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Verbalized laugliter is represented mainly through haha (29 tokens).
The length however is variable, i.e. hahaha or longer manifestations
may appear. Apart from that hehe and híhí (one token each) are real-
ized.
In sum, the above findings highlight the presence of semiotics
of compensation in Icelandic CMC as CMC characteristic features.
The representations found in the corpus solely contain properties of
CMC that are used across languages. However individual strategies
appear, such as the emphasizing of emoticons (o//), presumably for
creative stylistic reasons.
4.3 Linguistic economy
Besides conceptual orality and semiotics of compensation, examples of
linguistic economy occur in the corpus. In this analysis the term encom-
passes both linguistic shortenings (e.g. acronyms) and orthographic
economy, such as the non-occurrence of diacritical marks (cf. (28)-
(30)), as both result in the simplification of orthographic form.
(28) A: Vitiði hvort það se ekki þannig að maður er bara
með 3 manaða uppsagnarfrest ef maður er fastraðinn,
er að spyrja fyrir vinkonu mina sem vinnur i
Kringlumyri og langar að losna 31
(29) A: NEIOH, það gleymdist að lata mig vita ad eg ætti
ekki að vinna i dag (...)
B: lol á þig (...)32
(30) A: eigum við að panta borð kl 8?33
In Table 3 the categories of linguistic economy are listed with their
types and tokens.
31 In (28), A asks for a period of notice.
32 In (29), A complains about not having been informed about a day off from vvork.
In (30), A asks to book a table.
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