Innovations and challenges in social media discourse analysis / Michele Zappavigna and Andrew S. Ross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zappavigna, Michele, author.

Ross, Andrew S., 1979- author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Innovations and challenges in applied linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Discourse analysis.

English language.

Social media.

Language and the Internet.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 187 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.

Biography/History:

Michele Zappavigna is Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales. Her major research interest is in exploring ambient affiliation in the discourse of social media using social semiotic, multimodal, and corpus-based methods. She is a co-editor of the journal Visual Communication. Key books include Searchable Talk: Hashtags and Social Media Metadiscourse (2018) and Discourse of Twitter and Social Media (2012). Recent co-authored books include Researching the Language of Social Media (2014; 2022, Routledge), Modelling Paralanguage Using Systemic Functional Semiotics (2021), and Emoji and Social Media Paralanguages (2024). Andrew S. Ross is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Canberra. His research focuses on the use of (multimodal) critical discourse analysis in social media discourse. His work includes the edited volumes The Sociolinguistics of Hip-Hop as Critical Conscience: Dissatisfaction and Dissent (2018) and Discourses of (De)Legitimization: Participatory Culture in Digital Contexts (2019, Routledge). His work has appeared in journals such as New Media & Society; Discourse, Context & Media; Language and Communication; and Social Media + Society.

Contents:

Introduction

Searchable talk

Construing values

Ambient affiliation: communing and negotiating

Intersubjectivity and self-representation in multimodal social media

Social media paralanguage: emoji in social media communication

Conclusion: Ambient affiliation as semiotic labour.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 03, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Zappavigna, Michele. Innovations and challenges in social media discourse analysis

ISBN:

9781003257516

1003257518

9781040133095

1040133096

9781040133033

1040133037

Publisher Number:

40032637924

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