Brook Bolander

List of John Benjamins publications for which Brook Bolander plays a role.

Journal

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Relational work in Facebook and discussion boards/fora

Edited by Miriam A. Locher, Brook Bolander and Nicole Höhn

Special issue of Pragmatics 25:1 (2015) 122 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Bolander, Brook 2022 Social media researchHandbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1232–1246 | Chapter
Bolander, Brook 2019 Social media researchHandbook of Pragmatics: 22nd Annual Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 31–48 | Chapter
Bolander, Brook and Miriam A. Locher 2015 “Peter is a dumb nut”: Status updates and reactions to them as ‘acts of positioning’ in FacebookRelational work in Facebook and discussion boards/fora, Locher, Miriam A., Brook Bolander and Nicole Höhn (eds.), pp. 99–122 | Article
This paper applies the theoretical concept of ‘acts of positioning’ (Davis & Harré 1990) to a qualitative and quantitative analysis of 474 status updates (SUs) taken from the Facebook Walls of twenty individuals living in Switzerland and the UK. Our aim is to analyze how individuals construct… read more
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… read more
Locher, Miriam A., Brook Bolander and Nicole Höhn 2015 Introducing relational work in Facebook and discussion boardsRelational work in Facebook and discussion boards/fora, Locher, Miriam A., Brook Bolander and Nicole Höhn (eds.), pp. 1–21 | Article
This paper functions as the introduction to the special issue on ‘relational work in Facebook and discussion boards’. We position our research endeavors within interpersonal pragmatics (see Locher and Graham 2010), by reviewing literature on politeness, impoliteness and relational work in the… read more