Analyzing Digital Discourse: New Insights and Future Directions , 2019
A pedagogical focus in university linguistics classes on evolving norms of practice for digitally... more A pedagogical focus in university linguistics classes on evolving norms of practice for digitally mediated communication (DMC) is an emergent phenomenon that has thus far received little attention in the research community. This chapter reports on a pilot study examining the effect of pedagogy on metalinguistic awareness of emergent norms of communication in virtual world spaces among undergraduates at a large state university in the American Southeast using both quantitative and qualitative analyses. The specific foci of analysis are audience awareness and attitudes about appropriate use of language and particular language forms in text messages. The qualitative analysis also revealed students' awareness of how particular language forms in DMC affect
The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique, 2010
: This study provides the first wide-scale, apparent time, instrumental description of the Canadi... more : This study provides the first wide-scale, apparent time, instrumental description of the Canadian Shift in mainstream Toronto English. In contrast with some previous findings, the Toronto data suggest that for the last 70 years or more the shift has not affected the high front lax vowel (I). We observe that the movement of the non-high front lax vowels (ε)
This study provides the first wide-scale, apparent time, instrumental description of the Canadian... more This study provides the first wide-scale, apparent time, instrumental description of the Canadian Shift in mainstream Toronto English. The Toronto data suggest that the general pattern of the shift-which affects the front lax vowels /ɪ, ɛ, ae/-involves simultaneous retraction and lowering. Findings also indicate that retraction, instead of lowering, has been the primary direction of more recent change, although little, if any, change has occurred in the speech of Torontonians since the WWII era. In light of these findings, a unified account of the Canadian Shift across speech communities in Canada is proposed that re-interprets the seemingly disparate results of previous studies.
Analyzing Digital Discourse: New Insights and Future Directions , 2019
A pedagogical focus in university linguistics classes on evolving norms of practice for digitally... more A pedagogical focus in university linguistics classes on evolving norms of practice for digitally mediated communication (DMC) is an emergent phenomenon that has thus far received little attention in the research community. This chapter reports on a pilot study examining the effect of pedagogy on metalinguistic awareness of emergent norms of communication in virtual world spaces among undergraduates at a large state university in the American Southeast using both quantitative and qualitative analyses. The specific foci of analysis are audience awareness and attitudes about appropriate use of language and particular language forms in text messages. The qualitative analysis also revealed students' awareness of how particular language forms in DMC affect
The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique, 2010
: This study provides the first wide-scale, apparent time, instrumental description of the Canadi... more : This study provides the first wide-scale, apparent time, instrumental description of the Canadian Shift in mainstream Toronto English. In contrast with some previous findings, the Toronto data suggest that for the last 70 years or more the shift has not affected the high front lax vowel (I). We observe that the movement of the non-high front lax vowels (ε)
This study provides the first wide-scale, apparent time, instrumental description of the Canadian... more This study provides the first wide-scale, apparent time, instrumental description of the Canadian Shift in mainstream Toronto English. The Toronto data suggest that the general pattern of the shift-which affects the front lax vowels /ɪ, ɛ, ae/-involves simultaneous retraction and lowering. Findings also indicate that retraction, instead of lowering, has been the primary direction of more recent change, although little, if any, change has occurred in the speech of Torontonians since the WWII era. In light of these findings, a unified account of the Canadian Shift across speech communities in Canada is proposed that re-interprets the seemingly disparate results of previous studies.
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