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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 book 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.
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Keywords
- Communication Studies
- computer chat
- Conversation
- Face-to-face (philosophy)
- Interdisciplinary Studies
- Internet Relay Chat
- IRC communication
- Language
- Language learning: specific skills
- Language teaching & learning (other than ELT)
- Lexical density
- Linguistics
- Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects
- Social media
- Speaking / pronunciation skills
- split-window ICQ
- Subset
- thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics
- thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CJ Language teaching and learning::CJC Language learning: specific skills::CJCK Language learning: speaking skills
- thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTC Communication studies
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DOI: 10.3726/978-3-653-06512-1Editions