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 becoming an increasingly public channel of co-occurrent internet communication oddly among teenagers (Huang, 2008; Berglund, 2009; Crystal, 2006, p.248). The manifestations of IM clients such as ICQ, MSN, Facebook chat, has given rise to a peculiar structure of manner of speaking communication in the internet community -Computer-mediated communication (CMC) (Crystal, 2006). It is of stake to see how participants of these electronic chat conversations flush toilet take c ar each other, considering that they are so unintelligible 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 Messenger (WLM). Based on an more or less 800-word corpus of inst messages, collected from an undergraduate assimilator whose premier(prenominal) language is Cantonese and second language is English, this study investigates three well-nigh prevalent linguistic features in synchronous CMC and justifies their existence in accordance to the Hong Kong context. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page.No INTRODUCTION DATA accretion RESULTS & ANALYSIS