Hashtags

The presence of certain textual elements specific to social media is ubiquitous and has transcended social media. Hashtags and emojis are now present in a number of discourse types and are even used in spoken language. While emojis carry out the function of expressing sentiment or emotions, as we saw in the previous chapter, hashtags attempt to condense a complex idea into a textual sequence of varying length with the aim of sharing and quickly disseminating it. This chapter contains a description of the most relevant hashtags used in the CCTC, focusing on the differences found among several countries, which reveal significant differences between them.