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    Online-Gemeinschaften und Sprachvariation : soziolinguistische Perspektiven auf Sprache im Internet

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    This paper presents a sociolinguistic perspective on language in the Internet. Most linguistic research on computer mediated communication has focused on media or genre related language variation, establishing language styles as typical for e.g. chat or newsgroups. A critical discussion of this research suggests that more attention should be paid to user related language variation. The concept of "online community" is proposed as a suitable starting point for the study of language variation on the Internet, and sociological and linguistic criteria for the definition and description of online communities are discussed. The second part of the paper presents a classification of sociolinguistically relevant variation patterns. Finally, evidence for the effect of various social factors on language use in the Internet is reviewed

    Digital polycentricity and diasporic connectivity: A Norwegian-Senegalese case study

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    This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.© 2021 The Authors. Journal of Sociolinguistics published by John Wiley & Sons LtdDigital communication remains largely unexplored in sociolinguistic research on diaspora and language. In this paper, ethnographically collected data from Norway-based families of Senegalese heritage are explored to identify how family members use digital media to engage with diaspora concerns and projects, and how this engagement shapes their multilingual practices online. We re-contextualize the concept of polycentricity (Blommaert et al.) from the physical setting of a neighbourhood or region to complex ecologies of digital media, and identify four ‘centres’, that is, distinct orientations for participants’ digital language and literacy practices, in which linguistic choices are associated with diaspora discourses, genres, and imagery. Each centre constrains the deployment of linguistic and semiotic resources in ways that are related both to historically rooted sociolinguistic hierarchies and affordances of digital media. The findings support a key claim in language and diaspora research, that is, the fine-grained patterning of linguistic resources in diaspora communities. They also underscore the need to extend the empirical scope of a sociolinguistics of diaspora from co-present to mediated interaction, and to explore the interplay between the two.publishedVersio

    Autochthonous heritage languages and social media:writing and bilingual practices in Low German on Facebook

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    This article analyses how speakers of an autochthonous heritage language (AHL) make use of digital media, through the example of Low German, a regional language used by a decreasing number of speakers mainly in northern Germany. The focus of the analysis is on Web 2.0 and its interactive potential for individual speakers. The study therefore examines linguistic practices on the social network site Facebook, with special emphasis on language choice, bilingual practices and writing in the autochthonous heritage language. The findings suggest that social network sites such as Facebook have the potential to provide new mediatized spaces for speakers of an AHL that can instigate sociolinguistic change

    Changing digital media environments and youth audiovisual productions: A comparison of two collaborative research experiences with south Madrid adolescents

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    SAGE: David Poveda, Marta Morgade, Changing Digital Media Environments and Youth Audiovisual Productions: A Comparison of Two Collaborative Research Experiences with South Madrid Adolescents, Young 26.4 (2018): 34-55 Copyright © 2018SAGE. Reprinted by permission of SAGE PublicationsThis article compares two studies conducted in Madrid in a seven–eight years span in which secondary school students (14–15 years of age) were asked to collaboratively create digital audiovisual narratives. In the first project, adolescents seemed to consider their audiovisual materials as transparent and with self-evident meanings. In the second project, adolescents problematized meaning and reflexively examined the design of audiovisual media. We explore two distinct but complementary factors that might help interpret the differences: (a) rapid historical changes in the digital narratives adolescents are exposed to and engage with and (b) methodological differences in the way adolescents were supported and guided during the creation of their audiovisual narratives. Through this analysis, we draw on an ethnographically grounded notion of ‘mediatization’ that helps unpack both rapid transformations in adolescent’s digital mediascape and how digital practices are socially co-constructed in collaborative projects with youth

    The Uses of Stance in Media Production: Embodied Sociolinguistics and Beyond

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    While many conversation analysts, and scholars in related fields, have used video-recordings to study interaction, this study is one of a small but growing number that investigates video-recordings of the joint activities of media professionals working with, and on, video. It examines practices of media production that are, in their involvement with the visual and verbal qualities of video, both beyond talk and deeply shaped by talk. The article draws upon video recordings of the making of a feature-length documentary. In particular, it analyses a complex course of action where an editing team are reviewing their interview of the subject of the documentary, their footage is being intercut with existing reality TV footage of that same interviewee. The central contributions that the article makes are, firstly, to the sociolinguistics of mediatisation, through the identification of the workplace concerns of the members of the editing team, secondly showing how editing is accomplished, moment-by-moment, through the use of particular forms of embodied action and, finally, how the media themselves feature in the ordering of action. While this is professional work it sheds light on the video-mediated practices in contemporary culture, especially those found in social media where video makers carefully consider their editing of the perspective toward themselves and others

    Mediatisierte Praktiken: Zur Rekontextualisierung von Anschlusskommunikation in den Sozialen Medien

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    Mediatisierte Praktiken sind GefĂŒge kommunikativer Handlungen, die im Zuge der gesellschaftlichen Mediatisierung aufkommen, Technologien digitaler Kommunikation einbeziehen und an prĂ€-digitale VorgĂ€nger enger oder loser angebunden sind. Der Beitrag arbeitet den Begriff der mediatisierten Praktiken durch die EngfĂŒhrung zweier ForschungsstrĂ€nge, der soziolinguistischen Praktiken-Forschung und der kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Mediatisierungsforschung, heraus. Rahmenbedingungen fĂŒr die Mediatisierung sprachlicher Praktiken werden in fĂŒnf Dimensionen systematisiert: Formatierung, Beteiligungsrollen, TemporalitĂ€t, TranskontextualitĂ€t und IntermedialitĂ€t. Zudem werden zwei Wege der Entstehung mediatisierter Praktiken durch „lineare“ bzw. „integrative“ Rekontextualisierung von Elementen frĂŒherer sprachlicher Praktiken unterschieden. Zur empirischen Flankierung dienen zwei Fallbeispiele der mediatisierten Anschlusskommunikation: die rezeptionsbegleitende Kommentierung der Krimiserie „Tatort“ auf Twitter einerseits, die Praktik der redaktionellen Intervention auf der Facebook-PrĂ€senz der Nachrichtensendung Tagesschau andererseits

    Multimodal - intertextuell - heteroglossisch: Sprach-Gestalten in "Web 2.0"-Umgebungen

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    Web-Umgebungen wie virtuelle soziale Netzwerke und Videoportale sind von Tendenzen der Partizipation, Konvergenz und MultimedialitĂ€t gekennzeichnet. Diese bedeuten eine Herausforderung fĂŒr sprachanalytische ZugĂ€nge, die digitale Kommunikationsformen separat voneinander untersuchen und auf mikrolinguistische PhĂ€nomene bei nur geringer Beachtung ihrer komplexen soziomedialen Rahmenbedingungen abheben. Im Beitrag wird ein bildschirm-basierter Ansatz entworfen, der Web-Umgebungen als semiotische RĂ€ume begreift, die von Nutzern in ihren spezifischen soziokulturellen UmstĂ€nden und vor der Folie technologischer Potenziale und Grenzen aufgefĂŒllt und ausgestaltet werden. Sprache ist eine wesentliche, aber nicht die einzige Ressource dieses digitalen kommunikativen Handelns, und ihre Verwendung ist in der Spannung zwischen technologischer VorprĂ€gung und situierter Medienaneignung zu untersuchen. Im Kern des Ansatzes liegt die Unterscheidung von zwei analytischen Dimensionen. Die erste unterscheidet vier Leistungen von Sprache in Web-Umgebungen: Organisation, Selbstdarstellung, Spektakel und Interaktion. Die zweite erfasst drei fĂŒr Web 2.0 charakteristische Prozesse der Sprach- und Textgestaltung: MultimodalitĂ€t, IntertextualitĂ€t und Heteroglossie. Wie diese beiden KategorienbĂŒndel eine Grundlage fĂŒr weiterfĂŒhrende Fragestellungen bilden können, wird am Beispiel des Dialektgebrauchs auf einer Videoplattform diskutiert

    "löbbe döch" : Beziehungskommunikation mit SMS

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    Der Beitrag diskutiert die Rolle von SMS-Kommunikation als Mittel der Beziehungsgestaltung am Beispiel der authentischen SMS-Kommunikation einer Kleingruppe von fĂŒnf Personen. Untersucht wird ein auf ethnografischer Basis zusammengestelltes Korpus von mehr als 700 Kurzmitteilungen. Empirische Schwerpunkte sind das VerhĂ€ltnis zwischen Beziehungsart und Schreibstil, das Gruß- und Anredeverhalten der Gruppe sowie die Aushandlung von Beziehungskonflikten per SMS. Verschiedene Beziehungsarten in der Gruppe unterscheiden sich in der HĂ€ufigkeit der SMS-Kontakte, in den Themen bzw. GesprĂ€chssorten sowie in der lexikalischen Ausgestaltung der Kurzmitteilungen, darunter auch im Anredeverhalten. Die gruppeninternen GrĂŒĂŸe und Anreden zeichnen sich durch geringe HĂ€ufigkeit und kontextsensitive Varianten aus. Verschiedene Formen der Sprachvariation (Dialektelemente, stilisierte Kindersprache, gebrochenes Deutsch) werden auf der Grundlage der Kontextualisierungstheorie als indirekte Mittel der Beziehungsgestaltung beschrieben.The article discusses relationship communication in SMS (text messaging) from an ethnographic and interactional point of view. A corpus of more than 700 text messages from a close-knit group of five persons is examined. The findings suggest that different types of social relationships within the group (male and female friends, partners) are constituted by specific speech styles in text messaging, and that style shifting is used as a contextualization cue for relationship maintenance and the management of conflict interactions
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