The genre of electronic communication: a virtual barbeque revisited
The genre of electronic communication: a virtual barbeque revisited
In a paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the ACH and ALLC in 1997, we argued that language is the medium of computer-mediated communication, and that empirical linguistic analysis should be both analternative and fruitful way to understand the emergence and structure of a virtual community. A 'speech community' can be identified by linguistic convergence at a lexical and/or structural level. Because Computer Mediated communication is strongly oral in nature (December, 1993; Ferrara et al., 1991), we believe that speech accommodation theory (Giles and Powesland, 1975), Fish’s (1980) "interpretive community" and Bizzell’s (1982) "discourse community" are appropriate models by which to explain the acquisition by thegroup of shared meanings and understandings–shared cognition–which are vital elemenst in community formation (Sackmann, 1991)
Giordano, Richard
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16 June 2001
Giordano, Richard
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Giordano, Richard
(2001)
The genre of electronic communication: a virtual barbeque revisited.
Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, New York University, New York, United States.
13 - 17 Jun 2001.
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In a paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the ACH and ALLC in 1997, we argued that language is the medium of computer-mediated communication, and that empirical linguistic analysis should be both analternative and fruitful way to understand the emergence and structure of a virtual community. A 'speech community' can be identified by linguistic convergence at a lexical and/or structural level. Because Computer Mediated communication is strongly oral in nature (December, 1993; Ferrara et al., 1991), we believe that speech accommodation theory (Giles and Powesland, 1975), Fish’s (1980) "interpretive community" and Bizzell’s (1982) "discourse community" are appropriate models by which to explain the acquisition by thegroup of shared meanings and understandings–shared cognition–which are vital elemenst in community formation (Sackmann, 1991)
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The Genre of Electronic Communication_ A Virtual Barbecue Revisited
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Published date: 16 June 2001
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Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, New York University, New York, United States, 2001-06-13 - 2001-06-17
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