Clashing frames of self-presentation in instant messaging
Clashing frames of self-presentation in instant messaging

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents an analysis of the linguistic means used to evoke two contradicting frames of self-presentation in real time one-to-one online computer mediated communication. Drawing from impression management studies and cognitive linguistics, as well as discourse analysis, the author shows how clashing frames of self-presentation can be evoked in order to offset the negative associations each frame may evoke. The sample is a corpus of over a thousand messages exchanged between native and native-like speakers of English via an instant messaging tool.

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