[Air-L] "Threading(?)" of messages in Whatsapp
Agnese Sampietro
agnese.sampietro at uv.es
Thu Mar 10 23:43:14 PST 2016
Dear Rich,
I dont know if it this phenomenon has a specific name. Im not working
exactly on this topic, but I have worked on WhatsApp in my doctoral
dissertation and (from a linguistic point of view) I have considered this
phenomenon as the disrupted turn adjacency observed in chats: in order to
maintain coherence, in my corpus users normally use addressivity (repeat the
name of the user theyre writing to), topicalizations and repetitions (for
example, they repeat the noun instead of using a pronoun), as in chats.
I hope it helps.
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Agnese Sampietro
Universitat de València
Facultad de Filología, Traducción y Comunicación
Avda. Blasco Ibáñez, 32
Tel. (+34) 963 86 41 00 Ext.51106
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