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 -- Dr. Daria Dayter Department of English - University of Basel Postdoctoral Assistant Nadelberg 6, room 15 CH-4051 Basel / Switzerland Tel: 0041 - 61 - 2 67 27 82 Email: daria.dayter@unibas.ch https://engsem.unibas.ch/department/people/staff/profile/profile/person/dayt...