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In:Corpus Approaches to Social Media:
Edited by Sofia Rüdiger and Daria Dayter
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 98] 2020
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Introduction
The expanding landscape of corpus-based studies of social media language

 | University of Bayreuth
 | University of Basel
Published online: 4 November 2020
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Article outline
  • 1.Social media as a data source
  • 2.Structure and scope of this volume
  • 3.Outlook
  • Note
  • References
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