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Interactive Written Discourse as an Emergent Register
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This paper examined the syntactic and stylistic features of an emergent phenomenon called Interactive Written Discourse (IWD) and found that the concept of "register", a language variety according to use, helps account for syntactic reductions and omissions that characterize this historical juxtaposition of text format with real-time and interactive pressures.Abstract:
Text transmitted electronically through computer-mediated communication networks is an increasingly available yet little documented form of written communication. This article examines the syntactic and stylistic features of an emergent phenomenon called Interactive Written Discourse (IWD) and finds that the concept of “register,” a language variety according to use, helps account for the syntactic reductions and omissions that characterize this historical juxtaposition of text format with real-time and interactive pressures. Similarities with another written register showing surface brevity, the note taking register, are explored. The study is an empirical examination of written communication from a single discourse community, on a single topic, with a single recipient, involving 23 experienced computer users making travel plans with the same travel advisor by exchanging messages through linked computers. The study shows rates of omissions of subject pronouns, copulas, and articles and suggests that IWD ...read more
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