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Introduction to Analyzing Digital Discourse: New Insights and Future Directions

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In the introduction, we have embedded our overview of the contributions to this volume within a narrative that reviews past and extant research on language and digital communication. We have taken special care to highlight the ways in which each chapter advances the field. In order to do so, we have carefully identified new methodological and empirical insights put forth by the different authors. Specifically, we have highlighted the steps contributors to this volume have taken to help establish the so-called third wave of research, and these steps point to future directions in which to expand the field of language and digital communication.

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    Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich

  2. Department of English and German Philology, Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain

    Patricia Bou-Franch

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Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P., Bou-Franch, P. (2019). Introduction to Analyzing Digital Discourse: New Insights and Future Directions. In: Bou-Franch, P., Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (eds) Analyzing Digital Discourse. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92663-6_1

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