The Stylistics of Selected American, Italian and Polish Challenge Vlogs
Journal Title: STYLES OF COMMUNICATION - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 0
Abstract
The emergence of a new mode of communication called vlogging allows the spoken variety of language to manifest itself in new settings. Vloggers appear to draw both from traditional television aesthetics and from the videos of other vloggers. The content which circulates on the website globally is often recontextualised (cf. Rymes, 2012). The plethora of different types of vlogs and the sheer number of videos created daily call for an attempt to find a common stylistic denominator within specific types of vlogs. The chapter discusses characteristic stylistic features of a selected type of such videos, namely, challenge videos in American English, Italian and Polish. The chosen videos form the basis for an analysis in search of similarities and differences in style. The findings suggest that the analysed challenge videos have many common features, and if differences ensue, they are not generally found within specific national or linguistic groups but in mixed sets of videos in the three languages of interest. The author seeks to find explanations for the similarities.
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Ryszard Kurpiel
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