Searchable talk as discourse practice on the internet: The case of “#bindersfullofwomen”

Discourse, Context and Media

Volumn 12, Issue , 2016, Pages 87-98

  Zhu, Hongqiang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^b JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Discourse pragmatics; Hashtag; Internet meme; Journalism; Searchable talk; Twitter discourse

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964545697     PISSN: 22116958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2015.10.001     Document Type: Article

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