Abstract
The revolution in the electronic communication may give rise to new modes of communication. Electronic discourse is a new variety of language that leads to significant variations in written structure of language. Electronic discourse creates a kind of semi-speech that is between speaking and writing and it has its own features and graphology. This study attempts to present a comprehensive picture of electronic discourse as a new variety of language, its salient features. In addition, it aims to conduct linguistic analysis of the features found in the electronic discourse. The corpus of this study was 340 messages with total 4760 words. The findings indicate that only 25% of overall the corpus found to be electronic discourse. This finding come inconsistent with common notion that the students’ electronic discourse is incomprehensible, extremely shortened 'code'. In addition, findings revealed that students use variety of discourse features such as shortening, clippings and contractions, unconventional spellings, word-letter replacement.
Highlights
Change in language occurs, as change is natural
Electronic discourse is a new variety of language that leads to significant variations in written structure of language
This study attempts to present a comprehensive picture of electronic discourse as a new variety of language, its salient features
Summary
As change is natural. Language, as everybody knows, is dynamic. The advent of the Internet and the rapid development of electronic communication increase the rise of new kind of language. Crystal (2001) declares that technology offers opportunities for linguistic research: Netspeak is a new prospect for scholarly study He summarize that "once in a lifetime" chance provided by the emerging means of communication. An innovative scholarly research of "Internet Linguistics" contains a comparative research of the variations of electronic discourse and the expansion of language revolutionize inside these means of communication. The author uses the term e-discourse to signify the written form of the language used by youngsters in the electronic communication. This study attempts to present a comprehensive picture of electronic discourse as a new variety of language, its salient features. It aims to conduct linguistic analysis of the features found in the electronic discourse
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