COMPUTER-MEDIATED DISCOURSE IN AFRICA

COMPUTER-MEDIATED DISCOURSE IN AFRICA

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

PRESENCE PLATFORMS, SOCIABILITY, M4L, AND PRESENCE AWARENESS LEARNING IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONTEXT

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION

MXIT, MIM, M4L, AND PRESENCE AWARENESS LEARNING: AN OVERVIEW

PRESSENCE PLATFORMS

TECHNOLOGIES OF SOCIABILITY

MOBILES FOR LEARNING (M4L)

Exemplar A

Exemplar B

TECHNOLGIES FOR PAL

ALLAYING FEARS OF MOBILE AND MXIT

FUTURE OUTLOOK

CONCLUSION

KEY TERMS AND CONCISE DEFINITIONS

REFERENCES

THE DISCOURSE OF NOLITICS IN THE NAIJAPALS ONLINE COMMUNITY WEBSITE

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION

NOLITICS

WEBLOGS AND DISCUSSION FORUMS

METHODOLOGY

THE CORPUS

Category Descriptions

ANALYSES AND DISCUSSION

DISCOURSE AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION

CRITIQUES

SOCIAL AND POLITICAL MOBILIZATION

ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN

POLITICAL PROPAGANDA

SUGGESTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

DISCURSIVE PRAGMATICS OF NOLITICS

METAPHORS

DIRECTIVE ACTS

INTERROGATIVES

CONCLUSION

REFERENCES

NEW TEXTUAL TERRAIN IN AFRICA: CONSTRUCTIONS OF IDENTITY THROUGH DIGITAL TEXTS IN SOUTH AFRICA

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION

DESCRIBING THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONTEXT

CONTEXTUALISING THE STUDY

NEW LITERACIES MULTILITERACIES AND MULTIMODALITIES

SOCIAL SEMIOTICS

THE STUDY

FANISA’S DIGITAL REPRESENTATION: FANISA’S HIGH SCHOOL LIFE

SIHLE’S DIGITAL PRESENTATION: HIV/AIDS

DISCUSSION

Constructing Identities Multimodally

Meaning as ‘Design’: Design to Re-Design

Implications for English Teaching and Learning

CONCLUSION

REFERENCES

A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF EMERGING PARADIGMS AND PROMINENT FEATURES IN NIGERIAN SMS DISCOURSE

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION

FEAUTURES OF SMS

REVIEW OF RELEVANT LITERATURE

METHODOLOGY

COHESION

ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION OF TEXTS

DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS FROM THEMATIC PERSPECTIVES

Reigious Texts (R1-R5)

Social/Personal Texts (S1-S5)

Business/Economic Texts (B1-5)

Educational/ Institutional (E1-5)

CONCLUSION

REFERENCES

LANGUAGE USE ON FACEBOOK ASYNCHRONOUS INTERACTIONAL EXCHANGES

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION

AN OVERVIEW OF EXISTING LITERATURE

METHODOLOGY

DATA ANALYSIS

Sociolinguistic Indices in the Data

Yoruba Proverbs in CMC as Sociolinguistic Nuance

CONCLUSION

REFERENCES

DISCURSIVE FORMS AND FUNCTIONS OF FLAMING IN NIGERIAN ONLINE FORUMS

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION

FLAMING AS AN IMPOLITE LINGUISTIC BEHAVIOUR

PERSPECTIVES ON FLAMING

THE DATA AND METHODOLOGY

DATA ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS

DISCUSSION

CONCLUSION

REFERENCES

CULTURE AND SOME UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCIES OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION (CMC) IN AFRICA

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION

DIMENSIONS OF CULTURAL VARIABILITY

Gender Disparity

Oral Culture and Relationship

DIGITAL DIVIDE

LINGUISTIC CHALLENGES IN CMC

THE DARK SIDE OF ICTS IN NIGERIA

IMPLICATIONS

CONCLUSION

REFERENCES

FACE IN NIGERIAN NEW MEDIA DISCOURSE

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION: NIGERIAN NEW MEDIA DISCOURSE AND RESEARCH

GOFFMAN'S AND BROWN AND LEVINSON'S FRAMEWORKS IN PREVIOUS NIGERIAN RESEARCH

DIGITAL FACEWORK AND RELATED PHENOMENA – A REVIEW

DATA

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK: FACE CONSTITUTING THEORY

DISCURSIVE-RELATIONAL DIGITAL FACE ACTS

FACE CO-CONSTRUCTION

PHATIC FACEWORK

COLLABORATIVE FACE ACTS

CONFRONTATIONAL FACE ACTS

CODE-SWITCHING AS FACEWORK

CONCLUSION

REFERENCES

LINGUISTIC CREATIVITY IN COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION: EXAMPLES FROM SELECTED AFRICAN CHATS

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND

OBJECTIVES

COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION (CMC) AND CHAT

LANGUAGE CREATIVITY IN CHATROOM DIALOGUE

Vocabulary Manipulation

Grammar

Paralinguistics and Graphics

DISCUSSION

FUTURE TRENDS

CONCLUSION

REFERENCES

PRAGMATIC ACTS AND CONTEXTUAL BELIEFS IN TWO NIGERIAN ONLINE NEWS MEDIA FEEDBACK FORUM

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION

STUDIES ON COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION (CMC)

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

METHODOLOGY

ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS

Positive Comments

Negative Comments

Neutral Comments

FUTURE TRENDS

CONCLUSION

REFERENCES

INDEX