EL "CHATEO": ¿ORALIDAD O ESCRITURA?
Abstract
The linguistic analysis of oral and written texts has produced, according to various authors, a list of characteristics pertaining to each modality (for example, Goody, 1987). Thus, lexical or syntactic features are proposed as defining characteristics for oral and written registers and as what maintains these registers separate as objects of analysis. In recent times, however, new textual modalities have arisen, such as electronic messages, the 'talk' and 'chat' that have obliged the creators and users of such texts to manufacture rules as they go along for the creation and use of the same, rules that frequently are not well-defined, as these new texts are a hybrid form of orality and writing. In the present study a preliminary analysis of texts produced in the "chat" mode is presented. In the analysis we will try to differentiate between the features that make those texts oral and those that make them written, since it has been observed that, on the one hand, "chat" occurs with turn-taking, adjacent pairs, conversational openings and closings and the use of discourse markers which belong to conversational texts (Schiffrin, 1987). On the other hand, some people who "chat", even in situations of "high orality", such as in a pornographic conversation, demand that their interlocutors conform to the standards appropriate to written texts.Downloads
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