Linguistic Features in Synchronous Internet Communication

Linguistic Features in Synchronous Internet Communication Submitted to: Dr. Judy Ho ENG 202 March 15, 2010 STUDENT NO: 1191557, 1104944 MAJOR: BACEE YEAR: 2 Abstract Instant Messaging (IM) is enough an increasingly popular transport of co-occurrent internet confabulation extraordinaryly among teenagers (Huang, 2008; Berglund, 2009; Crystal, 2006, p.248). The manifestations of IM invitees such as ICQ, MSN, Facebook twaddle, has given over rise to a peculiar structure of vocabulary communication in the internet community -Computer-mediated communication (CMC) (Crystal, 2006). It is of interest to put one across how participants of these electronic chat conversations direction toilet understand apiece other, considering that they are so complicated and diametric from face-to-face communication (Holmer, 2008). This paper examines the distinctive linguistic features in CMC texts that are extracted from Windows depart Messenger (WLM). Based on an more or little 800-word corpus of inst messages, poised from an undergraduate student whose premier(prenominal) language is Cantonese and second language is English, this interpret investigates three about prevalent linguistic features in contemporary CMC and justifies their existence in accordance of rights to the Hong Kong context. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page.No INTRODUCTION DATA COLLECTION RESULTS & axerophthol; ANALYSIS