Size Matters: Digital Social Networks and Language Change [PDF]
Social networks play a role in language variation and change, and the social network theory has offered a powerful tool in modeling innovation diffusion.
Mikko Laitinen +4 more
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Minority identity and social structures shape diffusion dynamics of minority languages: a combined macro and micro approach [PDF]
Language is a tool for cultural communication, and diffusion is influenced by many factors. However, many studies have highlighted the importance of language status, while the critical factor of minority identity has been neglected.
Ya Gao, Wenqi Liu
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Tiktok Terhadap Variasi Bahasa Kolokial pada Kalangan Remaja Indonesia (kajian Etonolinguistik)
ABSTRAK: Pada saat ini para remaja tidak dapat dilepaskan dari teknologi dan media sosial menjadi wadahnya. Di antaranya, Tiktok saat ini sangat gemari kalangan remaja, karena media sosial ini adalah tempat untuk mereka mengekspresikan dirinya dan juga ...
Andriyana Andriyana +4 more
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Social Network Misinformation and Attitudinal Shift: A Sociolinguistic Perspective
This paper attempts to investigate the extent to which linguistic misinformation via social networking platforms affects an attitudinal shift on the part of Saudis in terms of the social, political, and religious issues propagated by the various social networks. This study delves into the verbal and nonverbal linguistic strategies employed to influence
Ayman Khafaga +2 more
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Forestillinger om storby og landsby – og valg af dialekt eller standard
In this article we explore possible correlations between the use of dialect/standard on one hand and ideas about place (village/city) and future (education/job) on the other, among 28 15-year-old pupils in a dialect-speaking area of Southern Jutland in
Henrik Hovmark
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Occasionalisms in Social Networks During the Pandemic
Background: This study explores and analyses occasionalisms that were created by social network users during the COVID-19 pandemic. The theoretical framework of this research is based on observing the concepts of occasionalism, neologism and nonce word.
Elena Gabrielova, Vitalia Lopatina
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Social Media in English and Russian Language Consciousness. Article 1. Psycholinguistic experiments
Introduction. This research is devoted to the systematic description of a concept «social media» in the Russian and English linguistic consciousness. The article consists of two parts.
Світлана Шляхова +1 more
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Big and rich social networks in computational sociolinguistics
Social media data have substantially enlarged the potential pools of evidence in the study of variation and change in English. They offer access to language use of large numbers of informants, but the downside is that they contain inadequate social background information.
Laitinen, Mikko, Fatemi, Masoud
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Detection of Sociolinguistic Features in Digital Social Networks for the Detection of Communities
The emergence of digital social networks has transformed society, social groups, and institutions in terms of the communication and expression of their opinions. Determining how language variations allow the detection of communities, together with the relevance of specific vocabulary (proposed by the National Council of Accreditation of Colombia ...
Edwin Puertas +4 more
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Sociolinguistic analysis of the communication style of users of social networks and messengers
The article presents a sociolinguistic analysis of the communication style of users in social networks and messengers. Based on the methods of sociolinguistics and indirect analysis methods of discourse, the usual moments of exchanging messages between users of a certain social group in Viber are compared with their interactions using the same ...
Aleksandra Alekseevna Milkova +4 more
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