Unraveling the linguistic features of Facebook comments amidst live press conferences
Over the years, online communication has become increasingly popular, evolving from purely text-based formats to multifaceted media. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, live streaming of press conferences and other events on social media has dramatically increased. However, there is a lack of studies i...
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Over the years, online communication has become increasingly popular, evolving from purely text-based formats to multifaceted media. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, live streaming of press conferences and other events on social media has dramatically increased. However, there is a lack of studies investigating the linguistic features of netizens’ online communication during live streaming of public events. Therefore, this study aimed to analyse the linguistic features of Facebook comments posted by Malaysian netizens during COVID-19 live press conferences and explore the functions of these linguistic features. In this study, a total of 1339 comments were collected during the live streaming of COVID-19 press conferences by New Straits Times on Facebook. The collected data were analysed following Crystal’s (2006) list of netspeak features. The findings revealed that Malaysian netizens used abbreviations (21.9%), emojis (13.2%), stickers (5.5%), particles (5.2%), punctuation marks (3.6%), translanguaging (3.3%), capitalisation (1.8%), and repetitions of letters (1.6%) when commenting on the COVID-19 live press conferences. The functions of these linguistic features include time-saving, emotional emphasis, identity portrayal, and others.
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| spelling | doaj-art-322f68874abf4f20abf57f641b99af952025-01-04T18:58:49ZengUniversiti MalayaJournal of Modern Languages1675-526X2462-19862024-12-01342Unraveling the linguistic features of Facebook comments amidst live press conferencesShin Yi Chew0Jie Ting Jiang1Siak Bie Soh2Faculty of Languages & Linguistics, Universiti MalayaInternational Department, Guangzhou Huangguang Middle schoolFaculty of Languages & Linguistics, Universiti Malaya Over the years, online communication has become increasingly popular, evolving from purely text-based formats to multifaceted media. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, live streaming of press conferences and other events on social media has dramatically increased. However, there is a lack of studies investigating the linguistic features of netizens’ online communication during live streaming of public events. Therefore, this study aimed to analyse the linguistic features of Facebook comments posted by Malaysian netizens during COVID-19 live press conferences and explore the functions of these linguistic features. In this study, a total of 1339 comments were collected during the live streaming of COVID-19 press conferences by New Straits Times on Facebook. The collected data were analysed following Crystal’s (2006) list of netspeak features. The findings revealed that Malaysian netizens used abbreviations (21.9%), emojis (13.2%), stickers (5.5%), particles (5.2%), punctuation marks (3.6%), translanguaging (3.3%), capitalisation (1.8%), and repetitions of letters (1.6%) when commenting on the COVID-19 live press conferences. The functions of these linguistic features include time-saving, emotional emphasis, identity portrayal, and others. https://ejournal.um.edu.my/index.php/JML/article/view/50771Facebook, Linguistic Features, Live Press Conferences, Online Communication, Live Streaming, Social Media Posts |
| spellingShingle | Shin Yi Chew Jie Ting Jiang Siak Bie Soh Unraveling the linguistic features of Facebook comments amidst live press conferences Journal of Modern Languages Facebook, Linguistic Features, Live Press Conferences, Online Communication, Live Streaming, Social Media Posts |
| title | Unraveling the linguistic features of Facebook comments amidst live press conferences |
| title_full | Unraveling the linguistic features of Facebook comments amidst live press conferences |
| title_fullStr | Unraveling the linguistic features of Facebook comments amidst live press conferences |
| title_full_unstemmed | Unraveling the linguistic features of Facebook comments amidst live press conferences |
| title_short | Unraveling the linguistic features of Facebook comments amidst live press conferences |
| title_sort | unraveling the linguistic features of facebook comments amidst live press conferences |
| topic | Facebook, Linguistic Features, Live Press Conferences, Online Communication, Live Streaming, Social Media Posts |
| url | https://ejournal.um.edu.my/index.php/JML/article/view/50771 |
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