The Language of Social Media [electronic resource] : Identity and Community on the Internet /
Seargeant, P.editor.
Tagg, C.editor.
This timely book examines language on social media sites including Facebook and Twitter. Studies from leading language researchers, and experts on social media, explore how social media is having an impact on how we relate to each other, the communities we live in, and the way we present a sense of self in twenty-first century society.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: The language of social media; Part I: The Performance of Identity on Social Media; 1 The performance of a ludic self on social network(ing) sites; 2 Hoaxes, hacking and humour: analysing impersonated identity on social network sites; 3 'Usually not one to complain but...': constructing identities in user-generated online reviews; 4 Language choice and self-presentation in social media: the case of university students in Hong Kong
5 Entextualization and resemiotization as resources for identification in social mediaPart II: The Construction of Community on Social Media; 6 CoffeeTweets: bonding around the bean on Twitter; 7 Audience design and language choice in the construction and maintenance of translocal communities on social network sites; 8 Youth, social media and connectivity in Japan; 9 Investigating language policy in social media: translation practices on Facebook; 10 Seeing Red: social media and football fan activism; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
This timely book examines language on social media sites including Facebook and Twitter. Studies from leading language researchers, and experts on social media, explore how social media is having an impact on how we relate to each other, the communities we live in, and the way we present a sense of self in twenty-first century society.
Applied linguistics.
Sociolinguistics.
Communication.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Applied Linguistics.
Sociolinguistics.
Media and Communication.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Media Studies.
Communication Studies.