Cues in computer-mediated communication: A corpus analysis

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An analysis of five contemporary corpora examines the use of several different cues in four channels of computer-mediated communication. With an in-depth corpus analysis, we show that a wealth of cues is available in online communication, and that these cues are often matched with words that have particular functions and/or semantic meanings. Using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count text analysis software (Pennebaker et al., 2007), we found the two largest categories represented by cue-laden words involved affect and cognitive mechanisms, suggesting that cues are largely used to indicate emotion or to disambiguate a message. We argue that learning the meaning of these cues is central to learning how people communicate nonverbally while online.

论文关键词:Nonverbal,Email,Chat,Blogs,Cues,Online communication

论文评审过程:Available online 27 July 2010.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2010.07.008