The discursive construction of identities on- and offline

• Titel: The discursive construction of identities on- and offline
• Titelzusatz: personal - group - collective
• Mitwirkende: Bös, Birte [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Kleinke, Sonja [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Mollin, Sandra [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Hernández, Nuria [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Birte Bös (University of Duisburg-Essen), Sonja Kleinke (University of Heidelberg), Sandra Mollin (University of Heidelberg), Nuria Hernández (University of Duisburg-Essen)
• Verlagsort: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
• Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• E-Jahr: 2018
• Jahr: [2018]
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (271 Seiten)
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture (DAPSAC) ; Volume 78
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture Ser. ; v.78
• Fussnoten: Literaturangaben
• ISBN: 978-90-272-6402-2
• ISBN: 978-90-272-0076-1
• Schlagwörter: (s)Identität / (s)Diskursanalyse / (s)Computerunterstützte Kommunikation
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Dokumenttyp: Konferenzschrift: (2013 : Heidelberg)
• Dokumenttyp: Konferenzschrift: (2015 : Duisburg)
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: The discursive construction of identities on- and offline. - Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018. - VI, 271 Seiten
• Sach-SW: Linguistics..
• Sach-SW: Language and languages..
• Sach-SW: Electronic books
• K10plus-PPN: 1027191282

Abstract

Intro -- The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Identity construction in complex discourse contexts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Recasting sites of identity construction in the digital age -- 3. The lens of clusivity -- 4. Three strands of identity -- 5. The contributions -- References -- Part I. Personal identities -- Great pretenders: The phenomenon of impersonating (pseudo-)historical personae in medieval blogs, or: Blogging for someone else's fame? -- 1. Framing the objective -- 2. Browsing through relevant notions and frameworks -- 3. Blog, what art thou? - Assessing the surface levels of Chaucer's Blog -- 4. Framing the 'pretenders': Medieval aficionados, role-playing metagamers and fun "hunch-backed keepers of a dark culture and age"? -- 5. A brief conclusion regarding intentional frame breaks, or: Blogging for one's own fame after all (?) -- References -- Constructing personal identities online: Self-disclosure in popular blogs -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background and research aims -- 3. Material -- 4. Analysis -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- The development of identity in Batman comics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and methodology -- 3. Fictional dialogues and worlds -- 4. Reading for character and identity construction in comics -- 5. Characters in the DC Batman universe -- 6. Conversation analysis and the comics data -- 7. From Spoiler to Robin to Batgirl -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Part II. Group identities -- Code-switching and identity construction in WhatsApp: Evidence from a (digital) community of practice -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Code-switching and group identity: Theoretical dimensions -- 3. WhatsApp as a socio-technical mode -- 4. Analysis of the WhatsApp data -- 5. Questionnaire results and discussion

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6. Conclusion -- References -- Identity and metapragmatic acts in a student forum discussion thread -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Constructing identity -- 3. Material: The Student Room -- 4. Identity and metapragmatic acts in the Freshers Week discussion -- 5. Discussion and conclusions -- References -- Indeterminate us and them: The complexities of referentiality, identity and group construction in a public online discussion -- 1. Aims, data and methodology -- 2. 'Identity' and 'referentiality' in public online discussions -- 3. Anaphoric, cataphoric and indeterminate pronoun reference in the sample thread -- 4. Negotiating referential identity - the we-set and the they-set in indeterminate uses in the sample thread -- 5. Constructing complex identities - predicating expressions and the propositional level -- 6. Discussion and conclusions -- References -- "no prizes to anybody spotting my typo, by the way": The interplay between criticism and identity management in the comments sections on newspaper websites -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data, goals and methodology -- 3. The communicative situation -- 4. The discursive moves of criticism and disagreement -- 5. Targets of criticism -- 6. Aspects criticised and forms of criticism -- 7. Discussion and conclusion -- References -- Part III. Collective identities -- The use of face-threatening acts in the construction of in- and out-group identities in British parliamentary debates -- 1. Introduction: In- and out-group identity construction and face -- 2. Face-threatening acts in parliamentary discourse: A review with a focus on identity construction -- 3. Identity construction through FTAs in House of Commons health debates -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- "And you know, Jeremy, my father came from a very poor background indeed": Collective identities and the private-public interface in political discourse

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1. Introduction -- 2. Constructing, reconstructing and deconstructing identities in discourse -- 3. Political discourse in context -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Nations as persons: Collective identities in conflict -- 1. Introduction: Speaking for a nation -- 2. Nations as persons? -- 3. From "extended" to "outstretched hands" -- 4. Nation-persons' social face -- References -- Index