Re: [Corpora-List] studies of the language of discussion groups

From: Gregor Erbach (gor@acm.org)
Date: Sat Oct 19 2002 - 13:18:41 MET DST

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    Quoting Przemyslaw Kaszubski <przemka@amu.edu.pl>:

    > I'm asking this on behalf of a student: does anyone have any pointers to
    > empirical studies of discussion group etc. language from a sociological
    > perspective? Her topic is to demonstrate that such groups may be regarded
    > as language communities. Apart from Crystal's Language and the Internet
    > she has almost no sources.

    A good source is the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication:
    http://jcmc.huji.ac.il/vol2/issue4/

    Another source is the Electronic Journal of communication:
    http://www.cios.org/www/ejcmain.htm

    The Berkeley Social Technologies group has performed research
    on Usenet groups:
    http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/socialtech/

    The following papers may be of interest:
    http://www.ifi.uib.no/staff/konrad/research/culture/DalexApplicatICA98icapaper.h
    tm
    ibs.lgu.ac.uk/sympo/luistxo.PDF

    > Apologies if you think this question is irrelevant to your interests.

    Not at all; Usenet news are a rather interesting corpus
    for studying all sorts of linguistic phenomena.

    regards,

       Gregor

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