La política del hashtag en Twitter

This paper on political communication in Twitter presents and discusse sthe results of a comparative pragmalinguistic analysis of a corpus of hashtags, included in the tweets published in their own profile by five Spanish political leaders from April 12 to November 8, 2019. Within this period of almost 8 months, two general elections, the elections to the European Parliament, and several regional and local electoral appointments took place in Spain. This quantitative and qualitative study aims at delving into the impact that this device has on political discourse in social network sites, identifying the formal and content similarities and differences that it presents in the messages considered, and pointing out the discursive functions that it has in such messages.