Tagged: Purrieties of Language
It’s all about cat-inspired language varieties Purrieties exist because people talk differently as their cats depending on the cat community they are in and on the social media platform they are on. Whether it’s Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, or X...
Where do cat afficionados use which feline-inspired words?Here’s a roundup – based on the surveys I did for my book “Purrieties of Language: How We Talk about Cats Online” (due out in February 2023). Or put differently, the analysis...
A Wordlist for Linguistic Material For my analysis of cat-related linguistic data, I compiled a list of keywords to look for. This approach is similar to the surveys in dialectology for which we use a questionnaire to study how...