Definitions Week 10 Flashcards
Lean mode CMC
Text-based forms
Turn adjacency
Turn taking
Linking
Referring to content of the previous message in your response
Quoting
Directly copying sections of the previous message then responding to these
Genre
Text or type of discourse that is recognised as such by its users due to characteristic features of style or form’
Reproduced genres
Texts/types of discourse that have been used in new media without any major changes to their characteristic features
Adapted genres
Existing texts/types of discourse whose characteristic features have been changed for deployment in new media
Emergent genres
Texts/types of discourse that had no existing precedents and appeared in new media for the first time
Coinage
Formation of a new word
Affixation
Where a prefix or suffix is added to an existing word to make a new one
Conversion
Where the word changes grammatical class
Acronymisation
Where a single new word is created by combining initial letters of a multi-word expression
Semantic change
The change in meaning of a word
Catfishing
Pretending to be someone you are not on social media, to create a false identity online
Impression management
Controlling clothing, words etc. as to give others a particular impression of us
