tech convergence-combination of more than one type of tech. e.g iphone uses telephone medium and computer medium
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Cameron
context has most influence over lang choice
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Labov
People use lang to establish an identity
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Crystal (emails)
structural elements that typify emails: headers, date, from, subject, to.
optional elements: cc, bcc, editing options, use of tech to share other links. Expectations of time.
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Grices maxims (websites)
webpage has info/ entertainment
to communicate but bc of nature of tech, it can be passed in a different ways. Answer can see relevant heading/ paragraph & exact area sought for - RELEVANCE & MANNER
canonical sequence
summons/answer, identification, greeting sequence, how r u sequence
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Pre-closing sequences
metatalk (Well I'd better stop talking and do some work)
phatic speech (Well its been great talking to you)
Politeness strategies to not threaten the p's face
Valedictions -formality depends on context & intimacy
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Answerphone messages
Various possible messages
presumed instructions beforehand to speakers leaving message
choice of re-recording message
one-sided nature of discourse
monologic-talking to machine
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Blogs
many personal diaries, ranging in length
chronological order
posts added regularly
some monologues
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Crystal (blogs)
blogs have 'introduced new era of interactivity to websites'
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Pearce and Giovanelli
Tv & radio rely predominantly on spoken word, particularly radio due to absence of visual codes
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Sutherland (prescriptivist)
says text message feature help mask dyslexia , poor spelling & MI
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Boswell (prescriptivist)
As result of an increasing dependency on texting, people becoming less comfortable with face to face/ verbal communication
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Ling (prescriptivist)
young people have phone aversion. Shy people or those who lack confidence use texting as form of social interaction. Relates on avoidance of verbal telephone convo. with increase of texting in youngsters.
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Crystal (descriptivist)
A glossary of netspeak and textspeak
Provides representative guide. Text users constant creativity & experimentation means many examples outdated
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shortis (descriptivist)
Tendency towards brevity- some texts based on interaction require a quick response.
initialism (lmk, omg)
letter homophones (u)
abbreviations
omissions (pls,ppl)
capitalisation
acronyms (lol)
phonetic spelling
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email characteristics
asynchronous discourse: discourse in which they're delays between turns that participants take
framing: cutting and pasting parts of an original message into a new message
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