Complimenting behavior and (self- )praise across social media : new contexts and new insights /
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 among others. However, even though th...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2020]
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| Series: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
new ser. 313. |
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| Summary: | 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 among others. However, even though the giving of compliments and praise have 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 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 sociodigital 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. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 315 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027207579 9027207577 |