Reinhild Vandekerckhove

[ 1 ] - Social Media Writing and Social Class: A Correlational Analysis of Adolescent CMC and Social Background

In a large social media corpus (2.9 million tokens), we analyze Flemish adolescents’ non-standard writing practices and look for correlations with the teenagers’ social class. Three different aspects of adolescents’ social background are included: educational track, parental profession, and home language. Since the data reveal that these parameters are highly correlated, we combine them into on...