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“In these pandemic times”: The role of temporal meanings in ambient affiliation about COVID-19 on Twitter
This paper explores the role of a particular set of commonly occurring temporal meanings relating to the shared experience of being in a pandemic (e.g., in these unprecedented times) and how these foster ambient affiliation on Twitter. Temporal meanings can be realised as a range of grammatical stru...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9733436/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36514380 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100595 |
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author | Zappavigna, Michele Dreyfus, Shoshana |
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description | This paper explores the role of a particular set of commonly occurring temporal meanings relating to the shared experience of being in a pandemic (e.g., in these unprecedented times) and how these foster ambient affiliation on Twitter. Temporal meanings can be realised as a range of grammatical structures in texts and are linguistic resources that add meaning – in terms of dimensions such as manner, time, or place – to the main activities, entities or events in a clause. While often viewed in terms of their role in how experience is represented, we suggest they play a pivotal interpersonal role in how values are positioned and how social bonds are offered to ambient audiences. The paper also draws on communing affiliation, a system in the ambient affiliation framework for understanding how people share and contest values in social media environments, to show how these temporal meanings are functioning. Corpus-based discourse analysis of the contribution of temporal meanings to communing affiliation in a large of corpus of COVID-19 tweets was undertaken. Three major affiliation strategies that these temporal meanings were involved in were observed: centring in the service of convoking affiliation, contrasting in the service of finessing affiliation, and accentuating in the service of promoting affiliation. |
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spelling | pubmed-97334362022-12-09 “In these pandemic times”: The role of temporal meanings in ambient affiliation about COVID-19 on Twitter Zappavigna, Michele Dreyfus, Shoshana Discourse Context Media Article This paper explores the role of a particular set of commonly occurring temporal meanings relating to the shared experience of being in a pandemic (e.g., in these unprecedented times) and how these foster ambient affiliation on Twitter. Temporal meanings can be realised as a range of grammatical structures in texts and are linguistic resources that add meaning – in terms of dimensions such as manner, time, or place – to the main activities, entities or events in a clause. While often viewed in terms of their role in how experience is represented, we suggest they play a pivotal interpersonal role in how values are positioned and how social bonds are offered to ambient audiences. The paper also draws on communing affiliation, a system in the ambient affiliation framework for understanding how people share and contest values in social media environments, to show how these temporal meanings are functioning. Corpus-based discourse analysis of the contribution of temporal meanings to communing affiliation in a large of corpus of COVID-19 tweets was undertaken. Three major affiliation strategies that these temporal meanings were involved in were observed: centring in the service of convoking affiliation, contrasting in the service of finessing affiliation, and accentuating in the service of promoting affiliation. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2022-06 2022-04-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9733436/ /pubmed/36514380 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100595 Text en © 2022 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Zappavigna, Michele Dreyfus, Shoshana “In these pandemic times”: The role of temporal meanings in ambient affiliation about COVID-19 on Twitter |
title | “In these pandemic times”: The role of temporal meanings in ambient affiliation about COVID-19 on Twitter |
title_full | “In these pandemic times”: The role of temporal meanings in ambient affiliation about COVID-19 on Twitter |
title_fullStr | “In these pandemic times”: The role of temporal meanings in ambient affiliation about COVID-19 on Twitter |
title_full_unstemmed | “In these pandemic times”: The role of temporal meanings in ambient affiliation about COVID-19 on Twitter |
title_short | “In these pandemic times”: The role of temporal meanings in ambient affiliation about COVID-19 on Twitter |
title_sort | “in these pandemic times”: the role of temporal meanings in ambient affiliation about covid-19 on twitter |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9733436/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36514380 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100595 |
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