LINGUIST List 23.3460
Fri Aug 17 2012
Diss: Comp Ling/ General Ling: Gheorghita: 'Linguistic peculiarities of communication in Internet'
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Date: 16-Aug-2012
From: Elena Gheorghita <for.elena
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Subject: Linguistic peculiarities of communication in Internet
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Institution: State University of MoldovaProgram: Doctorate StudyDissertation Status: CompletedDegree Date: 2006
Author: Elena Gheorghita
Dissertation Title: Linguistic peculiarities of communication in Internet
Dissertation URL:
http://www.cnaa.md/thesis/4834/ Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics General Linguistics
Dissertation Director(s):Anatol CiobanuDumitru Melenciuc
Dissertation Abstract:
The thesis is composed of preliminaries, three chapters, closingremarks and recommendations, a bibliography, four appendixes,and summaries in Romanian, Russian and English.
In the Preliminaries an introduction is made into the research that hasbeen carried out. It enumerates the objectives of the study, methods andapproaches applied, formulates the hypothesis and gives other details of theinvestigation in question.
Chapter I: 'Communication as means of human existence' is adescription of some of the linguistic peculiarities of computerised discourse. Itsupplies theoretical arguments in favour of the need to modify the traditionalopposition oral discourse / written discourse as a result of reinterpretation ofdefinitions of oral and written discourse from the point of view of communicativeapproach to language. We suggest the following trichotomy: oral discourse / writtendiscourse / computerised discourse.
Chapter II: 'Conversational analysis and its application in terms of chatrooms' examines the concept of conversation in correlation with dialogand discussion. A more detailed research of conversation from thestandpoint of linguistics, psychology, sociology and philosophy has only started inthe last decades of the 20th century. The chapter in question provides adescription of the peculiarities of communicative context, communicative strategies ofthe chat room conversations, as well as some details related to the system andritual constraints and their impact on human communication.
Chapter III: 'The study of the computer-mediated conversation'grammar' is a functional and pragmatic research of the integrated chatroomconversation model 158 units. Peculiarities of turn-taking, as well as those ofinterruptions and pauses have been examined here.
The thesis also contains four appendixes: in Appendix 1 there aresamples of chatroom conversations; in Appendix 2 we have included a list of themost frequent abbreviations used in chat, with their description andtranslation into Romanian; Appendix 3 is a glossary of main terms that have been usedin our thesis, Appendix 4 is a list of abbreviations used in the dissertation.
To make it more convenient for the reader, the bibliography has beendivided into two parts: traditional and online sources. Mention must be made thatsome of the online resources may no longer be technically available when one reads thethesis.
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