The pragmatics of hashtags: Inference and conversational style on Twitter

Scott, Kate

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2015.03.015

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“…As done by a number of researchers, these pragmatic phenomena have been shown by Carr et al (2012) in their research about Speech acts performed in Facebook status messages. This also has been shown by Scott (2015) in his study about pragmatic phenomena in using hashtags on Twitter. It has been explored as well by Grundlingh (2017), which analyzed the use of speech acts in memes.…”

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confidence: 61%

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Expositive Acts on Instagram: Knowing What People Intent to “Write” on their Captions through Pragmatics Perspective

Amirudin

Triyono

2018

Int. J. Appl. Linguist. Engl. Lit.

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Instagram as one of the famous social network sites in this century is as one way to share various kinds of general information and to present our activities, events, achievements, vacations, and so forth. The present study explored expositive acts presented in the caption of Instagram-posting by Indonesian users. It is interesting that expositive acts used are to emphasize self-presentation on their posting. 734 photo-posting with caption from 15 participants were found. The expositive acts performed by the participants were classified based on the kinds of expositive acts as proposed by Austin (1962). The factors initiating each kind of expositive acts were described. The representation of self-presentation on expositive acts was discussed. The present study found ten kinds of expositive acts which were also identified as the communicative intention presented in their Intagram-posting with caption, namely: apprising, describing, affirming, supposing, remarking, informing, postulating, confirming, arguing, and telling. Finally, the present study offer implication for further study that the caption used in this social medium is as another valuable aspect in Instagram for emphasizing self-presentation phenomena, in which this caption is also incorporated with communicative intention by the users implicitly or explicitly addressed to others.

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“…They were found in memes as social network sites phenomena (Grundlingh, 2017). They were analyzed on the use of conversational style on Twitter (Scott, 2015). They are Expositive Acts on Instagram: Knowing What People Intent to "Write" on their Captions through Pragmatics Perspective 131…”

Section: Speech Acts In Pragmaticsmentioning

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Expositive Acts on Instagram: Knowing What People Intent to “Write” on their Captions through Pragmatics Perspective

Amirudin

Triyono

2018

Int. J. Appl. Linguist. Engl. Lit.

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“…Although hashtag use is now well entrenched across all social media and microblogging sites to classify user content, it was on Twitter in particular that hashtags first appeared as an 'organic' way for Twitter users to make sense of the otherwise asynchronous communication environment of that particular social media platform (Scott, 2015). It is for this reason, as well as due to Twitter's consistent position as one of the most influential social media platforms worldwide, that we focused on the use of #RefugeesWelcome specifically on Twitter.…”

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Understanding a digital movement of opinion: the case of #RefugeesWelcome

Barisione

Michailidou

Airoldi

2017

Information, Communication & Society

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Twitter: @AsiminaMiUnderstanding a digital movement of opinion: The case of #RefugeesWelcome Recent work on digital political engagement has extensively shown that social media platforms enhance political participation and collective action. However, the idea that citizen voice through social media can give rise, under given conditions, to a specific digital force combining properties of social movements and public opinion has received less attention. We fill this gap by analysing the digital discussion around the Twitter hashtag #RefugeesWelcome as a case of 'digital movement of opinion' (DMO). When the refugee crisis erupted in 2015, an extraordinary wave of empathy characterized the publics' reactions in key European hosting countries, especially as a result of viral images portraying refugee children as the main victims. Using a triangulation of network, content and metadata analysis, we find that this DMO was driven primarily by social media elites whose tweets were then echoed by masses of isolated users. We then test the post-DMO status of the hashtag-sphere after a potentially antithetical shock such as the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks, which polarized the network public. Overall, we argue that the concept of digital movement of opinion provides a heuristically useful tool for future research on new forms of digital citizen participation.

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“…Hashtags first developed on Twitter to facilitate the grouping together of tweets on a similar topic and to thereby enable searching. Despite the linguistic and pragmatic innovations (Scott, 2015;Zappavigna, 2015 ) that I briefly outline in this section, their role in facilitating content searches and aggregating content remains a key function online. For example, at the Poetics and Linguistics Association annual conference 2015, delegates included the tag #pala2015 in their tweets to help fellow participants find their posts, as in example (2).…”

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“Hashtags work everywhere”: The pragmatic functions of spoken hashtags

Scott

2018

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Hashtags online perform a range of linguistic (Zappavigna, 2015) and pragmatic (Scott, 2015) functions alongside their categorising and searching functionalities. In Scott (2015), I argued that these different functions are, at least partly, driven by the properties associated with mediated discourse. However, hashtags are also sometimes produced in spoken discourse, where the interlocutors share a physical context and are likely to have access to a range of contextual assumptions and nonverbal cues that are unavailable online. In face-to-face communication the audience is less likely to be "imagined" in the sense of boyd (2010) and the speaker is less likely to have to negotiate "context collapse", as identified by Marwick and boyd (2011). Drawing on principles from the relevance-theoretic pragmatic framework (Sperber & Wilson, 1986/95), I argue that in such an enriched context, the range of pragmatic functions of hashtags is likely to be reduced, and will be motivated by factors other than an impoverished discourse context. I draw on data from attested spoken examples and show that spoken hashtags seem to be largely restricted to their interpersonal "metacomment" (Zappavigna, 2015, p. 6) function, and that they are most commonly used to provide evaluative judgements on the rest of the utterance and to guide inferences concerning the speaker's attitudinal stance.

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The pragmatics of hashtags: Inference and conversational style on Twitter

Cited by 160 publications

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Expositive Acts on Instagram: Knowing What People Intent to “Write” on their Captions through Pragmatics Perspective

Expositive Acts on Instagram: Knowing What People Intent to “Write” on their Captions through Pragmatics Perspective

Understanding a digital movement of opinion: the case of #RefugeesWelcome

“Hashtags work everywhere”: The pragmatic functions of spoken hashtags

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