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Written Language Across Devices - ENG

How Device Affordances Influence Linguistic Variation

Jenia Yudytska

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ISBN:	9783662716175
Formato:	ePub
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Springer Nature
Tema:	Lenguas
Subtema:	Lingüística general
Año de publicación:	2025-07-28

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.

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