Creating a self-image : face-work and identity construction online
- In this article, we build on research arguing that linguistic self-representation on social media can be viewed as a form of face-work and that the strategies employed by users are influenced by both a desire to connect with others and a need to preserve privacy. Drawing on our own analyses of usernames as well as that of others which were conducted as part of a large-scale project investigating usernames in 14 languages (Schlobinski/T. Siever 2018a), we argue that these conflicting goals of wanting to be recognised as an authentic member of an in-group while retaining a degree of anonymity are also observable in the choice of username. Online self-naming can thus be viewed as a key practice in the debate of face-work on social media platforms, because names and naming strategies can be studied more readily than broader and more complex aspects, such as stylistic variation or text-image interdependence, while at the same time forming part of these.
Author: | Saskia Kersten, Netaya Lotze |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-550387 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.21248/jfml.2019.20 |
ISSN: | 2569-6491 |
Parent Title (German): | Journal für Medienlinguistik : jfml = Journal for media linguistics |
Publisher: | Institut für Deutsche Sprache |
Place of publication: | Mannheim |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2020/07/03 |
Date of first Publication: | 2020/07/03 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2020/07/06 |
Tag: | Benutzernamen; Facework; Nicknamen; Onomastik; Soziale Medien face-work; handles; onomastics; self-naming; social media; usernames |
Volume: | 2.2019 |
Issue: | 2 |
Page Number: | 34 |
First Page: | 123 |
Last Page: | 156 |
Note: | Dieses Werk steht unter der Lizenz Creative Commons Namensnennung - Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 International. |
HeBIS-PPN: | 467515964 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik | |
Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Soziolinguistik / Sociolinguistics |
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | Journal für Medienlinguistik : jfml = Journal for media linguistics |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen |