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TRÁVNÍKOVÁ, Petra. Claiming in-group membership in online communities. In Hradec Králové Anglophone Conference, 28.-29.3.2017. 2017.

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Original name	Claiming in-group membership in online communities
Authors	TRÁVNÍKOVÁ, Petra (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition	Hradec Králové Anglophone Conference, 28.-29.3.2017, 2017.

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Original language	English
Type of outcome	Presentations at conferences
Field of Study	Linguistics
Country of publisher	Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree	is not subject to a state or trade secret
RIV identification code	RIV/00216224:14640/17:00096390
Organization	Centrum jazykového vzdělávání – Repository – Repository
Keywords in English	in-group markers; positive politeness; claiming common ground; jargon; addressing
Changed by	Changed by: RNDr. Daniel Jakubík, učo 139797. Changed: 4/9/2020 00:55.

Abstract
Leech (2014: 99) identifies claiming common ground with solidarity arguing that it especially serves to reduce the social distance between speakers and promotes what Lakoff (1973) calls camaraderie. Brown and Levinson (1987: 103) emphasise that claiming common ground does not necessarily need to be used only to overcome face-threatening acts, but they are also “social accelerators”, where speaker suggests that he/she wants to be more intimate with hearer. The aim of the paper is to show how the members of several Internet communities in a self-compiled corpus claim in-group membership via using in-group markers, such as topic-related nicknames, diminutives and personalised address forms playing a major role in turn-taking and addressivity; terminology and special jargon related to the context of the discussion forum with a special emphasis on acronyms; collective and individual generic names; and the inclusive we.

Abstract

Leech (2014: 99) identifies claiming common ground with solidarity arguing that it especially serves to reduce the social distance between speakers and promotes what Lakoff (1973) calls camaraderie. Brown and Levinson (1987: 103) emphasise that claiming common ground does not necessarily need to be used only to overcome face-threatening acts, but they are also “social accelerators”, where speaker suggests that he/she wants to be more intimate with hearer. The aim of the paper is to show how the members of several Internet communities in a self-compiled corpus claim in-group membership via using in-group markers, such as topic-related nicknames, diminutives and personalised address forms playing a major role in turn-taking and addressivity; terminology and special jargon related to the context of the discussion forum with a special emphasis on acronyms; collective and individual generic names; and the inclusive we.