1 / 9

Computer mediated communication

Computer mediated communication. CMC. Key features - MSN. T ake place in ‘real time’ F eatures of spoken language T urn taking D iscourse markers N on-fluency features, pauses ellipsis O wn spelling conventions – shorthand phonetic . Typical structure. A : hiya! B: hiya! A: u ok?

argyle
Download Presentation

Computer mediated communication

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Computer mediated communication CMC

  2. Key features - MSN • Take place in ‘real time’ • Features of spoken language • Turn taking • Discourse markers • Non-fluency features, pauses ellipsis • Own spelling conventions – shorthand phonetic

  3. Typical structure A : hiya! B: hiya! A: u ok? B: yeah thanks, you? A: fine tar chick A: so wot u bin up 2?

  4. Pre-closing signals A: anyway ive g2g ive got 10 hours of pushign trolleys and then a pirate party to go 2moz so I need sleep A: watsruths mob?? B: bye bye B: umm, ill email it you A: cheers me dears A: bye A: xxx B: bye x

  5. Prosodic features • Intonation – represented ‘NOOOOOOOO’ ‘WHAT!!!!!’ ‘Julie? JULIE?’

  6. Blendings – MSN idiolect • ‘whasup’ • ‘cudda’ • ‘wudda’ • ‘shudda’ • ‘dya’

  7. Phonetic spellings – MSN lexis • ‘u’ • ‘2moz’ • ‘l8a’ • ‘im’ • ‘satdi’

  8. Vague langauge • ‘ yea bt like wen we had dinna n stuff – kept catcHin her just starin in to space n lookin down’

  9. Maxims • honesty and deception • anonymity • subject matter • ambiguity

More Related