Electronic Discourse: Linguistic Individuals in Virtual Space

Davis, Boyd H.; Brewer, Jeutonne P.

doi:10.2307/358363

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“…Electronic discourse analysis can be either synchronous or asynchronous; can include discussion groups and email; and has elements of written and spoken discourse (Davis 1997). From the research of Chun (1994) and Kern (1995) it appears that students spend more time on-task during synchronous electronic discourse than with ordinary classroom discourse and there is less teacher domination which affords increased student production of more complex language.…”

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Analysis of discourse features of an EFL Internet forum debate

Dechesne¹

2001

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Analysis of discourse features of an EFL Internet forum debate

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2001

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“…Researchers have used varieties of terms to refer to the language used by youngsters in the electronic communication. 'electronic discourse' (Davis & Brewer, 1997;Panckhurst, 2006), 'electronic language' (Collot & Belmore, 1996), 'Computer Mediated Communication' (Herring, 1996), 'interactive written discourse' (Werry, 1996), 'Netlish', 'Weblish', 'Internet language', 'cyberspeak', 'netling' (Thurlow, 2001), 'cyberlanguage' (MacFadyen, Roche, & Doff, 2004), 'netspeak' (Thurlow, 2001;Crystal, 2006), and 'virtual language' (Pop, 2008).…”

Section: Electronic Discourse As a New Variety Of Languagementioning

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“…According to Davis & Brewer (1997), the term e-discourse concentrates on how individuals use language to share and exchange ideas and views rather than on the medium or means by which they convey and deliver their communication. Herring (1996, p. 1) Davis & Brewer (1997) state that the term ''electronic discourse" refer to written talk ''writing that stands in place of voices'' (p. 2).…”

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Internet Linguistics: A Linguistic Analysis of Electronic Discourse as a New Variety of Language

AbuSa’aleek¹

2015

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The revolution in the electronic communication may give rise to new modes of communication. Electronic discourse is a new variety of language that leads to significant variations in written structure of language. Electronic discourse creates a kind of semi-speech that is between speaking and writing and it has its own features and graphology. This study attempts to present a comprehensive picture of electronic discourse as a new variety of language, its salient features. In addition, it aims to conduct linguistic analysis of the features found in the electronic discourse. The corpus of this study was 340 messages with total 4760 words. The findings indicate that only 25% of overall the corpus found to be electronic discourse. This finding come inconsistent with common notion that the students' electronic discourse is incomprehensible, extremely shortened 'code'. In addition, findings revealed that students use variety of discourse features such as shortening, clippings and contractions, unconventional spellings, word-letter replacement.

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“…The Nature of Online Discourse CMC has been commonly considered to be a crossbreed of oral and written discourses, both in terms of linguistic patterning (Davis & Brewer, 1997) (Ong, 1982). Oral discourse, positioned as it is within faceto-face contact, supposedly lends itself to dialogue rather than monologue, polarization rather than accommodation, and informal reasoning rather than formal reasoning.…”

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Cooperation vs. Deliberation: CMC and the Problem of Argument in International Distance Education

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Rouzie²

2002

IRRODL

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The idea that Internet-based distance education offers the potential to globalize higher education has not been matched by significant interest in the pedagogical and methodological issues at stake. This essay discusses a two-year experimental course conducted between two college classes in Karlskrona, Sweden and Ohio, in the United States. The goal of this course was to use online debate to augment intercultural understanding. This experiment involved both synchronous and asynchronous computer mediated conferencing (CMC) as well as various types of assignments intended to emphasize the discursive strengths of each CMC form. We discovered, however, that our assumptions about CMC discourse were challenged by the way it developed in our international contexts. Ultimately, we developed and propose a methodology that delimits and makes productive the playful agnostics of synchronous debate by employing asynchronous conferencing for the pre-debate development of common ground and the post-debate development of formal arguments.

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Electronic Discourse: Linguistic Individuals in Virtual Space

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Analysis of discourse features of an EFL Internet forum debate

Analysis of discourse features of an EFL Internet forum debate

Internet Linguistics: A Linguistic Analysis of Electronic Discourse as a New Variety of Language

Cooperation vs. Deliberation: CMC and the Problem of Argument in International Distance Education

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