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    #Vaccineswork: Recontextualizing the content of epidemiological reports on Twitter

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    Authors
    Orpin, Deborah
    Editors
    Luzon, Maria Jose
    Perez Llantada, Carmen
    Issue Date
    2019-12-04
    
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    Abstract
    This study examines the ways in which information originating in epidemiological reports is recontextualized in the @ECDC_VPD account, the Twitter account of a European health agency. Using a corpus-assisted discourse analytical approach complemented with multimodal analysis, this study compares the strategies used to achieve proximity (Hyland 2010) in the space-constrained genre of Twitter with those used in the source texts. The study finds that the macro-structural properties of the @ECDC_VPD tweets have become more complex over time and the use of images to enhance meaning-making has increased. The drive to present claims as newsworthy, coupled with the 140/280-character constraint, results in the tweets containing greater relative use of stance markers and lower use of epistemic modals than is observed in the source texts. The @ECDC_VPD tweets display a greater range of engagement strategies than is seen in the source texts.
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    Orpin, D. (2019) #Vaccineswork: Recontextualizing the content of epidemiological reports on Twitter, in Luzon, M. and Pérez-Llantada, C. (eds.) Science Communication on the Internet. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 173–194.
    Publisher
    John Benjamins
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/2436/622805
    DOI
    10.1075/pbns.308.09orp
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    https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.308
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    Chapter in book
    Language
    en
    Series/Report no.
    Pragmatics & Beyond New Series
    ISBN
    9789027204660
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1075/pbns.308.09orp
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