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.Communication does seem to transcend the individual exchange, being more focused on the group, or its textual record.People interpret the chatgroup experience in many ways.Patricia Wallace, forexample, has provided a thorough discussion of the implications in social psychological terms.72 From a linguistic point of view, I find chatgroup language fascinating, for two reasons.First, it provides a domain in which we can see written language in its most primitive state.Almost all the written language we read (informal letters aside) has been interfered with in some way before it reaches us-by editors, subeditors, revisers, censors, expurgators, copyenhancers, and others.Chatgroups are the nearest we are likely to get to seeing writing in its spontaneous, unedited, naked state.Secondly, I see chatgroups as providing evidence of the remarkable linguistic versatility that exists within ordinary people-especially ordinary young people (it would seem from the surveys of Internet use).If you had said to me, a few years ago, that it was possible to have a successful conversation while disregarding the standard conventions of turn-taking, logical sequence, time ordering, and the like, I would have been totally dismissive.But the evidence is clear: millions are doing just that.How exactly they are doing it I am still not entirely clear-though I hope this chapter has suggested some guidelines.Plainly, they have learned to use their innate ability to accommodate to new linguistic situations to great effect.They have developed a strong sense of speech community, in attracting people of like mind or interest ready to speak in the same way, and ready to criticize or exclude newcomers who do not accept their group's linguistic norms.They have adapted their Gricean parameters (p.48), giving them new default values.And they are aware of what they are doing, as is evidenced by their 'metadiscussions' about what counts as acceptable linguistic (and social) behaviour, and their 'metahumour', playing with the group's own linguistic conventions.It is a performance which shows great adaptability and not a little creativity.As David Porter observes:As participants adjust to the prevailing conditions of anonymity and to the potentially disconcerting experience of being reduced to a detached voice floating in an amorphous electronic void, they become adept as well at reconstituting the faceless words around them into bodies, histories, lives … Acts of creative reading…can and do stand in for physical presence in these online encounters.With virtual worlds, the linguistic creativity becomes even greater [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.Communication does seem to transcend the individual exchange, being more focused on the group, or its textual record.People interpret the chatgroup experience in many ways.Patricia Wallace, forexample, has provided a thorough discussion of the implications in social psychological terms.72 From a linguistic point of view, I find chatgroup language fascinating, for two reasons.First, it provides a domain in which we can see written language in its most primitive state.Almost all the written language we read (informal letters aside) has been interfered with in some way before it reaches us-by editors, subeditors, revisers, censors, expurgators, copyenhancers, and others.Chatgroups are the nearest we are likely to get to seeing writing in its spontaneous, unedited, naked state.Secondly, I see chatgroups as providing evidence of the remarkable linguistic versatility that exists within ordinary people-especially ordinary young people (it would seem from the surveys of Internet use).If you had said to me, a few years ago, that it was possible to have a successful conversation while disregarding the standard conventions of turn-taking, logical sequence, time ordering, and the like, I would have been totally dismissive.But the evidence is clear: millions are doing just that.How exactly they are doing it I am still not entirely clear-though I hope this chapter has suggested some guidelines.Plainly, they have learned to use their innate ability to accommodate to new linguistic situations to great effect.They have developed a strong sense of speech community, in attracting people of like mind or interest ready to speak in the same way, and ready to criticize or exclude newcomers who do not accept their group's linguistic norms.They have adapted their Gricean parameters (p.48), giving them new default values.And they are aware of what they are doing, as is evidenced by their 'metadiscussions' about what counts as acceptable linguistic (and social) behaviour, and their 'metahumour', playing with the group's own linguistic conventions.It is a performance which shows great adaptability and not a little creativity.As David Porter observes:As participants adjust to the prevailing conditions of anonymity and to the potentially disconcerting experience of being reduced to a detached voice floating in an amorphous electronic void, they become adept as well at reconstituting the faceless words around them into bodies, histories, lives … Acts of creative reading…can and do stand in for physical presence in these online encounters.With virtual worlds, the linguistic creativity becomes even greater [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]