Spelling rebellion

Sebba, Mark

doi:10.1075/pbns.110.09seb

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“…Here the major objective seems to be to violate the rules as a form of certain attitude manifestation. According to Sebba (2003), spelling variation is "the rebellion" against established norms and expression of independence (p. 168). He notices that netizens very often rebel against the standardized spelling rules, so LOLspeakers can be recognized as one of the peculiar subcultures within the Internet community.…”

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Linguistic Regularities of LOLspeak

Bury¹,

Wojtaszek²

2017

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The influence of the Internet on language is an unprecedented phenomenon. Maybe only the emergence of the systems of writing and the invention of printing can be claimed to have contributed more to the way language is used and perceived. Numerous publications have been devoted to the new forms of language thriving in the cyberspace. The present study focuses on one of the countless micro-genres which we may encounter while surfing the web: the LOLspeak. Its major peculiarity lies in the deliberate departure from the standard conventions related to grammar and orthography. At first sight, this new code of communication could puzzle and put off an average user, but upon closer inspection it turns out that there is some order in this apparent chaos and that there are certain limits to the deviations applied by ardent followers of LOLspeak. Our major aim was to propose a preliminary list of certain regularities characterizing this new form of linguistic creativity. It is by no means exhaustive, as the investigation is based on a relatively small corpus, but it suggests a certain direction for the future investigation of this very interesting phenomenon.

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Linguistic Regularities of LOLspeak

Bury¹,

Wojtaszek²

2017

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“…Det nye sprog, som ikke altid er så nyt endda (Crystal 2011: 5), er af den tidlige forskning i computermedieret kommunikation forsøgt afdaekket som lingvistisk varietet, fx Netspeak og ComputerMediated Dis course (Crystal 2011: 2-3;Herring 2004), men der savnes stadig et reelt bud på hvilke sproglige traek der har mere almen karakter, og om nogle af de forskellige sprogtraek vil brede sig til andre kommunikationsformer som reelle sproglige forandringer 1 og blive en del af retskrivningen 2 (Sebba 2003). Som et skridt i den retning vil jeg i denne artikel forsøge at give et indblik i hvilke dansksproglige traek der er fremherskende i de nye medier.…”

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“…Når jeg vaelger at arbejde videre med termen medialekter, skønt jeg tager afstand fra at betragte medieringen som et determinerende vilkår for sprogforandringerne, skyldes det dels at termen understreger det dialogiske (lektos er graesk for samtale, sprog, mundart) og dermed sigter på hele sprogbrugen og ikke kun stavning og det grafiske udtryk (i modsaetning til fx respelling (Sebba 2003)), dels at mediernes påvirkning bringes i familie med, omend måske ikke helt på niveau med, den store betydning som også geografien (dialekt) og det sociale tilhørsforhold (sociolekt) har. Med begreber som medialekter (Hjarvard 2007(Hjarvard , 2008, neography (Crystal 2011) eller networked writing (Androutsopoulos 2011) vil man kunne diskutere om en form for stabilisering af den medialiserede sprogudvikling har fundet sted og udkrystalliseret sig i nogle konventionaliserede former.…”

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Sproglige forandringer i de nye medier – fra chatstil til hashtagpoesi

Hougaard¹

2014

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“…Consequently, the hip-hop message board postings reveal a delibérate exploitation of the written and spoken language qualities of this médium. The defining characteristics of hip-hop message board postings include a codification of non-standard pronunciation and grammar characteristic of informal, spoken language, and the use of nonstandard orthography (Sebba, 2003), which demands a written forum to be appreciated, as it is neutralized and thus unremarkable in speech.…”

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The discursive construction of identity in an Internet hip-hop community

Fägersten¹

2006

RAEI

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In this paper, the Internet message board forum is proposed as an example of a community of practice (Eckert and McConnell-Ginet, 1992) in which contributors exhibit common linguistic conventions and forms of participation. The emergence of individual identities in interaction is examined in the genrespecific context of hip-hop Internet message boards. A corpus analysis of message board postings clearly shows that contributors systematically exploit the spoken and written qualities of the language of message boards, the " third médium" (Crystal, 2001) to identify themselves linguistically. Linguistic conventions or practices reveal a tendency among contributors to discursively construction their identities via a "social positioning of self and other" (Bucholtz and Hall, 2005) as experts or non-experts inthe hip-hop community. Contributors' identities as experts or simply in-group members are further corraborated or established by the codification not only of non-standard pronunciations and grammar characteristic of speech, but also of non-standard orthography, which demands a written forum to be appreciated, as it is neutralized and unremarkable in speech. Because of the written and spoken qualities of message board discourse, both the content and the form of postings can be manipulated to showcase familiarity with hip-hop discursive practices. Internet message boards therefore represent the ideal forum for discursively constructing a hip-hop identity. 24 Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses

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Spelling rebellion

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Linguistic Regularities of LOLspeak

Linguistic Regularities of LOLspeak

Sproglige forandringer i de nye medier – fra chatstil til hashtagpoesi

The discursive construction of identity in an Internet hip-hop community

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