This book investigates how participants on YouTube respond to and enforce norms of sayability through self-censorship practices. Drawing on a corpus of YouTube commentary videos and their corresponding comments, What the eff adopts an interdisciplinary approach that combines sociopragmatics, media linguistics and linguistic taboo research in order to shed light on the complex processes of censorship and self-censorship in digitally mediated communication.
Through an examination of monomodal and multimodal instances of these processes, along with the metacommunicative discourse that accompanies them, this work reveals how participants actively negotiate and challenge what can and cannot be said on the platform, highlighting the dynamic and contested nature of online discourse in algorithmically controlled settings.
| ISBN: | 9783112236116 |
| Publication date: | 29th May 2027 |
| Author: | Merle Willenberg |
| Publisher: | De Gruyter Mouton an imprint of De Gruyter |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 350 pages |
| Series: | Language and Social Life [LSL] |
| Genres: |
Linguistics Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Semiotics / semiology |
This book investigates how participants on YouTube respond to and enforce norms of sayability through self-censorship practices. Drawing on a corpus of YouTube commentary videos and their corresponding comments, What the eff adopts an interdisciplinary approach that combines sociopragmatics, media linguistics and linguistic taboo research in order to shed light on the complex processes of censorship and self-censorship in digitally mediated communication.
What the Eff features in the following genres: Linguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semiotics / semiology
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What the Eff was written by Merle Willenberg and published by De Gruyter Mouton an imprint of De Gruyter
What the Eff has 350 pages
Yes it is part of Language and Social Life [LSL] series
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