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Digital language variation in context (DiLCo)

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08.12.2022

Sprache, Literatur, Medien (SLM I + II)

In Search of Double Modals: DiLCo Lecture Series 2022 (08 December)

Jack Grieve

In this presentation, I report the results of a large-scale study of variation in the structure and use of double modals in American English. Based on an 8.9 billion word corpus of geolocated Twitter data collected from across the US between 2013 and 2014, we identify 5,436 occurrences of double modals, including examples of 76 distinct double modal combinations, far more tokens and types than have been observed in decades of research. We then map double modal use in high resolution across the US for the first time. Our results challenge a wide range of assumptions about the nature of double modals, which have been based almost entirely on the intuitions of linguists and their informants. Most notably, we find that double modals are most strongly associated with African American Language. Furthermore, based on this finding, we propose that double modals may have originated with African American as opposed to Scot-Irish settlers, as has generally been assumed. I conclude by considering how the emerging field of computational sociolinguistics is revolutionising the way we study and understand language variation and change.

Jack Grieve is a Professor of Corpus Linguistics at the University of Birmingham and Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute in London. His research focuses on the analysis of language variation and change in the English language based on the computational analysis of large corpora of natural language.

DiLCo Lecture Series 2022 aims to showcase cutting edge international research on digitally language and communication by both senior and younger researchers from across the world. We wish to present research that explores digital language and communication by drawing on key concepts and topics in socio-cultural linguistics, such as community, context, identity, mediated interaction, multimodality, and linguistic change. We particularly welcome presentations of innovative methods that cut across traditional disciplinary boundaries.

DiLCo (Digital language variation in context) is a 3-year international research network initiated in 2021 at the University of Hamburg. The network brings together researchers from Europe and USA with expertise in computational, interactional, and ethnographic approaches to digital language and linguistics. It aims to provide a platform for the development of interdisciplinary ideas in digital language and communication research, and for early-career capacity building.

--- DiLCo (‘Digital language variation in context’) is a 3-year international research network initiated in 2021 at the University of Hamburg. The network brings together researchers from Europe and USA with expertise in computational, interactional, and ethnographic approaches to digital language and linguistics. It aims to provide a platform for the development of interdisciplinary ideas in digital language and communication research, and for early-career capacity building.

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20.06.2024

Memes, selfies, stories, short form videos…: Technographic reflections on the age of small story formats: DiLCo Lecture Series 2024 (20 June)

Alexandra Georgakopoulou
23.05.2024

Social Perceptions of Language Variation: Comparing Humans and LLMs: DiLCo Lecture Series 2024 (23 May)

Dong Nguyen
25.04.2024

Figures in discourse. Monitoring the public debate on multilingualism in Luxembourg: DiLCo Lecture Series 2024 (25 April)

Christoph Purschke
28.03.2024

Hate speech detection: Bias in data and annotations: DiLCo Lecture Series 2024 (28 March)

Sandra Kuebler
22.02.2024

Graphic cues and heterographic practices in digital discourse: DiLCo Lecture Series 2024 (22 February)

Jannis Androutsopoulos
25.01.2024

Performing conversation: Interactional strategies in TikTok duets: DiLCo Lecture Series 2024 (25 January)

Susan Herring
07.12.2023

Telling the ongoing: The temporalities of mundane stories in mobile messaging: DiLCo Lecture Series 2023 (7 December)

Florian Busch
23.11.2023

The big ask: Requesting consumer feedback: DiLCo Lecture Series 2023 (23 November)

Camilla Vasquez
26.10.2023

Linguistic governmentality and media technologies: How is language ordered in the age of large language models?: DiLCo Lecture Series 2023 (26 October)

Dr. Britta Schneider
06.10.2023

DiLCo Methods Day 2023 - Methods for on/offline nexus analysis: Discussion: Towards a bigger picture (6 October)

Camilla Vasquez
06.10.2023

DiLCo Methods Day 2023: Reflecting on fascism: Critical reflexivity as a method for exploring the offline/online nexus in a study of white male supremacism (6 October)

Catherine Tebaldi
06.10.2023

DiLCo Methods Day 2023: Mediagrams in the study of digital workplace interaction, home-school communication, and inclusion (6 October)

Kristin Vold Lexander
06.10.2023

DiLCo Methods Day 2023: Tying together the Total Linguistic Fact: Multi-method approaches to smartphone-based interactions (6 October)

Florian Busch
06.10.2023

DiLCo Methods Day 2023: Post-digital linguistic ethnography: A day-in-the-life approach to understanding contemporary communication (6 October)

Caroline Tagg, Dr. Agnieszka Lyons
06.10.2023

DiLCo Methods Day 2023 - Methods for on/offline nexus analysis: Position Statements and Q&A (6 October 2023)

Florian Busch, Caroline Tagg, Dr. Agnieszka Lyons et al.
28.09.2023

Code-mixing on social media: Understanding when, why and how speakers mix languages: DiLCo Lecture Series 2023 (28 September)

Monojit Choudhury, Sunayana Sitaram
08.06.2023

Enregistering 'Frat Boy' on social media: DiLCo Lecture Series 2023 (8 June)

Scott F. Kiesling
11.05.2023

Emoji as paralanguage: modelling emoji-text relations and exploring ambient affiliation in social media discourse: DiLCo Lecture Series 2023 (11 May)

Michele Zappavigna
27.04.2023

Indexicality, virality and the entangled speech chains of TikTok: DiLCo Lecture Series 2023 (27 April)

PhD Rodney H. Jones
23.03.2023

What language technology has to say about us: DiLCo Lecture Series 2023 (23 March)

Malvina Nissim
23.02.2023

Political economy in digital language and the metapragmatics of fansubbing: DiLCo Lecture Series 2023 (23 February)

Joseph Sung-Yul Park
26.01.2023

'Shared care' through instant messaging updates in youth care: a digital conversation analysis: DiLCo Lecture Series 2023 (26 January)

Wyke Stommel
08.12.2022

In Search of Double Modals: DiLCo Lecture Series 2022 (08 December)

Jack Grieve
24.11.2022

Digital discourse analysis in public policy research: The case of doxxing discourse in Hong Kong: DiLCo Lecture Series 2022 (24 November)

Carmen Lee
17.11.2022

Social patterns in adolescent social media writing: On the interaction of age, gender, and education: DiLCo Lecture Series 2022 (17 November)

Reinhild Vandekerckhove
27.10.2022

Linguistic dynamics in digital diaspora communities: The case of Nairaland: DiLCo Lecture Series (27 October)

Axel Bohmann
20.10.2022

Tell me who commutes and I tell you how you speak – tracing the impact of commuting patterns on regional language: DiLCo Lecture Series 2022 (20 October)

Dirk Hovy
07.10.2022

Representing Words and Linguistic Style for Computational Analysis: A Gentle Introduction: DiLCo Methods Day 2022 (7 October)

Dong Nguyen, Anna Wegmann
07.10.2022

What do we mean when we talk about web corpora and how are they built?: DiLCo Methods Day 2022 (7 October)

Adrien Barbaresi
07.10.2022

Similarity-based clustering and temporal visualisation of tweets for detecting disinformation narratives: DiLCo Methods Day 2022 (7 October)

Dr. Gregor Wiedemann
22.09.2022

Between the macro and the micro: Using computational tools to better understand sociolinguistic issues: DiLCo Lecture Series 2022 (22 September)

Christian Ilbury
24.07.2022

Sociolinguistic Symposium 24 Ghent 2022

Prof. Dr. Jannis Androutsopoulos
07.07.2022

Mobile conversations in context: a post-digital perspective on identity and interaction: DiLCo Lecture Series 2022 (7 July)

Caroline Tagg
16.06.2022

Transmodal messenger interactions - The sequential ordering of text and audio postings in WhatsApp chats: DiLCo Lecture Series 2022 (16 June)

Katharina König
12.05.2022

The ordinariness of digital linguistic diversity in the Global South: DiLCo Lecture Series 2022 (12 May)

Sender Dovchin
08.04.2022

Shared Stories and Social Media Influencers on TikTok : DiLCo Lecture Series 2022 (08 April)

Ruth Page
30.03.2022

Graphic Prosody and political discourse on Greek Reddit [Presentation in Greek]

Jannis Androutsopoulos
08.10.2021

Ethics as Method: Reviewing dilemmas and choices in an age of dataand automated decision making (Methods Day 2021)

Annette Markham
08.10.2021

Ethics in natural language processing (Methods Day 2021)

Karën Fort
08.10.2021

Ethics as a social process – metascientific reflexivity in multi-sited online and offline ethnographic research (Methods Day 2021)

Andreas Candefors Stæhr