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Title: Parlo en la meva llengua o en la teva? Una proposta per a mesurar i analitzar l'acomodació comunicativa en converses de Whatsapp
Author: Nadal Ferret, Marc
Tutor: Sorolla Vidal, Natxo
Abstract: The Catalan language coexists with other languages (especially Spanish). Some sociolinguists in the Catalan-speaking field, such as Aracil or Ninyoles, have described this coexistence through the conflict theory, according to which the Catalan-speaking linguistic community is minoritised, that is, the power structures have imposed an alien language on it. On the other hand, the Theory of Communicative Accommodation provides a robust psycholinguistic theoretical framework for the study of this type of minoritisation, and has already been applied in studies of social networks, where it often reveals power relations. Thus, analysing the linguistic choice of Catalan or Spanish, we will study several Whatsapp conversation groups, in different environments and levels of formality (family associations of a school, parents of a class, friends of a sports club) in the neighbourhood of Sants (Barcelona) and we will determine how speakers maintain their language, or converge to the language of the other person. The main objective of this work is to apply these two tools - communicative accommodation and theories of conflict respecting the minorisation of Catalan - to specific cases of conversations with a different format and norms (Whatsapp chats), and to develop tools that allow us to detect, measure and analyse this convergence. This analysis will relate personal behaviour in small groups (micro) with the global social situation of Catalan (macro), in different contexts and in an emerging format. It will confirm the validity of the theory of communicative accommodation to be applied in empirical studies of Whatsapp conversations, and will allow us to hypothesize how differences in linguistic choice and accommodation may depend on the linguistic composition of the group, as well as on the ethnolinguistic vitality of Catalan in different spheres.
Keywords: psycholinguistics
social networks
sociolinguistics
conflict theory
linguistic choice
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis
Issue Date: May-2021
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/  
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