Ruth Page
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ruth Page plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 2542-3851 | E-ISSN 2542-386X
2024 Chapter 3. The dimensions of relatability for Instagram lifestyle influencers: A linguistic approach Influencer Discourse: Affective relations and identities, Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Pilar and Alexandra Georgakopoulou (eds.), pp. 75–98 | Chapter
Relatability is a buzzword in social media marketing associated with influencers. In this chapter, I provide a linguistic analysis of the dimensions of relatability using corpus-linguistic methods to analyse a dataset of English-language comments posted in response to nine lifestyle influencers… read more
2019 The future of internet pragmatics: Challenges old and new Internet Pragmatics 2:1, pp. 46–49 | Commentary
2019 Self-denigration and the mixed messages of ‘ugly’ selfies in Instagram Internet Pragmatics 2:2, pp. 173–205 | Article
This paper sets out a new, multimodal account (both visual and verbal analysis) of how self-denigration is conveyed through ‘ugly selfies’ as posted to the photo-sharing site Instagram. Drawing on 226 Instagram posts categorised by the poster themselves with the hashtag #uglyselfie, the visual… read more
2013 From small stories to networked narrative: The evolution of personal narratives in Facebook status updates Narrative Inquiry 23:1, pp. 192–213 | Article
This article addresses the emergence of networked narration found in Facebook updates. Drawing on anthropological approaches to co-tellership (Ochs & Capps, 2001), we trace how storyworlds are co-constructed by multiple narrators via the communicative affordances which have developed in the… read more
2008 Variation in storytelling style amongst New Zealand schoolchildren Narrative Inquiry 18:1, pp. 152–179 | Article
The relationship between emergent narrative skills, gender and ethnicity continues to be an important area of debate, with significant socio-political consequences. This paper explores the ways in which these variables intersect in a cross-cultural, longitudinal study of children’s storytelling,… read more