The multilingual and multi-orthographic Taiwan-based Internet: Creative uses of writing systems on college-affiliated BBSs

Hsi Yao Su*

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研究成果: 雜誌貢獻期刊論文同行評審

31 引文 斯高帕斯(Scopus)

摘要

This study investigates creative uses of writing systems on the electronic bulletin boards (BBSs) of two college student organizations in Taipei, Taiwan. Data were collected from postings on bulletin boards and semi-structured interviews with members of the student organizations, and analyzed using qualitative and ethnographic methods. Four popular creative uses of writing systems are identified and discussed: the rendering in Chinese characters of the sounds of English, Taiwanese, and Taiwanese-accented Mandarin, and the recycling of a transliteration alphabet used in elementary education. It is argued that these practices are enabled by the written nature of the Internet, the orthographic systems available in the society, and the multilingual situation in Taiwan, and that the everyday meanings associated with the writing systems and languages are appropriated and reproduced through online practice, resulting in a unique mode of communication in its own right.

原文英語
期刊Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
9
發行號1
DOIs
出版狀態已發佈 - 2003 11月
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ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 電腦科學應用
  • 電腦網路與通信

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