Orthography as an ideological issue on Twitter
Abstract
Our objective has been to study the metalinguistic awareness of the Twitter users regarding the orthography of Spanish from the political-ideological point of view. For this, a sociolinguistic study has been carried out from a corpus made up of 30,225 tweets. The results seem to show that in Twitter Spanish users continue to use the orthography as a throwing weapon and an element of prestige; however, the number of users who consider that the use and preservation of orthographic rules are a matter of classism, if not of pure social elitism or “colonial” racism, is beginning to grow.
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