Essays about: "akronymer"

Found 2 essays containing the word akronymer.

1. 1. 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

3. 2. 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