Emotions in Social Media Discourse: a Case Study of Widely Commented Events in Bulgarian News
Emotions in Social Media Discourse: a Case Study of Widely Commented Events in Bulgarian News
Author(s): Debora NikolovaSubject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Media studies, Applied Linguistics, Communication studies, Sociolinguistics, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: emotions; culture; social media discourse; lexical devices expressing emotions.
Summary/Abstract: The paper aims at reviewing the linguistic devices expressing emotions both in readers’ comments under the five most commented news articles for December 2023 on the Facebook page of a national media outlet, and in the articles themselves. All other article headlines on the page for this month are reviewed too, looking for unifying features that trigger readers to react with a comment on the relevant events presented in the news. The author also introduces her own point of view on the topic of expressing emotions, supported with evidence from the opinions of scholars in the relevant field, namely Charles Darwin, Anna Wierzbicka, Lisa Feldman Barrett, etc. The paper consists of two parts: the first one examines emotions and social media discourse, and the second one presents a practical analysis of the linguistic devices expressing emotions in the articles and in the comments they trigger.
Journal: Studia Philologica Universitatis Velikotarnovensis
- Issue Year: 44/2025
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 405-416
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English
