Attitudes and emotions through written text: the case of textual deformation in internet chat rooms.
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https://doi.org/10.25267/Pragmalinguistica.2005.i13.09Info
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- Francisco Yus Ramos (ES) Departamento de Filología Inglesa Universidad de Alicante Apartado 99, E-03080 Alicante
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Spanish Internet chat rooms are visited by a lot of young people who use language in a very creative way (e.g.repetition of letters and punctuation marks). In this paper, several hypotheses concerning the uses of textualdeformation assess their communicative usefulness. The goal of these hypotheses is to check whether thesedeformations favour a more accurate identification and evaluation of the senders’ underlying attitudes(propositional or affective) and emotions. The answers to a questionnaire indicate that despite the supplementarylevel of information that textual deformation provides, readers tend not to agree on the exact quality of thesender’s underlying attitudes and emotions, nor do they tend to establish degrees of intensity related to the
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