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Exploring techniques used by facebookers to increase the 'likeness' of their posts
This talk will be delivered by Maz Zaki, who completed her PhD at Middlesex in 2011 and now works at the American University of Sharjah.
Here is her abstract:
How are Arabic religious posts formulated on Facebook? Why are they formulated in that way? And how are they relevant to the audience? In this talk I will be discussing some of the features of Arabic religious posts on Facebook within the framework of pragmatics and Relevance Theory. Linguistic features, such as the use of conditionals, imperatives and negation, are all manipulated by the speaker to increase the “likeness†of such posts on Facebook. At the intersection between religion, language and cyber-media, Arabic religious posts on Facebook reflect an interesting way of communicating religious messages through pictures and text which seek to be relevant, and sometimes ‘too relevant’, to the audience.
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3 February 2015 at 2:00 pm |
Duration: | 1 hour 30 minutes |
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English, Middlesex University |
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Free |
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All welcome. This talk takes place in Room V103, Vine Building, Directions to campus here: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/get-in-touch/directions-london Contact Billy Clark for further information |
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