Playfulness and Creativity: A Look at Language use Online in Malaysia

Kadir, Zaemah Abdul; Idris, Hayati; Husain, Sharifah Shahnaz Syed

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.11.141

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“…Abbreviations on social network are mainly used by young people, as investigated by Kadir, Idris and Husain (2012), who confirmed that young people are most likely to use abbreviations in their social networking. An interesting observation was made by Kinsella (2010), who claims that the internet language has become a code used by teenagers to create the ingroup feeling as it cannot be deciphered by their parents.…”

Section: Internet Language and Abbreviationsmentioning

confidence: 87%

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People have been using languages for centuries to express their feelings and emotions. At first, they only used signs and later, it evolved into world languages. The most famous and the most influential language globally, i.e. English, has become a global lingua franca. It has been widely used in technology, literature, trade, politics, entertainment, music and as well as on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, different forums and many others. Having taken into account the fact that we live in a busy world and try to save our precious time as much as possible, we often reduce our online communication by using online internet abbreviations. Even though it may be argued that the usage of abbreviations, particularly in online communication, reduces learners' communication skills, these forms of expression are increasingly used on a daily basis. This is also the case in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which aspires to follow popular communication trends. Thus, the current research has shown that the trend of frequent internet and social network usage is widespread in Bosnia and Herzegovina as well and that the usage of abbreviations is widespread across the country.

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Section: Internet Language and Abbreviationsmentioning

confidence: 87%

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“…In other words, when letters are used, auditory and visual signs are lost and replaced by onomatopoeic utterances and emoticons. Studying online laughter in English, it was found that laughter can be expressed through the use of acronyms and initialisms such as lol to stand for laugh out loud, onomatopoeic expressions such as haha, haphazard letters such as mwhaha, or specific emojis such as😂 (McKay 2020;Christopherson 2013;Kadir et al 2012). Grundlingh (2020) studying written laughter online in different languages from a sociolinguistic and pedagogical point of view found out that written language is language-specific marking the user's identity.…”

Section: Expressing Laughter Onlinementioning

confidence: 99%

Laughing Online: A Morpho-Semantic Study on Typed Laughter-Derived Expressions Used in Hijazi Twitter and WhatsApp Instant Messages

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2022

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This study aims to explore the morpho-semantic features of Typed Laughter-Derived Expressions (TLDEs) used by sixty young Hijazi females aged (18-25) through instant messaging (IM) in online chatting on two social networking sites (SNSs) confined in this study to Twitter and WhatsApp. It focuses on the ways those Hijazi females express their online laughter in the absence of face-to-face interactions. Forty-five Twitter messages and one hundred and nine WhatsApp messages were screenshot by those Hijazi females and were submitted for morpho-semantic analysis. The results show that the following morpho-semantic processes are used: onomatopoeia, borrowing some English acronyms, hyperbole, parts of the body that are physically associated with laughter, haphazard letters, and repetition of a letter. Even though this study does not focus on emojis, emojis are found to be important in packing up those TLDEs to make the virtual situation similar to the real face-to-face one and to mark social interaction among online users as well.

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“…Expressing laughter online is only one characteristic of cyber language. Based on previous research (Christopherson, 2013;Kadir et al, 2012;McKay, 2015), it appears that laughter can be expressed online through either the inclusion of initialisms (lol), onomatopoeic expressions (hahaha) or emojis (☺). For the present study, however, the focus is only on written laughter as onomatopoeic expressions, since these can be most easily linked to specific languages.…”

Section: Laughing Onlinementioning

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Laughing online: Investigating written laughter, language identity and their implications for language acquisition

Grundlingh

2020

Cogent Education

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Research in computer mediated communication and sociolinguistics, have increasingly highlighted the concept of establishing an "online identity" through specific language use. However, while emojis or common netspeak abbreviations are often the focus of research concerned with cyber language, no studies have considered the function laughter might play in establishing an online language identity. Furthermore, no studies have considered the possible significance of online laughter in terms of language acquisition. Researchers now have the opportunity to study laughter from a linguistic perspective since laughing online is illustrated through the use of emojis or typed text. The present study considers how the data and research in previous studies on written laughter and language identity can be combined to support arguments that laughing in a specific language online not only expresses the language identity of an individual, but should be considered an important aspect of second language acquisition.

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Playfulness and Creativity: A Look at Language use Online in Malaysia

Cited by 11 publications

References 9 publications

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Laughing Online: A Morpho-Semantic Study on Typed Laughter-Derived Expressions Used in Hijazi Twitter and WhatsApp Instant Messages

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