Language as pride, love, and hate: Archiving emotions through multilingual Instagram hashtags

Discourse, Context and Media

Volumn 22, Issue , 2018, Pages 21-29

  Lee, Carmen ^a   Chau, Dennis ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Affect; Emotion; Hashtags; Identities; Instagram; Multilingualism

Indexed keywords

EID: 85025832383     PISSN: 22116958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2017.06.002     Document Type: Article

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