Flirting in Online Dating:Giving Empirical Grounds to Flirtatious Implicitness
| Autor: | Kristine Køhler Mortensen |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Social Psychology Communication Discourse analysis media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050801 communication & media studies 06 humanities and the arts Language and Linguistics 0508 media and communications Critical theory Anthropology Heterosexuality 0602 languages and literature Flirting Instant messaging Fantasy Psychology Interactional sociolinguistics Social psychology Modality (semiotics) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Mortensen, K K 2017, ' Flirting in Online Dating : Giving Empirical Grounds to Flirtatious Implicitness ', Discourse Studies, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 581-597 . https://doi.org/10.1177/1461445617715179 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1461445617715179 |
| Popis: | Various fields have examined the activity of flirting, predominantly based on experimental and reported data; the interactional workings are therefore often overlooked. Based on emails and chats from two Danish online dating sites, this article investigates how users negotiate romantic connections through the flirting strategy of ‘imagined togetherness’, linguistically constructing imagery of a shared future. Using the notion of the chronotope (Bakhtin 1981), turn-by-turn analysis demonstrates how users, embedded in the activity of getting to know each other, tenuously communicate romantic interest by alluding to future points at which they might be together. Central to the strategy is a sequential pattern of avoiding closure and thereby preserving the imagery’s implicitness. The article concludes by arguing that while imagined togetherness functions a way of probing interests and thus protecting oneself from potential rejection, it also draws on fundamental dynamics of fantasy in nourishing the excitement of romantic possibility. Various fields have examined the activity of flirting, predominantly based on experimental and reported data; the interactional workings are therefore often overlooked. Based on emails and chats from two Danish online dating sites, this article investigates how users negotiate romantic connections through the flirting strategy of ‘imagined togetherness’, linguistically constructing imagery of a shared future. Using the notion of the chronotope, turn-by-turn analysis demonstrates how users, embedded in the activity of getting to know each other, tenuously communicate romantic interest by alluding to future points at which they might be together. Central to the strategy is a sequential pattern of avoiding closure and thereby preserving the imagery’s implicitness. The article concludes by arguing that while imagined togetherness functions to probe interests and thus protects oneself from potential rejection, it also draws on fundamental dynamics of fantasy in nourishing the excitement of romantic possibility. |
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