Decasa , Gwyneth Dianne V. College of Education, Arts and Sciences ANALYZING DIGITAL DIALECTS IN CALL OF DUTY MOBILE: A REGISTER-BASED ANALYSIS
Rationale Language is changing over time . Venezky (1999) Spelling det (old English) – debt (modern English) Nomenclature Hound (14 century English) – dog (modern English) Structure I have never been there. Never I have been there. ( negative fronting)
There is a new batch of language registers . Language registers are poorly studied. Lecorvé , G., Ayats , H., Fournier, B., Mekki , J., Chevelu , J., Battistelli , D., Béchet , N. ( 2019) Rationale
Digital dialects are confusing. Godwin‐Jones, (2019) Rationale
Decasa , Gwyneth Dianne V. College of Education, Arts and Sciences ANALYZING DIGITAL DIALECTS IN CALL OF DUTY MOBILE: A REGISTER-BASED ANALYSIS
What are the registers in Call of Duty Mobile game ? How are the registers formed ? Research Questions
Qualitative Research employing register analysis Hatch and Brown (1995) George Yule (2006 ) Research Design
Call of Duty Mobile gamers Asia server Research Participants
Corpora: 30 screenshots from Call of Duty Mobile game conversation Research Materials
Gaming for 3 months and taking screenshots of the conversation online Data Collection
Data Analysis Procedure Miles and Huberman (1994) Data Display Data Reduction Verification Drawing Data Analysis
Language Registers of Call od Duty Mobile
MORPHOLOGICAL PROCESSES Initialism Compounding Blending Clipping Back-formation Acronym Morphological Processes of Language Registers of Call od Duty Mobile
a word formation process that takes the first letters of words to create a new word that is read as whole word. Acronym "META” C1 (“Most Effective Tactic Available.”) META (meh · tuh ) Morphological Processes of Language Registers of Call od Duty Mobile
is a word formation process that uses the first letters of words and is pronounced by spelling out the letters. Initialism “GGWP.” C11 ("Good Game Well Played.”) GGWP (G · G · W · P) Morphological Processes of Language Registers of Call od Duty Mobile
is a process of reducing a word to form a new word. Back-formation "Regen.” C16 (“ Regeneration”) Regen eration Morphological Processes of Language Registers of Call od Duty Mobile
is a process of creating a new word by shortening the word that already exists. Clipping “ Jh ” c44 (" Jawhead .”) J aw h ead Morphological Processes of Language Registers of Call od Duty Mobile
is a process that merges a part of a word with a part of another word. Blending “ Esport .” C49 ("Electronic Sport.") E lectronic Sport = Esport Morphological Processes of Language Registers of Call od Duty Mobile
is a process that joins two complete words together. Compounding “Starlight.” C50 ("Starlight.") Star + light = Starlight Morphological Processes of Language Registers of Call od Duty Mobile
Teachers may: introduce language innovations and registers of types of language; and teach descriptive grammar, the language of the society. Pedagogical Implications