[csaa-forum] Seminar at UNSW - 'Searchable talk: the linguistic functions of hashtags', Michele Zappavigna - all welcome.

Collin Chua c.chua at unsw.edu.au
Fri May 22 06:42:41 ACST 2015


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Searchable talk:
The linguistic functions of hashtags

Tue 26 May, 5 - 6.30pm
Robert Webster Building, Room 327

The drive to make our discourse readily findable by others has become a prominent social process, realised by a range of online communicative practices associated with social media. A key semiotic resource integral to microblogging is the hashtag, a form of social tagging that allows microbloggers to embed metadata in posts.

While popularly thought of as topic-markers, hashtags are able to construe a range of complex meanings in social media texts. This paper uses Halliday’s (1978) concept of linguistic metafunctions, to explore how hashtags enact three simultaneous communicative functions: marking experiential topics, enacting interpersonal relationships, and organizing text.

Michele Zappavigna is a lecturer in the School of Arts and Media, UNSW. Her major research interest is the discourse of social media and she has published two books in this area: Discourse of Twitter and Social Media (Continuum, 2012) and, Researching the Language of Social Media (Routledge, 2014) with Ruth Page, Johann Unger and David Barton. Her work also engages with the practical concerns of applied and forensic linguistics.

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