"Grammar Nazis never sleep": Facebook humor and the management of standard written language
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F15%3A10301808" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/15:10301808 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11230/15:10301808
Result on the web
<a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10993-014-9344-9" target="_blank" >http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10993-014-9344-9</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10993-014-9344-9" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10993-014-9344-9</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
"Grammar Nazis never sleep": Facebook humor and the management of standard written language
Original language description
This paper uses Language Management Theory (Nekvapil and Sherman, Language management in contact situations. Perspectives from three continents. Peter Lang, Frankfurt/Main, 2009) to investigate Facebook pages as a site and instrument of behavior-toward-language, focusing specifically on the use of humor. The language in question is Czech, which is not the subject of extensive formal language policy. We show how standard written Czech is promoted on the micro level of everyday humorous interactions on Facebook, specifically those which correspond to the superiority theory of humor (Billig, Laughter and ridicule: towards a social critique of humour. Sage, London, 2005). We examine two pages which declare their affiliation with the idea of "Grammar Nazis". These pages were created in order to support the noting and evaluation of deviations from standard written Czech for humorous purposes, primarily through collections of individual mistakes found in both online and offline communication.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AI - Linguistics
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Language Policy
ISSN
1568-4555
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
14
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
315-334
UT code for WoS article
000362954400002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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