Detailed Information on Publication Record
2017
Claiming In-Group Membership in Online Communities
TRÁVNÍKOVÁ, PetraBasic information
Original name
Claiming In-Group Membership in Online Communities
Authors
TRÁVNÍKOVÁ, Petra (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)
Edition
Hradec Králové Journal of Anglophone Studies, Hradec Králové, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty od Education, University of Hradec Králové, 2017, 2336-3347
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Článek v odborném periodiku
Field of Study
60200 6.2 Languages and Literature
Country of publisher
Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14640/17:00100403
Organization unit
Language Centre
Keywords in English
CMC; online communication; politeness; in-group; rapport; jargon; joking; common ground
Tags
Reviewed
Změněno: 18/3/2018 19:26, Mgr. et Mgr. Petra Trávníková, Ph.D.
Abstract
V originále
The aim of the present article is to show how the members of several Internet communities communicate online in discussion board threads focused on the so-called women’s topics, e.g. dieting or mothering, claim in-group membership via the following positive politeness strategies: 1. in-group markers, such as topic-related nicknames, diminutives and personalized address forms, terminology, special jargon related to the context of the forum with a special emphasis on acronyms, generic names and inclusive we, 2. stressing/ presupposing common ground and 3. joking. All of these strategies serve to enhance the community spirit and function as a powerful solidarity-building device, and thus serve as what Brown and Levinson refer to “social accelerators”.
