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Book Chapters

Zappavigna-Lee M; Patrick J, 2009, 'Tacit Knowledge and Discourse Analysis', in Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition, IGI Global, pp. 3657 - 3662, http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-026-4.ch583

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

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

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

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

Zappavigna M; Patrick J, 2005, 'Tacit Knowledge and Discourse Analysis', in Khosrow-Pour M (ed.), Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, pp. 2724 - 2729

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Etaywe A; Zappavigna M, 2023, 'The role of social affiliation in incitement: A social semiotic approach to far-right terrorists’ incitement to violence', Language in Society, pp. 1 - 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404523000404

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20563051211069055

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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00380385221091184

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Martin JR; Zappavigna M, 2018, 'Embodied Meaning: a systemic functional perspective on paralanguage', Contemporary Rhetoric 当代修辞学, pp. 2 - 29

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

Zappavigna M, 2016, 'Social media photography: Construing subjectivity in Instagram images', Visual Communication, 15, pp. 271 - 271

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

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

Zappavigna M, 2015, 'Twitter: Social Communication in the Twitter Age', DISCOURSE & COMMUNICATION, 9, pp. 379 - 380, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750481315578969c

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

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

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

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

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

Zappavigna M, 2014, 'Enacting identity in microblogging through ambient affiliation', Discourse and Communication, 8, pp. 209 - 228, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750481313510816


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