Language puter-munication (CMC)6.ppt

Language in Computer-munication (CMC)6 December 2010
Oral/written
One way/two ways
Public/private
Asynchronous/synchronous
email
www
chat
Mobile phone
blog
What are the main situational features of CMC?
emails (one-to-one or one-to-many, asynchronous, written);
Instant Messaging and Relay Chat (one-to-one or one-to-many, synchronous, written and oral);
Forums, Newsgroups, Listservs, Mailing lists, Distribution lists and Bulletin Board Systems (one-to-many, asynchronous, written);
MUDs (Multi-User Dimensions) and MOOs (Object-Oriented MUDs) (multiple players, synchronous, written),
we can now add
weblogs (one-to-many, asynchronous, written);
podcasting (one-to-many, asynchronous, oral)
wikies (many-to-many, asynchronous, written).
MUDS
A MUD (originally Multi-User Dungeon, with later variants Multi-User Dimension and Multi-User Domain), is a multiplayer real-time virtual world . bine elements of role-playing games, player versus player, interactive fiction, and online chat. Players can read or view descriptions of rooms, objects, other players, non-player characters, and actions performed in the virtual world. Players typically interact with each other and the world by mands that resemble a natural language.
Traditional MUDs implement puter role-playing game set in a fantasy world populated by fictional races and monsters, with players being able to choose from a number of classes in order to gain specific skills or powers. The object of this sort of game is to slay monsters, explore a fantasy world, complete quests, go on adventures, create a story by roleplaying, and advance the created character. Many MUDs were fashioned around the dice-rolling rules of the Dungeons & Dragons series of games.
MOOs
Mud Object Oriented is similar in structure to MUDs, but there is not the ‘game’ component.
MOOs aim to interaction, education and social evolution.
What are the notable linguistic features of CMC?
Note that the proportion of these features exhi