Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics

<p><i>Innovations and Challenges in Social Media Discourse Analysis</i> provides a key introduction to the analysis of everyday discourse on social media platforms.</p><p>Outlining the challenges involved in the study of social media discourse that includes social interaction, relationality, intersubjectivity, and intermodality, this book takes a social semiotic approach to offer a useful reconceptualisation of existing tools and introduces new methodologies to help those studying in this area.</p><p>Drawing on a range of corpora that feature tweets, Instagram photos, YouTube comments, and emoji, this book is essential reading for students studying modules on discourse analysis and language and media.</p>