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Publication details [#64894]

Cock, Barbara De and Andrea Pizzarro Pedraza. 2018. From expressing solidarity to mocking on Twitter: Pragmatic functions of hashtags starting with #jesuis across languages. Language in Society 47 (2) : 197–217.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | internet | mocking | pragmatic function | solidarity

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study displays how the meaning of #jesuis on Twitter widened from solidarity and alignment expression to disaligning uses (covering mocking) across languages. Twitter users utilize the interpersonal opportunities of hashtags to convey alignment and disalignment, generating ambient connection.