Written language across devices

How device affordances influence linguistic variation
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-662-71616-8
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 539 g

Reihe: Digitale Linguistik

The book explores written language across communication device types. Challenging the current norm of a "device-neutral" approach, it argues that the physical device (smartphone, computer) plays a complex role in language use, similar to other contextual factors. A three-part computational sociolinguistic study is used to investigate the variation of nineteen microlinguistic features (message length, capitalisation, acronyms, emoji, etc.) across device types, using two corpora of Twitter/X and Discord messages. The work develops an innovative approach for investigating the influence of technology on written language, highlighting the value of affordances over technological determinism.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yudytska, Jenia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.-Technology and communication: Interdisciplinary discourses.-The influence of communication device on language: Developing a framework Methodology.- Device affordances and microlinguistic features.- Device affordances and contextual factors.- Case studies: Device, features, context, and individuals.- Discussion and conclusion.- References.

Über Autor(innen)

Jenia Yudytska recently completed her doctoral studies at the University of Hamburg in the field of computational sociolinguistics. She is currently embarking in postdoc research, investigating the use of language technologies by forced migrants.