This introduction to the Special Issue on Networked Emotion and Stancetaking summarizes the individual and collective contribution of the included five research articles. We argue for the relevance of discourse-pragmatic theories, methods, and concepts for furnishing cross-disciplinary… read more
The Twitter discussion with the hashtag #jesuisCharlie was a large-scale social media event commenting on the tragic terrorist attack that took place in Paris in 2015. In this paper, we analyze French tweets compiled with language technology methods from a large dataset. Our qualitative approach… read more
This chapter studies how ‘ordinariness’ and mostly ‘ordinary’ are being constructed in on-line commenting in Hebrew and Finnish. Starting with the premise that “being ordinary” is dynamically and co-operatively constructed, we adopt the notion of “positioning” to account for the ways ordinary… read more
In this paper, I study how comments function as follow-ups in the discussion
forums of online newspapers. Follow-ups recontextualize an object of discourse
from its prior context to an ongoing context. A follow-up involves stance-taking,
positioning, and negotiation of meaning. The data were… read more
The main objective of this chapter is is to examine how other-quotation is used in French political debates. Other-quotations are follow-ups, i.e. communicative acts by which speakers take up what the other speaker has said in previous contexts. The data come from six second round presidential… read more
This paper examines the frequency, distribution and function of 1st person self-references with the cognitive verbs think and believe, and penser and croire in British English and French argumentative discourse comprising 29 British political interviews (178,712 words) and 26 French political… read more
I propose a pilot study of political videos that are integrated within news articles in French, Finnish and British online newspapers and news sites. They will be first examined as media products whose sources and status distinguish them as independent news stories, excerpts, or unedited documents… read more
This paper examines the frequency, distribution and function of 1st person self-references with the cognitive verbs think and believe, and penser and croire in British English and French argumentative discourse comprising 29 British political interviews (178,712 words) and 26 French political… read more
Both Finnish and French have several personal forms which can be used for non-specific reference. This chapter focuses on the passive in both languages and on certain constructions containing 3rd person forms, namely, the French pronoun on + 3rd person verb form and the so-called zero person… read more
The goal of this article is to examine the context-dependent nature of acts of confiding in political interviews and to identify its genre-specific constraints and requirements. It looks at their distribution in British and French political interviews with regard to form, function and possible… read more