Digilect:
a new language variant
Digilect
Four main aspects
- sociocultural changes
- exponential increase in the amount of information
- flexibility, conscious metacognition, life-long learning
- new media competence, electronic literacy
- changes of text genres (micro-narratives)
- new text production and reception strategies
- textological-pragmatical
- 3rd person perspective: Facebook status
- formal
- pseudophonetic writing: default > difot
- leetspeak: 1337, 0wn3d
- grammatical
- discourse markers, grammaticalization
- lexical point of view
- netologisms: lol, xd, facepalm, headdesk, iPhone > sifon
language use in (informal) digital communication,
language variety of infocommunication technologies
CU l8r!
Ágnes Veszelszki PhD
(Eötvös-Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)
www.veszelszki.hu
veszelszki.agnes@gmail.com