Essays about: "Andrew Symes"

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  1. 1. A Linguistic Introduction to the Discursive Conventions of Twitter

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Andrew Symes; [2013-06-12]
    Keywords : Twitter; Microblogging; computer-mediated communication; new media; web 2.0; social media; linguistics;

    Abstract : This paper provides an inductively-derived overview of some of the pertinent linguistically-related, empirically-observable discursive phenomena to be found on Twitter, a pupular microblogging site use do publish and exchange messages constrained to 140 characters. A corpus of 11,187 "tweets" derived from 100 public Twitter users over a 48-hour period forms the basis for a Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis approach to the study of user habits, the communicative function of tweets, and three principal "conventions" that help users manage their discourse: use of the "@ symbol", "retweeting" and "hashtagging". READ MORE