The aim of this thesis is to describe the language of electronic communication ('netspeak') as one of the present trends of the development of English. The thesis is based on the hypothesis 'netspeak' represents an independent multimodal linguistic variety sharing some features with informal face-to-face conversation. For this purpose, the language of selected samples of the texts of English-speaking students of British universities obtained from the social network Facebook was studied. The qualitative and quantitative analysis of these data and their comparison with spoken form of standard English, namely with the spoken demographically sampled part of the British National Corpus, confirmed the hypothesis. ! Key words: netspeak, CMC, Facebook, emoticons, face-to-face communication, informal conversation

Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 54-55).

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Submitted by Jailda Nascimento (jmnascimento@pucsp.br) on 2016-10-26T14:32:52Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana Cristina Tarelo da Silva.pdf: 341217 bytes, checksum: d852b3b28d858a6d98a0f8fc1fe14853 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-26T14:32:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana Cristina Tarelo da Silva.pdf: 341217 bytes, checksum: d852b3b28d858a6d98a0f8fc1fe14853 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-09-06 / This work is part of field studies on the analysis of conversation and is he result of research that aimed to reflect on the characteristics of courtly accomplishments in informal conversation and more particularly on the phenomenon called discourtesy feigned (BRIZ, 2014) ( ALBA-JUEZ, 2008), combining the socio-pragmatic analysis to the apparatus of the theory of faces. he research in question had as its object conversations in Facebook social network environment. To perform the analyzes were adopted as theoretical pparatus the concepts relating to Conversation Analysis (Marcuschi, 1999); (Kerbrat-Orecchioni, 2006), the theory Threatering Face Acts-FTAs (Brown & LEVINSON, 2014 [1978]), extended the concepts of the Flattering Face Acts-FFAs (KERBRA-Orecchioni 1986, 2006), together with the in studies on pragmatic and complimentary variation and attenuation approach cultures (BRIZ, 2014, 2013, 2010, 2006) / Este trabalho se insere no campo de estudos relativo à análise da conversação e é resultado da pesquisa que teve como objetivo refletir sobre as características das realizações corteses na conversação informal mediada por computador e, mais particularmente, sobre o fenômeno denominado descortesia fingida (BRIZ, 2014), (ALBA-JUEZ, 2008), conciliando a análise sócio-pragmática aos conceitos apresentados pela teoria das faces. A pesquisa em questão teve como objeto conversas no ambiente da rede social do Facebook. Para realizar as análises foram adotados como aparato teórico os conceitos relativos à Análise da Conversação (MARCUSCHI, 1999); (KERBRAT-ORECCHIONI, 2006), a Teoria dos “Face Threatering Acts-FTAs” ( BROWN; LEVINSON, 2014 [1978]), ampliada pelos conceitos relativos aos “Face Flattering Acts-FFAs” (KERBRA-ORECCHIONI, 1986, 2006), conjuntamente com os estudos sobre variação pragmática e cortesia e atenuação em culturas de aproximação (BRIZ, 2014, 2013, 2010, 2006). Os resultados das análises comprovaram que o fenômeno da descortesia fingida aparece de forma recorrente em conversas no ambiente do Facebook.