Analyzing Digital Discourses: Between Convergence and Controversy [Hardcover]

This book contributes to the scholarly debate on the forms and patterns of interaction and discourse in modern digital communication by probing some of the social functions that online communication has for its users. An array of experts and scholars in the field address a range of forms of social interaction and discourses expressed by users on social networks and in public media. Social functions are reflected through linguistic and discursive practices that are either those of convergence or controversy in terms of how the discourse participants handle interpersonal relations or how they construct meanings in discourses. In this sense, the book elaborates on some very central concerns in the area of digital discourse analysis that have been reported within the last decade from various methodological perspectives ranging from sociolinguistics and pragmatics to corpus linguistics. This edited collection will be of particular interest to scholars and studentsin the fields of digital discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, social media and communication, and media and cultural studies.  

Introduction.- Part ONE: Digital linking: Discourses of convergence.- Chapter 1: Enhancing social presence through textual action (Tuija Virtanen).- Chapter 2: Hashtag functions in French language posts on Twitter and Instagram: a case study of #jediscajedisrien (Stephanie Doyle-Lerat).- Chapter 3: Nation/nation and their relatives: cross-cultural observations on English and German Wikipedia entries (Sonia Kleinke and Julia Landmann).- Chapter 4: Talking with a chatbot: Interactional sequences of chatbot communication (Marjut Johansson).- Chapter 5: Prescriptive metapragmatic comments and the (re)construction of appropirate stories (Patricia Bou-Franch).- Chapter 6: Online petition as an echo chamber (Ana-Maria Cozma l