Kristina Bedijs – Gudrun Held – Christiane Maaß: Introduction: Face Work and Social Media

Part I: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS ON FACE AND IDENTITY IN SOCIAL MEDIA

Gudrun Held:
Figura… or Face? Reflections on Two Sociopragmatic Key Concepts in the Light of a Recent Media Conflict Between Italians and Germans and Its Negotiation in Italian Internet Forums

Claus Ehrhardt:
Politeness and Face Work in German Forum Communication

Uta Fröhlich:
Reflections on the Psychological Terms Self and Identity in Relation to the Concept of Face for the Analysis of Online Forum Communication

Part II: CONSTRUCTION OF GROUP IDENTITY IN SOCIAL MEDIA

Kristina Bedijs:
Shared Face and Face-Enhancing Behaviour in Social Media: Commenting on the Spanish Goalkeeper’s Tears on YouTube

Miriam A. Locher – Brook Bolander:
Relational Work and the Display of Multilingualism in Two Facebook Groups

Daria Dayter – Sofia Rüdiger:
Speak Your Mind, but Watch Your Mouth: Complaints in CouchSurfing References

Jenny Arendholz:
“You sound very talented” – Negotiating Face in Online Message Boards

Part III: FACE THREATENING AND FACE FLATTERING IN ONLINE COMMUNICATION

Christiane Maaß:
On the Markedness of Communication on Online Message Boards as Part of a Perception-Oriented Politeness Approach

Verena Thaler:
Negative Evaluation and Face Work in French and Italian Online Comments

Uta Helfrich:
Face Work and Flaming in Social Media

Bettina Kluge:
The Collaborative Construction of an Outsider as a Troll in the Blogosphere of Latin American Immigrants to Quebec, Canada

Nadine Rentel:
Linguistic Strategies for the Realisation of Face Work in Italian Tweets

Part IV: FACE IN EXPERTS AND LAYPEOPLE COMMUNICATION IN SOCIAL MEDIA

Martina Schrader-Kniffki:
Subject Emergence, Self-Presentation, and Epistemic Struggle in French Language Forums

Melanie Kunkel:
Impoliteness in the Negotiation of Expert Status: Folk Linguistic Debates in a French Online Forum

Gesa Linnemann – Benjamin Brummernhenrich – Regina Jucks:
A Matter of Politeness? On the Role of Face-Threatening Acts in Online Tutoring

Beatrix Kreß:
“Hofnarr” and “Bürgerschreck” vs. “kamir-batir” and “barakobamas”: Face Work Strategies and Stylising in Russian and German Online Discussion Forums