Corpus Approaches to Language in Social Media

ISBN-13: 9781032125701 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Publication date: 08/18/2023 Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics Pages: 398 Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) This book showcases the unique possibilities of corpus linguistic methodologies in engaging with and analysing language data from social media, surveying current approaches, and offering guidelines and best practices for doing language analysis. The book provides an overview of how language in social media has been approached by linguists and non-linguists, before delving into the identification of the datasets requirements needed to pursue investigations in social media, and of the technical aspects of particular platforms that may influence the analysis, such as emoticons, retweets, and metadata. Sample Python code, along with general guidelines for using it, is provided to empower researchers to apply these techniques in their own work, supported by actual examples from three real-life case studie