Theresa Heyd
List of John Benjamins publications for which Theresa Heyd plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 2542-3851 | E-ISSN 2542-386X
Title
Email Hoaxes: Form, function, genre ecology
Theresa Heyd
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 174] 2008. vii, 239 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
2023 Complicating the field: World Englishes and digital ethnography New Englishes, New Methods, Wilson, Guyanne and Michael Westphal (eds.), pp. 243–262 | Chapter
In this contribution, I explore the growing role of digital communication for the study of World Englishes and specifically the potential of digital ethnography as a methodological framework. I outline basic principles and traditions of digital ethnography and point out continuities between the… read more
2020 Chapter 6. Craft beer and linguistic lifestyle emblematization Talking about Food: The social and the global in eating communities, Rüdiger, Sofia and Susanne Mühleisen (eds.), pp. 99–122 | Chapter
Craft beer is currently a highly popular form of
conspicuous consumption in many Western societies, including
Germany. As such, the craft beer movement is a prime example of
‘lifestyle emblematization’: to partake in it is to be involved in
the performance of exclusive and informed identities, a… read more
2014 Dude, Alter!: A tale of two vocatives Pragmatics and Society 5:2, pp. 271–295 | Article
This paper takes a cross-linguistic look at two notorious examples of contemporary slang: American English dude and German Alter. Both have received considerable attention in the media and some initial sociolinguistic inquiry. It is shown here that both items share a number of properties, some… read more
2012 The metapragmatics of hoaxing: Tracking a genre label from Edgar Allan Poe to Web 2.0 Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English: A contribution to historical pragmatics, Busse, Ulrich and Axel Hübler (eds.), pp. 129–150 | Article
2009 A model for describing ‘new’ and ‘old’ properties of CMC genres: The case of digital folklore Genres in the Internet: Issues in the theory of genre, Giltrow, Janet and Dieter Stein (eds.), pp. 239–262 | Article
While genre theory has become one of the central paradigms for CMC studies, these approaches face a dilemma: while they are often firmly rooted in the functionalist framework of ‘Swalesian’ genre theory, they strive to describe digital genres as new, emergent or at least hybrid – positions that are… read more