The Language of Illness and Death on Social Media

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An Affective Approach

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This book investigates the language created in Facebook groups that relate shared experiences of illness, dying and mourning. It develops a theoretical and analytical framework for understanding the use and rhythms of emojis, interjections and other forms of “intensive” writing in social media of t...

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(8 chapters)
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DOI
10.1108/9781787694798
Publication date
2018-10-01
Book series
Sharing Death Online
Authors
Series copyright holder
Emerald Publishing Limited
ISBN
978-1-78769-482-8
eISBN
978-1-78769-479-8