Between saying and not saying: explicit silence as ambiguation in user comments on Alternative für Deutschland Facebook posts

Schröter, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9636-245X (2022) Between saying and not saying: explicit silence as ambiguation in user comments on Alternative für Deutschland Facebook posts. Zeitschrift fuer Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistk, 52 (4). pp. 591-612. ISSN 0049-8653 doi: 10.1007/s41244-022-00269-9

Abstract/Summary

This contribution focusses on forms and functions of explicit silence in user comments on the Facebook page of the New Right political party Alternative für Deutschland and on the way in which they allow users to participate in the communication while withholding content. These explicit silences create vagueness and ambiguity which users exploit to at the same time insinuate, adhere to, and scandalise taboos.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/108506
Identification Number/DOI	10.1007/s41244-022-00269-9
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Literature and Languages > Languages and Cultures > German Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Literature and Languages > English Language and Applied Linguistics Arts, Humanities and Social Science > Language Text and Power
Publisher	Springer
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