{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/making-fetch-happen-the-influence-of-social","title":"Making \"fetch\" happen: The influence of social and linguistic context on nonstandard word growth and decline","arxiv_id":"1709.00345","date":"2017-09-01","proceeding":null,"authors":["Ian Stewart","Jacob Eisenstein"],"abstract":"In an online community, new words come and go: today's \"haha\" may be replaced\nby tomorrow's \"lol.\" Changes in online writing are usually studied as a social\nprocess, with innovations diffusing through a network of individuals in a\nspeech community. But unlike other types of innovation, language change is\nshaped and constrained by the system in which it takes part. To investigate the\nlinks between social and structural factors in language change, we undertake a\nlarge-scale analysis of nonstandard word growth in the online community Reddit.\nWe find that dissemination across many linguistic contexts is a sign of growth:\nwords that appear in more linguistic contexts grow faster and survive longer.\nWe also find that social dissemination likely plays a less important role in\nexplaining word growth and decline than previously hypothesized.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1709.00345v4","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.00345v4.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"making-fetch-happen-the-influence-of-social","repo_url":"https://github.com/ianbstewart/nonstandard_word_dissemination","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}