Language Choice in Online Written Communication among Maldivian Professionals

Fahmee, Fathimath; Yong, Mei Fung

doi:10.17576/3l-2016-2202-04

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“…Grenny (2013) also argued it is difficult to speak through a virtual forum as people still struggle to speak candidly and respectfully even in face-to-face interactions. Fathimath et al (2016) added there are various features in face-to-face communication like non-verbal cues and gestures that are not present in online written communication. Thus, these leave the users to rely primarily on textual messages to construct and interpret meaning online.…”

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Politeness Strategies in Twitter Updates of Female English Language Studies Malaysian Undergraduates

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2017

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“…The first relevance on the issue of using certain terms of endearment as address deals with that of the language choice. The preference of one language over another for different purposes and various contexts is known as language choice [2]. The process of language choice during the communication is mostly influenced by the aims and contexts of communication [3] and also cannot be separated from the social, cultural, and lifestyle aspects [4,5].…”

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“…Cook [3] argues that the new technology such as the internet and social media has developed 'new hybrid forms of interaction' and created 'new styles, conventions, and modes of written expression', which then lead to a new variety of language, well-known as Netspeak [14]. The term 'Netspeak', introduced by Crystal, is commonly used to refer to the digital communication codes used by netizens, where a mixture of spoken and written forms is normally found during the communication [2]. While it is argued that face-to-face communication offers more features of non-verbal cues and gestures during the communication, the use of emoticons, stickers, animations are widely used as a better alternative' in today's world [2].…”

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“…The term 'Netspeak', introduced by Crystal, is commonly used to refer to the digital communication codes used by netizens, where a mixture of spoken and written forms is normally found during the communication [2]. While it is argued that face-to-face communication offers more features of non-verbal cues and gestures during the communication, the use of emoticons, stickers, animations are widely used as a better alternative' in today's world [2].…”

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“…In today's situation, digital communication through its online platforms such as email, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and other forms of social media seems inseparable from people's everyday life especially millennials, known as native speakers of internet language, who were born and raised amid new technology era [1]. Not only are those state-of-the-art tools of communication considered more sociable, but they are also much 'faster and more convenient' [2]. That is why the use of online communication has grown rapidly in the community around the world in recent years.…”

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Millennials’ Use of Terms of Endearment in Casual Conversation in Digital Communication

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Modern forms of communication have made it possible that relationships are not determined by physical proximity. Technology advancement opens the opportunities for members of society to construct relationships over a long distance by means of online chatting platforms. Among the many platforms is WhatsApp, which is common in Indonesia. The present study focuses on the observation that technology brings about a shift in the use of terms of address. Despite the distance, users of online chats, particularly millennials, tend to use terms of endearment. It can easily be spotted that more and more young people are likely to prefer to use more modern, communicative, and intimate languages within their daily communication. As a result, a regular shift in using terms of endearment amongst millennials seems inevitable in today's situation. This paper explores the current trends of using terms of endearment as address between interlocutors in casual conversation through chats in digital communication. Foregrounded by theories in Sociolinguistics, the study uses content analysis in processing and interpreting the data in the form of chat screenshots obtained from the volunteer participants. The data analysis is useful to reveal two important information. First, it shows the variety of terms of endearment used by the participants as a form of address. Second, this result provides insights on the degree of closeness indicated from the use of the terms of endearment as address.

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Language choices as audience design strategies in Chinese multilingual speakers’ Wechat posts

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2021

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This current study reports three multilingual Chinese students’ audience design strategies on a populated Social Networking Site (SNS), WeChat. Considering the importance of audiences in shaping multilingual speakers’ language choice (Bell, A. (1984). Language style as audience design. Language in Society, 13(2), 145–204) and the potential hazard of conflated audiences in social media, as well as the comparative lack of research on Wechat which has different technical affordances from the well-researched SNS, Facebook, this article aims to shed new light on how multilingual speakers harness their linguistic repertoire to cope with the “context collapse” (Marwick, A. E., & Boyd, D. (2011). I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately: Twitter users, context collapse, and the imagined audience. New Media & Society, 13(1), 114–133) in semi-public SNS. Data collection and analysis follow an online ethnography method consisting of 588 initial posts from participants’ WeChat Moments during 1 year and semi-structured interviews. Theoretically informed by Androutsopoulos’s (2014b; Languaging when contexts collapse: Audience design in social networking. Discourse, Context & Media, 4–5, 62–73) audience specification framework, the findings reveal that although the default language in both online and offline interactions is Chinese, Wechat users have a very high sensitivity to different patterns of Chinese–English code-switching and grammatical and lexical choices in English. Meanwhile, Chinese multilingual speakers usually developed highly nuanced audience design strategies to target or partition specific groups of audience, which are far more complicated than the audience design strategies found in previous research on Facebook.

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Language Choice in Online Written Communication among Maldivian Professionals

Abstract: Language choice is a sociolinguistic phenomenon which refers to the selection of language (s)

Cited by 4 publications

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Millennials’ Use of Terms of Endearment in Casual Conversation in Digital Communication

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