Dear all, I basically just need one citation (even though more would be better) on this in the context of a corpus analysis and I thought I would have an easy time finding one but I really did not so I would appreciate any help.
I hope it is okay to ask this kind of question. So far I have only used RG to publish and to follow researchers, this is my first time using Q&A.
I wrote about this a few years ago in my article:
Written Interaction: A Key Component in Online Learning.
Judith C. Lapadat
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 01/2002; 7. DOI:10.1111/j.1083-6101.2002.tb00158.x · 2.17 Impact Factor
In the article I discuss some of the differences between oral registers and written language. Then I go on to make the argument that because online written interaction incorporates some characteristics of oral language as well as some more formal characteristics of written language, it is uniquely well suited to scaffold/support certain aspects of learning.
Hope this is helpful.
Judith
Thank you! It does help but another, more general answer would still be great so if anyone knows something I would be grateful.
David Crystal has an article "Speaking of writing and writing of speaking".
http://www.pearsonlongman.com/dictionaries/pdfs/speaking-writing-crystal.pdf
Maybe that's along the line of research you are looking for?
The citations in there are classic works too, from Biber and from Quirk.
A book about the topic in the EFL classroom has just come out:
http://www.cambridgescholars.com/the-grammar-and-lexis-of-conversational-informal-english-in-advanced-textbooks
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