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Multilingualism in Social Media Profiles of South Tyrol

The aim of the project was to identify and investigate factors of language choice and code-switching on South Tyrolean social media profiles. It used the previously assembled DiDi corpus of Facebook conversations to analyse the written forms of everyday language in South Tyrol. The project analysed the use of different languages as well as different varieties of German.

Project duration: August 2015 - July 2016
Project status:
Institute: Institute for Applied Linguistics

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Scientific Publications

Inbook2018

Dialekt als Norm? Zum Sprachgebrauch Südtiroler Jugendlicher auf Facebook

Glaznieks A, Frey JC

Aivars Glaznieks, Jennifer-Carmen Frey

For the DiDi project, we studied linguistic behaviour among Facebook users in the multilingual province of South Tyrol by looking at the Facebook texts written by 136 participants from the region. The corpus of texts included status updates, comments and chat messages by Facebook users who were between 14 and 76 years of age and whose L1 was German. We used corpus linguistics methods to analyse (1) the participants’ preferences regarding language use (German, Italian, and English) and (2) dialect use (South Tyrolean dialect vs. standard German) as well as (3) instances of code-switching and code-mixing. The following contribution focusses on young Facebook users. Our results show that young users a) prefer their L1 and produce only a small number of non-German texts, b) that their default variety for Facebook texts is their dialect, and c) that their texts contain instances of code-mixing rather than code-switching. We also compared these results to the linguistic behaviour of older users in the corpus and observed that they had a greater tendency to write texts on Facebook in standard German than younger users.

DOI

DOI: 10.1515/9783110472226-038

All Publications

Using Data Mining to Repurpose German Language Corpora. An evaluation of data-driven analysis methods for corpus linguistics
Frey J (2020)
PhD thesis

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/17321

Comparison of Automatic vs. Manual Language Identification in Multilingual Social Media Texts
Frey JC, Stemle E, Doğruöz AS (2019)
Contribution in book
Building computer-mediated communication corpora for socio-linguistic analysis

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/10130

Dialekt als Norm? Zum Sprachgebrauch Südtiroler Jugendlicher auf Facebook
Glaznieks A, Frey JC (2018)
Contribution in book
Jugendsprachen/Youth Languages: Aktuelle Perspektiven internationaler Forschung/Current Perspectives of International Research

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110472226-038

https://hdl.handle.net/10863/7699

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University of Bologna, Department of Interpretation and Translation in Forlì

Project Team

Jennifer-Carmen Frey

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