Stories are shared by millions of people online every day. They post and re-post interactions
as they re-tell and respond to large-scale mediated events. These stories are important as …

This chapter focuses on genuine linguistic impoliteness, that is to say, linguistic material that
is associated with offensive effects. It discusses some of the most central concepts and …

The Handbook is a unique work of reference to the leading ideas, debates, topics,
approaches and methodologies in forensic linguistics and language and the law. It …

We present the SFU Opinion and Comments Corpus (SOCC), a collection of opinion articles
and the comments posted in response to the articles. The articles include all the opinion …

While online spaces and media offer unique possibilities for participating in critical and
mundane communication, these also introduce several problems in the form of abuse such …

Corpus Linguistics for Online Communication provides an instructive and practical guide to
conducting research using methods in corpus linguistics in studies of various forms of online …

Purpose The literature lacks knowledge on how organizations can manage trolling
behaviors in online communities. Extant studies tend to either focus on user responses to …

We present detailed analyses of the distribution of Appraisal categories (Martin and White,
2005) in a corpus of online news comments. The corpus consists of just over one thousand …

This chapter examines (Im) politeness in digital contexts, exploring the dynamics of
mediated communication, and the ways that (Im) politeness is understood and (re) …

Purpose of the study There are few studies on the value of authoring questions as a study
method, the quality of the questions produced by students and student perceptions of …