Discourse of Twitter and Social Media: How We Use Language to Create Affiliation on the Web (Continuum Discourse): 6

by Michele Zappavigna (Author), Michele Zappavigna (Author), J. R. Martin (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2012

  $270.32

  Social media such as microblogging services and social network 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.