Discourse of Twitter and Social Media
How We Use Language to Create Affiliation on the Web
1st Edition
Published on 23. February 2012
240 pages
978-1-4411-3871-2 (ISBN)
Description
Social media such as microblogging services and social networking sites are changing the way people interact online and search for information and opinions. This book investigates linguistic patterns in electronic discourse,looking at online evaluative language, Internet slang, memes and ambient affiliation using a large Twitter corpus (over 100 million tweets) alongside specialized case studies. The author argues that we are currently witnessing a cultural movement from online conversation to what can be termed 'searchable talk' - online talk where people affiliate by making their discourse findable (for example, via metadata such as Twitter hashtags) by others holding similar interests. This cutting edge text will be of interest to all scholars and students dealing with electronically mediated discourse.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-3871-2 (9781441138712)
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Discourse of Twitter and Social Media
How We Use Language to Create Affiliation on the Web
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How We Use Language to Create Affiliation on the Web
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Person
Michele Zappavigna is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Fellow in Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Content
Preface (by Professor Jim Martin)
1. Introduction: Social Media and the Cultural Movement Toward 'Searchable Talk'
2. Social Media as Corpora
3. Evaluative Language Online
4. Internet Slang
5. Internet Memes
6. Internet Humour and Fail: "The world is full of #fail tonight"
7. Online Political Discourse
8. Ambient Affiliation
9. Conclusion: Social Media and Internet Linguistics
References
Appendices
Index
1. Introduction: Social Media and the Cultural Movement Toward 'Searchable Talk'
2. Social Media as Corpora
3. Evaluative Language Online
4. Internet Slang
5. Internet Memes
6. Internet Humour and Fail: "The world is full of #fail tonight"
7. Online Political Discourse
8. Ambient Affiliation
9. Conclusion: Social Media and Internet Linguistics
References
Appendices
Index
