ESTIMATION THROUGH EXPLICIT AND IMPLICIT EXPRESSIVE MEANS IN TWITTER (BASED ON THE MESSAGES OF PARTICIPANTS IN THE TEA PARTY PROTEST MOVEMENT) Cover Image

ЭКСПЛИКАЦИЯ И ИМПЛИКАЦИЯ ОЦЕНКИ В МИКРОБЛОГЕ TWITTER (НА МАТЕРИАЛЕ СООБЩЕНИЙ УЧАСТНИКОВ ПРОТЕСТНОГО ДВИЖЕНИЯ «ЧАЕПИТИЕ»)
ESTIMATION THROUGH EXPLICIT AND IMPLICIT EXPRESSIVE MEANS IN TWITTER (BASED ON THE MESSAGES OF PARTICIPANTS IN THE TEA PARTY PROTEST MOVEMENT)

Author(s): Elena Vlaeriyevna Gabrielova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Media studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Communication studies, Sociology, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Social Informatics, Philology
Published by: Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет
Keywords: explicit estimation; implicit estimation; question structures; irony; imperative; quotation; idiom; media discourse; “new media”;

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the results of the investigation carried out to define the language means of implicit and explicit estimation used by participants of the Tea Party protest movement, which emerged in 2009 in the United States. According to the content analysis of Twitter messages performed with the help of the Atlas.ti software program, the main trends in the topics and linguistic devices implemented by users while expressing their opinions are defined. The data analysis shows that requests for assistance, criticism against the US president, and support of the protest movement are, as a rule, expressed explicitly. Participants often state their opinions implicitly through the use of irony, phraseological units, implicit estimation, question structures, and quotations.

  • Issue Year: 157/2015
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 141-149
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Russian