Abstract
Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) is proliferating like anything in our lives. Communication theorists have been exploring its various dimensions; however, CMC grammar appears to be a less attempted area. The concept of CMC grammar seems to be an emerging phenomenon in mediated- communication. To explore this phenomenon, the present study sets out to investigate the identified forms of CMC grammar of students at graduate level in Pakistan. A sample of 50 BS students was chosen to address the core research questions. The data was collected primarily from the verbal postings of the participants from facebook walls of selected students. To avoid superficiality, the study was backed by imperial findings and factual details. The study reveals that English Grammar is subject to reduction and simplification in computer mediated-communication. The elements of reduction and simplification can be characterised by subject omission, copula deletion and absence of auxiliaries in progressive and interrogative situation. These features are so widespread that they are increasingly getting stable and intelligible across the board. The study speculates that ever- increasing proliferation of these features signposts a unique grammar which is the central investigation of this study.
Highlights
The purpose of this exploratory study is to identify the syntactic forms of Computer-MediatedCommunication (CMC) among users in Pakistan
Grammatical innovations are derived out of the communicative demands of online environment. in particular the distinctive communicative characteristics have led to the development of a distinguished grammar patterns that rely heavily on nominal structures, with extensive deletion and omission of some core grammatical units like noun phrases working as subject, copula, auxiliaries with relative modifications
Several patterns are observed in this study such as subject omission
Summary
The purpose of this exploratory study is to identify the syntactic forms of Computer-MediatedCommunication (CMC) among users in Pakistan. Rafi (2018) defines linguistic simplification through linguistic topographies such as an increase in lexical and morphological transparency, loss of allomorphy and regularization of irregularities. These practices represent the form that eventually provides a bed rock upon which segmental and structural derivations are carried out. There are some features which are more or less observed in all types of CMC discourse. There are several distinctive grammatical features which are closely observed in CMC grammar. The present study has come up with different emerging patterns such as: subject omission, copula deletion, absence of auxiliaries, one word response, and concord, unusual use of preposition, interrogative patterns, and syntactic arrangements. Some of the examples are discussed in the following passage to set a clear understanding for the subject
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