Digital communication technologies both complexify and help to reveal the dynamics of
human communicative activity and capacity for identity performance. Addressing current …

Ethnographic research on online practices and communications has become increasingly
popular in the recent years with the growing influence and presence of the Internet in …

Memes are a common way for individuals to communicate online. Internet users often use
memes to reply to each other on social networking sites or other online forums. This …

There is a long tradition in which'phatic'forms of interaction are seen as (and characterized
by) relatively low levels of'information'and'meaning'. Yet, observations on social media …

Internet humour flourishes on social network sites, special humour-dedicated sites and on
web pages focusing on edutainment or infotainment. Its increasing pervasiveness has to do …

Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics is a series of introductory level textbooks
covering the core topics in Applied Linguistics, primarily designed for those beginning …

In this paper I lay out some of the main theoretical methodological principles that underlie a
narratives-as-practices approach and discuss three foci that emerge from current research …

Language, Creativity and Humour Online offers new insights into the creative linguistic
practices found in diverse digital contexts, such as social media platforms. It introduces new …

This article addresses the need for critical approaches to social media by bridging the focus
on language and other semiotic resources that characterises discourse studies with the …

This paper explores the interactional pragmatic characteristics of multimodal memetic
content facilitated by Twitter affordances, notably the functions of retweeting and quote …