TY - JOUR
T1 - Language Choice and addressivity strategies in Thai-English social network interactions
AU - Tagg, Caroline
AU - Seargeant, P
AU - Ngampramuan, W
PY - 2012/9/25
Y1 - 2012/9/25
N2 - This article analyses the language choices used by a community of native Thai speakers in online communicative encounters. Using data drawn from exchanges from a social network site, the article examines the mixed linguistic repertoires evident in these interactions, along with the motivations (both situational and pragmatic) that influence choice of code, script and register, particularly as these are related to issues of addressivity. The data exhibits a great complexity of code-switching into English, despite the speech community being one for which, according to the participants, Thai would be the default choice in face-to-face encounters. In its examination of this data the article has a dual purpose: firstly to provide a descriptive account of this aspect of the use of English online; and secondly to offer an analysis of the strategies of language choice in this particular type of online discourse.
AB - This article analyses the language choices used by a community of native Thai speakers in online communicative encounters. Using data drawn from exchanges from a social network site, the article examines the mixed linguistic repertoires evident in these interactions, along with the motivations (both situational and pragmatic) that influence choice of code, script and register, particularly as these are related to issues of addressivity. The data exhibits a great complexity of code-switching into English, despite the speech community being one for which, according to the participants, Thai would be the default choice in face-to-face encounters. In its examination of this data the article has a dual purpose: firstly to provide a descriptive account of this aspect of the use of English online; and secondly to offer an analysis of the strategies of language choice in this particular type of online discourse.
U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2012.00540.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2012.00540.x
M3 - Article
SN - 1360-6441
VL - 16
SP - 510
EP - 531
JO - Journal of Sociolinguistics
JF - Journal of Sociolinguistics
IS - 4
ER -