Title: Conversational Writing: A Multidimensional Study of Synchronous and Supersynchronous Computer-Mediated Communication (English Corpus Linguistics)
Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler
Publication Date: 2016
Language: English
ISBN 10: 3631671539
ISBN 13: 9783631671535
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Very Good

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The author analyses computer chat as a form of communication. While some forms of computer-mediated communication (CMC) deviate only marginally from traditional writing, computer chat is popularly considered to be written conversation and the most �oral� form of written CMC. This book systematically explores the varying degrees of conversationality (�orality�) in CMC, focusing in particular on a corpus of computer chat (synchronous and supersynchronous CMC) compiled by the author. The author employs Douglas Biber’s multidimensional methodology and situates the chats relative to a range of spoken and written genres on his dimensions of linguistic variation. The study fills a gap both in CMC linguistics as regards a systematic variationist approach to computer chat genres and in variationist linguistics as regards a description of conversational writing.

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Ewa Jonsson is a researcher in English linguistics at Mid-Sweden University.

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