Entextualization and resemiotization as resources for identification in social media

Homing blogs as ambivalent spaces for feminine agency

“…This mundane everyday agency (Jokinen 2016) is both creative and shaped by the materialities of the bloggers' everyday lives as well as by the normative social (online) practices that are themselves constantly reproduced and negotiated in the homing blog community through adherence to particular conventions and preferences in writing, visual representation, and interaction. In other words, they display particular discursive orientations towards sets of features that are or can be seen as indexical of particular situated identities, and that are applied and enforced by the participants themselves, drawing on multiple centers of normativity (Leppänen 2009(Leppänen , 2015Jan Blommaert and Piia Varis 2013;Leppänen et al 2014). …”

“…Comment boxes, a general characteristic of all social media (Leppänen et al 2014;Sirpa Leppänen and Samu Kytölä 2017), are an inseparable part of blogging as spaces that "open" the blog to visitors, and where the readers can leave a mark of their "visit. " Comment boxes are spaces where the audience, roles, and relationships in the blogging community and the space-like character of the blog itself become visible.…”

“Laf wan kill me die” (I almost died laughing): An analysis of Akpos jokes and the readers’ responses

“…What the users did is to take the images as signifiers for power and authority in their primary domain of international politics, and then recontextualise them in a secondary domain -the domain of the joke, as signifiers for the attitude towards and assessment of the joke. In discursive terms, the pictures involve the processes of entextualisation and resemiotisation, both of which entail the processes of decontextualisation and recontextualisation (Blommaert 2005;van Leeuwen 2005;Leppänen et al 2014). The pictures are made to cross the discourse and social boundary from politics to humour, as well as a geographic boundary -from the UK and the USA to Nigeria.…”

Let us have articles betwixt us: Papers in Historical and Comparative Linguistics in Honour of Johanna L. Wood

“…This replication of the original English text would seem to have been a conscious decision taken by the Danish movement rather than any form of policy on the part of the EDL; while the 'defence league' label or brand does require an adherence to a common 'memorandum of understanding', other defence leagues, for instance the Swedish and Norwegian, have not opted to follow the original English language documents, but have composed their own. The DDL's Facebook presentation exemplifi es the intertextual practices that are so prevalent in digital media (Deumert 2014;Leppänen et al 2013). These can be seen in the 'long description' on its Facebook page, which begins with a paragraph taken from the second aim of the mission statement; this aim is translated from the English as 'Demokrati og Retsstat: Forsvar for demokrati og retsstat via modstand mod Sharia' (Democracy and the Rule of Law: Promoting democracy and the rule of law by opposing Sharia).…”