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2016
Wikström, Peter (2016): when I need/want to. Normativity, identity, and form in user construals of ‘talk-like’ tweeting. In: Discourse, Context & Media 14, S. 54-62. DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2016.09.003

Abstract: The focus of this study is on how Twitter users construe talk-like tweeting in metalinguistic utterances. In a material of tweets containing or responding to explicit comparisons of tweeting to talking (N=520), a broad range of construals are identified, showing Twitter users associating talk-likeness with, e.g., notions of the textual representation of voice, of grammatical (in-)correctness, of accurately reflecting one's 'real-life' identity, and of regional or social variation in language use. These associations frequently serve normative functions, enforcing or contesting linguistic and discursive norms in both serious and playful ways. The findings offer a novel perspective on the oft-debated orality of computer-mediated discourse, providing a window on how a process of enregisterment (Agha, 2007) is instantiated and how language norms are actively negotiated by participants in everyday online language use on Twitter.

Keywords: Art des Kommunikationsmediums, Design, Entstehung von Normen, grammatische (In-)Korektheit, Konventionen, metalinguistische Äußerungen, Orality of computer-mediated discourse, social media, textuelle Nachahmung von Stimme, Twitter, Twitter-spezifische textuelle Ausdrucksweise, Variabilität im Sprachgebrauch (in Abweichung von Standardsprache)

2016

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