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Dialogic analysis of government social media communication: How commanding and thanking elicit blame Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Ruth Page, Sten Hansson
During major crises, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, government officeholders issue commands to change people’s behaviour (e.g., ‘Stay at home!’) and express thanks to acknowledge the efforts of others and build solidarity. We use specialised datasets of replies to social media posts by government ministers in the United Kingdom during Covid-19 lockdowns to explore how people react to their messages
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Multimodal computation or interpretation? Automatic vs. critical understanding of text-image relations in racist memes in English Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Chiara Polli, Maria Grazia Sindoni
This paper discusses the epistemological differences between the label ‘multimodal’ in computational and sociosemiotic terms by addressing the challenges of automatic detection of hate speech in racist memes, considered as germane families of multimodal artifacts. Assuming that text-image interplays, such is the case of memes, may be extremely complex to disentangle by AI-driven models, the paper adopts
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Disciplined body: How players design their game movements for the machine Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Burak S. Tekin
This study examines in video game playing activities in which players produce their game moves with their bodies. Disciplined body refers to particularly designed bodily movements, orienting to their recognizability by the machine. Drawing on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, this study demonstrates that participants endogenously display a sensitivity towards machine’s recognition, through
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“I read the rules and know what is expected of me”: The performance of competence and expertise in ‘newbie’ offenders’ membership requests to dark web child abuse communities Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Emily Chiang
Community-building among groups of child abusers on the ‘dark web’ facilitates the large-scale distribution of indecent imagery and supports individuals in becoming more skilled, more dangerous offenders. Undercover police are tasked with posing as offenders to gather intelligence; however, we know little about the nature of these groups, and especially how one might approach them linguistically as
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“Say, are you a little ashamed” – Shame allocation and accountability in Israeli news interviews Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Yael Gaulan, Michal Marmorstein, Zohar Kampf
In light of the growing emotionalization of public discourse, this article deals with the action of shame allocation in Israeli accountability interviews. A qualitative analysis of tokens of the Hebrew verb lehitbayesh ‘to be ashamed’ in political interviews was conducted using Discursive Psychology and Conversation Analysis methods. The findings show that in this public context the verb lehitbayesh
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‘We are not putschists’: Accountability and the negotiation of membership categories in political news interviews Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Abdulrahman Alroumi
This paper observes the emergence of membership categories and their role in the construction of accountability in news interview interactions on two Arabic networks. It adopts a Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) to analyse how these categories contribute to the design of interviewers’ questions and interviewees’ answers. The data include twenty-eight hours of recorded Arab news interviews from
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Who sits at the Chef’s Table? Food criticism and the spectacle of elite gastronomy Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Jordan MacKenzie, Helen Dominic
The discursive mediation of “elite taste” is a central ideological production of food critics, cultural arbiters of what entails “good food,” as well as who entails a “good cook.” In this paper, we employ a mediatized critical discourse analytic approach to scrutinize one brand of “elite taste” as mediated by food critics in the Netflix series Chef’s Table. Specifically, we identify the role of the
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Intensifying expletive constructions and their use on social media: Innovative functions of the hashtag #wokeAF in English tweets Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Andreea S. Calude, Amber Anderson, David Trye
The hashtag has seen increasing attention in the linguistics literature, in recognition of its prevalence on social media and in other modes of communication. Here, we report on a diachronic analysis of the hashtag #wokeAF in English-language tweets posted between 2012 and 2022. First, we trace the use of the word woke from verb to adjective, with novel uses arising in African American Vernacular English
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Introducing mediated discrimination: Intersections of gender, sexuality and media discourse Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Robert Lawson, Laura Coffey-Glover
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At the breast is best?’ A corpus-informed feminist critical discourse analysis of the marginalisation of expressing human milk in online infant feeding promotional discourse Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2023-10-01 Laura Coffey-Glover, Victoria Howard
Existing feminist analyses of infant feeding practices have examined the promotion of long-term exclusive direct breastfeeding (DBF) as symbolic of “total motherhood” (Wolf 2011), where formula feeding is framed in contrast as “risky” (Murphy, 1999, Murphy, 2000, Brookes et al., 2016, Woollard, 2018). Discourses of expressing human milk (EHM), and their discriminatory potential, are currently under-researched
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Entitlement Racism on YouTube: White injury—the licence to Humiliate Roma migrants in the UK Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2023-09-10 Petre Breazu
Hate speech monitoring has become a challenging task for social media platforms. While efforts have been made to combat racism and other forms of hate speech, marginalised communities, such as the Roma are frequent targets of intense discrimination and online racist abuse. This article examines manifestations of Romaphobia, also known as anti-Roma racism, on YouTube in the context of 2016 UK Referendum
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Editorial: The changing shape of media dialogical networks Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2023-07-29 Jiří Nekvapil, Petr Kaderka, Simon Smith
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Dialogical networking as a journalistic practice: The case of Czech television news production Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Petr Kaderka
As a journalistic work routine, ‘dialogical networking’ typically consists in approaching relevant ‘stakeholders’ and later presenting their ‘voices’ in media products, often in a dialogical manner (e.g., as claims and counterclaims). The aim of this paper is to describe the practices of journalistic dialogical networking and elucidate, from a praxeological perspective, how they are embedded in other
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#Twospirit: Identity construction through stance-taking on TikTok Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Francesca Marino
Digital platforms offer users various meaning-making resources to express their stances towards specific issues, and, as a result, to perform and manage their identities. Drawing on multimodal discourse analysis, this paper explored how individuals who identify as Two-Spirit, an umbrella term used within Native American communities to refer to non-binary people, discursively construct their identities
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Online translinguistic practices of the Global South through the lens of ordinariness: Reflections on some extra-ordinary insights Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Alex Georgakopoulou
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Closing live video streams: A sequential analysis Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Le Song, Christian Licoppe
Research has argued that “ordinary conversation” and its organization are foundational to “institutional” talk (Drew & Heritage, 1992), and that institutional forms can be characterized as constraints on such a sequential organization. Such an argument can be extended to technology-mediated interaction, in which participants may orient jointly to “standard” conversational sequences and the technology’s
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Editorial Introduction: Normativities of languaging from the Global South: The social media discourse Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Sender Dovchin, Dariush Izadi
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Exploring the use of emoji in museum social network sites Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Cecilia Lazzeretti
This paper aims to explore how emoji make meaning in interaction with other semiotic resources in museum social media posts. In so doing, it examines to what extent emoji are changing the way museums communicate with their audiences. The analysis is based on a corpus of museum social posts and grounded in Systemic Functional Linguistics. Findings show that emoji make meaning not only in interaction
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“This is not the place to bother people about BTS”: Pseudo-synchronicity and interaction in timed comments by Hallyu fans on the video streaming platform Viki Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Miriam A. Locher, Thomas C. Messerli
The community of users on Viki.com, a video streaming platform distributing Asian television to an international audience, use the site to engage with streams of television dramas. Rather than just being passive consumers, viewers interact in a range of different ways, among them the use of Timed Comments (TC). TCs are comments viewers post while viewing dramas. Subsequent viewers can read these comments
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Entextualizing affective meanings: Translingual practices in Cape Verdean music video reception Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Kimberly S. Hansen, Lyana L. Sun Han Chang, A. Suresh Canagarajah
Multilingual interactions on digital platforms such as YouTube reveal complex translingual practices and negotiation strategies on the part of viewers. Two live performances sung in Cape Verdean Creole (Kriolu) by Mayra Andrade, a Cape Verdean music artist, uploaded to YouTube by different digital media platforms generated these types of interactions. These interactions were analyzed by adopting Wortham
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dalawhatyoumust: Kaaps, translingualism and linguistic citizenship in Cape Town, South Africa Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Zaib Toyer, Amiena Peck
In 2016 Wayde Van Niekerk, a South African athlete of mixed-race heritage won an Olympic gold medal. In South Africa, his win caused hashtags such as #proudlysouthafrican, #blackexcellence and #colouredexcellence to trend online. By and large, these hashtags index the ongoing competitive discourses regarding nationalism, race and culture in Cape Town (cf. Author, 2018). Amongst these hashtags, however
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Acknowledgement of Reviewers Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2023-02-03
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Enacting polyvocal scorn in #CovidConspiracy tweets: The orchestration of voices in humorous responses to COVID-19 conspiracy theories Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Marta Dynel, Michele Zappavigna
Despite the abundance of research into conspiracy theories, including multiple studies of Covid-19 conspiracy theories in particular, user reactions to conspiracy theories are an underexplored area of social media discourse. This study aims to fill this gap by examining a dataset of humorous responses to proliferating COVID-19 conspiracy theories based on a corpus of tweets bearing the pejorative hashtag
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The small things of Global South: Exploring the use of social media through translingualism Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Stephanie Dryden, Dariush Izadi
In this paper, we present a research approach that sheds light on how netizens on social media perform and negotiate their multimodal and multisemiotic repertoires embedded within their social media languaging practices. This approach brings multimodal social semiotics into conversation with the normativity of translingualism to problematise the notion of languages as being ‘ordinary’ or ‘mundane’
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Gendered discourses and pejorative language use: An analysis of YouTube comments on We should all be feminists Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Grace Diabah
Guided by Discourse and Ideology theory, this paper focuses on how authors of the YouTube comments on Chimamanda Adichie’s talk ‘We should all be feminists’ use pejoratives or insults to reinforce or challenge certain gender ideologies and practices. Since feminism is already a thorny issue, Chimamanda’s call for all to be feminists is seen as controversial and, thus, a recipe for inflammatory language
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“Everyone has it, everyone uses it”: The emergence of “publicness” through multiplication in dialogical networks Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Ron Korenaga, Tom Ogawa
This paper explores news production as “participatory journalism” in which ordinary people directly participate via the Internet. While participatory journalism idealises citizens' and journalists’ co-creation, there are said to be limitations such as loss of quality, which results from the insularism of participants. In this paper, we consider the example of a Japanese TV news programme as participatory
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The ordinariness and extraordinariness of resistance: Young Bangladeshi professional women doing/undoing gender Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Shaila Sultana, Ana Deumert
This article is part of a larger study that considers how middle-class Bangladeshi women perform gender in online and offline contexts, the kinds of discourses they draw on, and the translingual resources that they engage with. In developing our argument, we first discuss colonial and post-colonial discourses about South Asian women. These historical discourses are still present in contemporary society
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‘Go home to the second wave!’: Discourses of trans inclusion and exclusion in a queer women’s online community Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2022-11-12 Aimee Bailey
As the visibility of trans movements has increased in recent years, so too has the antagonism between trans rights supporters and some sections of the feminist and lesbian communities (Phipps, 2016; Hines, 2017, Pearce et al., 2020). This antagonism is especially pronounced in digital spaces, where online discussions have fuelled an increasing polarisation of the debate (Hines, 2017). This paper examines
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Translingual online identities in the global South: The construction of local ‘gang cultures’ in the social media spaces of Balkan and South Korean artists Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2022-10-31 Eldin Milak, Ana Tankosić
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Mask communication: The development of the face covering as a semiotic resource through government public health posters in England and Wales Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2022-10-30 Angela Smith, Michael Higgins
This paper will explore the multi-modal semiotic properties of a selection of key public health information posters issued by the UK Westminster government on the use of masks and face coverings during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using multi-modal critical discourse analysis, we show how the posters featuring masks sustained consistent government-led branding, while drawing upon what we
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Internet memes as knowledge practice in social movements: Rethinking Economics’ delegitimization of economists Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Tenna Foustad Harbo
Following della Porta and Pavan (2017), progressive social movements act as laboratories of innovation and knowledge creation in their pursuit to reform or resist societal structures. Simultaneously, movements are increasingly dependent upon digital tools and platforms, including social media, in their effort to organize, diffuse and saturate their agendas. Through an analysis of Rethinking Economics’
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‘Real men grill vegetables, not dead animals’: Discourse representations of men in an online vegan community Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Gavin Brookes, Małgorzata Chałupnik
This article critically examines discourse representations of men in a large online vegan community. The analysis reveals a set of discourses which provide oppositional representations of vegan and non-vegan men, wherein the former is aligned with hegemonic masculine norms and the latter represented as transgressing or falling short of these norms. We interpret these discourses as providing means for
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Digital rockets: Resisting necropolitics through defiant languaging and artivism Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2022-08-16 Daniel Silva, Junot Maia
This article draws from our ethnography in the Complexo do Alemão favelas (neighborhoods built by residents) in Rio de Janeiro to discuss how Black activists bring affordances of digitalization and enregistered practices into broader arenas of political participation. We unpack our own positionality and experience with the armed surveillance and securitization of normative regimes that challenge (and
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Magical women: Representations of female characters in the Witcher video game series Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Frazer Heritage
Several videogames allow players to form their own narratives by making the player choose certain options with different dialogues and thus different representations. This can be problematic when exploring the representation of gender from the perspective of player’s experiences. I argue that one way to overcome this is to use corpus linguistic methods. In this paper, the videogame series The Witcher
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“What have you done?” Accounting for Covid-19 lockdown breaches on talk radio Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Marina N. Cantarutti, Rosina Márquez Reiter
The establishment of social distancing guidance during the first months of the Covid19 pandemic in the UK made behaviour in public spaces open to scrutiny, as observed in reports of lockdown (non)compliance in different types of media. This paper analyses a collection of 13 calls to BBC phone-ins where people publicly admit to breaking the lockdown. It offers an interactional analysis of the discursive
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Men of today, soyboys of tomorrow: Constructions of masculinities in YouTube responses to Gillette’s The Best Men Can Be Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2022-07-30 Mandie Iveson, Federica Formato
In this article, we investigate, through corpus linguistics and qualitative approaches, YouTube responses to an advert which attempts to bring to the fore detrimental masculine toxic behaviours. With the affordances proper to the medium - anonymity, disinhibition, and de-individuation - our investigation focuses on three gendered terms representing subordinate masculinities (Messerschmidt, 2018): soy
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All you need is guitar pedals: The communicative construction of material culture in YouTube product reviews Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Will Gibson
Through an interactionist analysis of guitar pedal review videos this paper explores the communicative practices of product reviewing in YouTube. Focussing on one guitar pedal, the analysis reveals how reviewers positioned the pedal as an ‘idealised object’ and as part of the ‘material good life’ of guitarists. Reviewers’ communicative strategies projected a sense of shared intersubjective experience
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“So-called influencers”: Stancetaking and (de)legitimation in mediatized discourse about social media influencers Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Olivia Droz-dit-Busset
As contemporary wordsmiths and new-generation copywriters, Social Media Influencers (henceforth SMIs) are inherently germane to critical sociolinguistics. Interested in wider cultural discourses about contemporary forms of ‘independent’ language work, this paper examines English-language news media representations of SMIs. The empirical focus of my analysis is a dataset of 143 news stories collected
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The non-normativity of the Global South and the normativity of the Global North: The languaging as the normativity of diversity Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2022-07-12 Sender Dovchin, Bolormaa Shinjee
Drawing on social media context such as Facebook of international students from the Global South – Mongolia – in Australia, this article indicates that the diversity of “languaging” practices of migrants who come to settle in Australia from the Global South are better understood from the perspective of the “normativity of diversity”. The notion of “languaging” is vital in capturing the current complexity
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Discourses of social media amongst youth: An ethnographic perspective Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Christian Ilbury
Recent large-scale surveys of social media have repeatedly shown that Facebook and Twitter are losing popularity amongst teenagers, with newer ‘image-first’ apps such as Snapchat and Instagram becoming preferred amongst this demographic. Whilst there is a wealth of research which has examined more general reasons for this shift, it is unclear to what extent these explanations can account for more local
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Radical contingency, radical historicity and the spread of ‘homosexualism’: A diachronic corpus-based critical discourse analysis of queer representation in The Times between 1957–1967 and 1979–1990 Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Mark Wilkinson
This paper suggests that LGBTQI representation in The Times does more than simply construct queer subjects. Rather, by representing a sexualised Other, the language of The Times necessarily indexes the presence of an unmarked heterosexual population. Moreover, while LGBTQI people have historically been criminalised and discriminated against, a comparison between two historical corpora (1957–1967 and
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‘Am I being unreasonable to vaccinate my kids against my ex’s wishes?’ – A corpus linguistic exploration of conflict in vaccination discussions on Mumsnet Talk’s AIBU forum Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Tara Coltman-Patel, William Dance, Zsófia Demjén, Derek Gatherer, Claire Hardaker, Elena Semino
Online parenting forums are popular sources of information about childhood vaccinations, but vaccination discussions, especially online, are often polarised and polarising (Jenkins & Moreno 2020). This can have very real implications for ultimate vaccination decisions (Al-Hasan et al., 2021). Among the most visited parenting forums in the UK is Mumsnet Talk, hosted on the parenting website Mumsnet
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Crafting an audience: UX writing, user stylization, and the symbolic violence of little texts Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Lara Portmann
To date, little attention has been paid to how producers of digital media complicate notions of participation and audience in digital media. Taking the work of user experience (UX) writers as a case study, I offer an analytic framework for approaching the conceptual challenges that come with this. The empirical focus of my analysis is an emblematic example of UX writers’ work: the ubiquitous microcopy
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“As Tunisian I feel ashamed by this disgusting presenter”: Collective face threat and identity positioning on Facebook Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Afef Labben
In this paper, I draw on identity theories as developed within social psychology in general, and Positioning Theory in particular, to investigate the discursive strategies that Tunisian Facebookers use to counter collective face threat, and how they position themselves vis-à-vis in-group and out-group members. To categorize the strategies, a post-data collection taxonomy was developed, which allowed
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“In these pandemic times”: The role of temporal meanings in ambient affiliation about COVID-19 on Twitter Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Michele Zappavigna, Shoshana Dreyfus
This paper explores the role of a particular set of commonly occurring temporal meanings relating to the shared experience of being in a pandemic (e.g., in these unprecedented times) and how these foster ambient affiliation on Twitter. Temporal meanings can be realised as a range of grammatical structures in texts and are linguistic resources that add meaning – in terms of dimensions such as manner
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“Thank you for reaching out:” Brand relationship management and the conversational human voice of customer care in online service encounters Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2022-04-09 Valerie Creelman
Motivated by increased calls for research on language use in service encounters, this study examines how customer care agents working in the retail banking sector linguistically operationalize a conversational human voice in their online service encounters to support brand-customer relationships on social media. Applying a rhetorical move analysis framework to an extensive corpus of customer care agents’
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‘STFU and start listening to how scared we are’: Resisting misogny on Twitter via #NotAllMen Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Lucy Jones, Małgorzata Chałupnik, Jai Mackenzie, Louise Mullany
This article focuses on the strategies that were used to resist misogyny on the microblogging platform Twitter during March 2021, a time when the hashtag #NotAllMen was trending. We take a critical feminist approach, combining corpus linguistics with a qualitative analysis of #NotAllMen users’ discursive strategies. This particular iteration of #NotAllMen followed the disappearance and subsequent rape
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Telecosteño: Constructing a linguistic imaginary in popular Colombian soap operas Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2022-04-05 Padraic Michael Quinn
Linguistically, Colombia is divided into two macrovarieties of Spanish: cachaco (interior of the country) and costeño (from the coastal regions). This linguistic dichotomy can also be extended to the cultural ambit, with costeño varieties being negatively perceived in the Colombian sociolinguistic imaginary, which is in turn reflected in popular folk discourse on language. Thus, the present article
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COVID-19 and the discursive practices of political leadership: Introduction. Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Sylvia Jaworska,Camilla Vásquez
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‘My countrymen have never disappointed me’: Politics of service in Modi’s speeches during Covid-19 Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Rahul Sambaraju
In this paper I study discursive practices of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the COVID-19 pandemic. In response to the pandemic, political leadership across the globe had to take tough decisions such as restrictions on the social and personal lives of individuals. This meant addressing concerns over ensuring compliance with these restrictions. I examine how Modi managed these concerns in
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Membership categorization, humor, and moral order in sitcom interactions Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2022-03-18 Ryo Okazawa
By applying membership categorization analysis (MCA) to fictional discourse, this study investigates how various production techniques and actors’ work are employed to make moral order visible to remote audiences in a humorous frame. Specifically, I focus on sitcom interactions in which misunderstandings regarding membership categorization practices are produced and managed among fictional characters
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Tracing museum exhibition reviews: References, replies and translations between the museum space and the mass media Discourse, Context & Media (IF 1.858) Pub Date : 2022-03-14 Yannik Porsché
This paper traces how media dialogical networks are generated in interactions across different media. Reviews of a museum exhibition on public representations of immigrants in France and Germany serve as an example to follow connections between social interactions during guided tours in the exhibition space, comments written in the exhibition’s guestbook and reviews of the exhibition published in newspapers