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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Format: | Article |
Language: | deu |
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Bern Open Publishing
2011-01-01
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Series: | Linguistik Online |
Online Access: | http://www.linguistik-online.de/50_11/ecker.pdf |