Forms and functions of intertextuality in academic tweets composed by research groups

Luzón, M. J. (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: This paper explores the forms and functions of intertextuality in academic tweets composed by research groups. Academic tweets are dialogic and intertextual texts, usually composed by incorporating other voices and taking up text-visual elements from other contexts. Based on the analysis of 300 tweets taken from the Twitter accounts of four research groups in two different disciplines (Chemistry and Medicine), this study investigates the ways in which intertextual practices contribute to the communicative purposes of the genre. The analysis shows that the affordances of Twitter (e.g. hyperlinking, modularity, multimodality) and the purpose of academic tweets shape the forms and functions of intertextuality in these tweets. When composing these tweets academics both reconfigure well-established forms of intertextuality and display novel forms which help them to promote their research, negotiate their relationships with their readers, and share content with diverse audiences.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1016/j.jeap.2023.101254

Año: 2023

Publicado en: Journal of English for Academic Purposes 64 (2023), 101254 [16 pp.]
ISSN: 1475-1585

Factor impacto JCR: 3.1 (2023)

Categ. JCR: LINGUISTICS rank: 19 / 296 = 0.064 (2023) - Q1 - T1
Categ. JCR: EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH rank: 74 / 760 = 0.097 (2023) - Q1 - T1

Factor impacto CITESCORE: 6.6 - Language and Linguistics (Q1) - Education (Q1) - Linguistics and Language (Q1)

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 1.589 - Linguistics and Language (Q1) - Education (Q1)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/H16-20R
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICIU/PID2019-105655RB-I00

Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)

Área (Departamento): Área Filología Inglesa (Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema.)