Complimenting Behaviour and (self- )praise Across Social Media

Complimenting Behaviour and (self- )praise Across Social Media
Author: María Elena Placencia
Publisher:
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2020
Genre: Compliments
ISBN: 9789027207579

Introduction / María Elena Placencia and Zohreh R. Eslami -- A comparative study of compliment responses among Chinese Renren users and American Facebook users / Zohreh R. Eslami, Lu Yang and Chang Qian -- "Gracias pana" : a glimpse into Ecuadorian male compliment responses on Facebook / Amanda Lower -- "Pero... ¿y las caritas esas cómo se ponen?" : age effects on Facebook compliments in Peninsular Spanish / Carmen Maíz-Arévalo -- "Tu masssss [heart] te amo" : responding to compliments on Instagram among Ecuadorian teenage girls / María Elena Placencia and Hebe Powell -- Compliment response behavior among Japanese-English bilinguals on Facebook / Marina Ruiz-Tada, Marta Fernández-Villanueva and Elsa Tragant -- Complimenting behavior in Spanish political discourse on Twitter / Ana Pano Alamán -- #Lovely country, #wonderful people : diplomatic compliments and praise on Twitter / Roni Danziger and Zohar Kampf -- The interpersonal effects of complimenting others and self-praise in online health settings / Marie-Thérèse Rudolf von Rohr and Miriam A. Locher -- Healthy lifestyle, dieting, fitness and bodybuilding : compliments in the context of Polish online discussion forums and message boards / Anna Baczkowska -- "I want your brain" : complimenting behavior in online Over by Over cricket commentary / Dermot Brendan Heaney -- Compliments in congratulatory tweets to Spanish Olympic athletes / María Isabel Hernández Toribio and Laura Mariottini -- Modified self-praise in social media : humblebragging, self-presentation, and perceptions of (in)sincerity / Mufan Luo and Jeffrey T. Hancock.

Complimenting Behavior and (Self-)Praise across Social Media

Complimenting Behavior and (Self-)Praise across Social Media
Author: María Elena Placencia
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2020-12-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027260729

The present volume focuses on complimenting behavior, including the awarding of (self-)praise, as manifested on social media. These commonplace activities have been found to fulfil a wide range of functions in face-to-face interaction, discoursal and relational amongst others. However, even though the giving of compliments and praise has become a pervasive practice in online environments, it remains a largely underexplored field of study within pragmatics. Self-praise is an activity that appears at the present time to be rapidly gaining ground online, and the various functions it performs clearly also need further investigation. The different contributions to this ground-breaking volume – 12 in total – aim to address this gap in research by exploring and shedding light on a number of aspects of these phenomena in a range of languages and language varieties. New socio-digital contexts are examined, supported in some cases by social networking sites not previously studied in complimenting behavior research. These include Facebook, Instagram, Renren, Twitter, as well as web forums, message boards and live text commentary.

Pragmatics of Social Media

Pragmatics of Social Media
Author: Christian Hoffmann
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 738
Release: 2017-09-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110431076

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.

Compliments and Compliment Responses

Compliments and Compliment Responses
Author: Andrea Golato
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2005-01-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027294720

This book analyzes compliments and compliment responses in naturally occurring talk-in-interaction in German. Using Conversation Analytic methodology, it views complimenting and responding to compliments as social actions which are co-produced and negotiated among interactants. This study is the first to analyze the entire complimenting sequence within the larger interactional context, thereby demonstrating the interconnectedness of sequence organization, turn-design, and (varying) function(s) of a turn. In this regard, the present study makes a novel contribution to the study of talk-in-interaction beyond German. The book adds to existing work on interaction and grammar by closely analyzing the functions of linguistic resources used to design compliment turns and compliment responses. Here, the study extends previous Conversation Analytic work on person reference by including an analysis of inanimate object reference. Lastly, the book discusses the use and function of various particles and demonstrates how speaker alignments and misalignments are accomplished through various grammatical forms.

Virtual English as a Lingua Franca

Virtual English as a Lingua Franca
Author: Inmaculada Pineda
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2023-06-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1000882853

This collection offers a comprehensive account of the development of intercultural communication strategies through Virtual English as a lingua franca, reflecting on the ways in which we make pragmatic meaning in today’s technology-informed globalized world. The volume places an emphasis on analyzing transmodal, trans-semiotic, and transcultural discourse practices in online spaces, providing a counterpoint to existing ELF research which has leaned towards unpacking formal features of ELF communication in face-to-face interactions. The chapters explore how these practices are characterized and then further sustained via non-verbal semiotic resources, drawing on data from a global range of empirical studies. The book prompts further reflection on readers’ own experiences in online settings and the challenges of VELF while also supplying educators in these contexts with the analytical resources to better bridge the gap between formal and informal learning. Highlighting the dynamic complexity of online intercultural communication in the twenty-first century, this book is a valuable resource for students and scholars in applied linguistics, language education, digital communication, and intercultural communication.

Wildmind

Wildmind
Author: Bodhipaksa
Publisher: Windhorse Publications
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2012-02-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1907314326

Meditation helps us to cut through the agonizing clutter of superficial mental turmoil and allows us to experience more spacious and joyful states of mind. It is this pure and luminous state that I call your Wildmind. From how to build your own stool to how a raisin can help you meditate, this illustrated guide explains everything you need to know to start or strengthen your meditation practice.

From Speech Acts to Lay Understandings of Politeness

From Speech Acts to Lay Understandings of Politeness
Author: Eva Ogiermann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2019-07-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1107198054

Illustrates the latest trends in politeness research from a multilingual and multicultural perspective, through the application of diverse methodologies.

Self-Praise Across Cultures and Contexts

Self-Praise Across Cultures and Contexts
Author: Chaoqun Xie
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2022-10-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3030992179

This book explores the extent to which self-praise is acceptable in both offline and online contexts, across different genres, platforms, and cultural backgrounds. The data analyzed encompass both naturally occurring (daily conversation as well as institutional talk) and elicited (experiments and interviews) types, and are explored at both quantitative and qualitative levels to offer a relatively systematic and comprehensive inquiry into self-praise as social (inter)action. Contributors to this book not only draw on traditional politeness theories but are also informed by social psychology, interactional sociolinguistics, CMC, and (multimodal) discourse analysis. They are inspired by pragmatics but also go beyond to ground their studies within locally situated cultural contexts, most of which are under-presented in the current academic world. Their efforts substantiate the fact that self-praise is most worthy of intensive analytic attention. This book appeals to students and researchers in the field and contributes to the way communication is facilitated through different ways of deploying linguistic and interactional resources.

Approaches to Internet Pragmatics

Approaches to Internet Pragmatics
Author: Chaoqun Xie
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2021-04-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027260354

Internet-mediated communication is pervasive nowadays, in an age in which many people shy away from physical settings and often rely, instead, on social media and messaging apps for their everyday communicative needs. Since pragmatics deals with communication in context and how more gets communicated than is said (or typed), applications of this linguistic perspective to internet communication, under the umbrella label of internet pragmatics, are not only welcome, but necessary. The volume covers straightforward applications of pragmatic phenomena to internet interactions, as happens with speech acts and contextualization, and internet-specific kinds of communication such as the one taking place on WhatsApp, WeChat and Twitter. This collection also addresses the role of emoticons and emoji in typed-text dialogues and the importance of “physical place” in internet interactions (exhibiting an interplay of online-offline environments), as is the case in the role of place in locative media and in broader place-related communication, as in migration.

Elevating Child Care

Elevating Child Care
Author: Janet Lansbury
Publisher: Rodale Books
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2024-04-30
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0593736168

A modern parenting classic—a guide to a new and gentle way of understanding the care and nurture of infants, by the internationally renowned childcare expert, podcaster, and author of No Bad Kids “An absolute go-to for all parents, therapists, anyone who works with, is, or knows parents of young children.”—Wendy Denham, PhD A Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE) teacher and student of pioneering child specialist Magda Gerber, Janet Lansbury helps parents look at the world through the eyes of their infants and relate to them as whole people who have natural abilities to learn without being taught. Once we are able to view our children in this light, even the most common daily parenting experiences become stimulating opportunities to learn, discover, and connect with our child. A collection of the most-read articles from Janet’s popular and long-running blog, Elevating Child Care focuses on common infant issues, including: • Nourishing our babies’ healthy eating habits • Calming your clingy, fearful child • How to build your child’s focus and attention span • Developing routines that promote restful sleep Eschewing the quick-fix tips and tricks of popular parenting culture, Lansbury’s gentle, insightful guidance lays the foundation for a closer, more fulfilling parent-child relationship, and children who grow up to be authentic, confident, successful adults.