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disaffiliative replies, possible misalignments, sequences of introduction and exit
from complaint stories, assessments. See Table 9.1 ).
Mutatis mutandis, perspectives and analytical tools typical of oral dialogic
exchanges were employed. I made particular use of the integrated pragmatic
methodologies used by Caffi ( 2001 , 2007 ) and of those used to analyze affectivity in
conversational storytelling by Selting ( 2010 ) and Couper-Kuhlen ( 2012 ). The type
of methodology I adopted, however, differs from those generally employed in the
analysis of oral conversations at least with respect to the following aspects:
The interpretation of proxemic and kinesic resources was replaced, where
possible, by an interpretation of alternative visual means, in particular the
contextualized use of emoticons.
Interpretations of prosodic, phonological, and tonal aspects of communicative
exchanges were omitted, due to the obvious limitations of the object of analysis.
Sequential and turn-taking aspects were detected in a simplified and reduced
manner. Namely, (1) I consider each user's post as a complex turn composed by
several turn constructional units (see Selting 2000 ). (2) The division into different
lines in the transcripts does not correspond to different turns, but to single turn
constructional units, and it faithfully reproduces the number of times each user
started a new paragraph in the post. (3) Because of the structural difference of the
tokens I analyzed with regard to face-to-face synchronous interactions, signals of
interruption and overlap are absent, whereas those of alignment and disalignment
are only shown when clearly evident in the turns.
The following analysis has, moreover, a triple objective:
The proposal of a macro-connection of the methodologies of integrated prag-
matic analysis (Caffi 2001 , 2007 ) with those belonging to the research on
affectivity in conversational storytelling (e.g., Selting 2010 ; Couper-Kuhlen
2012 )
The proposal of a micro-connection of linguistic, visual, psychological, and
metacommunicative tools of analysis and some hypotheses about their possible
correlations
The presentation of possible starting points for potential future research on the
management of conflict talk as well as the co-construction of affectivity in digital
communicative interactions
9.6
Analysis of a Thread
The reflections I present are based on a fervent cross talk among a guy whose
nickname is “Calcolatore83” and twenty-nine other members of the message
board Postare.it . Some of them provided contribution to the discussion as real
counterparts, while others appeared only as cynical and detached commenters. This
thread is placed in the board Relazioni e sentimenti (in English: “Relationships and
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