By Associate Professor Michele Zappavigna

Book Chapters

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

Zappavigna M, 2026, 'Emoji as resources for negotiating affiliation and taste in TikTok comments', INTERNET PRAGMATICS, http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ip.00144.zap

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

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

Zappavigna M, 2025, '‘I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that’: Moral regulation in refusals by LLM chatbots', New Media and Society, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14614448251356686

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, pp. 20563051211069055, 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, pp. 36 - 53, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00380385221091184

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

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

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