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This book deals with participation frameworks in modern social and public media. It brings together several cutting-edge research studies that offer exciting new insights into the nature and formats of interpersonal communication in diverse technology-mediated contexts. Some papers introduce new theoretical extensions to participation formats, while others present case studies in various discourse domains spanning public and private genres. Adopting the perspective of the pragmatics of interaction, these contributions discuss data ranging from public, mass-mediated and quasi-authentic texts, fully staged and scripted textual productions, to authentic, non-scripted private messages and comments, both of a permanent and ephemeral nature. The analyses include news interviews, online sports reporting, sitcoms, comedy shows, stand-up comedies, drama series, institutional and personal blogs, tweets, follow-up YouTube video commentaries, and Facebook status updates. All the authors emphasize the role of context and pay attention to how meaning is constructed by participants in interactions in increasingly complex participation frameworks existing in traditional as well as novel technologically mediated interactions.

Language and Humour in the Media provides new insights into the interface between humour studies and media discourse analysis, connecting two areas of scholarly interest that have not been studied extensively before. The volume adopts a multi-disciplinary approach, concentrating on the various roles humour plays in print and audiovisual media, the forms it takes, the purposes it serves, the butts it targets, the implications it carries and the differences it may assume across cultures. The p

Media representations of the "other" Europeans : common themes and points of divergence / Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska and Jan Chovanec -- Orbán's Hungary : the othering of liberal Western Europe / Christopher Bridge -- Togetherness or othering? : Community and comunita in the UK and Italian press / Charlotte Taylor -- The European "stranger" in Le Monde's headline discourse / Élisabeth Le -- Profiling of new Europeans in the British conservative press : a case study of the Daily Telegraph / Jolanta Szymańska -- Construing the other : on the ideology-laden construals of Europeans in the Guardian / Przemysław Wilk -- Discursive legitimation of criminalization and victimization of sub-Saharan immigrants in Spanish El País and ABC newspapers / María Martínez Lirola -- Negotiating an identity : the mediated discursive self-representation of the Polish immigrant community in the UK / Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska -- Representations of Eastern Europeans in the UK in reader comments of two British online newspapers / Małgorzata Paprota -- Othering others : right-wing populism in UK media discourse on "new" immigration / Grace E. Fielder and Theresa Catalano -- The othering of Roma migrants in British and Czech online news discussion forums / Jan Chovanec -- The Roma as ultimate European minority and ultimate outsider? : the framing of the Roma in newspapers following a human-rights violation / Chloë Delcour and Lesley Hustinx -- Othering in Estonian online discussions about refugees / Liisi Laineste.

This book contributes to the scholarly debate on the forms and patterns of interaction and discourse in modern digital communication by probing some of the social functions that online communication has for its users. An array of experts and scholars in the field address a range of forms of social interaction and discourses expressed by users on social networks and in public media. Social functions are reflected through linguistic and discursive practices that are either those of 'convergence' or 'controversy' in terms of how the discourse participants handle interpersonal relations or how they construct meanings in discourses. In this sense, the book elaborates on some very central concerns in the area of digital discourse analysis that have been reported within the last decade from various methodological perspectives ranging from sociolinguistics and pragmatics to corpus linguistics. This edited collection will be of particular interest to scholars and students in the fields of digital discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, social media and communication, and media and cultural studies

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Practices of Convergence and Controversy in Digital Discourses -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Digital Discourse Analysis: Orientations and Definitions -- 2.1 Transformations, Deep Mediatisation, and Convergences -- 3 Discursive Practices in the Digital Sphere -- 3.1 Practices of Convergence -- 3.2 Practices of Metapragmatic Negotiation -- 3.3 Practices of Controversy -- 4 Overview of the Articles -- 4.1 Practices of Convergence: Affiliating Through Self-Presentation and Evaluation -- 4.2 Practices of Metapragmatic Negotiation: Constructing and Affirming Norms -- 4.3 Practices of Controversy: Handling Digital (Im)politeness -- References -- Practices of Convergence -- Enhancing Social Presence Through Textual Action: Virtual Performatives as a Relatability Strategy -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Previous Studies -- 3 Methods and Materials -- 4 Enacting Virtual Action Through Text -- 5 Enacting Silence -- 6 Externalizing and Reassuming Self -- 7 Digital Logophoricity -- 8 Benevolent Humour -- 9 Conclusion -- References -- "And on the Seventh day God Created Beyoncé": Digital Discourse Practices and (Racialized) Gender Ideologies in Twitter, Tumblr, and Pinterest -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Digital Multimodality and Gender -- 1.2 Beyoncé as an Internet Icon -- 2 Methodology and Data -- 2.1 A Social Semiotic Approach to Digital Discourse Analysis -- 2.2 Twitter, Tumblr, and Pinterest -- 2.2.1 Twitter -- 2.2.2 Tumblr -- 2.2.3 Pinterest -- 2.3 Data Collection and Analysis -- 3 Results -- 3.1 The Micro-Semiotics of Beyoncé -- 3.2 The Macro-Semiotics of Gender -- 3.2.1 Mutual Engenderment and Racialization -- 3.2.2 Discourses of Racism Molded on Sexism and Heterosexism -- 3.2.3 Contradictory and Multiple Gender Ideologies Within and Across Platforms.