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Cunningham, Jennifer M. – Written Communication, 2014
This study examines a social network site (SNS) where specific interlocutors communicate by combining aspects of academic American English (AE), digital language (DL), and African American Language (AAL)--creating a digital form of AAL or digital AAL (DAAL). This article describes the features of DAAL in the discursive, online context of MySpace,…
Descriptors: Social Networks, African American Culture, Web Sites, Discourse Communities
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Brandt, Deborah – Written Communication, 1989
Reappraises conventional distinctions between oral-like and literate-like discourse, particularly Tannen's distinction between involvement focus and message focus. Treats message as an embodiment of involvement, and cohesion as an aspect of a developing writer-reader relationship. Offers speculations for rethinking "literate…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Literacy
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Bracewell, Robert J. – Written Communication, 1999
Treats, in a systematic and principled manner, representations studied in situated literacy and an associated methodological approach based on semantic analysis that characterizes the representations. Illustrates application of the method for four situated-literacy examples: mother/child word-naming games; children's story writing; journalistic…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Cognitive Processes, Cultural Influences, Discourse Analysis