Language and the Internet

The language of chatgroups 149 limitations) of the medium. Experienced chatgroup members, fa- miliar with a group’s software, ow ...

150 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET the opportunity it provides for equal participation. Students who might be reserved in a real-worl ...

The language of chatgroups 151 among their students is impressive, and the fact that several of these features are found in othe ...

152 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET (e.g. #41plus) or the use of a technology (e.g. #mac, #www). A large network, such as EFnet, Under ...

The language of chatgroups 153 one go. And so the conversation proceeds, in a mixture of sequence, simultaneity, and overlap. Th ...

154 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET member appears at the beginning of the line and is shown in angle brackets): <Allvine>why on ...

The language of chatgroups 155 you may precede your departure with a reason – good etiquette, to avoid any suggestion that you a ...

156 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET (e.g. in Australia) loses its connection with the others (e.g. in the UK, Canada, USA, Japan). In ...

The language of chatgroups 157 80% of the utterances being 5 words or less.^48 The words them- selves are short: nearly 80% of 3 ...

158 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET ∗∗∗LUCKMAN has left channel #PUNJAB ∗∗∗LUCKMAN has joined channel #punjab dave-g good stuff:) ...

The language of chatgroups 159 Moreover, this is a fairly simple example, compared with those where a given message may result i ...

160 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET principles introduced by the network.^52 The core principle is that nicknames are not owned, in an ...

The language of chatgroups 161 software program. The nicks may be words or phrases, sense or nonsense. Because the number of pos ...

162 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET afterthebodyoftheirmessage–asadiscoursesignaltotheintended recipient. This is not necessary when j ...

The language of chatgroups 163 nearly half of all turns were off-topic.^57 It may only take a slight semantic shift to start a d ...

164 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET Actions or comments on the part of participants are in this sys- tem introduced by a single asteri ...

The language of chatgroups 165 idontknowwhy youdarightperson howyadoin wanna know why i got enuf it wuz lotsa lafs Grammar is ch ...

166 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET computerascomptuer,orascommuter, and does the same. Each group has its own history, and a group me ...

The language of chatgroups 167 female speech.^63 Some studies have already identified salient con- trasts in certain Internet si ...

168 LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET Netspeak apply to both kinds of chatgroup situation: the etiquette files of each domain routinely ...