The special issue on 'The sociolinguistics of exclusion: Indexing (non) belonging in mobile
communities' delves into the phenomenon of exclusion as a means and outcome of social …

This study examines so-called “ironic memes,” a seemingly inscrutable genre of memetic
Internet content, as meaningful digital multimodal text. Considering Internet memes' semiotic …

In this chapter we aim to examine the notion of “place” as it is discursively constructed and
entextualised, both individually and collectively through the online-offline interface. We …

This book demonstrates the power and distinctiveness of the contribution that
sociolinguistics can make to our understanding of everyday communicative practice under …

Building on Partington's research on laughter-talk in press briefings (Partington 2006, 2017),
this study examines the textual representation of laughter in the subforum korona wakuchin …

Este ensaio confronta abordagens da linguagem que têm buscado explicar condições
linguísticas em ambientes digitais considerando a digitalização tão somente como um pano …

Gomen, the object of analysis in this study, is an informal expression commonly signalled as
an apology in Japanese. Drawing from a corpus of online Q&A forums in Japanese …

The aim of this article is to explore some of the ideological and empirical limits of studies on
populism from a perspective based on Latin American history and theories, on one hand …

On 7 January 2021, Jan Blommaert died aged 59, after a ten-month battle with cancer. He
was an extraordinary person and a brilliant academic, and there have been a great many …

This chapter outlines some of the challenges discourse analysts face when analysing social
media. It considers what it is that makes social media discourse different from other kinds of …