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Chapter 6. Humour and self-presentation on WhatsApp profile status
Abstract
Self-presentation encompasses a set of strategies through which individuals communicate an image of themselves to others. Self-presentation has been widely studied both in face-to-face communication and online. Most online research, however, has focused on social networking sites, blogs, chatrooms, etc. while less attention has been paid to other online means of communication such as WhatsApp. The aim of this chapter is to analyse self-presentation on WhatsApp statuses. More specifically, I focus on the use of humour as a self-presentation strategy in WhatsApp statuses and ascertain whether or not there are common patterns with regard to gender or age. To this purpose, a corpus of 206 WhatsApp statuses in Spanish was analysed following both a quantitative and qualitative methodology. Results shows the existence of recurrent patterns connected to these variables, which seem to play a crucial role to determine the choice of humour as a self-presentation strategy.
Abstract
Self-presentation encompasses a set of strategies through which individuals communicate an image of themselves to others. Self-presentation has been widely studied both in face-to-face communication and online. Most online research, however, has focused on social networking sites, blogs, chatrooms, etc. while less attention has been paid to other online means of communication such as WhatsApp. The aim of this chapter is to analyse self-presentation on WhatsApp statuses. More specifically, I focus on the use of humour as a self-presentation strategy in WhatsApp statuses and ascertain whether or not there are common patterns with regard to gender or age. To this purpose, a corpus of 206 WhatsApp statuses in Spanish was analysed following both a quantitative and qualitative methodology. Results shows the existence of recurrent patterns connected to these variables, which seem to play a crucial role to determine the choice of humour as a self-presentation strategy.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgements vii
- Introduction 1
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Part I. Theoretical and methodological perspectives
- Chapter 1. Expanding pragmatics 27
- Chapter 2. Computer-mediated discourse in context 47
- Chapter 3. Cyberpragmatics in the age of locative media 75
- Chapter 4. Interpreting emoji pragmatics 107
- Chapter 5. Speech acts and the dissemination of knowledge in social networks 145
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Part II. The discursive management of self on the internet
- Chapter 6. Humour and self-presentation on WhatsApp profile status 175
- Chapter 7. Inviting a purchase 207
- Chapter 8. Online nicks, impoliteness, and Jewish identity in Israeli Russian conflict discourse 235
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Part III. Pragmatics of internet-mediated texts
- Chapter 9. Candidates’ use of Twitter during the 2016 Austrian presidential campaign 259
- Chapter 10. A study on how cultural and gender parameters affect emoticon distribution, usage and frequency in American and Japanese online discourse 287
- Chapter 11. Migration through the English-Greek translated press 321
- Name index 343
- Subject index 347
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgements vii
- Introduction 1
-
Part I. Theoretical and methodological perspectives
- Chapter 1. Expanding pragmatics 27
- Chapter 2. Computer-mediated discourse in context 47
- Chapter 3. Cyberpragmatics in the age of locative media 75
- Chapter 4. Interpreting emoji pragmatics 107
- Chapter 5. Speech acts and the dissemination of knowledge in social networks 145
-
Part II. The discursive management of self on the internet
- Chapter 6. Humour and self-presentation on WhatsApp profile status 175
- Chapter 7. Inviting a purchase 207
- Chapter 8. Online nicks, impoliteness, and Jewish identity in Israeli Russian conflict discourse 235
-
Part III. Pragmatics of internet-mediated texts
- Chapter 9. Candidates’ use of Twitter during the 2016 Austrian presidential campaign 259
- Chapter 10. A study on how cultural and gender parameters affect emoticon distribution, usage and frequency in American and Japanese online discourse 287
- Chapter 11. Migration through the English-Greek translated press 321
- Name index 343
- Subject index 347
