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HYPOTHESIS AND THEORY article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Psychology of Language
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1479825
This article is part of the Research Topic Stance-Taking in Embodied and Virtual Interaction View all 7 articles

Embodiment and simulated interaction in online stance expression

Provisionally accepted
Barbara Dancygier Barbara Dancygier *Lieven Vandelanotte Lieven Vandelanotte *
  • Namur Institute of Language, Text and Transmediality, Université de Namur, Namur, Belgium

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    The expression and exchange of stance drives much social media discourse, including internet memes. We demonstrate how, even in the absence of actual face-to-face communication, online discourse and memes rely on the dynamics of embodiment and dialogue in comparable ways, while also developing specific constructional forms for this with no direct face-to-face equivalent. We introduce the notion of simulated interaction to refer to the combinations of embodied expression, images, and the structures of (apparent) quotation and dialogue allowing online communicators to vividly represent experience and signal stance.

    Keywords: constructional forms, dialogue, images, Internet memes, multimodality, Simulated interaction, social media discourse, stance

    Received: 12 Aug 2024; Accepted: 05 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Dancygier and Vandelanotte. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Barbara Dancygier, Namur Institute of Language, Text and Transmediality, Université de Namur, Namur, Belgium
    Lieven Vandelanotte, Namur Institute of Language, Text and Transmediality, Université de Namur, Namur, Belgium

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