Sonja Kleinke
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sonja Kleinke is involved.
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2023 Top-down meets bottom-up: Governmental miscommunication through the lens of quotations in above- and below-the-line Guardian online comments on Covid-19 Remedies against the Pandemic: How politicians communicate crisis management, Thielemann, Nadine and Daniel Weiss (eds.), pp. 196–227 | Chapter
With their new patterns of participation and interaction in political discourse, Opinion sections of online newspapers played an important role in the dissemination and critical public discussion of governmental crisis communication during the pandemic. Scrutinizing above-the-line and… read more
2018 Indeterminate us and them : The complexities of referentiality, identity and group construction in a public online discussion The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline: Personal - group - collective, Bös, Birte, Sonja Kleinke, Sandra Mollin and Nuria Hernández (eds.), pp. 153–176 | Chapter
This paper reinvestigates the polarizing effects of indeterminate first- and third-person plural pronouns and determiners (i.e. the we-set and the they-set) from a Digital Discourse perspective. Combining Critical Discourse Analysis and a cognitive-linguistic approach, it tackles the… read more
2018 Introduction: Identity construction in complex discourse contexts The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline: Personal - group - collective, Bös, Birte, Sonja Kleinke, Sandra Mollin and Nuria Hernández (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Chapter
2015 Intergroup rudeness and the metapragmatics of its negotiation in online discussion fora Relational work in Facebook and discussion boards/fora, Locher, Miriam A., Brook Bolander and Nicole Höhn (eds.), pp. 47–71 | Article
This study investigates the communicative practices in English and German online discussion fora as exemplified by two thematically related sample threads. Combining first- and second-order approaches to (im-)politeness, the paper focuses on the question of how participants use intergroup rudeness… read more
2012 Responses to rhetorical questions in English and German Internet public news groups Functions of Language 19:2, pp. 174–200 | Article
This study investigates an area of interpersonal pragmatic meaning in which the specific framing conditions of public Internet message boards seem to be particularly relevant: patterns of responses to rhetorical questions as one aspect of the negotiation of the rhetorical force of such questions… read more
2010 Interactive aspects of computer-mediated communication: ‘Disagreement’ in an English and a German public news group Discourses in Interaction, Tanskanen, Sanna-Kaisa, Marja-Liisa Helasvuo, Marjut Johansson and Mia Raitaniemi (eds.), pp. 195–222 | Article
This study is placed in the context of current pragmatic research on public news group Internet communication as well as Watts’ notion of ‘emergent networks’ in the context of linguistic politeness. It investigates the functions and use of ‘disagreement’ in public news group Internet interaction in… read more
2000 4. Women and Headline-Policy in German and English Local Daily Newspapers English Media Texts – Past and Present: Language and textual structure, Ungerer, Friedrich (ed.), pp. 67–84 | Chapter