By Associate Professor Michele Zappavigna

Book Chapters

Zappavigna M, 2011, 'Visualizing logogenesis: Preserving the dynamics of meaning', in Dreyfus S; Hood S; Stenglin M (ed.), Semiotic margins: Meaning in multimodalities, Continuum, London, pp. 211 - 228, http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/semiotic-margins-9781441173225/

Zappavigna M; Cléirigh C; Dwyer P; Martin JR, 2010, 'Visualizing Appraisal Prosody', in Appliable Linguistics, pp. 150 - 167

Martin JR; Zappavigna M; Dwyer P, 2010, 'Negotiating evaluation: story structure and appraisal in Youth Justice Conferencing', in Appliable Linguistics, Continuum, London, pp. 44 - 75

Martin JR; Zappavigna M; Dwyer P, 2010, 'Visualising appraisal prosody', in Appliable Linguistics, Continuum, London, pp. 44 - 75

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, pp. 219 - 236

Martin JR; Zappavigna M; Dwyer P, 2009, 'Negotiating shame: Exchange and genre structure in Youth Justice Conferencing', in Mahboob A; Lipovsky C (ed.), Studies in Applied Linguistics and Language Learning, Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle, pp. 41 - 72

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

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

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

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

Zappavigna M; Logi L, 2024, 'How emoji make meaning and enact ambient affiliation: a social semiotic account of emoji-text relations in TikTok comments', Social Semiotics, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2024.2389520

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

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, 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

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

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