Essays about: "chatspeak"

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  1. 1. 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