Chariatte, Nadine (January 2014). The Spanish variety of Malaga: From real to mental to virtual speech (Unpublished). In: CSLS Winter School "Language in Social Context". Kandersteg. 13.-17.01.2014.
Internet has affected our lives and society in manifold ways, and partly, in fundamental ways. Therefore, it is no surprise that one of the affected areas is language and communication itself. Over the last few years, online social networks have become a widespread and continuously expanding medium of communication. Being a new medium of social interaction, online social networks produce their own communication style, which in many cases differs considerably from real speech and is also perceived differently. The focus of analysis of my PhD thesis is how social network users from the city of Malaga create this virtual style by means of phonic features typical of the Andalusian variety of Spanish and how the users’ language attitude has an influence on the use of these phonic features.
The data collection was fourfold: 1) a main corpus was compiled from 240 informants’ utterances on Facebook and Tuenti; 2) a corpus constituted of broad transcriptions of recordings with 120 people from Malaga served as a comparison; 3) a survey in which 240 participants rated the use of said phonetic variants on the following axes: “good–bad”, “correct–incorrect” and “beautiful–ugly” was carried out; 4) a survey with 240 participants who estimated with which frequency the analysed features are used in Malaga was conducted. For the analysis, which is quantitative and qualitative, ten variables were chosen.
Results show that the studied variants are employed differently in virtual and real speech depending on how people perceive these variants. In addition, the use of the features is constrained by social factors. In general, people from Malaga have a more positive attitude towards non-‐standard features if they are used in virtual speech than in real speech. Thus, virtual communication is seen as a style serving to create social meaning and to express linguistic identity. These stylistic practices reflect an amalgam of social presuppositions about usage conventions and individual strategies for handling a new medium. In sum, the virtual style is an initiative deliberately taken by the users, to create their, real and virtual, identities, and to define their language attitudes towards the features of their variety of speech.
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Conference or Workshop Item (Speech) |
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06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Spanish Languages and Literature > Linguistic Studies 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Spanish Languages and Literature |
UniBE Contributor: |
Chariatte, Nadine |
Subjects: |
800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism > 860 Spanish & Portuguese literatures 400 Language > 460 Spanish & Portuguese languages |
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English |
Submitter: |
Nadine Chariatte |
Date Deposited: |
05 Sep 2014 08:24 |
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05 Dec 2022 14:31 |
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https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/47613 |
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