Looking for references on grammatical prejucice
I am looking for references that deal with the behavior of correcting grammar or spelling online, or the prejudices that often accompany these behaviors. For example, this would include commentary on news articles, where one commenter may misspell a word or two, and a subsequent commenter may "call out" the misspelling, or comments like "I stopped reading after I saw XX misspell Y." Does anyone have any references like this to suggest?
From: Casey Tesfaye <klt35@georgetown.edu> Subject: [Air-L] Looking for references on grammatical prejucice Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:41:43 -0500
I am looking for references that deal with the behavior of correcting grammar or spelling online, or the prejudices that often accompany these behaviors. For example, this would include commentary on news articles, where one commenter may misspell a word or two, and a subsequent commenter may "call out" the misspelling, or comments like "I stopped reading after I saw XX misspell Y."
Does anyone have any references like this to suggest?
Not an academic reference, but a good starting point is Eric S. Raymond's 'How To Become a Hacker', where one of the only four rules is to speak proper English: "If your writing is semi-literate, ungrammatical, and riddled with misspellings, many hackers (including myself) will tend to ignore you. While sloppy writing does not invariably mean sloppy thinking, we've generally found the correlation to be strong — and we have no use for sloppy thinkers. If you can't yet write competently, learn to." Of course this comes from the fact that programming language code will not compile (or compile and not function correctly) if there is even one character which does not spelled correctly or if there is even one syntactical mistake, so I guess programmers pay more attention to such nuances in natural languages too. The nice thing about this is it goes against the more widely popularised research results on the degradation of language in the ICT context (think teenagers and SMS, hackers and IRC chat channels, etc.). maxigas, kiberpunk -- ⬢ ⬢ |metatron ⬢ ⬢ |research ⬢ ⬢ |unit FA00 8129 13E9 2617 C614 0901 7879 63BC 287E D166
Casey - David Crystal has done a lot on language and the Internet, including a book, 'Language and the Internet' Also, Crystal is on Youtube about it. It sounds like a 'Miss Manners' and the internet problem. I've seen it mentioned in the NYTimes column in Sunday Style, Social Q's columns. Another search pulled up ''Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior. Might be something there! Cheers, Denise Dr Denise N. Rall, Casual Academic, School of Arts & Social Sciences Chair of Textiles stream, Popular Culture Australia-New Zealand Currently in Lismore, New South Wales, Australia Phones - Mobile +(61)(0)438 233344 Fax +(61)(0)2 6624 5380 ________________________________ From: Casey Tesfaye <klt35@georgetown.edu>
Casey The work of James Gee on social literacies<http://books.google.com.mx/books?hl=en&lr=&id=xqFNjA8e6rkC&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=james+gee&ots=ubL33bDLk7&sig=SRHM94LEcxXdZmOr77DX9S5LWOo#v=onepage&q=james%20gee%20story%20time&f=false>might be interesting as a way to frame your analysis. He analyzed how our use of language is shaped by our social context. People select words, spellings, and ways to tell stories according to their background. For instance, in his book he beautifully analyze how a little African-American girl tells a story in the sharing time of her classroom not using "correct English" in the eyes of the cultural models of her white teacher. Gee explains how in fact the features of language used by the black girl were in fact quite advanced and expressive. Hope Gee's work relevant. Ruy On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Denise N. Rall <denrall@yahoo.com> wrote:
Casey -
David Crystal has done a lot on language and the Internet, including a book, 'Language and the Internet' Also, Crystal is on Youtube about it.
It sounds like a 'Miss Manners' and the internet problem. I've seen it mentioned in the NYTimes column in Sunday Style, Social Q's columns.
Another search pulled up ''Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior. Might be something there!
Cheers, Denise
Dr Denise N. Rall, Casual Academic, School of Arts & Social Sciences Chair of Textiles stream, Popular Culture Australia-New Zealand Currently in Lismore, New South Wales, Australia Phones - Mobile +(61)(0)438 233344 Fax +(61)(0)2 6624 5380
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