Claiming In-Group Membership in Online Communities

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Result on the web

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Claiming In-Group Membership in Online Communities

Original language description

The aim of the present article is to show how the members of several Internet communities communicate online in discussion board threads focused on the so-called women’s topics, e.g. dieting or mothering, claim in-group membership via the following positive politeness strategies: 1. in-group markers, such as topic-related nicknames, diminutives and personalized address forms, terminology, special jargon related to the context of the forum with a special emphasis on acronyms, generic names and inclusive we, 2. stressing/ presupposing common ground and 3. joking. All of these strategies serve to enhance the community spirit and function as a powerful solidarity-building device, and thus serve as what Brown and Levinson refer to “social accelerators”.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60200 - Languages and Literature

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Hradec Králové Journal of Anglophone Studies

ISSN

2336-3347

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Volume of the periodical

2017

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4/1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

146-155

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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