Development of Language Use in Social Media in Relation to Spatio-Temporal Trajectories of Iranian Immigrants in Belgium

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Elmianvari
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Iranian Immigrants ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Development Of Language

scholarly journals Real-time spatio-temporal event detection on geotagged social media

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasmeen George ◽  
Shanika Karunasekera ◽  
Aaron Harwood ◽  
Kwan Hui Lim
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Event Detection ◽  
Detection System ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Social Media Data ◽  
Event Time ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Geographical Space ◽  
Media Data

AbstractA key challenge in mining social media data streams is to identify events which are actively discussed by a group of people in a specific local or global area. Such events are useful for early warning for accident, protest, election or breaking news. However, neither the list of events nor the resolution of both event time and space is fixed or known beforehand. In this work, we propose an online spatio-temporal event detection system using social media that is able to detect events at different time and space resolutions. First, to address the challenge related to the unknown spatial resolution of events, a quad-tree method is exploited in order to split the geographical space into multiscale regions based on the density of social media data. Then, a statistical unsupervised approach is performed that involves Poisson distribution and a smoothing method for highlighting regions with unexpected density of social posts. Further, event duration is precisely estimated by merging events happening in the same region at consecutive time intervals. A post processing stage is introduced to filter out events that are spam, fake or wrong. Finally, we incorporate simple semantics by using social media entities to assess the integrity, and accuracy of detected events. The proposed method is evaluated using different social media datasets: Twitter and Flickr for different cities: Melbourne, London, Paris and New York. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, we compare our results with two baseline algorithms based on fixed split of geographical space and clustering method. For performance evaluation, we manually compute recall and precision. We also propose a new quality measure named strength index, which automatically measures how accurate the reported event is.

scholarly journals Word Shortening Strategies: Egyptian vs. Non-Egyptian English Tweets

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Iman Mohamed Mahfouz
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Parallel Corpora ◽  
Social Media Platform ◽  
Message Length ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Media Platform

The language of Computer-mediated Communication (CMC) is known to deviate from standard language in many ways dictated by the characteristics of the medium in order to achieve brevity, speed as well as innovation. Together with the intrinsic features of CMC in general, the character limitation imposed by the popular social media platform, Twitter has triggered the use of a number of linguistic devices including shortening strategies in addition to unconventional spelling and grammar. Using two parallel corpora of English tweets written by Egyptians and non-Egyptians on a similar hashtag, the study attempts to compare the shortening strategies used in both datasets. A taxonomy for orthographic and morphological shortening strategies was adapted from Thurlow and Brown (2003) and Denby (2010) with particular focus on message length, punctuation, clipping, abbreviations, contractions, alphanumeric homophones and accent stylization. Given the scarcity of linguistic studies conducted on Egyptian tweets despite the vast amount of data they offer, the study compares the findings about tweets written by Egyptians in English as a foreign language to previous studies. The findings suggest that Egyptians tend to omit punctuation more frequently, whereas non-Egyptians favor abbreviations, contractions and clipped forms. The results also indicate that Twitter may be shifting towards longer messages while at the same time increasingly employing more shortening strategies. The study also reveals that character limitation is not the only factor shaping language use on Twitter since not all linguistic choices are governed by brevity of communication.

scholarly journals Language Orientations and the Sustainability of Arbanasi Language in Croatia – A Case of Linguistic Injustice

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Klara Bilić Meštrić ◽  
Lucija Šimičić
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Language Loss ◽  
Language Rights ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Methodological Nationalism ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Status ◽  
Development Of Language

AbstractDespite numerous positive aspects of the global development of language-as-right orientation, we argue that its application is rooted in methodological nationalism, i.e. the idea of society being equal to a nationstate (Chernilo 2006), and the monoglot ideology based on the idea of one proper version of a historically and politically privileged dialect carrying the status of a language. This dominant preconception of social phenomena thus leaves many varieties in a legislative vacuum. As a consequence, language rights, often in the form of more or less mandatory legal instruments, concern only a (politically established) few. When this institutional inadequacy is paired with the existing orders of indexicality, then these varieties face marginalisation processes that render language use even more unsustainable. To address the issue of language sustainability, we analyse the language-as-right, language-as-resource and language-as-problem orientations in Croatia on the case of the Arbanasi, a community of descendants of Catholic albanophones who settled in the periphery of Zadar in the 18th century and whose group identity is marked by significant language loss. We analyse how speakers and community members themselves perceive marginalisation processes, especially concerning linguistic (in)justice that stems from the policies that hinder sustainability of Arbanasi language use in the long run.

What no bedtime story means: Narrative skills at home and school

1982 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirley Brice Heath
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Cognitive Styles ◽  
Ethnography Of Communication ◽  
Literacy Narratives ◽  
Literacy Events ◽  
Narrative Skills ◽  
Development Of Language ◽  
Written Materials ◽  
Home And School

AbstractAbstract “Ways of taking” from books are a part of culture and as such are more varied than current dichotomies between oral and literate traditions and relational and analytic cognitive styles would suggest. Patterns of language use related to books are studied in three literate communities in the Southeastern United States, focusing on such “literacy events” as bedtime story reading. One community, Maintown, represents mainstream, middle-class school-oriented culture; Roadville is a white mill community of Appalachian origin; the third, Trackton, is a black mill community of recent rural origin. The three communities differ strikingly in their patterns of language use and in the paths of language socialization of their children. Trackton and Roadville are as different from each other as either is from Maintown, and the differences in preschoolers' language use are reflected in three different patterns of adjustment to school. This comparative study shows the inadequacy of the prevalent dichotomy between oral and literate traditions, and points also to the inadequacy of unilinear models of child language development and dichotomies between types of cognitive styles. Study of the development of language use in relation to written materials in home and community requires a broad framework of sociocultural analysis. (Crosscultural analysis, ethnography of communication, language development, literacy, narratives.)

scholarly journals KEMAMPUAN ORANG TUA DALAM MENANGGAPI BAHASA PESAN SINGKAT ANAK-ANAK TERHADAP ETIKA BERBAHASA

Pujangga ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Eka Septiani ◽  
Sri Mulyani ◽  
Nur Indah Sari
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Short Message ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Language Ethics

ABSTRAK Perkembangan media sosial yang digunakan khususnya oleh anak-anak hendaknya diiringi dengan pengetahuan orang tua dalam menanggapi etika berbahasa mereka dalam kehidupan mereka sehari-hari. Etika berbahasa yang perlu mendapat tanggapan atau pengawasan dalam penggunaan media sosial adalah penggunaan SMS dan Chatting dalam hal ini Whatsapp. SMS dan Chatting merupakan salah satu sarana komunikasi yang efektif di era sekarang ini. Pengabdian kepada masyarakat ini bertujuan untuk (1) meningkatkan wawasan atau pengetahuan orang tua mengenai penggunaan media sosial, (2) dapat menjaga komunikasi antara orang tua dan anak, (3) meningkatkan kepekaan orang tua dalam mengawasi penggunaan bahasa anak-anak dalam menggunakan media sosial, (4) menjaga etika berbahasa dalam menggunakan media sosial di kehidupan sehari-hari dengan memperbaiki penggunaan bahasa mereka. Kegiatann ini sebagai upaya memberikan wawasan atau pengetahuan pada orang tua dalam menanggapi etika berbahasa anak-anak mereka dalam menggunakan media sosial dengan cara memperbaiki penggunaan bahasa anak-anak mereka. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode deskriptif kualitatif, yanitu mendeskripsikan, mencatat, menganalisis dan menginterpretasikan data yang diperoleh. Hasilnya ditemukan dua puluh enam kelompok interjeksi yang dihunakan pada akun Youtube Malam Malam Net. Penelitian ini juga menemukan kelompok makna interjeksi yaitu interjeksi yang menyatakan peringatan, ekspresi, keheranan,kekhawatiran, terkejut, kepasrahan, pengetatuan baru, pemikiran, dan penegasan. Kata kunci: Kemampuan Orang Tua, Bahasa Pesan Singkat Anak, dan Etika Berbahasa ABSTRACT The development of social media that is used specifically by children must be accompanied by knowledge of parents in responding to the language ethics they use in their daily lives. Language ethics that need to get a response or supervision in the use of social media is the use of SMS and chat in this case Whatsapp. SMS and chat is one of the effective means of communication in the current era. This program aims to (1) improve parents' knowledge or knowledge about the use of social media, (2) can maintain communication between parents and children, (3) increase sensitivity of parents in supervising children's language use in using social media, (4) maintain language ethics in using social media in everyday life by improving the use of their language. This activity is an effort to provide parents with insight or knowledge in responding to the language ethics of their children in using social media by improving their children's language use. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative method, which describes, records, analyzes and interprets the data obtained. The result was found twenty-six interjection groups that were used on the Youtube Malam Malam Net account. This study also found a group of meanings of interjection namely interjection which stated warning, expression, wonder, worry, surprise, resignation, new unity, thought, and affirmation Keywords: Skill of Parents, Children’ Short Message Language, and Language Ethic

scholarly journals EXTRACTING AND COMPARING PLACES USING GEO-SOCIAL MEDIA

2015 ◽  
Vol II-3/W5 ◽  
pp. 311-316
Author(s):  
F. O. Ostermann ◽  
H. Huang ◽  
G. Andrienko ◽  
N. Andrienko ◽  
C. Capineri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Semantic Similarity ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Social Media Data ◽  
Temporal Clustering ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Media Data

Increasing availability of Geo-Social Media (e.g. Facebook, Foursquare and Flickr) has led to the accumulation of large volumes of social media data. These data, especially geotagged ones, contain information about perception of and experiences in various environments. Harnessing these data can be used to provide a better understanding of the semantics of places. We are interested in the similarities or differences between different Geo-Social Media in the description of places. This extended abstract presents the results of a first step towards a more in-depth study of semantic similarity of places. Particularly, we took places extracted through spatio-temporal clustering from one data source (Twitter) and examined whether their structure is reflected semantically in another data set (Flickr). Based on that, we analyse how the semantic similarity between places varies over space and scale, and how Tobler's first law of geography holds with regards to scale and places.

scholarly journals THE USE OF LANGUAGE OF PEACE IN SOCIAL MEDIA AS A WAY TO PROMOTE A PEACEFUL LIFE

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sri Wahyuningsih
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Language Use

This paper explores the importance of using language of peace in a social mediaand its effects to promote the peaceful life. Nowadays, the effects of languageare undeniably extraordinary both for preserving or damaging a peace. In fact,language is oen taken for granted that leads to the problems from a linguisticperspective. One of these problems occurs in a social media in which thelanguage users tend to show impolite languages or insinuation and ignore thereaders. Further, they use words that may be accompanied by gestures, yelling,pictures, screaming, etc. As a result, it will lead to chaos, conflict, verbal andphysical violence and possibly death. Considering this, the language usersboth the writers or speakers should be responsible for choosing the wordsand using acts of discourse that could mitigate the conflicts. In addition, theyshould be aware of the language use, pragmatic and sociolinguistic in a socialpractice to promote the peaceful life.

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