Linguistic characteristics Week 5

For this week, we have analyzed a conversation on a forum, about the new Iphone 6 entitled "IPhone 6 bending in pocket" from this url: https://teksyndicate.com/comment/1758533

This topic aimed everybody: the people who want to buy a new phone, those who have already purchased, those interested in new technologies ... So a lot of people! The conversation start from someone who put a topic and after everybody login on the blog can answer. Here the first post was this one: 

On this conversation, people participate with pictures and pseudo like NJM1112, DerKrieger, Zibob… Each choose his nickname when they had register to the blog.

Here are some linguistic characters that we found from the chosen forum.

On lexical level we could find articulated laughter (”hahaha” “hehe” “OMG” “LOL” “WTF”) and some informal word choices (”shitstorm”), while on syntactic level there is informal grammar (lack of dots, commas and capital letters) and short sentences without proper argumentation.

On textual level we could find quite a lot of multimodality (videos, links to other websites) and the use of nicknames when commenting. Also humor (sarcasm and joking) in the conversation is similar to spoken communication.

There is also some emoticons like J :p 

N.R.