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Publication details [#37312]

Ferrara, Kathleen, Hans Brunner and Greg Whittemore. 1991. Interactive written discourse as an emergent register. Written Communication 8 (1) : 8–34.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

computer communication system | interactive processing | language variety | register | written language

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper examines the nature of the emerging hybrid language variety called interactive written discourse, drawing on a corpus of subjects' computer-linked written discourse.