Enacting polyvocal scorn in #CovidConspiracy tweets: The orchestration of voices in humorous responses to COVID-19 conspiracy theories

Dynel, Litt. Marta; Zappavigna, Michele

doi:10.1016/j.dcm.2023.100670

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“…That means an ironic utterance explicitly communicates one thing, but implicitly it communicates the opposite. From a general perspective, Ortega-Bueno et al ( 2022) describe irony as a resource to capture readers' attention, but it may as well function as a linguistic tool contributing to a provocative style by which writers may criticize and ridicule people (Dynel & Zappavigna 2022). Further, irony leaves no trace on the text surface, making it notoriously difficult to "pin down in formal terms" (Reyes et al 2013: 241) and identify systematically in written text.…”

Section: Opinion-oriented Texts In Digital and Print Contextsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Discourse of influence – participation and opinions in digital and print media

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Lindgren,

Boström

et al. 2024

Sakprosa

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In democratic societies, exchange of written opinion is fundamental, but since the 1990s, public debate has gradually moved away from print media platforms to digital media platforms. In order to understand how a shift from print to digital media in opinion-oriented writing may have consequences for interaction and participation, it is relevant to investigate interpersonal aspects of opinion-oriented texts situated in digital and print media. The aim of the study is to explore and compare writers’ attitudes and the construction of the writer-reader-relationship in digital media (represented by Twitter) and (traditionally) print media (represented by letters to the editor, LEs). Bakhtinian dialogism and appraisal theory form the theoretical backdrop of the study. Results show that in the LEs, writers tend to take a negative general value position, but in the tweets, the writers’ attitude is more often either positive or negative, making Twitter a more diverse platform. Furthermore, attitudinal meaning is more transparent in the LEs, indicating that tweets are more often specialized, and readers who are not familiar with the context and interactional style of specific writers may be excluded from the communication. Another result is that a shift from print to digital media platforms seems to turn the focus of discussion more towards attitudes and perspectives in general, and less towards writers’ own attitudes. Therefore, digital media opinion exchange can be understood as a meta-discussion of attitudes, while print media rather transmit writers’ personal attitudes.

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Section: Opinion-oriented Texts In Digital and Print Contextsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Another aspect of both attitude and heteroglossia is the use of irony. Irony may contribute to a provocative style (Dynel & Zappavigna (2022), which may dis-encourage communication between people who have different opinions.…”

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confidence: 99%