Self-praise on Chinese social networking sites

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 ).…”

“…The status updates were categorized and then coded carefully by the researchers. Following Ren & Guo's suggestions ( Ren and Guo, 2020 ), all posts were divided into component messages because a single status update could contain multiple sentences, and a single sentence could comprise multiple functions. To ensure reliability, the data were double-checked by three interraters.…”

Automatic Identification and Classification of Bragging in Social Media

“…Common mitigation strategies include speaker's attempts to deny compliments, shifting focus to persons closely related to them, reframing bragging as praise from a third party, admitting the bragging act through disclaimers (e.g. using #brag) or expressing it as a complaint (Wittels, 2011;Sezer et al, 2018), question, narration or sharing (Dayter, 2018;Matley, 2018;Ren and Guo, 2020). The success of self-presentation strategies are also impacted by the social context (Tice et al, 1995) or speaker identity (Paramita and Septianto, 2021).…”

“…This is also amplified by social media platforms through the presence of likes or positive reactions to users' posts (Reinecke and Trepte, 2014) which often are used to quantify impact on the platform (Lampos et al, 2014). Bragging in particular was found to be more frequent on social media than face-to-face interactions (Ren and Guo, 2020).…”

“…Despite its pervasiveness and importance in online communication, bragging has yet to be studied at scale in computational (socio) linguistics. The ability to identify bragging automatically is important for: (a) linguists to better understand the context and types of bragging through empirical studies (Dayter, 2014;Ren and Guo, 2020); (b) social scientists to analyze the relationship between bragging and personality traits, online behavior and communication strategies (Miller et al, 1992;Van Damme et al, 2017;Sezer et al, 2018); (c) on-Type Definition Tweet…”