Thanks! I didn’t recall seeing Artopolis ever, but that’s great, I’ll stop by there on my way to or from Ogilvie and talk to Maria, that’s perfect. Steve
On May 2, 2016, at 11:50 AM, Daria Dayter <coocho@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear AoIRists,
please forgive the self-promotion! My new book "Discursive self in microblogging: Speech acts, stories and self-praise" has just been published by Benjamins. It might be interesting to those of you who research the issues of identity formation online and/or teach classes on linguistics of CMC.
The book is now available for review on The Linguist List: http://linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-1999.html
Short description: This volume examines the language of microblogs drawing on the example of a group of eleven users who are united by their interest in ballet as a physical activity and an art form. The book reports on a three and a half year study which complemented a 20,000 word corpus of tweets with semi-structured interviews and participant observation. It deals with two main questions: how users exploit the linguistic resources at their disposal to build a certain identity, and how the community boundaries are performed discursively. The focus is on the speech acts of self-praise and complaint, and on the storytelling practices of microbloggers. The comprehensive treatment of the speech act theory and the social psychological approaches to self-disclosure provides a stepping stone to the analysis of identity work, for which the users draw on two distinctive interpretive repertoires – affiliative and self-promoting.
Further information about the book can be found on the publisher's website: https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/pbns.260
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