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Seargeant, Philip; Tagg, Caroline and Ngampramuan, Wipapan
(2012).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9841.2012.00540.x
Abstract
This article analyses the language choices used by a community of native Thai speakers in online communicative encounters. Using data drawn from exchanges from a social network site, the article examines the mixed linguistic repertoires evident in these interactions, alongwith the motivations (both situational and pragmatic) that influence choice of code, script and register, particularly as these are related to issues of addressivity. The data exhibits a great complexity of code-switching into English, despite the speech community being one for which, according to the participants, Thai would be the default choice in face-to-face encounters. In its examination of this data the article has a dual purpose: firstly to provide a descriptive account of this aspect of the use of English online; and secondly to offer an analysis of the strategies of language choice in this particular type of online discourse.
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- Item ORO ID
- 35127
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1467-9841
- Keywords
- addressivity; code-switching; computer mediated discourse (CMD); global English; language choice
- Academic Unit or School
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Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Languages and Applied Linguistics > English Language & Applied Linguistics
Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Languages and Applied Linguistics
Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) - Research Group
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Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET)
Language & Literacies - Copyright Holders
- © 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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- Philip Seargeant