Visualizing Digital Discourse: Interactional, Institutional and Ideological Perspectives

Thurlow, Crispin; Dürscheid, Christa; Diémoz, Federica (eds.) (2020). Visualizing Digital Discourse: Interactional, Institutional and Ideological Perspectives. Language and Social Life: Vol. 21. Berlin: De Gruyter 10.1515/9781501510113

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The first dedicated volume of its kind, Visualizing Digital Discourse brings together sociolinguists and discourse analysts examining the role of visual communication in digital media. The volume showcases work from leading, established and emerging scholars from across Europe, covering a diverse range of digital media platforms such as messaging, video-chat, gaming and wikis; visual modalities such as emojis, video and layout; methodologies like discourse analysis, ethnography and conversation analysis; as well as data from different languages. With an opening chapter by Rodney Jones, the volume is organized into three parts: Besides Words and Writing, The Social Life of Images, and Designing Multimodal Texts. From the perspective of these broad domains, chapters tackle some of the major ideological, interactional and institutional implications of visuality for digital discourse studies. The first part, beginning with a co-authored chapter by Crispin Thurlow, focuses on micro-level visual practices and their macro-level framing – all with particular regard for emojis. The second part, beginning with a chapter from Sirpa Leppänen, examines the ways visual resources are used for managing personal relations, and the wider cultural politics of visual representation in these practices. The third part, beginning with a chapter by Hartmut Stöckl, considers organizational contexts where users deploy visual resources for more transactional, often commercial ends.

Item Type:

Book (Edited Volume)

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of English Languages and Literatures
06 Faculty of Humanities > Other Institutions > Walter Benjamin Kolleg (WBKolleg) > Center for the Study of Language and Society (CSLS)
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of English Languages and Literatures > Modern English Linguistics

UniBE Contributor:

Thurlow, Crispin, Dürscheid, Christa

Subjects:

400 Language
400 Language > 410 Linguistics
400 Language > 420 English & Old English languages

ISBN:

978-1-5015-1874-4

Series:

Language and Social Life

Publisher:

De Gruyter

Language:

English

Submitter:

Federico Erba

Date Deposited:

19 May 2020 09:24

Last Modified:

14 Mar 2024 12:31

Publisher DOI:

10.1515/9781501510113

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/140466

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