Brook Bolander
List of John Benjamins publications for which Brook Bolander plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 2542-3851 | E-ISSN 2542-386X
Titles
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
Language and Power in Blogs: Interaction, disagreements and agreements
Brook Bolander
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 237] 2013. xvi, 275 pp.
Subjects Pragmatics
2022 Social media research Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1232–1246 | Chapter
2019 Social media research Handbook of Pragmatics: 22nd Annual Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 31–48 | Chapter
2015 “Peter is a dumb nut”: Status updates and reactions to them as ‘acts of positioning’ in Facebook Relational 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
2015 Humour in microblogging: Exploiting linguistic humour strategies for identity construction in two Facebook focus groups Participation in Public and Social Media Interactions, Dynel, Marta and Jan Chovanec (eds.), pp. 135–155 | Article
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
2015 Introducing relational work in Facebook and discussion boards Relational 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