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Younis, N. (2018). Narrativity in Digital Discourse: Constructing Conceptual events in Egyptian Female Facebook Communication. CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education, 65(1), 53-68. doi: 10.21608/opde.2018.106570
Nagwa Younis Younis. "Narrativity in Digital Discourse: Constructing Conceptual events in Egyptian Female Facebook Communication". CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education, 65, 1, 2018, 53-68. doi: 10.21608/opde.2018.106570
Younis, N. (2018). 'Narrativity in Digital Discourse: Constructing Conceptual events in Egyptian Female Facebook Communication', CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education, 65(1), pp. 53-68. doi: 10.21608/opde.2018.106570
Younis, N. Narrativity in Digital Discourse: Constructing Conceptual events in Egyptian Female Facebook Communication. CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education, 2018; 65(1): 53-68. doi: 10.21608/opde.2018.106570

Narrativity in Digital Discourse: Constructing Conceptual events in Egyptian Female Facebook Communication

Article 3, Volume 65, Issue 1, July 2018, Page 53-68  XML PDF (740.14 K)
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.21608/opde.2018.106570
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Nagwa Younis Younis
Abstract
Digital discourse, as a new genre, has gained its distinctive features that re-conceptualize both social and linguistic practices in the virtual world of communication. The aim of this paper is to scrutinize the verbal narrative potential underlying the construction of speech events in digital discourse. The main manifestation is the sequence of, at least, three consecutive serial verbs. The compiled corpus consists of 9823 tokens from Facebook status updates in three Egyptian female groups during a six months' time (January-July 2018).The data is collected, filtered, electronically stored and analyzed using aConCorde 0.4.3 (Roberts 2018) and discussed in the light of Pawley’s (2011) views. The results shed light on a set of formal and functional features concomitant with conceptual event construction, as an unexplored feature of narrativity in digital discourse; one of them is that language users tend to create 'meaningful chunks' out of linguistic clues.
Keywords
Conceptual event units; digital discourse; narrative serial verb constructions; Egyptian Arabic; female Facebook communication
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