‘only idiots get vaccinated w’: a corpus-assisted analysis of laughter-text in japanese online (anti-)vaccination discourses

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  • What: This study examines the textual representation of laughter in the subforum korona wakuchin tte yabaku nai? ‘isn`t the COVID-19 vaccine insane?` on the Japanese web forum 5channeru ‘Channel 5`. The study focuses on the character ‘w` which conventionally denotes laughter in written Japanese and asks what the interactional functions of written laughter are and what elicits it. Methodologically the study shows that CADS methods and taxonomies can be applied across types and languages and conversely the systematic analysis of languages other than English can add to the ability to uncover nonobvious meanings. The theoretical . . .

     

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