@ARTICLE{Deditius_Sabina_#Protecttheoceans._2020, author={Deditius, Sabina}, volume={vol. 41}, journal={LINGUISTICA SILESIANA}, pages={67-83}, howpublished={online}, year={2020}, publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk • Oddział w Katowicach}, abstract={Nowadays, many known celebrities use social media as a channel to promote positive narratives and support humanitarian work. This article offers an analysis of the argumentative strategies employed in Instagram by a Spanish actor Javier Bardem, an Antarctic ambassador for Greenpeace, in order to attract the attention of the public to the ecological problems of the Antarctic Ocean. I have studied 76 posts published in Instagram during the 2018-2019 period. Starting from the theoretical framework of argumentation, as well as of pragmatic linguistics, I analyze those linguistic mechanisms and discursive strategies that are used with the aim to achieve the persuasive purposes.}, type={Article}, title={#Protecttheoceans. Linguistic mechanisms of argumentation used in instagram}, title={#Protecttheoceans. Linguistic mechanisms of argumentation used in instagram}, URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/116426/PDF/2020-01-LINS-05-Deditus.pdf}, doi={10.24425/linsi.2020.133265}, keywords={Instagram, digital communication, discourse analysis, argumentation, persuasion}, }