Conversational Writing: A Multidimensional Study of Synchronous and Supersynchronous Computer-Mediated Communication

ISBN-13: 9783631671535 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 353 str.

Ewa Jonsson

Opis

The author analyses computer chat as a form of communication. While some forms of computer-mediated communication (CMC) deviate only marginally from traditional writing, computer chat is popularly considered to be written conversation and the most -oral- form of written CMC. This book systematically explores the varying degrees of conversationality (-orality-) in CMC, focusing in particular on a corpus of computer chat (synchronous and supersynchronous CMC) compiled by the author. The author employs Douglas Biber s multidimensional methodology and situates the chats relative to a range of spoken and written genres on his dimensions of linguistic variation. The study fills a gap both in CMC linguistics as regards a systematic variationist approach to computer chat genres and in variationist linguistics as regards a description of conversational writing."

Spis treści

Contents: Creating and annotating corpora of CMC - Internet relay chat - ICQ - UCOW - Salient features in conversational writing - Social media analysis - Orality - Synchronicity of communication - Paralinguistic features and extra-linguistic content - A systemic-functional approach to computer chat.

O autorze

Ewa Jonsson is a researcher in English linguistics at Mid-Sweden University.