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Standards for measuring the Netspeaks quantity in on-line text content

Everyday use of new communication channels such as MSN, Skype, Facebook, and SMS is changing the written language in many ways creating the new language form called Netspeak. In this paper the authors develop the methodology for measuring the frequency in using Netspeak elements through ten specific standards. The standards are named, described and grouped into four categories regarding the provenience of language phenomena found. The first group of standards is related to the information communication technology ; the second group is related to the grammar and syntax ; the third one is related to the prosody and the fourth one named other is related to every other kind of provenience. The standards are applied in analyzing the content of asynchronous discussions throughout four generations of students within the course Information and Communication Technologies at Zagreb School of Economics and Management. The study shows the correlation between the use of standards within each group and shows the more frequent use of Netspeak elements by more active students.

Netspeak elements, standards, on-line text content, discussion, quality

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