A Pragmatic Act Analysis of English Postproverbials on Twitter
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6091608 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ronke Eunice Okhuosi (1 University of Ibadan Nigeria Ibadan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 379-392 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Matatu (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0932-9714 • E-ISSN: 1875-7421 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/18757421-05102011 |
| OpenAlex | W3157557339 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
Postproverbiality, the novel perspective to studying proverbs, has focused mainly on the radical revision of African proverbs. However, this phenomenon is not only found in African proverbs, but also in many other languages as already suggested in literature. Therefore, this study investigates postproverbiality in English proverbs as used on social media, particularly Twitter. Twitter is especially known for people’s display of radical ideologies, opinions, and idiosyncrasies; therefore, it serves as a useful source for such radical revision of English proverbs. The analysis was done using Jacob Mey’s (2001) Pragmatic Acts as theoretical framework. The data was purposively gathered using five standard English proverbs to search for postproverbial versions; a total of thirty postproverbials were discovered on Twitter. The analysis revealed ten practs and allopracts which include affirming, insisting, informing, counselling, warning, instructing, and encouraging. These were projected through contextual features of shared situational knowledge, voicing, inference, metaphor, and socio-cultural knowledge. The interaction among the textual and contextual features and the allopracts shows that cultures and occurrences in public affairs affect such cultural indices as proverbs and language use and this interaction increases through the internet and social networks which link the world into a global community
Cognitive reframing · Ethnic group · Ideology · Linguistics · Metaphor · Political science · Politics · Situational ethics · Social media · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Anthropology · Communication · Computer Science · Education Practices and Challenges · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology · Social Psychology · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism · Artificial Intelligence
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |