Why is Twitter so popular in Japan? Linguistic devices for monologization
Why is Twitter so popular in Japan? Linguistic devices for monologization
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为什么推特在日本如此受欢迎？
DOI：
10.1075/ip.00030.izu
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
Izutsu Katsunobu
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作者：
Izutsu Mitsuko Narita;Izutsu Katsunobu
纵观世界各国，日本堪称伟大的“推特国家”。日本人喜欢随时随地发推文。尽管Twitter在日本的流行常常与日语字符集的大信息容量联系在一起，但证明事实并非一定如此。我们的研究比较了日本人和美国人发布的两组数据（每组 300 条推文），结果表明，日本推文比美国人的推文包含更多的独白特征，或者表现出更高程度的独白。此外，日语推文中超过 60% 的句尾形式并未编码明确的收件人方向。研究表明，从语言上讲，日本用户能够充分享受 Twitter 提供的在线匿名和收件人不明确的好处，而不是日语独特的字符集，而是独白的语法手段。
Across the countries of the world, Japan can rightly claim to be a great “Twitter nation” . Japanese people like to tweet anytime and anywhere. Although the popularity of Twitter in Japan is often associated with the large information capacity of Japanese character sets , prove that this is not necessarily the case. Our research compares two sets of data (300 tweets for each) posted by Japanese and Americans, and demonstrates that Japanese tweets contain more monologic features, or show a higher degree of monologicity, than Americans’ tweets. Also, more than 60% of the sentence-ending forms in the Japanese tweets do not encode explicit addressee orientation. The study reveals that it is not the Japanese unique character sets, but the grammatical devices for monologization that linguistically allow Japanese users to enjoy the fullest benefits of online anonymity and addressee underspecification provided by Twitter.