Subject Emergence, Self-Presentation, and Epistemic Struggle in French Language Forums

Martina Schrader-Kniffki analyses how such status attributions are developed in the French forum 'Francais notre belle langue'. Users of this community discuss language-related topics, usually on the level of laypeople in linguistics. However, the self-presentation of the participants plays an important role in the discussion, which is often the result of intentional subjectified speech acts. In this way, the users develop evidentially and constructed knowledge.