Liquid language? On the personalization of discourse in the digital era

Interpersonal digital discourse (CMC and SMS), currently performed by wide circles of users, is characterized by deliberate misspelling and exhibits a strong influence of orality on the written text. This article examines the social legitimation of such non-standard oral discourse and its socio-disc...

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Published in:New media & society 2012-11, Vol.14 (7), p.1092-1110
Main Author: Soffer, Oren
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Digital technology
Discourse
Language
Language Usage
Legitimation
Linguistics
Liquid modernity
Orality
Orthography
Post-structuralism
Postmodernism
Print
Rebellions
Social Structure
Speech communities
Structuralism
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Language Usage
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Linguistics
Liquid modernity
Orality
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Postmodernism
Print
Rebellions
Social Structure
Speech communities
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