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Linguistic Aspects of One Type Internet Communication (Czech Language on Chat)
Project IdGA405/04/1035
Main solverdoc. PhDr. Eva Jandová, Ph.D.
Period1/2004 - 12/2006
ProviderStandardní projekt GA ČR
Statefinished
AnotationAt a time when Czech linguists are focusing on the analysis of communication in a wide range of areas of human activity and on communication in various environments adn among various age groups and minorities, we consider it essential to devote attention to communication carried out through a modern electronic medium such as the internet. The aim of the project is to determine the ways, methods and means in which internet chat communication takes place. To this aim, records of communication in general-interest chat rooms will be acquired and analyzed. The specific nature of the environment in which this communication takes place is also reflected in certain specific features of the communication and its transfer in written form. Other aspects which will be analyzed are nidknames, the specific nature of the descourse, linguistic interference ant the graphic elements used in internet chatting. The research will culminate in small-scale studies and a monograph which will be the first comprehensive survey produced in the Czech Republic of the most important linguistic aspects of communication in a modern electronic environment. The wide-ranging analysis of the material need not focus merely on description, it may also reveal certain trends which - due to toh eprevailling age structure of internet chatters - could possibly influence everyday communication in the future.