Research Article
Generational Differences Related to Linguistic and Discourse Features of WhatsApp Users of Texting
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.23-3-2019.2284955, author={W C Perdhani and R Roni}, title={Generational Differences Related to Linguistic and Discourse Features of WhatsApp Users of Texting}, proceedings={First International Conference on Advances in Education, Humanities, and Language, ICEL 2019, Malang, Indonesia, 23-24 March 2019}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ICEL}, year={2019}, month={7}, keywords={whatsapp gender-based differences multilingual linguistic aspects}, doi={10.4108/eai.23-3-2019.2284955} }- W C Perdhani
R Roni
Year: 2019
Generational Differences Related to Linguistic and Discourse Features of WhatsApp Users of Texting
ICEL
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.23-3-2019.2284955
Abstract
The aim of this study is twofold: 1) to find out what aspects of linguistic and discourse features are contained in WhatsApp conversations 2) to investigate WhatsApp used by different generations. WhatsApp analysis tertiary level students, Indonesia was conducted to analyse the language elements used in WhatsApp groups. WhatsApp chat collected through mobile devices is fully analysed and then categorized into linguistic and discourse features. The results shown in this study are that there are several differences between the WhatsApp language used by generation X and generation Y in linguistic and discourse features. WhatsApp's message to Generation X is more likely to use letters that are omitted, logograms, and initialism, while Generation Y uses non-standard spelling, shortening, and pictograms. The features of discourse in both generations produce the same number of mixed languages. Whereas generation Y uses fewer letters for emphasis in conversation while they using WhatsApp than generation X.