Internet discourse

[Boyd Davis]

In response to the question asked by Lise Fontaine (in the context of
responding to Marco Massara).  I and my colleague have studied asynchronous
discourse. Perhaps you will find our analysis useful.  Electronic Discourse:
linguistic individuals in virtual space. SUNY Press, 1997.  In it we examine
the spoken and written characteristics, identify a variety of social cues
present in the interchanges and work at multiple levels (from morphemic
variation to macroproposition) to show how people use a variety of
strategies to accomplish dialogue and multilogue.