HRT in DMC? the orthographic representation of high rising terminals in WhatsApp

IF 2.3 2区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2024-08-30 DOI:10.1016/j.dcm.2024.100819

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Abstract

Contemporary research has shown that a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods is productive in exploring patterns of Digitally Mediated Communication (DMC). In this paper, I demonstrate the analytical potential of this approach by studying the typographic representation of a prosodic feature of spoken language – High Rising Terminals (HRTs, e.g., that beer pong place I went for my birthday?) – in a large corpus of WhatsApp messages (96,471 messages; 594,183 words) sent by 15 young British adults. Combining methods and approaches from variationist and interactional sociolinguistics, I show that the orthographic representation of HRTs patterns in pragmatically similar ways to the feature in speech in that it most frequently functions as a way of verifying the interlocutors’ comprehension of discourse-new information. The precise rate and pragmatic function of this feature, however, appears to be constrained by the textual modality of the platform. Concluding, I join others in arguing for the analytical potential of employing a multidimensional approach to studying variable patterns of DMC.

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DMC 中的 HRT？WhatsApp 中高位上升终端的正交表示法

当代研究表明，定性与定量相结合的方法在探索以数字为媒介的交流（DMC）模式方面很有成效。在本文中，我通过研究 15 名英国年轻人发送的大量 WhatsApp 消息（96,471 条消息；594,183 个单词）中口语的拟声特征--高音终端（HRT，例如：我生日去的那个啤酒乒乓球馆？结合变异社会语言学和互动社会语言学的方法和途径，我表明，HRTs 的正字法表征模式在语用上与语音中的特征相似，它最常见的功能是验证对话者对话语新信息的理解。然而，这一特征的精确速率和语用功能似乎受到平台文本模式的限制。最后，我和其他人一样，认为采用多维方法研究 DMC 的不同模式具有分析潜力。

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Discourse Context & Media COMMUNICATION-

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55 days