Emotive interjections are normally associated with the spoken language, but in this article, I will investigate the use of two interjections, åh ‘oh’ and puha ‘whew’ in written communication on Facebook – on the two Danish Facebook groups built around the illness and death of two young children in 2015: “Fighting for Magnus (Miv)” and “Commemorative site for Lærke Rønde Timm”. Interjections are understood as affective expressions because they reflect some of the bodily reactions and participatory investment of the followers of the two groups. The main argument in the article is that the participants write interjections as a way to deal with affective extraordinary experiences. Through phonetic analysis the interjections are seen as bodily felt and triggered reaction.
By revisiting interjections in Scandinavian Studies in Language, the explicit goal of the issue is to bring together Scandinavian and global perspectives on interjections. Our volume opens up Scandinavia-based research to the global audience, and at the same time, our analysis is characterized by deep connections with global scholarships in the plural. The seminal work on interjections by Wierzbicka (1991 [2003]); and Ameka (1992) had a crosslinguistic vision that continues to inspire the ongoing work of understanding both local interjections and global comparison.
This article focuses on the use of emojis by young Danes. We argue that emojis have at least three functions: as a form of guidance to understand posts and avoid misunderstandings (markers of modality and mood), as a form of guidance to help navigation (interactional markers), and as a form of embellishment expressing a sense of fun and feelings (an expressive and aesthetic function). Based on a survey (710 participants including both adolescents (N=297) and adults) and qualitative analyses of naturally occurring emojis on Facebook and Instagram, we found that young Danes aged between 10 and 19 regard emojis as belonging to the domestic/intimate sphere, promoting important features of communication such as emotions, mutual understanding, atmosphere, aesthetics and entertainment. Compared to the answers given by the adults, the young informants perceive emojis as a natural way of showing and expressing their mood, while the adults regard emojis as a secondary language, as compensation for the lack of nonverbal features in written online interaction. 86% of all the informants report that they use emojis at least once a day.
Efter en kort introduktion til den tidligere forskning i identitet og computermedieret kommunikation undersøges forskellige eksempler på konstruktion af netidentitet i henholdsvis dansk webchat og på Facebook. Hvor der i chat var meget fokus på leg med køn og identitet, er der på de aktuelle sociale medier i højere grad tale om selvrapportering og -iscenesættelse og på at være anerkendelsesværdig. Artiklen slutter af med at foreslå begrebet "medialiseret identitet" for at understrege mediernes centrale rolle i den enkeltes identitetsarbejde.
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