Analyzing Digital Discourses

Marjut Johansson is Professor of French Studies in the School of Languages and Translation Studies at the University of Turku, Finland.Jan Chovanec is Associate Professor in the Department of English and American Studies at Masaryk University, Czech Republic.Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen is Associate Professor in Applied English Linguistics in the Department of Languages at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

• Introduction.- Part ONE: Digital linking: Discourses of convergence.- Chapter 1: Enhancing social presence through textual action (Tuija Virtanen).- Chapter 2: Hashtag functions in French language posts on Twitter and Instagram: a case study of #jediscajedisrien (Stephanie Doyle-Lerat).- Chapter 3: Nation/nation and their relatives: cross-cultural observations on English and German Wikipedia entries (Sonia Kleinke and Julia Landmann).- Chapter 4: Talking with a chatbot: Interactional sequences of chatbot communication (Marjut Johansson).- Chapter 5: Prescriptive metapragmatic comments and the (re)construction of ‘appropirate’ stories (Patricia Bou-Franch).- Chapter 6: Online petition as an echo chamber (Ana-Maria Cozma and Lotta Lehti).- Chapter 7: Illness negotiations and the particular: Exploring online forum interactions about endometriosis (Ida Melander).- Chapter 8: Resistance to standard language in online interaction (Anna Heuman).- PART TWO: Digital discourse of controversy.- Chapter 9: Getting into the smart mob: Understanding online public shaming in the context of the USA (Pilar G. Blitvich).- Chapter 10: Interventions in discussion forum interaction (Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen and Ulla Tuomarla).- Chapter 11: Aggressiveness in a French discussion forum for youths: Analyzing the participants' point of view (Nadia Gauducheau and Michel Marcoccia).- Chapter 12: Italian in digital context: the case of discourse markers in TripAdvisor reviews (Linda Badan and Irene Cenni).