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who suggests Calcolatore83 to interrupt his current relationship. Calcolatore83
thanks Caracas and represents his conflicting and confused emotive stance.
•
Phase 3
:
Ma che abbiamo fatto di male noi?
(i.e., “But what did we do wrong?”
lines 8a-25b). The disaffiliative replies increase, with the exception of Sendoh's
answer which is characterized by some sort of cooperative sarcasm. The users
now directly attack and criticize Calcolatore83, and they sometimes show their
irritation through sidetalks. After these reactions, Calcolatore83 highlights once
more his sense of guilt and his confusion in order to obtain the users' attention.
•
Phase 4
:
Una persona così autolesionista e autocommiserante
:::
(i.e., “Such
a self-defeating and self-commiserating person
:::
” lines 26a-143e). Calcola-
tore83 makes numerous attempts to obtain the users' support and suggestions,
now using persuasive techniques and then updating the telling of his personal
affairs. He fails many times to receive any attention, and his posts get rare
affiliative replies, many disaffiliative and evidently annoyed responses, some
attacks, and several teasings.
•
Phase 5
:
È il caso di chiudere questo post!
(i.e., “This thread should be
closed!” lines 144a-155b). Calcolatore83 gives up his search for empathetic
listening and support, and he states with a certain resentment that he wants
to end the discussion. This decision is greeted with sarcastic relief by many
users. Moderator Pannocchia concludes the thread allowing Calcolatore83 to
open another one on the same issues yet remaking that the possibility of being
criticized is always present in Internet message boards.
The listed section considers the interpersonal orientation followed by most of
the participants to the discussion. In Table
9.2
, a caption of the interaction mainly
containing disaffiliative and sarcastic replies is shown.
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9.6.2
Distribution and Analysis of the Emotive Devices
in Relation to the Users' Disaffiliative Replies
As it is shown in Fig.
9.1
, the lack of affiliation in the interlocutor's responses
displays a concentration of emotive devices characterized by a trend which strongly
contrasts the emotive stance of Calcolatore83. The internal homogeneity of these
replies and the replies discrepancy with the evocative effects of Calcolatore83's
outcomes suggest that the users adopted and shared a different emotive stance,
opposite to that of Calcolatore83.
Calcolatore83 is insecure, confused, and constantly torn between his attraction to
his ex-girlfriend and the sense of guilt against his current relationship. He seems also
split between the urge to express his consciously unethical fantasies and the desire
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The complete discussion (in Italian) is publicly available at
http://www.postare.it/showthread.
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