27.3921, Diss: The Language of Keitai-mail:The Sociolinguistics of Japanese Mobile E-mail

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Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 12:58:48
From: Noboru Sakai [noboru.sakai at uqconnect.edu.au]
Subject: The Language of Keitai-mail:The Sociolinguistics of Japanese Mobile E-mail

 
Institution: The University of Queensland 
Program: School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2012 

Author: Noboru Sakai

Dissertation Title: The Language of Keitai-mail:The Sociolinguistics of
Japanese mobile e-mail 

Dissertation URL:  http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:274279

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics


Dissertation Director(s):
Yuriko Nagata
Nanette Gottlieb
Michael Harrignton

Dissertation Abstract:

(Full text is available: http://dx.doi.org/10.14264/uql.2016.690)

Keitai-mail, e-mails exchanged through mobile phones, have become a major
communication tool in Japanese daily life. In order to elucidate this aspect
of the language and literacy practices of today’s rapidly advancing
information technology era, this study explores Japanese Keitai-mail practice
among young people (prior to the smart-phone generation) and is the first
study to analyse a very large data corpus of raw Keitai-mail texts.

Previous studies can be summarised as showing that Keitai-mail feature
influences of 1) the technology itself, i.e., the specifications or physical
properties of the communication medium (e.g., Sasahara, 2002; Sasaki &
Ishikawa, 2006); 2) the conscious and unconscious motivations of Keitai-mail
users in their Keitai-mail communication (e.g., Sugitani, 2007; Tomari, 2004;
Uchida, 2004), and 3) language use and creation by young people themselves
found in areas not limited to Keitai-mail (e.g., Horasawa, 2000; Kuwamoto,
2000; Senuma, 2005). The present study thus focuses on these three aspects as
its baseline of investigation, using both qualitative and quantitative methods
to analyse its data corpus. For the former, certain criteria from conversation
analysis and discourse analysis (Fairclough’s 2003 criteria) are applied.

The study investigates 43,295 Keitai-mail exchanged for the purpose of
personal communication by 60 young people aged 18 to 30 who are familiar with
Keitai-mail practices. The 1-to-1 ratio of male and female, the participants'
domiciles in several big Japanese cities (e.g., Tokyo, Osaka), with a fairly
randomised sample which reveals the general trend of language practice among
young Japanese people.

These findings characterise Keitai-mail as a context-based literacy practice,
in which people actively devise techniques to maximise the effectiveness of
communication.




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