#MUSLIMRAGE When Western Fears Meet Political Humor

Schwell, Alexandra

doi:10.16995/ee.1170

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“…In this section, we show how #jesuis has also developed into an expression of disalignment, often through mocking uses based on imitating the original linguistic behavior (Norrick 1993), in this case the aligning uses of #jesuis hashtags. In fact, humorous effect, sometimes through maxim flouting, has also been documented for other hashtags (Wikström 2014:144; Schwell 2015).…”

Section: Disalignmentmentioning

confidence: 85%

“…As already pointed out by Zappavigna (2015:277), hashtags are not only used for searchability purposes, but may also be used for the merely interpersonal purpose of increasing the visibility of a cause and/or of one's own presence on Twitter (‘being louder’, Zappavigna 2011:799). This use is observed in campaigns concerning political (Roginsky & De Cock 2015) or societal topics, such as #muslimrage following the appearance of a controversial front cover of Newsweek magazine (Schwell 2015). The #jesuisCharlie hashtags and other #jesuis hashtags seem to fulfill this interpersonal function primarily.…”

Section: Hashtags As An Affordancementioning

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From expressing solidarity to mocking on Twitter: Pragmatic functions of hashtags starting with #jesuisacross languages

Cock

Pedraza

2018

Lang. Soc.

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In this article, we show how the hashtag #jesuisCharlie, created following the attack on Charlie Hebdo, gave rise to the use of many other hashtags starting with #jesuis, across languages. Through a corpus-based analysis, we show how the meaning of #jesuis broadened from expressing condolence and support following terrorist attacks over expressing condolence for other (violent) deaths to a more general marker of solidarity and alignment. This broadening of meaning is parallel to a formal evolution of the stem jesuis. Moreover, these hashtags have become emblematic of a particular kind of Twitter user. Furthermore, disaligning uses developed, including mocking uses, which disalign both with certain causes (disalignment de re) and with the process of using jesuis as a means of expressing solidarity (disalignment de dicto). Thus, this variety of uses shows that Twitter users exploit the interpersonal possibilities of hashtags to express alignment and disalignment, creating ambient affiliation. (Hashtag, #jesuisCharlie, solidarity, alignment, emblem, mocking, pragmatic functions)*

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Section: Disalignmentmentioning

confidence: 85%

Section: Hashtags As An Affordancementioning

confidence: 99%

From expressing solidarity to mocking on Twitter: Pragmatic functions of hashtags starting with #jesuisacross languages

Cock

Pedraza

2018

Lang. Soc.

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A comparison of climate change lexical creativity among American, European and international Twitter users

Marcella¹

2022

Patterns and Variation in English Language Discourse. 9th Brno Conference on Linguistics Studies in English

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Climate change is an environmental, social, cultural and political phenomenon which has led to a bitter controversy among political leaders, social movements, and activists. The aim of this case study is to analyze lexical innovations in climate change discourse in the micro-blogging service Twitter, and more in particular, in the use of English language through hashtags by a new generation of young activists, NGOs, and American and European politicians and organizations in the time frame from 2015 to 2020. By means of this case study, we prove that, through the creativity of hashtags, Twitter users can take part in the heart of a discussion related to climate change leading to a valuable interpretive framework.

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#MUSLIMRAGE When Western Fears Meet Political Humor

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From expressing solidarity to mocking on Twitter: Pragmatic functions of hashtags starting with #jesuisacross languages

From expressing solidarity to mocking on Twitter: Pragmatic functions of hashtags starting with #jesuisacross languages

A comparison of climate change lexical creativity among American, European and international Twitter users

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