The Speech Act(ion) of Commenting in Social Media and Beyond

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 31:2 (2024)

Editors
Robert Külpmann | Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
Rita Finkbeiner | Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
[Pragmatics & Cognition, 31:2]  Expected February 2025.  ca. 200 pp.
Publishing status: In production
Table of Contents
This is a provisional table of contents, and subject to changes.
Introduction: A speech-act(ion) perspective on commenting
Is commenting an expositive illocutionary act?
Cause and comment: Two functions of non-finite causal constructions
Specified compliments in comments to politicians’ Facebook posts: Champion, loser, or both?
Sisterhood construction through commenting by Chinese women
The functions of 'I THINK' in TED talks and their Turkish translations: A corpus-based study
Subjects

Main BIC Subject

CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General