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Proceedings Article:
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BibTeX citation key: elia.586
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Elia Antonella (2006). « An analysis of Wikipedia digital writing ». In Proceedings of the EACL 2006 Workshop on New Text - Wikis and blogs and other dynamic text sources, Trento, Italy, 3-7 avril 2006 216.
Added by: Laure Endrizzi 2006-12-01 17:30:09
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Abstract
This paper is a presentation of a doctoral research in progress focused on a new genre: online encyclopaedias. The introduction to Wikipedia and Encyclopaedia Britannica Online will be followed by a presentation of wiki as a new textual genre. Wikipedia analysis will focus firstly on the investigation of the "€œWikiLanguage", the language used in official encyclopaedic articles.
Secondly, the "€œWikiSpeak", the spoken-written language used by Wikipedians in their backstage and informal community, will be taken into account. The initial findings of this research seem to suggest that, the language of the Wikipedia's coauthored articles is formal and standardized in a way similar to that found in Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. By contrast, the WikiSpeak, as a new variety of NetSpeak Jargon, can be considered as a creative domain, an independent and individual expression of linguistic freedom of self-representation, characterizing the wiki Computer Mediated Discourse Community.
Added by: Laure Endrizzi Last edited by: Laure Endrizzi
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