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.
Nicole Höhn
List of John Benjamins publications for which Nicole Höhn plays a role.
Title
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Articles
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
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 | Article
2012. Chapter 15. ‘Well it’s not for me to advise you, of course...’: Advice and advise in the British National Corpus of English. Advice in Discourse, Limberg, Holger and Miriam A. Locher (eds.), pp. 333–358
In this paper we take a closer look at the English lexemes of advice and advise. In previous work on the discourse of advice-giving, researchers have focused on the various linguistic realizations of giving and receiving advice. Here, the focus is on the usage of these two English lexemes in order… read more | Chapter
2012. “And they were all like ‘What’s going on?’”: New quotatives in Jamaican and Irish English. Mapping Unity and Diversity World-Wide: Corpus-Based Studies of New Englishes, Hundt, Marianne and Ulrike Gut (eds.), pp. 263–290
This paper investigates quotative use in Jamaican and Irish English. The use of be like, go and say is studied on the basis of spoken data from the Jamaican and Irish components of the International Corpus of English. The paper explores to what extent the use of quotatives is affected by the… read more | Article