Language Of Twitter.

Question 1

What is twitter?

Answer 1

An online news and social networking site where people communicate in short messages called tweets.

Question 2

What is the purpose of twitter?

Answer 2

It has many different purposes, tweets could be used to promote, inform, persuade or simply to communicate. It depends on the content of the tweet. However, it could be said that the primary purpose is just general communication of a message.

Question 3

What is the graphical cohesion of twitter?

Answer 3

When a bird tweets, it is communicating.

Question 4

How has the language of twitter changed?

Answer 4

Colloquialisms such as twittered and twttr have been used in the past, using a noun as a verb, however they have called out of usage in modern day.

Question 5

What are some different groups using twitter?

Answer 5

Self expressions. 
Celebrities having arguments. 
News programs sharing updates. 
Businesses. 
Social commentaries. 
Seeking advice/common experiences.

Question 6

How could you categorise tweets?

Answer 6

Purpose.
Audience. 
Form of communication.
Sentence structure.
Lexis, 
Organisation of text (discourse). 
Implied meanings. 
Graphology,
Register. 
Conventions.

Question 7

How have celebrity tweets evolved?

Answer 7

Prepositions.
Indefinite, personal, reflexive and ‘wh’ pronouns.
Auxiliary verbs.

Question 8

Outline the concept and issues of twitter.

Answer 8

Accordance: what a platform allows you to do.

Constraints.

Abbreviations.

Acronyms.

Logograms: where single symbols represent a whole word e.g. “u” or “4”.

Homophonic representation.

Emojis.

Question 9

Outline the key points/observations about twitter.

Answer 9

Tweets show naivety or a lack of experience as regards social media,

Some allude to brevity and restrictions of the medium.

Can be unclear or incoherent in replies.

Elliptical in structure - employ high frequency and monosyllabic/disyllabic lexis.

Question 10

Define monosyllabic lexis.

Answer 10

A word consisting of one syllable.

Question 11

Define disyllabic lexis.

Answer 11

A word consisting of two syllables.

Question 12

Outline all key terms so far.

Answer 12

Vocatives.

Noun phrase.

Simple sentence.

Compound sentence.

Complex sentence.

Compound complex sentence.

Simple present tense.

Simple past tense,

Present perfect tense.

Multi word verb.

Adverb

Complement.

Question 13

Define a vocative.

Answer 13

Addressing a particular person in a chat with multiple.

Question 14

Define a noun phrase.

Answer 14

A small group of words that contains a noun that doesn’t contain a verb.

Question 15

Define a simple sentence.

Answer 15

A sentence that consists of just one individual clause,

Question 16

Define a compound sentence.

Answer 16

A sentence that connects two independent clauses, typically with a co-ordinating conjunction.

Question 17

Define a coordinating conjunction.

Answer 17

Link words or larger structures such as phrases and clauses together where they are equal e.g. but, and or yet.

Question 18

Define a complex sentence.

Answer 18

Sentences with one independent clause and at least independent clause.

Question 19

Define a compound complex sentence.

Answer 19

A sentence that has at least two independent clauses and at least one dependent clause.

Question 20

Define simple present tense.

Answer 20

The use of a verb to tell about things that continually happen in the present.

Question 21

Define simple past tense.

Answer 21

The basic form of past tenses in modern English.

Question 22

Define perfect present tense aka present perfective.

Answer 22

Used to indicate a link between present and the past.

Question 23

Define a multi word verb aka phrasal verb

Answer 23

Consists of one verb and one or two particles of prepositions.

Question 24

Define an imperative.

Answer 24

A direct command.

Question 25

Define a complement.

Answer 25

A word or phrase that is necessary to complete the meaning of a given expression.