their recontextualization reconfigures or scatters cohesive ties, producing a marked implicitness in the exchange. Interactants accept (and at times praise) incoherent and non-cohesive semiotic chains thus acknowledging and reinforcing emerging conventions in video-interaction. Interaction through videos seems driven by the participants&#8217; interested reinterpretation, transformation, and recontextualization of texts, thus shaping distinctively the requirements for successful communication in the semiotic space. 10 01 JB code pbns.256.11rib 259 280 22 Article 14 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Enhancing citizen engagement</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Political weblogs and participatory democracy</Subtitle> 1 A01 Georgia Riboni Riboni, Georgia Georgia Riboni 01 This chapter discusses the function of blogs as tools enhancing citizen participation in political communication. Adopting the perspective of corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis, a set of blogs from the US presidential election campaign are analysed in order to determine the frequency of reference to the candidates, the parties, as well as the bloggers themselves. The analysis of pronoun choice, verbs and modality indicate that blogs enhance participation rhetoric. The data further indicate that citizen bloggers attach more importance to individual political figures than party bloggers do. The tendency to refer to the candidates rather than to their political affiliation may be explained as evidence that people not belonging to parties interpret politics as a struggle between different politicians and not between different ideologies. Since the language representation of the political scene in citizens&#8217; blogs shows distinct traces of the ongoing process of personalization of politics, the political blog can be considered as a &#8220;tool of citizen empowerment&#8221;. 10 01 JB code pbns.256.12ind 281 285 5 Miscellaneous 15 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20150212 2015 John Benjamins B.V. 02 WORLD 13 15 9789027256614 01 JB 3 John Benjamins e-Platform 03 jbe-platform.com 09 WORLD 21 01 00 95.00 EUR R 01 00 80.00 GBP Z 01 gen 00 143.00 USD S 809015763 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code P&bns 256 Hb 15 9789027256614 13 2014044079 BB 01 P&bns 02 0922-842X Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 256 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Participation in Public and Social Media Interactions</TitleText> 01 pbns.256 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.256 1 B01 Marta Dynel Dynel, Marta Marta Dynel University of Lódz 2 B01 Jan Chovanec Chovanec, Jan Jan Chovanec Masaryk University of Brno 01 eng 291 vi 285 LAN009000 v.2006 CFG 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 06 01 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. 05 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. <br />For scholars of media discourse, pragmatics and social interaction, this will become a core and trusted text. Anne O’Keeffe, MIC, University of Limerick 05 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 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/pbns.256.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027256614.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027256614.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/pbns.256.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/pbns.256.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/pbns.256.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/pbns.256.hb.png 10 01 JB code pbns.256.01cho 1 23 23 Article 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Researching interactional forms and participant structures in public and social media</TitleText> 1 A01 Jan Chovanec Chovanec, Jan Jan Chovanec 2 A01 Marta Dynel Dynel, Marta Marta Dynel 10 01 JB code pbns.256.p1 Section header 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Reconsidering participation frameworks</TitleText> 10 01 JB code pbns.256.02bro 27 47 21 Article 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Participation frameworks and participation in televised sitcom, candid camera and stand-up comedy</TitleText> 1 A01 Alexander Brock Brock, Alexander Alexander Brock 01 In order to reconstruct the participation frameworks of three TV comedy subgenres, this article follows the common differentiation into the fictitious characters&#8217; communication and the discourse between a comedy&#8217;s production crew and the television audience. The TV viewer is conceptualised as the central and ratified empirical recipient. At the same time, it is argued that a fictitious overhearer&#8217;s position is created for her/him on the level of the characters&#8217; communication, using camera position, sound and other technical means. Participation frameworks are reconstructed for sitcom, candid camera and stand-up comedy, which differ considerably from each other and are definitive for their respective sub-genre. Some manipulations of the basic constellations are also analysed, including meta-humour. 10 01 JB code pbns.256.03dra 49 66 18 Article 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Participation structures in Twitter interaction</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Arguing for the <i>broadcaster</i> role</Subtitle> 1 A01 Fawn Draucker Draucker, Fawn Fawn Draucker 01 In offering a new platform for electronically-mediated interaction, the Twitter medium brings with it new implications for participation. Building on Goffman&#8217;s (1981) production format, this paper argues for the role of broadcaster, a &#8220;followable&#8221; party that makes talk available to recipients, as a participant in Twitter interaction. Evidence from a corpus of tweets relating to the National Hockey League (NHL) is presented, showing that the broadcaster role can be separated from Goffman&#8217;s traditional roles of animator, author, and principal. The broadcaster, however, is shown to be held responsible for talk produced for the account, even when the broadcaster is demonstrably distinct from other production roles. Additionally, the broadcaster is shown to be a potential target of address in tweets from other Twitter users. This evidence suggests that users see the broadcaster as an active participant in the production of talk, and should be included in participation frameworks for Twitter interaction. 10 01 JB code pbns.256.04cho 67 95 29 Article 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Participant roles and embedded interactions in online sports broadcasts</TitleText> 1 A01 Jan Chovanec Chovanec, Jan Jan Chovanec 01 Many communicative events in the media are structurally rather complex, containing several levels on which utterances are produced, mediated and received. The present chapter applies and develops Goffman&#8217;s notion of embedded interactions and their participant arrangements by identifying several distinct interactional frames found in modern media genres. Using data from online sports commentaries, the article documents how the individual frames of interaction are represented and linguistically reflected in the written text of the commentary and how the existence of such frames affects the participation framework of the entire communicative act. The analysis distinguishes between horizontal interactions, occurring on the level of the interactants within a specific frame, and vertical interactions, which cut across the boundaries of the communicative frames and which may be addressed to fictitious and non-present as well as real recipients. Since the modern media reach out to the audience by providing for their active involvement, the participant role of the audience as recipients is changing to the extent that they can become co-producers of parts of the media text. Thus, while participants are shown to have multiple roles, the distinction between the production and the reception sides of communication becomes blurred in those genres that encourage or provide for active audience participation. 10 01 JB code pbns.256.p2 Section header 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Participation and interpersonal pragmatics</TitleText> 10 01 JB code pbns.256.05hau 99 133 35 Article 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Troubles talk, (dis)affiliation and the participation order in Taiwanese-Chinese online discussion boards</TitleText> 1 A01 Michael Haugh Haugh, Michael Michael Haugh 2 A01 Wei-Lin Melody Chang Chang, Wei-Lin Melody Wei-Lin Melody Chang 01 Online discussion boards are a common forum in which everyday users share troubles, elicit various forms of empathy and sympathy, and also seek advice from others. One challenge facing participants, as well as analysts, is the interpretation of expressions of discontent or dissatisfaction as either troubles talk, complaining, seeking advice, or some combination of these, given that each of these social actions/activities invokes a distinct preference structure and presumed differences in what counts as an affiliative or disaffiliative response. In this paper, drawing on an analysis of threads in a Taiwanese online parenting discussion board, we propose that one way in which participants navigate this complex array of preferences and (dis)affiliative responses is through the instantiation of a locally situated participation order, which is both afforded and constrained by the interactions that are mediated via online discussion boards. We further argue that emotional support can be indicated through both affiliative responses, such as mutual encouraging, mutual bemoaning, and empathic suggesting, as well as through disaffiliative responses, such as accusing and advising. We conclude that soliciting emotional support constitutes an important relational practice in online parenting discussion boards, whereby a warrant for sharing troubles with acquaintances and even strangers is established for these kinds of interactions. 10 01 JB code pbns.256.06loc 135 155 21 Article 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Humour in microblogging</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Exploiting linguistic humour strategies for identity construction in two Facebook focus groups</Subtitle> 1 A01 Miriam A. Locher Locher, Miriam A. Miriam A. Locher 2 A01 Brook Bolander Bolander, Brook Brook Bolander 01 Research within interpersonal pragmatics highlights the relational aspect of language in use (Locher and Graham 2010). While this focus has especially been dealt with in politeness research, it can also be fruitfully combined with the study of identity construction through language (see Locher 2008). The use of humour is such a means of identity construction since showing a sense of humour in interaction is valued in many contexts. This chapter reports on a project on Facebook status updates (see Bolander and Locher 2010, Locher and Bolander 2014) and thus provides insights into identity construction in an interactive Web 2.0 social network site, where the participation framework is such that status updates are written in a semi-public environment in front of an audience of ratified Facebook friends, who can decide to move from the role of overhearer/eavesdropper to participating actively. We conducted a qualitative discourse analytic study of how humour is used in status updates by participants of two Facebook focus groups. These humorous acts of microblogging (Zhao and Rosson 2009; Yus 2011; Zappavigna 2012) are contrasted with different types of identity construction in the other status updates. While some but not all convey that they have a sense of humour, others also evoke identities in connection with other personality traits, as well as making pastime, work, and relationships claims. 10 01 JB code pbns.256.07dyn 157 182 26 Article 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Impoliteness in the service of verisimilitude in film interaction</TitleText> 1 A01 Marta Dynel Dynel, Marta Marta Dynel 01 This paper addresses the issue of impoliteness in the context of the verisimilitude of film discourse. Taking as its departure point the notion of participation framework encompassing two levels of communication underlying film interaction and drawing on the recent developments in the relevant scholarship on impoliteness, the present article puts forward a number of hypotheses about how impoliteness, albeit extremely frequent and superfluous, is plausibly rendered and does not strike viewers as being inconceivable given the way it is realised on the characters&#8217; level of communication. To this end, a few pragmatic factors are discussed: impoliteness as a character trait, the speaker&#8217;s power, sanctioning impoliteness within a community of practice, and the nature of hearers&#8217; reactions to impoliteness. 10 01 JB code pbns.256.08zag 183 207 25 Article 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">&#8220;That&#8217;s none of your business, Sy&#8221;</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">The pragmatics of vocatives in film dialogue</Subtitle> 1 A01 Raffaele Zago Zago, Raffaele Raffaele Zago 01 The present paper attempts to throw light on the utility of vocatives within the twofold participation framework of film dialogue. This is done through a case study investigating the pragmatic functions and positions of vocatives in the famous films &#8220;Erin Brockovich&#8221;, &#8220;One Hour Photo&#8221;, and &#8220;Sliding Doors&#8221;. The paper identifies various types of vocatives at the inter-character level, namely summonses, relational vocatives, adversarial vocatives, emphatic vocatives, turn management vocatives, mitigators, insults, badinage vocatives and vocatives validating the addressee&#8217;s identity. It will be underlined that, at the inter-character level, vocatives typically act as illocutionary force enhancing devices, and that, in this respect, film dialogue makes the most of a tendency attested in naturallyoccurring language, i.e. the preponderant use of vocatives to perform functions which go far beyond the mere identification of the addressee. The functions and positions of vocatives will be discussed in their implications for the recipient design. In particular, it will be argued that vocatives facilitate viewers&#8217; suspension of disbelief, contribute to viewers&#8217; involvement, foster the comprehensibility of the plot, and signal crucial scenes. 10 01 JB code pbns.256.p3 Section header 11 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Forms of participation</TitleText> 10 01 JB code pbns.256.09lom 211 231 21 Article 12 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">A participation perspective on television evening news in the age of immediacy</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>A </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">participation perspective on television evening news in the age of immediacy</TitleWithoutPrefix> 1 A01 Linda Lombardo Lombardo, Linda Linda Lombardo 01 In a context of intense media competition and a contemporary culture of talk, traditional TV news has devised ways to make news more interactive and closer to the TV audience. In British TV news programmes, the live exchange between news presenter and correspondent has been identified as a key site for discourse in a dialogic mode (Montgomery 2007; Tolson 2006). This study adopts a participation framework approach to analyse the live exchanges in a corpus of BBC evening news programmes over time. Findings indicate that while the frequency of live exchanges is sustained, they become shorter and less interactive, at the same time as other strategies are adopted to give the impression of extensive, immediate reporting. What emerges is an overriding concern with giving the appearance of &#8220;liveness&#8221;, sacrificing the interactive format of the traditional live exchange. The &#8220;token interactivity&#8221; which results may not encourage the kind of audience participation that facilitates understanding and retention. 10 01 JB code pbns.256.10ada 233 257 25 Article 13 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">What I can (re)make out of it</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Incoherence, non-cohesion, and re-interpretation in YouTube video responses</Subtitle> 1 A01 Elisabetta Adami Adami, Elisabetta Elisabetta Adami 01 The present paper examines patterns of relatedness in exchanges built by the video responses to one of YouTube &#8220;Most Responded&#8221; videos. The analysis shows the presence of a diversified range of patterns, as a result of the interactants&#8217; creative use of the video response option, which affords text-production through copy-and-paste. The results trace a continuum from fully cohesive and coherent exchanges to exchanges presenting no clues of relatedness, with a great variation in-between the two poles. Videos often respond incoherently, disregarding the meaning, diverting from the topic or foregrounding a background element of the video they respond to. In other cases, responses are created through the reuse of previously made texts, so that their recontextualization reconfigures or scatters cohesive ties, producing a marked implicitness in the exchange. Interactants accept (and at times praise) incoherent and non-cohesive semiotic chains thus acknowledging and reinforcing emerging conventions in video-interaction. Interaction through videos seems driven by the participants&#8217; interested reinterpretation, transformation, and recontextualization of texts, thus shaping distinctively the requirements for successful communication in the semiotic space. 10 01 JB code pbns.256.11rib 259 280 22 Article 14 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Enhancing citizen engagement</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Political weblogs and participatory democracy</Subtitle> 1 A01 Georgia Riboni Riboni, Georgia Georgia Riboni 01 This chapter discusses the function of blogs as tools enhancing citizen participation in political communication. Adopting the perspective of corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis, a set of blogs from the US presidential election campaign are analysed in order to determine the frequency of reference to the candidates, the parties, as well as the bloggers themselves. The analysis of pronoun choice, verbs and modality indicate that blogs enhance participation rhetoric. The data further indicate that citizen bloggers attach more importance to individual political figures than party bloggers do. The tendency to refer to the candidates rather than to their political affiliation may be explained as evidence that people not belonging to parties interpret politics as a struggle between different politicians and not between different ideologies. Since the language representation of the political scene in citizens&#8217; blogs shows distinct traces of the ongoing process of personalization of politics, the political blog can be considered as a &#8220;tool of citizen empowerment&#8221;. 10 01 JB code pbns.256.12ind 281 285 5 Miscellaneous 15 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20150212 2015 John Benjamins B.V. 02 WORLD 08 600 gr 01 JB 1 John Benjamins Publishing Company +31 20 6304747 +31 20 6739773 bookorder@benjamins.nl 01 https://benjamins.com 01 WORLD US CA MX 21 5 22 01 02 JB 1 00 95.00 EUR R 02 02 JB 1 00 100.70 EUR R 01 JB 10 bebc +44 1202 712 934 +44 1202 712 913 sales@bebc.co.uk 03 GB 21 22 02 02 JB 1 00 80.00 GBP Z 01 JB 2 John Benjamins North America +1 800 562-5666 +1 703 661-1501 benjamins@presswarehouse.com 01 https://benjamins.com 01 US CA MX 21 1 22 01 gen 02 JB 1 00 143.00 USD