Introduction
Swearing is a phenomenon strongly connected to social interaction, to which its linguistic features have often been linked (cf. Montagu 1973; Averna 1977; K. J. K. 1978; Averna and Salemi 1982; Allan and Burridge 1991, 2006; Zwicky et al. 1992 [1971]; Culpeper 1996; Hughes 1998; McEnery 2006; Spencer-Oatey 2005; Hughes 2006; Bousfield and Locher 2008; Jay and Janschewitz 2008; Jay 2009; Culpeper 2011). Yet despite the growing interest in the study of swearing among linguists, only a minority of studies have focussed on the grammatical features of swearing (e.
There has been a major cultural shift away from 'passive' consumption to more active production of digital texts by citizens. Yet,this does not mean that we all participate in digital media in the same ways and for the same reasons. Nor does it mean …
This presentation is based on a study aimed at characterising the discourse of ‘ordinary citizens’ who become influential in Twitter. The study is motivated by two gaps in knowledge. Firstly, social network science research has shown that open web systems develop in ways whereby small groups of users (10% - 20%) attract inordinate levels of attention (Cha et al 2010). The discourse features of these influential users, however, remain largely unknown.
In analysing and modelling the Tuscany regional system of innovation “poles”, we first analysed the network of agents in which the poles were engaged in the three years of their start-up phase of activity. By examining systematically all available information on websites we then focused on two objectives: (i) to analyse the variety of language and content that characterize the poles in their online activities; (ii) to examine the extent poles refer to the same institutions, enterprises, organizations, projects, and among these, organizations / or activities directly related to them (such as the companies managing the poles laboratories, incubators, the adherents), what we can call their “virtual network”.