Is implicit communication quantifiable? : a corpus-based analysis of British and Italian political tweets

Garassino, Davide; Brocca, Nicola; Masia, Viviana

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2022.03.024

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dc.contributor.author	Garassino, Davide	-
dc.contributor.author	Brocca, Nicola	-
dc.contributor.author	Masia, Viviana	-
dc.date.accessioned	2023-02-11T11:01:22Z	-
dc.date.available	2023-02-11T11:01:22Z	-
dc.date.issued	2022	-
dc.identifier.issn	0378-2166	de_CH
dc.identifier.uri	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/26933	-
dc.description.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.	de_CH
dc.language.iso	en	de_CH
dc.publisher	Elsevier	de_CH
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of Pragmatics	de_CH
dc.rights	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	de_CH
dc.subject	Pragmatics	de_CH
dc.subject	Corpus linguistics	de_CH
dc.subject	Political communication	de_CH
dc.subject	Twitter	de_CH
dc.subject	Implicit communication	de_CH
dc.subject	Presupposition	de_CH
dc.subject	Interrater agreement	de_CH
dc.subject.ddc	320: Politik	de_CH
dc.subject.ddc	401.4: Terminologie, Diskursanalyse, Pragmatik	de_CH
dc.title	Is implicit communication quantifiable? : a corpus-based analysis of British and Italian political tweets	de_CH
dc.type	Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift	de_CH
dcterms.type	Text	de_CH
zhaw.departement	Angewandte Linguistik	de_CH
zhaw.organisationalunit	Institut für Übersetzen und Dolmetschen (IUED)	de_CH
dc.identifier.doi	10.1016/j.pragma.2022.03.024	de_CH
dc.identifier.doi	10.21256/zhaw-26933	-
zhaw.funding.eu	No	de_CH
zhaw.originated.zhaw	Yes	de_CH
zhaw.pages.end	22	de_CH
zhaw.pages.start	9	de_CH
zhaw.publication.status	publishedVersion	de_CH
zhaw.volume	194	de_CH
zhaw.publication.review	Peer review (Publikation)	de_CH
zhaw.author.additional	No	de_CH
zhaw.display.portrait	Yes	de_CH
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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.