Explorations in Internet Pragmatics

Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen is Professor in Applied English Linguistics at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She has published articles and edited volumes on digital discourse and internet pragmatics, including Analyzing Digital Discourses: Between convergence and controversy (with M. Johansson and J. Chovanec, Palgrave Macmillan 2021).Dr. Lotta Lehti holds the title of docent in digital discourse studies at the University of Turku, Finland. She has studied interaction and rhetoric in social media. Her publications include a definition of the notion of ‘troll’ in Discours de haine et de radicalisation (edited by N. Lorenzi Bailly and C. Moïse, ENS Editions 2023).Kristin Vold Lexander is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Teacher Education at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences. Her publications focus on multilingualism in digitally mediated interaction and include the research monograph Multilingual Families in a Digital Age. Mediational repertoires and transnational practices (with Jannis Androutsopoulos, Routledge, 2023). Mikko T. Virtanen (PhD, title of docent) currently works as a university researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has published articles and edited volumes on technology-mediated interaction and critical discourse analysis, including Conversation Analytic Perspectives to Digital Interaction (with A. Koivisto and H. Vepsäläinen, Finnish Literature Society, 2023). Chaoqun Xie is Chair Professor at the Institute of Discourse Pragmatics, Zhejiang International Studies University, China. He has published articles and edited volumes on (im)politeness and internet pragmatics, including Advancing (Im)politeness Studies (Springer, 2023) and The Philosophy of (Im)politeness (Springer, 2021).

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on Contributors1 Exploring Intentionality, Identity, and Interpersonal Interaction on the InternetSanna-Kaisa Tanskanen, Lotta Lehti, Kristin Vold Lexander, Mikko T. Virtanen and Chaoqun XiePart 1 Exploring Intentions and Intentionality2 Intentionality Marking in Online Consumer Reviews of Books: Constructing Ordinary ExpertiseTuija Virtanen and Charlotte Stormbom3 ‘He ain’t never gonna be shit’: Cancel Culture and the Functions of Hashtags #NameIsCanceled or #NameIsOverPartyDominika Beneš Kováčová4 Pragmatic Macrocategories and Microstrategies in Research Project Homepages: Meaning-Making through Verbal and Visual DevicesDaniel Pascual5 “It’s a very good thing to bring democracy erm directly to everybody at home”: Participation and Discursive Action in Mediated Political DiscourseAnita FetzerPart 2 Exploring Identities in Action6 Aggression and Misogyny in Hindi and Bangla: A Case Study of YouTube CommentsRitesh Kumar and Bornini Lahiri7 Deictic Operations of the Construal of Community Identity in Computer-Mediated DiscourseKrisztina Laczkó and Szilárd Tátrai8 Construction of Disciplinary Identities on WikipediaHenri SatokangasPart 3 Exploring Interpersonal Interaction9 Forms of Address as Indicators of Interpersonal Relations in Two Types of French Media DiscourseEva Havu10 Cross-modal Management of Trolling during Live Streaming on Periscope: A Micro-analysisMian Jia11 ‘And’-Prefacing 2.0: From Turn Construction to Activity Management in Finnish Group MessagingAino Koivisto, Heidi Vepsäläinen and Mikko T. Virtanen12 Relational Work in Digital Employer-Employee Interaction at the Multilingual WorkplaceKristin Vold LexanderIndex