Searchable talk: the linguistic functions of hashtags

Social Semiotics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 274-291

  Zappavigna, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

discourse analysis; hashtags; microblogging; social media; systemic functional linguistics; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928685625     PISSN: 10350330     EISSN: 14701219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10350330.2014.996948     Document Type: Article

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