Prelim pages

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction. The expanding landscape of corpus-based studies of social media language 1
4. Part 1. Using corpus methods to investigate communities on social media
5. Chapter 1. Towards a digital sociolinguistics 15
6. Chapter 2. The control and censorship of linguistic resources in an online Community of Practice 41
7. Chapter 3. Talking about women 63
8. Part II. Linguistic variation in short social media texts
9. Chapter 4. Patterns of intra-individual variation in a Swiss WhatsApp corpus 89
10. Chapter 5. Using lengthwise scaling to compare feature frequencies across text lengths on Reddit 111
11. Chapter 6. Double trouble 131
12. Part III. The role of images
13. Chapter 7. Constructing corpora from images and text 149
14. Chapter 8. Working with images and emoji in the 🦆 Dukki Facebook Corpus 175
15. Part IV. Discussion
16. Chapter 9. New developments in corpus approaches to social media 199
17. Index 209