Novel methods of intensification in young people’s digitally-mediated communication
- The following chapter proposes a typology of intensification in German digitally-mediated communication (DMC). Intensification has been conventionally understood as a lexicogrammatical process modifying the quality of an element in a sentence – either amplifying or diminishing it – through the use of another element known as an intensifier. However, developments within DMC have seen intensification strategies progress beyond a traditional understanding of the concept and even beyond grammatical categorisation. Using authentic data from the NottDeuYTSch corpus of YouTube comments, the chapter classifies intensification in five categories: morphological, syntactic, expressive, graphemic, and typographical, and explores elements containing multiple aspects of intensification. The typology of intensification presented in this chapter showcases the creative usage of digital resources and how this can influence our understanding of traditional linguistic concepts.
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| Author: | Louis CotgroveORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-132550 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111434018-006 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-11-143401-8 |
| ISSN: | 2751-1278 |
| Parent Title (English): | Exploring digitally-mediated communication with corpora. Methods, analyses, and corpus construction |
| Series (Serial Number): | Digital Linguistics (2) |
| Publisher: | de Gruyter |
| Place of publication: | Berlin/Boston |
| Editor: | Louis CotgroveORCiDGND, Laura HerzbergORCiDGND, Harald LüngenORCiDGND |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2025 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2025/07/08 |
| Publishing Institution: | Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) |
| Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
| Reviewstate: | (Verlags)-Lektorat |
| Tag: | NottDeuYTSch corpus; corpus linguistics; digitally-mediated communication; intensification; interaction; pragmatics; semiotics; youth language |
| GND Keyword: | Deutsch; Intensivierung; Interaktion; Jugendsprache; Korpus <Linguistik>; Pragmatik; Semiotik; Typologie |
| First Page: | 137 |
| Last Page: | 161 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Korpuslinguistik |
| Program areas: | Lexik |
| Licence (English): |  Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International |