+ Common Code

-- KerstinFischer - 29 Apr 2003

One linguistically interesting aspect of chat is that new and very particular conventions have evolved by chat room users.

This topic will be prepared and presented to us by Cathrin and Nicolas.

Papers:

Murphy, K. and Collins, M.P.: Communication Conventions in Instructional Electronic Chats. First Monday.

Hentschel, E. (1998): Communication on IRC. Linguistik online 1,1.

Crystal, David (2001): Language and the Internet, chapter 3: Finding an Identity. Cambridge University Press.

Martin Haase, Michael Huber, Alexander Krumeich, Georg Rehm (1997): Internetkommunikation und Sprachwandel. http://www.uni-giessen.de/~g91063/html/irc/