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Reporting from the Field: the Narrative Reconstruction of Experience in Pick-up Artist Online Communities
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Abstract This study focuses on the reconstruction of experience in the online environment of the Pick-up Artist (PUA) community forums and aims to uncover yet another facet of personal narrative, namely the role and performance of framing in the reporting of events. Discursive psychologists have often pointe... view more
This study focuses on the reconstruction of experience in the online environment of the Pick-up Artist (PUA) community forums and aims to uncover yet another facet of personal narrative, namely the role and performance of framing in the reporting of events. Discursive psychologists have often pointed out that a narrative is not a precise reflection of reality but a device that itself shapes the social world because reality always under-determines the verbal representation of events. In this study, we show how the verbalisation of narrative guides the reader towards the intended understanding by establishing the shared knowledge schema in the community of practice. Utilising data from a specific genre in the PUA forums, the “field reports” (i.e. narrative reconstructions of encounters between the PUAs and women), we describe three pertinent layers of frames, how they are evoked linguistically and how they interact with each other. Our investigation of the hierarchical framing of the interaction as [pua training], [personal narrative] and [success report] shows that they are based on group-specific knowledge schemas but, at the same time, draw on conventionalised narrative structures.... view less
Keywords
communication; Internet; structure; analysis; language; reconstruction; pattern of interpretation; narrative; portal; framing approach; sociolinguistics
Classification
Sociology of Communication, Sociology of Language, Sociolinguistics
Interactive, electronic Media
Free Keywords
frames; narrativity online; pick-up artists; knowledge schemas; narrative structure
Document language
English
Publication Year
2016
Page/Pages
p. 337-351
Journal
Open Linguistics, 2 (2016) 1
Issue topic
Personal narrative online
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2016-0016
ISSN
2300-9969
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0