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Investigating the Linguistic Features of the E-mailing Discourse Axe Choisis : Axe 01 : Description Linguistique et analyse des discours spécialisés
(University of eloued جامعة الوادي, 2016-10-19) NESBA, Asma; GHEDEIR BRAHIM, Mohammed
The present study aims at investigating the linguistic features of the E-mailing discourse, being a part of a wider discourse, the electronic discourse. It is a specialized discourse that disposes certain characteristics that guarantees its distinctiveness from other types of Englishes such as political English, legal English and Medical English. These differences are shown on different linguistic levels: typographical level, lexical level, syntactic level and discourse level. A Corpus analysis of a number of 200 e-mail messages from the routine communication in work context of a private import-export company in El Oued, working as a franchisee for important international franchisors, is conducted: 100 outgoing e-mails composed by the first participant, the owner of the company and 100 incoming e-mails written by the representatives of foreign companies ( Indian Cs, Turkish Cs and a UAE C). A qualitative, descriptive and critical corpus analysis is followed based on linguistic criteria. The findings reveal that the company’s e-mail language is characterized mainly by a linguistic economy in the form of chatting abbreviations, acronyms, structural reductions, ellipsis, clippings and orthographic reduction; a linguistic innovation in the form of creative use of capitalization, spelling and punctuation to convey effects of gesture and tone as well as oral features and informality in the form of informal greetings and leave-takings. Results of the analysis are used to suggest recommendations to signal the importance of pedagogy in instructing students to use CMC properly without feeling the fear from the new technology. Students must be instructed both the well constructed texts used in academic settings as well as the specific texts used for personal interactions. E-mailing for academic and occupational purposes is different from e-mailing for maintaining social relations
Netlinguistics in the service of Netlish
(University of Eloued جامعة الوادي, 2016-03-07) NESBA, Asma
Computer Mediated Discourse (CMD/ Netlish) is the language resulting from the use of Computer Mediated Communication which is generally text-based language. This language came as the result of people‘s attempt to adapt their language to cope with the linguistic constraints and opportunities provided by the new technology.The general assumption is that CMC and the internet have a bad influence on language. CMD is becoming less formal, less polite and highly abbreviated. Therefore people are anxious about the quality of the people‘s written production because of the breach of the standards and norms of the traditional written language. Nelinguistics studies the effects of the Internet and other new media such as Short Message Service (SMS) and text messaging on the language in terms of the new language forms and styles. Applied Netlinguistics has different applications ; one of them is the pedagogical application which is interested in integrating the Internet into EAP to help developing new literacies and language learning skills. In fact, we have to accept the new change brought to language because space and time constraints brought about technology are responsible for this change. This change is not necessarily negative. Here came the importance of pedagogy in instructing students to use CMC properly without feeling the fear from the new technology. Students must be instructed both the well constructed texts used in academic settings as well as the specific texts used for personal interactions.
Raising Students’ Awareness on the Importance of Cohesion in Academic Writing: The Case of the Students of the Second Year English at Hamma Lakhdar University in El-Oued, Algeria
(University of eloued جامعة الوادي, 2017-11-07) GHEDEIR BRAHIM, Mohammed; NESBA, Asma
Using linguistic ties makes the students' written productions more cohesive and understandable. However, it is noticed that they do not use grammatical cohesive devices efficiently. Thus, the present study attempts to measure the students' awareness on the importance of cohesion in academic writing. Meanwhile, this research work aims at investigating the various kinds of grammatical cohesive devices used by the students and their effects on writing cohesive discourse. It is hypothesized that the accurate use of grammatical cohesive devices would enhance students' writing. Seeking to achieve the study's aims, two questionnaires have been administered to four teachers of written expression in addition to twenty five students who have been chosen randomly. The findings of the study revealed that students do not pay much attention to the significant decisive role of cohesion in written discourse. Hence it was suggested that much space should be dedicated to the issue of cohesion in written expression course. إن استخدام الروابط اللغوية يجعل المنتج الكتابي للطلبة أكثر تماسكا وفهما. ومع ذلك فانه يلاحظ أن هؤلاء الطلبة يفتقدون الكفاءة لاستخدام هذه الروابط اللغوية لبناء تماسك النص. وعليه، تعد هذه الدراسة محاولة جادة لقياس وعي الطلبة بأهمية التماسك في الكتابة الأكاديمية. تهدف هذه الدراسة إلى البحث في أدوات بناء التماسك النحوي المستعملة من لدن الطلبة وآثارها على كتابة خطاب مكتوب محكم التماسك. إن الفرضية التي بنيت عليها هذه الدراسة مفادها أن الاستخدام الصحيح لأدوات بناء التماسك النحوي تعزز التحكم في مهارة الكتابة عند الطلبة. وسعيا لتحقيق أهداف هذه الدراسة، تم تقديم استبيانين لأربعة أساتذة لمادة التعبير الكتابي بالإضافة إلى خمسة وعشرين طالبا تم انتقائهم عشوائيا. وقد كشفت نتائج الدراسة أن الطلبة لا يولون اهتماما كبيرا للدور الجوهري والهام لتماسك النص. كما نبهت الدراسة إلى ضرورة تخصيص حيز كبير من الوقت لموضوع تماسك النص في البرامج المخصصة لمادة التعبير الكتابي.