1st Edition

Corpus Approaches to Language in Social Media

By Matteo Di Cristofaro Copyright 2023
398 Pages 70 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

398 Pages 70 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

398 Pages 70 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book showcases the unique possibilities of corpus linguistic methodologies in engaging with and analysing language data from social media, surveying current approaches, and offering guidelines and best practices for doing language analysis. The book provides an overview of how language in social media has been approached by linguists and non-linguists, before delving into the... Read more

Chapter 1 - Introduction

Chapter 2 - Social Media as Digital Research Data

Chapter 3 - Fundamentals of Corpus Linguistics

Chapter 4 - Imagining the Data: corpus design

Chapter 5 - Creating the Data: corpus collection

Chapter 6 - Case studies

Chapter 7 - Conclusion

Biography

Matteo Di Cristofaro is Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Corpus Linguistics at Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia and Researcher Fellow in Corpus Linguistics at Università di Pisa.