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Publication details [#65728]

Jenks, Christopher Joseph. 2019. Talking trolls into existence: On the floor management of trolling in online forums. Journal of Pragmatics 143 : 54–64.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

This paper presents a discourse-analytic account of online trolling. Any message contribution can be read as an act of being unpleasant, which is now and then taken as a trolling trait. An unpleasant contributor's intentionality is not essentially a factor in whether other contributors regard this person as a troll. The trolling act can be oriented to in a number of ways. It is possibly tricky to build set grasps of trolls and trolling, as the terms are parleyed in situ, according to how the floor space develops. As is generally grasped in other contexts where arguments and other fiery exchange modes are normative conduct, some individuals indeed savor such trolling exchanges.