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Tolins2016
BibType ARTICLE
Key Tolins2016
Author(s) Jackson Tolins, Patrawat Samermit
Title GIFs as Embodied Enactments in Text-Mediated Conversation
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Year 2016
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Journal Research on Language and Social Interaction
Volume 49
Number 2
Pages 75-91
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DOI 10.1080/08351813.2016.1164391
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Abstract

ext messaging has become an increasingly common medium for communication. Its format provides a novel context for the study of social activity in ways that both mirror face-to-face dialogue and extend beyond it. Based on the analysis of a corpus of text-mediated conversations incorporating animated images (“graphical interchange formats,” commonly known as GIFs), we show how texters reproduce depictions of the embodied actions of others as stand-ins for their own nonverbal behavior. They use GIFs either as affective responses displaying their stance toward prior talk or as co-text demonstrations of affect and action. The use of GIFs represents a novel form of embodied reenactment made possible within the technological advances of the communicative system. Data are in American English.

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