Michele Zappavigna

Michele Zappavigna
Born
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Sydney (PhD)
ThesisEliciting Tacit Knowledge with a Grammar-targeted Interview Method
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
InstitutionsUniversity of New South Wales

Michele Zappavigna is an Australian linguist. She is an associate professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Her major contributions are based on the discourse of social media and ambient affiliation (how people bond online). Her work is interdisciplinary and covers studies in systemic functional linguistics (SFL), corpus linguistics, multimodality, social media, online discourse and social semiotics. Zappavigna is the author of six books and numerous journal articles covering these disciplines.