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Relational work in Facebook and discussion boards/foraEdited by Miriam A. Locher, Brook Bolander and Nicole Höhn
[Pragmatics 25:1] 2015
► pp. 1–21
Introducing relational work in Facebook and discussion boards
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 context of computer-mediated communication. Foregrounding the relational aspect of language, we are particularly interested in establishing the connections between politeness, face and linguistic identity construction. We then position the four papers that form this special issue within this field of research. Two papers contribute to the study of relational work on discussion boards (Kleinke and Boes; Haugh, Chang and Kádár) and two deal with practices on Facebook (Theodoropoulou; Bolander and Locher).
Keywords: Computer-mediated communication, Interpersonal pragmatics, Relational work, Politeness, Impoliteness, Linguistic identity construction, Facebook, Discussion fora
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Published online: 01 March 2015
https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.25.1.01loc
https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.25.1.01loc
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