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9781441141866

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

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    9781441141866

  • ISBN10:

    1441141863

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2012-04-26
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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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.

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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