In:Evaluative Discourse Metaphor in Online Communities
Mateusz-Milan Stanojević and Ljiljana Šarić
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 106] 2025
► pp. 60–81
Chapter 3Online discourse, evaluation, and communities
Published online: 4 August 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.106.c3
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.106.c3
Article outline
- 3.1Introduction
- 3.2Affordances and features of CMC technology
- 3.2.1(A)synchronicity
- 3.2.2Persistence, editability and content control
- 3.2.3Visibility
- 3.2.4Publicness
- 3.2.5Anonymity
- 3.2.6Affordances and digital genres
- 3.3Online communities, evaluation, and community-building discursive practices
- 3.3.1Online communities: Emergent practices and negotiation
- 3.3.2Affinity spaces and emotional styles as community-building factors
- 3.3.3Emotions bringing communities together
- 3.3.4Evaluative practices, dialogicity and communities
- 3.3.5Discursive practices in community building
- 3.3.5.1Language play: Definition and its social nature in CMC
- 3.3.5.2Metaphorical play
- 3.3.6Discussion: What brings communities together
- 3.4Implications for metaphor use in digital discourse
- 3.5Conclusion
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