SEMANTIC AND COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTIONS OF HASHTAGS
Keywords:
Hashtag, virtual communication, social network discourse, graphemic unit, semantic and communicative functions, digital communication.Abstract
This article analyzes the logical and communicative functions of hashtags, which we encounter daily in virtual communication. On social networks, hashtags do not merely indicate the topic of a text but serve as a bridge uniting thousands of users around a single idea. The article highlights the role of this symbol in our language, the meanings it carries, and its impact on our virtual speech from a linguistic perspective.
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