Emotive communication online: A contextual analysis of computer-mediated communication (CMC) cues

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• 作者：Ilona Vandergriff ; ^{vdgriff@sfsu.edu}
• 关键词：Synchronous computer-mediated communication (cmc) ; Cmc cues ; Emoticons ; Emotive communication ; Foreign language
• 刊名：Journal of Pragmatics
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：May, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：51
• 期：Complete
• 页码：1-12
• 全文大小：360 K

文摘

More than any other feature, computer-mediated communication (CMC) cues such as emoticons and other typographic markers are associated with digital communication, including text-based chat. Using transcripts from college classroom discussions, this study adopts a pragmatic perspective to analyze how advanced foreign language learners use CMC cues, including emoticons (¡°:-)¡±), nonstandard/multiple punctuation (¡°¡­¡±, ¡°!!!¡±), and lexical surrogates (¡°hmmm¡±) in a quasi-synchronous computer-mediated consensus-building discussion. Rather than taking form-meaning pairings for granted (e.g., smiley ¡°:)¡± means ¡°happy¡±), I adopt a microanalytic approach to show systematic, empirically grounded correlations between CMC cues and their interpretations in different contexts. I argue that the results must be interpreted and viewed alongside the large body of research on emotive communication in offline modes to better understand the pragmatics of online relational work.