Self-praise online and offline

IF 1.1 Q3 COMMUNICATION
Daria Dayter
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Abstract

In contrast to the assumptions of linguistic research on face-to-face interaction, CMC studies have shown that self-promotion is acceptable and even desired in certain online contexts. However, investigations of self-praise online repeatedly refer to the specific features of internet environment or internet communities that cause a temporary suspension of the constraint against self-praise. The constraint itself is treated as somewhat of an axiom. The assumption is, therefore, that the speech act of self-praise is face-threatening and disruptive and can only occur when certain conditions prevail, for example, when a disclaimer #humblebrag is provided. In the present study, I look at self-praise in private WhatsApp chats. Until now, self-praise has been investigated in broadcasting contexts of Twitter and Instagram. On the basis of the existing description of these naturally occurring episodes of self-praise, a retrieval strategy is developed to identify self-praise in a corpus through queries for collocations of lexical markers. An analysis of the episodes of self-praise retrieved from the WhatsApp corpus and some preliminary results from the corpus of spoken American English support the tentative hypothesis that self-praise is an unmarked speech behaviour that is a part of an everyday speech act repertoire. The existing claim about its special status could be explained through a combination of intuitive assumptions carried over from the influential studies of the pre-corpus era, and the retrieval methods that targeted the modified self-praise.
线上线下的自我表扬
与语言学研究对面对面互动的假设相反,CMC研究表明,在某些网络环境中,自我推销是可以接受的,甚至是可取的。然而,对网络自我表扬的调查一再提及网络环境或网络社区的特定特征,这些特征导致对自我表扬的约束暂时中止。约束本身在某种程度上被视为一条公理。因此,我们的假设是,自我表扬的言语行为具有威胁性和破坏性,只有在某些情况下才会发生,例如,当提供免责声明#humblebrag时。在目前的研究中,我观察了WhatsApp私人聊天中的自我赞扬。到目前为止,在Twitter和Instagram的广播环境中,人们一直在调查自我表扬。在现有对这些自然发生的自我表扬事件的描述的基础上,开发了一种检索策略,通过查询词汇标记的搭配来识别语料库中的自我表扬。对从WhatsApp语料库中检索到的自我表扬事件的分析以及从美国英语口语语料库中获得的一些初步结果支持了一个初步假设,即自我表扬是一种没有标记的言语行为,是日常言语行为的一部分。现有的关于其特殊地位的说法可以通过前语料库时代有影响力的研究中遗留下来的直观假设和针对修改后的自我表扬的检索方法来解释。
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Internet Pragmatics
Internet Pragmatics Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics
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