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Variación de estilo en interacciones digitales: huéspedes y hoteles en reseñas TripAdvisor

Authors :
Raquel Hidalgo Downing
In this article we analyse variation in communicative style that appears in guests’ reviews and hotel responses on TripAdvisor, the popular travel and tourism platform. The aim of the study is to examine style features that appear in guests’ opinions and hotel responses. Although many studies in computer-mediated communication have identified informality and orality as key features in this type of communication, more recent studies claim the important communicative and linguistic variation that appears in language in CMO, making it impossible to offer an overview of Spanish on the internet, which instead must be observed in situated discourse practices. The analysis of style variation on a corpus composed of reviews and their responses shows that both guests and hotels exhibit traits of adaptability to the medium in order to achieve their communicative goals, but show different and divergent, if not opposed, communication styles, which reflect the users’ social realities and images, and the potential audiences to whom interactions are addressed, ultimately projecting different perceptions of linguistic standards, while expanding the possibilities of linguistic innovation and expression.
Universidad CEU San Pablo. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Comunicación, ed. lit.
Source :
Doxa Comunicación, Vol 31, Pp 361-380 (2020)
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
Fundacion Universitaria San Pablo CEU, 2020.

Abstract

espanolEn este trabajo se propone un analisis del estilo comunicativo que aparece en resenas realizadas por huespedes de hoteles y sus consiguientes respuestas, en la popular plataforma de viajes y turismo TripAdvisor. El objetivo es identificar y analizar el conjunto de rasgos linguisticos de estilo que aparecen tanto en las opiniones de los usuarios como en las respuestas de los responsables de las empresas hoteleras. Si bien en los inicios de los estudios sobre comunicacion mediada por ordenador se identifico un conjunto de rasgos generales que podian asociarse tipicamente a este tipo de comunicacion, especialmente en torno a la oralidad e informalidad,estudios posteriores han mostrado la enorme variacion que aparece en este tipo de comunicacion, por lo que resulta imposible ofrecer una vision general del espanol en internet, que en cambio ha de situarse en la observacion de practicas discursivas concretas. A partir del analisis de la variacion de estilo sobre un corpus de resenas y respuestas, el estudio muestra que tanto huespedes como hoteles exhiben rasgos de adaptabilidad al medio para alcanzar sus finalidades comunicativas, pero muestran estilos comunicativos diferentes y divergentes, por no decir encontrados y opuestos, reflejo de las realidades e imagenes sociales de los usuarios y de las audiencias potenciales que posee cada uno, enfrentando percepciones polivalentes de la norma linguistica al tiempo que ampliando las posibilidades de innovacion y expresion linguistica EnglishIn this article we analyse variation in communicative style that appears in guests’ reviews and hotel responses on TripAdvisor, the popular travel and tourism platform. The aim of the study is to examine style features that appear in guests’ opinions and hotel responses. Although many studies in computer-mediated communication have identified informality and orality as key features in this type of communication, more recent studies claim the important communicative and linguistic variation that appears in language in CMO, making it impossible to offer an overview of Spanish on the internet, which instead must be observed in situated discourse practices. The analysis of style variation on a corpus composed of reviews and their responses shows that both guests and hotels exhibit traits of adaptability to the medium in order to achieve their communicative goals, but show different and divergent, if not opposed, communication styles, which reflect the users’ social realities and images, and the potential audiences to whom interactions are addressed, ultimately projecting different perceptions of linguistic standards, while expanding the possibilities of linguistic innovation and expression.

Details

ISSN :
23863978 and 1696019X
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Doxa Comunicación. Revista interdisciplinar de Estudios de Comunicación y Ciencias Sociales
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....18bf10c4488d3054aa69d3978d1c0d07