Linguistic innovations in IRC: Cypriot-Greek phonological features

Themistocleous, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0657-1376 (2010) Linguistic innovations in IRC: Cypriot-Greek phonological features. In: Jorgensen, J. N. (ed.) Vallah, Gurkensalat 4U & me! Current perspectives in the study of youth language. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, pp. 113-129. ISBN 9783631601433

Abstract/Summary

The Cypriot Greek variety (CG), spoken in the island of Cyprus, is relatively distinct from Standard Greek (SG) in all linguistic domains and, especially, in the area of pronunciation. Youth language, within the Greek-Cypriot context, is an area of study that has, until recently, received little attention. Tsiplakou (2004) makes reference to the emergence of a new slang among young Greek-Cypriots, influenced by new comedy series, in which the actors make extensive use of ‘exaggeratedly peasant’ CG. As these comedy series become increasingly popular, the use of marked regional features becomes evident in the speech style of young Greek-Cypriots. A preliminary study has also revealed that marked CG linguistic features are equally evident in the online interactions of young internet users (Themistocleous 2005). In this study, I examine the use of CG phonological elements in a corpus of messages collected from channel #Cyprus, of Internet Relay Chat (IRC). It is demonstrated that young Greek-Cypriots use language in creative ways, in order to represent in writing phonological features, typical of their informal speech.

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Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Literature and Languages > English Language and Applied Linguistics
Publisher	Peter Lang
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