Abdalhadi Hadeel, Al-Khawaldeh Nisreen, Al Huneety Anas, Mashaqba Bassil
Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, The Hashemite University, P.O. Box 330127, 13133, Zarqa, Jordan.
Ampersand (Oxford). 2023;10:100099. doi: 10.1016/j.amper.2022.100099. Epub 2022 Dec 2.
This study investigates the communicative functions of status updates on Facebook during COVID-19. For this purpose, a corpus of 500 status updates was collected from 100 Facebook users for 90 consecutive days. Subsequently, the data were characterized into five speech acts drawing heavily on Searle's speech act framework, prominent among which are expressives and assertives. Data analysis revealed that status updates could be considered a substantial medium for understanding intended human communication. Various types of speech acts were used with different frequencies and percentages, although people were inclined mostly to use expressive speech acts. The sociocultural variations in conjunction with forming and constructing identities were reflected in the status updates manifested in the current situation of the pandemic, which makes Jordanians appear more humorous than before. This research is significant because studying aspects of a language helps in understanding the hidden motivations, beliefs, ideas, attitudes and identities along with the social, cultural, and political factors, which in turn provides logical solutions for certain problems.
本研究调查了新冠疫情期间脸书上状态更新的交际功能。为此，连续90天从100名脸书用户那里收集了500条状态更新的语料库。随后，依据塞尔的言语行为框架，将数据归纳为五种言语行为，其中主要是表情类和断言类。数据分析表明，状态更新可被视为理解人类意图交流的重要媒介。尽管人们大多倾向于使用表情类言语行为，但各类言语行为的使用频率和百分比各不相同。在疫情当前形势下，状态更新中体现出了与身份形成和构建相关的社会文化差异，这使得约旦人比以往显得更具幽默感。这项研究意义重大，因为研究一种语言的各个方面有助于理解隐藏的动机、信仰、观念、态度和身份，以及社会、文化和政治因素，进而为某些问题提供合理的解决方案。
