Publications
Publication details [#66053]
Blommaert, Jan. 2019. Formatting online actions: #justsaying on Twitter. The International Journal of Multilingualism 16 (2) : 112–126.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
action | communication | frame | function | interaction | internet | metapragmatics | register | translinguistics
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
The nontopical hashtag #justsaying is one of Twitter’s global stock hashtags and turns out to accomplish an intricate set of metapragmatic framing functions. This article considers Dutch-language tweets in which the hashtag is being employed as a wholly enregistered ‘translingual’ framing device, and tries an assay centered on the specific sorts of communicative actions it marks and organises.