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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136752603321

Autore

Jonsson Ewa <1968-, >

Titolo

Conversational writing : a multidimensional study of synchronous and supersynchronous computer-mediated communication / / Ewa Jonsson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frankfurt am Main : , : Peter Lang Edition is an imprint of Peter Lang GmbH, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

9783653065121 (eBook)

9783631671535

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 pages) : charts; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Open Access e-Books

Knowledge Unlatched

English corpus linguistics ; ; volume 16

Disciplina

302.2/24

Soggetti

Conversation analysis - Data processing

Authorship - Computer network sources

Digital communications

Online social networks

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-353).

Sommario/riassunto

The author analyses computer chat as a form of communication. While some forms of computer-mediated communication (CMC) deviate only marginally from traditional writing, computer chat is popularly considered to be written conversation and the most “oral” form of written CMC. This book systematically explores the varying degrees of conversationality (“orality”) in CMC, focusing in particular on a corpus of computer chat (synchronous and supersynchronous CMC) compiled by the author. The book employs Douglas Biber’s multidimensional methodology and situates the chats relative to a range of spoken and written genres on his dimensions of linguistic variation. The study fills a gap both in CMC linguistics as regards a systematic variationist approach to computer chat genres, and in variationist linguistics as regards a description of conversational writing.