Creation of Internet Relay Chat Nicknames and Their Usage in English Chatroom Discourse

In a chat discourse it is not always clear who is chatting with whom; automatic discourse analysis is especially problematic. It is important to identify the users' nicknames in the written discourse to find out the receivers of the chat messages. But the linguistic possibilities in nickname cr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ecker, Robert
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Bern Open Publishing 2011-01-01
Series:Linguistik Online
Online Access:http://www.linguistik-online.de/50_11/ecker.pdf