Handbooks of pragmatics. Volume 11 Pragmatics of social media

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the pragmatics of social media, i.e. of digitally mediated and Internet-based platforms which are interactively used to share and edit self- and other-generated textual and audio-visual messages. Its five parts offer state-of-the-art reviews and critical evaluations in the light of on-going developments: Part I __The Nature of Social Media__ sets up the conceptual groundwork as it explores key concept such as __social media, participation, privacy/publicness__. Part II __Social Media Platforms__ focuses on the pragmatics of single platforms such as YouTube, Facebook. Part III __Social Media and Discourse__ covers the micro-and macro-level organization of social media discourse, while Part IV __Social Media and Identity__ reveals the multifarious ways in which users collectively (re-)construct aspects of their identities. Part V __Social Media and Functions/Speech Acts__ surveys pragmatic studies on speech act functions such as disagreeing, complimenting, requesting. Each contribution provides a state-of-the-art review together with a critical evaluation of the existing research. * Authoritative state-of-the-art overview of the pragmatics of social media. * Focusses on digitally mediated and Internet-based platforms interactively used to share and edit self- and other-generated textual and audio-visual messages. Preface to the handbook series. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v Acknowledgements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix 1. Log in: Introducing the pragmatics of social media Christian R. Hoffmann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 I. The nature of social media 2. Participation as user involvement Daniela Landert. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 3. Participation as audience design Marta Dynel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 4. Publicness and privateness Birte Bös and Sonja Kleinke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 II. Social media platforms 5. Message boards Jenny Arendholz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 6. Blogs Theresa Heyd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 7. YouTube Marjut Johansson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 8. Twitter Michele Zappavigna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 9. Social network sites/Facebook Volker Eisenlauer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 III. Social media and discourse 10. Discourse and organization Maximiliane Frobenius and Cornelia Gerhardt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 11. Discourse and topic Elisabeth Fritz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 12. Discourse and cohesion Christoph Schubert. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317 13. Discourse and cognition Andreas Langlotz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 14. Discourse and ideology Stephen Pihlaja and Andreas Musolff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381 IV. Social media and identity 15. Facework and identity Miriam A. Locher and Brook Bolander. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407 16. Evaluation Michele Zappavigna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435 17. Politeness and impoliteness Sage Lambert Graham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459 18. Flaming and trolling Claire Hardaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493 19. Narration Ruth Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523 20. Fandom Monika Bednarek. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545 V. Social media and functions 21. Getting “liked” Carmen Maíz-Arévalo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575 22. Conflictual and consensual disagreement Brook Bolander and Miriam A. Locher. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607 23. Compliments and compliment responses María Elena Placencia and Amanda Lower. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633 24. Requesting and advice-giving Phillip R. Morrow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661 About the authors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691 Name index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699 Subject index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721 This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the pragmatics of social media, i.e. of digitally mediated and Internet-based platforms which are interactively used to share and edit self- and other-generated textual and audio-visual messages. Its five parts offer state-of-the-art reviews and critical evaluations in the light of on-going developments: Part I The Nature of Social Media sets up the conceptual groundwork as it explores key concept such as social media, participation, privacy/publicness. Part II Social Media Platforms focuses on the pragmatics of single platforms such as YouTube, Facebook. Part III Social Media and Discourse covers the micro-and macro-level organization of social media discourse, while Part IV Social Media and Identityreveals the multifarious ways in which users collectively (re- )construct aspects of their identities. Part V Social Media and Functions/Speech Acts surveys pragmatic studies on speech act functions such as disagreeing, complimenting, requesting. Each contribution provides a state-of-the-art review together with a critical evaluation of the existing research. Christian R. Hoffmann, and Wolfram Bublitz, Augsburg, Germany This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the pragmatics of social media, i.e. of digitally mediated and Internet-based platforms which are interactively used to share and edit self- and other-generated textual and audio-visual messages. Its five parts offer state-of-the-art reviews and critical evaluations in the light of on-going developments: Part I The Nature of Social Media sets up the conceptual groundwork as it explores key concept such as social media, participation, privacy/publicness. Part II Social Media Platforms focuses on the pragmatics of single platforms such as YouTube, Facebook. Part III Social Media and Discourse covers the micro-and macro-level organization of social media discourse, while Part IV Social Media and Identity reveals the multifarious ways in which users collectively (re- )construct aspects of their identities. Part V Social Media and Functions/Speech Acts surveys pragmatic studies on speech act functions such as disagreeing, complimenting, requesting. Each contribution provides a state-of-the-art review together with a critical evaluation of the existing research