Publications

Authors:

Caleffi, Paola Maria

Title:

The 'hashtag': A new word or a new rule?

Year:

2015

Type of item:

Articolo in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Articolo su rivista

Language:

Inglese

Format:

Elettronico

Referee:

Sì

Name of journal:

SKASE JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS

ISSN of journal:

1336-782X

N° Volume:

12-2015

Number or Folder:

2

Page numbers:

46-69

Keyword:

hashtag, twitter, word formation

Short description of contents:

Born as a topic marker to make tweets searchable, today the pound symbol is gaining popularity not only on other social platforms, but also offline, with hashtags increasingly appearing in the linguistic landscape (e.g. headlines, advertising, political slogans). This paper analyzes hashtagging as a productive process of word-formation in English and Italian, both online and offline. The analysis is based on samples of hashtags from a corpus of tweets and samples appearing in the offline world. The study proposes a tentative taxonomy of hashtag types and poses questions on the nature of the ‘products’ of hashtagging. It also comments on the pragmatic exploitation of the collected samples.

Product ID:

88109

Handle IRIS:

11562/926274

Last Modified:

November 15, 2022

Bibliographic citation:

Caleffi, Paola Maria, The 'hashtag': A new word or a new rule? «SKASE JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS» , vol. 12-2015 , n. 2 , 2015 , pp. 46-69

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