Electronic Mode - General

Question 1

What to first consider

Answer 1

Where abouts on the speech-writing continuum would you place the text?
- does it have more written or spoken mode features?

Question 2

A chat room/instant messaging (etc) - features

Answer 2

more like spoken mode, therefore it will follow many of the frameworks related to this particular mode.
(Discourse structure, topic management, face-work, convergence)

Question 3

Electronic Mode features

Answer 3

• Graphology
• Orthographology
• Abbreviations
• Prosodic features substitution
• hyperlinks

Question 4

What are graphological features?

Answer 4

Emoticons - these are icons/pictures which substitute for paralinguistic features such as emotions

Question 5

What are orthographical features?

Answer 5

Substituting numbers into words to replace letters

e.g. gr8 = great

Question 6

What are abbreviations

Answer 6

letters which are used to either shorten words of phrases,

cya, lol

Question 7

What are typical ways to substitute for prosodic features

Answer 7

bold lettering or capitals - “shouting”

‘sooooooooooooo’ (etc) - represent vowel elongation