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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.

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.

Ce volume rassemble des contributions scientifiques abordant le « patrimoine immatérie l» de diverses manières. Tout d’abord, celui véhiculé par les langues vernaculaires d’origine latine encore parfois parlées en France, en Belgique wallonne, en Suisse romande et en Italie du nord. Contes de transmission orale (articles de Nicole Belmont, Aurélie Reusser-Elzingre, Fabio Armand, Jacques Berlioz, Lydia Gaborit), légendes historiques et chansons (Isabelle Raboud-Schüle et Serge Rossier, Claudine Fréchet, Edith Montelle), noms de lieux (Matteo Rivoira), expressions (Françoise Lempereur), surnoms locaux (Alexis Bétemps), vocabulaire de métier (Jean Delmas), tous sont porteurs de croyances et de valeurs dites « traditionnelles ». Cette matière est abordée de divers points de vue : celui de l’anthropologue, qui analyse les relations entre les acteurs et l’inévitable (re)fabrication culturelle. Celui du collecteur, qui recherche souvent à figer dans l’écriture une forme orale mouvante. Celui du philologue, désirant mettre en valeur un « patrimoine historique » souvent inaccessible sans son rôle de transmetteur au grand public. Enfin, celui du conteur, toujours à la recherche de nouveaux récits, qui transmet à travers sa langue des motifs au gré de sa propre biographie, du public et du contexte. Toutes ces contributions sont encadrées par les réflexions de dialectologues (Andres Kristol, Federica Diémoz, Aurélie Reusser-Elzingre) et d’anthropologues (Ellen Hertz, Suzanne Chappaz-Wirthner) sur ce vaste sujet qu’est le « patrimoine culturel immatériel ».