Computer-mediated discourse in Africa / Rotimi Taiwo and Innocent Chiluwa, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Taiwo, Olurotimi Adebowale.

Chiluwa, Innocent.

Series:

Media and communications.

Media and communications--technologies, policies and challenges

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication and technology--Africa.

Communication and technology.

Digital communications--Social aspects--Africa.

Digital communications.

Discourse analysis--Africa.

Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a major documentation of the discursive practices of Africans when they engage in online communication. It presents mainly linguistic perspectives on what Africans do when they interact through mobile telecommunications and the Internet. The book reveals the unique ways Africans blend their traditional communicative culture with some of the well known online behaviours. In addition, it draws attention to how Africans have been attempting to use the modes of internet and mobile telecommunications to solve their socio-economic and political problems by engaging in active agitation for reforms in those directions.

Contents:

Intro

COMPUTER-MEDIATED DISCOURSE IN AFRICA

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

PRESENCE PLATFORMS, SOCIABILITY, M4L, AND PRESENCE AWARENESS LEARNING IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONTEXT

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION

MXIT, MIM, M4L, AND PRESENCE AWARENESS LEARNING: AN OVERVIEW

PRESSENCE PLATFORMS

TECHNOLOGIES OF SOCIABILITY

MOBILES FOR LEARNING (M4L)

Exemplar A

Exemplar B

TECHNOLGIES FOR PAL

ALLAYING FEARS OF MOBILE AND MXIT

FUTURE OUTLOOK

CONCLUSION

KEY TERMS AND CONCISE DEFINITIONS

REFERENCES

THE DISCOURSE OF NOLITICS IN THE NAIJAPALS ONLINE COMMUNITY WEBSITE

NOLITICS

WEBLOGS AND DISCUSSION FORUMS

METHODOLOGY

THE CORPUS

Category Descriptions

ANALYSES AND DISCUSSION

DISCOURSE AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION

CRITIQUES

SOCIAL AND POLITICAL MOBILIZATION

ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN

POLITICAL PROPAGANDA

SUGGESTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

DISCURSIVE PRAGMATICS OF NOLITICS

METAPHORS

DIRECTIVE ACTS

INTERROGATIVES

NEW TEXTUAL TERRAIN IN AFRICA: CONSTRUCTIONS OF IDENTITY THROUGH DIGITAL TEXTS IN SOUTH AFRICA

DESCRIBING THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONTEXT

CONTEXTUALISING THE STUDY

NEW LITERACIES MULTILITERACIES AND MULTIMODALITIES

SOCIAL SEMIOTICS

THE STUDY

FANISA'S DIGITAL REPRESENTATION: FANISA'S HIGH SCHOOL LIFE

SIHLE'S DIGITAL PRESENTATION: HIV/AIDS

DISCUSSION

Constructing Identities Multimodally

Meaning as 'Design': Design to Re-Design

Implications for English Teaching and Learning

A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF EMERGING PARADIGMS AND PROMINENT FEATURES IN NIGERIAN SMS DISCOURSE

FEAUTURES OF SMS

REVIEW OF RELEVANT LITERATURE

METHODOLOGY.

COHESION

ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION OF TEXTS

DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS FROM THEMATIC PERSPECTIVES

Reigious Texts (R1-R5)

Social/Personal Texts (S1-S5)

Business/Economic Texts (B1-5)

Educational/ Institutional (E1-5)

LANGUAGE USE ON FACEBOOK ASYNCHRONOUS INTERACTIONAL EXCHANGES

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION

AN OVERVIEW OF EXISTING LITERATURE

DATA ANALYSIS

Sociolinguistic Indices in the Data

Yoruba Proverbs in CMC as Sociolinguistic Nuance

DISCURSIVE FORMS AND FUNCTIONS OF FLAMING IN NIGERIAN ONLINE FORUMS

FLAMING AS AN IMPOLITE LINGUISTIC BEHAVIOUR

PERSPECTIVES ON FLAMING

THE DATA AND METHODOLOGY

DATA ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS

CULTURE AND SOME UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCIES OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION (CMC) IN AFRICA

DIMENSIONS OF CULTURAL VARIABILITY

Gender Disparity

Oral Culture and Relationship

DIGITAL DIVIDE

LINGUISTIC CHALLENGES IN CMC

THE DARK SIDE OF ICTS IN NIGERIA

IMPLICATIONS

FACE IN NIGERIAN NEW MEDIA DISCOURSE

INTRODUCTION: NIGERIAN NEW MEDIA DISCOURSE AND RESEARCH

GOFFMAN'S AND BROWN AND LEVINSON'S FRAMEWORKS IN PREVIOUS NIGERIAN RESEARCH

DIGITAL FACEWORK AND RELATED PHENOMENA - A REVIEW

DATA

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK: FACE CONSTITUTING THEORY

DISCURSIVE-RELATIONAL DIGITAL FACE ACTS

FACE CO-CONSTRUCTION

PHATIC FACEWORK

COLLABORATIVE FACE ACTS

CONFRONTATIONAL FACE ACTS

CODE-SWITCHING AS FACEWORK

LINGUISTIC CREATIVITY IN COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION: EXAMPLES FROM SELECTED AFRICAN CHATS

BACKGROUND

OBJECTIVES.

COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION (CMC) AND CHAT

LANGUAGE CREATIVITY IN CHATROOM DIALOGUE

Vocabulary Manipulation

Grammar

Paralinguistics and Graphics

FUTURE TRENDS

PRAGMATIC ACTS AND CONTEXTUAL BELIEFS IN TWO NIGERIAN ONLINE NEWS MEDIA FEEDBACK FORUM

STUDIES ON COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION (CMC)

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS

Positive Comments

Negative Comments

Neutral Comments

INDEX.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62100-545-3

OCLC:

833401344