{"title":"POV: me, an empath, sensing the linguistic urge . . . to study the forms and functions of text-memes","authors":"Jacqueline Hirsh Greene, Hans–Jörg Schmid","doi":"10.1017/s0266078423000469","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A catapult into the world of social media, the title of our paper may be incoherent to some readers. What on earth does <jats:italic>POV: me, an empath, sensing the linguistic urge</jats:italic> ( . . . ) mean, and when and why would speakers say it? The title contains a jumble of three so-called <jats:italic>text-memes</jats:italic> – (1) <jats:italic>POV</jats:italic>, (2) <jats:italic>me, an empath</jats:italic>, VERB<jats:italic>-ing</jats:italic> X, and (3) <jats:italic>the</jats:italic> X <jats:italic>urge to</jats:italic> Y – all of which will be encountered in this paper. What we are calling ‘text-memes’ are memes that, in fairly neutral terms, have a purely textual form, as opposed to a pictorial one. Similar phenomena, which differ regarding their forms and functions, however, have been labelled ‘snowclones’ or ‘phrasal templates’ (cf. Pullum & Whitman, 2004; Know Your Meme, 2007–).","PeriodicalId":51710,"journal":{"name":"English Today","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2000,"publicationDate":"2024-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"English Today","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266078423000469","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A catapult into the world of social media, the title of our paper may be incoherent to some readers. What on earth does POV: me, an empath, sensing the linguistic urge ( . . . ) mean, and when and why would speakers say it? The title contains a jumble of three so-called text-memes – (1) POV, (2) me, an empath, VERB-ing X, and (3) the X urge to Y – all of which will be encountered in this paper. What we are calling ‘text-memes’ are memes that, in fairly neutral terms, have a purely textual form, as opposed to a pictorial one. Similar phenomena, which differ regarding their forms and functions, however, have been labelled ‘snowclones’ or ‘phrasal templates’ (cf. Pullum & Whitman, 2004; Know Your Meme, 2007–).
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