1887
  1. Home
  2. e-Journals
  3. Language, Culture and Society
  4. Volume 4, Issue 2
  5. Article
Volume 4, Issue 2
  • ISSN 2543-3164
  • E-ISSN: 2543-3156
USD
Buy:$35.00 + Taxes

Abstract

Abstract

The focus of this article is the analysis of stance taking vis-à-vis a chronotope born during the Covid-19 pandemic as a window into how people react to global crises and into the kinds of values that get an uptake and become widely shared in periods of unrest. I focus on Twitter users’ reactions in relation to a “chronotope of the balcony performances” that developed in Italy during the national lockdown. I analyze the stances that participants express towards the chronotope itself and a variety of objects related to it, and the semiotic resources that they recruit to do so. I show how a general positive reaction to the chronotope is related to the balcony performances being seen as expressing solidarity. Data for the paper come from 110 top tweets resulting from a search based on the presence of chronotope-related words and 95 tweets responding to one of the original tweets.

© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Loading

Article metrics loading...

/content/journals/10.1075/lcs.22006.def
2022-11-25
2024-12-04

  • From This Site

    /content/journals/10.1075/lcs.22006.def
    dcterms_title,dcterms_subject,pub_keyword
    -contentType:Journal -contentType:Contributor -contentType:Concept -contentType:Institution
    10
    5
Loading full text...

Full text loading...

References

  1. Augoustinos, M. & Walker, I.
    (1998) The construction of stereotypes within social psychology: From social cognition to ideology. Theory & Psychology51:629–652. 10.1177/0959354398085003
     https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354398085003 [Google Scholar]
  2. Barcellona, G.
    (2020) Coronavirus, l’Italia sul balcone: canzoni contro la paura. March 13, 2020. La Repubblica. Available fromhttps://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2020/03/13/news/coronavirus_italia_al_balcone_canzoni_contro_la_paura-251221289/AccessedJune 3, 2020.
     [Google Scholar]
  3. Berrocal, M., Kranert, M., Attolino, P.
    (2021) Constructing collective identities and solidarity in Premiers’ early speeches on COVID-19: a global perspective. Humanities & SocialSciences Communications, 81, 1–14. 10.1057/s41599‑021‑00805‑x
     https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00805-x [Google Scholar]
  4. Bringel, B. & Players, G.
    (2022) Introduction: A global dialogue on the Pandemic. In. B. Bringel & G. Players (eds.) Social Movements and Politics during COVID-19: Crisis, Solidarity and Change in a Global Pandemic (pp.1–14). Bristol: Bristol University Press. 10.51952/9781529217254.int001
     https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529217254.int001 [Google Scholar]
  5. Bakhtin, M. M.
    (1981) The dialogic imagination: Four essays. University of Texas Press.
     [Google Scholar]
  6. Blommaert, J.
    (2015) Chronotopes, scales, and complexity in the study of language in Society. Annual Review of Anthropology441: 105–116. 10.1146/annurev‑anthro‑102214‑014035
     https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102214-014035 [Google Scholar]
  7. Blommaert, J. & De Fina, A.
    (2017) Chronotopic identities. On the timespace organization of who we are. InDe Fina, A., Ikizoglu, D. and Wegner, J. (eds.) 2017 Diversity and Superdiversity. Sociocultural Linguistic Perspectives (pp.1–15) Washington DC : Georgetown University Press.
     [Google Scholar]
  8. Blommaert, J.
    (2020) Context and its complications. InDe Fina, A. & Georgakopoulou, A. (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Discourse Studies (pp.52–69). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 10.1017/9781108348195.004
     https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108348195.004 [Google Scholar]
  9. Carlsen, H. B., Toubøl, J., & Brincker, B.
    (2021) On solidarity and volunteering during the COVID-19 crisis in Denmark: The impact of social networks and social media groups on the distribution of support. European Societies, 23(sup1), S122–S140. 10.1080/14616696.2020.1818270
     https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2020.1818270 [Google Scholar]
  10. Carr, Summerson & Lempert, Michael
    (eds.) (2016) Scale, discourse and dimensions of social life. Oakland: University of California Press. 10.1525/luminos.15
     https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.15 [Google Scholar]
  11. Catedral, L.
    (this issue)
  12. Choli, M., & Kuss, D.
    (2021) Perceptions of blame on Social media during the Coronavirus Pandemic. Computers in Human Behavior1241:106895–106895. 10.1016/j.chb.2021.106895
     https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106895 [Google Scholar]
  13. Chun, E. & Walters, K.
    2011 “Orienting to Arab orientalism: Language, race and humor in a Youtube Video.” InThurlow, C. & Mroczek, K. (eds.) Digital Discourse: Language in the New Media (251–72). New York: Oxford University Press. 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199795437.003.0012
     https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199795437.003.0012 [Google Scholar]
  14. De Fina, A.
    (2022) ‘I especially loved the little Nana dancing on the balcony’: The emergence, formation, and circulation of chronotopes in mass-mediated communication. Language in Society, First view. 10.1017/S0047404522000185
     https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404522000185 [Google Scholar]
  15. (2019) Insights and challenges of chronotopic analysis for sociolinguistics. InJ. Kroon & S. Swanenberg (eds.) Chronotopic Identity Work (pp.193–213). Bristol: Multilingual Matters. 10.21832/9781788926621‑012
     https://doi.org/10.21832/9781788926621-012 [Google Scholar]
  16. De Fina, A., Paternostro, G. and Amoruso, M.
    (2020) Odysseus the traveler: Appropriation of a chronotopes in a community of practice. Language & Communication, 701, 71–81. 10.1016/j.langcom.2019.01.001
     https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2019.01.001 [Google Scholar]
  17. De Fina, A. & Wenger, J.
    (2021) Post-digital communication and chronotopic worlds in Trump’s discourse on migration. Working Papers in Urban Languages and Literacies, 281. Available fromhttps://www.academia.edu/61081081/WP288_De_Fina_and_Wegner_2021_Post_digital_communication_Chronotopic_worlds_in_Trumps_discourse_on_migration
     [Google Scholar]
  18. Dick, H. P.
    (2010) Imagined lives and modernist chronotopes in Mexican nonmigrant discourse. American Ethnologist, 37(2), 275–290. 10.1111/j.1548‑1425.2010.01255.x
     https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2010.01255.x [Google Scholar]
  19. DiVita, D.
    (this issue)
  20. Du Bois, J. W., & Kärkkäinen, E.
    (2012) Taking a stance on emotion: Affect, sequence, and intersubjectivity in dialogic interaction. Text & Talk, 32(4). 10.1515/text‑2012‑0021
     https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2012-0021 [Google Scholar]
  21. Du Bois, J.
    (2007) The stance triangle. InEnglebretson, R. (ed) Stance Taking in Discourse (pp.139–182). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 10.1075/pbns.164.07du
     https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.164.07du [Google Scholar]
  22. Durkheim, E.
    (1984) The division of labor in society. MacMillan, Basingstoke. 10.1007/978‑1‑349‑17729‑5
     https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17729-5 [Google Scholar]
  23. Georgalou, M.
    (2015) Small Stories of the Greek Crisis on Facebook. Social Media & Society, 1–15. 10.1177/2056305115605859
     https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305115605859 [Google Scholar]
  24. Giaxoglou, K. & Spilioti, T.
    (2020) The shared story of #JeSuisAylan on Twitter. Pragmatics30(2), 277–302. 10.1075/prag.18057.gia
     https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.18057.gia [Google Scholar]
  25. Goebel, Z., & Manns, H.
    (2020) Chronotopic relations: Chronotopes, scale, and scale-making. Language & Communication, 701, 82–93. 10.1016/j.langcom.2019.03.002
     https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2019.03.002 [Google Scholar]
  26. Goodwin, C.
    (2007) Participation, stance and affect in the organization of activities. Discourse and Society18(1), 53–73. 10.1177/0957926507069457
     https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926507069457 [Google Scholar]
  27. Hasan, K. S., & Ng, V.
    (2013) Stance Classification of Ideological Debates: Data, Models, Features, and Constraints. Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 1348–1356. https://aclanthology.org/I13-1191
     [Google Scholar]
  28. Jaffe, A.
    (2009) Stance: Sociolinguistic Perspectives. Oxford University Press. 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195331646.001.0001
     https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195331646.001.0001 [Google Scholar]
  29. Karimzad, F. & L. Catedral
    (2021) Chronotopes and Migration: Language, Imagination, and Social Behavior, New York: Routledge. 10.4324/9781351000635
     https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351000635 [Google Scholar]
  30. Karimzad, F., & Catedral, L.
    (2018) ‘No, we don’t mix languages’: Ideological power and the chronotopic organization of ethnolinguistic identities. Language in Society, 47(1), 89–113. 10.1017/S0047404517000781
     https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404517000781 [Google Scholar]
  31. Kärkkäinen, E.
    (2012) On digressing with a stance and not seeking a recipient response. Text & Talk, 32(4). 10.1515/text‑2012‑0023
     https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2012-0023 [Google Scholar]
  32. Køhler Mortensen, K.
    (2014) A bit too skinny for me: Women’s homosocial constructions of heterosexual desire in online dating. Gender and Language, 9(3), 461–488. 10.1558/genl.v9i3.17273
     https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.v9i3.17273 [Google Scholar]
  33. Koven, M.
    (2013) Antiracist, modern selves and racist, unmodern others: Chronotopes of modernity in Luso-descendants’ race talk. Language & Communication, 33(4, Part B), 544–558. 10.1016/j.langcom.2013.04.001
     https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2013.04.001 [Google Scholar]
  34. Lee, S.
    (2022) Why people became hostile during the covid-19 pandemic: Exploring the role of social media use, blame attribution, and collective efficacy. Mass Communication and Society0(0):1–27. 10.1080/15205436.2022.2095917
     https://doi.org/10.1080/15205436.2022.2095917 [Google Scholar]
  35. Lee, C., & Barton, D.
    (2013) Language Online: Investigating Digital Texts and Practices. Taylor & Francis Group. ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/georgetown/detail.action?docID=1172883
     [Google Scholar]
  36. Lyons, A., & Tagg, C.
    (2019) The discursive construction of mobile chronotopes in mobile-phone messaging. Language in Society, 48(5), 657–683. 10.1017/S004740451900023X
     https://doi.org/10.1017/S004740451900023X [Google Scholar]
  37. Pang, B., Lee, L.
    (2008) Opinion mining and sentiment analysis Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval2, 1–2, 1–135. 10.1561/1500000011
     https://doi.org/10.1561/1500000011 [Google Scholar]
  38. Perrino, S.
    (2007) Cross-chronotope alignment in Senegalese oral narrative. Language & Communication, 27(3), 227–244. 10.1016/j.langcom.2007.01.007
     https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2007.01.007 [Google Scholar]
  39. Polizzi, C., Lynn, S. J., Perry, A.
    (2020) Stress and coping in the time of COVID-19: Pathways to resilience and recovery. Clinical Neuropsychiatry17(2): 59–62.
     [Google Scholar]
  40. Rakopoulos, T.
    (2016) Solidarity: the egalitarian tensions of a bridge-concept. Social Anthropology24, 2142–151. 10.1111/1469‑8676.12298
     https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12298 [Google Scholar]
  41. Stjernswärd, S. & Glasdamb, S.
    (2021) Solidarity and polarisation regarding COVID-19 and related risks – A thematic analysis of comments from an international survey. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 4 (1). Available from10.1016/j.ssaho.2021.100211accessedAugust 5, 2022.
     https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2021.100211 [Google Scholar]
  42. Tagg, C. and Spillioti, T.
    (2022) Research ethics. InVázquez, C. (ed.) Research Methods for Digital Discourse Analysis, 91–114. London: Bloomsbury
     [Google Scholar]
  43. Tao, Y.
    (2021) Who should apologise: Expressing criticism of public figures on Chinese social media in times of COVID-19. Discourse & Society32(5):622–38. 10.1177/09579265211013116
     https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265211013116 [Google Scholar]
  44. Vázquez, C.
    (2022) Research Methods for Digital Discourse Analysis, 1–18. London: Bloomsbury
     [Google Scholar]
  45. Wirtz, K.
    (2016) The living, the dead, and the immanent: Dialogue across chronotopes. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 6(1), 343–369. 10.14318/hau6.1.019
     https://doi.org/10.14318/hau6.1.019 [Google Scholar]
  46. Wu, J. R.
    (2004) Stance in talk: A conversation analysis of Mandarin final particles. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 10.1075/pbns.117
     https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.117 [Google Scholar]
/content/journals/10.1075/lcs.22006.def
Loading
Stance-taking towards chronotopes as a window into people’s reactions to societal crises
Language, Culture and Society 4, 218 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1075/lcs.22006.def
/content/journals/10.1075/lcs.22006.def
/content/journals/10.1075/lcs.22006.def
Loading

Data & Media loading...

  • Article Type: Research Article
Keyword(s): chronotopes; Covid-19 pandemic; social media; stance; Twitter

Most Cited

This is a required field
Please enter a valid email address
Approval was successful
Invalid data
An Error Occurred
Approval was partially successful, following selected items could not be processed due to error