Discourse of Twitter and Social Media How We Use Language to Create Affiliation on the Web,9781472531544

Discourse of Twitter and Social Media How We Use Language to Create Affiliation on the Web

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ISBN13: 9781472531544
ISBN10: 147253154X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2014-01-09
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Michele Zappavigna is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Table of Contents

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

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