Digitale Schreibregister von Jugendlichen analysieren. Ein linguistisch-ethnographischer Zugang zu Praktiken des Alltagsschreibens

Abstract

The article focuses on methodological and methodic considerations concerning the research on every day literacies of adolescents from a sociolinguistic perspective. Relating to the linguistic-anthropological concept of enregisterment the article advocates for the integration of ethnographic methods to the research designs of sociolinguistic writing studies. In the light of the enormous differentiation of writing events due to the mediatiziation of communication, the term of sociolinguistic registers of writing becomes important. The article suggests a three-level-model of analysis and gives a concluding case example of its application by discussing the pragmatic functions of the period within informal, interpersonal registers of digital writing.