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https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-26933| Publication type: | Article in scientific journal |
| Type of review: | Peer review (publication) |
| Title: | Is implicit communication quantifiable? : a corpus-based analysis of British and Italian political tweets |
| Authors: | Garassino, Davide Brocca, Nicola Masia, Viviana |
| et. al: | No |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.pragma.2022.03.024 10.21256/zhaw-26933 |
| Published in: | Journal of Pragmatics |
| Volume(Issue): | 194 |
| Page(s): | 9 |
| Pages to: | 22 |
| Issue Date: | 2022 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 0378-2166 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Pragmatics; Corpus linguistics; Political communication; Twitter; Implicit communication; Presupposition; Interrater agreement |
| Subject (DDC): | 320: Politics 401.4: Terminology, discourse analysis, pragmatics |
| Abstract: | Twitter is nowadays a powerful means of political propaganda. Its effectiveness can be easily appreciated in the large amounts of messages exchanged by politicians every day. This wealth of data, together with the interactive nature of the social medium, provides an ideal basis for the analysis of a striking feature of political messages, i.e., their implicitness, often achieved using presuppositions, among other strategies. The present work proposes a comparative analysis of British and Italian politicians' use of Twitter by focusing on implicit communication (notably, presuppositions) and the pragmatic functions of tweets. Based on a sample of about 400 tweets, our analysis shows that some of these functions tend to associate either with presuppositional or non-presuppositional communicative devices. Moreover, a critical methodological discussion is offered in order to address the main challenges of quantitative corpus-based pragmatics. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/26933 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | CC BY-NC-ND 4.0: Attribution - Non commercial - No derivatives 4.0 International |
| Departement: | Applied Linguistics |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Translation and Interpreting (IUED) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Angewandte Linguistik |
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Garassino, D., Brocca, N., & Masia, V. (2022). Is implicit communication quantifiable? : a corpus-based analysis of British and Italian political tweets. Journal of Pragmatics, 194, 9–22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2022.03.024
Garassino, D., Brocca, N. and Masia, V. (2022) ‘Is implicit communication quantifiable? : a corpus-based analysis of British and Italian political tweets’, Journal of Pragmatics, 194, pp. 9–22. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2022.03.024.
D. Garassino, N. Brocca, and V. Masia, “Is implicit communication quantifiable? : a corpus-based analysis of British and Italian political tweets,” Journal of Pragmatics, vol. 194, pp. 9–22, 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2022.03.024.
GARASSINO, Davide, Nicola BROCCA und Viviana MASIA, 2022. Is implicit communication quantifiable? : a corpus-based analysis of British and Italian political tweets. Journal of Pragmatics. 2022. Bd. 194, S. 9–22. DOI 10.1016/j.pragma.2022.03.024
Garassino, Davide, Nicola Brocca, and Viviana Masia. 2022. “Is Implicit Communication Quantifiable? : A Corpus-Based Analysis of British and Italian Political Tweets.” Journal of Pragmatics 194: 9–22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2022.03.024.
Garassino, Davide, et al. “Is Implicit Communication Quantifiable? : A Corpus-Based Analysis of British and Italian Political Tweets.” Journal of Pragmatics, vol. 194, 2022, pp. 9–22, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2022.03.024.
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