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Publication details [#65812]

Wikström, Peter. 2019. Acting out on Twitter: Affordances for animating reported speech in written computer-mediated communication. Text & Talk 39 (1) : 121–147.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

computer communication system | corpus analysis | quotative | reported speech | written language

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/TEXT/html

Annotation

This study explores samples of quotative be like in a corpus of Twitter data (1,000,000 tweets; 1,113 quotative instances), focusing on how Twitter users use the platform’s affordances to ensoul their speech reports. The study finds that afflatus of reported speech on Twitter is visually, and mostly typographically, procured.