# Lol cats and conventionalization of semiotic systems

Canonical page: https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-09-02-lol-cats-and-conventionalization-of-semiotic-systems

The piece uses LOLcats to show how multimodal constructions conventionalise through both emergent patterns and deliberate human codification.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 2 September 2007

## Where it lives

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 2 September 2007
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: internet, grammar, media, language-change.

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