{"title":"Formality and Informality in Online Performances","authors":"","doi":"10.1075/ip.5.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.5.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36241,"journal":{"name":"Internet Pragmatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49581627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Livnat, Shukrun-Nagar & Hirsch (2020): The Discourse of Indirectness: Cues, Voices and Functions","authors":"Helena Nurmikari","doi":"10.1075/ip.00079.nur","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00079.nur","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36241,"journal":{"name":"Internet Pragmatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49503833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding Chinese Social Media","authors":"","doi":"10.1075/ip.4.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.4.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36241,"journal":{"name":"Internet Pragmatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44232297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Days of our ‘quarantined’ lives","authors":"Erhan Aslan","doi":"10.1075/ip.00075.asl","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00075.asl","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, many users around the world exploited internet memes as a\u0000 digital source of humour to cope with the negative psychological effects of quarantining. Drawing on multimodal discourse analysis, this study investigates a set of COVID-19 internet memes to explore the quarantine activities and routines to understand ordinary people’s mindsets, anxieties and emotional\u0000 narratives surrounding self-isolation as well as the pragmatically generated humorous meanings relying on verbal and visual components of memes. The findings revealed that quarantine humour is centred around themes including quarantine day comparisons focusing on the perceived effects of home quarantines on physical and mental well-being, quarantine routines, and physical appearance predictions at the end of quarantine. Intertextuality was a productive resource establishing connections between quarantine practices and popular texts. In addition, humorous meanings were created through anomalous juxtapositions of different texts and\u0000 incongruity resolution is largely dependent on the combined meanings of verbal and visual components.","PeriodicalId":36241,"journal":{"name":"Internet Pragmatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42085980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Persuasive language and features of formality on the r/ChangeMyView\u0000 subreddit","authors":"Daria Dayter, Thomas C. Messerli","doi":"10.1075/IP.00072.DAY","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/IP.00072.DAY","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The paper investigates formal language in persuasive discourse on the\u0000 r/ChangeMyView subreddit. We collected a corpus of 100 million messages, split into\u0000 subcorpora based on the user-awarded marker delta, which rewards changing an original poster’s view. Assuming\u0000 that formality/informality is potentially an important factor in the persuasiveness of a message, we examine the two subcorpora\u0000 with respect to formality markers. The results indicate no systematic variation along the formality/informality continuum between\u0000 persuasive and non-persuasive posts on r/ChangeMyView. The posters use personal pronouns,\u0000 suasive verbs, emphatics, imperatives, elaborate connectors and WH-questions with similar frequency, and express themselves using\u0000 vocabulary and syntax of similar complexity. Moreover, keyword lists and n-gram rankings indicate no register difference. A\u0000 qualitative analysis of concordance lines for persuade and change PRONOUN view paints a picture\u0000 of a community that values factual, evidence-based discourse and openness to logical persuasion, with a linguistic norm of\u0000 relatively formal, sophisticated register.","PeriodicalId":36241,"journal":{"name":"Internet Pragmatics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42637567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}