Journal article
How much can you say in a tweet? An approach to political argumentation on Twitter
Humanities & social sciences communications, v 8(1), pp 1-9
14 May 2021
Abstract
Besides Donald Trump, its most famous user, some 330 million people use Twitter as a platform for communication, much of it political. Yet, given the 280 character limit, how much can you say in a tweet? Although much has already been written about Twitter, little attention has been given to the nature of the argument found there. To begin filling this gap, it is necessary to identify the basic units of such an argument. Identifying them as speech acts, we demonstrate here by discourse analysis how by virtue of the enthymematic quality of public argument, much argument can be communicated even by singular speech acts and even by speech acts other than assertion.
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- Title
- How much can you say in a tweet? An approach to political argumentation on Twitter
- Creators
- Katarzyna Elliott-Maksymowicz - Drexel UniversityAlexander Nikolaev - Drexel UniversityDouglas Porpora - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Humanities & social sciences communications, v 8(1), pp 1-9
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Number of pages
- 9
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Communication
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000651476400001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85105887843
- Other Identifier
- 991019168115804721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Humanities, Multidisciplinary
- Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary