Location and Language Use in Social Media

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ed Chi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Language Use

scholarly journals Word Shortening Strategies: Egyptian vs. Non-Egyptian English Tweets

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Iman Mohamed Mahfouz
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Parallel Corpora ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Message Length ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Media Platform

The language of Computer-mediated Communication (CMC) is known to deviate from standard language in many ways dictated by the characteristics of the medium in order to achieve brevity, speed as well as innovation. Together with the intrinsic features of CMC in general, the character limitation imposed by the popular social media platform, Twitter has triggered the use of a number of linguistic devices including shortening strategies in addition to unconventional spelling and grammar. Using two parallel corpora of English tweets written by Egyptians and non-Egyptians on a similar hashtag, the study attempts to compare the shortening strategies used in both datasets. A taxonomy for orthographic and morphological shortening strategies was adapted from Thurlow and Brown (2003) and Denby (2010) with particular focus on message length, punctuation, clipping, abbreviations, contractions, alphanumeric homophones and accent stylization. Given the scarcity of linguistic studies conducted on Egyptian tweets despite the vast amount of data they offer, the study compares the findings about tweets written by Egyptians in English as a foreign language to previous studies. The findings suggest that Egyptians tend to omit punctuation more frequently, whereas non-Egyptians favor abbreviations, contractions and clipped forms. The results also indicate that Twitter may be shifting towards longer messages while at the same time increasingly employing more shortening strategies. The study also reveals that character limitation is not the only factor shaping language use on Twitter since not all linguistic choices are governed by brevity of communication.

scholarly journals KEMAMPUAN ORANG TUA DALAM MENANGGAPI BAHASA PESAN SINGKAT ANAK-ANAK TERHADAP ETIKA BERBAHASA

Pujangga ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Eka Septiani ◽  
Sri Mulyani ◽  
Nur Indah Sari
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Short Message ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Language Ethics

ABSTRAK Perkembangan media sosial yang digunakan khususnya oleh anak-anak hendaknya diiringi dengan pengetahuan orang tua dalam menanggapi etika berbahasa mereka dalam kehidupan mereka sehari-hari. Etika berbahasa yang perlu mendapat tanggapan atau pengawasan dalam penggunaan media sosial adalah penggunaan SMS dan Chatting dalam hal ini Whatsapp. SMS dan Chatting merupakan salah satu sarana komunikasi yang efektif di era sekarang ini. Pengabdian kepada masyarakat ini bertujuan untuk (1) meningkatkan wawasan atau pengetahuan orang tua mengenai penggunaan media sosial, (2) dapat menjaga komunikasi antara orang tua dan anak, (3) meningkatkan kepekaan orang tua dalam mengawasi penggunaan bahasa anak-anak dalam menggunakan media sosial, (4) menjaga etika berbahasa dalam menggunakan media sosial di kehidupan sehari-hari dengan memperbaiki penggunaan bahasa mereka. Kegiatann ini sebagai upaya memberikan wawasan atau pengetahuan pada orang tua dalam menanggapi etika berbahasa anak-anak mereka dalam menggunakan media sosial dengan cara memperbaiki penggunaan bahasa anak-anak mereka. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode deskriptif kualitatif, yanitu mendeskripsikan, mencatat, menganalisis dan menginterpretasikan data yang diperoleh. Hasilnya ditemukan dua puluh enam kelompok interjeksi yang dihunakan pada akun Youtube Malam Malam Net. Penelitian ini juga menemukan kelompok makna interjeksi yaitu interjeksi yang menyatakan peringatan, ekspresi, keheranan,kekhawatiran, terkejut, kepasrahan, pengetatuan baru, pemikiran, dan penegasan. Kata kunci: Kemampuan Orang Tua, Bahasa Pesan Singkat Anak, dan Etika Berbahasa ABSTRACT The development of social media that is used specifically by children must be accompanied by knowledge of parents in responding to the language ethics they use in their daily lives. Language ethics that need to get a response or supervision in the use of social media is the use of SMS and chat in this case Whatsapp. SMS and chat is one of the effective means of communication in the current era. This program aims to (1) improve parents' knowledge or knowledge about the use of social media, (2) can maintain communication between parents and children, (3) increase sensitivity of parents in supervising children's language use in using social media, (4) maintain language ethics in using social media in everyday life by improving the use of their language. This activity is an effort to provide parents with insight or knowledge in responding to the language ethics of their children in using social media by improving their children's language use. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative method, which describes, records, analyzes and interprets the data obtained. The result was found twenty-six interjection groups that were used on the Youtube Malam Malam Net account. This study also found a group of meanings of interjection namely interjection which stated warning, expression, wonder, worry, surprise, resignation, new unity, thought, and affirmation Keywords: Skill of Parents, Children’ Short Message Language, and Language Ethic

scholarly journals THE USE OF LANGUAGE OF PEACE IN SOCIAL MEDIA AS A WAY TO PROMOTE A PEACEFUL LIFE

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sri Wahyuningsih
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Language Use

This paper explores the importance of using language of peace in a social mediaand its effects to promote the peaceful life. Nowadays, the effects of languageare undeniably extraordinary both for preserving or damaging a peace. In fact,language is oen taken for granted that leads to the problems from a linguisticperspective. One of these problems occurs in a social media in which thelanguage users tend to show impolite languages or insinuation and ignore thereaders. Further, they use words that may be accompanied by gestures, yelling,pictures, screaming, etc. As a result, it will lead to chaos, conflict, verbal andphysical violence and possibly death. Considering this, the language usersboth the writers or speakers should be responsible for choosing the wordsand using acts of discourse that could mitigate the conflicts. In addition, theyshould be aware of the language use, pragmatic and sociolinguistic in a socialpractice to promote the peaceful life.

scholarly journals THE USE OF LANGUAGE OF PEACE IN SOCIAL MEDIA AS A WAY TO PROMOTE A PEACEFUL LIFE

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sri Wahyuningsih
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Language Use

This paper explores the importance of using language of peace in a social mediaand its effects to promote the peaceful life. Nowadays, the effects of languageare undeniably extraordinary both for preserving or damaging a peace. In fact,language is often taken for granted that leads to the problems from a linguisticperspective. One of these problems occurs in a social media in which thelanguage users tend to show impolite languages or insinuation and ignore thereaders. Further, they use words that may be accompanied by gestures, yelling,pictures, screaming, etc. As a result, it will lead to chaos, conflict, verbal andphysical violence and possibly death. Considering this, the language usersboth the writers or speakers should be responsible for choosing the wordsand using acts of discourse that could mitigate the conflicts. In addition, theyshould be aware of the language use, pragmatic and sociolinguistic in a socialpractice to promote the peaceful life.

scholarly journals THE USE OF LANGUAGE OF PEACE IN SOCIAL MEDIA AS A WAY TO PROMOTE A PEACEFUL LIFE

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sri Wahyuningsih
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Language Use

is paper explores the importance of using language of peace in a social mediaand its effects to promote the peaceful life. Nowadays, the effects of languageare undeniably extraordinary both for preserving or damaging a peace. In fact,language is oen taken for granted that leads to the problems from a linguisticperspective. One of these problems occurs in a social media in which thelanguage users tend to show impolite languages or insinuation and ignore thereaders. Further, they use words that may be accompanied by gestures, yelling,pictures, screaming, etc. As a result, it will lead to chaos, conflict, verbal andphysical violence and possibly death. Considering this, the language usersboth the writers or speakers should be responsible for choosing the wordsand using acts of discourse that could mitigate the conflicts. In addition, theyshould be aware of the language use, pragmatic and sociolinguistic in a socialpractice to promote the peaceful life.

scholarly journals Hate Speech on Social Media: A Pragmatic Approach

2021 ◽  
pp. 308-317
Author(s):  
Hidayati . ◽  
Aflina . ◽  
Arifuddin .
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
Personal Gain ◽  
Actual Usage ◽  
Illocutionary Acts ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive

This research is based on people’s behavior in communicating on social media, especially Facebook, which is currently developing without boundaries. In expressing their thoughts, a person often does not maintain ethics and provisions in communicating on social media. For personal gain, individuals or groups of people use language for the purpose of humiliating, insulting, degrading and defaming other individuals or groups of society they dislike. This phenomenon is widely known as hate speech. In line with the Pragmatic Approach, referring to the study of language use with its actual usage aspects, the utterances produced by language users have an effect that could influence the listener to grasp the meaning conveyed and take action as a result of the utterance. This study aims to reveal the types of hate speech on social media based on the criteria developed by Austin, and the meaning of hate speech spoken by individuals to other individuals on Facebook social media, using qualitative descriptive methods. The results show that hate speech on social media can be classified based on illocutionary acts developed by Austin, into verdictive, behabitives, and expositive. Keywords: Pragmatics, social media, illocutionary acts, hate speech

scholarly journals #aintnobodygottimeforthat: cultural appropriation, stylization and the social life of hashtag interjectionality

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-97
Author(s):  
Anne H. Fabricius
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
African American ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Language Use ◽  
American English ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Appropriation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future

Th is paper will discuss a particular hashtag meme as one example of a potential new manifestation of interjectionality, engendered and fostered in the written online context of social media. Th e case derives from a video meme and hashtag from the United States which ‘went viral’ in 2012. We will ask to what extent hashtags might perform interjectional-type functions over and above their referential functions, thereby having links to other, more prototypically interjectional elements. Th e case will also be discussed from multiple sociolinguistic perspectives: as an example of the (indirect) signifying of ‘whiteness’ through ‘black’ discourse, as cultural appropriation in the context of potential policing of these racial divides in the United States, and as a case of performative stylization which highlights grammatical markers while simultaneously downplaying phonological markers of African American English. We will end by speculating as to the implications of the rise of (variant forms of) hashtags for processes of creative language use in the future.

scholarly journals THE LANGUAGE AND IDEOLOGY OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR DRUG CONVICTS FOUND IN SELECTED OPINIONS IN THE JAKARTA POST

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 134
Author(s):  
Arina Isti’anah
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Capital Punishment ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Verbal Processes ◽  
Language And Ideology

This research is an investigation into the language use in peoples opinions of capital punishment for drug convicts in The Jakarta Post. Capital punishment was executed to six drug convicts on January 18th , 2015. Controversy about this action has risen before and after the execution. People give their opinions in social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and newspapers. The Jakarta Post is a well-known English newspaper in Indonesia which has a lot of readers. People choose this newspaper to convey their ideas so that their opinions will be read by people around the world. As the issue about capital punishment is popular recently, this research attempts at finding out peoples ideology about capital punishment for drug convicts. Critical discourse analysis was conducted in this research as an approach to figure out how language use by the people can reveal their ideology of capital punishment. This research focused on observing four opinions of capital punishment for drug convicts in The Jakarta Post. The analysis shows that material processes dominate the opinions, followed by relational, mental and verbal processes. The ideologies revealed in the opinions are power, pessimism, and criticism. Before the execution, pessimism dominates the opinions, while after the execution criticism appears most in the opinions.

Simultaneity and the refusal to choose: The semiotics of Serbian youth identity on Facebook

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 399-423
Author(s):  
Rachel George
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Language And Identity ◽  
Writing Systems ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Youth Identity ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Dominant Ideologies

AbstractAlthough the importance of linguistic simultaneity has long been recognized (Woolard 1998), the concept is underexamined in recent analyses of language use in globalized, digital contexts such as social media. Drawing from an analysis of everyday Facebook posts from youth in Belgrade, Serbia, the article proposes that recognizing four types of simultaneity—of linguistic features, indexical operations, effects, and scale—is key for making sense of social media utterances in political and historical context. On Facebook, Serbian youth mix languages and writing systems in complex ways, adhering to dominant ideologies of language and identity in some ways and flouting them in others. Using the Serbian case as a springboard, along with the four types of simultaneity proposed, I suggest a framework for analyzing language and identity on social media. (Serbia, indexicality, simultaneity, social media, superdiversity, bivalency, youth)*

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