جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « اینستاگرام » در نشریات گروه « ادبیات و زبان ها »

One of the differences between men and women is their language variety. Lakoff (1975) is one of those linguists who studied women's language. To Lakoff’s, media is one of the areas that women's language can be investigated. Instagram is one of the most popular media where many people including influencers promote their work. Sadaf Beauty is one of those influencers who shares beauty tutorial videos and beauty product review videos in her business page. In this research, her lect is analyzed based on Lakoff’s language and gender theory. Among Lakoff's gender-based language features, this business page uses lexical hedges to a greater extent and uses hyper-correct grammar to a lesser extent.

The aim of this cross-cultural study is to investigate conflict management in computer-mediated communication, and to examine users' strategies in online polylogue interaction in response to the posts of LGBTQ groups in the virtual pages of the group's supporters on Instagram. The corpus consisted of 20 Instagram posts with 2071 Persian comments and 1323 English comments collected from July to October 2018, and were analyzed based on Bou-Franch and Blivich's (2014) model of   conflict management. The findings showed that defensive/offensive strategies were the most frequently used strategies, which indicated that users in both groups decided to respond to an action that threatened their face or identity. In addition, the frequency of opposing and withdrawing strategies has been higher in Persian than English corpus. Also, the results of inferential statistics show that, in general, the total number of Persian strategies is significantly higher than English, which can be due to its challenging issue and acceptance status in Iranian society.

Every part of a conversation is related to what comes before or after, however, there is sometimes a long gap between the beginning and the end topic of the conversation. Hobbs (1990) calls this phenomenon “topic drift” and defines 4 types of coherence relations responsible for topic drift. Since the messages are displayed in a reverse chronological order and subsequently it is not obvious to which message the comment refers, maintaining coherence in multi-user computer-mediated communication is rather difficult. Moreover, intervening messages are observed among the messages that logically form a chain. As a result, one can consider the existence of coherence relations and analyze topic drift in conversations occurring on social media. In this paper, we have attempted to use Hobbs (1990) and Herring and Nix’s (1997) framework to investigate the coherence relations among 27 posts and 4881 comments on Instagram. In comments related to the main post, the order of coherence relations was “on topic and semantic parallelism” with the distances 3, 2 and 1 respectively, “break” with the distance 4, “explanation” with the distances 3, 2, and 1, and “metatalk” with the distances 0, 4, 3, 1, and 2. In comments forming intervening chains, the order of coherence relations can be defined as: “on topic” with distance 0, “explanation” with distances 1, 3 and 2, “Semantic parallelism” with distance 1, 3 and 2 and “metatalk” with distance zero and 2.