Stylized Quotations as Parodic Practice in Teenage Dating Blogs: Stylizing Patterns, Quotative Marking and Language-Ideological Meanings

Authors

  • Ksenija Bogetić

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18485/bells.2019.11.2

Keywords:

youth CMC, stylization, quotative marking, language ideologies, personal blogs

Abstract

The linguistic practices in young people’s computer-mediated communication (CMC) have attracted great interest both in linguistic scholarship and in public discourse, and are expected to exert the richest influences on language in the new millennium. Nevertheless, youth’s own perspectives on language and technology are rarely explored in their own right, beyond sensationalist popular descriptions of a “whatever generation” (Baron 2002) oblivious to the rules of language when communicating online. The present paper draws attention to this gap, by focusing on one specific phenomenon – the parodic stylization of teenagers’ language online by teenagers themselves, found to be a common practice in personal blogs written by American youth. The first part of the paper focuses on the pragmatic features of stylizations and their quotative marking, extending insights into quotation marking as one major ongoing change in all varieties of English (Tagliamonte 2016); the second part presents a discursive analysis of the stances and social ideologies indexed by the teenagers’ stylizations. Overall, the findings highlight great metalinguistic awareness in an online context where it was little expected, and strongly challenge the view of youth CMC as linguistically “whateverist”.

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Published

2021-02-13

How to Cite

Bogetić, K. (2021). Stylized Quotations as Parodic Practice in Teenage Dating Blogs: Stylizing Patterns, Quotative Marking and Language-Ideological Meanings. Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies, 11(1), 45–68. https://doi.org/10.18485/bells.2019.11.2

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2019): BELLS - volume 11

Section

THEORETICAL AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS

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