Il paradosso dell’osservatore. Quanto cambia in linguistica e nella fanfiction su web
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2020
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It could be considered surprising to juxtapose linguistics and fanfictionas they seem to be two distinctly different phenomena, but such a comparison offers interesting outcomes since it reveals unexpected analogies and differences. Both are largely social factors, which makes them similar. Furthermore, up until the fanfictionof the 90’s, before the Internet, the two phenomena were connected by the difficulties confronted when studying them because of the so-called observer’s paradoxthat mod-ified the object observed at the same time as it was being observed. On this assump-tion, this article tries to individuate the moments in which this problem was still pre-sent by examining three founder texts written byfanfictionwriters in the 90’s, Henry Jenkins, Camille Bacon-Smith and Constance Penley. My article studies fanwriting on the web where this problem appears much more blurred and almost disappears, differently from the study of a language, where it is very much alive. The third part of the dissertation is taken up with a discussion about the relationship between linguistics andfanfictionon the web, following in the footsteps of Labov and the educationalist Rebecca W. Black who examines fanwritingin such a way as to help English-language learnersas a second language. Here we will already see that with Black theobserver’s paradoxhas almost disappeared entirely and the new frontiers proposed by applied linguistics have diverged from those of Labov, coinciding to a greater extent with those of fanfictionon the web, as observed by Patricia Freidrich who studies the new frontiers that can be opened up in the field of applied linguistics
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Falà, M. G. (2020), Il paradosso dell’osservatore. Quanto cambia in linguistica e nella fanfiction su web. Comparatismi, 5, 123-139. http://dx.doi.org/10.14672/20201722.