Chapter published in:
Corpus Approaches to Social Media
Edited by Sofia Rüdiger and Daria Dayter
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 98] 2020
► pp. 1–12

Introduction
The expanding landscape of corpus-based studies of social media language

| University of Bayreuth
| University of Basel
Article outline
  • 1.Social media as a data source
  • 2.Structure and scope of this volume
  • 3.Outlook
  • Note
  • References
Published online: 04 November 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.98.int
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