The first dedicated volume of its kind, Visualizing Digital Discourse brings together sociolinguists and discourse analysts examining the role of visual communication in digital media. The volume showcases work from leading, established and emerging scholars from across Europe, covering a diverse range of digital media platforms such as messaging, video-chat, gaming and wikis; visual modalities such as emojis, video and layout; methodologies like discourse analysis, ethnography and conversation analysis; as well as data from different languages. With an opening chapter by Rodney Jones, the volume is organized into three parts: Besides Words and Writing, The Social Life of Images, and Designing Multimodal Texts. From the perspective of these broad domains, chapters tackle some of the major ideological, interactional and institutional implications of visuality for digital discourse studies. The first part, beginning with a co-authored chapter by Crispin Thurlow, focuses on micro-level visual practices and their macro-level framing - all with particular regard for emojis. The second part, beginning with a chapter from Sirpa Leppanen, examines the ways visual resources are used for managing personal relations, and the wider cultural politics of visual representation in these practices. The third part, beginning with a chapter by Hartmut Stoeckl, considers organizational contexts where users deploy visual resources for more transactional, often commercial ends.

The first dedicated volume of its kind, Visualizing Digital Discourse brings together sociolinguists and discourse analysts examining the role of visual communication in digital media. The volume showcases work from leading, established and emerging scholars from across Europe, covering a diverse range of digital media platforms such as messaging, video-chat, gaming and wikis; visual modalities such as emojis, video and layout; methodologies like discourse analysis, ethnography and conversation analysis; as well as data from different languages. With an opening chapter by Rodney Jones, the volume is organized into three parts: Besides Words and Writing, The Social Life of Images, and Designing Multimodal Texts. From the perspective of these broad domains, chapters tackle some of the major ideological, interactional and institutional implications of visuality for digital discourse studies. The first part, beginning with a co-authored chapter by Crispin Thurlow, focuses on micro-level visual practices and their macro-level framing - all with particular regard for emojis. The second part, beginning with a chapter from Sirpa Leppanen, examines the ways visual resources are used for managing personal relations, and the wider cultural politics of visual representation in these practices. The third part, beginning with a chapter by Hartmut Stoeckl, considers organizational contexts where users deploy visual resources for more transactional, often commercial ends.

Ce volume rassemble des contributions scientifiques abordant le patrimoine immaterie l de diverses manieres. Tout d'abord, celui vehicule par les langues vernaculaires d'origine latine encore parfois parlees en France, en Belgique wallonne, en Suisse romande et en Italie du nord. Contes de transmission orale (articles de Nicole Belmont, Aurelie Reusser-Elzingre, Fabio Armand, Jacques Berlioz, Lydia Gaborit), legendes historiques et chansons (Isabelle Raboud-Schule et Serge Rossier, Claudine Frechet, Edith Montelle), noms de lieux (Matteo Rivoira), expressions (Francoise Lempereur), surnoms locaux (Alexis Betemps), vocabulaire de metier (Jean Delmas), tous sont porteurs de croyances et de valeurs dites traditionnelles . Cette matiere est abordee de divers points de vue: celui de l'anthropologue, qui analyse les relations entre les acteurs et l'inevitable (re)fabrication culturelle. Celui du collecteur, qui recherche souvent a figer dans l'ecriture une forme orale mouvante. Celui du philologue, desirant mettre en valeur un patrimoine historique souvent inaccessible sans son role de transmetteur au grand public. Enfin, celui du conteur, toujours a la recherche de nouveaux recits, qui transmet a travers sa langue des motifs au gre de sa propre biographie, du public et du contexte. Toutes ces contributions sont encadrees par les reflexions de dialectologues (Andres Kristol, Federica Diemoz, Aurelie Reusser-Elzingre) et d'anthropologues (Ellen Hertz, Suzanne Chappaz-Wirthner) sur ce vaste sujet qu'est le patrimoine culturel immateriel .