World Englishes
Volume 24 Issue 4 Page 409 - November 2005
doi:10.1111/j.0883-2919.2005.00423.x
Volume 24 Issue 4
"Synchronous online chat" English: Computer-mediated communication
Rami A. AlSa'Di* and Jihad M. Hamdan**
Abstract: This study aims to investigate the linguistic features of eEnglish, relying on a large corpus of authentic IRC and Yahoo Messenger chat sessions (both public and private). The study concludes that economy is a salient attribute of eEnglish. Among the other major linguistic features that were detected in this study are: sentences are characteristically short and simple, many words are distorted and truncated in familiar and unfamiliar ways, abbreviations and acronyms are widespread, and taboo words very likely to occur in most chat sessions (especially in public ones). One more major finding is that eEnglish can be viewed as unclassifiable as either written or spoken language despite the written medium wherein it occurs.
http://forum.corpus4u.org/upload/forum/2005112309503287.pdf
Volume 24 Issue 4 Page 409 - November 2005
doi:10.1111/j.0883-2919.2005.00423.x
Volume 24 Issue 4
"Synchronous online chat" English: Computer-mediated communication
Rami A. AlSa'Di* and Jihad M. Hamdan**
Abstract: This study aims to investigate the linguistic features of eEnglish, relying on a large corpus of authentic IRC and Yahoo Messenger chat sessions (both public and private). The study concludes that economy is a salient attribute of eEnglish. Among the other major linguistic features that were detected in this study are: sentences are characteristically short and simple, many words are distorted and truncated in familiar and unfamiliar ways, abbreviations and acronyms are widespread, and taboo words very likely to occur in most chat sessions (especially in public ones). One more major finding is that eEnglish can be viewed as unclassifiable as either written or spoken language despite the written medium wherein it occurs.
http://forum.corpus4u.org/upload/forum/2005112309503287.pdf
