Managing image: The self-praise of celebrities on social media

A corpus-based pragmatic analysis of Jordanians Facebook status updates during COVID-19

“…The qualitative approach has been chosen in data classification into different types of speech acts. As in ( Ren and Guo, 2020 ; Guo and Ren, 2020 ), the quantitative approach has been applied for calculating the percentages and frequencies of speech acts that define the communicative functions of Facebook (hereafter FB) status updates. Data from this study were elicited mainly via Facebook's status updates, as they provided wide sources of naturalistic behavioural data ( Ellison et al, 2007 ; Wilson et al, 2012 ).…”

Philanthropic Motives of China’s Celebrities in Media Representation: From an Impression Management Perspective

“…Since this study aimed to shed light on a previously underresearched phenomenon, it is important to avoid imposing a predefined and inappropriate taxonomy ( Guo and Ren, 2020 ). Therefore, within the framework of grounded theory ( Charmaz, 2014 ), the 134 interview texts were coded with the help of NVivo (version 12).…”

“…Studies have shown that celebrities focus on impression management to maintain or enhance their positive social image and ultimately gain more social and economic capital ( Guo and Ren, 2020 ). The media, as an environment in which celebrities can freely present themselves, can largely exert a powerful influence on those who are closely associated with their media image ( Fraser and Brown, 2002 ).…”

“…Some celebrity donors might seek an experience of prestige when making their giving public, especially among those with higher social status and wealth ( Ostrander, 1997 ). Among the various forms of self-presentation used by celebrities, positive charitable attitudes, and altruistic philanthropic behavior are positive statements about oneself that aim to construct a good self-image ( Guo and Ren, 2020 ). To successfully demonstrate or prove their social responsibility, some celebrities like to use their front-page image as a means of self-grooming when they are interviewed by the media.…”

Constructing Image: The Self-Praise Strategies on Corporate Social Responsibility Reports

“…She not only shed light on a range of direct and indirect selfpraise strategies employed by LinkedIn members to demonstrate their professional qualifications and competent skills, but also specifically explained various kinds of internal pragmatic modifiers used in LinkedIn summaries, which may either have more of less strengthening or softening impact in presenting Linke-dIn members' abilities. Guo and Ren (2020) analyzed the pragmatic tactics performed in the self-praising speech act of Chinese celebrities on microblogging platform Weibo. Following Dayter's (2014) microblogging community study and Tobback's (2019) selfpraising research on LinkedIn, they classified self-praise strategies into three types, namely "explicit self-praise without modification", "modified explicit self-praise" and "implicit self-praise", with each type containing more specific self-praising techniques.…”