Brook Bolander

List of John Benjamins publications in which Brook Bolander is involved.

Journal

Internet Pragmatics

Edited by Chaoqun Xie and Francisco Yus

ISSN 2542-3851 | E‑ISSN 2542‑386X

Titles

Relational work in Facebook and discussion boards/fora

Edited by Miriam A. Locher, Brook Bolander and Nicole Höhn

Special issue of Pragmatics 25:1 (2015) 122 pp. | open access

Language and Power in Blogs: Interaction, disagreements and agreements

Brook Bolander

Language and Power in Blogs systematically analyses the discursive practices of bloggers and their readers in eight English-language personal/diary blogs. The main focus is thereby placed on ties between these practices and power. The book demonstrates that the exercise of power in this mode can be… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 237] 2013. xvi, 275 pp.

Bolander, Brook 2022 Social media research Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1232–1246 | Chapter

Bolander, Brook 2019 Social media research Handbook of Pragmatics: 22nd Annual Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 31–48 | Chapter

Bolander, Brook 2015 Review of Rubdy & Alsagoff (2014): The Global-Local Interface and Hybridity: Exploring Language and Identity English World-Wide 36:1, pp. 125–133 | Review

Bolander, Brook and Miriam A. Locher 2015 “Peter is a dumb nut”: Status updates and reactions to them as ‘acts of positioning’ in Facebook Relational work in Facebook and discussion boards/fora, Locher, Miriam A., Brook Bolander and Nicole Höhn (eds.), pp. 99–122 | Article

This paper applies the theoretical concept of ‘acts of positioning’ (Davis & Harré 1990) to a qualitative and quantitative analysis of 474 status updates (SUs) taken from the Facebook Walls of twenty individuals living in Switzerland and the UK. Our aim is to analyze how individuals construct… read more

Locher, Miriam A. and Brook Bolander 2015 Humour in microblogging: Exploiting linguistic humour strategies for identity construction in two Facebook focus groups Participation in Public and Social Media Interactions, Dynel, Marta and Jan Chovanec (eds.), pp. 135–155 | Article

Research within interpersonal pragmatics highlights the relational aspect of language in use (Locher and Graham 2010). While this focus has especially been dealt with in politeness research, it can also be fruitfully combined with the study of identity construction through language (see Locher… read more

Locher, Miriam A., Brook Bolander and Nicole Höhn 2015 Introducing relational work in Facebook and discussion boards Relational work in Facebook and discussion boards/fora, Locher, Miriam A., Brook Bolander and Nicole Höhn (eds.), pp. 1–21 | Article

This paper functions as the introduction to the special issue on ‘relational work in Facebook and discussion boards’. We position our research endeavors within interpersonal pragmatics (see Locher and Graham 2010), by reviewing literature on politeness, impoliteness and relational work in the… read more