Waheed Al Tohami

English Web Chat and Text Messages

A Qualitative Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis

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Produktbeschreibung

Information and communication technology trigger a plethora of linguistic issues regarding the nature of the emerging, mercurial medium of computer-mediated discourse (CMD). Using some selective linguistic features outlined in Biber s Multi-Dimensional, Multi-Feature model (1988, 1995 and 2004), this study conducts a computer-mediated discourse analysis (CMDA), namely a microlinguistic analysis, of two computer-mediated communication (CMC) modes: web chat, a principal manifestation of synchronous CMC, and text messages, a principal manifestation of asynchronous CMC, from the perspectives of lexis, grammar and phonology. Findings showed that despite the different conditions of language production, including time, space and situations, of web chat and text messages, they share many linguistic features, with different frequencies, at the lexical, grammatical and phonological levels. Much of the differences between both modes are ascribed to users creativity, technological facilities, and communication situation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9783659157950
• ISBN-10: 3659157953
• Artikelnr.: 36020205

Autorenporträt

Waheed Al Tohami is an assistant lecturer at the Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Education, Mansoura University, Egypt. He has a six-year experience in teaching phonetics, grammar and translation. He is interested in exploring language operated in electronic environments and how technology affects language.