Language and the Internet

The medium of Netspeak 29 need to deal with the same sort of visual and graphic matters as any other variety of written expressi ...

30 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET are most speech-like.^8 The first is a function of the technology – the lack of simultaneous feedba ...

The medium of Netspeak 31 it may appear from the layout as if such dialogues are providing simultaneous feedback, but it is not ...

32 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET monster’ or to ‘lag wars’. The frustration is on both sides of the communication chain. From the se ...

The medium of Netspeak 33 interaction, the conversationalturn. Turn-taking is so fundamental to conversation that most people ar ...

34 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET Sue replies to both; Ben then receives the sequence in the order Q1, R2, Q2, R1. The situation may ...

The medium of Netspeak 35 hey!!!!!!!!!,see what you started??????????????????), and the following range of emphatic conventions: ...

36 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET of speech is lacking, as can be seen in the regular injunctions in usage guides to be careful, espe ...

The medium of Netspeak 37 Table 2.2.. Examples of smileys (after Sanderson, 1993) Basic smileys :-) pleasure, humour, etc. :-( s ...

38 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET they have no smiley attached to them.^20 Usage guides warn against overuse. However, they are not e ...

The medium of Netspeak 39 conventions of letter-writing developed. And when they are miss- ing, something needs to replace them. ...

40 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET features typical of conversational speech, and these make it even more difficult for language to be ...

The medium of Netspeak 41 be improved through the use of colloquial grammar and vocab- ulary (especially ‘cool’ abbreviations, s ...

Table 2.3. Spoken language criteria (see Table 2.1) applied to Netspeak Web e-mail Chatgroups Virtual worlds 1 time-bound no yes ...

Table 2.4. Written language criteria (see Table 2.1) applied to Netspeak Web e-mail Chatgroups Virtual worlds 1 space-bound yes, ...

44 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET space-bound character of traditional writing – the fact that a piece of text is static and permanen ...

The medium of Netspeak 45 certain properties to the conversation which are not available in speech. It means, for example, that ...

46 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET visually decontextualized (item 3 in Table 2.4)? Immediate visual feedback is always absent, as dis ...

The medium of Netspeak 47 no problem if respected, but which are often ignored, as when we encounter screenfuls of unbroken text ...

48 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET of these other mediums do, and must accordingly be seen as a new speciesofcommunication.Baron,iname ...