32.1096, Qs: Discourse Analysis of Nonsense

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LINGUIST List: Vol-32-1096. Fri Mar 26 2021. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 32.1096, Qs: Discourse Analysis of Nonsense

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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 05:03:47
From: Karen Pennesi [pennesi at uwo.ca]
Subject: Discourse Analysis of Nonsense

 
I am looking for references on discourse analysis of nonsense. One of my
students is analyzing Twitter data where there are a lot of tweets that do not
contain grammatical sentences but instead what we might describe as gibberish
or a few words or a gif, image or emoji. Her sense is that they are posting
these tweets to take up space or disrupt the conversation about controversial
topics. But I seem to recall reading something years ago about nonsensical
discourse so I wondered if anyone could point me to some literature. 

Thanks,

Karen Pennesi
Associate Prof. Anthropology
University of Western Ontario
Canada
 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Philosophy of Language
                     Sociolinguistics



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