Humour support and emotive stance in comments on Korean TV drama

Messerli, Thomas C.; Locher, Miriam A.

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2021.03.001

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“…Sharing a space means that each audience member's experience of the performance is shaped by the reactions of other audience members, which can include laughter, gasps, emotional sounds, applause, comments or even people falling asleep or leaving the venue. While access to audience responses can also be provided for other forms of fiction (see, e.g., Locher & Messerli 2020;Messerli & Locher 2021 on timed comments in online streaming platforms of telecinematic artefacts; see also Section 4), sharing the same physical space at the same time creates a different kind of involvement. In addition, the presence of the audience during the performance makes it possible for audience responses to influence the performance, a point that we will discuss in more detail in Section 4.…”

Section: Performed Fictionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Locher and Messerli (2020) established that the comments serve a range of functions, from artefact-oriented comments about the plot, genre conventions and actors to more community-oriented comments such as socialising other viewers into understanding how the platform works or revealing where the viewers are from. The most prominent function, though, is sharing emotional reactions such as laughter, fear or disgust (Messerli & Locher 2021). In addition, and counter to the creation of immediacy, historicisation can also take place when past events are brought into the viewing experience.…”

Section: Telecinematic Fictionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…An important area of research that merges the interest in fiction with how fiction is perceived and consumed has to do with the study of the commercialisation of fiction as a product and fandom in general (Bednarek 2017a(Bednarek , 2017b. Studies on second screen or Locher and Messerli's work on Viki (Locher & Messerli 2020;Messerli & Locher 2021) contribute to this field. Work on fan fiction and spin-offs, intertextuality and establishing influences on interpretation are fruitful further research avenues.…”

Section: Telecinematic Fictionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Fiction and Pragmatics

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This Element outlines current issues in the study of the pragmatics of fiction. It starts from the premise that fictional texts are complex and multi-layered communicative acts which deserve attention in pragmatic research in their own right, and it highlights the need to understand them as cultural artefacts rich in possibilities to explore pragmatic effects and pragmatic theorising. The issues covered are (1) the participation structure of fictional texts, (2) the performance aspect of fictional texts, (3) the interaction between readers and viewers and the fictional texts, as well as (4) the pragmatic effects of drawing on indexical linguistic features for evoking ideologies in characterisation. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Section: Telecinematic Fictionmentioning

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Section: Telecinematic Fictionmentioning

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“…Bubel, 2006Bubel, , 2008Brock, 2015;Messerli, 2017;Locher & Jucker, 2021) and first steps have been taken to understand the reception situation of AVTartefacts (e.g. Messerli, 2019Messerli, , 2020Locher, 2020;Locher & Messerli, 2020;Messerli & Locher, 2021).…”

Section: Pragmatics and Audiovisual Translationmentioning

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“…This section showcases aspects of Locher and Messerli's work on subtitle fan translations of relational work in Korean TV drama (Locher, 2020;Locher & Messerli, 2020;Messerli & Locher, 2021) and also draws on our current continuation of the project. Korean is a language that indexes relational work cues in many different linguistic and embodied ways and thus serves well as an example of the challenges translators face.…”

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Pragmatics in Translation

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2023

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This Element addresses translation issues within an interpersonal pragmatics frame. The aims of this Element are twofold: first, we survey the current state of the field of pragmatics in translation; second, we present the current and methodologically innovative avenues of research in the field. We focus on three pragmatics issues – relational work, participation structure, and mediality – that we foreground as promising loci of research on translational data. By reviewing the trajectory of pragmatics research on translation/interpreting over time, and then outlining our understanding of the Pragmatics in Translation as a field, we arrive at a set of potential research questions which represent desiderata for future research. These questions identify the paths that can be productively explored through synergies of the linguistic pragmatics framework and translation data. In two case study chapters, we offer two example studies addressing some of the questions we identified as suggestions for future research. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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“What Does Hyung Mean Please?”: Moments of Teaching and Learning About Korean (Im)politeness on an Online Streaming Platform of Korean TV Drama

Locher,

Messerli

2024

Exploring Korean Politeness Across Online and Offline Interactions

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In this paper we combine an interest in the pragmatics of fiction with interpersonal pragmatics by exploring how Korean (im)politeness norms surface and are negotiated in fictional TV drama. Our data is derived from the streaming platform Viki.com, which allows viewers to comment on the episodes they stream. Building on previous work by (Locher, Journal of Pragmatics 170:139–155, 2020), we first report on the pervasive occurrence of scenes containing ‘moments of relational work’ in Korean TV drama and then explore how viewers comment on this very relational work. While our quantitative results show that viewers do indeed pick up on (im)politeness negotiations (in linguistic and embodied, multimodal form), this finding is relativized by the many other functions that the comments also have. Nevertheless, we are able to show question–answer sequences about relational work and identity ‘moments of teaching and learning’ about Korean (im)politeness in this online fan community.

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Humour support and emotive stance in comments on Korean TV drama

Cited by 20 publications

References 37 publications

Fiction and Pragmatics

Fiction and Pragmatics

Pragmatics in Translation

“What Does Hyung Mean Please?”: Moments of Teaching and Learning About Korean (Im)politeness on an Online Streaming Platform of Korean TV Drama

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