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3rd article: Linguistic Features in the Online Discussion Forums
linguistic features used in the discussion forum
all capital letters, repetition of words, emoticons, asterisk, symbol replacing words to as paralinguistic cues in the interaction
abbreviation
history
speed up, limited space, to ‘hear’ voice, replace the aspect of physical communications
Computer-mediated discourse
focus on language and
language use
multi-party
conversation online
synchronously
interactions take place
in real time
Online discussion forum
asynchronously
users are not required to log on at the
same time
The discussion forums can be divided into three different components
non-threaded
semi-threaded
fully-threaded
This format draws the closest to face-to face
discussion that supports turn-adjacency.
SMS
phonetic spelling
syllabograms
logograms
culture and religion
participants use various linguistic features when they write their messages online