Journal Article

A Linguistic Analysis of Cmc's Discourse

عبدالزكي، بشاير أحمد

2023

Overview

This sociolinguistic study examines the motivations behind some phenomena that have predominated in the electronic communication. The focus will be on using short forms for writing English and using the Latin characters for writing Arabic (Arabizi). The approaches adopted for accomplishing this research are the quantitative method, online questionnaire, and some interviews. The quantitative method was adopted by collecting a large corpus of 1115 screenshots taken by the researcher. The online questionnaire was set up on Google Forms, distributed, and answered by 117 respondents through social media. Finally, the interviews were held with some participants online to get any further motivations. The findings show that people adopt the same language and the same writing forms used by their interlocutors. Most people read what they write before sending it, and they tend to correct any grammatical or spelling mistakes. Regarding Arabizi, the results of the study reveal that Arabic is read faster than Arabizi. When users write in Arabic, the text is longer than they write in Arabizi, which means that people write more - words and expressions - when they write in Arabic than in Arabizi. English short forms users as well as Arabizi users employ these writing methods only with their peers, siblings, and young people who prefer writing it. They use Arabic and English full forms with their parents, teachers, and older people. Most of the respondents believe that Arabizi May have bad consequences on the Arabic language as do the short forms on the English language.

• Publisher: جامعة أسوان -كلية الآداب
• Subject: أدوات التواصل الاجتماعي / الظواهر اللغوية / اللغة الإنجليزية / اللغة العربية