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 hot 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 vocabulary communication in the internet community -Computer-mediated communication (CMC) (Crystal, 2006). It is of sake to see how participants of these electronic chat conversations flush toilet generalise each other, considering that they be so unintelligible and diametric from personal 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, c ollected from an undergraduate pupil whose premier(prenominal) language is Cantonese and second language is English, this study investigates three around prevalent linguistic features in synchronous CMC and justifies their existence in accordance to the Hong Kong context. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page.No INTRODUCTION DATA solicitation RESULTS & ANALYSIS