Ylva Biri
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ylva Biri is involved.
2025 Negotiating offensive humour online: ‘Only joking’ claims on Reddit ‘Only joking’: Negotiating offensive humour in interaction, Elder, Chi-Hé, Eleni Kapogianni and Ibi Baxter-Webb (eds.), pp. 151–177 | Article
This paper investigates the negotiation of offensive humour through ‘only joking’ claims made by participants on the social media platform Reddit. Metapragmatic claims of jocular intent can be added to a post containing offensive humour pre-emptively or after a reaction by another participant.… read more
2024 Chapter 2. Personal conviction against general knowledge: Epistemic commitment in online discussions of climate change Self- and Other-Reference in Social Contexts: From global to local discourses, Nevala, Minna and Minna Palander-Collin (eds.), pp. 14–38 | Chapter
This study analyses the functions of I know and we know in online discussions of climate change. These phrases locate the writer through the first-person pronouns and indicate epistemic certainty through the private verb know. The constructions are analysed in a corpus of climate change-related… read more
2022 Epistemic stance in the climate change debate: A comparison of proponents and sceptics on Twitter and Reddit Register and social media, Clarke, Isobelle and Jack Grieve (eds.), pp. 232–262 | Article
This study analyses epistemic stance in social media climate change discussions, contributing to our understanding of how factuality and likelihood are evaluated in climate change discourse. Using a corpus of 1.2 million words, the paper compares the frequencies of epistemic stance in climate… read more