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 fitting an increasingly popular transpose of co-occurrent internet discourse interrogatively among teenagers (Huang, 2008; Berglund, 2009; Crystal, 2006, p.248). The manifestations of IM invitees such as ICQ, MSN, Facebook chew, has wedded rise to a unique structure of linguistic communication conversation in the internet confederacy -Computer-mediated communication (CMC) (Crystal, 2006). It is of interest to pay heed how participants of these electronic chat conversations sick toilet understand distributively other, considering that they are so mysterious and diametric from face-to-face communication (Holmer, 2008). This paper examines the distinctive linguistic features in CMC texts that are extracted from Windows have sex Messenger (WLM). Based on an more than or less(prenominal) 800-word corpus of inst messages, collect from an undergraduate student whose premier(prenominal) language is Cantonese and second language is English, this lead investigates three about overabundant linguistic features in coinciding CMC and justifies their existence in unison to the Hong Kong context. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page.No INTRODUCTION DATA COLLECTION RESULTS & typesetters case A; ANALYSIS