The Language of Social Media

This timely book examines language on social media sites including Facebook and Twitter. Studies from leading language researchers, and experts on social media, explore how social media is having an impact on how we relate to each other, the communities we live in, and the way we present a sense of self in twenty-first century society.

First book to offer a close examination of social network sites from a sociolinguistic perspective

Introduction: The Language of Social Media; Philip Seargeant and Caroline Tagg PART I: THE PERFORMANCE OF IDENTITY ON SOCIAL MEDIA 1. The Performance of a Ludic Self on Social Network(ing) Sites; Ana Deumert 2. Hoaxes, Hacking and Humour: Analysing Impersonated Identity on Social Network Sites; Ruth Page 3. 'Usually not one to complain but...': Constructing Identities in User-generated Online Reviews; Camilla Vásquez 4. Language Choice and Self-presentation in Social Media: The Case of University Students in Hong Kong; Carmen Lee 5. Entextualization and Resemiotization as Resources for Identification in Social Media; Sirpa Leppänen, Samu Kytölä, Henna Jousmäki, Saija Peuronen and Elina Westinen PART II: THE CONSTRUCTION OF COMMUNITY ON SOCIAL MEDIA 6. CoffeeTweets: Bonding around the Bean on Twitter; Michele Zappavigna 7. Audience Design and Language Choice in the Construction and Maintenance of Translocal Communities on Social Network Sites; Caroline Tagg and Philip Seargeant 8. Youth, Social Media and Connectivity in Japan; Toshie Takahashi 9. Investigating Language Policy in Social Media: Translation Practices on Facebook; Aoife Lenihan 10. Seeing Red: Social Media and Football Fan Activism; Frank Monaghan