Adolescents' social background and non-standard writing in online communication.

Autor/inn/en	Hilte, Lisa; Vandekerckhove, Reinhild; Daelemans, Walter
Titel	Adolescents' social background and non-standard writing in online communication.
Quelle	In: Dutch journal of applied linguistics, 7 (2018) 1, S. 2-25 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Anmerkungen 10; Literaturangaben; Tabellen 8
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2211-7245; 2211-7253
DOI	10.1075/dujal.17018.hil
Schlagwörter	Kommunikation; Soziale Herkunft; Digitale Medien; Korpusanalyse; Niederländisch; Schreiben; Erwachsener
Abstract	In a large corpus (2.9 million tokens) of chat conversations, the authors studied the impact of Flemish adolescents' social background on non-standard writing. The authors found significant correlations between different aspects of social class (level of education, home language and profession of the parents) and all examined deviations from formal written standard Dutch. Clustering several social variables might not only lead to a better operationalization of the complex phenomenon of social class, it certainly allows for discriminating social groups with distinct linguistic practices: lower class teenagers used each of the non-standard features much more often and in some cases in a different way than their upper class peers. Possible explanations concern discrepancies in terms of both linguistic proficiency and linguistic attitudes. The authors' findings emphasize the importance of including social background as an independent variable in variationist studies on youngsters' computer-mediated communication. (Verlag, adapt.).
Erfasst von	Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg
Update	2022/2