TY - GEN
T1 - A semiotic study of lingua-culture of digital paralanguages
AU - Amponsah, Raphael
AU - Boateng, Richard
AU - Awuni, Emmanuel Kolog
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© AMCIS 2021.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Lingua does not include only textual or symbolic forms or even pictograms. It has other cultural underpinnings, norms, and culturally bound expressions, which invariably are missing from the digital paralanguages provided by social media platforms. In the absence of these critical aspects of lingua in their digital forms, social media platforms offer creative tools to develop digital paralanguages for use. This study attempts to elucidate the link between the indigenous digital paralanguage development and the link to the lingua-culture of the people, which is missing in the discourse of paralanguages in social media from an agential realist perspective. This research employs a socio-semiotic study (which looks at the meanings embedded in the diverse modes of objects) on the Twi lingua culture of the people of Ghana as used as a mode of communication in social media platforms, specifically WhatsApp. This paper contributes to the academic literature by extending the discourse on digital paralanguage development with lingua culture.
AB - Lingua does not include only textual or symbolic forms or even pictograms. It has other cultural underpinnings, norms, and culturally bound expressions, which invariably are missing from the digital paralanguages provided by social media platforms. In the absence of these critical aspects of lingua in their digital forms, social media platforms offer creative tools to develop digital paralanguages for use. This study attempts to elucidate the link between the indigenous digital paralanguage development and the link to the lingua-culture of the people, which is missing in the discourse of paralanguages in social media from an agential realist perspective. This research employs a socio-semiotic study (which looks at the meanings embedded in the diverse modes of objects) on the Twi lingua culture of the people of Ghana as used as a mode of communication in social media platforms, specifically WhatsApp. This paper contributes to the academic literature by extending the discourse on digital paralanguage development with lingua culture.
KW - Digital paralanguages
KW - Lingua-culture
KW - Semiotics
KW - Social media
KW - WhatsApp
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85118623887
T3 - 27th Annual Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2021
BT - 27th Annual Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2021
PB - Association for Information Systems
T2 - 27th Annual Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2021
Y2 - 9 August 2021 through 13 August 2021
ER -