Characters of Language (2024)

Textual Cacophony: Online Video and Anonymity in Japan

Daniel Johnson

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2023

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9781501772283

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9781501772252

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Textual Cacophony: Online Video and Anonymity in Japan

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Johnson, Daniel, 'Characters of Language', Textual Cacophony: Online Video and Anonymity in Japan (Ithaca, NY, 2023; online edn, Cornell Scholarship Online, 23 May 2024), https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501772252.003.0003, accessed 4 June 2024.

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on electronic text in online media platforms. It looks into a notion of characterization meant to describe the process by which electronic text is used to mediate user identities in anonymous and asynchronous media. Moreover, characterization also commodifies the logic of popular culture incorporated into modes of expression. The chapter discusses the toyification of language wherein dialect becomes treated as an accessory to communication and expression grounded in comedic or character-oriented exchanges and performances. It also considers the key concept of soramimi, the style of mishearing or misunderstanding speech as a way of producing humor, which references the prominence of variety TV's influence on internet culture.

Keywords: electronic text, online media platforms, characterization, anonymous media, asynchronous media, toyification of language, soramimi, internet culture

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