Messy Rhetoric: Identity Performance as Rhetorical Agency in Online Public Forums

Grabill, Jeffrey T.; Pigg, Stacey

doi:10.1080/02773945.2012.660369

Cited by 37 publications

(11 citation statements)

References 31 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Much research has been done that examines online communities and the ways in which identities are shaped and public opinion is influenced in these spaces for digital discourse (Binns, 2012; Citron, 2013; Denzin, 1998; Grabill and Pigg, 2012; Hardacker, 2010; Sakki and Pettersson, 2015, to name a few). Studies such as Grabill and Pigg (2012) have examined interaction in online public forums and argue that these forums present methodological challenges for researchers because of the messy, non-linear ways in which participants engage. 4 In addition, they posit that online forums provide unique argumentative spaces for the leveraging of identity as a form of rhetorical agency: Those who do not hold traditional forms of expertise participate by performing identity in ways that extend beyond establishing individual credibility.…”

Section: Why Analyze Comment?mentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

European spaces and the Roma: Denaturalizing the naturalized in online reader comments

Catalano

Fielder

2018

Discourse & Communication

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

With the entry of several Eastern European nations into the EU, a "third" space has developed in the discourse for nations perceived as not fully integrated "inside" the EU system. This paper investigates the construction of this "third space" in the resultant "moral panic" about undesired immigration from other EU countries and its potential drain on the social services of the UK, and links it to Euroskeptic discourse in British media. The paper uses construal operations from cognitive linguistics combined with critical discourse studies as a way of denaturalizing the discourse in online comments that focus on the Bulgarian/Romanian immigration issue which we then connect to anti-Roma discourse. Results reveal a view of the UK as contaminated by Roma and underscore the need for novel metaphors to be countered before they become entrenched and used as tools for political propaganda.

show abstract

Section: Why Analyze Comment?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These performances create argumentative space by shaping how the conversation unfolds and enables the exchange of information and knowledge. (Grabill and Pigg, 2012: 101)…”

Section: Why Analyze Comment?mentioning

confidence: 99%

European spaces and the Roma: Denaturalizing the naturalized in online reader comments

Catalano

Fielder

2018

Discourse & Communication

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…These differences can partly be explained by the pragmatic functions of the various particles and the common rhetorical purposes message board communication. Grabill and Pigg () identify four categories of rhetorical moves frequently made in online forums: building an argument, exploring new ideas, building a writer's identity, and building a community identity. In negotiating argument‐building and idea‐exploration, leh , lor , and lah are particularly useful resources in their capacity to signal stance and engagement.…”

Section: Singapore English Onlinementioning

confidence: 99%

Singapore English and styling the Ah Beng

Brown

Jie

2014

World Englishes

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper explores stylized renderings of Singapore English as such 'verbal art' is used by Singaporean youth in popular online forums. In order to analyze these stylizations, this study uses corpora collected from two forums frequented by Singaporean students. The data suggests that posters often use stylized representations to perform or to ventriloquize the identity of an Ah Beng (a kind of hustler or gangster). Implicated in such performances are sometimes complex negotiations of class, gender, and ethnicity. The relationship among the linguistic features central to our study and the social meanings signaled by those features suggest the value of approaches that emphasize the range of pragmatic and metapragmatic meanings or indexicalities that accrue to features in modeling variation in Singapore English.

show abstract

“…Science blogs, now numbering in the thousands (Batts, Anthis, & Smith, 2008;Zivkovic, 2012), have assumed a powerful role in the mass communication-and even in the deliberation-of science. Although they are only quasi-public forums (Habermas, 1992;Schickele, 1993), science blogs can nevertheless scaffold real-world political action on science-related issues (Barton, 2005;Cheng, Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, & Leskovec, 2014;Grabill & Pigg, 2012;Gurak & Antonijevic, 2009;Hardy & Scheufele, 2005;Manosevitch & Walker, 2009). Discussions among commenters on science blogs are thus perhaps best termed proto-deliberative.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Double-Edged Sword of Popularization

Walsh

2015

Science Communication

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The decision by Popsci.com editors to shut off public comments in 2013 surprised many scholars of science journalism-particularly since the decision was justified in large part by reference to science communication scholarship. This commentary engages in a rhetorical analysis of the events surrounding the decision-in particular, the popularization of Anderson et al. (2014), the editorial stance at Popsci.com, and the content of blog comments leading up to the shutoff-to better appreciate what led to the foreclosure of a significant forum for protodeliberation on science research and policy.

show abstract

Messy Rhetoric: Identity Performance as Rhetorical Agency in Online Public Forums

Cited by 37 publications

References 31 publications

European spaces and the Roma: Denaturalizing the naturalized in online reader comments

European spaces and the Roma: Denaturalizing the naturalized in online reader comments

Singapore English and styling the Ah Beng

The Double-Edged Sword of Popularization

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About