Ke Dise, Mi Arma? Dialectal Varieties in WhatsApp Digital Norm of Andalusian Adolescent Speakers
This article analyzes the written expression in WhatsApp-type instant messaging applications of Andalusian adolescents who are in the last years of compulsory education in Spain. It aims to establish the relationship between the most relevant characteristics of the digital norm used by Andalusian ad...
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| author | Alejandro Gómez-Camacho Francisco Núñez-Román Mercedes Llorent-Vaquero Patricia Villaciervos-Moreno |
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| description | This article analyzes the written expression in WhatsApp-type instant messaging applications of Andalusian adolescents who are in the last years of compulsory education in Spain. It aims to establish the relationship between the most relevant characteristics of the digital norm used by Andalusian adolescents in their communications through WhatsApp and the dialectal characteristics of their variety of Spanish. Additionally, this study intends to determine whether the writing norm in instant messaging applications influences the standard orthography of Spanish in school texts. A quantitative methodology has been used, analyzing objective data and carrying out a systematic and structured information collection process. A descriptive research design was employed using textual content analysis. The results show that the dialectal linguistic identity of Andalusian adolescent speakers on WhatsApp is mainly identified with suprasegmental linguistic features such as intonation and rhythm. Textisms related to the loss of the intervocalic -d- stand out, as well as those which reproduce the different realizations of the phonemes /s/ and /ʝ/. These features characterize the norm used by adolescent Andalusian speakers and coincide with the features that distinguish their way of pronouncing Spanish. The results show that these textisms are not related to the standard orthography of Spanish and do not cause non-standard orthography. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-321913d32f184326aac67d865a5baba62023-11-18T11:15:12ZengMDPI AGLanguages2226-471X2023-03-01829410.3390/languages8020094Ke Dise, Mi Arma? Dialectal Varieties in WhatsApp Digital Norm of Andalusian Adolescent SpeakersAlejandro Gómez-Camacho0Francisco Núñez-Román1Mercedes Llorent-Vaquero2Patricia Villaciervos-Moreno3Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Seville, 41004 Seville, SpainFaculty of Educational Sciences, University of Seville, 41004 Seville, SpainDepartment of Pedagogy, University of Jaén, 23071 Jaén, SpainDepartment of Education and Social Psychology, Pablo de Olavide University, 41013 Seville, SpainThis article analyzes the written expression in WhatsApp-type instant messaging applications of Andalusian adolescents who are in the last years of compulsory education in Spain. It aims to establish the relationship between the most relevant characteristics of the digital norm used by Andalusian adolescents in their communications through WhatsApp and the dialectal characteristics of their variety of Spanish. Additionally, this study intends to determine whether the writing norm in instant messaging applications influences the standard orthography of Spanish in school texts. A quantitative methodology has been used, analyzing objective data and carrying out a systematic and structured information collection process. A descriptive research design was employed using textual content analysis. The results show that the dialectal linguistic identity of Andalusian adolescent speakers on WhatsApp is mainly identified with suprasegmental linguistic features such as intonation and rhythm. Textisms related to the loss of the intervocalic -d- stand out, as well as those which reproduce the different realizations of the phonemes /s/ and /ʝ/. These features characterize the norm used by adolescent Andalusian speakers and coincide with the features that distinguish their way of pronouncing Spanish. The results show that these textisms are not related to the standard orthography of Spanish and do not cause non-standard orthography.https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/2/94writingSpanish spellinginstant messaging applicationstextismAndalusian Spanish |
| spellingShingle | Alejandro Gómez-Camacho Francisco Núñez-Román Mercedes Llorent-Vaquero Patricia Villaciervos-Moreno Ke Dise, Mi Arma? Dialectal Varieties in WhatsApp Digital Norm of Andalusian Adolescent Speakers Languages writing Spanish spelling instant messaging applications textism Andalusian Spanish |
| title | Ke Dise, Mi Arma? Dialectal Varieties in WhatsApp Digital Norm of Andalusian Adolescent Speakers |
| title_full | Ke Dise, Mi Arma? Dialectal Varieties in WhatsApp Digital Norm of Andalusian Adolescent Speakers |
| title_fullStr | Ke Dise, Mi Arma? Dialectal Varieties in WhatsApp Digital Norm of Andalusian Adolescent Speakers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ke Dise, Mi Arma? Dialectal Varieties in WhatsApp Digital Norm of Andalusian Adolescent Speakers |
| title_short | Ke Dise, Mi Arma? Dialectal Varieties in WhatsApp Digital Norm of Andalusian Adolescent Speakers |
| title_sort | ke dise mi arma dialectal varieties in whatsapp digital norm of andalusian adolescent speakers |
| topic | writing Spanish spelling instant messaging applications textism Andalusian Spanish |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/2/94 |
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