The CuCo Lab is pleased to invite you to this month’s lab talk by Helle Nystad. In her talk, Helle will explore Linguistic Norms in Digital Social Writing Among Adolescents. From April to July 2025, Helle is a Visiting PhD at the CuCo Lab.
We look forward to see you at the talk, on site or online.
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This PhD project investigates the use of non-standard linguistic features in adolescents’ digital social writing. It explores the normative processes that shape these practices, offering empirical insight into how young people in Norway navigate written language in chat-based communication. The project forms part of the larger MultiLit project – Multilectal Literacy in Education – funded by the Norwegian Research Council. The study is based on a corpus of approximately 4,000 donated chat messages from 266 participants, supplemented by data from 16 focus group interviews. This talk highlights key findings and ongoing analyses, discussing the dynamic linguistic practices and the evolving normativity in adolescents’ digital social writing.