| Description |
1 online resource (285 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Pragmatics & beyond ; new series v. 256
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Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 256.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Researching interactional forms and participant structures in public and social media / Jan Chovanec and Marta Dynel 1 -- Reconsidering participation frameworks Participation frameworks and participation in televised sitcom, candid camera and stand-up comedy / Alexander Brock -- Participation structures in Twitter interaction: Arguing for the broadcaster role / Fawn Draucker -- Participant roles and embedded interactions in online sports broadcasts / Jan Chovanec -- Participation and interpersonal pragmatics Troubles talk, (dis)affiliation and the participation order in Taiwanese-Chinese online discussion boards / Michael Haugh and Wei-Lin Melody Chang -- Humour in microblogging: Exploiting linguistic humour strategies for identity construction in two Facebook focus groups / Miriam A. Locher and Brook Bolander -- Impoliteness in the service of verisimilitude in film interaction / Marta Dynel -- "That's none of your business, Sy": The pragmatics of vocatives in film dialogue / Raffaele Zago -- Forms of participation A participation perspective on television evening news in the age of immediacy / Linda Lombardo -- What I can (re)make out of it: Incoherence, non-cohesion, and re-interpretation in YouTube video responses / Elisabetta Adami -- Enhancing citizen engagement: Political weblogs and participatory democracy / Georgia Riboni. |
| Summary |
"This chapter discusses the function of blogs as tools enhancing citizen participation in political communication. Adopting the perspective of corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis, a set of blogs from the US presidential election campaign are analysed in order to determine the frequency of reference to the candidates, the parties, as well as the bloggers themselves. The analysis of pronoun choice, verbs and modality indicate that blogs enhance participation rhetoric. The data further indicate that citizen bloggers attach more importance to individual political figures than party bloggers do. The tendency to refer to the candidates rather than to their political affiliation may be explained as evidence that people not belonging to parties interpret politics as a struggle between different politicians and not between different ideologies. Since the language representation of the political scene in citizens' blogs shows distinct traces of the ongoing process of personalization of politics, the political blog can be considered as a 'tool of citizen empowerment'"--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Discourse analysis -- Social aspects.
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Discourse analysis -- Social aspects. |
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Communication and technology.
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Communication and technology. |
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Social media.
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Social media. |
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Mass media and language.
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Mass media and language. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Social media. |
| Added Author |
Dynel, Marta, editor.
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Chovanec, Jan, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Participation in public and social media interactions 9789027256614 (DLC) 2014044079 |
| ISBN |
9789027268945 (electronic book) |
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9027268940 (electronic book) |
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9789027256614 (hardback) |
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9027256616 (hardback) |
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