Blogs, like other kinds of electronic communication, are often cited as having distinctive genre features, including linguistic ones. This study examines a random collection of posts taken from Italian online personal journals, with the aim of confirming the claim that such texts are written mainly in juvenile ‘Netspeak’. The results of comparing the texts against a list of features reveal that only 10% of personal journal posts include even a single occurrence of the most marked ‘Netspeak’ features. On the other hand, such features do seem to occur in personal journals only, while a control corpus of thematic posts did not include any occurrence of them.
Juvenile Netspeak and subgenre classification issues in Italian blogs
TAVOSANIS, MIRKO LUIGI AURELIO
2007-01-01
Abstract
Blogs, like other kinds of electronic communication, are often cited as having distinctive genre features, including linguistic ones. This study examines a random collection of posts taken from Italian online personal journals, with the aim of confirming the claim that such texts are written mainly in juvenile ‘Netspeak’. The results of comparing the texts against a list of features reveal that only 10% of personal journal posts include even a single occurrence of the most marked ‘Netspeak’ features. On the other hand, such features do seem to occur in personal journals only, while a control corpus of thematic posts did not include any occurrence of them.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.