Tolins2016
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Tolins2016 |
| Author(s) | Jackson Tolins, Patrawat Samermit |
| Title | GIFs as embodied enactments in text-mediated conversation |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Text messaging, Responding, Stance-taking, GIFs |
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| Year | 2016 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Research on Language and Social Interaction |
| Volume | 49 |
| Number | 2 |
| Pages | 75–91 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1080/08351813.2016.1164391 |
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Abstract
Text messaging has become an increasingly common medium for communication. Its format provides a novel context for the study of social activity in ways that both mirror face-to-face dialogue and extend beyond it. Based on the analysis of a corpus of text-mediated conversations incorporating animated images (“graphical interchange formats,” commonly known as GIFs), we show how texters reproduce depictions of the embodied actions of others as stand-ins for their own nonverbal behavior. They use GIFs either as affective responses displaying their stance toward prior talk or as co-text demonstrations of affect and action. The use of GIFs represents a novel form of embodied reenactment made possible within the technological advances of the communicative system. Data are in American English.
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