Collister2011
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Collister2011 |
| Author(s) | Lauren Brittany Collister |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Conversation analysis, Digital gaming, Internet linguistics, Repair |
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| Year | 2011 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Journal of Pragmatics |
| Volume | 43 |
| Number | 3 |
| Pages | 918–921 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.pragma.2010.09.025 |
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Abstract
In this article, I present evidence of a repair morpheme in the variety of Online Written English (OWE) used by a community of World of Warcraft players. This morpheme, represented by the asterisk (*), has no counterpart in spoken English but yet follows discernible rules for use and deployment within the community. While *-repair follows many principles of repair used in spoken English, it has developed natively in an online environment using an extra-alphabetical character which is unique to the online community. The existence of *-repair is one example of how OWE has differentiated itself from spoken varieties of English, and creates questions about the influence of the internet on language forms.
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