Aaliya Rajah-Carrim
Use and Standardisation of Mauritian Creole in Electronically Mediated Communication<sup>1</sup>
University of Leeds
new technologies affected language use attitudes many communities kreol frenchlexified creole nonstandardised first language majority mauritians gaining ground written language specific context electronicmediated communication led emergence writing norms among users language norms founded etymological phonemic mixed conventions study based data gathered questionnaires analyses attitudes 66 young mauritians towards three orthographies used electronically mediated communication standardisation language new technologies also briefly discusses spelling conventions used internet postings show etymological system perceived readable learnable closest french users believe kreol act unifying factor among different ethnolinguistic groups mauritius responses also highlight potential users electronicmediated communication bringing standardisation kreol