This paper applies a social semiotic framework for exploring the functions of emoji in digital
discourse about working from home (WFH). This is an important and prevalent discourse in …

This study describes the creation and analysis of a small multimodal corpus of British news
articles about obesity, where tags were assigned to images in the articles using the …

This Element discusses the challenges and opportunities that different types of corpora offer
for the study of pragmatic phenomena. The focus lies on a hands-on approach to methods …

Emoji are now ubiquitous in our interactions on social media. But how do we use them to
convey meaning? And how do they function in social bonding? This unique book provides a …

This book showcases the unique possibilities of corpus linguistic methodologies in
engaging with and analysing language data from social media, surveying current …

Visual representations in news media contribute to the social construction of health
concerns such as obesity. Media representations of obesity, however, have been shown to …

Social media data deepen our understanding of connective posthuman experiences in
which users generate content and culturally and discursively influence each other through …

There is an attraction to engage with social media for research purposes due to its
convenient accessibility and ease of collection. As Tefukci (2014, 505) notes, datasets may …

This paper explores how group and individual identity are constructed on social media, and
it looks specifically at the role of figurative language in this process. It also acknowledges the …

Watching someone else eat online–a phenomenon which originated in South Korea around
the year 2008 (Donnar 2017, 122)–has become a popular video genre around the world …