Miriam A. Locher
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View article: Responding to subtitled K-drama: Artefact-orientation in timed comments
Responding to subtitled K-drama: Artefact-orientation in timed comments Open
This study examines artefact-orientation in timed comments on the streaming platform Viki and contributes to research on text-based video-oriented communication. Commenters post text messages next to the subtitled videos while they are str…
View article: “What Does Hyung Mean Please?”: Moments of Teaching and Learning About Korean (Im)politeness on an Online Streaming Platform of Korean TV Drama
“What Does Hyung Mean Please?”: Moments of Teaching and Learning About Korean (Im)politeness on an Online Streaming Platform of Korean TV Drama Open
In this paper we combine an interest in the pragmatics of fiction with interpersonal pragmatics by exploring how Korean (im)politeness norms surface and are negotiated in fictional TV drama. Our data is derived from the streaming platform …
View article: Contrastive analysis of English fan and professional subtitles of Korean TV drama
Contrastive analysis of English fan and professional subtitles of Korean TV drama Open
We compare fan subtitles and subtitles produced by professionals in order to detect what concepts each of them foreground, and how they differ in register and in translation strategy. Differences are systematically explored with the help o…
View article: Interpreting, translating, transferring
Interpreting, translating, transferring Open
This introduction positions the themes of the collection within the field of pragmatics and translation studies. It outlines the breadth of the field from interpreting to sensory translation and discusses novel papers in four different par…
View article: “This is not the place to bother people about BTS”: Pseudo-synchronicity and interaction in timed comments by Hallyu fans on the video streaming platform Viki
“This is not the place to bother people about BTS”: Pseudo-synchronicity and interaction in timed comments by Hallyu fans on the video streaming platform Viki Open
The community of users on Viki.com, a video streaming platform distributing Asian television to an international audience, use the site to engage with streams of television dramas. Rather than just being passive consumers, viewers interact…
View article: Pragmatics in Translation
Pragmatics in Translation Open
This Element addresses translation issues within an interpersonal pragmatics frame. The aims of this Element are twofold: first, we survey the current state of the field of pragmatics in translation; second, we present the current and meth…
View article: Corpus Pragmatics
Corpus Pragmatics Open
This Element discusses the challenges and opportunities that different types of corpora offer for the study of pragmatic phenomena. The focus lies on a hands-on approach to methods and data that provides orientation for methodological deci…
View article: Fiction and Pragmatics
Fiction and Pragmatics Open
This Element outlines current issues in the study of the pragmatics of fiction. It starts from the premise that fictional texts are complex and multi-layered communicative acts which deserve attention in pragmatic research in their own rig…
View article: Humour support and emotive stance in comments on Korean TV drama
Humour support and emotive stance in comments on Korean TV drama Open
Viewers on viki.com comment on Korean television drama series while watching: They produce timed comments tied to the timecode of the audiovisual stream. Among the functions these comments have in the community, the expression of emotive s…
View article: Transcription conventions
Transcription conventions Open
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Figures and tables Open
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Contents Open
View article: The Pragmatics of Fiction: Literature, Stage and Screen Discourse
The Pragmatics of Fiction: Literature, Stage and Screen Discourse Open
Drawing on a wide range of fictional texts from Shakespeare and Austen to Game of Thrones and the lyrics of ‘We Shall Overcome’, this textbook shows how pragmatic analyses can uncover the performative elements that create and shape charact…
View article: Moments of relational work in English fan translations of Korean TV drama
Moments of relational work in English fan translations of Korean TV drama Open
This study is situated in the field of the pragmatics of fiction and audio-visual translation studies and explores renditions of relational work and im/politeness in the English fan subtitles of Korean dramas, as provided by the platform w…
View article: Translating the other: Communal TV watching of Korean TV drama
Translating the other: Communal TV watching of Korean TV drama Open
Our research is situated in the field of the pragmatics of fiction (Locher and Jucker 2017; Messerli 2017), and explores a website that makes Asian drama series and movies accessible to an international audience by means of fan generated s…
View article: Introduction to Politeness and Impoliteness Research in Global Contexts
Introduction to Politeness and Impoliteness Research in Global Contexts Open
Im/politeness research has been a solid and growing research field in sociolinguistics, pragmatics and discourse analysis during the last four decades. The scientific interest in this topic is not accidental and may be explained by the gen…
View article: Ethics in pragmatics
Ethics in pragmatics Open
View article: Linguistic Expert Creation in Online Health Practices
Linguistic Expert Creation in Online Health Practices Open
View article: Typing yourself healthy: Introduction to the special issue on language and health online
Typing yourself healthy: Introduction to the special issue on language and health online Open
This chapter functions as an introduction to the special issue on Language and Health Online, which features 10 original research papers. It reviews the results of the papers and the joint emerging themes: the impact of technical and socia…
View article: 15. Facework and identity
15. Facework and identity Open
This chapter reviews studies which focus on Internet users’ attempts to change (challenge, reinforce, negotiate) current or past, stereotypical, individual and/or group identities in interactions. It thereby acknowledges that the literatur…
View article: 22. Conflictual and consensual disagreement
22. Conflictual and consensual disagreement Open
This chapter explores a series of foci which have emerged in the study of disagreement in social media, notably in Web 2.0 environments. These include comparisons between disagreement online and offline; the role played by social and mediu…
View article: Interpersonale Pragmatik und (Un)Höflichkeitsforschung
Interpersonale Pragmatik und (Un)Höflichkeitsforschung Open
In light of the fact that politeness research has been on the map since the 1970s, this paper revisits some of the more recent developments. The scope of analysis has been widened from face-maintaining and face-enhancing data to instances …
View article: (Im)politeness and Emotion
(Im)politeness and Emotion Open
This chapter explores the interconnectedness of emotions with (im)politeness from a theoretical and methodological perspective. We argue that all interaction contain emotional, relational and socio-normative elements. We witness the negoti…
View article: Interpersonal pragmatics and workplace interaction
Interpersonal pragmatics and workplace interaction Open
This paper explores the connection between interpersonal pragmatics and linguistic research on language in the workplace, including consideration of the role that Janet Holmes (and the LWP team) has played within the field. We provide a cr…
View article: (Im)politeness in Health Settings
(Im)politeness in Health Settings Open
Often studies on health communication come from many different disciplines and do not necessarily work with (im)politeness frameworks. For this reason we first discuss the scope of the current research, the emerging importance of e-health …
View article: The Functions of Narrative Passages in ThreeWritten Online Health Contexts
The Functions of Narrative Passages in ThreeWritten Online Health Contexts Open
This paper investigates and compares the functions of narrative passages in three computermediated health practices centering on advice-giving: (1) email counseling at a UK university, (2) online forums providing peer support for quitters …
View article: Interaction and space in the virtual world of Second Life
Interaction and space in the virtual world of Second Life Open
View article: Negotiation of space in Second Life newbie interaction
Negotiation of space in Second Life newbie interaction Open
View article: “Peter is a dumb nut”
“Peter is a dumb nut” Open
This paper applies the theoretical concept of ‘acts of positioning’ (Davis & Harré 1990) to a qualitative and quantitative analysis of 474 status updates (SUs) taken from the Facebook Walls of twenty individuals living in Switzerland and t…