Language Of Chatrooms Flashcards
Define a chatroom.
A part of the internet where people can communicate by writing messages to each other often on a particular subject.
Define synchronous communication.
Two way communication.
Define asynchronous communication.
One way communication.
What are the advantages of asynchronous communication?
Flexible.
Higher availability.
Less pressure on the system to respond immediately.
Outline the disadvantages of asynchronous communication.
Lacks a sense of immediacy.
Less immediate interaction.
Isn’t a chat unless the recipient responds promptly.
Describe the language within chatrooms.
A hybrid conversational medium.
Register is increasingly similar to spoken language.
Phone conversations have a definite turn taking structure - involving adjacency pairs or IRF structure.
Conversations made up of several threads or topics happening simultaneously as a result of multiple participants and delay of response.
Outline the conventions of chatrooms.
Short utterances.
Incomplete/elliptical , grammatically simple or non standard utterances.
Typographical errors or deliberate lack of capitalism.
Omitted punctuation.
Lexical truncation and abbreviations.
Outline the key terms of a chatroom.
Paralinguistic signs (emoticons). Vocatives. Reactive tokens. Punctuation/capitalisation. Reduplication. Self correction. Abbreviations/acronyms.
Outline what is meant by a chat.
A variation of netiquette which describes the basic rules of online communication.
What is the purpose of a chat.
To avoid misunderstandings and simplify conversations.
Give an example of how chats vary from community to community.
Writing in uppercase in some communities can be seen as rude as they’re shouting.
What can chats produce?
A strong sense of identity leading to an impression of subculture.
What can a chat also function as?
A valuable source of information, the automatic processing of which is the object of chat/text mining technologies.
Define an inferential framework.
The shared knowledge within a discourse community, which is built up over time to understand meanings that are implicit.
Define a discourse community.
A group of people who share a set of discourse, understood as the basic values and assumptions and ways of communicating about those goals.
