Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Language in Technology
- Discourse Structure of a Telephone Conversation
- 1) Summons/Answer
- 2) Identification/Recognition
- 3) Greeting Sequence
- 4) 'How are you' Sequence
- 5) Pre-closing Sequence
- 6) Valediction
- Main conversation-body of text
- Changing the English Language
- MSN
- 'TEXTISM' word introduced
- Abbreviations - 'text speak'
- Texting effecting literacy
- TWITTER
- Character limit - shorten words
- 'Hashtag'
- SMS
- 'LOL' in the English Dictionary
- New words in spoken as well
- Altered formality
- Effect on Language
- Vowel Omission
- Examples: pls, ppl, y'right
- Varied spelling
- E.G. 'what' and 'wot'
- Phonetic spelling
- E.G. omigod
- Initialism
- Not pronounced as a full word
- E.G. 'BBC'
- Acronym
- One word
- E.G. 'LOL'
- Homophonic Representation
- E.G. '2L8 (too late)'
- Also known as alpha-numeric symbols
- DISCOURSE
- Asynchronous
- delays between turns
- + longer message
- - takes too long
- Sychronous
- Direct message back
- + immediate, gets things done