«THE NEW SYSTEM» OF PUNCTUATION MARKS IN TEXTING / MESSAGING: THE FINAL PUNCTUATION MARK OF AN UTTERANCE AS AN AMOTION GENERATING FACTOR

Human Being Image and Essence Humanitarian Aspects ◽

10.31249/chel/2021.02.01 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Viktoriya Karpukhina

Keyword(s):

Online Communication ◽

Positive Communication ◽

Punctuation Mark ◽

Communication Effects ◽

Exclamation Mark ◽

Full Stop ◽

New System

The paper considers communicative situations of texting / messaging in the aspect of contemporary punctuation form of the utterance. Final punctuation marks in the utterance which differ from the standard punctuation version are analyzed in the paper as a factor generating emotion. It influences the «positive communication» effects in messengers. The traditional functioning of the interrogative mark and changes in the full-stop and the exclamation mark functioning as the final punctuation marks in messengers are considered to be the strategies of creating the shared emotional field in the online communication.

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Insights into codeswitching from online communication: Effects of language preference and conditions arising from vocabulary richness

Bilingualism Language and Cognition ◽

10.1017/s1366728921000122 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-7

Author(s):

Laurie Beth Feldman ◽

Vidhushini Srinivasan ◽

Rachel B. Fernandes ◽

Samira Shaikh

Keyword(s):

Online Communication ◽

Language Preference ◽

Lexical Diversity ◽

Information Theoretic ◽

Vocabulary Richness ◽

Twitter Data ◽

Language Mixing ◽

Communication Effects ◽

Information Theoretic Measures ◽

Spanish Bilinguals

Abstract Twitter data from a crisis that impacted many English–Spanish bilinguals show that the direction of codeswitches is associated with the statistically documented tendency of single speakers to prefer one language over another in their tweets, as gleaned from their tweeting history. Further, lexical diversity, a measure of vocabulary richness derived from information-theoretic measures of uncertainty in communication, is greater in proximity to a codeswitch than in productions remote from a switch. The prospects of a role for lexical diversity in characterizing the conditions for a language switch suggest that communicative precision may induce conditions that attenuate constraints against language mixing.

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The English Project's History of English Punctuation

English Today ◽

10.1017/s0266078416000110 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 32 (3) ◽

pp. 45-51

Author(s):

Christopher Mulvey

Keyword(s):

English Language ◽

English Speaker ◽

Quotation Mark ◽

Question Mark ◽

Computer Languages ◽

Exclamation Mark ◽

Single Piece ◽

History Of ◽

The Subject ◽

Full Stop

The mission of the English Project (www.englishproject.org) is to explore and explain the English language in order to educate and entertain the English speaker, and 2015 was the year of punctuation for the Project because 6 February 2015 was the 500th anniversary of the death of Aldus Manutius. Aldus was a Venetian printer who shaped the comma, invented the semicolon and created italic fonts. He may have been the greatest punctuator of all time. We ‘punctuated’ the year by looking in turn at the full stop, the semicolon, the colon, the comma, the slash, the hyphen, the parenthesis, the exclamation, the apostrophe, the quotation mark and the question mark. Those twelve provide the fundamentals of English language punctuation, and all of them do more than one job. If we had a complete and unambiguous set of punctuation marks, we might need as many as 50, but the writing world does not want the trouble of such precision. In just same way, the writing world has never accepted the need for 44 separate letters to match the 44 separate sounds of the English language. Providing a separate grapheme (letter) for every phoneme (sound) is the linguist's business. Punctuation marks are ambiguous therefore. They suggest rather than define. They rely on context and the quick wittedness of the reader. If precision is needed, there are proofreader's marks. Merriam-Webster lists 42 of them, but proofreading is a special practice. Punctuation marks are a special set of symbols, and of symbols and signs there is no end. Punctuation marks are regularly appropriated by the devisers of computer languages. Punctuation marks can become logotypes – ‘a single piece of type that prints a word’. The exclamation mark can be made to work like &, $, or @. There are fuzzy edges to the subject of punctuation.

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Staying Online, Staying Connected: Exploring the Effect of Online Chatting on Adolescents’ Psychological Well-being during COVID-19 Quarantine

Youth & Society ◽

10.1177/0044118x211067553 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 0044118X2110675

Author(s):

Yulei Feng ◽

Qingyan Tong

Keyword(s):

Social Support ◽

Social Connectedness ◽

Online Communication ◽

Well Being ◽

School Closure ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Psychological Well Being ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Communication Effects ◽

Two Factors

Rooted in scholarship of social connectedness and social support, this research raises the question: Can online chatting help mitigate the negative psychological influence of physical distancing during COVID-19? By a correlational and cross-sectional research design, the current study testified the mediating role of two factors—social connectedness and perceived social support in the relationship between online chatting and three indicators of psychological well-being (happiness, self-esteem, and loneliness) for adolescents. This research demonstrated the potential of online chatting in mitigating the severity of quarantine from the supplementary perspective of online communication effects on adolescents, which provided a further insight into understanding the ways in which adolescents use media during school closure. Possible contingent factors that should be paid special attention to in future researches are discussed.

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Analysis of the Use of Punctuation Marks in Student's Thesis of Indonesian Language Education Study Program

10.31219/osf.io/nxk35 ◽

2022 ◽

Author(s):

Uniqbu

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Research ◽

Language Education ◽

Research Data ◽

Data Card ◽

Study Program ◽

Training And Education ◽

Question Mark ◽

Exclamation Mark ◽

Education Study ◽

Full Stop

This study aims to determine the use of full stop punctuation (.), comma (,), question mark (?), and exclamation mark (!) in the thesis of 2018-2019 students of the Indonesian Language Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Iqra Buru University. This research is a type of qualitative research. Data collection techniques through reading techniques, note-taking techniques, and data card techniques. The results showed that of the two thesis that the researcher analyzed, the researcher found that the use of full stop punctuation marks (.) was more likely than the use of comma punctuation marks (,). The use of question punctuation (?) and use of exclamation mark (!) did not find any errors in their use in the two thesis students of the Indonesian language education study program at Iqra Buru University.

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