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The emergence of a new mode of communication called vlogging allows the spoken variety of languag... more The emergence of a new mode of communication called vlogging allows the spoken variety of language to manifest itself in new settings. Vloggers appear to draw both from traditional television aesthetics and from the videos of other vloggers. The content which circulates on the website globally is often recontextualised (cf. Rymes, 2012). The plethora of different types of vlogs and the sheer number of videos created daily call for an attempt to find a common stylistic denominator within specific types of vlogs. The chapter discusses characteristic stylistic features of a selected type of such videos, namely, challenge videos in American English, Italian and Polish. The chosen videos form the basis for an analysis in search of similarities and differences in style. The findings suggest that the analysed challenge videos have many common features, and if differences ensue, they are not generally found within specific national or linguistic groups but in mixed sets of videos in the three languages of interest. The author seeks to find explanations for the similarities.
The present paper proposes an analysis of exclamations, primarily obscene words, identified in th... more The present paper proposes an analysis of exclamations, primarily obscene words, identified in the spoken Italian and Polish of selected gaming videos on the video host-ing website YouTube. The author contrasts the exclamations collected in his previous study with new material of the same nature in Italian. The analysis reveals considerable differences in the type of exclamations employed by the Italian and the Polish vloggers. In the Polish material there are a great number of borrowed English obscene words, whereas practically no such items are found in the Italian material. The author speculates about the possible reasons as to why such a discrepancy occurs.
The stylistics of recontextualization in selected American, Italian and Polish gaming videos on Y... more The stylistics of recontextualization in selected American, Italian and Polish gaming videos on YouTube One striking aspect of the popular video sharing platform YouTube is that it appears to allow for a great number of repetitive content to co-exist and still enjoy a high viewer count. The author of the present article, by looking at selected gaming videos on YouTube in three languages, namely American English, Italian and Polish, attempts to demonstrate that this repetitiveness is in fact creative recontextualization which brings into prominence the personality of the YouTuber, their idiolect included. While the videos share a number of similarities at the linguistic and extralinguistic level across the three cultures of interest, the creation of what the author calls personal storylines is the most salient distinguishing factor in the videos of particular vloggers. The present article will contribute to the developing area of research dedicated to spoken language on the Internet, and will constitute one of the few attempts, to date, to examine the phenomenon in three different languages and across three different cultures.
The emergence of a new mode of communication called vlogging allows the spoken variety of languag... more The emergence of a new mode of communication called vlogging allows the spoken variety of language to manifest itself in new settings. Vloggers appear to draw both from traditional television aesthetics and from the videos of other vloggers. The content which circulates on the website globally is often recontextualised (cf. Rymes, 2012). The plethora of different types of vlogs and the sheer number of videos created daily call for an attempt to find a common stylistic denominator within specific types of vlogs. The chapter discusses characteristic stylistic features of a selected type of such videos, namely, challenge videos in American English, Italian and Polish. The chosen videos form the basis for an analysis in search of similarities and differences in style. The findings suggest that the analysed challenge videos have many common features, and if differences ensue, they are not generally found within specific national or linguistic groups but in mixed sets of videos in the three languages of interest. The author seeks to find explanations for the similarities.
The present paper proposes an analysis of exclamations, primarily obscene words, identified in th... more The present paper proposes an analysis of exclamations, primarily obscene words, identified in the spoken Italian and Polish of selected gaming videos on the video host-ing website YouTube. The author contrasts the exclamations collected in his previous study with new material of the same nature in Italian. The analysis reveals considerable differences in the type of exclamations employed by the Italian and the Polish vloggers. In the Polish material there are a great number of borrowed English obscene words, whereas practically no such items are found in the Italian material. The author speculates about the possible reasons as to why such a discrepancy occurs.
The stylistics of recontextualization in selected American, Italian and Polish gaming videos on Y... more The stylistics of recontextualization in selected American, Italian and Polish gaming videos on YouTube One striking aspect of the popular video sharing platform YouTube is that it appears to allow for a great number of repetitive content to co-exist and still enjoy a high viewer count. The author of the present article, by looking at selected gaming videos on YouTube in three languages, namely American English, Italian and Polish, attempts to demonstrate that this repetitiveness is in fact creative recontextualization which brings into prominence the personality of the YouTuber, their idiolect included. While the videos share a number of similarities at the linguistic and extralinguistic level across the three cultures of interest, the creation of what the author calls personal storylines is the most salient distinguishing factor in the videos of particular vloggers. The present article will contribute to the developing area of research dedicated to spoken language on the Internet, and will constitute one of the few attempts, to date, to examine the phenomenon in three different languages and across three different cultures.