Recent computational sociolinguistic analyses of social media have emphasized the potential of using orthographic variation as a proxy for speech, thereby permitting macro‐level quantitative studies of regional and social variation (e.g. Eisenstein, 2015). However, the extent to which stylistic variation may affect these analyses remains largely unexplored. In this paper, I explore how authors use variant spellings stylistically to deploy personae and characterological figures (Agha, 2003), by examining the presence of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) features in a corpus of 15,804 tweets extracted from the timelines of 10 gay British men. I argue that the stylization of AAVE signals the development of a very specific persona—the “Sassy Queen”—which relies on an essentialized imagining of Black women as “fierce” and “sassy.” Concluding, I emphasize the value of micro‐level analyses in complementing quantitative analyses of linguistic variation in social media.

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“ Sassy Queens”：Twitter中的文体正字变化和AAVE的注册

最近对社交媒体进行的社会语言的计算分析强调了使用正字法变体作为语音代理的潜力，从而可以对区域和社会变体进行宏观定量研究（例如，Eisenstein，2015）。但是，在很大程度上尚不能探讨文体变化可能影响这些分析的程度。在本文中，我通过检查从10个同性恋者的时间轴中提取的15804条推文的语料库中是否存在非裔美国人白话（AAVE）功能，来探索作者如何通过样式化的拼写来部署角色和特征人物（Agha，2003年）英国男人。我认为，AAVE的风格标志着一个非常特殊的角色-“萨西皇后”（Sassy Queen）的发展，这取决于对黑人女性的“凶猛”和“厚脸皮”的本质想象。最后，