TY - JOUR
T1 - Citizen sociolinguistics
T2 - A new method to understand fat talk
AU - Agostini, Gina
AU - SturtzSreetharan, Cindi
AU - Wutich, Amber
AU - Williams, Deborah
AU - Brewis, Alexandra
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by funds from the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Agostini et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2019/5
Y1 - 2019/5
N2 - Fat talk and citizen science Fat talk is a spontaneous verbal interaction in which interlocutors make self-disparaging comments about the body, usually as a request for assessment. Fat talk often reflects concerns about the self that stem from broader sociocultural factors. It is therefore an important target for sociocultural linguistics. However, real-time studies of fat talk are uncommon due to the resource and time burdens required to capture these fleeting utterances. This limits the scope of data produced using standard sociolinguistic methods. Citizen science may alleviate these burdens by producing a scale of social observation not afforded via traditional methods. Here we present a proof-of-concept for a novel methodology, citizen sociolinguistics. This research approach involves collaborations with citizen researchers to capture forms of conversational data that are typically inaccessible, including fat talk.
AB - Fat talk and citizen science Fat talk is a spontaneous verbal interaction in which interlocutors make self-disparaging comments about the body, usually as a request for assessment. Fat talk often reflects concerns about the self that stem from broader sociocultural factors. It is therefore an important target for sociocultural linguistics. However, real-time studies of fat talk are uncommon due to the resource and time burdens required to capture these fleeting utterances. This limits the scope of data produced using standard sociolinguistic methods. Citizen science may alleviate these burdens by producing a scale of social observation not afforded via traditional methods. Here we present a proof-of-concept for a novel methodology, citizen sociolinguistics. This research approach involves collaborations with citizen researchers to capture forms of conversational data that are typically inaccessible, including fat talk.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0217618
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0217618
M3 - Article
C2 - 31141560
AN - SCOPUS:85066450147
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 14
JO - PloS one
JF - PloS one
IS - 5
M1 - e0217618
ER -