Speech acts in travel blogs: users' corpus-driven pragmatic intentions and discursive realizations
Travel blogs epitomise an informal, digital environment where international users engage in dialogical interactions about their travelling experiences. While doing so, they deploy a range of pragmatic intentions to exchange information and build discussion. Speech acts (Searle, 1975) encapsulate tho...
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Speech acts in travel blogs: users' corpus-driven pragmatic intentions and discursive realizationsActos de habla en el blog de viajes: intenciones pragmáticas y realizaciones discursivas en un estudio guiado por corpusPascual, DanielDigital communicationSpeech actsTravel blogsPosts and commentsDiscursive realisationsComunicación digitalActos de hablaBlogs de viajePosts y comentariosRealizaciones discursivasTravel blogs epitomise an informal, digital environment where international users engage in dialogical interactions about their travelling experiences. While doing so, they deploy a range of pragmatic intentions to exchange information and build discussion. Speech acts (Searle, 1975) encapsulate those intentions, and are generally assumed to differ in their illocutionary force depending on users’ communicative needs, and on whether hosted in posts or in comments. This paper explores the frequency and saliency of speech acts in travel blogs, by undertaking a contrastive study as regards generic features in an exploratory corpus of 18 Englishmediated travel blog posts and 367 travel blog comments. The three circles of English (Bolton & Kachru, 2006) are used to balance bloggers’ sociolinguistic background and represent native and nonnative speakers. A corpus-driven typology of speech acts for the travel blog is designed, since aprioristic, traditional classifications may not match users’ intentions in asynchronous, globalised, computer-mediated settings. Connections of particular speech acts with each of the generic instances, whether posts or comments, are revealed, and prototypical discursive realisations of those speech acts are qualitatively provided. The study unveils bloggers’ communicative practices and yields pragmatic and discursive resources users can handle to encode their pragmatic intentions in travel blog posts and comments.Los blogs de viajes proporcionan un entorno digital e informal en el que usuarios internacionales pueden interactuar sobre sus experiencias de viajes, intercambiar información y establecer un diálogo, respondiendo de esta manera a sus intenciones pragmáticas. Los actos de habla (Searle, 1975) recogen esas intenciones, variando en su fuerza ilocutiva según las necesidades comunicativas de los usuarios, y dependiendo de si aparecen en posts o comentarios. Este artículo explora la frecuencia y relevancia de los actos de habla en blogs de viajes, basándose en un estudio contrastivo de posts y comentarios centrado en rasgos genéricos y basado en un corpus exploratorio de 18 posts y 367 comentarios de blogs de viajes escritos en inglés. Se han escogido los tres círculos del inglés (Bolton & Kachru, 2006) para equilibrar el contexto sociolingüístico de los blogueros y representar a hablantes nativos y no nativos. Se ha diseñado una tipología de actos de habla derivada del corpus, ya que las clasificaciones tradicionales apriorísticas pueden no recoger las intenciones de los usuarios en entornos mediados por ordenador, globalizados y asíncronos. En el estudio, se exploran las conexiones entre ciertos actos de habla y cada género (posts y comentarios), y se ofrecen realizaciones discursivas prototípicas de los mismos de forma cualitativa. Así, se reflejan las prácticas comunicativas de los blogueros y se ofrecen recursos pragmáticos y discursivos para que los usuarios transmitan sus intenciones pragmáticas en los posts y comentarios del blog de viajes.Universidad de Sevilla2021info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/11441/150598https://doi.org/10.12795/elia.2021.i21.04reponame:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevillainstname:Universidad de Sevilla (US)InglésELIA: Estudios de Lingüística Inglesa Aplicada, 21, 85-123.http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/elia.2021.i21.04info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:idus.us.es:11441/1505982026-06-17T12:51:07Z |
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Speech acts in travel blogs: users' corpus-driven pragmatic intentions and discursive realizations Actos de habla en el blog de viajes: intenciones pragmáticas y realizaciones discursivas en un estudio guiado por corpus |
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Speech acts in travel blogs: users' corpus-driven pragmatic intentions and discursive realizations Pascual, Daniel Digital communication Speech acts Travel blogs Posts and comments Discursive realisations Comunicación digital Actos de habla Blogs de viaje Posts y comentarios Realizaciones discursivas |
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Digital communication Speech acts Travel blogs Posts and comments Discursive realisations Comunicación digital Actos de habla Blogs de viaje Posts y comentarios Realizaciones discursivas |
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Digital communication Speech acts Travel blogs Posts and comments Discursive realisations Comunicación digital Actos de habla Blogs de viaje Posts y comentarios Realizaciones discursivas |
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Travel blogs epitomise an informal, digital environment where international users engage in dialogical interactions about their travelling experiences. While doing so, they deploy a range of pragmatic intentions to exchange information and build discussion. Speech acts (Searle, 1975) encapsulate those intentions, and are generally assumed to differ in their illocutionary force depending on users’ communicative needs, and on whether hosted in posts or in comments. This paper explores the frequency and saliency of speech acts in travel blogs, by undertaking a contrastive study as regards generic features in an exploratory corpus of 18 Englishmediated travel blog posts and 367 travel blog comments. The three circles of English (Bolton & Kachru, 2006) are used to balance bloggers’ sociolinguistic background and represent native and nonnative speakers. A corpus-driven typology of speech acts for the travel blog is designed, since aprioristic, traditional classifications may not match users’ intentions in asynchronous, globalised, computer-mediated settings. Connections of particular speech acts with each of the generic instances, whether posts or comments, are revealed, and prototypical discursive realisations of those speech acts are qualitatively provided. The study unveils bloggers’ communicative practices and yields pragmatic and discursive resources users can handle to encode their pragmatic intentions in travel blog posts and comments. |
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