Variation in Linguistic Characteristics Between the Types of Computer-Mediated Academic Discourse
The article presents the results of empirical research investigating the specific linguistic characteristics of the types of Computer-Mediated Academic Discourse (CMAD) – the English language use by language teaching professionals in academic computer-mediated seminars (webinars), synchronous confe...
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University of Latvia Press
2012-10-01
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The article presents the results of empirical research investigating the specific linguistic characteristics of the types of Computer-Mediated Academic Discourse (CMAD) – the English language use by language teaching professionals in academic computer-mediated seminars (webinars), synchronous conferences (chats), asynchronous discussion fora, e-mails, weblogs and hypertexts. Six specialised corpora were complied to represent each type of CMAD. Multidimensional analysis of the variance of linguistic features (Biber, 1988) was applied as the main quantitative research method. Considerable differences have been revealed in the use of fifty-five types of linguistic features in the sub-corpora. The results of Scheffé’s test show that there is a significant statistical difference between at least one pair of the mean values on each dimension. This indicates that the studied types of CMAD are rather similar on one dimension but different on another. The author demonstrates that each type of CMAD has specific linguistic characteristics distinguishing it from other types. The findings obtained in the research may be of interest to researchers investigating varieties of computer-mediated language, language educators and other specialists in applied linguistics.
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| spelling | doaj.art-6f487e307aaa478aa37c44678cf48bc52022-12-22T04:13:44ZengUniversity of Latvia PressBaltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture1691-99712501-03952012-10-012Variation in Linguistic Characteristics Between the Types of Computer-Mediated Academic DiscourseNataļja Cigankova 0University of Latvia The article presents the results of empirical research investigating the specific linguistic characteristics of the types of Computer-Mediated Academic Discourse (CMAD) – the English language use by language teaching professionals in academic computer-mediated seminars (webinars), synchronous conferences (chats), asynchronous discussion fora, e-mails, weblogs and hypertexts. Six specialised corpora were complied to represent each type of CMAD. Multidimensional analysis of the variance of linguistic features (Biber, 1988) was applied as the main quantitative research method. Considerable differences have been revealed in the use of fifty-five types of linguistic features in the sub-corpora. The results of Scheffé’s test show that there is a significant statistical difference between at least one pair of the mean values on each dimension. This indicates that the studied types of CMAD are rather similar on one dimension but different on another. The author demonstrates that each type of CMAD has specific linguistic characteristics distinguishing it from other types. The findings obtained in the research may be of interest to researchers investigating varieties of computer-mediated language, language educators and other specialists in applied linguistics. https://journal.lu.lv/bjellc/article/view/309applied linguisticslanguage in usecomputer-mediated academic discourselinguistic variationmultidimensional analysis |
| spellingShingle | Nataļja Cigankova Variation in Linguistic Characteristics Between the Types of Computer-Mediated Academic Discourse Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture applied linguistics language in use computer-mediated academic discourse linguistic variation multidimensional analysis |
| title | Variation in Linguistic Characteristics Between the Types of Computer-Mediated Academic Discourse |
| title_full | Variation in Linguistic Characteristics Between the Types of Computer-Mediated Academic Discourse |
| title_fullStr | Variation in Linguistic Characteristics Between the Types of Computer-Mediated Academic Discourse |
| title_full_unstemmed | Variation in Linguistic Characteristics Between the Types of Computer-Mediated Academic Discourse |
| title_short | Variation in Linguistic Characteristics Between the Types of Computer-Mediated Academic Discourse |
| title_sort | variation in linguistic characteristics between the types of computer mediated academic discourse |
| topic | applied linguistics language in use computer-mediated academic discourse linguistic variation multidimensional analysis |
| url | https://journal.lu.lv/bjellc/article/view/309 |
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