ISBN:
1306905699
,
9780415841993
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (201 S.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Researching language and social media
DDC:
302.23/1
Keywords:
Electronic books
;
Lehrbuch
;
Lehrbuch
;
Social Media
;
Sprache
Abstract:
Social Media is fast becoming a key area of linguistic research. This highly accessible guidebook leads students through the process of undertaking research in order to explore the language that people use when they communicate on social media sites.This textbook provides: An introduction to the linguistic frameworks currently used to analyse language found in social media contextsAn outline of the practical steps and ethical guidelines entailed when gathering linguistic data from social media sites and platformsA range of illustrative case studies, which cover different approaches, linguistic
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 What is social media?; 2 What might a linguist say about social media?; 3 What does it mean to research?; 4 What are Internet research ethics?; 5 Analysing discourse: qualitative approaches; 6 What are ethnographic approaches?; 7 Carrying out a study of language practices in social media; 8 Collecting social media materials for quantitative projects; 9 Working with social media data: quantitative perspectives; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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