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Associate Professor Michele Zappavigna

Associate Professor Michele Zappavigna

Associate Professor
Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of the Arts and Media
As a linguist, my primary focus is on exploring the digital discourse, in terms of linguistic, paralinguistic, and multimodal patterns. Essentially I am interested in ‘ambient affiliation’: how people bond through language in digital spaces. My most recent focus is on the language of LLM Chatbots and human users in conversations.   
 
More here: http://michelezappavigna.com
E-mail
m.zappavigna@unsw.edu.au
Location
311R, Level 3 Robert Webster
  • Books | 2024
    Zappavigna M; Logi L, 2024, Emoji and Social Media Paralanguage, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009179829
    Books | 2024
    Zappavigna M; Ross AS, 2024, Innovations and challenges in social media discourse analysis, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003257516
    Books | 2022
    Ngo T; Hood S; Martin JR; Painter C; Smith BA; Zappavigna M, 2022, Modelling Paralanguage Using Systemic Functional Semiotics, Bloomsbury Academic, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350074934
    Books | 2022
    Page R; Barton D; Lee C; Unger JW; Zappavigna M, 2022, Researching Language and Social Media: A Student Guide: Second edition, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003121763
    Books | 2021
    Ngo T; Hood S; Martin JR; Painter C; Smith BA; Zappavigna M, 2021, Modelling Paralanguage Using Systemic Functional Semiotics Theory and Application, Bloomsbury Publishing, https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/modelling-paralanguage-using-systemic-functional-semiotics-9781350074910/
    Books | 2018
    Zappavigna M; Martin JR, 2018, Discourse and Diversionary Justice: An Analysis of Ceremonial Redress in Youth Justice Conferencing, Palgrave, London, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63763-1
    Books | 2018
    Zappavigna M, 2018, Searchable Talk: Hashtags and Social Media Metadiscourse
    Books | 2018
    Zappavigna M, 2018, Searchable Talk: Hashtags and the discourse of social tagging., Bloomsbury, London
    Books | 2014
    Barton D; Page R; Unger J; Zappavigna M, 2014, Researching Language and Social Media: A Student Guide, Routledge, London
    Books | 2013
    Zappavigna M, 2013, Tacit knowledge and spoken discourse, 4, Bloomsbury Academic, London, http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/tacit-knowledge-and-spoken-discourse-9781441128409/
    Books | 2012
    Zappavigna M, 2012, Discourse of Twitter and Social Media: How We Use Language to Create Affiliation on the Web, Continuum (now Bloomsbury), London, http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/discourse-of-twitter-and-social-media-9781441141866/
  • Book Chapters | 2023
    Inwood O; Zappavigna M, 2023, 'A systemic functional linguistics approach to analyzing white supremacist and conspiratorial discourse on YouTube', in (De)constructing Societal Threats During Times of Deep Mediatization, Routledge, pp. 58 - 88, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003436768-4
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Inwood O; Zappavigna M, 2023, 'Attitudes about propaganda and disinformation: Identifying discursive personae in YouTube comment sections', in The Routledge Handbook of Discourse and Disinformation, Routledge (Taylor & Francis), pp. 239 - 257, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003224495-18
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Inwood O; Zappavigna M, 2023, 'The Marriages of Celebrity Politicians: A Social Semiotic Approach to How Commenters Affiliate Around YouTube Gossip Videos', in Rhetoric Politics and Society, pp. 133 - 153, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15119-4_9
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Inwood O; Zappavigna M, 2022, 'The ID2020 conspiracy theory in YouTube video comments during COVID-19 Bonding around religious, political, and technological discourses', in Discourse Approaches to Politics Society and Culture, pp. 241 - 266, http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.98.11inw
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Inwood O; Zappavigna M, 2022, 'The ID2020 conspiracy theory in YouTube video comments during COVID-19', in Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 241 - 266, http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.98.11inw
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Logi L; Zappavigna M, 2022, 'Affiliation: An appliable framework for exploring community and identity in discourse', in Caldwell D; Knox J; Martin JR (ed.), Appliable Linguistics and Social Semiotics: Developing Theory from Practice, Bloomsbury, London, pp. 325 - 340
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Logi L; Zappavigna M, 2022, 'Bodies talk: Modelling paralanguage in Systemic Functional Linguistics', in David C; Knox J; Martin JR (ed.), Appliable Linguistics and Social Semiotics: Developing Theory from Practice, Bloomsbury, London, pp. 487 - 506
    Book Chapters | 2021
    Zappavigna M, 2021, 'Discourse and social media', in Bloomsbury Handbook of Discourse Analysis Second Edition, pp. 295 - 310, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350156111.ch-021
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Caple H; Bednarek M, 2020, 'A nation remembers: Discourses of change, mourning, and reconciliation on Australia Day.', in Zappavigna M; Dreyfus S (ed.), Discourses of Hope and Reconciliation On J. R. Martin’s Contribution to Systemic Functional Linguistics, Bloomsbury Publishing, https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/discourses-of-hope-and-reconciliation-9781350116078/
    Book Chapters | 2020
    White P, 2020, 'Attitudinal alignments in journalistic commentary and social-media argumentation: The construction of values-based group identities in the online comments of newspaper readers', in Zappavigna M; Dreyfus S (ed.), Discourses of Hope and Reconciliation: On J. R. Martin’s Contribution to Systemic Functional Linguistics, Bloombury Academic, London, pp. 21 - 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350116092.ch-002
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Zappavigna M; Zhao S, 2020, 'Selfies and recontextualisation: still life self-imaging in social media', in Miles M; Welch E (ed.), Photography and its Publics, pp. 207 - 228, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350054998.ch-011
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Zappavigna M, 2020, '“And then he Said … No one has more Respect for Women than I do” Intermodal Relations and Intersubjectivity in Image Macros', in Stöckl H; Caple H (ed.), Shifts towards Image-centricity in Contemporary Multimodal Practices, Routledge, London, pp. 204 - 225, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429487965
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Zappavigna M, 2019, 'Ambient affiliation and #brexit: Negotiating values about experts through censure and ridicule', in Koller V; Kopf S; Miglbauer M (ed.), Discourses of Brexit, Routledge, London, pp. 48 - 68, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351041867
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Zappavigna M, 2019, 'Language and social media enacting identity through ambient affiliation', in Cambridge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics, pp. 715 - 738
    Book Chapters | 2019
    Zappavigna M, 2019, 'Language and social media: Enacting identity through ambient affiliation', in Thompson G; Bowcher W; Fontaine L; Liang Y (ed.), The Cambridge handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics., Cambridge University Press, London, pp. 714 - 737
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Zappavigna M; Martin JR, 2018, 'Approaching Restorative Justice', in Discourse and Diversionary Justice, Springer International Publishing, pp. 1 - 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63763-1_1
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Zappavigna M; Martin JR, 2018, 'Conference Design: Genre and Macro-Genre', in Discourse and Diversionary Justice, Springer International Publishing, pp. 49 - 127, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63763-1_2
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Zappavigna M; Martin JR, 2018, 'Conference Interaction: Exchange Structure', in Discourse and Diversionary Justice, Springer International Publishing, pp. 129 - 156, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63763-1_3
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Zappavigna M; Martin JR, 2018, 'Expressing Feeling: Appraisal Systems', in Discourse and Diversionary Justice, Springer International Publishing, pp. 157 - 197, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63763-1_4
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Zappavigna M; Martin JR, 2018, 'Negotiating Feeling: The Role of Body Language', in Discourse and Diversionary Justice, Springer International Publishing, pp. 199 - 243, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63763-1_5
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Zappavigna M; Martin JR, 2018, 'Performing Identity: A Topological Perspective', in Discourse and Diversionary Justice, Springer International Publishing, pp. 245 - 268, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63763-1_6
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Zappavigna M, 2018, 'Evaluation', in Hoffmann C; Bublitz W (ed.), Pragmatics of Social Media., De Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 435 - 459, http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/458679
    Book Chapters | 2018
    Zhao S; Zappavigna M, 2018, 'Digital Scrapbooks, everyday aesthetics & the curatorial self: Social photography in female visual blogging', in Multimodality and Aesthetics, Routledge, London
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Zappavigna M, 2017, '"Had enough of experts": Intersubjectivity and the quoted voice in microblogging', in Studies in Corpus-Based Sociolinguistics, pp. 319 - 341, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315527819
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Zappavigna M, 2017, '16. Evaluation', in Pragmatics of Social Media, De Gruyter, pp. 435 - 458, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110431070-016
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Zappavigna M, 2017, '8. Twitter', in Pragmatics of Social Media, De Gruyter, pp. 201 - 224, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110431070-008
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Zappavigna M, 2017, 'Ambient liveness: Searchable audiences and second screens', in Hight C; Harindranath R (ed.), Studying Digital Media Audiences: Perspectives from Australasia, Routledge, London, https://www.routledge.com/Studying-Digital-Media-Audiences-Perspectives-from-Australasia/Hight-Harindranath/p/book/9781138224568
    Book Chapters | 2017
    Zappavigna M, 2017, 'Twitter', in Hoffmann C; Bublitz W (ed.), Pragmatics of Social Media, De Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 201 - 224, http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/458679
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Zappavigna M; Dwyer P; Martin JR, 2016, 'Consent and Compliance in Youth Justice Conferences', in Discursive Constructions of Consent in the Legal Process, Oxford University Press, pp. 186 - 212, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199945351.003.0009
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Zappavigna M; Dwyer P; Martin JR, 2016, 'Enacting consent: Redressive compliance in NSW Youth Justice Conferences', in Ehrlich S; Eades D; Ainsworth J (ed.), Discursive constructions of consent in the legal process, edn. Oxford Studies in Language and the Law, Oxford University Press, London, pp. 186 - 212
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Zappavigna M, 2014, ''If you do it too then RT and say #idoit2': The co-patterning of contingency and evaluation in microblogging', in Studies in Pragmatics, pp. 188 - 213, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004258174_008
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Zappavigna M, 2014, 'Coffee tweets: Bonding around the bean on twitter', in Language of Social Media Identity and Community on the Internet, pp. 139 - 160, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137029317
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Zappavigna M, 2014, 'CoffeeTweets: bonding around the bean on Twitter', in The Language of Social Media, Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 139 - 160, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137029317_7
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Zappavigna M, 2014, 'Coffeetweets: Bonding around the bean on Twitter', in Seargeant P; Tagg C (ed.), The language of social media: Communication and community on the Internet, edn. 1st, Palgrave, London, pp. 139 - 160, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137029317.0012
    Book Chapters | 2014
    Zappavigna M, 2014, '‘If You Do It too Then RT and Say #idoit2’', in Nonveridicality and Evaluation, BRILL, pp. 188 - 213, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004258174_009
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Martin JR; Zappavigna M, 2013, 'Beyond redemption: Choice and consequence in Youth Justice Conferencing', in Yan F; Webster JJ (ed.), Developing Systemic Functional Linguistics: Theory and Application, edn. Original, Equinox, London, pp. 18 - 47, https://www.equinoxpub.com/equinox/books/showbook.asp?bkid=511
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Zappavigna M, 2013, ''If You Do It Too Then RT And Say #idoit2': The co-patterning of contingency and evaluation in microblogging', in Taboada M; Trnavac R (ed.), Nonveridicality and Evaluation: Theoretical, Computational and Corpus Approaches, Brill, pp. 188 - 213
    Book Chapters | 2011
    Caldwell D; Zappavigna M, 2011, 'Visualising multimodal patterning', in Dreyfus S; Hood S; Stenglin M (ed.), Semiotic Margins: Meaning in Multimodalities, Continuum, London, pp. 229 - 243, http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/semiotic-margins-9781441173225/
    Book Chapters | 2011
    Zappavigna M, 2011, 'Visualizing logogenesis: Preserving the dynamics of meaning', in Dreyfus S; Hood S; Stenglin M (ed.), Semiotic margins: Meaning in multimodalities, edn. 1st, Continuum, London, pp. 211 - 228, http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/semiotic-margins-9781441173225/
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Martin JR; Zappavigna M; Dwyer P, 2010, 'Negotiating evaluation: story structure and appraisal in Youth Justice Conferencing', in Appliable Linguistics, Continuum, London, pp. 44 - 75
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Martin JR; Zappavigna M; Dwyer P, 2010, 'Visualising appraisal prosody', in Appliable Linguistics, Continuum, London, pp. 44 - 75
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Zappavigna M; Cléirigh C; Dwyer P; Martin JR, 2010, 'Visualizing Appraisal Prosody', in Appliable Linguistics, pp. 150 - 167
    Book Chapters | 2009
    Martin JR; Zappavigna M; Dwyer P, 2009, 'Negotiating shame: Exchange and genre structure in Youth Justice Conferencing', in Mahboob A; Lipovsky C (ed.), Studies in Applied Linguistics and Language Learning, Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle, pp. 41 - 72
    Book Chapters | 2009
    Zappavigna M; Cléirigh C; Dwyer P; Martin JR, 2009, 'The Coupling of Gesture and Phonology', in New Discourse on Language Functional Perspectives on Multimodality Identity and Affiliation, pp. 219 - 236
    Book Chapters | 2009
    Zappavigna M; Cléirigh C; Dwyer P; Martin JR, 2009, 'The Coupling of Gesture and Phonology', in New Discourse on Language: Functional Perspectives on Multimodality, Identity, and Affiliation, Continuum, London, pp. 237 - 266
    Book Chapters | 2008
    O'Donnell M; Zappavigna M; Whitelaw C, 2008, 'A survey of process type classification over difficult cases', in Jones C; Ventola E (ed.), From Language to Multimodality: New Developments in the Study of Ideational Meaning, Equinox, London, pp. 47 - 64
    Book Chapters | 2008
    Zappavigna M; Dwyer P; Martin JR, 2008, 'Syndromes of meaning: exploring patterned coupling in a NSW Youth Justice Conference', in Knight NK; Mahboob A (ed.), Questioning Linguistics, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, pp. 103 - 117
    Book Chapters | 2008
    Zappavigna-Lee M; Patrick J, 2008, 'Tacit Knowledge and Discourse Analysis', in Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology Second Edition, pp. 3657 - 3662, http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-026-4.ch583
    Book Chapters | 2006
    Zappavigna MS, 2006, 'Tacit Knowledge in Communities of Practice', in Encyclopedia of Communities of Practice in Information and Knowledge Management, IGI Global, http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/9781591405566.ch085
    Book Chapters | 2005
    Zappavigna M; Patrick J, 2005, 'Tacit Knowledge and Discourse Analysis', in Khosrow-Pour M (ed.), Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, pp. 2724 - 2729
    Book Chapters | 2003
    Patrick J; Palko D; Zappavigna M, 2003, 'Inferring Semantic Structure from Format', in Cole C; Craig H (ed.), Computing Arts 2001: Digital Resources for Research in the Humanities, Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Sydney, pp. 150 - 168
    Book Chapters | 2002
    Patrick J; Palko D; Munro R; Zappavigna M, 2002, 'User driven example-based training for creating lexical knowledge bases', in Geldof S; Molla-aloid D (ed.), AI2002 Workshop Proceedings, Sydney Centre for Language Technology, Sydney, pp. 17 - 23
  • Edited Books | 2020
    Zappavigna M; Dreyfus S, (ed.), 2020, Discourses of Hope and Reconciliation On J. R. Martin’s Contribution to Systemic Functional Linguistics, Bloomsbury, London
  • Journal articles | 2025
    Altayari D; Yuan K; Zappavigna M, 2025, '“Write another one more emotional”: Emoji as a tenor resource in chatbot responses to requests for linguistic services', Discourse Context and Media, 68, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2025.100955
    Journal articles | 2025
    Dini P; Zappavigna M; Soldaini E; Saponara S, 2025, 'Embedded Machine Learning-Based Voltage Fingerprinting for Automotive Cybersecurity', IEEE Access, 13, pp. 38342 - 38367, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3545245
    Journal articles | 2025
    Liu F; He W; Zappavigna M, 2025, 'Affiliation around tensions: strategies for aligning with putative readers through counter-expectation resources in media editorials', Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-04669-3
    Journal articles | 2025
    Zappavigna M; Doran YJ, 2025, 'Emoji as interpersonal resources in LLM chatbot conversations: a social semiotic analysis of tenor and affiliation in human–AI interaction', Social Semiotics, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2025.2570317
    Journal articles | 2025
    Zappavigna M; Logi L, 2025, 'How emoji make meaning and enact ambient affiliation: a social semiotic account of emoji-text relations in TikTok comments', Social Semiotics, 35, pp. 617 - 637, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2024.2389520
    Journal articles | 2025
    Zappavigna M, 2025, ''I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that': Moral regulation in refusals by LLM chatbots', NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14614448251356686
    Journal articles | 2025
    Zappavigna M, 2025, '“Why do I flake at the last minute?”: Tenor, self-inquiry, and neoliberal discourses in interactions with LLM chatbots', Discourse Studies, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14614456251366432
    Journal articles | 2024
    Etaywe A; Zappavigna M, 2024, 'The role of social affiliation in incitement: A social semiotic approach to far-right terrorists' incitement to violence', Language in Society, 53, pp. 623 - 648, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0047404523000404
    Journal articles | 2024
    Han J; Zappavigna M, 2024, 'Multimodal rhythm in TikTok videos: Exploring a recontextualization of the Gillard ‘misogyny speech’', Multimodality & Society, 4, pp. 58 - 79, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/26349795231207228
    Journal articles | 2024
    Inwood O; Zappavigna M, 2024, 'The legitimation of screenshots as visual evidence in social media: YouTube videos spreading misinformation and disinformation', Visual Communication, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14703572241255664
    Journal articles | 2024
    Logi L; Zappavigna M, 2024, 'GIFs as Social Media Paralanguage', Language@Internet, 22, pp. 32 - 56, http://dx.doi.org/10.14434/li.v22.40794
    Journal articles | 2024
    Newton G; Zappavigna M; Drysdale K; Newman CE, 2024, 'From lived experience to lived expertise: How donor-conceived witnesses claim and sustain epistemic authority', Journal of Pragmatics, 221, pp. 89 - 104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2023.12.006
    Journal articles | 2023
    Dynel M; Zappavigna M, 2023, 'Enacting polyvocal scorn in #CovidConspiracy tweets: The orchestration of voices in humorous responses to COVID-19 conspiracy theories', Discourse Context and Media, 52, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2023.100670
    Journal articles | 2023
    Inwood O; Zappavigna M, 2023, 'Conspiracy Theories and White Supremacy on YouTube: Exploring Affiliation and Legitimation Strategies in YouTube Comments', Social Media and Society, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20563051221150410
    Journal articles | 2023
    Inwood O; Zappavigna M, 2023, 'Ideology, attitudinal positioning, and the blockchain: a social semiotic approach to understanding the values construed in the whitepapers of blockchain start-ups', Social Semiotics, 33, pp. 451 - 469, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2021.1877995
    Journal articles | 2023
    Logi L; Zappavigna M, 2023, 'A social semiotic perspective on emoji: How emoji and language interact to make meaning in digital messages', New Media and Society, 25, pp. 3222 - 3246, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14614448211032965
    Journal articles | 2023
    Zappavigna M, 2023, 'Digital intimacy and ambient embodied copresence in YouTube videos: construing visual and aural perspective in ASMR role play videos', Visual Communication, 22, pp. 297 - 321, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1470357220928102
    Journal articles | 2023
    Zappavigna M, 2023, 'Hack your corpus analysis: How AI can assist corpus linguists deal with messy social media data', Applied Corpus Linguistics, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.acorp.2023.100067
    Journal articles | 2022
    Etaywe A; Zappavigna M, 2022, 'Identity, ideology and threatening communication An investigation of patterns of attitude in terrorist discourse', Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, 10, pp. 315 - 350, http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlac.00058.eta
    Journal articles | 2022
    Inwood O; Zappavigna M, 2022, 'A Systemic Functional Linguistics Approach to Analyzing White Supremacist and Conspiratorial Discourse on YouTube', Communication Review, 25, pp. 204 - 234, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10714421.2022.2129122
    Journal articles | 2022
    Makki M; Zappavigna M, 2022, 'Out-grouping and ambient affiliation in Donald Trump's tweets about Iran: Exploring the role of negative evaluation in enacting solidarity', Pragmatics, 32, pp. 104 - 130, http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/prag.20048.mak
    Journal articles | 2022
    Newton G; Drysdale K; Zappavigna M; Newman CE, 2022, 'Truth, Proof, Sleuth: Trust in Direct-to-Consumer DNA Testing and Other Sources of Identity Information among Australian Donor-Conceived People', Sociology, 57, pp. 36 - 53, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00380385221091184
    Journal articles | 2022
    Newton G; Zappavigna M; Drysdale K; Newman CE, 2022, 'More than Humor: Memes as Bonding Icons for Belonging in Donor-Conceived People', Social Media and Society, 8, pp. 20563051211069055, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20563051211069055
    Journal articles | 2022
    Wildfeuer J; Ravelli L; Pflaeging J; Zappavigna M; Poulsen SV; Stamenkovic D; Tovey R, 2022, 'Editorial: in memoriam Martin Thomas', VISUAL COMMUNICATION, 21, pp. 371 - 373, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14703572221086504
    Journal articles | 2022
    Zappavigna M; Dreyfus S, 2022, '“In these pandemic times”: The role of temporal meanings in ambient affiliation about COVID-19 on Twitter', Discourse Context and Media, 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100595
    Journal articles | 2022
    Zappavigna M; Ross AS, 2022, 'Instagram and intermodal configurations of value Ideology, aesthetics, and attitudinal stance in #avotoast posts', Internet Pragmatics, 5, pp. 197 - 226, http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ip.00068.rap
    Journal articles | 2022
    Zappavigna M, 2022, 'Social media quotation practices and ambient affiliation: Weaponising ironic quotation for humorous ridicule in political discourse', Journal of Pragmatics, 191, pp. 98 - 112, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2021.12.003
    Journal articles | 2021
    Inwood O; Zappavigna M, 2021, 'Ambient affiliation, misinformation and moral panic: Negotiating social bonds in a YouTube internet hoax', Discourse and Communication, 15, pp. 281 - 307, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750481321989838
    Journal articles | 2021
    Logi L; Zappavigna M, 2021, 'Impersonated personae - Paralanguage, dialogism and affiliation in stand-up comedy', Humor, 34, pp. 339 - 373, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humor-2020-0023
    Journal articles | 2021
    Zappavigna M; Logi L, 2021, 'Emoji in social media discourse about working from home [Formula presented]', Discourse Context and Media, 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2021.100543
    Journal articles | 2020
    Ross AS; Zappavigna M, 2020, 'My sport, my perspectives: Intersubjectivity in cyclist Instagram posts', Discourse, Context and Media, 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2019.100327
    Journal articles | 2019
    Dwyer P; Martin JR; Zappavigna M, 2019, 'Visions of restorative justice in theatre, theory and practice', Australasian Drama Studies, 74, pp. 98 - 128, https://search.proquest.com/docview/2229865186/fulltextPDF/9E27C14907684C4CPQ/1?accountid=12763
    Journal articles | 2019
    Logi L; Zappavigna M, 2019, 'Dialogic resources in interactional humour', Journal of Pragmatics, 153, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2019.07.010
    Journal articles | 2019
    Martin JR; Zappavigna M, 2019, 'Embodied meaning: A systemic functional perspective on paralanguage', Functional Linguistics, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40554-018-0065-9
    Journal articles | 2019
    Zappavigna M, 2019, 'The Organised Self and Lifestyle Minimalism: Multimodal Deixis and Point of View in Decluttering Vlogs on YouTube', Multimodal Communication, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/mc-2019-0001
    Journal articles | 2018
    Martin JR; Zappavigna M, 2018, 'Embodied Meaning: a systemic functional perspective on paralanguage', Contemporary Rhetoric 当代修辞学, pp. 2 - 29
    Journal articles | 2018
    Zappavigna M; Martin JR, 2018, '#Communing affiliation: Social tagging as a resource for aligning around values in social media', Discourse, Context and Media, 22, pp. 4 - 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2017.08.001
    Journal articles | 2018
    Zhao S; Zappavigna M, 2018, 'Beyond the self: Intersubjectivity and the social semiotic interpretation of the selfie', New Media and Society, 20, pp. 1735 - 1754, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444817706074
    Journal articles | 2018
    Zhao S; Zappavigna M, 2018, 'The interplay of (semiotic) technologies and genre: the case of the selfie', Social Semiotics, 28, pp. 665 - 682, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2018.1504724
    Journal articles | 2017
    Zappavigna M; Zhao S, 2017, 'Selfies in ‘mommyblogging’: An emerging visual genre', Discourse Context and Media, 20, pp. 239 - 247, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2017.05.005
    Journal articles | 2016
    Martin JR; Zappavigna M, 2016, 'Exploring restorative justice: Dialectics of theory and practice', International Journal of Speech Language and the Law, 23, pp. 215 - 242, http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/ijsll.v23i2.28840
    Journal articles | 2016
    Martin JR; Zappavigna M, 2016, 'The Rites of passion: Remorse, apology and forgiveness in Youth Justice Conferencing', LINGUISTICS AND THE HUMAN SCIENCES, 12, pp. 101 - 121, http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/lhs.36986
    Journal articles | 2016
    Zappavigna M, 2016, 'Social media photography: Construing subjectivity in Instagram images', Visual Communication, 15, pp. 271 - 271
    Journal articles | 2015
    Zappavigna M, 2015, 'Searchable talk: The linguistic functions of hashtags in tweets about Schapelle Corby', Global Media Journal: Australian Edition, 9, http://www.hca.westernsydney.edu.au/gmjau/?p=1762
    Journal articles | 2015
    Zappavigna M, 2015, 'Searchable talk: the linguistic functions of hashtags', Social Semiotics, 25, pp. 274 - 291, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2014.996948
    Journal articles | 2015
    Zappavigna M, 2015, 'Twitter: Social Communication in the Twitter Age', DISCOURSE & COMMUNICATION, 9, pp. 379 - 380, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750481315578969c
    Journal articles | 2014
    Yaoqin X, 2014, 'Book review: Michele Zappavigna, Tacit Knowledge and Spoken Discourse', Discourse Studies, 16, pp. 585 - 587, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461445614538143f
    Journal articles | 2014
    Zappavigna M; Martin JR, 2014, 'Mater Dolorosa: Negotiating Support in NSW Youth Justice Conferencing', International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 27, pp. 263 - 275, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11196-013-9340-y
    Journal articles | 2014
    Zappavigna M, 2014, 'Ambient affiliation in Microblogging: Bonding around the quotidian', Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy: quarterly journal of media research and resources, May 2014, pp. 97 - 103, http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=353943105655374;res=IELLCC
    Journal articles | 2014
    Zappavigna M, 2014, 'Enacting identity in microblogging through ambient affiliation', Discourse and Communication, 8, pp. 209 - 228, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750481313510816
    Journal articles | 2014
    Zappavigna M, 2014, 'enjoy your snags australia... oh and the voting thing too #ausvotes #auspol: Iconisation and affiliation in microblogging during election campaigns', Global Media Journal: Australian Edition, 8, pp. 1 - 16, http://www.hca.uws.edu.au/gmjau/?p=1139
    Journal articles | 2013
    Martin J; Zappavigna M, 2013, 'Youth Justice Conferencing as ceremonial redress', International Journal of Law, Language and Discourse, 3, pp. 103 - 142, http://www.ijlld.com/images/pdf/IJLLD%20Volume%203.2.pdf
    Journal articles | 2013
    Martin JR; Zappavigna M; Dwyer P, 2013, 'Users in uses of language: embodied identity in Youth justice Conferencing', Text & Talk, 33, pp. 467 - 496, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/text-2013-0022
    Journal articles | 2011
    Zappavigna M, 2011, 'Ambient Affiliation: A linguistic perspective on Twitter', New Media and Society, 13, pp. 788 - 806, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444810385097
    Journal articles | 2010
    Zappavigna M; Partick J, 2010, 'Eliciting tacit knowledge about requirement analysis with a Grammar-targeted Interview Method', European Journal of Information Systems, pp. 49 - 59
    Journal articles | 2009
    Martin JR; Zappavigna M; Dwyer P, 2009, 'Negotiating narrative: Story structure and identity in youth justice conferencing', Linguistics and the Human Sciences, 3, pp. 221 - 254
    Journal articles | 2005
    Zappavigna MS, 2005, 'Tacit knowledge in communities of practice', , pp. 508 - 513, http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-556-6.ch085
  • Conference Presentations | 2019
    Newton G; Newman C; Zappavigna M; Drysdale K, 2019, '“I would like to think that we – the donor-conceived people – are the real experts”: using linguistic methods to examine donor-conceived people’s accounts in public hearings', presented at The Australian Sociological Association 2019 Conference: Creativity and Methodological Innovation in the Sociology of Familial and Intimate Relationships Workshop, Sydney, 29 November 2019
    Conference Presentations | 2019
    Newton G; Zappavigna M; Drysdale K; Newman C, 2019, 'Evaluating contraceptive methods using peer support from Reddit', presented at 2019 Australasian HIV & AIDS Conference, Perth, 16 September 2019 - 19 September 2019
    Conference Papers | 2018
    Zappavigna M; Patrick J; Stern A, 2018, 'Assessing Knowledge Management Services through Discourse Analysis', in Proceedings of the 7th Pacific-Asia Conference on Information Systems, Pacific-Asia Conference on Information Systems, Adelaide, pp. 523 - 540, presented at Pacific-Asia Conference on Information Systems, Adelaide, 10 July 2018 - 13 July 2018
    Conference Papers | 2007
    Zappavigna M, 2007, '"Just like sort of guilty kind of": The rhetoric of tempered admission in Youth Justice Conferencing.', in Zappavigna MICHELE; Cloran C (ed.), Proceedings of Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Congress, Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Congress, University of Woollongong, presented at Australian Systemic Functional Linguistics Congress, University of Woollongong, 29 June 2007 - 01 July 2007
    Conference Proceedings (Editor of) | 2007
    Zappavigna M; Cloran C, (ed.), 2007, 'Bridging Discourses: Proceedings of the 2007 Annual Congress of the Australian Systemic Functional Association', University of Woollongong, presented at Annual Congress of the Australian Systemic Functional Association, University of Woollongong, 29 June 2007 - 01 July 2007
    Conference Papers | 2005
    Zappavigna-Lee M; Patrick J, 2005, 'Explicating tacit knowledge embedded in nominalisation', in Acis 2005 Proceedings 16th Australasian Conference on Information Systems
    Conference Papers | 2004
    Zappavigna M; Patrick J, 2004, 'Eliciting tacit knowledge from spoken discourse about requirements analysis', in Burstein F; Linger H (ed.), Proceedings of the 7th Australian Conference for Knowledge Management & Intelligent Decision Support, Australian Conference for Knowledge Management & Intelligent Decision Support, Monash University, pp. 143 - 160, presented at Australian Conference for Knowledge Management & Intelligent Decision Support, Monash University, 29 November 2004 - 30 November 2004
    Conference Papers | 2004
    Zappavigna M; Patrick J, 2004, 'Eliciting tacit knowledge from spoken discourse', in Bullen C; Stohr E (ed.), Proceedings of the 10th Americas Conference on Information Systems, Stevens Institute of Technology., New York, pp. 2195 - 2204, presented at Americas Conference on Information Systems, New York, 06 August 2004 - 08 August 2004
    Conference Papers | 2002
    Patrick J; Palko D; Zappavigna M, 2002, 'User driven example-based training for creating lexical knowledge bases', in Geldof S; Molla-Aliod D (ed.), AI2002 Workshop Proceedings, AI2002, 5th Australasian Natural Language Processing Workshop, Macquarie University, pp. 17 - 23, presented at AI2002, 5th Australasian Natural Language Processing Workshop, Macquarie University, 02 December 2002 - 06 December 2002
    Conference Papers | 2002
    Zappavigna M; Patrick J; Stern A, 2002, 'Knowledge management as social semiotic: discourse analysis as a measure of quality', in Burstein F; Linger H (ed.), Role of Quality in Knowledge Management, AUSTRALIAN SCHOLARYLY PUBL PTY LTD, AUSTRALIA, Melbourne, pp. 55 - 72, presented at Australian Conference of Knowledge Management and Intelligent Decision Support (ACKMIDS 2002), AUSTRALIA, Melbourne, 09 December 2002 - 10 December 2002, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000246086600005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Conference Papers | 2001
    Zappavigna M, 2001, 'Inferring Semantic Structure from Format', in Cole C; Craig H (ed.), Computing Arts 2001: Digital Resources for Research in the Humanities, Computing Arts 2001: Digital Resources for Research in the Humanities, University of Sydney, pp. 150 - 168, presented at Computing Arts 2001: Digital Resources for Research in the Humanities, University of Sydney, 26 September 2001 - 28 September 2001

Dean's Research Award for Scholarly Impact

Dr Michele Zappavigna for her book: Discourse of Twitter and Social Media: How We Use Language to Create Affiliation on the Web (London: Bloomsbury, 2012)

"Michele Zappavigna’s Discourse of Twitter and Social Media displays impressive conceptual and methodological innovation and compelling scholarly impact across a wide range of discipline areas such as language studies, discourse analysis, social media analysis, and cyber security studies. The research has the potential to open up new lines of inquiry with corresponding impact on real-world practice."

My Research Supervision

  • Kaixi Yuan
    Thesis: Exploring Tenor in Depression Discourse on YouTube: A Social Semiotic Analysis of TED Talks and Comment Threads

  • Dalal Altayari
    Thesis: Emoji-text Relations in Arabic Marketing Discourse: Exploring Tenor in Social Media Paralanguage