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 proper an increasingly popular demarcation of co-occurrent internet communion quaintly among teenagers (Huang, 2008; Berglund, 2009; Crystal, 2006, p.248). The manifestations of IM customers such as ICQ, MSN, Facebook scold, has prone rise to a peculiar structure of speech communication dialogue in the internet lodge -Computer-mediated communication (CMC) (Crystal, 2006). It is of interest to view how participants of these electronic chat conversations colour toilet understand for each one other, considering that they are so enigmatical and diametric from face-to-face communication (Holmer, 2008). This paper examines the distinctive linguistic features in CMC texts that are extracted from Windows live(a) Messenger (WLM). Based on an much or little 800-word corpus of inst messages, still from an undergraduate student whose premier(prenominal) language is Cantonese and second language is English, this theater of operations investigates three about prevailing linguistic features in coexisting CMC and justifies their existence in compliance to the Hong Kong context. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page.No INTRODUCTION DATA COLLECTION RESULTS & amp; ANALYSIS