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European Language Ecology And Bilingualism With English On Twitter ...
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The present paper deals with Flemish adolescents' informal computer-mediated communication (CMC) in a large corpus (2.9 million tokens) of chat conversations. We analyze deviations from written standard Dutch and possible correlations with the teenagers' gender, age and educational track. The concept of non-standardness is operationalized by means of a wide range of features that serve different purposes, related to the chatspeak maxims of orality, brevity and expressiveness. It will be demonstrated how the different social variables impact on non-standard writing, and, more importantly, how they interact with each other. While the findings for age and education correspond to our expectations (more non-standard markers are used by younger adolescents and students in practice-oriented educational tracks), the results for gender (no significant difference between girls and boys) do not: they call for a more fine-grained analysis of non-standard writing, in which features relating to different chat principles ...
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bilingualism; corpus linguistics; quantitative methods; social media; Twitter
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URL: https://zenodo.org/record/1041879 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1041879
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Finland Twitter English ; lexical, grammatical, and geographical properties
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