Ambient Affiliation in Comments on YouTube Videos:Communing Around Values About ASMR

作     者：Michele Zappavigna 

作者机构：University of New South WalesSydneyAustralia 

出 版 物：《外国语》 (Journal of Foreign Languages)

年 卷 期：2021年第44卷第1期

页      面：21-40页

核心收录：

学科分类：0502[文学-外国语言文学] 050201[文学-英语语言文学] 05[文学] 

主　　题：ambient affiliation communing affiliation coupling appraisal digital intimacy ASMR YouTube 

摘      要：This paper explores ambient affiliation within the ASMR community on YouT ube,investigating how values are communed around in YouT ube *** community consists of viewers who watch videos designed to elicit an Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response(ASMR),that is,a pleasurable sensory reaction to visual or aural *** paper focuses on the linguistic resources involved in orienting the ambient audience to the values shared,as couplings of ATTITUDE and IDEATION,in the comments *** most comments do not receive any reply,rather than dialogic affiliation,a framework for analysing communing affiliation,based on Zappavigna and Martin’s(2018)approach to Twitter data,is *** systems of meaning are considered:convoking(mustering community around a coupling),finessing(dialogically positioning a coupling),and promoting(emphasising a coupling).The paper develops these systems in terms of *** attitudinal component of the couplings is analysed using the Appraisal framework(Martin and White 2005).The dataset explored is the comments feed of the most viewed video on the Gentle Whispering ASMR YouT ube channel,the most popular ASMR channel at the time of writing.