Seargeant, Philip
The Language of Social Media
1. Introduction: The language of social media
Philip Seargeant, Caroline Tagg
Part I. The Performance of Identity on Social Media
2. The performance of a ludic self on social network(ing) sites
Ana Deumert
3. Hoaxes, hacking and humour: analysing impersonated identity on social network sites
Ruth Page
4. ‘Usually not one to complain but…’: constructing identities in user-generated online reviews
Camilla Vásquez
5. Language choice and self-presentation in social media: the case of university students in Hong Kong
Carmen Lee
6. Entextualization and resemiotization as resources for identification in social media
Sirpa Leppänen, Samu Kytölä, Henna Jousmäki, Saija Peuronen, Elina Westinen
Part II. The Construction of Community on Social Media
7. CoffeeTweets: bonding around the bean on Twitter
Michele Zappavigna
8. Audience design and language choice in the construction and maintenance of translocal communities on social network sites
Caroline Tagg, Philip Seargeant
9. Youth, social media and connectivity in Japan
Toshie Takahashi
10. Investigating language policy in social media: translation practices on Facebook
Aoife Lenihan
11. Seeing Red: social media and football fan activism
Frank Monaghan
Keywords: Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Media and Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Media Studies, Communication Studies
- Editor
- Seargeant, Philip
- Tagg, Caroline
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2014
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 272 pages
- Category
- Languages
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137029317
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-44013-9