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‘Had a lovely week at #conference2018 ’: An Analysis of Interaction through Conference Tweets
RELC Journal ( IF 3.6 ) Pub Date : 2020-03-03 , DOI: 10.1177/0033688219896862
María José Luzón 1 , Sofía Albero-Posac 1
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Twitter has become a common feature of academic conferences, used by organizers to provide information about the conference and by attendees to engage in discussion about the conference topics, share information, and create social links and networks within the community. This study examines the tweets from two conferences in Applied Linguistics in order to analyse the networked language practices of scholars using Twitter during conferences. More specifically, in this study we address the following questions: (i) what are the purposes for which scholars in this disciplinary community use Twitter during conferences? (ii) how are different semiotic resources (e.g. linguistic forms, pictures, videos, embedded slides) combined to orchestrate meaning and achieve these various rhetorical purposes? We also look at how Twitter features (hashtags, replies, retweets, mentions) contribute to these rhetorical purposes. The analysis reveals that tweets are mostly intended to create and maintain cohesive links or to encourage peers to perform specific actions. In order to achieve these functions scholars compose their tweets by using a variety of (linguistic and non-linguistic) expressions of stance and engagement (Hyland, 2005). We suggest that, given the increasingly important role of social media for scholarly communication, a central concern of EAP courses should be to help students develop the competence of composing multimodal texts. Scholars need to understand the ways in which the multiple semiotic resources available to them in social media can be used effectively to engage other members of the community in these new digital contexts.

中文翻译:

“在#conference2018 度过了愉快的一周”:通过会议推文分析互动

Twitter 已成为学术会议的一个共同特征,组织者使用它来提供有关会议的信息,并被与会者用来参与有关会议主题的讨论、共享信息以及在社区内创建社交链接和网络。本研究检查了应用语言学两个会议的推文,以分析学者在会议期间使用 Twitter 的网络语言实践。更具体地说,在这项研究中,我们解决了以下问题:(i)该学科社区的学者在会议期间使用 Twitter 的目的是什么?(ii) 不同的符号资源(例如语言形式、图片、视频、嵌入幻灯片)如何组合以协调意义并实现这些不同的修辞目的?我们还研究了 Twitter 的功能(主题标签、回复、转发、提及)有助于达到这些修辞目的。分析表明,推文主要是为了创建和维护有凝聚力的链接或鼓励同行执行特定操作。为了实现这些功能,学者们通过使用各种(语言和非语言)立场和参与表达来撰写他们的推文(Hyland,2005)。我们建议,鉴于社交媒体在学术交流中的作用越来越重要,EAP 课程的核心关注点应该是帮助学生培养撰写多模态文本的能力。学者们需要了解如何有效地利用社交媒体中提供给他们的多种符号资源,让社区的其他成员参与到这些新的数字环境中。分析表明,推文主要是为了创建和维护有凝聚力的链接或鼓励同行执行特定操作。为了实现这些功能,学者们通过使用各种(语言和非语言)立场和参与表达来撰写他们的推文(Hyland,2005)。我们建议,鉴于社交媒体在学术交流中的作用越来越重要,EAP 课程的核心关注点应该是帮助学生培养撰写多模态文本的能力。学者们需要了解如何有效地利用社交媒体中提供给他们的多种符号资源,让社区的其他成员参与到这些新的数字环境中。分析表明,推文主要是为了创建和维护有凝聚力的链接或鼓励同行执行特定操作。为了实现这些功能,学者们通过使用各种(语言和非语言)立场和参与表达来撰写他们的推文(Hyland,2005)。我们建议,鉴于社交媒体在学术交流中的作用越来越重要,EAP 课程的核心关注点应该是帮助学生培养撰写多模态文本的能力。学者们需要了解如何有效地利用社交媒体中提供给他们的多种符号资源,让社区的其他成员参与到这些新的数字环境中。
更新日期:2020-03-03
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