Conversational Writing

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jonsson, Ewa, Author.

Series:

English Corpus Linguistics Conversational writing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conversation analysis--Data processing.

Conversation analysis.

Authorship--Computer network sources.

Authorship.

Digital communications.

Online social networks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Other Title:

English Corpus Linguistics vol. 16

Place of Publication:

Peter Lang AG

[Place of publication not identified] Peter Lang 2016

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph