Corpus approaches to social media
In: Studies in corpus linguistics volume 98
In: Studies in Corpus Linguistics Ser. v.98
Intro -- Corpus Approaches to Social Media -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Introduction. The expanding landscape of corpus-based studies of social media language -- 1. Social media as a data source -- 2. Structure and scope of this volume -- 3. Outlook -- References -- Part I. Using corpus methods to investigate communities on social media -- Chapter 1. Towards a digital sociolinguistics: Communities of practice on reddit -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Introducing Reddit -- 2.1 User origin and accessibility -- 2.2 Structure and features of Reddit -- 3. Communities of practice and the online self -- 3.1 A world of make-believe? -- 3.2 Community of practice -- 4. Crawling Reddit: Data and method -- 5. Subreddits as CoPs: Some findings -- 5.1 Talking about community -- 5.2 User behaviour -- 5.3 Shared repertoire -- 6. Discussion: Framing subreddits as CoPs -- (1) Mutual engagement -- (2) Jointly negotiated enterprise -- (3) Shared repertoire -- 7. Conclusion and outlook -- References -- Chapter 2. The control and censorship of linguistic resources in an online Community of Practice -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The community of practice framework -- 3. The Popheads community -- 3.1 Power in the Popheads community -- 4. Hypotheses -- 5. Data -- 6. Why wig? -- 7. The lifespan of wig -- 7.1 The emergence and significance of wig -- 7.2 The backlash against wig -- 7.3 After the ban -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3. Talking about women: Elicitation, manual tagging, and semantic tagging in a study of pick-up artists' referential strategies -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Discourse of pick-up artists through the linguistic lens -- 3. Corpus-based research on reference in discourse -- 4. Data: The online PUA corpora -- 4.1 Large e-PUA corpus -- 4.2 Field reports (FR) corpus.