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Basking in Reflected Glory and Blasting
2007
This study examines, in soccer fanzines, two identity-management strategies—basking in reflected glory (BIRGing) and blasting—of two groups of highly identified soccer fans with allegiance to the same team. Results show strong support for the BIRG phenomenon among both ultra fan groups but little evidence of the blasting phenomenon among either group. The implications of these findings are discussed in regard to social identity management among sports fans.
Youth language in media contexts: insights into the functions of English in Finland
2007
ABSTRACT: Recent research has shown that the role of English in Finland is now changing. In particular contexts, it is sometimes used as a lingua franca, an intracultural means of communication, and an additional language, along with Finnish. An interesting domain in terms of the spread and changing role of English is also youth language – the focus of the present paper. Approaching youth language from a discourse-analytic and sociolinguistic perspective, this paper investigates an electronic game session, hip-hop lyrics, fan fiction and weblogs. As in youth language in other bi/multilingual speech communities, the paper argues that the uses of English in these Finnish youth language conte…
Emili Samper, ed. (2016), «The Myths of the Republic : Literature and Identity», Kassel, Edition Reichenberger, 242 pp.
2019
Ressenya sobre el llibre d'Emili Samper, ed. (2016), The Myths of the Republic: Literature and Identity, Kassel, Edition Reichenberger, 242 pp., ISBN 978-3-944244-53-2.
Veus de frontera : «els altres catalans» d?ara
2018
L’estudi que proposem se centra en l’anàlisi d’algunes de les veus migrants de la literatura catalana actual, enteses com aquelles que se situen entre dues cultures, en la frontera entre allò que és conegut i desconegut, en els marges del que els seus protagonistes són i no són; una literatura que no narra epopeies, sinó proeses individuals, sovint relacionades amb l’estat d’ànim generat a partir de la reescriptura de la pròpia personalitat. És en aquest sentit que el treball que presentem cerca una aproximació a l’alteritat a partir d’alguns dels textos de Saïd El Kadaoui, Najat El Hachmi, Agnès Agboton i Francesc Serés. Totes elles veus de frontera que resulten cada vegada més comunes, mé…
Self-presentation processes in personal profiles in a pro-anorexia group
2018
This paper presents the results of a content analysis of 1000 personal profiles posted on a pro-anorexia (pro-ana) group from the social networking site Xanga. Applying methods of computer-mediated communication discourse analysis, the visual and verbal strategies of self-presentation in pro-ana members’ profiles were examined. Competence, ingratiation, exemplification and supplication emerged as the main self-presentation strategies identified in the text-based profiles. In contrast to other online self-presentations (such as personal home pages and weblogs), new contents and meanings related to a pro-ana social identity were assigned to these strategies in the group. The analysis of the p…
Between distance and privacy: the enunciation of the urban space in Vicent Andrés Estellés
2018
L’article analitza el tractament i la presència de la ciutat en les obres de Vicent Andrés Estellés en funció de l’acostament o la llunyania que el jo poètic hi estableix. Les obres estudiades no remeten a cap període de producció concret, sinó que es troben disseminades al llarg de tota la trajectòria del poeta a causa de la presència constant que l’espai hi té. Ens centrarem, doncs, a estudiar les dues maneres que el poeta té de representar la ciutat: la que la configura com una alteritat observada pel jo poètic i la que la practica des de la proximitat. Tot fent referència als diferents indrets significatius que configuren la identitat del jo poètic. This paper analyses how Vicent Andrés…
Une approche communicationnelle de la professionnalisation au sein des Instituts de formation en soins infirmiers en France
2013
Dans un contexte de fortes mutations et de réflexion autour du devenir des métiers de la santé et de l’appareil de formation qui leur est dédié en France, les formateurs et les directeurs des Instituts de Formation en Soins Infirmiers sont amenés à travailler à la construction et à la promotion du projet pédagogique de leur établissement. Au quotidien, leurs pratiques individuelles montrent combien leur lecture de la réalité de travail est singulière et se trouve en partie corrélée à leur professionnalité. A partir des significations que chacun d’eux exprime, la coopération entre ces professionnels semble se construire très progressivement à la croisée des problématiques communicationnelles…
Identidad social y discursiva del turista: su construcción a partir de la oferta de valores abstractos
2017
Este artículo examina cómo la página web hotelera mercantiliza valores simbólicos abstractos, y de qué manera ello incide en la construcción discursiva de un actor social 'turista'. Para ello se propone un análisis cualitativo desde el marco del Análisis Crítico del Discurso, concretamente desde la vertiente socio-cultural de Fairclough (2002), que a su vez parte del sistema de transitividad de Halliday (1985). Considerar la mercantilización de los valores abstractos resulta interesante en este contexto, pues se podría pensar que los hoteles ofrecen ante todo valores de tipo concreto y material, y no abstracto. Sin embargo, la representación mental de lo placentero y deseable en el turista,…
Conflict management in massive polylogues: A case study from YouTube
2014
Abstract The aim of this paper is to examine how conflict begins, unfolds and ends in a massive, new media polylogue, specifically, a YouTube polylogue. Extant research has looked into how conflict begins, unfolds and/or ends. However, to our knowledge, the models and taxonomies developed so far have not been applied to the analysis of the mediated conflict of massive polylogues. Drawing on the difference between methods of analysis that are natively digital versus those that have been digitized, i.e., they were developed for off-line research and then migrated on-line, one of the goals of this paper is to test whether non-natively digital, extant models and taxonomies, if digitized, would …
Learners’ identifies at stake: Digital identity texts in the ELF classroom
2018
Author/s María Dolores García-Pastor GIEL – Universitat de València, Spain ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the study of identity in digital identity texts produced by English as a foreign language (EFL) learners within a specific subject of the Teacher in Primary Education (English) degree at a Spanish university. To this end, 51 digital identity texts were analysed following a “positioning perspective”, which views identity in terms of “reflexive” and “interactive” positions (Davies & Harré 1990). Results show that learners constructed non-unitary identities whose subject positions were often contradictory. They also associated certain positions with silencing identities, transition ident…