Analyzing Digital Discourse

This innovative edited collection presents new insights into emerging debates around digital communication practices. It brings together research by leading international experts to examine methods and approaches, multimodality, face and identity, across five thematically organised sections. Its contributors revise current paradigms in view of past, present, and future research and analyse how users deploy the wealth of multimodal resources afforded by digital technologies to undertake tasks and to enact identity. In its concluding section it identifies the ideologies that underpin the construction of digital texts in the social world. This important contribution to digital discourse studies will have interdisciplinary appeal across the fields of linguistics, socio-linguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, gender studies, multimodality, media and communication studies.

Author Biography

Patricia Bou-Franch is Professor of English at the University of Valencia, Spain. She is interested in social media discourse, gender, identity and im/politeness, on which she has published and lectured extensively.

Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. She is interested in im/politeness models, genre and identity theories, and traditional and social media on which she has published and lectured extensively. She is co-editor in chief of the Journal of Language of Aggression and Conflict.