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ERIC Number: EJ862124
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009-Feb
Pages: 10
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1470-8477
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"Multi-Voicedness" in Internet Guest-Books of German and Italian Teenagers
Fetscher, Doris
Language and Intercultural Communication, v9 n1 p33-42 Feb 2009
In this article, the "multiple voices" of 13-15-year-old German and Italian adolescents in internet guest-books are analyzed. The study is based on guest-books texts with a mixture of different registers, languages and dialects. In particular, the German adolescents from the Augsburg region (Bavaria) display a strong regional linguistic identity in combination with a tendency to the use of global English. In the Italian texts Spanish is adopted in various creative ways. Furthermore, the article raises the issue of the sociological implications of this specific use of multiple codes. (Contains 2 notes.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Germany
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