Digitalk: An analysis of linguistic features and their functions in Filipino computer-mediated communication

College

Br. Andrew Gonzalez FSC College of Education

Department/Unit

Dept of English and Applied Linguistics

Document Type

Article

Source Title

Advanced Science Letters

Volume

23

Issue

2

First Page

1055

Last Page

1059

Publication Date

2-1-2017

Abstract

This study explored language creativity represented in the linguistic features found in the utterances of Filipino Digitalkers across six internet media: Facebook, Instagram, Online Gaming, Twitter, Edmodo and Blogs. A corpus of about 500 thousand words was built from the online interaction of sixty three Filipinos. Manual reading of the texts was done in order to identify both the linguistic features and their functions in the Filipino Digitalkers’ texts based on identified frameworks from previous studies. However, the present study also identified features and functions that have not been investigated in previous studies. Our analyses identified a total of thirty different linguistic features. The most prevalent features were Acronymy, Retention of important parts of utterances, Intra-sentential Code Switching (CS), Emoticons, and Inter-sentential CS. These features were used by Digitalkers in order to build relationships with their interlocutors, efficiently transmit information, emphasize their message, compensate for the non-verbal cues which are lacking in computer-mediated communication (CMC), and the like. © 2017 American Scientific Publishers All rights reserved.

html

Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1166/asl.2017.7494

Disciplines

Language and Literacy Education

Keywords

Telematics; Filipino language; Linguistic analysis (Linguistics); Conversation analysis

Upload File

wf_no

This document is currently not available here.

Share

COinS