Publications

Publication details [#51021]

Montero-Fleta, Begoña, Anna Montesinos-López, Carmen Pérez-Sabater and Ed Turney. 2009. Computer mediated communication and informalization of discourse: The influence of culture and subject matter. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (4) : 770–779.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

computer communication system | language and culture | language use | sports language | subject

Language as a subject

Catalan | English | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study demonstrates that written online asynchronous computer mediated communication in English shows significantly more informal, conversational elements, both in online fora on serious topics (such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict) and in fora on sports (such as football), than in Catalan and Spanish.