megageil, mega geil, and voll mega: Intensification in YouTube comments
- This paper analyses intensification in German digitally-mediated communication (DMC) using a corpus of YouTube comments written by young people (the NottDeuYTSch corpus). Research on intensification in written language has traditionally focused on two grammatical aspects: syntactic intensification, i.e. the use of particles and other lexical items and morphological intensification, i.e. the use of compounding. Using a wide variety og examples from the corpus, the paper identifies novel ways that have been used for intensification in DMC, and suggests a new taxonomy of classification for future analysis of intensification.
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| Author: | Louis CotgroveORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-120976 |
| URL: | https://www.uni-mannheim.de/cmc-corpora2023 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.14618/1z5k-pb25 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-937241-95-1 |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora 2023), 14–15 September 2023, University of Mannheim, Germany |
| Publisher: | Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) |
| Place of publication: | Mannheim |
| Editor: | Louis Cotgrove, Laura Herzberg, Harald Lüngen, Ines Pisetta |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2023 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2023/09/07 |
| Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
| Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
| Tag: | NottDeuYTSch Corpus; Onlinekommentare computer-mediated communication; corpus linguistics; intensification; semiotics; youth language |
| GND Keyword: | Computeruntertützte Lexikographie; Jugendsprache; Korpus <Linguistik>; Morphologie<Linguistik>; YouTube |
| First Page: | 55 |
| Last Page: | 59 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Computerlinguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Korpuslinguistik |
| Program areas: | L3: Lexik empirisch und digital |
| Licence (English): |  Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International |