(in)appropriate Online Behavior: A Pragmatic Analysis Of Message Board Relations (pragmatics & Beyond New Series)
by Jenny Arendholz /
2013 / English / PDF
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This descriptive and comprehensive study on the discursive struggle
over interpersonal relations in online message boards is located at
the fascinating interface of pragmatics and computer-mediated
discourse – a research area which has so far not attracted much
scientific interest. It sets out to shed light on the question how
interpersonal relations are established, managed and negotiated in
online message boards by giving a valid overview of the entire
panoply of interpersonal relations (and their interrelations),
including both positively and negatively marked behavior. With the
first part of the book providing an in-depth discussion and
refinement of the pivotal theoretical positions of both fields of
research, students as well as professionals are (re-)acquainted
with the subject at hand. Thus supplying a framework for the
ensuing case study, the empirical part displays the results of the
analysis of 50 threads (ca. 300,000 words) of a popular British
message board.
This descriptive and comprehensive study on the discursive struggle
over interpersonal relations in online message boards is located at
the fascinating interface of pragmatics and computer-mediated
discourse – a research area which has so far not attracted much
scientific interest. It sets out to shed light on the question how
interpersonal relations are established, managed and negotiated in
online message boards by giving a valid overview of the entire
panoply of interpersonal relations (and their interrelations),
including both positively and negatively marked behavior. With the
first part of the book providing an in-depth discussion and
refinement of the pivotal theoretical positions of both fields of
research, students as well as professionals are (re-)acquainted
with the subject at hand. Thus supplying a framework for the
ensuing case study, the empirical part displays the results of the
analysis of 50 threads (ca. 300,000 words) of a popular British
message board.
