September 30, 2017 Conference paper Open Access

Hilte, Lisa; Vandekerckhove, Reinhild; Daelemans, Walter

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{
  "publisher": "cmc-corpora conference series", 
  "DOI": "10.5281/zenodo.1041855", 
  "container_title": "Proceedings of the 5th Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (cmccorpora17)", 
  "language": "eng", 
  "title": "Modeling Non-Standard Language Use in Adolescents' CMC: The Impact and Interaction of Age, Gender and Education", 
  "issued": {
    "date-parts": [
      [
        2017, 
        9, 
        30
      ]
    ]
  }, 
  "abstract": "The present paper deals with Flemish adolescents' informal computer-mediated communication (CMC) in a large corpus (2.9 million tokens) of chat conversations. We analyze deviations from written standard Dutch and possible correlations with the teenagers' gender, age and educational track. The concept of non-standardness is operationalized by means of a wide range of features that serve different purposes, related to the chatspeak maxims of orality, brevity and expressiveness. It will be demonstrated how the different social variables impact on non-standard writing, and, more importantly, how they interact with each other. While the findings for age and education correspond to our expectations (more non-standard markers are used by younger adolescents and students in practice-oriented educational tracks), the results for gender (no significant difference between girls and boys) do not: they call for a more fine-grained analysis of non-standard writing, in which features relating to different chat principles are examined separately.", 
  "author": [
    {
      "family": "Hilte, Lisa"
    }, 
    {
      "family": "Vandekerckhove, Reinhild"
    }, 
    {
      "family": "Daelemans, Walter"
    }
  ], 
  "id": "1041855", 
  "event-place": "Bolzano, Italy", 
  "type": "paper-conference", 
  "event": "5th Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (cmccorpora17)"
}