Fragmentation / Integration and Involvement / Detachment in Chatroom Discourse
Studies of the discourse of electronic chatrooms usually aim at determining how close this variety is to the prototypes of spoken and written language by analyzing a whole range of different features. The paper investigates four points of difference: fragmentation, integration, detachment and involvement, which reflect various types of cognitive activities entailed in text production and reception. Fragmentation and involvement are typical of speaking, while integration and detachment are associated with writing and this analysis aims at determining how chatting resembles written or spoken language in respect of the frequency of occurrence of certain features.
Linguistic and interactional features of Internet relay chat
L'A. prend pour donnees d'analyse un mode synchronique de Communication Mediatisee par Ordinateur appele Internet Relay Chat (IRC). Ces donnees sont en anglais (provenant d'un canal australien) et en francais. L'A. fournit une taxonomie des traits qui caracterisent ce genre de communication. Il souligne le caractere essentiellement oral de l'IRC en montrant comment les participants tentent de reproduire certains aspects de la langue parlee a l'aide de moyens graphiques et orthographiques
Dictionary of Alaska Place Names
Introduction: This work is an alphabetical list of the geographic names that are now applied and have been applied to to places and features of the Alaska Landscape.