Disaffiliation and Pragmatic Strategies of Emotive Communication in a Multiparty Online Conflict Talk - Conflict and Multimodal Communication: Social Research and Machine Intelligence - page 166

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invites the
users to check
his old thread
regarding this
same topic for
those who are
not yet
acquainted
with his
problem

Representative
acts

Co-textual
anchor: c'è
l'altro post
(i.e. , “there's
the other
thread,”
meaning the
readers are
kindly
invited to
check his
previous
discussion to
catch up with
the topic)

Reinforcing
device: tutta
la storia (i.e.,
“the whole
story”)

The second column on the left describes the type of outcome carried out in each post of the thread and possibly the topic of reference. Columns from 3 to
7 include a presentation of the various linguistic means employed in each post, as well as the possible visual and metacommunicative means. Columns 8-9
present the occurrences of the six emotive devices by Caffi and Janney ( 1994 ) as well as the occurring markers of reinforcement and mitigation and those
of empathetic proximity (Caffi 2001 , 2007 ; Merlini Barbaresi 2009 ). Finally, the tenth column retraces the steps of presentation and reception of the user's
affective messages by means of conversational analytic definitions