The Examination of English Folklore Limited to the Internet Memes and Languages From Some Most Renowned Social Media Platforms

Document Type : Research Article

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Department of Foreign Languages in International Relations, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia

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Contemporary social media platforms are crucial for internet users to communicate with one another, shaping public opinion and highlighting the most important topics. The focus of this study is online folklore, which, because it is essential to portraying real life, constitutes a significant crisis-related subset of social media content. The study's main goal is to examine how vernacular responses to various contemporary life crises are expressed. The purpose of the research is to reexamine internet folklore as a crisis management instrument. Only online memes and languages from some of the most well-known social media platforms—Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest—are included in the analysis of English folklore. The primary characteristics of the crisis-related memes in terms of their functional, thematic, and discourse value were made clear by the analysis's empirical and quantitative methods. Due to the genre specifics revealed in its linguistic and paralinguistic tools, the obtained results show the memes' capacity to ease social and psychological tensions. As a result, the data from this study supports the notion that English folklore plays a critical role in helping people deal with stressful situations.

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Journal of Research in Applied Linguistics
Volume 14, Issue 3
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Research in Applied Linguistics (ICRAL 2023), October 30, 2023, Kazan, Russia
October 2023
Pages 394-399

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