scholarly journals Humour in online comments regarding Montenegro’s accession to NATO

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Milena Dževerdanovic-Pejović
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Online Comments ◽  
Pragmatic Interpretation ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

The empirical analysis in this paper deals with establishing humour examples based on script opposition patterns in online comments regarding Montenegro’s accession to NATO. It is established that the opposing scripts prevailing in the comments on political setting in Montenegro are heavily dependent on Montenegro’s turbulent history and dominant collective scripts such as pride and bravery. As online comments are an emerging genre, a reference to the influence of computer-mediated communication was also made, where pragmatic interpretation called for the help of critical discourse analysis. The results show that the script opposition parameters enable not only linguistic but also pragmatic revelations about Montenegrin people and their chief values or scripts. Script opposition examples within commenters’ standpoints are explained with reference to diachronic level and the modern values in Montenegro.

Counter-discourse corpora, ethical subjectivity and critique of argument: An alternative critical discourse analysis pedagogy

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 781-813 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Argument Evaluation ◽  
Ethical Subjectivity ◽  
Online Comments ◽  
Text Cohesion

In the article I model an alternative critical discourse analysis (CDA) pedagogy which is based on an ethical subjectivity instead of a political subjectivity. Aimed at undergraduates, it facilitates critical purchase on arguments which attack the standpoint of relatively powerless groups/organizations (who seek political change). Via corpus linguistic analysis of appropriate web-based data, I show how the analyst can rigorously find out at scale the recurrent key concerns of a relatively powerless Other with whom they were previously unfamiliar. They use this counter-discourse information as a lens on an argument which criticises the relatively powerless group, ascertaining whether or not the argument has distorted the group’s key concerns. Should this be the case, I highlight how the analyst can go on to explore whether any mischaracterisation has implications for the argument’s credibility because it loses coherence relative to the outlook of the Other. The approach is grounded in Jacques Derrida’s ‘ethics of hospitality to the Other’. It is in being hospitable to the outlook of a relatively powerless Other, and adopting it for purposes of argument evaluation, that the analyst effectively creates an ethical subjectivity. That said, the ethical and political are, in principle, relatable with this method as I indicate. Keywords: absences; argumentation; change.org; corpus linguistics; counter-discourse; critical discourse analysis; ethical subjectivity; Jacques Derrida; online comments; text cohesion.

scholarly journals Ostension, inference and response: analysing participant moves in Community Interpreting dialogues

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Mason
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Power Distribution ◽  
Causal Models ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
The Real

Following a review of the methods employed in some recent studies, this paper proposes a wayforwardfor pragmatics-sensitive research into actual participant moves in community interpreting events. Its aim is to overcome some of the objections that have been raised to methods in critical discourse analysis, conversation analysis and pragmatics and to relate microlevel analysis of participants’ utterances to the broader issues of role, power distribution, norms and so on that have dominated discussion of interpreter-mediated communication. Adopting a broadly ostensive-inferential view of communication, we examine the nature of the evidence that can be adduced in support of causal models and suggest that it is to be found in the real-time responses of the participants themselves to each other ’s moves rather than in analysts’ imagined reconstruction of context, intentionality and acceptability.

A corpus study of outgrouping in Greek radical right computer-mediated discourses

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-231
Author(s):  
Ioannis E. Saridakis ◽  
Effie Mouka
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Corpus Study ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Discursive Constructions

Abstract This paper reports on a large-scale study on how “enemies” are linguistically constructed by Greece’s radical right. The research combines corpus linguistics approaches and insights from critical discourse analysis, with the aim of analysing the referential/nomination and predication strategies used to delineate “others” as outgroups. Drawing on a 90 million-word corpus comprising the full set of texts from 13 radical right web-based platforms from 2001 to 2019, the research identifies and statistically classifies principal designators and qualifiers. By closely examining their diachronic variations and correlation with significant sociopolitical events, we critically categorise and discuss the empirical findings and thus unveil topics, as well as aspects of the argumentation, pooled by Greece’s radical right in their discursive constructions.

scholarly journals English Adjectives in Online Comments of Algerian English Speakers

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khadija Belfarhi
Keyword(s):  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Native English Speakers ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Spoken English ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Online Comments ◽  
Pragmatic Function ◽  
And Function

Adjectives are central in any use of language due to their role in providing descriptions to the aspects of the noun. The role of adjectives becomes more and more important with the emergence of computer-mediated communication (СMС). The aim of the present paper is to shed light on the use of adjectives in СMС. It is assumed that adjectives in online comments do not keep the same linguistic structure and function like in spoken English and new forms emerge as the result of using СMС. It analyses adjectives used by non-native English speakers through collecting a corpus of fifty utterances obtained from comments posted publically in Facebook. The results demonstrate that adjectives take different forms by means of combining with non-linguistic forms, and express functions other than just modifying nouns in the narrow sense. Adjectives combine with non-linguistic forms to reinforce their function, and a pragmatic function seen in implying the description.

Identity, emotions and cultural differences in English and Polish online comments

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Emotional Behavior ◽  
Emotional Communication ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Online Comments ◽  
Cultural Types

Abstract The focus of the present paper is to examine the extent to which the language used in Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and online discourse emotional behavior are good predictors of individual and group cultural types and their identities. It is argued that the identity marking CMC interactants develop has to be stronger, more salient, and, possibly less ambiguous than that used in direct conversation and that the emotionality markers the users apply in their discussion, particularly those engaging negative emotions and reflecting negative judgments, are argued to be used by online discussants for the purpose of increasing the CMC commentators’ conversational visibility. The questions of cultural and linguistic divergence between English and Polish emotional communication patterns are the main points discussed. Three sets of corpus materials are used and the research methodology involves both the qualitative analysis of the emotion types as well as a quantitative (frequency) approach, particularly with respect to culture-specific corpus-generated collocation patterns.

Using Discourse Analysis to Assess Social Co-Presence in the Video Conference Environment

2010 ◽  
pp. 175-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristy Beers Fägersten
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Connectedness ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Multimodal Communication ◽  
Video Conference ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Professional Discourse ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
Computer Mediated

In this chapter, I analyze computer-mediated communication in the form of online, synchronous, professional discourse in the multimodal video conference environment with the aim of assessing social co-presence (Kang, Watt & Ala., 2008). I argue for the applicability of discourse analysis methodology by presenting extracts of video conference communication which illustrate how talk-in-interaction contributes to or threatens the three elements of social co-presence: co-presence, social richness of the medium, and interactant satisfaction. Examples of interaction illustrate how disruptions in mediation serve to threaten co-presence by isolating interlocutors, how multiple modes of communication are exploited to ground participants in a shared communicative environment thereby establishing social connectedness, and how multimodal communication allows for iconic or paralinguistic support of the discursive expression of emotional stance. The chapter concludes with feature recommendations for video conference software development from the perspective of social co-presence.

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