Disaffiliation and Pragmatic Strategies of Emotive Communication in a Multiparty Online Conflict Talk - Conflict and Multimodal Communication: Social Research and Machine Intelligence - page 165

Table 9.1 A caption of the word-by-word analysis of the conflict talk (from line 1a to 1c) with English translations

1. Line no. 2. Type of

outcome
(contextual
and co-textual
description)

3. Syntactic,
morphologi-
cal, and
lexical
devices

4. Type of
illocutionary
acts

5. Rhetorical
and stylistic
devices

6. Metacom-
municative
and metadis-
cursive
devices

7. Nonverbal
devices

8. Mitigating
devices and
markers of
reinforce-
ment and
aggravation

9. Emotive
devices and
inferable
empathetic
distances

10. Sequential
aspects:
phases of
reception of
the affective
message in the
storytelling

1a Calcolatore83

opens the
thread and
greets the
users of the
forum

Expressive
acts

Captatio
benevolen-
tiae

C Proximity
(social): amici ,
i.e., “ friends”
Specificity:
una dozzina di
giorni ,i.e.,“a
dozen days”

1b Calcolatore83

warns the
users of the
forum and the
prospective
readers of his
thread

Expressive
and directive
acts

Repetition
with
empathic
purposes,
e.g.,
dall'inizio :::
inizio (i.e.,
“since the
beginning”
“beginning”)

Metadiscursive
resources:
Calcola-
tore83
invites the
readers not
to read his
thread if not
interested

C Volitionality:
voglio i.e., I
want ,
C evidentiality
convinto che ,
i.e., “confident
that”
Specificity
della vicenda
i.e., “of the
events”