Linguistics - Bachelor exams

facework

how people manage their self-identity (face) in online communication

types of faces

quality face, social identity face, relational face

rapport management

managing relationships - either to build, maintain or repair them

rapport repair

guest - hotel:

hotel repairs guest’s quality face, relational face and hotel’s own face

rapport challenge

on record - directly (idiot)

off record - indirectly (sarcasm)

functions of hashtags

ideational # coffee (what the hashtag is about), interpersonal #ilovecoffee (used to connect with others, how you feel)

ambient affiliation

foregrounds interpersonal function, indirectly creating sense of connection and shared identity, through iconization

small stories online

stories told to build identity and relationships, key features: identity-building, multimodal, interactive, public x private, flexible narrative patterns

small stories dimension

tellership, tellability, embeddeness, linearity, moral stance

web genres

type of online communication (blogs, websites, reviwes) that have a specific purpose, follow conventions, understood by the users

development of web genres

around 2000, from offline communication (e.g. newspapers => online articles), created online (vlogs, blogs…)

key features of web genres

multimodality, hypertextuality, adaptation

web-based communication

non-sequential reading, brings together multiple media, interactivity

institutional websites

school, banks…, static and dynamic info (about us x news), multimodal, hypertextual, hybrid genre (ads, info, news…)

blogs

websites used to publish information, create identity, share life, express oneself

public x private

personal x topical