Essays about: "acronyms"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the word acronyms.

  1. 1. Linguistic Differences in Real Conversations: Human to Human vs Human to Chatbot

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Eirini Silkej; [2020-03-02]
    Keywords : engelska; English learner; Natural language processing; Artificial Intelligence; AI; Linguistics and AI; Text messaging; Instant Messaging; IM; Chatbot; Mitsuku; Computermediated communication; CMC;

    Abstract : This study investigates how students communicate in writing when they know that their conversational partner is a human being in comparison to how they communicate when they know their partner is a chatbot. The participants are upper secondary students of English. READ MORE

  3. 2. Words and Meaning in Gaming : 'World of Warcraft' and 'Counterstrike Global Offensive'

    University essay from Högskolan Väst/Avd för utbildningsvetenskap och språk

    Author : Joakim Sund; [2020]
    Keywords : World of Warcraft; Counterstrike; game language; vocabulary; acronyms; speech; World of Warcraft; Counterstrike; spelspråk; vokabulär; akronymer; tal;

    Abstract : Online gaming is a relatively modern phenomenon that is not older than 20 years. Most online players speak English in some form, either by talking or writing. The two games, 'World of Warcraft' and 'Counterstrike' have taken over the gaming-world and the gamers' language has found its way right into the dictionary. READ MORE

  4. 3. Internet language in user-generated comments : Linguistic analysis of data from four commenting groups

    University essay from Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

    Author : Jenny Dahlström; [2013]
    Keywords : asynchronous CMC; internet language; netspeak; chatspeak; user-generated content; user-generated comments; reader responses; gender;

    Abstract : The present study examines typical features of internet language found in user-generated comments collected from commenting groups from four online magazines aimed at different readerships: (1) adult women (Working Mother and Mothering), (2) adult men (Esquire), (3) young women (Seventeen) and (4) young men (Gameinformer). Approximately 5,000 words from each commenting group were collected, creating a 21,087 word corpus which was analyzed with regard to typographic (emoticons, nonstandard typography of and, personal pronouns you and I) and orthographic features (abbreviations, acronyms) as well as syntactic and stylistic features resembling spoken language (contracted forms, ellipsis of subject and/or verb and commenting tone). READ MORE

  5. 4. Acronyms in an Asynchronous Environment : A Corpus Study of Acronym Frequency in Online Discussion Forums

    University essay from Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Tomas Viberg; [2013]
    Keywords : acronyms; asynchronous discussion forums; computer mediated communication; computer mediated discourse; frequency; initialisms;

    Abstract : This study is a research of the frequency of acronyms in an online forum and the meaning of the most frequent ones in their context. In the study, definitions are given for language forms used online so that one is able to compare a set of similarities and differences between these online varieties and the Standard English. READ MORE

  6. 5. ‘LOL’, ‘OMG’ and Other Acronyms and Abbreviations : A study in the creation of initialisms

    University essay from Engelska institutionen

    Author : Ida Lundell; [2012]
    Keywords : Morphology; acronyms; abbreviations; initialisms; slang; corpus linguistics; the Internet; netspeak;

    Abstract : Marchand (1969) claims that abbreviations and acronyms, which are also known as ‘initialisms’, are used to create “names of new scientific discoveries, trade-names, names of organizations, new foundations or offices, but occasionally, and chiefly in American English, personal and geographical names are also coined in this way” (Marchand, 1969: 452). However, initialisms that originate from netspeak, such as ‘LOL’, are different from the initialisms Marchand (1969) describes. READ MORE