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 touristy 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 expression communication in the internet community -Computer-mediated communication (CMC) (Crystal, 2006). It is of pertain to see how participants of these electronic chat conversations flush toilet study 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 me ssages, collected from an undergraduate savant whose premier(prenominal) language is Cantonese and second language is English, this study investigates three almost prevalent linguistic features in synchronous CMC and justifies their existence in accordance to the Hong Kong context. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page.No INTRODUCTION DATA accrual RESULTS & ANALYSIS