Index
A
- abbreviation
63, 64, 65, 68, 70, 71, 75
- accepting praise
64, 75, 86, 90, 93, 96, 97, 99
- performing modesty
86, 90, 96
- actsSee communicative acts, speech acts
- adaptability
6, 7, 157, 162, 165, 173
- affect
5, 64, 73–78, 110, 138, 142
- affordances
2, 6, 119, 162, 178, 196
- attitude
21, 22, 48, 64, 73, 135–136
; See also perspective, point‑of‑view, stance
- authenticity
118, 178, 191, 196
- authorial audience
42, 43, 47, 48, 49, 53
B
- Brexit
183, 184, 189, 193, 197
- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
86–87
- BTL (below the line) comments
176–197
C
- civility
185, 196
; See also politeness
- classification
51, 126–127, 141–147
; See also taxonomy
- communicative acts
127–128, 141–146
See also speech acts
- communicative practices
104, 106, 119
- compliments
64, 75, 87–92
- creativity/creative
61, 63, 64, 70, 71, 77, 78, 104, 107, 108, 109, 111, 113, 120
D
- deixis (deictic expressions)
19, 20, 21, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 45
- digital fragments
7, 103, 119, 120
- discourse typeSee genre, typology
- distal demonstrative that
19, 20
E
- echo chamber
178, 187, 196
- egocentrism
7, 42, 43, 45
- emoji
64, 65, 77, 103, 124–155
- emoji as punctuation
136–137, 148
- emoji as tone modification
135–136, 148
- emoji sequences
133, 135, 137, 138, 147
- typology of emoji illocutionary effects
141, 150
; See also emoticon, graphicon
- emoticon
63, 64, 103, 104, 124, 125, 134, 135, 136, 139
; See also emoji, graphicon
- emotion
7, 75, 76, 104, 111, 129
- virtual emotion
107, 108, 109, 111, 120
- European Union
176, 178, 179, 180, 191
- evaluation
19–22, 25–33, 75, 76, 77, 106, 159, 161, 162–3, 169, 189
; See also function
- Express
179–184, 186, 191, 193, 195, 196
- externalizing the self
7, 107–108, 113, 120
F
- face threatening act
51, 126, 136, 189
- Facebook
105, 125, 127, 130, 134, 137, 138, 147
- Facebook messenger
59, 62
- facial expression
99, 104, 112, 124, 125, 129, 139, 151
- focalizing structures
31, 33
- function (types)
- evaluative function
21, 32–33, 120
- pragmatic function
72–77, 105
- pragmatic functions of emoji126
- pragmatic functions of GIFs105
- referential function
21, 22, 38, 51, 117, 119
- self-referential function
105, 107–108, 112, 116–118
G
- genre
4, 6, 8, 19, 26, 33, 38, 83, 87, 96
- GIFs
103–113, 117, 119–121
- graphicon
103, 105, 108, 135, 151
; See also emoji, emoticon, reaction GIFs
H
- hate speech
177, 180, 192, 196
- heteroglossia
60–61, 77, 78
- heteroglossic texting spaces
64–65, 70, 72, 75–78
- humour/joking
64, 74, 76, 77, 110–111
- non-seriousness
84, 90–94, 96, 98–99
I
- identity59
- identity performance
108, 178, 187, 189, 190, 191, 194, 196
- illocutionary act illocutionary effect, illocutionary force, illocutionarity
124–151
- emoji illocutionary effectsSee emoji
- illocutionary force, continuum of strength139
- illocutionary force enhancement
139, 141, 146, 148, 149
- Illocutionary Force Indicating Device (IFID)
124, 127, 128, 129, 134, 135–137, 138, 139, 141–142, 148, 149
- illocutionary force mitigation
139, 141, 142
- illocutionary force modification
126, 135–136, 139, 141, 142, 148, 149
- illocutionary force shift
125, 136, 139, 141, 142
- impolitenessSee politeness
- Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
107, 132
- intertextuality
7, 104, 111, 120
- interview(s)
96, 99
- epideictic interviews
83, 99
L
- laughter
84–86, 92–94, 98
- looping repetition
115, 118, 120
M
- mainstream media
178, 179, 186, 196, 197
- media discourseSee broadcast talk
- mock hostilitySee ludic conflict
- modesty, performingSee accepting praise
- mood
66, 73, 74, 129, 136, 148
N
- narrative
4, 5, 6, 19, 20, 21, 22, 32, 38, 92, 106, 120–121
- narrative structure
4, 5, 19, 20, 21
- non-seriousness
84–85, 90–94, 96, 98–99, 125, 135, 142, 147
O
- online community
179, 180
- online consumer reviews
4, 156, 157–164
P
- performative verbs
127–128
- performatives/performativity7
- Austin’s “performative analysis”128n
- GVP, GIF as multimodal virtual performative
103–121
- virtual performative
7, 37, 103–105, 107, 109, 111, 113, 119
- virtual performativity
7, 104–105, 107–108, 121
- personal pronouns
7, 107, 158, 173
- perspective
21, 22, 47, 52, 118
See also attitude, point‑of‑view, stance
- persuasion
4, 5, 6, 22, 33
- point-of-view
5, 47, 52
; See also attitude, perspective, stance
- political debates
21, 26, 33
- popular press179See also mainstream media
- praiseSee accepting praise
- presidential debates
19, 21, 28, 32, 33
- projections117
- future orientation
113, 116–120
- public sphere
176–178, 196–197
R
- rational debate
177, 178, 196
- recontextualization
104, 113, 120
- repetition
21, 27, 28, 32
- reviews
6, 157–174
; See also taxonomy
- rhetoric
2, 3, 20, 26, 83, 87–89, 99
- rhetorical devices
20, 26, 28, 33
S
- second-person interaction
188–191
- Sina Weibo
125, 127, 130, 132, 134, 135, 137, 138, 143, 146n, 147
- sincerity
90, 91, 190–191
- social media
104, 126, 127, 130, 137, 177
- solidarity
176, 187–188, 196
- speech act theory
130–134
- speech act(s)
7, 64, 124–151
See also communicative acts
- behave act
139–141, 146–147
- spelling, respelling, trans-scripting
63, 64, 68, 70, 71
- stance
84, 85, 90, 91, 92, 94, 99
; See also attitude, point-of-view, perspective
- stickers
103, 104n, 108
; See also emoji, emoticon, graphicon
T
- tabloids
181, 183
; See also mainstream media
- taxonomy
- CMC act taxonomy
126, 128, 130–132, 135, 136, 139, 142, 150
- Virtanen’s framework for reviews
6, 157, 161–162, 165–174
- temporality
104–109, 115, 119–120
- temporal dimension
104, 120
- text and discourse types6See also genre
- third-person abuse
191–195
- translanguaging
60–61, 70, 77–78
- Twitter
127, 130, 132, 137, 138
U
- U.K. Independence Party (UKIP)
179, 182, 187
- U.S. presidential elections18
V
- virtual performative, virtual performativitySee performativity
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