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“You might want to look up the definition of ‘continental breakfast’”: Other-initiated repair and community-building in health and weight loss blogs
Multilingua ( IF 1.667 ) Pub Date : 2019-07-26 , DOI: 10.1515/multi-2018-0041
Cynthia Gordon 1
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Abstract This study examines other-initiated repair as what has been termed a light practice, demonstrating how it facilitates interactivity and moments of community creation online. Specifically, I analyze user comments on expert-written blogs that appear on an English-language weight loss website, showing how posters collaboratively initiate, accomplish, and show appreciation for repair activities. These activities, which are, as in face-to-face conversation, typically mitigated through various linguistic strategies, are aimed at aspects of blog text (including vocabulary and amount of information provided), as well as the choice of accompanying images. I show how various people – commenters, a person profiled in a blog, and bloggers – all may play roles in collaboratively accomplishing repair and thereby engage in the community. In addition, I suggest that repair not only facilitates participation, but also simultaneously serves as a means of highlighting shared expectations, or what have been called cultural discourses, about expert-written blogs. In other words, in engaging in repair activities, participants create routine forms of interaction that also (re)affirm shared expectations among members of this community.

中文翻译:

“您可能想查询“欧陆式早餐”的定义”:健康和减肥博客中由他人发起的维修和社区建设

摘要本研究探讨了其他引发的维修,即所谓的轻便维修,以证明其如何促进互动性和在线社区创建的时刻。具体来说,我分析了在英语减肥网站上出现的专家撰写的博客上的用户评论,展示了张贴者如何协作发起,完成并表示对维修活动的赞赏。这些活动(如面对面交谈中的活动)通常通过各种语言策略来缓解,这些活动针对博客文本(包括词汇量和提供的信息量)以及附带图片的选择。我展示了各种人(评论者,博客中的个人资料和博客作者)如何在协作完成维修并从而参与社区活动中发挥作用。此外,我建议修复不仅可以促进参与,而且同时可以作为一种手段来强调关于专家撰写的博客的共同期望或所谓的文化对话。换句话说,参加维修活动时,参与者会创建常规的互动形式,也(重新)确认该社区成员之间的共同期望。
更新日期:2019-07-26
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