BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//HKU School of English - ECPv6.17.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:HKU School of English
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for HKU School of English
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:UTC
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:UTC
DTSTART:20220101T000000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230303T093000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230303T110000
DTSTAMP:20230112T112647Z
CREATED:20230112T112647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230112T112647Z
UID:2694-1677835800-1677841200@hku-english.visibleone.dev
SUMMARY:Intertextuality and metadiscourse in an online community: “Fixing” posts and “locking” threads
DESCRIPTION:Cynthia Gordon – Georgetown University (https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014TpEoAAK/cynthia-gordon) \n(Virtual Zoom) 9:30 am -11:00 am\, Friday \nAbstract\nIntertextuality – the idea that all texts and conversations are linked to other texts and conversations\, and that people make and infer meanings in discourse through making and interpreting these links – is fundamentally connected to metadiscourse\, that is\, discourse about discourse. In this talk\, I explore the specific ways in which\, and for what purposes\, these phenomena are intertwined at the micro-interactional level in one online community. Using the perspective of interactional sociolinguistics to examine users’ posts to discussion boards affiliated with a popular weight loss app\, I focus on two inherently metadiscursive activities: when a user “fixes” another poster’s post (i.e.\, by adjusting the content and adding some version of “I fixed it for you”) and when a discussion board moderator “locks” a thread that has violated one or more community guidelines (i.e.\, by posting a message that announces the guideline violation and indicates that future posts to the thread will be prohibited). I identify and explicate intertextual linking strategies that facilitate these activities\, both linguistic (e.g.\, word repetition\, deictic pronouns) and multimodal (e.g.\, emojis\, symbols\, and GIFs). I also highlight the role of these actions in constructing shared understandings\, interactional norms\, and engagement in the community. \n ||  \nBiography\nCynthia Gordon is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on how meanings\, relationships\, and identities are constructed in digital discourse\, in food-related communication\, and in family interaction. Gordon is author of two books: Making Meanings\, Creating Family: Intertextuality and Framing in Family Interaction and Intertextuality 2.0: Metadiscourse and Meaning-Making in an Online Community (both Oxford University Press). She is co-editor of Approaches to Discourse Analysis (Georgetown University Press) and co-editor (with Alla Tovares) of Identity and Ideology in Digital Food Discourse: Social Media Interactions Across Cultural Contexts (Bloomsbury). \n ||  \nZoom Details\nZoom link: https://hku.zoom.us/j/97158415907?pwd=K3paTStLVjR3L0N1eHFpa2w0OEREUT09 \nMeeting ID: 971 5841 5907\nPassword: 800333 \nLivestream will be available at Room CRT-7.45\, 7/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
URL:https://hku-english.visibleone.dev/event/intertextuality-and-metadiscourse-in-an-online-community-fixing-posts-and-locking-threads/
LOCATION:via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR