‘He ain’t never gonna be shit’ : Cancel Culture and the Functions of Hashtags #NameIsCanceled or #NameIsOverParty

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004694453_004" target="_blank" >10.1163/9789004694453_004</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

‘He ain’t never gonna be shit’ : Cancel Culture and the Functions of Hashtags #NameIsCanceled or #NameIsOverParty

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

While previous studies (e.g., Scott 2015) found that hashtags can be employed in social media posts to guide the readers’ inferential processes, their linguistic role in the context of cancel culture has so far remained unexplored. Therefore, this chapter aims to fill in this gap and show that the hashtags #NameIsCanceled and #NameIsOverParty play an important role in signaling the illocutionary force of the post and that the posts containing these hashtags can—under certain conditions—be analyzed as performative speech acts. To these aims, the study focuses on one of the most intense cases of online shaming, namely the cancelation of beauty YouTuber James Charles. By analyzing a dataset of tweets containing the hashtag #JamesCharlesIsCanceled or #JamesCharlesIsOverParty, the study argues that posters employ these hashtags strategically to perform the act of canceling, while increasing the visibility of their post and garnering attention of other users. Tweeters thereby engage in ambient affiliation (Zappavigna 2011) and bond around a shared goal—to ‘cancel’ Charles. This is reflected in the impoliteness of their tweets and the accompanying (audio-)visual material, which typically depicts the posters’ performance of the cancelation (e.g., unsubscribing from the cancelee’s social media accounts).

Název v anglickém jazyce

‘He ain’t never gonna be shit’ : Cancel Culture and the Functions of Hashtags #NameIsCanceled or #NameIsOverParty

Popis výsledku anglicky

While previous studies (e.g., Scott 2015) found that hashtags can be employed in social media posts to guide the readers’ inferential processes, their linguistic role in the context of cancel culture has so far remained unexplored. Therefore, this chapter aims to fill in this gap and show that the hashtags #NameIsCanceled and #NameIsOverParty play an important role in signaling the illocutionary force of the post and that the posts containing these hashtags can—under certain conditions—be analyzed as performative speech acts. To these aims, the study focuses on one of the most intense cases of online shaming, namely the cancelation of beauty YouTuber James Charles. By analyzing a dataset of tweets containing the hashtag #JamesCharlesIsCanceled or #JamesCharlesIsOverParty, the study argues that posters employ these hashtags strategically to perform the act of canceling, while increasing the visibility of their post and garnering attention of other users. Tweeters thereby engage in ambient affiliation (Zappavigna 2011) and bond around a shared goal—to ‘cancel’ Charles. This is reflected in the impoliteness of their tweets and the accompanying (audio-)visual material, which typically depicts the posters’ performance of the cancelation (e.g., unsubscribing from the cancelee’s social media accounts).

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Explorations in Internet Pragmatics : Intentionality, Identity, and Interpersonal Interaction

ISBN

9789004694422

Počet stran výsledku

22

Strana od-do

45-66

Počet stran knihy

294

Název nakladatele

Brill

Místo vydání

Leiden

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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