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Digraphia and non-standard orthographic practices in Serbian online news forums

What is it about?

The study identifies ad hoc, non-standard Latinized subsystems emerging from below from the writing practices of commenters on two Serbian news websites. It is shown that the orthographic choices (Cyrillic vs Latin and standard vs. non-standard Latinized variants) are both guided by pragmatic concerns and ideologically motivated.

Why is it important?

Focusing on Serbian computer-mediated writing practices, this is the first systematic and empirical study of digraphia and computer-mediated latinization in Slavic languages.

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