The Effect of Latinization on Reading Time and Understanding: Greeklish in Communication and Social Media  

作　　者：Evangelos Kehris George Karavasilis Vasiliki Vrana Dimitrios Kydros Evangelos Kehris;George Karavasilis;Vasiliki Vrana;Dimitrios Kydros(Department of Business Administration, International Hellenic University, Serres, Greece;Department of Economics, International Hellenic University, Serres, Greece)

机构地区：[1]Department of Business Administration, International Hellenic University, Serres, Greece [2]Department of Economics, International Hellenic University, Serres, Greece

出　　处：《Social Networking》2023年第3期67-91,共25页社交网络（英文）

摘　　要：The increasing prevalence of technology in society has an impact on young people’s language use and development. Greeklish is the writing of Greek texts using the Latin instead of the Greek alphabet, a practice known as Latinization, also employed for many non-latin alphabet languages. The primary aim of this research is to evaluate the effect of Greeklish on reading time. A sample of 732 young Greeks were asked about their habits when communicating through e-mail and social media with their friends and they then participated in an experiment in which they were asked to read and understand two short texts, one written in Greek and the other in Greeklish. The findings of the research show that nearly one third of the participants use Greeklish. The results of the experiment conducted reveal that understanding is not affected by the alphabet used but reading Greeklish is significantly more time consuming than reading Greek independently of the sex and the familiarity of the participants with Greeklish. The findings suggest that amending social and communication media with software utilities related to Latinization such as language identifiers and converters may reduce reading time and thus facilitate written communication among the users.The increasing prevalence of technology in society has an impact on young people’s language use and development. Greeklish is the writing of Greek texts using the Latin instead of the Greek alphabet, a practice known as Latinization, also employed for many non-latin alphabet languages. The primary aim of this research is to evaluate the effect of Greeklish on reading time. A sample of 732 young Greeks were asked about their habits when communicating through e-mail and social media with their friends and they then participated in an experiment in which they were asked to read and understand two short texts, one written in Greek and the other in Greeklish. The findings of the research show that nearly one third of the participants use Greeklish. The results of the experiment conducted reveal that understanding is not affected by the alphabet used but reading Greeklish is significantly more time consuming than reading Greek independently of the sex and the familiarity of the participants with Greeklish. The findings suggest that amending social and communication media with software utilities related to Latinization such as language identifiers and converters may reduce reading time and thus facilitate written communication among the users.

关 键 词：Social Media Digital Communication Latinization Reading Speed Text Understanding Greeklish 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]