TY - JOUR TI - L’identità digitale nella società contemporanea – l’analisi sociolinguistica dei nickname usati sulle chat line italiane AU - Paliczuk, Aleksandra TI - L’identità digitale nella società contemporanea – l’analisi sociolinguistica dei nickname usati sulle chat line italiane AB - Digital identity in contemporary society – a sociolinguistic analysis of the nicknames used on Italian chat lines This paper is an attempt to examine what the language function is in the modern society, the society of virtual relations, with a focus on nicknames used on Italian chat lines. There are some studies on the Internet phenomenon and its peculiarity, however in human science they mostly refer to the social and psychological aspects. Still there are little papers in the field of linguistics, especially on the Italian language used in Internet. It is undeniable that the contemporary science is associated with many different fields, so taking into consideration their interdisciplinary character the present study is to investigate the social and linguistic aspects of how the virtual reality influences language, perception and social relations. We will concentrate on the users’ identities and their lexical representation in Italian. VL - Volume 14 (2014) IS - Volume 14, Issue 3 PY - 2014 SN - 1732-8705 C1 - 2084-3917 SP - 199 EP - 213 DO - 10.4467/20843917RC.13.015.2717 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/romanica-cracoviensia/article/lidentita-digitale-nella-societa-contemporanea-lanalisi-sociolinguistica-dei-nickname-usati-sulle-chat-line-italiane KW - language KW - Internet KW - virtual reality KW - society KW - chat KW - nicknames