Ghost Narration from Pantip.com: Communicative Context and Strategies
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The objectives of the study were to examine communicative context and linguistic strategies on www.Pantip.com about horror story tag. The data were collected from 7 posts which have more than 100 comments below per each in the range from January to August in 2016. It was found that communicative context of ghost stories from Pantip.com represents a chance for people, who are interested in ghost and don’t have to reveal their identities, to interact with others. Purposes are to share spirit story, exchange aspects, and give ideas and entertainment. Act sequence makes us understand that ghost storytelling has an order arrangement for 6 speech events. The key makes readers on Pantip.com have a fear, belief, and flavor without place and time conditions. After analyzing linguistic strategies, we found that all post writers use these linguistic strategies: Lexical selection, Using first pronoun, Modification, Presupposition, Hyperbole, and Claiming. The mentioned strategies are to make a ghost story more real and readers could imagine; furthermore, they believe that these stories are true. Moreover, Pantip.com is also a website which people can freely exchange their aspects and experiences. It is compared as a virtual community. Having people share and comment in the posts is the reproduction for belief about ghost to continually remain in Thai culture.
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