Grammatical feature frequencies of English on Twitter in Finland

Coats, Steven; Squires, Lauren

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“…In addition to conceptual orality, Twitter is a typical CMC-outlet in terms of the ubiquity of 'expressive compensation' strategies (Androutsopoulos 2011) inserted to counterbalance the absence of intonation and gestural expression cues. Apart from obvious examples such as emoji, a recurrent example of expressive nonstandard orthography is the lengthening of a word by repeating one or more of its characters (as in wellllllllll), a feature that has been analysed as an affective discourse strategy (Bamann, Eisenstein, & Schnoebelen 2014;Coats 2016).…”

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“…As a computer-mediated communication (CMC) tool, to begin with, Twitter is characterised by ‘conceptual orality’ (Androutsopoulos 2011:149; Hilte, Vandekerckhove, & Daelemans 2018). Tweets imitate casual speech features, and they are littered with non-standard orthography which is either the result of error, or—more interestingly—of expressive or indexical resourcefulness (Coats 2016:188). Twitter shares with authentic colloquial speech the presence of phonetic, lexical, and morphosyntactic cues which systematically reveal identities and stances of tweeters.…”

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Why does the shtyle spread? Street prestige boosts the diffusion of urban vernacular features

Grondelaers

Marzo

2022

Lang. Soc.

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In this article, we investigate social meaning as a determinant of linguistic diffusion by confronting laboratory and corpus data of Citétaal, a multi-ethnolect that has spread across Flanders. In a speaker evaluation experiment, we found that Citétaal was upgraded on ‘streetwise dynamism’, even by respondents unfamiliar with its migrant origin. From this, we conclude that it is Citétaal's third-order indexicality, pruned of ethnic associations, which carries the diffusion. To determine the relative importance of streetwise cool vis-à-vis other predictors, we studied the diffusion across Twitter of the principal Citétaal shibboleth (/s/ palatalisation). As a production proxy for streetwise cool, we included expressive compensation strategies such as lengthening (verrry), which turned out to be among the main predictors of the Citétaal form. We argue that social meaning is a major change determinant, and that Twitter is the optimum source to track both a diffusion and the factors, including social meaning, which drive it. (Rapid linguistic diffusion, social meaning, streetwise prestige, speaker evaluation experiment, corpus linguistics, Twitter)*

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Why does the shtyle spread? Street prestige boosts the diffusion of urban vernacular features

Grondelaers

Marzo

2022

Lang. Soc.

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“…Souvent considérées comme des éléments paralinguistiques, les interjections ont été peu étudiées (Ameka, 1992). Une étude d'un corpus de tweets (Coats, 2017) met toutefois en évidence une association entre le genre et l'utilisation des interjections, celles-ci étant plus fréquemment utilisées par les femmes. D'autres études n'ont pas révélé de différence entre femmes et hommes (Guiller & Durndell, 2007), ou ont mis en lumière l'effet d'autres variables : dans un corpus de SMS et de tweets, elles sont plus fréquentes chez les adolescent•es que chez les jeunes adultes (Verheijen, 2017).…”

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Pratiques langagières informelles des femmes et des hommes en ligne : étude quantitative d’un corpus de commentaires publiés sur le site internet Reddit

Marie

2022

SHS Web Conf.

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Cette étude explore les pratiques langagières informelles des femmes et des hommes sur le site communautaire Reddit. Elle s’appuie sur un corpus de plus de 91 000 commentaires publiés sur le subreddit (forum) r/france et analyse l’utilisation par les femmes et les hommes de six variables lexicales (les interjections, les jurons, insultes et mots grossiers, le verlan, les abréviations, les anglicismes, et le vocabulaire spécifique à Reddit) ainsi que l’omission du ne de négation. Les analyses statistiques révèlent seulement deux différences significatives entre femmes et hommes : les hommes utilisent davantage de jurons, insultes et mots grossiers que les femmes, ce qui a été déjà souligné par de nombreuses études sociolinguistiques, et ils emploient davantage de vocabulaire propre à Reddit. Ce résultat peut être expliqué par la présence dominante des hommes sur le site américain, et par leur plus grande familiarité avec ses codes.

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“…They also frequently use emoticons, which are generally used for informal conversations in chat. Emoticons are string of symbols representing body language in text-based communication [2] that are prevalent in certain genres of CMC, including Twitter [3]. Besides emoticons, Tirto.id also uses punctuation, but not in formal way.…”

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Subjective Language Accommodation in Official Twitter Account of Tirto.id

Santana¹,

Mulyana²

2021

Proceedings of the 1st MICOSS Mercu Buana International Conference on Social Sciences, MICOSS 2020, September 28-29, 2020, Jaka

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This study aims to describe the use of subjective language in Tirto.id's Twitter account. The theory used in this research is accommodation theory, with a phenomenological approach and qualitative methods. In this study, it is known that Tirto.id accommodates subjective language styles-which are commonly used by Twitter users-to create fluid or familiar situations for readers. However, that language style is not used to deliver all news. News containing issues of sexual violence, violence in Papua, terrorism, and other human rights violations, for example, is conveyed using formal language. Thus, it appears that there are two accommodation strategies carried out, namely convergence and divergence. Tirto.id does not always use a convergence strategy (subjective language), because there are important issues that need to be addressed using formal language (divergence), which reflects the legitimacy of Tirto.id as a media institution.

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Grammatical feature frequencies of English on Twitter in Finland

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Why does the shtyle spread? Street prestige boosts the diffusion of urban vernacular features

Why does the shtyle spread? Street prestige boosts the diffusion of urban vernacular features

Pratiques langagières informelles des femmes et des hommes en ligne : étude quantitative d’un corpus de commentaires publiés sur le site internet Reddit

Subjective Language Accommodation in Official Twitter Account of Tirto.id

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