Hashtags in Linguistic Anthropology: A COVID-19 Case Study

Hashtags in Linguistic Anthropology: A COVID-19 Case Study

Hashtags in social media reflect the Coronavirus pandemic outbreak and the consequential shifts and swifts in people’s lifestyles. Several studies related to the pandemic have used hashtags from linguistic, economic, and sociological perspectives. However, the potentiality of hashtags in addressing...

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المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Vaishali, V Shri, Rukmini, S.
التنسيق: Article ou chapitre numérique
اللغة:Anglais
منشور في: Angles 2021
الموضوعات:
COVID-19
Instagram
linguistique anthropologique
Internet
hashtag
linguistic anthropology
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:angles_4489 https://doi.org/10.4000/angles.4489 urn:doi:10.4000/angles.4489 en https://journals.openedition.org/angles/4489 2021-12-17T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/9n1o https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Hashtags in Linguistic Anthropology: A COVID-19 Case Study Angles Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2274-2042 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/angles Vaishali, V Shri Rukmini, S. COVID-19 Instagram linguistique anthropologique Internet hashtag COVID-19 hashtag Instagram linguistic anthropology Internet Hashtags in social media reflect the Coronavirus pandemic outbreak and the consequential shifts and swifts in people’s lifestyles. Several studies related to the pandemic have used hashtags from linguistic, economic, and sociological perspectives. However, the potentiality of hashtags in addressing the pandemic-related anthropological questions is still underexplored. This study verifies how hashtags are primarily anthropocentric and can act as a source for anthropological studies. We have collected COVID-related hashtags in Instagram under five different pandemic-related words like #newnormal, #oldnormal, #quarantine, #lockdown, #pandemic, #corona. Eighty-eight hashtags under the mentioned pandemic-related keywords and 11 neologisms are collected to analyse their linguistic patterns and anthropological implications. The hashtags are segmented into basetags and stemtags to find the lexical significance of individual word units in the pandemic lifestyle. The segmentation helped analyse the range of vocabulary in hashtags used to describe people’s lifestyles during the pandemic. Hashtags are user-friendly and are primarily used as an expressing and recording device. The archival and emotive quality added to hashtags’ searchability and accessibility make them a potential linguistic anthropological research source for the ’COVID-19 pandemic. Les hashtags dans les médias sociaux reflètent l'épidémie de pandémie de coronavirus et les changements qui en découlent dans le mode de vie de la population. Plusieurs études liées à la pandémie ont utilisé les hashtags dans une perspective linguistique, économique et sociologique. Cependant, le potentiel des hashtags pour aborder les questions anthropologiques liées à la pandémie est encore peu exploré. Cette étude démontre que les hashtags sont avant tout anthropocentriques et peuvent servir de source pour les études anthropologiques. Nous avons collecté les hashtags liés au COVID sur Instagram sous cinq mots différents liés à la pandémie comme #newnnormal, #oldnormal, #quarantine, #lockdown, #pandemic, #corona. Quatre-vingt-huit hashtags liés aux mots-clés associés à la pandémie sus-mentionnés et 11 néologismes ont été collectés pour analyser leurs modèles linguistiques et leurs implications anthropologiques. Les hashtags sont segmentés en basetags et stemtags afin de trouver la signification lexicale des unités de mots individuels dans le mode de vie en période de pandémie. La segmentation a permis d'analyser l'étendue du vocabulaire des hashtags utilisés pour décrire le mode de vie des gens pendant la pandémie. Les hashtags sont conviviaux et sont principalement utilisés comme moyen d'expression et comme dispositif de consignation ou d’archivage. La qualité archivistique et émotive, ajoutée à la facilité de recherche et à l'accessibilité des hashtags, en font une source potentielle de recherche anthropologique linguistique pour analyser la pandémie de COVID-19.
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topic COVID-19
Instagram
linguistique anthropologique
Internet
hashtag
COVID-19
hashtag
Instagram
linguistic anthropology
Internet
spellingShingle COVID-19
Instagram
linguistique anthropologique
Internet
hashtag
COVID-19
hashtag
Instagram
linguistic anthropology
Internet
Vaishali, V Shri
Rukmini, S.
Hashtags in Linguistic Anthropology: A COVID-19 Case Study
description Hashtags in social media reflect the Coronavirus pandemic outbreak and the consequential shifts and swifts in people’s lifestyles. Several studies related to the pandemic have used hashtags from linguistic, economic, and sociological perspectives. However, the potentiality of hashtags in addressing the pandemic-related anthropological questions is still underexplored. This study verifies how hashtags are primarily anthropocentric and can act as a source for anthropological studies. We have collected COVID-related hashtags in Instagram under five different pandemic-related words like #newnormal, #oldnormal, #quarantine, #lockdown, #pandemic, #corona. Eighty-eight hashtags under the mentioned pandemic-related keywords and 11 neologisms are collected to analyse their linguistic patterns and anthropological implications. The hashtags are segmented into basetags and stemtags to find the lexical significance of individual word units in the pandemic lifestyle. The segmentation helped analyse the range of vocabulary in hashtags used to describe people’s lifestyles during the pandemic. Hashtags are user-friendly and are primarily used as an expressing and recording device. The archival and emotive quality added to hashtags’ searchability and accessibility make them a potential linguistic anthropological research source for the ’COVID-19 pandemic.
author Vaishali, V Shri
Rukmini, S.
author_facet Vaishali, V Shri
Rukmini, S.
author_sort Vaishali, V Shri
title Hashtags in Linguistic Anthropology: A COVID-19 Case Study
title_short Hashtags in Linguistic Anthropology: A COVID-19 Case Study
title_full Hashtags in Linguistic Anthropology: A COVID-19 Case Study
title_fullStr Hashtags in Linguistic Anthropology: A COVID-19 Case Study
title_full_unstemmed Hashtags in Linguistic Anthropology: A COVID-19 Case Study
title_sort hashtags in linguistic anthropology: a covid-19 case study
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